Judgement_Dave

Cheers for organising that Mumsy and helpers - darn good fun! And gratz to all the winners - well done all.


Just glad that I wasn't Deaf racer - what an eejit... he ought to be posting in the 'dumbest things' thread...

















phew.. think that removed any hint of suspicion that I am indeed the eejit.

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The Mac-only exclusive of a 'straight to mission teleport' is an odd choice in my opinion, Mac users any less capable of finding the mission entrance manually? - no!, ahh well... at least we know what the 57 Month Veteran award is going to be for the rest of us.

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OOOOHHHHH!!!! It's nearly weekend can I start the negativity... pleeeease?

Straight to mission teleport would decrease the time that people spend in city zones...

...won't this lead to (at least slightly) emptier city/island zones...

...and so lead to more people thinking that the game is dying as the city zones now appear deserted?


Just a musing. Not sure that a straight to mission tp is needed and can see a slight downside for it... though I'll probably get it when it's available as:

1 - though not needed I've no problems in small payments for useful perma-temps, if only because one less beer is a price worth paying to help CoX remain worthwhile for NC.

2 - it will be a godsend for Positron and SSTFs on superspeeders!

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I shan't be running the race, I'll be far more interested by spending my second wedding anniversary with my wife, cooking the evening meal,

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Happy anniversary!
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and things I shan't mention here. *smirks*

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WoW?????

Not looked at Mac software in the best part of a decade but back in the late 90s the Mac-based designers would leap on practically any half-decent game as they only released 1 per blue moon...

If it's still like that I could imagine this going down fairly well - though half the designers might never make it past the character creation screen...

I'll be there - the giveaway was that I haven't said that I won't be there.

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Union Hamidon Raids

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Is it just me that can't seem to find this channel?

Darn - not sure if Mrs JD is planning some cakeday-related fun for me on the 8th... if she's not then I'll be there.

Any idea what time the booting will be?

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we didnt.

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Yay - I didn't miss out! And more importantly I don't need to organise a respec trial/Katie TF in the next couple of days to try catching up!

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because it was half term time ppl didnt turnup (kinda expected tbh)

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At least I did say (last week in game and 2 or 3 weeks ago on forum) that I couldn't make it - shame that others don't manage to post if they can't turn out... It can save the rest of the team from hanging around waiting for non-attendees.

So what level would I be needing to get to? And what did you plump for in the end?

(1st respec and Katie?)

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So I'm in the US now, erm guess I'd best take some notice of the presidential race then

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So whoever wins the Rogue Isles Deathrace gets a term as US president on top of all the other goodies?!?!

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I just wish there were more vampires...

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Vampires not a problem. It's those bloody Spirits...

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One day at a time is all the advice anyone can offer. You'll beat that demon...

Aye - one of the things that made it so frustrating when they weren't working was how much fun the one time I did see them was!

I particularly like the fact that it has nothing to do with ToTing - because whilst ToTing was fun at 1st it was darn frustrating to have to ToT to death to get costume badges on characters that had already got the spawn badges 2 years ago... Adding completely new 'sections' to events keeps them fresh and avoids frustration for older toons.

And yes - I know that I don't have to get the costume badges on older characters... but I do have to. Really I do.

Well strictly speaking it looks like there's been a burst - on both Defiant and Union.

We (as players) still don't know if it's working as it was meant to - just that we're now seeing some and so we're happier!

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OKies GR.

(Last event seen: 16:20, Faultline).

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Yeah - our GM's manually triggered that one on Union and Defiant.

We have now received a solution for rectifying the issue and it is currently being applied across all European servers. Once this fix is in place the Zombie Apocalypse events should resume occuring regularly.

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Do we have an estimate of when the solution will be in place?

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If the continually following you and doing it as you aproaching a door I think then you have a case for harrasment

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Bingo. That's exactly it. With one of them lots of taunts about how "we're not doing anything wrong. You can't petition us for this." Repeatedly, over broadcast.

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If you've got your chatlog saved then add it to the petition on the NCSoft support site as this is clearly harassment, or better yet, a screenshot showing the UI and the broadcasts.

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Precisely.

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GR - has the official line on this changed then?

Pretty sure that it was previously stated (by Bridger iirc) that there's no need at all to send chat logs or screenshots as the GM will have to check the server chat logs anyway. All that's needed is time/place/charname.

As I said in a GD thread:

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I think that since about 09:30 GMT (so 10:30 UK local), there's been 2 zones invaded on each of Union and Defiant CoH (Union: Eden/Croatoa, Defiant: Striga/PI). Not sure that CoV on either English language server has had one today...

So, good news is that it doesn't appear to be favouring Union over Defiant. Bad news is that it's just not turning out for any of us with anything like a reasonable frequency...

For such a casual-friendly game I really can't believe that the invasions are WAI at the moment.


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Just logged off - and the above is still the situation since this morning.

It really cannot be WAI.


BTW - I nearly missed the Croatoa invasion (which was at the same time as Eden) due to a brief, and rare, dc. Made it there and got 3 of the invasion badges - it looked like no EBs spawned for the grouped masses by the train station.

So... not only are they incredibly rare - but there's no sort of guarantee that EBs will show at all. Anecdotally it appears that EBs only arrive at the end of invasions anyway, so I'm now waiting another gawd-knows-how-many-days for an invasion to appear when I'm not at work just so my main can get the EB badge...

If this is WAI then it's seriously SNAFU'd WAI and doesn't bode well for the future. Really hope it's not WAI.

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As a hint, however, just like Rikti events there is a secondary trigger that can be activated by the actions of players.

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Doesn't seem to have been much forum speculation about this trigger yet...

Don't suppose it'd be triggered by number/percentage of players wearing/using the costume temp powers? Would at least tie the trigger in to the Halloween event...

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HOOOORAY!

GET READY TO PLAY MY LITTLE 8 50S MINIONS! ARISE TO STOP THIS ZOMBIE INVASION!

Oh, wait, I'm at work.... won't be able to play until tonight (gah!)

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tbh at the rate that they seem to be invading they won't get chance to play with all your 50s unless they're on 2 accounts and you can run 2 at a time.

Oh - and be playing 24/7 or you're bound to miss the odd invasion that does actually come.

I think that since about 09:30 GMT (so 10:30 UK local), there's been 2 zones invaded on each of Union and Defiant CoH (Union: Eden/Croatoa, Defiant: Striga/PI). Not sure that CoV on either English language server has had one today...

So, good news is that it doesn't appear to be favouring Union over Defiant. Bad news is that it's just not turning out for any of us with anything like a reasonable frequency...

For such a casual-friendly game I really can't believe that the invasions are WAI at the moment.

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Have they got electrodes wired into your brain, or something?

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Electrodes in player's brains... that may not explain any endgame content but it might just explain recent forum activity!

Daft question maybe... but how does the server pick random zones to invade?

It's not doing something stupid like:
* X zones can be invaded on CoH
* Y on CoV
So pick 3 zones at random with each having 1/(X+Y) chance of being picked is it?

If it does similar, it does actually weight the villain zones heavier doesn't it? Or even try to distribute between CoH and CoV evenly...

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OSTENTATIOUS badge is for getting all 30 temporary costumes.
Get a badge for 10, 20 and 30.

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Certainly last year it was badges for 10, 25 and 50.

Ostentatious is for 50 of the halloween costumes (temp powers) drops. Only took best part of 5 or 6 hours to get... so easy peasy really.

I nearly suggested Katie Hannon TF, but then considered that the trigger would probably be available to both CoH and CoV (unless there are 2 secondary triggers).

I'd go with it being ToT or Halloween GM related...

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Spawns:
While I can see that spawn placement is not going to happen, I hope there will be some system that will allow us to place unique mobs/NPCs/Items think of how easy a mission to kill/rescue/click would be if the notable thing was in the first room we came to. ALso if you want for story reasons two or more mob types within a single map, say council and devouring earth, I hope we will be able to put them into positions that actually have them fight (or appear to).


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Pretty certain that early info released (maybe interview?) about the MA said that you wouldn't be able to place glowies/hostages/etc precisely, but you could specify if you wanted them to appear near the start of the map or at the very end.