Impish Kat

fix't that for ya.

I found that it did indeed look crappy without ultra mode, because I had an older graphics card that I was unable to run water settings on very high.

Once I got my new card (thanks to hubby for the b-day present), I was able to run the water settings higher, and the slow fields do indeed look much better.

The crystals, on the other hand, still look like crap.

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A popular theory that some have proposed boils down to "coding".... they are deathly afraid to try to "untangle the christmas lights".

But that doesn't make it any less necessary for doin'.
So, we keep track... as best we can.

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This.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and give them the benefit of doubt.
It WAS educational.
One comment even said that someone had found a stray that did this, but didn't know why (and that the stray lived for a good long while).

Since it is so rare in cats, it's important to let folks know it can happen... there may be more out there that have been misdiagnosed, or even put down as "defective".

I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that the one kitten's death had anything to do with his "fainting" disorder. The respiratory problem could have been completely separate and unrelated.

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I do it if the prices are beyond what I'm willing to pay.
I've been doing it a LOT more lately.
If the prices are beyond what I'm willing to pay, it also means I'll make a little bank on any excess that I generate while rolling for what I really need.
Thanks to the "ebil" marketeers, yes, thank you VERY much.

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Hoarding is a NON issue. The argument does not hold water, it's a fallacy, completely bogus.

If you, or anyone else, want to see base salvage change in ANY way, we need to put this argument down! The very fact that we are now allowed to e-mail salvage to ourselves blows this argument out of the water.

This makes more sense.
But I am still of the opinion that they should raise the capacity of salvage racks to be on par with the rest of the base storage tables/bins.

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In addition, every time I brought up the fact that any SG a Praet. would join would be losing out on the 20 levels of prestige, there was never any counter argument.

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No no no... do NOT remove the stations or nerf them in any way!
The whole benefit of the empowerment stations is that you can CHOOSE which empowerment you need for any given situation.

Also, the stations are already tiered in such a manner that not only do you need progressive amounts of prestige (you have to craft each tier) but you also burn progressive amounts of salvage... you know, the same salvage that people like to use for their IO's and are reluctant to put into group storage...

People simply need to be reminded that those stations are there for the GROUP members to use... and that they do last for an hour, not the 15 min.s that is stated on the recipes.

Not entirely true.
The capacity of the personal vault increases with the level of your character, up to at least 50 items.
The capacity of the salvage racks is 30 items, period.

As mentioned, personal storage already expands with the level of your character.

OR, They could simply increase the capacity of storage racks to 100, to be on par with the rest of the SG storage bins. The 30 item limit has caused SG's to be more restrictive with their salvage permissions. Increasing the capacity would allow for more flexibility for SG's to set up storage racks according to their group's needs ("community" racks & "player" racks).

I do like the idea of somehow using the new Tip Mission function for SGs. As you say, there does need to be some kind of Group AND personal reward for doing them. Players have a hard time justifying spending their time "unlocking" something for the group, when they could be working on their builds, or inf, or merits, or AE stories, or some other more personally tangible pursuit.

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It is irrelevant whether or not a "multi-architect" base is "decent".
That is a subjective judgement.

The point is to get more people interested in this aspect of the game.
That is an objective pursuit.

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This is a good question.
Along the same line: What if the Praetorian is one of the "first 15" in an SG? Do they get the "first 15" 20k bump or the "new Praet" 100k bump?

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Spammers are getting bolder. I have my e-mail settings to "friends & SG-mates only". But just a few days ago, I got a TELL from a spammer while standing in Talos WW. I'm so glad the devs found a way to enable copy/paste a little while back... made it that much easier to send "documentation" right in my petition.

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reference please?

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I think this is the kernel of why this isn't my most favorite idea ever.

It feels too much like... City of Sims, or Super Civilization, or WarStaff II, or... you get the idea.

CoH is about teaming. It's about missions.

I would rather see Supergroup/Base content be focused around the Group and teaming.

I think the re-vamped CoP was a step in the right direction. It requires a small group from an SG to host the event, but it is also open enough to allow our solo coalies or friends from other (smaller) SG's to join and earn badgies.

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I found a thread in the Announcement Discussions and another in the Training Room Test Server.
But usually someone puts a little "guide" together, and I haven't really seen anything along those lines.

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This concept has been bandied about several times. The sticky part is how to make it optional... some folks just aren't interested in raids in any form.

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