Lady Athyna

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Hark! A voice from the past, come to taunt and entice us with tales of thought and deed most honourable!

Nice to 'see' you on the boards again, Gilgamesh!

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Yeah... he keeps sneaking in and surprising us... makes me wonder if he's lurking a lot more than we think...

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You have no idea. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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Well, how about some TR hints... or even beta invites?

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Hark! A voice from the past, come to taunt and entice us with tales of thought and deed most honourable!

Nice to 'see' you on the boards again, Gilgamesh!

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Yeah... he keeps sneaking in and surprising us... makes me wonder if he's lurking a lot more than we think...

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But I'd also be lying if it doesnt worry me about the thinning of staff for CoX The game got twice as big and the staff is getting smaller. So either they're running things alot more efficient, or it's a bad omen.

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TR is looking very interesting, but I'm thinking they increased staff for the development and launch of CoV and are just going back to normal now.

Since it's doubtful they'll tell us, it's all speculative.

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And when you catch the two guys speaking to each other in the mission, (when in range, but before they actually spot you. This is easily seen when stealthing/flying through the mission straight to them.)

Dr. Echo: "I know the world you came from was destroyed! It doesn't have to happen again!"

And he had an old photo of you.

The Alternate-reality Dr. Aeon looks at you and says, "But you're dead! Or maybe that hasn't happened yet..."

So, Obviously in some alternate timeline, you have a hand in destroying that world, possibly getting killed, and Echo was quite afraid it was going to happen again.

And in the end, when the old Dr. Aeon runs, Echo says...

"Get out of here, Aeon. This is my fight.

Just remember...

When it's your turn..."

And dies against your character. The whole "Just remember... when it's your turn..." is him telling Dr. Aeon to remember what is at stake, when the time comes to fight you.

Good writing.

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I wondered if Dr. Aeon let loose the demon in the PTS and that's the horrible fate he's warning himself about.

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Alternate dimentions? Hmm, now that might help explain a lot of things, as soon as we get the typos out of the way. But how was I supposed to know it had ANYTHING to do with alternate reality?

For that matter, how did you know that?

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I think there's a second story arc with Aeon and Echo. I'm not really sure, my memory sucks and I didn't take notes.

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That's the one where he spawns as an elite boss right?

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Totally and completely don't remember. But, maybe.

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Alternate dimentions? Hmm, now that might help explain a lot of things, as soon as we get the typos out of the way. But how was I supposed to know it had ANYTHING to do with alternate reality?

For that matter, how did you know that?

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I think there's a second story arc with Aeon and Echo. I'm not really sure, my memory sucks and I didn't take notes.

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Someone find Manticore.....he prolly wrote the thing in the first place.

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And now we wait until he checks his pm box.

If I'm not mistaken (and I very well could be), not only is time travel involved, but so is an alternate dimension.

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Say friggin Nickelback or LinkinPark or somethin' gawdawful covered Thick as a Brick ...it would be a travesty for some of us, but it would still endear the original intent of the peice to a whole new generation.

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Have you heard Pat Boone's rendition of 'Smoke on the Water'?

::shudder::

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ha ha -- he has a whole cd full of metal songs. Imagine him crooning Jim's Morrison's line "there's a killer on the road..."

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No! Stop! I can't listen to Smoke on the Water anymore... not since.... that day.

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Say friggin Nickelback or LinkinPark or somethin' gawdawful covered Thick as a Brick ...it would be a travesty for some of us, but it would still endear the original intent of the peice to a whole new generation.

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Have you heard Pat Boone's rendition of 'Smoke on the Water'?

::shudder::

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Thanks for the kind wishes all!

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*attacks Alexa*

*huggles*

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

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_Castle_, is it understood with the Devs that a lot of people wanted a Skills system for some Out-Of-Combat entertainment? From the sounds of it, Invention uses salvage, which is earned slowly with combat. Has this been considered? Is there any non-combat plans in the works?

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Yes.

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I counted 3 questions in that post, on what did _castle_ say yes?

You all think he said yes to the "positive" one...

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No, it's so rare that a redname confirms something, like earlier in the thread where _Castle_ posted more than one word, the excitement is just too much for some of us.

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Yup, just looked it up and it's Archon_Voss, who I think posted quite a bit when I3 was on test since he had such a big part in making Striga Isle.

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Didn't W_W speak of The Josh, or something to that affect?

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Didn't mean for it to imply leaving NCSoft.

I'm pretty sure they are just being transferred to another department/game.

Was only meant for CoH Info.

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Oh. Sorry.

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You should be!

Just because you are in the cartel doesn't mean you get to assume willy nilly! *shakes fist!*



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*smacks Voodoo with a catgirl*

They're everywhere, you can't swing a cat by the tail without hitting one.

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Jonyu, poz and Positron are working on an 'Invention' system, which branched off of the Skill System work. The 'Salvage' system used in bases is an offshoot of the skills system design as well.

Unfortunately, I don't think anything more in depth than that is scheduled at this time.

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O.O

Thanks!

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Didn't mean for it to imply leaving NCSoft.

I'm pretty sure they are just being transferred to another department/game.

Was only meant for CoH Info.

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Oh. Sorry.

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Statesman - Cryptic
Cuppa - NCSoft
Castle - Cryptic
Posi - Cryptic
Nomad - NCSoft
Gil - NCSoft (?)
Awry - NCSoft
Alexa - NCSoft (Leaving)
Arctic - NCSoft (Leaving)
Squeeze - Cryptic (?)
Manticore - Cryptic (pretty sure)
Visgoth - Cryptic (pretty sure)
Raven - Cryptic (pretty sure)
WarWitch - Cryptic (pretty sure)
The_Zig - No idea
pohsyb - Cryptic
Valdermic - NCSoft (?)

FIX ME (if needed).

Would be really nice, as earlier suggested, to know who belongs to whom and main "area" for work-related purposes.

We should know who we should yell at appropriately

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I'm just guessing, but I don't think Gil, Alexa and Arctic left the company. Just the CoH/V team. Maybe moved to another game. I've seen posts from Tisirin on the TR forums at OGaming.

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FYI, we've got a LOT more folks here at Cryptic working on things. the vast majority of people here don't post, though. I was here for almost a year before I got 'Red Named.'

As for why I use _Castle_ instead of Castle, someone else has Castle has a board posting name.

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Any chance we could get a list?

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It's shelved but it's still being worked on?

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Maybe pohsyb's box is up on that shelf too?

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Ahh, it seems only like Issue Three when all the good little Heroes gathered around their web browsers chatting about what might be. Now, as we gear up for Issue Seven, I wonder what has become of the off-again, on-again Skill system. Is it still on the 'Short List' of game improvements? Will it be something that Heroes and Villains both get? Or has it been completely scrapped due to lack of gaming ideas?

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Yes, we remember it. Getting it 'right' has proven difficult, though, which is why you folks haven't seen it. It's still something we are working on, though.

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Still?

There's hope?

You aren't just stringing us along like Statesy does, are you?

*smacks Jeff with a... catgirl, there everywhere, might as well use 'em for something*

I'm trying to be responsible!

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please don't mention the little grey aliens that are for some reason in the Magic SOs when they should be in science or something.


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There are reasons, but any mention of them would most likely degrade almost instantly into a massive flamefest due to beliefs held by some.

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I thought I saw a post earlier about the universities... damned if I can find it now...

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It's here.

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I <3 you...

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Also what’s with all the angry posts?
States tells us two lines of information and we're jumping to conclusions. Let the man create first before we judge.

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'Tis the nature of ... us.

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I'd love to see skills too, but do any of YOU guys have any ideas for a system that is both fun and fits into the design concept of risk versus reward? I'm sure they wouldn't have tried and scrapped half a dozen systems if it was easy.

This begs the question, though. What are they going to do with the universities? Is that where we go for "inventions" now?

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I thought I saw a post earlier about the universities... damned if I can find it now...