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Diminutive Masterminds!: a wire brush makes an Ideal bed of nails for interrogating a hamster.

Female players!: Playing a male toon?, you can enhance your gender-bending experience by sucking a magnet and dipping your chin in Iron filings before logging on.

Whilst relaxing watching a hilarious television programme one evening, Mr and Mrs DeathSpore mistakenly pour out two glasses of Paraquat instead of their usual beverage...

Luckily they both saw the fungicide.

Mumsies tip of the day™:


Thugs Masterminds!: In Mission, Make your minions appear well-trained by ordering them to do what they appear to be doing anyway! - thus impressing your colleagues with what appears to be their excellent training!.

Robotics Masterminds: After a gruelling Strikeforce, a little bit of WD40 sprayed on a small ball of steel wool is perfect for wiping down a baby bot's bot with.

Q: What did the Zombie say to the Kings Row ******?

A: Keep the tip.

"We've been rumbled! - Flee little ones! FLEE !"

*Activates emergency contingency evacuation plan for Mumsie Inc. minions in Founders Falls.

Best of luck, Take care Alex - and thankyou.

.o>

#1: A Vahzilok boards an airplane, over each shoulder he is carrying two jet-black bodybags stuffed full of animal carcasses. The stewardess looks at him and says, "I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger."

#2: Two coralax swim into a concrete wall in Faultline. The one turns to the other and says, "Dam!"

#3: An electrical Gremlin turns to DeathSurge whilst they are strolling through Cap Au Diable one evening. "I've lost my electron." Says the Gremlin…. "Are you sure?" replies Deathsurge "Yes Sir!” replies the Gremlin “I'm positive!."

#4: Talshak the mystic, (as you may or may not know), walked barefoot most of his career, like most mystics, - which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little due to his remote position down in Grendal’s Gultch in The Hollows, this made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him .... (Oh, deary me!… this is so bad, it's good) .... A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.

This a CoX joke thread in times of need Scarlet? - don't make me bring the Punder!

[Insert DOOM™ Post here]

I got Big Daddy's autograph when I was tiny - think I still have it in a cupboard somewhere.

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As of... 19 minutes ago... GR woke up with a hangover.

He's also hungry.

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FOR SPANDEX-CLAD VENGEANCE !!!

... at least, thats how it plays out in my little world.

Sigh* - still no post from NC West huh?, how very sad, how very predictable.

Dumping on the EU.community like this and leaving us hanging void of explanations has done irreparable damage to the company in my opinion. I had just re-subscribed for another 6 months but fear that every day without explanation means I'll be further away from resubscribing in September - I'll have to see what they say when they can be bothered to put in an appearance.

Shadowe: Thanks for the info update.

GhostRaptor I'm so very sorry this has affected you, I think the short time you have been here you have done a fine job, I'm sure it hasn't been easy with the reduced staff but you were responsible for resurrecting 'Creative Genius' which everybody enjoyed and the opening couple of blogs on GhostRaptor's Hideout were coming along very nicely! - Its a horrible gut-wrenching situation but best of luck with whatever you decide to do from here.

Carpenter I believe further steps go something like this:
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1. Speculation
2 . Inuuendo and jokey Doom
3. Fact creeps in
4. Doom solifies
5. Facts confirmed
6. Specualtion
7. Wild speculation
8. Panic at the disco
9. Blame
10. Arm waving
11. Conjecture
12. Sleep

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13. Wake Up/Realisation/Sadness
14. Anger
15. Bitterness
16. Acceptance
17. US Transfer / Champions-Online / DC Universe Online.

I have to say I'm pretty disgusted at NC West's behaviour, not so much now that this has happened because as FFM indicated earlier on in this thread, It is clear the EU.arm of operations for CoX is not sustainable, but more because there is no excuse for leaving us hanging in the wind like this. I would suggest they just get it over and done with, concentrate on GuildWars and Aion and give us a full and comprehensive transfer to the US servers which clearly offers better service and forum feedback on this our beloved CoX. I'd say please be careful not to be haphazard or half-hearted about transfers, because as people have indicated... If they lose aspects of their characters they have worked hard to create they'll just leave. It may be easier for NCWest/NCSoft in the short-term to do a Tabula-rasa style offer but it will work out far worse for them in the longterm. EU.Subscribers will just leave.

I'm waiting to hear from NCWest next, but honestly!, they couldn't of done a better job at pushing 150,000 subscribers further towards the competition if they'd tried. How sad.

So, If the suspected transfers go ahead, I'll see you stateside - or If the US.account transfer offers are poor...Hope to see all your characters I love replicated in Millenium City or Metropolis/Gotham.

NCSoft contacts Massively.com re: the redundancies.

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"In order to solidify and streamline company operations across all NCsoft West territories, we are implementing some structural changes this week which will impact 70 to 90 employees. We are working with these employees to determine the best fit for approximately 80 alternate positions within the company.

The European office is transitioning to have a stronger focus in marketing and sales, with many of the existing disciplines being consolidated in our studios on the US West Coast and our headquarters in Seattle. Additionally, we are transitioning to an embedded quality assurance (QA) model in which the QA staff works in our studios directly with the development teams, providing support throughout the entire development process.

This finalizes the NCsoft West reorganization plan which began last September, and the resulting structure will better support the company's direction." - NCsoft PR

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So that was the last of the planned lay-offs... apparently.

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Ahh, so it's not just me then...

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Frosty has kindly showed how to bypass the malfunctioning updater on the 'servers down thread?': (Helluva 2nd post! - thanks Frosty!).

Repeated here for convienience:
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I currently can't connect to the patcher.

However if you [Removed as Updater has been fixed now.] you can bypass the patcher and go straight to the game.

Explained further at [Removed as Updater has been fixed now.]

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No, me neither.

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it'll do us no good to get in a tiswas - yet.

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Agreed, what we need is out very own UniqueDragon™ to lighten the impending sense of Doom.

Now it says 5 departments closed down whereas the original said 4.

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And I'd put the priorities so that reading the opinions of A bunch of worried subscribers whos custom you hope to retain on an internet forum is so far down the list it's unlikely to get looked at this week, let alone RIGHT THIS VERY SECOND.

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[Edited]: Or maybe thats just big business stateside for you... oh well.

Yes well I'd put priorities at: those who the redundancies affect, then the EU.subscribers the news affects via a post on the EU.forums, then a press release to the games industry press.

Not just let rumour filter in, ferment on the forums (doing a great deal of harm to the company's reputation).
I couldn't care less if Chris Chung hasn't had his frosties yet - this decision was not taken late last night or this morning, things should be handled better than this.

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Where's PRAF? He's from the future. Why didn't he tell us about all of this?

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Prafs from not that far in the future, he is incapacitated with a blinding hangover from all the drinking that went on later on tonight.

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Step up NCWest.

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GR's down the pub, and it's 8am at NCWest HQ. Give it time.

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Re: the former - good on him, don't blame him one bit, I hope the whole office is down there - Its the pencil pushers across the pond I fancy an explanation from.

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Copying our databases to their servers IS the cheapest solution for them, as is them granting server move tokens and name change tokens afterwards; all intangible stuff which costs them nothing.

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I'd say considering what is the driving force behind these lay-offs, that this would be the most likely scenario.

Either which way, where IS NCWest?, seriously, It was left to GhostRaptor last time to clear up the forum carnage and NCWest didn't so much as poke their head in last time (at the ceasation of Game Development down in Brighton/layoffs) and say: "Hi - sorry, this is whats happened...".

Now this upheaval. This, the Western business is supposed to be their focus. The silence is rather damning.

Step up NCWest.

Step up NCWest.

See nows about the time you post both here and in the Valentines Event thread (discussing the lay-offs) to reassure as all. The silence is not really all that comforting.

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Well if sunset does happen with the EU servers I think it would be more likely that this would happen.

All active EU accounts made before [ enter date here ]

Will receive;

Lineage II client and 2 months playtime free!

Aion Early access code and client free!

City of combined edition client ( US ) and 2 months playtime free!

We thankyou all for your continued support!

Btw that's not speculation on my part that's what the subscribers of Tabula rasa got.

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If any such offer was that Impersonal I would be (quite frankly) rather insulted: (see pre-prepared reply to any such offer below).

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