Fleeting Whisper

I think Willow may have won the pool.

The tables in the user_data schema also have an additional column indicating whether the row has been deleted, in which case the corresponding row in the data schema will be ignored by the program. And it'll be full outer join, because left/right outer join wouldn't give all the information needed.

Thanks for the offer. I'll keep you in mind once I start testing things with multiple people

Would you not count Hamidon, or the Rikti Mothership?

This is true of all MMOs I've ever looked at. That doesn't stop people =/

Add on:
6. Moving from point A to point B is not content!

I'm pretty sure one of the devs said CWK never became the CWK in Praetoria. Not sure if the person he was is still alive, but the CWK as we know him (brain-inna-jar + junkbots) doesn't exist there.

Never specified.

I'd have an easier time getting Exalted, I'll tell you that much >.>

Java, mostly customized L&F of swing, and custom swing components. It's really the simplest answer for cross-platform compatibility. Unfortunately, there's nothing like WinForms' designer view, so getting everything set up is harder for me than it should have been for Midnights originally.

I'm also using a fully relational database to store the information in (Apache Derby, which is also Java-based, so there's no compatibility issues), rather than a mix of binary and flat files like current Mids' does. There's a bit of overhead, but it makes my job easier and lends itself to a redesign of the database editor which I think is really slick. Specifically, the db stores the "official" information, and then stores the changes the users makes to that information; you don't get to actually modify the database, but your additions/modifications/deletions are reflected in the program regardless. The advantages here is that updates to the program don't automatically cause conflicts with changes you've made, and the entire process of reverting a change back to the "official" values is to simply delete an edit from the db.
(Edit: For those interested in the technicalities of this process, look up Outer Join)

First time? Really? CoH is one of the few MMOs that isn't crowded with bots.

The one such system I've tried before was part of Guild Wars' Halloween event, the "Costume Brawl". I actually enjoyed myself, because despite the fact that I'm no good at PvP and have nothing resembling a PvP build, it didn't matter. The Costume Brawl in GW sets all players to level 20 (the level cap), with a specific costume based on your gender and primary profession, and a set of abilities and attribute distribution based on your primary profession (AT). The costume/ability/attribute combinations are based on characters in the storyline. For example, my female Elementalist became Cynn, one of the Henchmen you can pick up throughout the game.

I didn't mind the PvP event, because everyone was truly equalized; there were no elite PvPers ganking newbies with builds built from farming for hours on end. Rather than a million different builds ranging from PvE newbie to PvP veteran, there were 10 different builds; one for each profession. I'm not experienced enough to tell you whether those 10 builds were balanced between each other, but it took any equipment advantages out of the whole thing.

In fact, /demorecord stores all of this information and the camera position in a simple text file.

It would be some effort to edit the camera position manually in a demorecord, and the renderer used for demos isn't quite up to par with the renderer used by the game, but there's precedent.

We also know the Praetorian "clockwork" were built by Neuron and Anti-Matter.

Except for the fact that half our pedestrians are running faster than we can Sprint, this is oh so true

Hiss!

Maybe for Ledger, but what about this one?

I've found the best strategy is to get 2 or 3 teams of 8 working on the event in the zone, with each team sending 2 people to each banner. This is generally sufficient to make the banners vulnerable (2-4 people killing guardians) and to defeat the banner in a reasonable amount of time.

The only problem with this strategy is if a group reached the GM first and begins wailing on it without telling everyone else where it is, since the Deadly Apocalypse GM is pretty weak.

I think (of the currently known signature characters), the Dream Doctor is more likely than The Dark Watcher. I think "yourself" is probably a good pick, too, either from the future or another dimension.

Technically, you can debuff anything to -100% defense; the hit chance calculation just makes the minimum at 5% after factoring in base tohit and accuracy

Minimum movement speed is -90%. Rooted alone is already -90%. Glue Grenade is -90% speed, and -5.25 max speed. So, barring speed buffs, running Rooted and getting hit by an Equalizer's glue puts you at the same speed.

Neither Rooted nor Glue Grenade are unresistable, so a power granting speed resistance (Such as Speed Boost) would reduce their effectiveness (and in the case of SB, increase speed as well). However, because Glue Grenade has -maxspeed and Rooted does not, a Tanker with Rooted could potentially reach the normal run speed cap, while someone under the effect of a Glue grenade would never be able to.

Avatars are srs bzns. I once got -rep because the pumpkin I put on my halloween avatar is apparently from Runescape. Wth?

Unless the Leadership is coming from a buffing AT (Defender, Controller, Corruptor, Mastermind, Arachnos), you're not getting anywhere near the cap for any of the Leadership toggles, even stacked (Vengeance is another story...). Tactics, while you won't reach the cap, will easily get you to the useful limit in PvE (few enemies have so much Defense that you need more than a couple Tactics and a single Accuracy SO).

On the other hand, Leadership toggles do stack with your existing defenses, so if you're an SR Scrapper with all of your defensive powers slotted up (you're at ~30% def), you can get to the Defense softcap with just 5 slotted Maneuvers coming from non-buffers (Scrapper, Blaster, Tanker, Brute, Stalker)

Thugs Masterminds can easily cap their Henchmen's defenses by slotting Enforcers with Defense (Enforcers have very effective Maneuvers), taking and slotting Maneuvers, and teaming with a few other people with Maneuvers (or other Thugs MMs, since Enforcer Maneuvers affects ALL Thugs, not just your own)

Yes, send me money!
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I still wouldn't be able to make any guarantees of any sort on the release date, but I don't mind money

For anyone wondering about the linked page on Paragonwiki tracking the progress of my cross-platform Mids' project, while the most recent version posted was some time ago, my most recent work was actually yesterday, so it's far from abandoned

The closest we've come to getting Mids' to work on Linux/Mac is with Mono, but apparently there are parts of the codebase which aren't supported by Mono, so even that won't work. Until I finish my cross-platform version of Mids' or someone else does something similar (or Mono adds support for whatever it is that make it not work with Mids'), there's no Mids' on Mac.


PS: I would have responded to this topic sooner, but NCSoft mistakenly banned my master account Sunday afternoon, thinking I had committed payment fraud while buying a Xunali storage pane for Guild Wars, and I just got it unlocked today

Really annoying to be banned for 5 days over $8.11 >.>