Kitsune Knight

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So... with side switching... does this mean that villain archetypes will get ancillary power pools? I mean, they cant really have patrons as heros can they? Likewise, does this mean that heroes are getting a set of patron powers?

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You can have the Power Pool of a different Patron.

And once you learn their powers, becoming good makes you forget them?

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The Patron pool powers that let you summon an Arachnos pet? How are those going to work with a 'turned good' character? You think Lord Recluse is going to let you continue to be able to summon them?

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Sure.

Every time you're summoning those spiders, they're not coming directly from Lord R signed and sealed with a kiss, they're bots you own and are calling in to help. When you left the Isles, you took them with you to put them to use for "good".

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That theory doesn't work so well for all the other pets.

Yeah, I kinda do.

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wait, Demon Summoning? I missed that one!

Okie I been gone for a year and came back for AE but, Demon Summoning???

(Now I gotta get back to my Bots/Storm AND roll up a Merc/Pain)

...so much to catch up with!

[/ QUOTE ]Demon Summoning isn't in the game yet, but it's one of the coming power sets... along with Dual Pistols, the two are likely to make their appearance with the Going Rogue expansion pack (as the two siggies in that use those 2 power sets).

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Also, Tri-gun was a pretty cool show.

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Tri-gun was a pretty cool guy.

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I love how we tourment FW. It makes me so happy.

Also, Mr. Tri-gun could use a hair cut. His style is sooo 1999.

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Tri-gun is just a rip off of Grenadier anyways.

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How can Mr. Tri-gun (1995) rip off something that didn't come out till nearly a decade later (2003)? Unless you're claiming that Mr. Tri-gun used a time machine...

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You clearly missed the trend that was going on there.

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The trend was making FW try to kill me

I'd say M. Bison (if going by the US release names) could already be done easily with the Justice boots and a bunch of red. Vega (again, US names) could probably mostly be done, but sans the cloth around his waist, and maybe a different looking mask.

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Also, Tri-gun was a pretty cool show.

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Tri-gun was a pretty cool guy.

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I love how we tourment FW. It makes me so happy.

Also, Mr. Tri-gun could use a hair cut. His style is sooo 1999.

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Tri-gun is just a rip off of Grenadier anyways.

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How can Mr. Tri-gun (1995) rip off something that didn't come out till nearly a decade later (2003)? Unless you're claiming that Mr. Tri-gun used a time machine...

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Also, Tri-gun was a pretty cool show.

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Tri-gun was a pretty cool guy.

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I love how we tourment FW. It makes me so happy.

Also, Mr. Tri-gun could use a hair cut. His style is sooo 1999.

It'd also make it so once every 5 minutes you could make any and all powers instantly recharge... That sounds highly exploitable to me.

There's going to be quite a lot of blood shed before you get anywhere near me. You see, I have the perfect strategy, piss off so many people that everyone wants to kill me, so but due to having so many people after me, they just end up fighting with each other and never can get to me.

I don't think their sense of humor is that twisted...

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I don't think they're allowed to make fun of us unless they use their redname accounts.

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I heard they've all be banned from the forums already. The only accounts they have left to post with are their redname ones.

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Interesting.
Why?

And if one decided to start an alternate account, posting only during off-work hours, who would know?

[/ QUOTE ]They do have non-work accounts, and based on what they've said, they do play them but not in their official capacity (i.e. no doing anything that'd out their secret identity). The GP was joking (possibly reference BaBs when he joked about getting banned from the forum for 'duping rares').

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Do you not have WinAmp or some other MP3 player built into your computer? Fire it up, put on some good butt-kicking music, and play with no worries of silence.

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Problem with that is it does not add to the atmosphere of the game. One of the things I really like about classic offline games it that they use music to add to the atmosphere of the game, making battles more intense, and everything about it more exciting.

Also one of the things I love about Final Fantasy 7... the battle music that starts every time you start fighting

Blame the Circle of Thorn's magic hiding the entire city. They don't want the Mu to attack them again.

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It's possible that the shift key got messed up with all your previous attempts. Try /unbind shift and see if that fixes it.

[/ QUOTE ]I would use /bind shift nop when trying to clear a key instead, as unbind just sets it to the default.

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Case in point of another 'good' necromancer: Doctor Orpheus from the Venture Brothers

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I don't think you can use anything from that show as an example of anything but parody.

It acknowledges it's own ridiculousness as well as the ridiculousness that preceded it.

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But he is a necromancer, as well as a good guy! The RP reasoning for him is quite sound

Ah, I think I've ran into that myself (I always get the command slightly wrong). I think the correct command is /bind lshift+lbutton powexecname , the key being the "L" before shift.

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The suicide bomber power in Traps is especially thematically inappropriate for Heroes.

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That depends on how fanatic they are for the cause, or how important it is. Sacrificing yourself to stop the evil whatever isn't all that unusual in fiction. If the RP aspects bother you, just tell yourself they are willingly sacrificing themselves, while an evil mastermind sets the bomb off too fast for them to escape just to get his jollies.

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So you're going to cry out, "HENCHMEN #3! DON'T DO IT!" every time you use Detonation?

Because ORDERING one of your fanatic henchmen to become a suicide bomber isn't really considered heroic these days, and some people will get seriously offended.

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Thanks to the wonders of the Medicom teleporation system, all he has to worry about is a smidgen of debt! In this game, no one dies. Unless you piss off Ghost Widow and she shoves her hand into your chest. Then you die. But other than that, no one dies. Yep, no one. Necromancers aren't too happy about this, that's why so many turned to crime


Case in point of another 'good' necromancer: Doctor Orpheus from the Venture Brothers

Your problem is your fancy-pants quotation marks. Try typing the command again (the original, not the one from /hc... which is horribly wrong) without those, the game doesn't realize they're supposed to be the same as ' " '.

That was already brought up like... 5 pages ago? When reading it I figured that was likely a hint at being something like the Universal Slots, or possibly whatever that system has evolved into by now.

This game actually has some really good music... it just never gets played for more than a few seconds! In the Multimedia section of the forum you can find the link Ex-Libris posted to most of the in-game music, and although there's a lot of 'meh' generic game stuff, there's also some really good stuff in there.

I'd like this, although when I've seen this suggested in the past (I don't remember, I might have actually suggested it myself ), there were more than a few people that didn't want it, so having a toggle in the options to disable would likely be a requirement.


To fix that horrid silence, I have my music playing pretty much non-stop... and I have to wonder, why the hell is it not playing right now?

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What would a Hero Mastermind have for support troops?
Cops? Community Activists? Guardian Angels?

Seriously though anyone have any good suggestions for what a Hero MM would look like. I wouldn't mind trying one out on the Blue side.

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Trying out a Hero MM? That could be a trick due to the fact that there aren't any. And based on your suggestions, you seem to acknowledge one would need to be created.

<-- Confused.

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Might I point you to Going Rogue, City of Heroes/Villains upcoming expansion, where side switching and a morality system will be the primary centerpieces (as well as Praetorian earth!).

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I was well aware of GR. However, side-switching as far as I know it, will not change the fact that the MM is still using Villain powers as a hero, not new Hero powers as a Hero MM. The OP seemed to imply that somehow the MM would change into a hero MM (at least I read it) not a villain who is now doing a hero's work.

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The OP seems to be wanting the Mastermind to suddenly magically transform by fluffy bunny magic when you switch sides (which isn't really a single action, but a process, and the point between 'neutral' and 'hero' might be quite vague).

I think this whole fluffy bunny transformation is unneeded, and really doesn't make all that much sense to begin with.

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I hope this new graphics engine will allow for easier creation of wireframe models and animations. So many things that have been asked for and denied ... like animals, multiple arms, huge females, etc.

It would also be nice if the wireframe/animation modeler could be extended to MA - to allow creation of our own critters.

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Pure supposition at this point. Right now, we really don't know all that much beyond what the name implies as well as the whole praetorian thing.

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QR...

Besides, according to the article

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"A push to drop "Providence Plantations" from that name..(snip)"

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the state would be called "State of Rhode Island and " and that would just be silly.

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Yeah, but then they'd be in the perfect position to take over another state...

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What would a Hero Mastermind have for support troops?
Cops? Community Activists? Guardian Angels?

Seriously though anyone have any good suggestions for what a Hero MM would look like. I wouldn't mind trying one out on the Blue side.

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Trying out a Hero MM? That could be a trick due to the fact that there aren't any. And based on your suggestions, you seem to acknowledge one would need to be created.

<-- Confused.

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Might I point you to Going Rogue, City of Heroes/Villains upcoming expansion, where side switching and a morality system will be the primary centerpieces (as well as Praetorian earth!).

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I'd say that a Necromancy MM would likely NOT be Heroic.

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Necromancers are pretty often the good guys in various games (Guild Wars is one prime example). Hell, if you've got a problem with necromancy, you should probably look at Dark Miasma's Dark Servant first... which, as per the description, is an UNWILLING entity.

Summoning the dead (or even just the dead's body's, sans mind or spirit) is as evil as you decide it is. As already been said, it'd be trivial to RP that you're summoning fallen Heroes that are willing to continue fighting for justice.

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I would say that a /Traps Mastermind with Detonation and a non-robot primary would likely be seen as NOT heroic.

[/ QUOTE ]Making the ultimate sacrafice is quite heroic. You could just as easily RP that it's the minion's idea, as it is yours.


Any of the Mastermind sets could easily be passed off by as Heroic is you decide on the right motivations, and fill out the proper parts of the backstory and origin. A cunning RPer could even make controvery about their henchmen part of their backstory (maybe they once turned to a life of crime due to the harrassment they received about them, but has now turned back to good?).