FloatingFatMan
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Quote:GG, you should know me well enough by now. I've ALWAYS got a guilty concience...Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU
You only need to worry if you already have a guilty conscience.
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Quote:It's always kinda puzzled me as to why there wasn't a Spanish server, at least on the US cluster...Originally Posted by craggy
The other one I was thinking might be quite a popular idea is a Spanish speaking server. I know the US has a fairly large Latin population, and there's bound to be a percentage of them playing City Of...I might be making a redundant suggestion here, maybe there's already an unofficial Spanish server? But if there isn't and then one became available, would it be warmly received?
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Quote:He was nosing around in my profile pages yesterday! MOST suspicious behaviour for a mod!Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU
EDIT: He's also called TheOcho - I think one is his good cop name, and one is his bad cop name
Made me worry I was about to get banned or something!
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Quote:Who says we hate horses? We love them! Especially with bbq sauce!Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU
I think I'm going to have to start making a list of the horse haters for future use
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High above the carnage at Spankey's Boardwalk, a glittering sphere of energy drifted down from the clouds, finally coming to a halt a dozen meters above the churning water.
A woman's disembodied voice sounded from within the sphere, as if talking to itself. "Bloody hell, what a complete fiasco... What the hell are these idiots doing?"
The voice paused, as if listening to something, before replying again. "I suppose I should, but REALLY... Even rookie's don't put civilians in this kind of danger... God I hate this city..."
Energy crackled around the sphere as the voice stopped, and a second later there was a roaring crack of thunder and the sphere vanished, replaced with a slender, white haired woman with cat ears and a long tail. Surplus energy crackled around her white and black armoured body, making her instantly recognizable as a member of the Unity Vigil.
Eye's glowing with an intense light, she swooped down from the sky, grabbed the wrists of several civilians still floundering in the water and carried them to the relative safety of the beach.
Finally, with the last of the civilians beached, she turned her attention to the "heroes" that had caused this carnage.
"Just what the BLOODY hell are you MORONS doing!? You could have gotten all these people KILLED!" Energy crackled around her body as she raged at them. "Honestly, I've never seen such a complete and utter bunch of losers in my LIFE!"
Looking up at M221, she yelled. "Hey you! Robocop! Get your tin butt down here and do your bloody job of PROTECTING people!" -
Quote:Oh give me a break! I only dipped the penguin in it ONCE!Originally Posted by Arctic_Princess
The chocolate fountain is also well received. However as a result (of some of the EU forum members) I fear we'll need a method of keeping the fountain clean. And mess free. Therefore I propose the following: A giant kitchen roll dispenser; a big plastic glove dispenser; hospital-grade hand soap; showers.
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Quote:We've already got a butler, his name is Benson.Originally Posted by Mr_Mac
We need penguins! Lots of penguins, they can earn their keep as butlers then amuse us with their amusing antics. We can turn the useless stables for the stupid useless horses into an ice pool thingy for the critters and keep our beers in there too! Also somewhere to keep any spare horse meat if it doesn't all fit in the massive freezer that has yet to be mentoned after their all slaughtered to feed us and make way for our flightless buddies!
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Quote:Actually, I DO mangle grammer from time to time, however that last bit WAS somewhat of a BIT of hyperbole. I did get replies... Automated ones closing the log as, and I quote "You weren't online when we tried to contact you".Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan_NA
Hmm...
So which is it? That's the present perfect up there you used. I get the impression that you're not one to mangle your grammar. I'm not accusing you of selective memory in order to support your griping, but...ok, I am.
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Quote:I live just a wee bit too close to France to risk cracking THAT particular gag. They might hear me!Originally Posted by DechsKaison
I could have sworn it was just white...
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A double post!
So much for THAT getting fixed!
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Quote:Baptism by fire, it's the only sure way to survive.Originally Posted by Lady_Athyna
So you won't let your friends know how to acclimate to the lunacy they've been thrown into?
With friends like you...
Though, I DID warn the people I like.
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Quote:*shrug* Maybe it's improved lately. I don't petition any more, haven't done for MONTHS, as I never EVER got a reply. Got sick of bothering, so these days when I hit a bug in a mission, I just drop it instead. Or go play something else.Originally Posted by Myopic_Aardvark
That is just you - the last 3 times I've had to petition, I've had a response back in less than 10 minutes - at varying times of the day. Last one freaked the crap out of me, when a Carnie suddenly showed up in my Council mission.
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Quote:Oddly, right this very instant, I'm actually munching on some crackers with cheese...Originally Posted by Lady_Athyna
See, now I'm afraid to cross the pond as it were... since I'm a cracker and all that.
Nomnomnom?
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Quote:It's not even a bad word in the UK. A cracker is merely a dry biscuit you have with cheese...Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan_NA
I think that 'cracker' is banned by the AE filter too.
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Quote:I actually lived in Florida for 6 months, back in 1983/4.Originally Posted by Lady_Athyna
What's really funny, here, people who've lived in Florida for several generations are called 'crackers'. We even have a yearly 'Florida Cracker Festival'. Yet, anywhere else in the US, cracker is a derogatory term for either white people in general or redneck/hicks.
So technically, I'm a cracker in a good way to some and in a bad way to others. Heehee... it cracks me up though. I mean seriously, all I can do is laugh or go mad. Town called Holiday, just up from Tarpon Springs.
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Quote:We get NONE of that, didn't even know you HAD Dev attended events on Thursday.Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan_NA
Be that as it may, if you are playing a laggy dev-free game with horrible GMs, then you have my sympathy. it must be awful. Lets hope they 'merge' server lists in the same way they did with the forums, eh? Then you'll be able to take part in Dev-attended events at 4:30am on a thursday in pocket D, experience the wonder that is Freedoms AP AE building on a double xp rikti invasion weekend, and use the admittedly great in-game US GMs (average time to respond In my experience 5 minutes).
Eco
As for GM response time, it's anywhere from a few hours, to your petition being automatically closed without even an automated email... In 4+ years of playing, I've NEVER had a GM get back to me in anything less than 3 days... -
Quote:Nah, that's more of a high pitched "Squeek!", followed by a completely soundless collapsing and rolling around motion...Originally Posted by Lady_Athyna
I thought that was the sound he makes when I 'accidentily' lift my knee too fast...
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Quote:I promised never to tell.Originally Posted by Lady_Athyna
FFM was here before... he knows... things...
<.<
>.>
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Quote:Florida is my favourite part of the US... In Winter.Originally Posted by Lady_Athyna
Anyway, maybe the merging of the forums is the beginning of the end of the seperation issues? Hopefully.
And I truly hope it IS a beginning of the end of such issues, but things like this name issue REALLY don't help... -
Quote:Originally Posted by Lady_Athyna
'Swish' is the sound of an evening gown while dancing the tango...
And "Aaargh!" is the sound your dance partner makes when he trips over it and breaks his ankle.
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Quote:Bloody coward! Get out from behind me and face her like a man!Originally Posted by shadowe_EU
Eeeek! She found me!
*runs and hides behind FFM*
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Quote:To understand it fully, you would have needed to be a member of the EU community for a while. Part of the feeling is the almost non-existent dev interaction; something that's always kinda annoyed many of us, especially the more vocal forum members, another is that our suggestions are pretty much universally ignored, another is the fact that US and EU GM's run on different rules completely, with you having the much better deal.Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan_NA
this is interesting to me, a Brit who's been playing on the US servers for 4.5 yrs now. Why do you say this?
The EU players get the exact same game, dont they? Is it purely the shortfall in server numbers Compared to the US game that irks you?
Is the UK game laggy or often down for long periods?
Who is 'some of us', btw, is it a signidicant enough portion to warrant NCSoft listening to from an economic point of view? I dont kbow about the UK game, but there are. Numbers somewhere that show that the US forumgoers are a tiny portion of the US playerbase. Is this different for the UK subscriptions?
Eco
In fact, on that side, one of our members carried out an experiment. He accidentally deleted one of his characters EU side, and was told by a GM that it was policy not to restore deleted chars. Obviously that annoyed him greatly as he KNEW that wasn't the case in the US. So, he created a US account, made a character, then deleted it and petitioned the GM's. His character was restored with no quibbles whatsoever. Nice, eh?
Another is that yes, our game IS significantly more laggy than the American one, and in fact, in the UK at least, we can get a FAR better connection to the US servers than we can to our own, which is ridiculous. Nothing has EVER been done to address this, despite MANY complaints.
Hell, we even got Global Chat nearly a full YEAR after it was launched in the US...
This thing with GrinningSpades name is just one more thing to add to it all. It blatantly sends out the message that US sensibilities are more important than EU ones.
EDIT: I'd point out though, that this isn't by any means, a universal feeling among EU players, but it IS felt among quite a few. -
Quote:*choke* If you value your life, don't EVER tell a French man that his flag is red, white and blue!Originally Posted by Zikar
Funny
The only thing:
Britain and France's flags are also red/white/blue
It's blue, white and red!
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Quote:Kind of a shame that our national team stink to high heaven though, thanks to all the big league teams spending a fortune on foreign players and not investing enough in local talent.Originally Posted by Rooks_EU
I much prefer the way things are now. Premier League #1 (and I'm mainly happy about this because it means I can watch the best football in the world on terrestrial tv cause I'm lucky enough to be in the same country as the greatest football league in the world. Perhaps with the tiniest smattering of FFMesque national pride, irrational as it is)
BTW, I loath and despise footie, so don't be expecting ANY national pride on my front when it comes to that silly game.
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Quote:Perhaps, and if so, then perhaps my feeling that this is more than just an issue over a name will be vindicated.Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan_NA
FFM - i think you're going to be disappointed, then.
Eco
In which case, the EU community may be proven to be as irrelevant to NCSoft as some of us have often felt.