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Quote:So, it's not even IN America? So why the hell should any of our chars even care? We're in Paragon City, in America. Setting your plot in another country makes even LESS sense than senior government officials trying to pass such a law...Originally Posted by Jaijot
Why should I do that? I don't know much about law-making process in United States of America.
If you look at the original post I started this thread, you can see I did not mention United States of America anywhere in the post.
Name two. Hell... Name ONE even...Quote:Originally Posted by Jaijot
You are wrong. You are very wrong. In here, there's a lot of people who think it's not silly at all. -
Quote:Subjective. To YOU it's not silly. To absolutely EVERYONE else, it's really really silly.Originally Posted by Jaijot
You are only assuming this. Can you prove your words? I can prove the plot is not silly, and you are wrong assuming otherwise.
Oh I *am* sorry. I just didn't realise we were speaking to someone of such awesome qualifications. How poor of me, to doubt someone of such grand intelligence, such magnificent looks, such outstanding personality, such stupendous strength of moral fibre.Quote:Originally Posted by Jaijot
As someone who's among the top-ten best paid Visual Designers of Finland, as someone who's been part-time teacher of animation in School of Art and Design, I can tell you I am not out of business. You should be grateful for my advice to you. Flipping out becouse of negative feedback will not help you in your career.
Of course you can, oh great and amazing Jaijot! Why, you're so maginificent, that we don't even need to see your proof! We will, of course, completely take your word for it. I will instantly go and flagellate myself for even doubting your greatness for the smallest unit of time, Planck.Quote:Originally Posted by Jaijot
You are only assuming this. Can you prove your words? I can prove your assumption is wrong.
You must not change your plot, oh great one! You must present it to us in all of its magnificent glory, so that we can bask in its greatness and truly learn what it is to be such a grand Games Master. I'm sure we'll all be so ashamed by our crass behaviour, that we won't dare to show our faces in the thread and sully your great creation!Quote:Originally Posted by Jaijot
The problem is most of you people in this thread jump into conclusions, and treat their assumptions as factual information. And demand me to make changes into a plot they don't know much about.
*bows and scrapes as he backs out of the room, then jumps into a woodchipper to atone for his sins against the great Jaijot" -
If she's gonna take down Manticore for Wyvern, then she's got to also take down Ms Liberty for Longbow, and probably also Lady Gray for Vanguard.
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Quote:Oooh! A red name! *YOINK*Originally Posted by Noble Savage
Cloudy with a chance of Rikti?
Coming Storm= passing showers + high wind advisory?
I'm not too bothered about weather effects. Sure, it'd be nice, but not the end of the world if we don't get it.
However, I think we SHOULD most definitely get SEASONAL changes to the city's looks. Leaves falling in the fall, maybe puddles in the ground without actually showing us the rain. Bare trees in winter, a few patches of ice maybe in place of puddles. Blossom in the spring and excessive heat in the summer!
Accompanied, of course, by changes in attire on NPC's and different flavour text from them.
And of course, the really important part... A longer day/night cycle. Doesn't have to be real time, but as it is now, it's WAY too short!
Again, this is all QoL stuff that doesn't add to the combat or anything, but it DOES add to the ambience without actually doing all the complicated weather stuff.
Ooh, and different skies too... Overcast, dark and gloomy, patchy sun, and clear. -
I really am surprised the Kheldian bug is still there. It's been reported since the start of closed beta...
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^ Perhaps, but all that would be a completely covert, Black Ops type operation with kids being experimented on in secret. I don't have issues with that.
No way would such a thing even be tried in actual laws, because the US public just would not stand for it. They're REALLY particular about lawmaking over there, y'know. -
Quote:Arachnos are an evil organisation bent on world domination.Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
You haven't done the arc that explains where the Widows and Bane Spiders come from have you?
Because Arachnos do exactly that.
The US government, despite what certain people might tell you, and Fox News, are not. -
Quote:Governments have no need to do this... The world is full of supers already, why go through the problems inherent with stealing children for this purpose?Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
A way it might be able to work would be to put it as some sort of act that's disguised as helping children, some thing that checks them for possible later health problems caused by mutation. You make this a sort of mandatory check, possibly by claiming it is child endangerment/abuse to not have these tests.
Meanwhile you put in another law that the 'state' can take charge of children whose parents are unable to medically care for them.
That assuming that the people behind the shady business are looking for particular things with the children, precognitive powers maybe like they do in the Rogue Islands?
Child is tested, they find what they are looking for, make up some sort of life saving care the kid will need, state takes over care of the kid. Of course if the family prove problematic they might just die in a house fire or something.
The key here would be stealth, and making it look as benign as possible to media.
As a plot run by some random villains, it's fine... But no law like this would ever get anywhere. -
Tell you what; you do your plot and I honestly and truthfully hope it all works out for you and that you have a wonderful time.
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Quote:If people's reactions are anything to go by, I think it's a given that no one is interested. Can't say as I blame them; the whole plot premise, of experimentation on kids, is touching rather a raw nerve. The last time kids were in a plot, a whole school full of them got blown up to a massive outcry from the RP population. The backlash was so large that the GM pretty much had no choice but tone it down considerably, and then it was accepted as fine.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
I think if you want to have any hope in hell as a GM, you really need to work on your attitude, for one thing. Personally, I agree with the others; both certain points of the potential plot and your indication 'Its happening this way, so deal with it' very well may result in actually having no one play along with it...kind of defeating the point of even forming a plot.
This is the same sort of thing really, and people should take a lesson from that. Avoid using kids as your target in plots, and you avoid becoming a target yourself.
Beyond the kids themsevles though, the actual plot IS silly. There's just absolutely no way whatsoever that such a "law" permitting experimentation on private citizens, against their will (let alone kids), would ever make it past the initial proposition. The proposer would be likely to end up on the wrong end of a therapist for even suggesting it!
@Op. Take people's idea's to heart. Listen to the suggestions and modify your idea accordingly and people MAY be interested in taking part. As it stands though, you're not going to get anywhere. -
Quote:It's long been known that international links in to Germany have always been dreadful, and citing the servers there in the first place was a purely economic decision as it was cheaper to cite there than anywhere else at the time, and that was a dumb decision from the start. However, links INSIDE Germany were fine, so of course you didn't have any problems.Originally Posted by aleph_EU
In case it was a resource constraint maybe someone could assign the same amount of resources to Zukunft as they are assigned to the English and American servers? Please?
Just about everyone outside of Germany, however, had problems. Often lots of them.
It's kind of a shame that now you're having issues and everyone else's experience has improved, but I'm afraid that, once again, it's an economic decision. It's become cheaper for them to maintain the EU servers in the US datacentre, so now the rest of us EU folks get a better service, and yours is reduced.
Sorry, but now you're getting to see what we've suffered for nearly 6 years. -
Quote:Being logged off once every 24 hours is a WAI security feature.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Okay the rest of your post I can understand. It's how you feel. Kudos to you.
But the issue with the forums logging people out every day is not a "problem". It's a "WAI" security measure that happens to be inconvenient for users. It doesn't mean this behavior is wrong or broken, any more than requiring you to change passwords every X-number of months, or requiring Admin logon privs to perform certain tasks are in Windows.
Being constantly logged off, even after logging back in; losing thread read status; losing the boards COMPLETELY for 15 or so minutes several times a day where either it just refuses to let you log in, or sometimes just spits back a DNS error, is not WAI. -
Quote:Thank you thank you thank you! Exactly what I needed. I tried a ping and I got back "General Failure", which caused MUCH eye bugging as I've NEVER seen it before!Originally Posted by Maelwys
Wireshark says: 64.25.36.61
So I tried to ping from my laptop, that pings. Clearly pointing to a problem with my PC. So I rebooted again, and kicked the router AND the cable modem whilst I was at it.
Am now back in to the game. Clearly, something was not right, and survived a prior restart!
Thanks again, Mael.
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Quote:YES YES! I have problems. I am completely and utterly unable to login anymore! Please save me, Avatea!!Originally Posted by Avatea
The European servers are indeed back online and the issues that popped up due to the downtime have now been resolved.
Please let us know if there are any remaining problems and thank you all for your patience with this matter! -
Can someone post up the new IP address for the EU servers? I'll see if I can ping or tracert...
Quote:Tried all that, also verified firewall settings in Windows AND my router. All perfect and as they were this morning when I could login.Originally Posted by Maelwys
If you just can't get onto CoX, the chief suspect would probably be a routing issue... Has your 'puter been restarted since the move? Tried resetting the WAN connection already?
Therefore, it's clearly a routing issue.
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Wait.... Are people able to log in? I can't...
I'm getting the following...
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Quote:...Leave.Originally Posted by Diggis
My bad. I saw one recently, stuck in my head. So given the choice of potentially having to have EU attached to your global or not getting a server list merge you would...?
Seriously. My Global is my identity and if I lose it, why stay?
But for me, it's not an issue as I own the same global on the US servers, too.
As for people saying they've lost friends etc, they DID say 7pm. It's not 7 yet... Wait for an official announcement that it's up. -
Alas, Ellie will be unable to attend, being somewhat busy doing crystal impressions.
Cara will go if Ryan goes, likely as his +1. She'll be wearing an ankle length red gown, cut low in the back and covered in a red sparkly substance
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Quote:...Originally Posted by EU_Damz
*scratches head as to the logic in this*
So one half of the earth stays the same while the other half "stops" for an hour?
Yes, Damz. That's exactly what happens, Damz.
Try not to worry about it bud, just go have another beer.
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Quote:I get that regularly, mixed in with all the same things everyone else is getting.Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA
Well I've just had an IIS error page when trying to view the Forums.
Basically said "Database error" when I tried to view New Posts. Took a few minutes to resolve.
I'm getting REALLY annoyed by it, and I'm not happy. We pay for these boards too, y'know. Time they stopped dodging the issue and either fix them, or break the link with the game accounts so this doesn't keep happening. -
Quote:I didn't say you were. But with all the hard work Ransim is doing to host our Wiki for us, I'm all for making his life easier, y'know?Originally Posted by Liz Bathory
Names with special characters should be as easy wiki-able as any [[word]] within a text. Without discrimination. I am not being difficult here FFM.
No offence, but it's a hell of a lot of work for a tiny number of pages that only one or two people get any kind of "benefit" from. -
Wouldn't it just be easier not to use accented characters in page names? You don't see them in URLs anyway, for a good reason.
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Day One
Reese was annoyed, as usual. It was bad enough with all the new recruits to the Powers Division lately, without having one of them literally forced on him, but the order to induct this Black Out in to the Top Dogs had come from Praetor White himself.
He didn't have any choice in the matter, but that didn't mean he had to like it.
So he'd decided to sent her down in to the Underground, supposedly after some Resistance goons who'd sparked off a protest recently, but he'd sent her in to one of the area's most heavily populated by Ghouls.
She was probably lunch around about now.
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Several miles away, and almost a quarter of a mile beneath Imperial City, Black Out was far from being anyone's lunch. In fact, as she rested her black booted foot on the pile of charred Ghoul corpses, she was actually having her own lunch.
She slid a thin tube, about 8 centimeters long and 2 in diameter, from a compartment in her belt and popped the cap, then shook 4 blue capsules from it before resealing it. High protein food capsules. Tossing them in to her mouth, she gave her head a single jerk and swallowed them dry.
Here, away from the camera's and reporters, the artificial intelligence in her mind could dispense with its social subroutines and concentrate on the task at hand; embarassing Reese and proving to Praetor White that Black Out was the best one for the job. Once she was past that hurdle, once White trusted her enough to give her access to the Powers Division's personal files, then her REAL job could begin.
An image flitted briefly through her mind; a frozen scene of a cityscape burning and strange, gigantic forms lurching down the street. Her brow furrowed for a moment as her systems analysed the image, running it through the historical database she'd been supplied with, before identifying it as London, England; the scene of a Devoured Earth attack some 22 years previously.
Back in the underground facility in Nutropolis, the indentification of the image triggered an alert message to crawl across Brent's situation monitor terminal, and he scowled angrily. Jabbing several keys in rapid succession, he waiting impatiently before the response flicked across his screen.
Cortical wipe sequence initiated. Black Out system in standby mode. Emergency defense field active. 30 seconds for sequence completion.
Black Out straightened up as a glittering shield bubble popped in to existence around her. It wasn't a perfect shield, but it would more than suffice to protect her whilst the remote command was executed.
Her eyelids snapped shut as the erasure sequence began, and unbidden by any concious thought, a solitary tear trickled slowly down her cheek. -
Prelude - Part Four
"Black Out! Black Out! Over here! Tom West, TPN! Can you tell us what happened?"
Black Out smiled as the reporters swarmed across the precinct foyer, like ants swarming over spilled honey. "It was nothing, really! I was just lucky to be near the incident when it happened." Her voice was soft, with the hint of a cultured British accent only partially masked by a more common Praetorian one.
"Oh come now, Black Out! What you did took much more than luck! It took courage to face down a dozen Resistance criminals like that!"
She shrugged and a faint blush crept over her cheeks. "I just did what I had to do to save innocent children from being hurt. I'm sure everyone here would have done the same if they'd had to, Tom."
Some distance away, in a laboratory complex far beneath the Underground, a bank of TV monitors showed the reporters swarmed around Black Out, each reporter vying for a word. One of the screens, though, showed a different angle; the view seen from Black Out's own eyes.
Brent, the man responsible for Project Black Out, was pleased. The installation of the AI matrix in to her cerebral processing unit had been a complete success, with the artificial personality taking over her body as if born to it.
He tapped a pen against his teeth as he watched her playing the media like a professional. The social interaction subroutines were working better than he could ever have hoped; if he didn't know better, he'd have sworn she was a real live human instead of a weapon.
Setting his pen down, he reached out for his console and tapped a single button which glowed a dim blue. Above it, the word "Recall" was incribed.
On screen, Black Out began to make her excuses to the media, extracting herself from their clutches so as to leave them begging for more, and took to the skies. Brent watched as a panoramic vista of the cityscape appeared on the screen, and smiled softly.
A beeping tone began to sound, coming from the communications system in his desk, and he tapped another control. "Brent."
A deep voice sounded over the speaker system, a familiar voice. "This is Parks. I just saw the interview on TPN."
Brent nodded, the smile on his lips growing. "The personality matrix seems to be working well, you were right.. She is ready."
The voice at the other end sounded mildly amused. "As I told you. Praetor Berry is pleased with the results so far, and wants the maximum media exposure possible. She's to be inducted in to the Top Dogs at the earliest opportunity."
Brent raised an eyebrow. "Don't you think it best we take this slow? There could be unforseen problems with stability of the matrix."
"Enough time has been spent on this project, Brent. Thirteen years so far, and only now are we starting to see results. The Praetor isn't the most patient of men."
Nodding again, Brent let out a barely audible sigh. "Of course, though this IS the first time an AI has ever successfully been implanted in to an organic brain, however many implants she's received."
He tapped out a series of instructions on his keyboard, and tracking data appeared overlaid on Black Out's visual feed, "She's on the way back to central now. As soon as she's arrived, I'll run a full system diagnostic and assuming there are no problems from this final test, she should be good to go fully autonomous from tomorrow morning."
"Excellent. I'll expect your call as soon as she's ready." The line clicked as the caller disconnected. -
Quote:This is why research is useful. Stops you catching foot-in-mouth disease!Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
I see... so this is why everyone looks at my blaster like she's crazy.