Kitsune Knight

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If I answer wrong to the Midnighter's question am I barred from joining them?

[/ QUOTE ]Branching plots doesn't mean every damn thing in the game has to have a few billion possible out comes.

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I'm not asking this to be a jerk, I'm asking this because it begs the question; if branching stories are made and they go deeper into options will it lock out one option to open another? Those types of choices aren't very favorable; look at how the locked in Patron Pools were considered by the playerbase, and even those were eventually changed to be respec'ed in and out of.

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Patrons had a LOAD of issues, most of which unrelated to the story (most people I've talked to said they LIKED the actual arc). The majority of villain players finding the PPPs to be far inferior to that of the APPS, the information about the PPPs being given in a vacuum (real numbers for just the PPPs is useless, as you have no baseline to understand what they mean), and the homogeny were huge issues, all unrelated to the story, but the implementation.

People seem to think 'branching' = 'you can do anything and everything'. There's still the writer deciding what you can and can't do, this isn't rocket science... many games have ALREADY done the whole branching storyline thing as well as being incredibly popular (hell, anybody remember Deus Ex?), having branching stories in an MMO world requires only a little bit extra effort in the creation of the stories... and don't forget, most of the story arcs in the game are completely independent of all the others (RWZ, faultline, and a few others are really the only exceptions).

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I'm still kind of confused why heroes are launching the missile though. Unless it's assumed that we are launching an payload-less missle into the sea where it will only cause a small ecological disaster instead of the huge catastrophe it would cause if the villains launched it into Paragon City with its payload intact.

[/ QUOTE ]Heroes are launching the warheads into space, where they can later call them down on their desired target... generally always in Paragon City.

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Also, you forgot powexecname soul extraction.

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I didn't forget it. I realized that the OP would want to wait to activate it until he actually got in range of the pet

[/ QUOTE ]If it's not in range, it'd simply queue the power... meaning it'd automatically activate once in range, when seemed to be the what the OP wanted (until he realized that the range of the power was long enough that he really wouldn't need the follow most always).

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Soon™

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Fix'd!

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Double Fixed.

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I stand in awe of your superscript abilities.

[/ QUOTE ] It's not really superscript, it's an actual character... alt+0153
(or you can copy/paste the one at the bottom of the forum page. lol)

[/ QUOTE ]Yeah, except unfortunately for me that just comes out as ™

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Like it or not, the status quo has to stay in a static world of an MMO.

[/ QUOTE ]No, it's an issue of the game's engine not supporting branching plots. If the engine supported branching, then it would have only come down to an issue with the writing, which should be easy to over come (by, you know, not having the 'blow up the world' option that actually blows up the world).

operation cwal

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It doesn't mean that they can instantly identify and fix bugs that they come across.

[/ QUOTE ]And to elaborate on this, a quote I like: "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

The reason I'm referencing this quote is to say... DEBUGGING IS [censored] HARD. A bug may seem like an easy fix... but rarely are they. I've experienced bugs that I could not track down... I ended up re-writing and re-factoring pretty much ALL the code that had ANYTHING to do with what the bug was doing, and STILL couldn't fix it... eventually a tiny bug fix in a completely different section of the code base that was completely unrelated fixed it. It was a very minor memory leak that turned out to be also causing memory corruptions (which just happened to manifest itself in that specific bug).

And to add to that, we know where Rikti Earth is. After all, we went to their world long before they came to ours! I don't really see the need to advance the Rikti story for a while... other stories need some attention...


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going rigth through war walls which should be impossible

[/ QUOTE ]Guess who's technology created the War Walls? That's right, the Rikti's! (along with the medicom teleportation network, and loads of other things in the city)


I suggest you do the RWZ story arcs + the Lady Grey Task Force, it'll fill you in on a lot of the Rikti lore.

Ucla

Video for the uninformed


I wish I got a video of the Rikti Invasion last night... it was like we were being bombarded from orbit... after all, it's the only way to be sure!

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Yes I suspect that is the OP's actual point about how 'wrong' it is to make a none pure concept build.

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Actually, I believe the OP's actual point was that people would break concept without an attempt at justification because some powers are just better mechanically, even if they don't make sense. You can think up any excuse and justification, but when this hasn't been done, it becomes a "why" moment.

And I have to agree. If you're going to break concept, at least put forward the effort to justify it. Put something in the bio, tweak something on the costume, the options are there.

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Why?

If the person in question doesn't care, why should you?

[/ QUOTE ]Because everyone should explain every little bit of their character's concept in their bio!

Then again, I pretty much never explain my character's concepts in my bio I see no need to explain why my fox spirit carries a BFG as well as various technological gadgets in the bio... the bio is for whatever the person thinks should go in there, which may or may not explains all their powers (especially something as minor as their APP!)

The character's origin? Sure.
The character's story over their career? Why not.
The list of 50s that player has? Of course.
The list of AVs they still need to kill for Portal Jockey? That's fine.
The entire origin story for why Dr. Hospital O'Healy is a TA/A? Sorry, space constraints.

ICANTHACKIT

I say that's reason enough to keep it around!

Not sure exactly what you're doing, but from the sound of it, it shouldn't be.

Post those pictures in (Sexy) Jay's Costume Bug Fix List (Post Issue 14).

I love being psychic





(it also helps that I ran into the same problem with my bots MM a few days ago )

Let me guess, robots mastermind? BaBs mentioned that they (and a few other critters) slipped through in a state where emotes didn't work correctly.

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How are they different at all? I didnt notice.

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Here's a comparison.

I'm not sure what about the new ones would "completely ruin" a look, personally - but then again, the blurred blobs that were supposed to be bolts drove me nuts on the old ones.

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It's kinda like bitchin' that your crayon-scrawled sign of "4 sale buy ownr" in front of your house was replaced by a sign saying "For Sale By Owner", only slightly less exaggerated.

[/ QUOTE ]Some people like their low-res textures.

Right mouse click on them and one of the menu entries should be something along the lines of 'Close Power Tray'.

I don't see the need for any minor tweaks to stealth vs perception like that. If anything should happen, the entire system should be revamped so that it's far less binary (there's various different ways that can be taken that have been mentioned before).

I think they don't scale... meaning you can miss them (but you CAN do them in Ouroboros if you miss them without getting to 50 first!).

Have you tried updating your video card's drivers?


You could also try running C:\City of Heroes\CityofHeroes.exe -project coh -cmd from the Start -> Run prompt (assuming I guessed the directory name correctly) and seeing if the terminal gives you any interesting details/errors).

IIRC, the plan is to maybe expand all to 5, but on a 'as time permits' schedule... so don't expect to see extra powers being added, especially since IIRC they considered the sets that they left with 4 as performing reasonably well already.

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Edit: Sc00ped!

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Hahahaha I was actually coming back here to edit my post to include a link to wiki... now I get to be lazy!

It's always on (it follows the rules as if it was a Global).