Mothers_Love

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Any tips for a fast run, you ol' pros?

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As said on the slopes last night, I'm far from the fastest down the slopes but I finally managed the Gold medal 'Speeder' badgeypoos and this is what helped me:

#Speed Boost

#Inertial Reduction

#Steering with the mouse (after IR) more than the direction keys, (only use if you are definately going to hit a side of the course that will slow you down)

#On the broken barrier part of the course with the fall/jump option... coming off the speed a little ensures you miss slamming into the rock and will actually save you seconds.

#Go left

#Think ahead

#Use the Force?

My (potentially) 2nd best ever run was tainted by the fact that I had missed a gate on the last run and meant I was technically still on the previous run, which made my overjoyed smiley face turn into a scowl when on crossing the finish line faster than a greased weasel with Teflon shoe-soles it said "Congratulations!: 2:34:06"

*Doh >.<

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there's a new badge for logging in, and 3 new ones for the new ski slope

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Indeed!, It took me the best part of yesterday evening's practice runs to finally get the Gold medal. So thats the almost obsessive compulsive drive and sheer frustration over for another year. As usual, a massive thankyou to all the kindly Kins who stood buffing everyone at the startline, the top medals really are next to impossible without some kind of kin-assistance.
Everyone was very appreciative, and the annoyed shouts of "I SAID NO IR" from some people made me laugh.

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I did the father time mission last night, must say that is the ugliest baby I've ever seen. I mean, all babies look like Winston Churchill, but this one looks like Churchill after a hard night drinking.

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To which I'm sure Churchill would of replied:
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I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

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Its funny isn't it!, you are a SuperHero with almost God-like powers, and what do people fantasise about?.... being a mere mortal! .

I must say I totally get it though, Its all about contrast in my opinion and anything that adds to RP In-game and enhances 'playing the hero/villain' will always get a big thumbs-up in my book. All we need know is transformation emotes and themetunes on said transformations!.

Koming 2009

Disconnected SIX times in The Hive trying to form teams. Each time it took me 5 mins for the login to come back around.

Totally intolerable, DC's all round pretty much sealed the fate of the raid attempt as the organisation of teams was a less than pleasant task..

In the end we didn't have the numbers to realistically do this in my opinion, there were plenty of Tanks but a noticable lack of support toons.

Apologies also for the organisation in The Hive, but after six server disconnects I was struggling to even stay on long enough to communicate effectively.

So nevermind, next-time ...hopefully. I just wish those of you whos first time it was tonight, knew a Hami raid like it used to be.

Awww ,

...and I was so looking forward to meeting you at the next playermeet, maybe you'll pop in for old times sake - as you said 'we keep missing one another'.
I would like to say that you and your imagination, and the countless wonderful characters you have come up with over the years have kept me thoroughly entertained, I will miss them, and indeed... you.

Keep in touch, you have my personal email, let me know where your travels take you MMO-wise. Hopefully we'll meet up again in Champions-Online/Star Trek Online/ DCUO or SW:TOR.

I know you've spoken before about leaving and had a short break before but I can tell from the way you've worded this that Mysties' work is done in Paragon. So hopefully this is a goodbye but not a farewell.


Keep in touch dear.
Mother's Love.

/em,militarysalute

Stalkers tickle now.

Your help once again please; I need some help to come up with an alternative AT name for Corruptor along these lines. Players say in-game "I can bring a LV 35 Corr", but that seems a little short, can you think of an alternative?.

- thanks in advance.

All I can say is thank G*d somebody else has noticed this!, My eye was drawn to it straight away as the U.S site went live and its been torturing me ever since with tempting thoughts of zone upgrades.

...but yes, probably just concept art.

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If anyone deserves a statue for all to see in game it would be Mothers_Love.

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Rent deserves that statue more tbh.

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Heheh, I think the general populus of Paragon City would be terrified to wake up one morning to find your erection towering over them.

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If a game sucks it doesn't matter how good it looks! And if CO and DCO look awesome but play badly on the PC we're likely to see an influx of players looking for something similar but with better game play. CoH game play is already great!

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Exactly my point, hence my line about trial players not sticking around long enough to find the gem-like gameplay under the ageing graphics. Unfortunately first graphical impressions do count, I do wish it was less so though, .... and thats coming from someone who only stuck at AoC for 4-6 months despite the great graphics.

Graphical improvements aren't a player luxury, they are a game necessity.

The zones have got to compete graphically with Millennium City and Metropolis in their respective forthcoming MMOs because unfortunately eye-candy does count for a lot and trial players (ignorant of the potential great gameplay) are just going to turn their nose up at the graphics (and game) the moment they notice every fifth or sixth building or skyscraper is pretty much Identical, or the repetition of art resources and maps in-game.

Well, It tells you somethings wrong when you have Ultimate Improved Regen, Ultimate Improved Recovery, drop Eye of the Magnus + Vanguard - throw yourselves into a fight and be out of steam, out of health and dead in under 30 seconds.
To be honest I had been persisting with PvP in the hope that some small aspect of it would catch on but I think after tonight I'll be retiring from PvP.

The Issue 13 PvP revamp just killed the fun for me, Its slow, its haphazard, its bland. I'm not seeing the returns on the hard work I put into the build on 1v1 anymore and team contribution as Empath is worse than terrible with 2x heal suppresion and movement suppresion on healing both myself and others, I spend most of the time at an unslotted hovering pace.
Sorry NorCal, It may be part of your masterplan but a big portion of endgame appeal has gone for this Veteran with these changes, I guess I'll drop in for spider salvage and an Inf boost when I need it, but I am just not enjoying it anymore. So I'll think I'll retire from the PvP'ing until I see some improvement.

Real shame. Sorry, I hate feeling like I am having a moan but personally, for me, the challenge,skill and tactics of high end zonal PvP are gone. Shame.

[i]Hey!, look on the bright-side... at least if you attack me for rep I won't fight back. <laughs>

What a great idea!, nice going Doc - very generous of you!

WarHammer Online gets the ball rolling with Player Statues.

Nice shiney website, look forward to seeing the new features.

On a sidenote: On the 14 day free trial pic, Statesman shoulder is clipping through his cape.

Personally I think the solution is staring them in the face for high end zonal pvp If the Devs wish to pursue these new changes or simply agree to compromise.

The engineers and equipment are both sides of the portal at the entrance to RV, you should talk to an engineer/click on control panel and dial in (*uses StarGate terminology) whatever RV Instance/rules you want. That way if you want a team battle/event/farm based on how you like the zone...you can. Personally I'd always be clicking on 'unrestricted'.

Ps: while you're at it guys, please give us a properly devastated Atlas Park/RV warzone. something resembling a nuclear battlefield with uneven map ground, tunnels, a city hall in flames/being reconstructed (whichever way the zone is being won), devastated skyscrapers and basically more a feel of a GvE ground/air war as opposed to a rehash of Atlas park.

Thankies.

# Easy for all™ - Is not rewarding as PvP endgame, Life is not fair - It drives us to adapt and excel.

# Fair and Accessible for all™ as NorCal's new PvP ethic has spectacularly backfired. Issue 13 PvP is just slower and blander... - sorry, but it is. It feels like more chance and less skill as far as your individual team contribution goes.

#Instead of genericising everything to be fair 'n' balanced, the devs should be embracing the individual strengths,weaknesses and diversity of the archetypes to make PvP fast paced and exciting.

#If it is their Intention to introduce more people to PvP then introduce a sliding scale of Nerfdom to help beginners in the beginner PvP zones, but leave unrestricted High-end PvP alone.

Heheh, the voice talent just keeps getting better and better on these videos.

Aww byebye Saphi,

Take care. Let me know where your travels take you MMO-wise.
mothers_love@hotmail.co.uk.

Welcome back Lycon!

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