Judgement_Dave
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Ah - Zwill has just posted here, so I guess that'll give us official updates.
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Union then Defiant then Freedom - all gone grey to me.
Now I don't truck with them thar facebooky twittery things when the official forums are here... so any chance of an update on what's happening? -
Quote:Just hope that the class wasn't geography...Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
i prolly overestimated a little lol, still working on memorizing time zones and all that lol
when i made that post i was getting bored to death and really tired in one of my classes so i prolly wasnt thinking straight either lol
US timezones have been second nature for a while since I've followed US sport from about 1980. When following a crappy radio signal to get weak, weather-dependent reception it was good to know when I should be hoping to get the signal.
East coast (New York) is 5 hrs behind UK local time and west coast (california) is 8 - save for a slight discrepency around the change to/from summertime/daylight-savings . -
Quote:Did the Atlantic suddenly get smaller?Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
in the US a 6 hour maintenance still lasts till like 4 pm
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Quote:So after being my usual pants-self at booking things, Paragon was booked up and so I'm glad you mentioned the Britannia - I'm now finally booked in there and have even booked train tickets.Originally Posted by A_Random_Thing
Aaaaand that's me definitely sorted, staying at The Britannia so, 19 minute walk to and from New St Station, in an almost straight line.
I've got a sketch-writing course in Manchester on Saturday afternoon, so I'll only make it to Birmingham c.18:00 - So I'l be a little late but I will be there.
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Quote:I can understand the size of the pulse upsetting some players but it's an incarnate trial and as such it's not really unreasonable to design it so that most characters would find rebirth worth slotting for the trial. Between rebirth, green insps and aid self there are enough ways that incarnates can give themselves more survivability against the pulse if they choose to. Multiple builds means aid self could be taken just for a trial build if neccessary.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
I think the pulse damage needs to be cut by 50%. Sending players to the hospital in a steady stream isn't my idea of a good time. The Anti-Anti-Matter badge is just being sadistic.
This. It's frustrating as hell to have a healing power ready to save them but not be able to spot the character (for targetting) in a full league.Quote:Disintegrations: The player being disintegrated should be clearly marked in the team/league windows so that people healing can have a chance at preventing the player from being defeated.
EDIT: Forgot to say that in the main I find Keyes reasonably fun - it's a challenge that can be nigh on impossible with people running about like headless chickens but can be made a whole lot easier by players paying attention. At this level of game the trials shouldn't be easy run-with-my-eyes-closed-whilst-asleep affairs. The worst part of Keyes isn't any of the trials design - it's finding enough other players who do/will pay attention. -
Quote:It's not universal on this side of the pond - other than a couple of runs I've been on it's always been the case that Union keeps 'em seperated and Defiant pulls to the tennis courts. Keeping em seperated is far more fun imho.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
You'd hate Union; Every BAF I've been on has kept Siege and NS seperate, just because that's how we roll over here across the pond
Defiant and Union also tend to run different patterns for the courtyard & gun towers in the Lambda. -
Shame that it's only for creating a new account and so can't be used to upgrade a trial account.
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Quote:Unless the team did something really, really stupid (like multiple spawn aggro-magnet idiocy) then I'd probably be feeling quite ashamed that I built a tank that couldn't keep aggro off the team.Originally Posted by Captain-Electric
And yeah, it's a not-so-terrible feeling when your tank is the only one standing after a good team wipe.
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Quote:I already did a few a while back - but either my search fu is search snafu today or (more likely) they were in the wiped comic & culture section.Originally Posted by Llydia
Judgement_Dave - Now that EU_Damz has got you started, you can join Steelclaw in creating alternate lyrics to songs.
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Quote:No.Originally Posted by Llydia
Have you ever changed a character name? Your global name? Any other names (besides from marriage)? What lead to the decision, and did you like the result?
Not outside of renaming back after it's been automatically renamed.
No.
n/a
My character Qyzyx obviously gets pronounced wrongly as people often call hi 'Oz' in team chat. I rarely correct them now - but his bio has always stated that it's pronounced as 'Quiz-icks'.Quote:Also, do you have difficulty getting people to pronounce your name(s) correctly? If so, how do you react? -
WHilst I've not seen any elsewhere, there were the usual in-game announcements at 30/10/5 minutes.
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Quote:I suspect that they've moved full-time to a competitor. They went there for a while (though I think they popped back for a short spell after GR) and are still very active on their forums.Originally Posted by EU_Damz
One of the most famous EU players has an actual global name which majority still think is a female but is a male [actually aint seen him healing in the hollows for quite a while now
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I gather that there was some unhappiness with the way NC did a few things that maybe could have soured the game a little.
Damnz you, Damez! I now have a bastardised version of the South Pacific song (There ain't nothing like a Damez) going through my head.Quote:[By the way its pronounced damez not damnz ]
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Quote:Latecomer.Originally Posted by Ruff_Tuff_n_Buff
The Wii didn't get me into video games; arcades, my C64 and my NES did that.
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Quote:Simply having a webcam feed of someone else during verification was why I included 'faking' - I consider that faking footage of you.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Fake nothin'. I can sit my mom in front of my webcam to vouch for me. That still proves nothing.
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Quote:Not even sure that webcam verification would work for all cases - is that all they do for sports gender testing? And I'm pretty sure you could effectively hack/fake the webcam feed if you wanted to.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
C) There is absolutely NO way short of webcam verification to ensure that only females are playing on the server. There are men named Kerry, and Kelly, and Shannon. The name attached to the account means nothing.
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Quote:Established premium/VIP players rolling corruptors and MMs don't need to go to Mercy - sure some will, but just because players may want to roll traditionally-villainous ATs doesn't mean that they'll be in the rogue isles.Originally Posted by Liz Bathory
Remember that with I21 there will be new power sets which will encourage players to also try corrputors and mm's etc with the new sets. Those players will be in the starting zones on red side when I21 hits.
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Quote:Teaming is my biggest issue redside - practically every villain I've rolled has been solo because (on Defiant) the teams just don't/didn't exist most of the time. I enjoy teaming and teams are easier to find/create blueside.Originally Posted by EvilRyu
You see stuff for hero tfs all the time but very few people doing group villain stuff.
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Looks like the dev chat says that the female-only server may be possible:
Quote:Supposing that you wouldn't need to pay your regular sub if you only used the private server then I guess that you may only need a few hundred people to sign up to avoid it costing any more than the regular sub.Tangent: If someone really REALLY wanted a private server, Posi could give them a quote on getting one. Several thousand bucks a month. -
Quote:Not really surprising - certainly used to be the case that most players didn't read the forums, and I'd be surprised if 100% of the players who read the forums had all read posts about Stan & Lou...Originally Posted by Yydr
Tonight while teaming I mentioned Stan & Lou... and no one else on the team know what I was referencing!
Nice to see them mentioned again for the newer players and those who missed them the first time. -
Self-confessed pun addict, some of my favourite names are probably:
Judgement Dave - my 1st character and CoH was my 1st MMO, so I had no idea if people used their real names or completely made up character names - Judgement Dave was a safe compromise and appealed to my pun loving.
Failed Martial Monty - a merc MM who always wanted to be a soldier but could only get into the army as a cook (and was kicked out after failing at that).
Blast ofthe Mohicans - if only there was another character in the name - it irritates me slightly having no space in 'ofthe'.
Mother Four Cars - Made good money building inventions for Paragons heroes and bought herself 4 cars (as her family could never afford one when she was growing up). Now the rising cost of petrol has forced her to a life of crime to afford to run the cars. Not sure how gas prices are in the US, but this makes sense for a player in the UK...
Operative Word and Operative Phrase - my two SoAs.
Twanky - one of my widows. Not sure if that'll travel, as it's a pantomime reference.
Praetor Ian - guess who started out in Praetoria?
Bulk Logan - wrestling fan + steroids + need to bulk up = brute
John Constant Whine - my sonic/sonic defender created when trench coats went live.
Eye Clawdius - the claws scrapper who lost an eye when they got a bit in it and forgot that they were a claws scrapper. A lesson for us all there.
G'an Dee is obviously my peacebringer. Less obvious is my warshade being Shrub Bliar.
Marcus Coal - ex-coal miner tank. A slightly familiar costume... though he's never been kidnapped by Praetorians.
Poppacapotu - obviously a fiersome central American god returned to earth with a pair of flintlocks seized from conquistadors and imbued with his mystical righteous might.
Poppacapotu is not, I repeat NOT, just a poor excuse for dual pistols based puns. And his full name is most definately not Poppacapotu Inyoazz...
I quite like my praetorian demon summoner who gets their power from magical rings - Ring Binder - and my 1st character created after power customisation hit is a bubbler called Roy G. Biv. -
Quote:Exactly what I thoughtOriginally Posted by MrCaptainMan
Aha...that explains a lot.
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Quote:I totally agree.Originally Posted by Chainsaw_Chicken
I hate getting harassed in game, and so I wish they would create a female only server. They have female only gyms for a reason. An online video game is not a dating site.
If we can have VIP servers please make one female only.
Thanks.
Far better to run and hide in some cyber-refuge than to report some idiot harassing you so the mods can slap them down or ban them if they persist. Hopefully the next female they harass will also have the good sense to flee to your protected server rather than get the idiot dealt with. -
My first (and main) character started in Galaxy and I knew it like the back of my hand. Feels like his home is going.
It's a shame that the devs probably aren't getting rid of it following a month or so of zone events but will just make it disappear as the servers blink and issue 21 goes live. -
Quote:Doesn't the width of a jumbo jet mean the wingspan?
Great tentacles the width of jumbo jets erupted from the streets and tore into the buildings
The tentacles I've seen so far look more like the width of the fusealage alone.