FloatingFatMan

Nope, Union. Come now Tuarus, you should know what server I live on by now!

Cara glared up at Richard, but her retort was cut off by Claudia's sudden appearance and interruption. Letting out a small sigh of exasperation, she turned back to Sophie and Mina and held out her hand to the asian girl. "Sorry, where were we? Oh right, yeah.. I'm Cara, Cara Trace. Nice to meet you!"

KaTet, do you still have the deposit receipt you should have got when you made the payment? See if you can get a scan of it and email it to them for your proof.

Cara blushed furiously and quickly checked herself, her voice sounding almost panicky. "What do you mean, almost wearing!? Oh geez, I'm not showing anything am I?"

Almost turning full circle, Cara finally managed to check her dress properly and, realising she'd been had, glared up at Richard. "Hey, no fair! You're meant to be chaperoning, not teasing!"

OK, after a little messing about last night, the funniest thing imaginable on the advanced slope?

A Peacebringer in Drwarf form hurtling down the track after being SB'd! Apparently, I made a fellow SG member fall off the track in hysterics!

Perfect control too, as you actually run down instead of slide. On my first try like that I got 1:05. I think 3 SB's and I can get the gold like that no problem.

Cara's eye's lit up on spotting her teammate, and grinned in reply, "Hey Sophie... Ellie made it for me and brought it over, isn't it great? Yours looks really nice too though, love the safety pins!"

She reached out to take a glass of punch one of the Vigilants was holding out to her and sipped it as she looked Mina over, then smiled at the stranger. "Hi there, I'm Cara, one of Sophie's team mates."

Cara nodded and took a deep breath. "Well... If you say so, dad. I think I'll get a drink, okay?"

Flashing him a quick grin, she started to head towards the buffet, passing near Richard as she does. "Uh, hey Richard... You're looking nice... Like the tie..."

Cara jumped a little as Ryan suddenly appeared at her side and took her arm. "Umm.. Th.. thanks." She stammered a little, clearly somewhat embarrassed to be all dressed up and be without a date.

"Uh, Ellie kinda... brought it over earlier.. She... helped me to get ready and stuff. You really think I look alright?"

As she spoke, she noticed more students start to enter, most with dates, and moved a little so that Ryan was more between them and her. "Feel kinda silly, all dressed up like this and no date..."

Shadowe, they've not found the body YET!

Birdy, I was thinking of Mother's Love too!

Shadowe, you're SOOOO doomed.

There's a faint 'ding' as one of the elevators arrived and it's doors opened but no one stepped out. After a few seconds, the doors start to slide shut again but were stopped by a pale hand. A bright blue eye peered around the corner, checking out the area, before it's owner finally stepped out into the lobby.

Dressed in a knee length shimmering scarlet dress covered in sequins and cut low at the back, with darker red tights, scarlet high heels, and her short red hair immaculately coiffured, Cara looked nervously around the lobby, feeling rather conspicuous to be on her own. Her pale skin sparkled faintly under the lights as the glitter in her makeup caught and reflected the different colours, making her look considerably older than her 14 years.

Seeing Ryan on the raised stage, she started to walk slowly towards him, a little unsteady in the heels, and blushed faintly as she looked as his suit. "Uh... Hey, Ry..."

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more RP going on

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What liar told you that? Union always had the better roleplaying environment.

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I don't think you got anything on there that can beat our Golden Girl!

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Not only beat, but bludgeoned, tied, gagged and tossed in the river.

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more RP going on

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What liar told you that? Union always had the better roleplaying environment.

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Indeed! Those of us who were in the EU beta actually nominated Union to be the unofficial RP server, and it always has been.

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Around what time might that be? As on Defiant the chats are dead silent most of the time.


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I generally get in game around 8pm. I'm a roleplayer so spend a lot of time in Galaxy City, and whilst there, get a LOT of blind team invites, no matter what level char I'm on. So much so that I usually end up having to hide from search. I can pretty much guarantee you that anytime I want to team, I'll be on one within 5 minutes.

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It's been a loooong time since I have seen PuG requests in chat.


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Even longer for me, as I generally have Broadcast turned off. Still get loads of invites though.

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In fact it has become very rare, because there are NOT plenty of low level characters around.


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And now you're just lying.

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Maybe if you are in one of the few large Super Groups it's easier. I don't know.


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My SG is a roleplay SG. Not big on going out teaming a lot, doesn't stop me finding plenty of teams. Maybe you should try forming them instead of waiting for invites to come along? Personally, I don't need to bother as there's plenty of PuG's asking.

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They don't seem to care that almost every new player drops the game in a short while due to sheer boredom

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I see plenty of lower level character around,

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Most of those new characters I see ARE new subs. I check badges and rarely do I see more than one or 2 vet badges, often none. I often get asked quite rudimentary questions too...

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They don't seem to care that almost every new player drops the game in a short while due to sheer boredom, because there is hardly anyone around anymore in the lower level zones.

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Proof please, or is it just hyperbole? I see plenty of lower level character around, and I play plenty of lower level characters. I don't have any problems getting a PuG when I feel like it, and there's usually loads of people around.

One thing I've noticed is that the American practice of doing Sewer runs seems to have taken off lately. Perhaps you can't find anyone in Atlas because they're all knee deep in poo?

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Well - there's a reaons right there do the merge.


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*Pushes Jade off the new ski run*

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It's about time this was looked at.


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They've looked at it, and they've made an official posting about it. Game population IS clearly more than good enough to sustain the servers, or the servers WOULD be merged. NC have shown they're more than willing to cut losses (Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa are good examples), and they even closed down the Korean CoH due to poor number; so the simple fact that they have stated there are no plans to merge should tell you that there is no NEED to merge.

I'd love to do one. Can't do Friday evenings, or Saturdays until after 9pm, but most other nights I'm good!

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That's why the best method would be to open up a NEW third server and open active transfers from both server to this new one.

Then the active players have an equal chance to tranfer their chars to this NEW server and keep their names.


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Unacceptable. If I lose ANY of my character names, even if someone else had that name longer than me, I WILL leave. Many others feel exactly the same way. Your solution is not the best one by a LONG way.

The only acceptable solution is to permit more than one character of the same name, and I don't want any prefixes or suffixes or dots or underscores or anything else, either. My character name, exactly as it is now, or I find another game to play.

But I'm not worried, because as has been said, the official stance is that a server merge is NOT planned.

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A question about this; when you disable earning XP and then after doing some missions which give you XP turn earning XP back on, will you get the XP from those missions added on?

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Why would it grant you XP from missions you did when XP was disabled? That would defeat the entire purpose of the option.

When it's on, no XP is earned. When it's off, XP is earned. Simple.

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It's a bit of a shame that no archive was kept. There were a few good guides there

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GhostRaptor DID post and tell people to archive things they wanted to keep.

He's also said that they DO have a backup, on the beta for the new boards, and he CAN retrieve individual posts, preferably the OP ones. Just contact him with the thread title.

Make sure you turn the "Prompt for TP" prompt off.

Suggestions should go in here, for future reference.

Dual wield hammers or axes would look pretty, but would need rather a lot of animations redoing...

Going back to the op.. Dumb idea, sorry, but it is.

I've not managed to get more than Bronze on the advanced run so far, and *I'M* not crying about it! I just glare at the more skillful ones, gnash my teeth a bit, and try again.

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Now, FFM, I know you know a bit about programming, so a specification like the one you gave there should probably make you cringe.

What, exactly, is 'minor customisation?'

I'll tell you what it is, too hard to define in a meaningful way, that's what it is.

No, either this slot is for a fixed, SG costume, which means it's useless for any SG which actually puts some thought into it, like Zortel has done with the NV, or it's a changeable costume slot, in which case you may as well just hand out a free slot at level 10.

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Difficult to define? Possibly, but I deal with specifications like that on a regular basis, and it's really not THAT difficult. Define your parameters, allow the SG leader to select, say, a set range such as tech or arcane, and limit accordingly. Or, you could allow any costume piece, but limit pattern selection, or colour selection.

Or just not restrict it at all, and just have an SG mode only costume slot that the leader can preset, but everyone can change for their character. IMO, it's a better option than just giving another slot as, as others have said, many people don't want to devote one of their own slots for SG purposes. This way, they get one for SG use and don't have to lose one of their own.