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And can we wear the pope hat on top of the Halloween Brain in a Jar? That would go perfect with my "pope's brain in a jar" character.

Does it have bacon sprinkles? Cuz that would be awesome.

If I was "assuming" I wouldn't bother to ask you for clarification. I would simply dismiss you out of hand.

The ship is 70+ years old. The crew wasn't. In my opinion those men were in their 50's and 60's. Even if some were, my own father worked full time doing maintenance until his heart attack in his mid 70's. Not all seniors are doddering old men that can barely move.

Edit: No I take that back. Some of them had to be in their early 70's

Okay let's look at the timeline of that scene. First the main characters had to get onboard the ship and walk to the fo'c'sle. That entails crossing the Quarterdeck where whoever in charge can call all hands to the fo'c'sle on the intercom. That's going to take the main characters about 15 minutes to accomplish on a battleship. That gives the crew that much time to gather. Some of the crew will be there already, some will be at various stations in the superstructure including the Bridge. Those are the ones we see making those "dramatic" poses. The main characters talk for another 10 minutes or more an the rest of the crew show up walking along the main deck. They didn't all have to climb up, over, and down the superstructure

Agreed 100%

Again agreed 100%

Yeah that had me calling BS as well

No argument there either.

The only thing we seem to disagree on is one scene. That doesn't mean anything. Neither of us is wrong for liking or disliking it. It is possible to express our opinions about what we think went on off camera to explain the scene without having the world come to an end.

Never underestimate how lazy players can be. I've seen someone get pissed at his SGmate because he got in an argument with player with a similarly named character and the SG roster clearly showed the player being blamed han't been on the character in question for over a month.

The guy that had been the jerk had used the old "L" for "I" substitution to get the same name.

I think thats for general maintenance in port, not actually getting underway and leaving port. A museum isn't going to be leaving the docks unless it's for a special event. And the boilers, you gotta light those suckers up at least a day or two in advance from a cold start.


In actual wartime sure they probably had ammo storage near the docks but no way not during peacetime, but then again it's a movie so ya let some things slide for the sake of entertainment.

How do we know we aren't going to agree if you won't explain what it was that felt contrived.

Was it the fact that there were actual sailors on the battleship museum?

Well it's a military museum and who better to be assigned to work at the museum than the sailors who actually served onboard the battleship who can share first hand knowledge of what it was like to be assigned to the ship.


Was it how they all showed up at roughly the same time?

Onboard ship the crew can be called to muster at any location on the ship over the ship's intercom.


The only really unbelievable things that happened that were immersion breaking occurred during the montage where they were getting ready to set sail.

1. The boilers in the Engine Room were cold an we watched them get lit. There is no way that they could have gotten hot enough and built up enough power to set sail that fast. They also wouldn't leave it's fuel tanks filled. They'd be running power lines from the pier to run the onboard equipment.

2. There is no way in hell that a decommissioned museum had live ammunition onboard.

3. You don't just drive a battleship like a speedboat away from a dock. The bigger the ship the more tugboats are required to get the ship away from the pier and underway.

I think they did but we couldn't hear it over the sound of their eyeballs exploding from exposure to unshielded sunlight.

Uhm, the battleship didn't get sunk.

I like the theme (It's also unusual enough that except for two of the names I need, no one will want the names I'm using) and I play on multiple servers. For example Tanker Tuesdays meets on different servers each week and weekend so if I want to participate more than once a month I need characters on multiple servers.

Also playing on as many servers as possible means I can always find a team when I'm in the mood. If one server is dead I can find something going on on another server by keeping an eye on the global channels.

Besides I'm paying $15 bucks a month for 192 character slots, it seems awfully wasteful for me not to use them. And I'm far from unusual. Many players not only play on multiple servers, but they have multiple accounts as well. Sometimes as many as 4, 5 and 6 accounts, and since Freedom went live we don't have to pay for those extra accounts anymore.

The biggest attractions to this game is our ability to create several dozen characters, and satisfy our altitis.

Of course there's nothing wrong with a person limiting himself to one character on one server. Hey that's what Free accounts are for. There's room in this game for everyone.

Well everyone except the inhabitants of the moons of Saturn. They can find their own damn game. Smelly methane breathers.

What was contrived about it? The battlehip was a museum and the sailors worked at the museum at various locations on the ship. Just like when you go to the USS Constitution, there are real Navy sailors working there.

Soon™

Well if you'd like to argue that they could have given us more time to get ready by announcing it earlier, I'll support you 100%.

Sorry Ironik, I didn't transpose "WoW" and "word", and I already explained what I thought his post was implying. Oh and providing that explanation isn't insisting that it's "correct".

Now if you can't accept my explanation of what I thought his post implied, that's too bad for you.

I was gonna ask if anyone ha gotten their codes yet, but I see you already answered that. Back to waiting.

The contest announcement was posted on the website, on the Launcher under Latest News, and (GASP!!!) in the Announcement section of the Forums by Freitag. see link

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=290071

Oh yeah. For example, this thread inspired me to check the availability of three particular names that are critical to a themed SG concept/name. To my delight the names were available on 10 servers, so I grabbed them and formed the SG on each server. Sure the other 7 names the SG concept requires are just as important but they are so unusual that the only way they'd get used is by someone trying to be a jerk and snagging it just to keep me from filling out my SG rosters. So because they are unusual I don't have to rush to get them reserved ASAP.


Oh and if I had Thunderfist on any server I'd gladly give it up for you.

We aren't going to keep his stuff. We'll have a contest and give it away as prizes to players whose characters don't violate copyright/trademarks.

No argument there. I'd love to see a costume generator with a lot more options as far as anchor points go.

Separate anchor points for Eyes and Horns. Upper Arm Details separate from shoulders, Lower Arms seperate from Gloves, & Thigh Accessories.

The ability to place scars and tattoos with an x, y, z slider an rotate them.


The thing is unless they've been working on this in secret for a while, it'll be god knows how long before we see any of it added to the game.