Lazarus

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If I missed someones suggestion/idea I'm sorry, please add it to the list.

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Yeah, you forgot a really big one.

* Take all Hero TFs except for, Hess and Katie, and cut their lengths down by one half. Strip out as many of the extra "defeat all" and "kill X" missions as possible.

Hess is a fun TF that can be done by a full team in under two hours without stealthing any of the missions. More TFs should be like that.

Shorter TFs also have much less chance of people bailing 1/2 to 2/3 of the way through.

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These are the people who ask for merged markets.
These and the people who actually understand economics.

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These are the people who don't care if villains get shafted by the grossly inflated prices that heroes charge and are willing to pay for who knows how long before the markets come anywhere close to "equilibrium".

No one on the villainside pays 10,000 inf for BRASS.

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I-9 then added the invention system as it's main feature, I-10 added a new co-op zone and high level content with the Rikti invasion as its main feature. I-11 featured Ourorobos allowing you to revisit content and new sets for the 4 melee ATs, two each side. So the last three have been more or less equal to both CoH and CoV.

And yet somehow the Devs hate CoV and don't do anything for it, only for CoH. It's not true at all, regardless of how many recurring threads we see that say so.

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Rikti Warzone is essentially Faultine Part II except that villains are allowed to enter and pretend to be heroes. The contacts all treat you like heroes, the missions are all heroic and the same for both sides, and all of the unique NPCs are CoH NPCs.

It wasn't something new for villains as much as throwing them a bone to quiet them down for a bit. Co-Op is fun but I'd like to have had some specific things my heroes could do there and things my villains could do outside of the big generic zone story arc.

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They devs don't have CoV. Brutes have Electric Melee. Obviously the devs love CoV. They hate CoH.

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And /Traps, don't forget /Traps.

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Quoting this and agreeing 100%. There are times when spawns will appear in plain view in CoH but it's pretty rare (I've seen Malta and Carnies spawn on sidewalks in PI this way with a kind of teleporter effect).

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Or they use other tricks in wide open areas. Banished Pantheon Zombies burst out of graves or rise out of the water in a bog. Those funny looking trees you've just walked by suddenly transform into Devouring Earth or Fir Bolg. Red Caps will spawn on tree branches mostly out of sight and drop down from above when you walk beneath or simply pop out of hidden holes in the ground.

And competing with people for stupid drops sucks, especially when it is something silly like ears from a boar, which only drops after you kill a few dozen of them. Can I not just cut them off of the first one I killed? Or were the first ten not suitable? Are these magical knife-proof ears that only have a 1 in 10 chance of falling off upon the demise of the animal?

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Darkfall is looking at not only breaking the mold, they're talking about SHATTERING it into it's sub-atomic components

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I looked up Darkfall on Wiki and saw this.
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Darkfall is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) in development by Aventurine SA that combines real-time action and strategy in a fantasy setting. Expected to feature unrestricted pvp, complete looting, and a player skill dependent combat system, Darkfall is highly anticipated by the player versus player (PvP) community.

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What is so mold-breaking there?

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Ghost Widow's tower is about 5 feet wide on the outside.

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Didn't you know that Recluse struck a deal with the Time Lords before constructing it?

No mod complained when I had a character get outright decapitated and another shredded with machine gun fire. Then again they probably never noticed that part, assuming any ever read the story.

Achille's Heel: Chance for Resist Debuff is debuffing the summoner when used in Acid Mortar.
Deflated Ego: Chance for Recovery Debuff is debuffing the summoner when used in Seeker Drones.
Dark Watcher's Despair: Chance for Recharge Debuff is debuffing the summoner when used in Seeker Drones.

So who the hell is this guy and why should we care?

Woohoo, found some more.

Mad Scientist: Cobalt Stinger (although more of a Mad Engineer)
Cheshire Cat Grin: Cobalt Stinger, Anna Nethema
Slasher Smile: Anna Nethema
Obfuscating Stupidity: Cobalt Stinger
Bokukko : Kathode
Four Girl Ensemble: Cobalt Stinger (the ditz), Kathode (the tomboy), Anna Nethema (the pretty girl), Naga Obscura (the quiet one).

Cloudcuckoolander: Cobalt Stinger
Applied Phlebotinum: Cobalt Stinger
Clothes Make The Superman: Tectonia
Glowing Eyes Of Doom: Anna Nethema
Healing Factor: Anna Nethema
Death Is Cheap: Anna Nethema
Beware The Nice Ones: Cobalt Stinger
Spy Catsuit: Anna Nethema, Kathode, Cobalt Stinger, Naga Obscura
Magic Pants: Anna Nethema (No matter what she is wearing when she "Flames On", it never burns.)
Unstoppable Rage: Anna Nethema, Kathode (they are Brutes, after all).
Crazy Prepared: Cobalt Stinger (crosses over with Hyperspace Arsenal).
Prophetic Names: Anna Nethema (it's as if her parents knew ahead of time).

You gave me more ideas.

Cursed With Awesome: Anna Nethema, Kathode
Oracular Urchin: Cobalt Stinger
Badass Longcoat: Cobalt Stinger, Mindskewer
Le Parkour: Anna Nethema, Kathode
Cute Little Fangs: Anna Nethema, Kathode
Disability Superpower: Tectonia cannot even walk without her power armor.
Good Old Fisticuffs: Anna Nethema, Kathode
Artificial Limbs: Cobalt Stinger
Hyperspace Arsenal: Cobalt Stinger (Interestingly, nobody ever asks Where The Hell Did That Come From?)
Proud Warrior Race: Naga Obscura, who is also a Rebellious Princess.
Implausible Fencing Powers: Naga Obscura, because Katanas Are Just Better.
Cyber Punk: Cobalt Stinger
Quirky Miniboss Squad: Mindskewer, Menschenbrecher, Amanita, Winterkill
Perky Goth: Anna Nethema
Raised By Wolves: Cobalt Stinger
Right Red Hand: Anna Nethema
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Cobalt Stinger
Strong Flesh, Weak Steel: Everyone except Tectonia (who wears a power armor suit) and Iron Samurai (who's skin is metallic).
Impossibly Cool Clothes: Everyone, although Cobalt occasionally becomes a Rummage Sale Reject.
Hair Colors: Everyone
Good Hair, Evil Hair: Cobalt Stinger and Naga Obscura both sport twin pigtails.
Extrodinarily Empowered Girl: All of them
Tsundere: Kathode
Anti Villain: Anna Nethema, Kathode, Cobalt Stinger, Naga Obscura, Brimstone Mephit
Spikes Of Villainy: Subverted by Mindskewer, as they are part of her body and used for combat.
Villain Team Up: Subverted by Anna Nethema, Kathode, Cobalt Stinger, and Naga Obscura as they form more of a Anti Villain Team Up.

The game is simple, go over to TvTropes.org and see how many tropes apply to your favorite characters (RP and/or in-game).

Since some apply to multiple characters, I'm going to list the trope first and then the characters it applies to.

Cute Bruiser: Anna Nethema, Kathode, Tectonia
Small Girl, Big Gun: Cobalt Stinger
Genki Girl: Cobalt Stinger
Action Girl: Tectonia
Dark Action Girl: Anna Nethema, Kathode
Involuntary Shape Shifting: Anna Nethema, Kathode
Cat Girl: Kathode
Robot Girl: Cobalt Stinger
Connecticut Yankee: Cobalt Stinger
Hitman with a Heart: Anna Nethema, Kathode, Naga Obscura
Wrench Wench: Cobalt Stinger
Gadgeteer Genius: Cobalt Stinger
Genius Ditz: Cobalt Stinger
Witch Species: Anna Nethema
Badass Lolita: Cobalt Stinger, Kathode
Battle Aura: Anna Nethema, Kathode, Naga Obscura, Tectonia
Artificial Human: Cobalt Stinger
Tykebomb: Kathode
Odd Friendship Cobalt Stinger and Naga Obscura
Cute Monster Girl: Anna Nethema, Kathode, Naga Obscura, Brimstone Mephit, etc...
My Suit is Also Super: Well, everyone...

Note: I intend for this to be in the RP forum. If I wanted it in the Games one I'd have put it there.

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It's annoying because it bumps the chat you'd actually like to read. Personally, I think they should take the 'friends' channel that I've never seen anyone actually use past the first week of the game's release and remake it into an 'events' channel.

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/signed.

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double /signed

Here is the Smash Ops villain group base on Virtue. This is all on the basic plot.

Entry Room - From here you can see into the Common Room at the center of the base.

Next to the Entry Room is the Workshop (1)(2) where the two empowerment stations, salvage rack, and a IO crafting table are kept.

From the Workshop you can access the Power Room where the generator and inspiration collector are. (Hey, that inspiration bin just looks like a piece of power equipment after all.)

Going back to the Common Room (1)(2) you can see the Telepad Chambers and the Control Room (1)(2). The Common Room features a combo power/control unit, a IO crafting table, and an enhancement bin. There are four telepads for access to all seven villain zones. The Control Room has the mission computer and the personal vault access.

Here is the overhead view for the entire base.

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I don't think the End of Beta event is regarded as canon.

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No, the Rikti invasion had already been part of the story in CoH Beta. The Invasion was a fun RP way to kill off all the beta characters that were going to be deleted anyway when the game went live.

I admit that the ending is rushed. There was meant to be a bit more but I felt that the story was running out of steam and I'd rather have a decent ending than drag things on when I'm running out of ideas. Anyway, I wanted to wrap this one up since the recovery of the wreckage has a signifigance in the next story I have planned.

For those unfamiliar with the characters:
* Cobalt Stinger is a Radiation Blast/Traps Corruptor who is envisioned more like a pseudo-Mastermind with many of her gadgets being remotely-controlled.
* Kathode is a Electric Melee/Electric Armor Brute who is a offensive juggernaut and not your stereotypical catgirl.
* Naga Obscura is a Ninja Blade/Energy Aura Stalker who is an alien from a culture that will be explored in the next story.
* Tectonia is a Invulnerability/Stone Meelee Tank whom I originally made just so I could smash bad guys with a big hammer. She's unable to walk due to being poison by a chemical that Crey developed and then dumped in a river near Paragon City.

Thanks for reading.

I'm surprised that no one has commented at all on this one, it's pretty good.

I see I'm not the only one who refers to Extracted Essence as Koosh Ball either.

In the blackness of space, light glittered from a drifting field of metal fragments as each tumbled and caught the sunlight. The wormhole generator had worked perfectly and transported the wreckage, along with a good portion of the sub-basements of the Crey building, into a pre-planned orbit around Earth’s sun. A starship that had the odd profile of some combination of manta ray and squid moved among the debris, leisurely collecting only the pieces of wreckage that needed to be recovered.

Naga reclined in a chair in the cockpit, polishing her sword as she gazed out the viewscreens at what lay outside the vessel, which did its scavenging work by computer control. It was silent inside and as she was the sole occupant there was little to do at this time.

A beeping sound was heard, indicating an incoming message. She tapped a button on the arm of her chair and read it as it came up on one of the screens.

She was being summoned home.

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It was well decorated for a concrete bunker, but you never forgot just where you were. In a series of alcoves along on wall were different suits of powered armor, one of which was green and black with a cape attached to the shoulders. It’s helmet rested on a small shelf above. In the next room sat Cobalt Stinger at a table, across from her a girl of similar age with yellow-green hair who sat in a motorized wheelchair.

“So was the evidence enough?” Cobalt asked as she moved her game piece on the table. It was a surprise at first that the mighty Tectonia was unable to walk without her armor suit, but you never knew with these power armor wearers anyway.

“Indeed, Thompson doesn’t stand a chance.” Jasmine Albrect replied. “They’ve got him linked to the development of the toxin and the dumping of it in the Red River. Quite a few kids were crippled after being exposed to that stuff. Not everyone gets superpowers from such things.” She made her move.

“And if somehow he manages to avoid conviction?” Cobalt said, pondering the current state of the game and making another move.

“Well, there’s always your fuzzy friend. I suppose she can have him then.” Jasmine didn’t relish the thought of turning Kathode loose on the man. “E7.” She announced.

“Dammit! ”Cobalt screamed. “You sunk my battleship!”

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The husband watched as his wife set three places at the table, as she did every night. He always wanted to tell her not to bother, but he never did as he knew that would be admitting a rescinding of hope on his own part, and that was something that she didn’t need. He heard the doorbell ring and went to answer it.

Outside stood a girl in black jeans and a grey hooded sweatshirt with holes cut in it for her cat ears to stick through. She looked up at the man and spoke with some difficulty. “Hello…dad.”

The man stood there in shock for a moment, before throwing his arms around his daughter. “Who is at the door?” The wife asked as she came around the corner and dropped the silverware she was carrying to the floor. “Kathryn!”

Both parents cried as they welcomed their lost daughter home.

((The End))

The chamber was now a maelstrom of violence. Tectonia smashed one Protector into the floor with her hammer when Kathode backed into her.

“What are you doing here?” She asked the armored girl.

“I got a tip.” Tectonia replied. ”Help me out and I won’t turn you and your friends in after this.” She looked ahead at the circle of Protectors getting closer, each appearing hesitant to be the first to attack.

“I’d like to see you try.” Kathode said back, looking at the other half of the circle on her side. “Deal, let’s do this!”

The two of them struck out from the center and engaged the Protectors. Kathode’s electrical powers sapped energy from them and two found themselves stuck to the floor by tendrils of red lightning. Tectonia stomped her foot on the floor and sent several flying off their feet at the surface cracked and buckled.

Cobalt’s seeker drones flew here and there, making passes at the Protectors with their blades and exploding in a flash of blinding light when damaged severely. Naga flitted about, striking swiftly with her sword before going invisible again. She was using her blade to fend off a Protector with a set of claws when Cobalt wounded him with a powerful blast from her proton rifle, stunning him long enough for Naga to land a head-splitting blow that finished him off.

Thompson was furious, screaming out orders while trying to avoid combat himself. The weaker Protectors had been taken down, those with fire, electricity, and spines. Those with claws and energy attacks had stronger defenses and could take more punishment. Realizing that Tectonia was being hurt more by the energy Protectors, Kathode and Naga tried to draw them off of her while she fought the clawed Protectors. The girls were getting hurt and couldn’t take much more, but the last Protector fell and Thompson decided to run for it.

He should have left sooner.

The four of him were on him immediately. Cobalt’s web grenades slowed him down while Kathode charged into him at high velocity. He tried to fight back but Naga arrived and found a weak spot in his armor, thrusting her blade into it and piercing the man inside the suit as well. He barely had time to scream before Tectonia’s hammer swung forth and sent him to the floor with enough force to crack the armor plates. Kathode was about to deliver a killing blow when she was stopped by Cobalt.

“WAIT!” Cobalt grabbed hold of her and received a strong electric shock for her effort. Kathode turned on her with rage in her eyes.

“What the hell for!” She demanded to know.

“Because when I’m done, he’s going to wish I had let you.” Tectonia said, looked down at the broken man with one foot on his chest to keep him from crawling away. “You got the evidence?” She said, looking at Cobalt, who responded by tossing her a data drive.

Kathode scowled at the two. She knew that Naga was watching her as well and guessed that she was probably ready to back up Cobalt. “I guess ‘justice’ will have to suffice. But if he goes free, he’s mine.”

“Take him and go.” She added as she walked away toward the nearest exit.

“You took your time getting here.” Cobalt said to Tectonia after Kathode left.

“I remember that you said you’d clear a path for me. I had to do that myself.” The armored suit she wore covered her face completely, leaving only the annoyed tone of her voice to go on.

“Well, things happened.” Cobalt smirked and walked towards the wreckage in the middle of the room with Naga following. Tectonia hefted Thompson over her shoulder and departed.

“Let’s finish this before any more goons show up.” Cobalt said as she pulled another odd item out of her bag that Naga had given her earlier to carry. She placed it as close to the middle of the wreckage as she could and waited while Naga typed in something on the keypad with alien symbols flashing on its display. With it primed and counting down, they exited immediately.

Anyone unfortunate to enter that room right when it went off would be exposed to a blinding light, and then a cold darkness.

Anyone outside the Crey building would see it suddenly collapse into its foundations as if the ground beneath had suddenly ceased to exist. Fortunately it was late at night and all of the civilian employees were gone, leaving just the guards and scientists working in the secret labs beneath.

Two levels down, in an empty corridor, a ventilation grill on the ceiling was quietly removed from its place and pulled inside. Naga came out first, gently landing on her feet with just a tap of her claws. Kathode landed behind her softly. Cobalt dropped down loudly and landed on her rear.

Kathode looked at her disdainfully as she got back on her feet and looked around. “We’re real close now. They haven’t tracked us down here yet so we have a pretty clear shot at the target.” Suddenly, a bolt of energy flew past them and scorched the wall. Looking back, there were two Paragon Protectors closing in.

“Ok, we’re found. Run for it!” Cobalt yelled and took off towards the goal, which was in the opposite direction of the Protectors. They probably knew where they were going and trying to flush them in anyways, but Cobalt still had some aces up her sleeves.

They soon arrived at the end of the corridor, at which was a room of massive volume. It was a wonder how Crey managed to build something like this right beneath Paragon City without anyone noticing. At the center of it lay the torn and burnt wreckage of an alien spaceship, the one that Naga had originally come to earth in before she was shoot down over the Rogue Isles.

Around it stood several Paragon Protectors and Chief Scientist Thompson, dressed in his Crey Power Tank suit. “That’s far enough, girls.” He said to them. “I am pleased that you took the various baits that we left for you, though I certainly didn’t expect all three to show up at once. You’ve given us quite a lot of trouble tonight, but that ends here.”

“Something’s going to end all right.” Kathode said as she glared at the man. “You won’t be doing any more twisted experiments on anyone else!” She was ready to tear that armor off of him.

Thompson laughed. “Ah, Kathryn, you should be thanking me. Think of how boring your life would have been if we could have made you a normal human anyway. Don’t be as stupid as Mynx or Synapse, trying to take vengeance on who made you into something more.”

“YOU [censored]!” Kathode zoomed at him but was met halfway by a Protector who hit her with a charged fist that changed her trajectory, sending her smashing into the wreckage. Naga drew her sword and Cobalt aimed her proton rifle at Thompson, her seeker drones already buzzing around her and force field generator deploying.

The doors they had come through had already closed and the two Protectors who had chased them in stood behind them. “It’s the end of the line, young ladies.” Thompson said to them as the Protectors began their advance. “Have anything else to say?”

“She might.” Cobalt said as she looked up. Suddenly a sound of tearing metal and breaking concrete was heard as debris fell from the ceiling above. A figure in a suit of powered armor landed on the floor with a resounding crash that cracked the surface. The armor was painted black and green with a matching cape and the head was enclosed in a full helmet, but the figure was recognizably female. She carried a massive sledge that with a handle that was almost as long as she was tall. Everyone except Cobalt had backed away a bit, surprised by the sudden entrance.

The suited figure looked at Chief Scientist Thompson and spoke in the voice of a teenaged girl. “You know me as Tectonia, and it’s hammer time…[censored]!”

Then all hell broke loose.

They need to fix his pathing too. Too often on Virtue he walks right up to the Black Market and just drops dead. It was bad enough when he'd just run into the Ferry Drones on his own.

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search for these forums kinda blow so ill actually help and not be a [censored]..

spin get a life
burned wings

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Spinomania is an active member of this art community who has given his talents freely and is always here with friendly and helpful advice. You on the other hand are a nobody in this forum and a rude one at that.

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Spino was the one who started the rudeness, not the guy who actually answered the question and posted the pic. Your attitude about it doesn't make you look much better either.

You can keep your Infinity server.