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Yeah Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman on TV for 3 years but she's basically made a living for decades as a variety/lounge singer. She's had a few reasonably successful albums and been on all sorts of shows like the one from this YouTube video. I've never really been a fan of her style of music, but at least she can say she's had a life-long career in entertainment which not too many other people can claim.
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Quote:For what it's worth I've had characters who've been waiting for the "fixed wing jetpacks" coming with this Mecha set for 7+ years now.Originally Posted by Bosstone
Why on earth would a player named Robo_Knight care about Mecha armor?
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Quote:Yeah the way they were pulled off the forums implied they were meant for some third party to get "first crack" at them.Originally Posted by Snowzone
They'll be appearing on Massively at some point today.
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Quote:Well all I'm saying is that they didn't let the Mecha pics last on the forums for more than about 10-15 minutes before they were quickly yanked back off and followed up by a decree from Zwill to make sure no one who kept them would re-post them.Originally Posted by Robo_Knight
My big gripe is that they had an opportunity too post the images for that set, but no, we get the bland looking chain mail set, whee! It's not like I've wanted a Mecha Set for YEARS now, no...
Clearly they are being extra "secretive" about it so I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they have still not "officially" released any pics yet. -
Do we know for sure there were shots of the Mecha set in today's ustream? Given how quickly they pulled the pics from the forum last week I don't know if the Devs are still "acting weird" about not wanting anyone to see them yet.
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Quote:Sure all of these rewards have been "scheduled" to be awarded for many months. But I honestly would be surprised to learn that the aura and CCE have been finished and ready to go for any longer than a few weeks tops. Remember that we've never actually seen either one of those up until like right about now.Originally Posted by Justice_Bringer
Yeah, that's it.
Gotta admit, I'm extremely jealous as I never expected the Statesman helm to look that cool. Not impressed at all by the Statesman emblem and Battle Fury aura. Those two both look horrible to me. I expected better after four months of time to develop it.
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Quote:It's short for Standard Code Rant. It's the forum term that's used whenever anyone proposes a change that they generally (and/or naively) think should be "quick and easy" to do without any direct knowledge of the code needed to actually implement the change.Originally Posted by Justice29
NO idea what "SCR" is.
That's really the point I'm trying to make - the overwhelming majority of players aren't going to be dealing with huge numbers of Boosters to begin with. Sure there might be someone out there who bought hundreds of these things to "+5" multiple characters with. But since the current system is adequate for the job I simply suspect the Devs aren't going to waste time and effort giving us a unique way to save a handful of people a few minutes of time.Quote:Originally Posted by Justice29
I can see your points...being that it isn't something that will affect me EVERY day, but as I had just finished boosting many many many enhancements on my current toon that I finished the build for, I remember thinking to myself, "Man, I am NOT looking forward to all this boosting on my next one". Given the advantages to boosting enhancements five times, I guess I'm suriprised to hear more people aren't jumping all over these. Sure, they're not life altering, but effective enough to make it worth boosting to some degree on all my characters. -
Quote:Having two auras and/or "customizable" auras would be nice.Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
I'd love to be able to have two aura effects. Even just being able to have a combat aura and a non-combat aura would be nice, though I'd prefer them to be able to be on at the same time.
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Quote:No matter how "easy" it would be it would still take some amount of time and effort from a Dev, it would still introduce a new possibility for them to inadvertently add new bugs to the game, and it would be "solving a problem" that affects very few people a very small number of the times.Originally Posted by Justice29
I guess I just don't see the difficulty here. Didn't they already add stuff to the combination screen? Like the option to add boosters or catalysts to the enhancement you have selected...? Doesn't seem like it's life altering to just add an "add ___amount of boosters" options somehow.
If you could somehow make the case that you were going to be maxing out characters like this every day you might be able to convince them this is a QoL improvment we needed. But since most people aren't going to have to do this more than maybe a few times -ever- this is not really a "hardship" that needs to be addressed as a top priority.
From a simple engineering point of view it's not worth it for multiple reasons. *shrugs*
Exactly.Quote:Originally Posted by Texas Justice
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Quote:Yes there is the common sense idea that "just making up problems for the GMs" is a bad thing to do in general.Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
There is no method to change it, currently--despite requests over the years.
Also, I wouldn't report it as a violation, because now you're just making up problems for GMs to deal with. Don't fake an issue trying to get attention--at the very least, be polite, tell the truth, and ask nicely.
On the other hand there's a possibility that the longer people keep "pestering" the GMs with this kind thing the more likely they'll be to realize that it's in their best interest to finally tackle this issue an provide an automated way to do this along the lines of character renames. If the Devs don't see people actively petitioning for SG renames on a continual basis they may continue to be (apparently) unaware that we've wanted this capability for years.
I'm fairly sure they'll only be "kind" enough to do it under the present system as long as your current SG name is even remotely offensive by any stretch of the imagination. If you can't make a solid case that your current name is "evil" then it sadly won't happen.Quote:Originally Posted by shadow35
Yeah, my thought now is just to petition and see if they'll be kind enough to do it.
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Quote:Yep I can accept the general idea that for hundreds of years the wildlings were unorganized and the Wall alone had likely been enough to keep them contained, along with the Snarks and Grumpkin.Originally Posted by MentalMaden
Some do actually and have for years. Osha and her crew got over or around the wall somehow in season/book 1. The wall keeps a flood of wildlings (and in the past things) from coming south. Also the wildlings (until recent events) were not organized into large groups or armies (for the most part) so large ships and such aren't available because there is no need. So only small boats etc are available so the "leakage" from north of the wall was always managable. While there are some tribes of wildlings they are more territorial and unorganized, I think there is really only one area even considered a city/township. And for the most part the wildlings really had no desire to cross over as they see the southerners as weak kneebenders and enjoy what they consider their freedom. Thus the reduction in the size of the Night's Watch and shutting down all but three of the castles.
The concern now is exactly the fact that something is causing the wildlings to organize and to want to come south. Is it an offensive reason or are they acting defensively. That's the mystery of the first few books.
But clearly The Wall always suffered from the fatal flaw that it could be bypassed with a decent naval force and/or enough effort going over or under it. As you say the story's been building up the idea that the wildlings are becoming organized, and it almost seemed a matter of time before someone would seriously take advantage of the Wall's static position. I mean if the Germans could bypass the strong points of Maginot Line why couldn't a bunch of wildlings eventually do the same thing given hundreds of years to figure it out.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Mental_Giant
The point was made last season. Let's just assume the fire is hot enough to melt gold, it still would have taken way longer to melt the chains. They're not going to show Viserys sitting there being held by the guards for however long it takes. They sped it up for dramatic effect.Apart from the dramatic effect/creative license explanation we can always fall back on the "this story is based in a fantasy setting" excuse. The planet these characters live on has dragons, magic and a goofy winter/summer seasonal cycle. For all we know their version of "gold" in this fantasy universe melts at much lower temperatures. *shrugs*Quote:Originally Posted by Defenestrator
As far as the gold chains melting -- creative license. I was okay with this.
Turns out the "nitpick issue" I currently have with this show/story is how "The Wall" can actually serve as an adequate barrier to all the wildness of the north when it's flanked by open oceans on both sides. I suppose the idea of just sailing a boat around the ends of the wall never occurred to anyone. Did the Romans have the same problem with Hadrian's Wall?
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Quote:I think with a little bit of editing work we'll be able splice all of these clips and trailers together and see 90% of the movie before May 3rd. It's getting to the point where I almost don't want to see anymore "sneak peaks" like this.Originally Posted by Unknown_User
Dear Marvel, why not just put the whole movie out on the net. It's better than putting the movie out bit by bit. Other than that, really hyped about this movie.
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"But what is to be gained? It is not a dance. It gathers no food. It does not serve Vaal."
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Quote:This would definitely be more flexible than the hardwired "5 booster button" idea.Originally Posted by Aggelakis
How about instead, when you boost something it asks you how many you want to use (so you type a number and hit enter to complete the boosting process -- PS, the "hit enter" part is really important, far too many UI dialogs in this game do not utilize the enter key). This way folks can apply ANY number of boosts in one go to an enhancement, which means it'd get far wider use than the option to boost by five.
Still I think this kind of QoL improvment would be so far down on the list of priorities that we'd probably see CoH2 happen before we'd get this. None of these things are strictly "bad" ideas - they're just solutions to "problems" that are highly situational and relatively rare per character. *shrugs* -
Quote:Probably. But if that same customer behind me had to wait an additional 6 months before he/she could buy that TV for 1/10 the price I probably wouldn't care less...Originally Posted by Night_Hornet
One day you go into a shop a buy a TV that you have been saving up for months, then the customer behind you is told they can order the same TV next week for a tenth of the price, do you feel ripped off?
Ultimately I rather these things eventually be available to everyone in the long run than to worry about any supposed "elitist exclusivity" that would last forever. -
I agree it would be helpful and I can totally sympathize because I could have used it a few times myself. The problem is that it would likely only be used by tiny number of people at most a few times, ever. It's pretty clear it's something that would not be needed near often enough for the Devs to waste the effort to code a unique button for.
Sure it's a pain doing them one at a time - but once done it's done and you can always consider it the price of becoming super-duper.
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Quote:That one has been in the game since Day Two.Originally Posted by GlassGoblin
Is a dead horse a four-legged rig?Quote:Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I sincerely apologize that we are not fulfilling our promise of at least one new use of the 4 legged rig in the Paragon Market per week.
I shall proceed with the beatings immediately.
It took at least one day for the first day's whining to get old enough.
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Quote:Add me to the list of players who'd buy something like this instantaneously.Originally Posted by Sigium
And the hair- again, I'd pay 400-800 points in a NY minute for a new pack of hair for male and female.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit
No thanks, I already have enough crap I don't use dropping for me instead of the recipes I need.I would argue that the main reason why many people think they are "junk" is that we've only had the same few 'weaksause' choices of drops for years now.Quote:Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
i think if they added more recipes they should add an option to turn off temp power recipe drops
im with the group who never uses them and thinks they are inventory clogging junk
If we had more choices and the drop rates were adjusted for that wider range of hopefully more -useful- choices then I think more people would have a favorable opinion of these recipes. Any given recipe would be more unique and rare and thus intrinsically more valuable.
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Quote:Wasn't that basically the premise of "Escape from L.A."?Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Don't forget, the president's daughter is on board and must be rescued.
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Quote:Eh, I'm sorry but an "explanation" like that just isn't enough to help me get over the idea that this movie is just a sad attempt to give us "Escape from New York... IN SPACE!" Guy Pearce is appealing, but he's no Snake Plissken.Originally Posted by BrandX
The movie explains part of that.
*spoilers...but really not that much of a spoiler to the movie imo*
The space station was created by a huge corporation to test cryostasis. The Prisoners were pretty much free test subjects.
I'm sure this movie has a few cool looking scenes and action sequences. I'm just not in the mood to give it the full price of a movie ticket. I'll catch it later when I can see it for free on cable or some-such. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Schismatrix
It wasn't in any patch notes, but lava hasn't been doing damage for a while now. In my opinion it's a pity since it added more variety to battles. i hope it was because there was some technical issue and not because players occasionally using lava to boost damage to enemies was considered going against intended encounter design and thus everyone had to get herded back onto the rails.Actually if lava damage was removed on purpose it was probably done to keep people from using it to farm credit for the epic Damage badges. Using lava was a favored method for this, especially for Masterminds. I never used lava for that because there are actually more efficient methods out there to farm credit for those badges, but the Devs might have finally decided that was a particular "exploit" they weren't willing to put up with anymore. *shrugs*Quote:Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
Unfortunately it is probably the latter. Can't have people pulling mobs into lava pits and have the lava kill 'em...nooooo...
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Quote:I'm actually quite sure there are a few flippers out there who are making INF this way. I simply refuse to accept that these people are doing anything that permanently affect the market in any significant way. Like Chowder implied there are always times when "reasonable bids" can be filled regardless of what the flipper-monkeys are up to. *shrugs*Originally Posted by OmegaS
Indeed, no one absolutely no one is strategically buying some salvage types, dumping some at a loss when required, holding back stock, driving some prices up, and making a healthy profit with minimal effort.
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Quote:l will never be upset when the Devs manage to release something "earlier that expected" no matter the reason for it.Originally Posted by Psylenz
I appreciate your point. I do have paragon points; some may not. I do not mind unexpected delays as much as surprise releases outside the budget.