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Quote:Given that Praetorian badge toons won't have anniversary badges and it will be awhile before the next Halloween and X-mas events, I can't see it as being worth the time to get a Praetorian badge hunter on par with a PRE-GR badger.Originally Posted by Lothic
Basically this means that the window of opportunity for Praetorian badgers to surpass Primal badgers probably won't last much past the end of 2010. More power to anyone who wants to try to accomplish that before then.
I'll just wait until PRE GR alts can go to Praetoria. Plus I'm also not in praetoria much right now as the zones just launched and I figure I'll let them do some debugging
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Prime badge hunting MM sits back in recliner chair in his new blue base, smoking a cigar and smiles at his badge collection on the wall: "Well, well.....SIX shiny Mo badges.....nothing like having a complete set!"
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Quote:Yes, my evil blaster has crossed the 900 count and slowly climbing. Not many left to get unless they update things so that a PRE-GR toon can dimension shift to Praetoria. (Which I hear is in the works)Originally Posted by graystar_blaster
I will soon see you
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Quote:Works for me.Originally Posted by Grouchybeast
Or they could create mini arcs made up of the appropriate number of random paper missions for the level, with the safeguard/mayhem at the end. Then people getting the badges and temp powers via Ouroboros would be putting in exactly the same amount of effort as people getting them the normal way.
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Quote:let me guess....Jack Thompson was involved in this survey? This sounds exactly like the inane drivel he would recite.Originally Posted by LegionAlpha
In case I was scooped( once again) I am sorry for the double post:
Story: And link http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movi...le-models.html
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What's that you say? A rogue vigilante, who dons a mask at night to fight crime while using illegal weapons, with no endorsement from local law enforcement authorities, may not be a good role model for young boys?
Incredulity aside, it turns out that even some of the "nicer" comic-book heroes might not be so good for the kids. That's the conclusion of a new study of current superhero movie characters (how does one apply for this job?). The researchers behind the study shared their findings at the American Psychological Association convention this past Sunday. What's most surprising about the results of the study is that it doesn't necessarily vilify all of these powerful characters -- just modern-day superheroes. The superheroes your parents watched and read many moons ago? Those guys were just fine.
Sharon Lamb from the University of Massachusetts-Boston, who spoke on behalf of the study, explained: "Today's superhero is too much like an action hero who participates in non-stop violence; he's aggressive, sarcastic, and rarely speaks to the virtue of doing good for humanity. When not in superhero costume, these men, like Iron Man, exploit women, flaunt bling, and convey their manhood with high-powered guns."
Iron Man, Lamb's example of a modern-day superhero, debuted in March of 1963 in issue number 39 of "Tales of Suspense." In 1979, the Iron Man story went through an arc known as "Demon in a Bottle," which portrayed Tony Stark's (Iron Man's true identity) battle with alcoholism. That storyline was later loosely adapted into the two "Iron Man" movies.
Photos: Movie stills from 'Iron Man 2'
There is a valid point within the research that young boys who don't have real-life role models may turn to their movie idols to compensate for their lack of guidance. Especially considering that a slew of these comic-book demigods -- Peter Parker as Spider-Man; The X-Men -- are themselves considered outsiders in their personal lives. The problem is, of course, that real-life humans haven't been bitten by radioactive spiders or developed mutant powers. As the researchers discovered, this leads to problems when movie marketing can "take advantage of boys' need to forge their identity in adolescence and sell them a narrow version of masculinity."
Lamb's research concluded there are only two types of personalities that today's boys have the option to aspire to: the aforementioned superhero or the cracking-wise slacker. (What, no vampires?)
Doing her best to channel the character of John Bender's dad from "The Breakfast Club," Lamb explains her findings about on-screen slackers thusly: "Boys are told, 'if you can't be a superhero, you can always be a slacker.' Slackers are funny, but slackers are not what boys should strive to be; slackers don't like school and they shirk responsibility. We wonder if the messages boys get about saving face through glorified slacking could be affecting their performance in school. (/quote)
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Quote:Except if a hi level character changes to evil they still cannot run newspaper missions in the low level zones. Now if they decide to have it where you can say at L50 run 5 newspaper missions then jump to Ouro and then you can select any of the Mayhems since you ran the newspaper missions that could work.Originally Posted by Blood_Beret
Because then more people would farm and just Ouro all their badges. If they were to put them in Ouro, I think before you get the Mayhem/Safeguard mission they place 3 or 5 paper/readio missions infront of it. So it is like you are earning the Mayhem/Safeguard.
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Quote:Or else record the thing with the AV blasting away with the shield up and then youtube it and give them the link to it.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
I volunteer to head into a mish with the devs and show them.
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Quote:I'm quite confident that at the very least, the No Death rule would be in place for any and all Mo badges.Originally Posted by Lothic
Yes Castle confirmed the current CoP is allowing the AV to shoot through his "Affect Self Only" shield. We can only assume this trial will be a bit easier when he isn't randomly one-shoting squishies with impunity.
But as far as a possible Mo-CoP goes who's to say exactly what the requirements would be. It's possible it'd follow the standard "no deaths, no temp powers" paradigm but they could easily come up with almost anything to make it harder. As Beefy pointed out this is a trial not a TF/SF so the details of what would make it a "master level trial" could be fairly different.
Also I can confirm that CoP is indeed bugged as we just ran one and the AV was indeed blasting us through his own shield. Also once his shield goes down and we pound him until the shield is restored, his regen rate seems a bit...high....even for an AV. -
Quote:I don't think that a MoCop would trivialize the Mo badges, however an MoCop badge based on no one of the 24 people in the trial getting killed would likely be more impossible to obtain then finding the Holy Grail.Originally Posted by Lothic
Not exactly sure why a master version of a trial would make these kind of badges "trivial".
And I'm not exactly sure why there could never be a master version of a trial either. *shrugs*
As MMOs age there's always a tendency for the Devs to add increasingly difficult content to challenge top end players. I'd have to say all this negative reaction to the idea of a super-hard challenge (like a mythical Mo-CoP) is more or less shortsighted. If the Devs don't specifically introduce a Mo-CoP it's still fairly likely that we're eventually going to get something equivalent to what that would be like.
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Quote:To be honest I think the main thing about the Punisher is that he IS a regular guy with utterly no super powers, but is a tactical genius and war veteran. (Captain America has the Super Soldier Serum and his shield as well as being among the world's best unarmed combatants and being a tactical genius.) However by all rights, in the real world such a person would have died from "lead poisoning" from being shot up as much as Frank has been in the comics. Or he'd be permanently crippled from all the broken bones and spinal trauma that Frank has endured.Originally Posted by Durakken
How do you mess up angry ex-military guy that shoots people...
Plus in the Punisher MAX series, that series does NOT have the sliding timeline and has stated that Frank has been blowing away criminals for the past 30 years, and the MAX series does not have Frank dying and coming back as the Spawnisher or Frankencastle. He is just a normal guy with a lot of guns that just won't stop.
However this brings up the point that since Frank is originally a Vietnam vet (before any possible retcons have been done or the Tom Jane Punisher movie stating he was a Gulf War vet), that Frank in both the mainstream MU and in Max should be in his mid 50's if not 60 years old...........
So, since the MAX series maintains a sense of realism about Frank and his age, that leaves the mainstream Punisher books to work with Marvel's sliding timeline to keep Frank young or do to things to OVERCOMPENSATE for the fact that by all rights Frank should either be too old to keep up his war, or that Frank should be all rights be DEAD a thousand times over.
The things that Marvel could do for Frank in the mainstream books that might work better then Spawnisher or Frankencastle would be:
1. Frank gets his hands on Nick Fury's Infinity Formula that slows down Fury's aging and keeps him in his physical prime.
2. Frank somehow gets a dose of the Super Soldier Serum or something similar and becomes enhanced similarly to Captain America
3. Frank on occasion (but not often) wears a suit of armor possibly based on stolen Stark tech, or at least armors his chest and head with it. Thus he could be like Boba Fett, a walking armored arsenal. Just no rocket pack please, we don't need that to be used against Frank
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Quote:Personally I don't see the problem with allowing characters to change alignments and obtain all 6 respec badges. Granted a character likely wouldn't end up using all six, but still there are those of us that like to collect the shiny objects. My now evil Blaster badge hunter has surpassed the 900 badge count......only a few left.Originally Posted by Lothic
If we are to believe the current Paragonwiki info on this (which says you can't have both sets of respec badges) then I'd have to say the Badge-Hunter site is currently in error. I'm guessing the folks at Badge-Hunter are going to have to come up with some kind of filter that would mask out one side's respec badge if you already have the other side's equivalent badge.
The Devs may allow having both sets of badges at some point, but that kind of thing is probably of such low priority to them that I'm not going to assume it'll happen anytime soon. *shrugs* -
Quote:Plus the same "disadvantage" exists for those that convert PRE_GR alts to the opposite alignment.Originally Posted by SaintNicster
You are at the same disadvantage that those of us who were above X level when the Mayhem Missions were first introduced.
Only solution at is to ask for the kindness of strangers to invite you into their mayhem mission.
The only other possible solution I can see is to put the mayhem and safeguard missions into the Ouroborus Crystal. -
Quote:The Angel of Death thing was such a cheap attempt at creating a Marvel version of Spawn that I call that story the Spawnisher.Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan
Yeah, Frankencastle sounded like someone made a lame pun in front of Joey Q and he said "Run with it!"
Did they not learn anything from Punisher: Angel of Death?
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Quote:And this is something that I've said in the past as something that Marvel should consider.Originally Posted by LunarKnight
Well, in all fairness, at least when they reset that one, they reset the whole darn universe along with it.
Have a plan for the reset of the ENTIRE MU, have a plan for the characters post reset, set certain ground rules about the characters and their lives like marriage and children and then move ahead. Not this "it's magic we don't need to explain it" junk. Joe Q even wanted to use BND to restore Gwen Stacy but legend has it that the writers of Marvel all piled into his office to convince him that would be a bad idea.
The non-Mutant books got a reboot/relaunch with that Heroes Reborn/Return junk thanks to the X-men Onslaught, but the mutant titles don't get it.
Then eventually things get so hosed again that another character needs a private relaunch that will not effect the rest of the MU books: case in point: Spider-Man. Norman Osborn is brought back from the dead to end the Clone Saga and straighten that mess out. Ironically the two downfalls of the Clone Saga were: OVER EXTENSION, and stating that Peter was the clone. All they had to do was say that Ben was the clone and Peter the original and Peter goes off to retire and be a daddy knowing that there is another Peter running around as Spider-Man. Then years later comes the Unmasking and to fix that, Peter an MJ strike a deal with THE DEVIL! (Mephisto was considered as a fix for the Clone Saga but rejected. Go fig.)
And you know what would be a simple way to undo the Unmasking? Mephisto does his little time warp things that we are seeing in OMIT to end the marriage, but Mephisto also plants a simple idea into Peter's head: before the Unmasking he dies his hair blonde (or even red), puts on colored contacts to make his eyes appar to be blue, and even uses some makeup to put a small fake scar on one side of his face. He unmasks and says "hi, my name is Ben Reilly and I've been Spiderman all these years!" Later he tells Tony Stark that the public gets what they want and just in case the registration act collapses, Peter's ID is still safe and so is his family. REAL SIMPLE.
Another character that has recently been trashed so badly that I think his current series will be ending and he'll get a Shadowland mini where is he back to normal: Frank Castle; the Punisher. For those that don't know what I refer to about him being so screwed up beyond recovery; do a Google search with the word: FRANKENCASTLE. Trust me, it ain't pretty.
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Quote:Are you a villain or a Rogue? My blaster made the full alignment shift before running any redside mish badges or killing the GM's and has had no badge problems.Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
Just finished off Leonard's arc....but no badge...am I missing something?
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Yes supposedly Mephisto is working his magic behind the scenes to have tweaked things so they never got married, but it looks like it will be a joint effort between Dr. Strange, Stark and Richards to do the mindwipe about the unmasking.
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Quote:Thanks, couldn't remember the line verbatim todayOriginally Posted by Midnight_Flux
The line is actually even better than that:
Doc, "...I've never shot anyone before."
Book, " Son, I was there. I'm fair sure you haven't shot anyone yet."
I still look forward to that comic about the Shepard. His mysterious past is the one major loose end left from the series and movie. -
Quote:Show me a bug free release, and I'll show you a release that didn't happen.Originally Posted by Lothic
Yeah there are at least a few other people I know who have mentioned a certain "buginess" with these badges. This is kind of like way back when some of the PvP badges just appeared in strange ways.
I suspect the bugs will be fixed eventually. But as per usual they won't be fixed before the majority of badgers enjoy the "benefits" of them. But you are right, it will be fixed eventually.
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Quote:Slight clarification: I meant standard CoP, not a MoCoP for incarnate salvage. Also its good that standard runs of the assorted TF/SF's are all that's needed for incarnate drops.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
Actually before the Incarnate System was yanked, there was an option to get a Penumbra of Rularuu incarnate salvage. Most players just converted Incarnate Shards to get this.
I'd also like to point out that master runs were NOT required to get Incarnate Salvage. There wasn't any upgrade or added benefit to doing a master run in terms of Incarnate salvage. -
Quote:Slight fix there.Originally Posted by Snow Globe
I've "experienced" practising during beta. The only way to currently succeed on a consistent basis is to have everybody on a Vent/TS server [keeping their inane banter to themselves and following instructions from the leader or leaders, and not constantly spamming broadcast for instructions or with inane drivel] and only with a select group of people.
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Quote:Ok yes, fine is relative and yes CoP needs a little tune up, but nevertheless we need a MoCoP badge like we'd need a hole drilled through our heads.Originally Posted by Dark One
Well, if a villainside run slowing down to a slideshow reminiscent of the 100+ man Hamidon raids is considered "fine".
Srsly...that was horrible. I was getting close to 1 frame per second at times on that on a Radeon HD 5750. Can't even imagine trying it with anything lesser. And yes, settings were cranked down to pretty low.
If the MoCoP were based on solely YOUR team not using temps and not being defeated, possibly. But relying on 24 people to not be defeated, with no nukes and no shivans on a broken AV? That dog won't hunt monseuir.
Now if running CoP helps provide components to craft Incarnate powers like they say the RSF/STF/LGTF/ITF/Khan/CUDA TF/SF's are supposedly able to then that's fine. -
Over at Badge-Hunter it shows the three redside respec badges as possible ones to obtain on my now evil character despite it having the three hero respec badges. But I'll presume that to be an error on the badge site.
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Quote:I have no mixed feelings at all about a Mo-CoP: it shouldn't exist. Standard CoP is just fine.Originally Posted by Lothic
Don't get me wrong - I'd have mixed feelings about a Mo-CoP. . -
Another great set of lines:
"If we don't get some extra from the engine room to offset the burn through, this landing is going to get pretty interesting!"
"Define interesting"
"Uhm, 'Oh God! Oh God! We're all going to die!"
"This is the Captain, we are experiencing some reentry problems, there might some turbulence and then we'll explode."
Jayne's reaction: "We're gonna explode? I don't wanna explode!" -
Quote:I liked at the end of that episode as the Doc comments on how he isn't sure how to feel about shooting people and the Shepard's response: "Son, I was there.....you don't need to worry"Originally Posted by Midnight_Flux
(After Book pulls out a rifle)
Zoe: Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killin'?
Book: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.
Also be on the lookout later this year as the awaited comic "Shepard's Tale" comes out that gives us the background on Shepard Book.