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/futurama Approved for all audiences!

A shame this feature wasn't around before we had to move from the original Triumph Watch, but I digress. A channel as popular as TW 2.0 needs a timeout. Not too big of a deal to get re-invited either, if you do happen to drop off.

I'd agree that it's looking more and more like a War Witch Task Force, some that Mellisa has been talking about as a "wish list" item for a while. But with the edition of this second cover, a revamped Baumton or revamped New Player Experience for "classic" CoH and CoV might also be in the mix.

I think the whole comic tease alludes to something new in CoH. In the Comic, Horus is in trouble with Crey for illegally entering their lab and blowing it up (after they used a painful Memory Machine on him to see what he knew, of course).

When Crey tracks Horus to Apex and War Witch's apartment, they have to defend themselves form Paragon Protectors, who supposedly have legal authority to take them in for questioning.

The story itself has nothing to do with Boomtown. The cover seems to be just an exaggeration of the destruction that happens in the issue (inside the apartment). However, if the clue is based solely on the cover art, it might be the cover that resembles Boomtown most closely.

Possible allusions:

• some new/ revamped CoH / CoV story arcs with moral decisions
• Player apartments (and possible base revamp)
• Base defense mechanism (against NPCs)
• The "return" of Apex and Horus to CoH (even though their characters have never existed in-game before)
• Some new red names taking up the mantles of Apex and Horus
• BAB gets moved to Atlas Park (a play on an inaccuracy in the comic )

Hmmmm... well, guess I'll have to wait until PAX to find out.

Edit: besides... why choose Blue King Issue 11 specifically? It must have something to do with the story therein...

I wonder how many current subs CoH would loose if there were a F2P version... guess it would depend on how much one could do in a F2P version. Don't make it appealing enough, and few people will use it. Make it too appealing, Paragon Studios could be cutting themselves off at the knees.

I found this thread to be an informative, good read I actually understood it!

One fof the most memorable names was a character on Triumph called Very Mad Cow, who was a bovine that got mutated and psychologically disturbed when his owner fed him a bad person (like Mad Cow disease, but in reverse). His battle cry was "MOOOooOooOOOO Damnit!!!!"

Conaw!!!

IMPO, all the "Hazard Zones" could use some serious retooling to give them more functionality and versatility, whether that means:

• making some of them cross-faction (like the RWZ and the Shard zones proposals suggested by many players)
• adding zone events (RWZ)
• adding story arcs to the zones (Faultline and RWZ)
• revamping zone look and geometry (Faultline and RWZ)
• a combination of any of the above
• new tech I haven't even thought of (construction wars in Brickstown, for example)

Wow, I asked Support this very question last week and got the exact opposite answer. Unfortunately, I was betting that they were wrong after reading so many threads on the problem with Praetorian characters not being able to unlock them

Warhulk.

When the Batman franchise hits a Latin American country, or Spain for that matter, will we see a Bat Manuel?

Agreed. It's probably not network lag. Is your HDD running when you go into Praetoria? If so, it's probably lag caused by disk caching.

• Buying more RAM can help (computer will need to swap less between RAM and the HDD) , but if you have only a 32-bit OS, you can only use up to 3.2 GBs.
• If your mobo supports 3Gb/s SATA interface, that's also an option (faster seek/ retrieve times reduce HDD lag).
• Otherwise, don't use Ultra Mode - this will reduce the amount of textures required when you travel.

Hope this helps.

Well, at least I'm sort of comforted that we're not the only one with this problem. Here is one other post on the topic, and another.

Because, in their infinite wisdom, the devs disabled 3D Sound in I18 for Windows Vista and Windows 7. The disabled the DS3D component for these OSs without an OpenAL replacement. You have to us ALchemy for 3D Sound to work.

Good luck with that.

Recently, I got my first "smart phone", the HTC Incredible. It's not so much a phone as a mobile device though. It's a great gadget; the only quirky thing is the touch keyboard, but I've already become used to its nuances.

Firstly, I cut my land line leash years ago, back when Palm was first coming out with flip phones and Blackberries were the only real smart phone platform. Most of those devices appealed more the corporate suits, since they sync'd with email servers. I just had a regular old Ericson brick phone.

A lot's changed since then. I went through some flip phones, and now I have an Android phone. As a casual guy, I can use my mobile device to look up directions on the fly and get navigation (no more wimping out on friends because "I don't know how to get there"). I can compare in-store prices with what's online (or to see how much someone is trying to rake me over for). I can take a picture and share it on Facebook (if you're into the social networking thing). I can let friends know where I am if I do something spontaneous. I can look up information on the web if I need to (what's the museum's hours and phone number?)

Does it cost me more than a landline or basic cell phone? Sure. But that's the price I pay for mobility, a data plan, and having Internet access at my fingertips - more than I could do with Plain Old Telephone Service.

But overall, I agree with Quantum_Knight: