Infernal_Marquis

Before a channel is made, I want to let you guys know that Shadow Shard Shaturdays will be put on hold after this weekend and it will be converted into "Master of Saturday" where the Crimson Order will run one Mo TF every Saturday at 1pm EDT. We'll do it for a few months so folks can snag those highly sought after badges, then we'll return to Shadow Shard Shaturday and will likely switch between the two events every few months. I was going to make the "official" post later this evening, but figured I'd give a heads up in advance since it seemed appropriate.

When we start doing the 'Master of ____' runs I'll shout it out in the Sisterhood Friends and Crimson Order global channels, as well as coalition channel. The word usually spreads like wild fire from there anywhere and I'm sure it'll find its way into LB. Cappy is also usually pretty good about posting stuff like that in the MotD with enough notice so I'll try to make sure he knows about it.

This week's spotlight is on the Virtue villain group named Hedonistic Diversions, built by @Body of Straw

The designer stated that the theme for this base is "a Mansion on an Island," and a mansion it certainly is! The plot for the base itself is only 3 rooms (including the entrance), and 99% of the design for the base went into 1 room. This is a roleplaying group and the base serves only RP purposes, which means there are no teleporters or medbays or storage. And without any of the functional items of a base, there is no need for energy or control generators. Now that's what I call hardcore RP.

From overhead, the base has a very "dollhouse" look and when I asked @Body of Straw about that, he said "I had a friend ask me to build her a house...and I built a 3D one for her as I have schooling in architectural engineering...so another friend saw it and asked me to build him a mansion the same way. I designed it with no ceiling and a gap between levels for better camera angles for scenes and RP."

The single greatest thing about this base is the attention to detail. There is a window overlooking a beach, a bar (several actually) with taps, and the hallways between rooms show a nice overlay of the dark and light bookcases to make a very excellent "chinese paper wall" look.

welcome to Liberty. There are plenty of resources available (many of which are mentioned above) to get you up to speed and on par so you can start fighting crime as soon as possible. I wish you the best of luck in all of your future adventures

Dr Quarterfield TF completed in 4:35:37

Crimson Training Bot - shield/axe tank
Tax E Girl - emp/psi defender
Miraculous Man - elect/super reflexes scrapper
Burly Dark Fist - dark/invul scrapper
Morrighan Arawn - broad sword/shield scrapper
Meow Miss - elect/ice blaster
Scary AFK Chic - illusion/kin controller
Agriculture - plant/kin controller

Dr Q tomorrow at 1pm!!!

all you're missing are a few Big Daddies, some Baby Sisters, a couple of crazed splicers, add a few ammo and health dispensers, some security bots, lots of Adam and Eve laying around and you'll be all set for BioShock 3

there's no shortage of altaholics on Liberty

that's ok Bill. You're welcome to post pics of your wife here anytime you want.

well either this server is full of bare skinned people with no ink, or my side boob scared everyone away from this thread

Faathim the Kind TF completed in 2:29:26

Delta 911 - fire/emp controller
Burly Dark Fist - dark/invul scrapper
Tiberian Fiend - spines/regen scrapper
Satyrius - elect/shield scrapper
Daleaha - elect/energy blaster
Shock Block - elect/shield scrapper
Spirit of Love - emp/psi defender
CrimsonTrainingBot - shield/elect tank

friendly reminder about the Faathim the Kind TF coming up this Shaturday at 1pm eastern. It starts in the Chantry

because i'm a scorpio

I think so Brain, but where are we going to get rubber pants full of jello at this time of night? *NARF*

personally, I'd say pick a dev and harrass the hell out of him/her. send PMs daily over the forums until his/her inbox crashes. make it so he/she cant do anything, say anything, go anywhere, or see anybody without another dev giving him/her a hardtime about the inbox crashing under the weight of our voices.

and once that has been achieved, i say we get a direct phone number and extension, then crash the voicemail. once phase 2 is complete, we prepare for what I'd like to call the Billion Base Builder March where we camp out on that particular dev's front lawn with /em protest, disrupting the spouse's ability to get to work and the kids' ability to get to school!

upon completion of phase 3, said Dev now can't get to work because of all of us on the front lawn, so he/she is fired for missing work. That would be the time each of us submits an application to be a dev and maybe, just MAYBE, one of us would get hired so now we have a mole on the inside who we could get to start the ball rolling on Issue 21: Seriously Overdue Base Luvin'

With all of that said, I may or may not have some friends in NY in the "waste management" industry who may or may not know some connected people and who may or may not owe me a favor... i'm just saying.

So if the devs are in fact watching this thread... you may or may not have been warned.

I recently had the distinct pleasure of visiting A.W.O.L. which stands for Agents Watching Over Liberty. The designer is @ssimpson and this is another hero base on Liberty server.

The single greatest thing about this base is the excellent architecture. Many designers use a bunch of random objects to create the illusion of form and function, but there's no illusion to this base. Each of the structures is clean cut and form fitting. When asked what he loved about this base, one of the members stated that it's functional for both RPers who come for the sights and non-RPers who just hit the base for storage or travel. The use of rounded corner desks at the edges of some of the buildings really makes a smooth aesthetic. And the base makes good use of pillars for structural support. Everything in this base fits so well together that the interior of the structures has a natural flow when running around inside.

First off, I'd like to apologize to the first 3 bases that were spotlighted. I updated my photobucket albums and the pictures were lost. However, I will work to get those pictures back and update this page again.

Secondly, of all the designers that have requested to have their bases spotlighted, none are ready to have it done yet as they want to tweak out a few more things beforehand. With that in mind, I present to you some more of Liberty's bases. I'm not being biased because Liberty is my home server, it's just that only Liberty designers have contacted me with bases they feel are ready to showcase.

And so without further ado, I present to you a Liberty Hero base called Playmates of Paragon, designed by @untouchable

Most of us have a base within the city, but these folks have a city within their base! They are a roleplaying SG full of playboy bunnies so naturally they have a stripclub and tanning salon (not featured). But don't be fooled because these bunnies are tough on crime, as evidenced by the prison with an electric chair (also not featured). I instead spent most of my time in this base marvelling at the miniature buildings they created.







oh, and a basketball court, because bunnies gotta stay in shape

i'm on windows vista home premium and have been having the same issue for a while with switching screens and the game being stuck on the same image

I'm not really sure what this means and i was unable to locate any other posts regarding this specific error. It's the first time I've seen this error. I've crashed probably 15 times in the last 4 days, which is more times than I ever have in the last 27 months combined. Any help in preventing the crashes would be much appreciated.

Assertion failed
Program: C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CityOfHeroes.exe
Time: Sun May 02 09:28:05 PM
Process ID: 7100
File: c:\src\utilitieslib\utils\superassert.c
Line: 1857
Expression: 0
Error Message: CRT abort() called
ERROR: swDumpStackToBuffer - timeout (258) waiting for dumpHeap is NOT corrupted
Last windows SYSTEM error: Not enough storage is available to process this command.



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DxDiag gathered at May 2, 2010 21:54 (-04:00)
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this weeks Shard TF was going to be Faathim the Kind, but it will be postponed until next weekend for the 6th Anniversary event hosted by American Valor in RWZ. details can be found here