Schismatrix

Nope, no joke, it won't be available until a bit after release. Considering that they're planning to add new stuff to the market every week i doubt it'll be much more than a month at most before it becomes available.
*crosses fingers*

Edit: i'll be remaking a Defender as a Beam Rifle/Cold Domination Corruptor. Unless i go with Radiation or Time Manipulation instead.
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Dammit. Maybe i'll just make three new versions.

i've been using showvillainname 1 and showvillainbars 1 for the better part of a year now. At this point it actually looks odd to me without it on. i did write up a bind a while back to toggle it on and off when i first started using those settings.

Now i know y'all is just funnin', but for those not in on the joke Cass is referrin' to electromagnets capable of generatin' a field strength of 50 Teslas, not havin' 50 Tesla coils. Ah almost feel bad about ruinin' yer lil joke, but there are some who read this section and wouldna get it, as it were.

Lower values won't matter when the power would self-buff in an infinite feedback loop. Despite the damage caps there might possibly be negative effects on the server itself when a power's calculation causes an infinite loop.

But.. But i like Joy Division.

11? i think you're exaggerating (unpossible, i know). 8 or 9 tops.

As i recall, the Devs added code so that after about 5 seconds or so your character gets sent to a "valid" zone if your character is in a zone that's been removed/changed. i'm pretty sure that when the Rikti Crash Site was first phased out i had a character still in the zone who could wander around, but that was shortly after the change. i think that now you automatically get moved to a "valid" zone after a few seconds when logging into removed zones.

i hear that if you rub vaseline on the stump after cutting the tail off it'll grow back. <.< Failing that, at least they have a chance to survive even if tailless and make more Nutria to harvest tails from later. (Deliberately missing the point.)

Oh, yeah, ouch. On the other hand, compared to what's been happening in the UK i think that that Google search would be hilarious.

My thoughts as well. i think i snickered a little when i saw the photo and read how much they took in.

Ah, nice. Thank you very much. A little North of $300 isn't a big issue. The 570 and 6970 cards do look pretty good with a caveats as far as Newegg goes:

Most of the HD 6970 units are currently out of stock.

The GTX 570s seem to have somewhat mixed reviews regarding reliability.

Decisions, decisions.

The character that unlocks VEATs has to be bona-fide villain stock, Praetorians don't count for EAT unlocks, hero or villain.

Also, since i'm here already, in addition to asking on the forums the Paragon Wiki is an excellent resource for learning about the game.
Don't worry about asking "scrub questions", how else will you learn anything? Everyone is a newb at some point.

Oh yeah, good point. Since i use emails almost entirely for sending items globally i forgot to mention that regular emails don't expire.

When in doubt go to the cohtitan wiki. It's quite good.

Also, the wikia-based CoH wiki (which tends to turn up first in searches for "coh wiki") is not a good wiki at all. It's not suppported by actual players, is usually out of date, and occasionally is infested with malware.

i'd suggest disabling most of the Ultra Mode features and then gradually adding them back in if that solves the problem. Start by setting Shadows and Water effects to fairly minimal and turn off Ambient Occlusion entirely.

As per the wiki here in-game emails have a 60 day time limit.

There is a column showing how many days until the emails expire in the email window.

Yes.

Alternately: This.

So Nemesis is actually an alien?
Or the Rikti Nemesis is a native of, no, wait, that doesn't make sense, nevermind. The Rikti Earth is divergent enough that Rikti Nemesis is effectively a nonsense term if you're referring to a direct Rikti mirror of the Primal Nemesis since the worlds and cultures are so radically divergent, thus the various Nemesii would have to actually be aliens to be equivalent in both worlds.

My earlier point is that the Rikti being able to fight off the Battalion does not in any way imply they're small fish. "Oh, the Battalion was driven back by a civilization that can send motherships the size of a city block between dimensions. Motherships so powerful that the strongest superhuman known to Primal Earth could only damage one enough to force it to crashland, where it remains as a base and rallying point. What wimps!"

Keep in mind that the Rikti are most emphatically not small fish themselves. After centuries of peace they were able to throw together a reprisal force that included multiple dimension jumping motherships the size of city blocks in a few years. In fact, all the Omega Team and other Earth forces managed to do was disrupt the Rikti dimensional portals and throw up a magical barrier that took advantage of the fact that the Rikti were unfamiliar with magic at the cost of hundreds of superpowered lives including some of the most powerful superhumans on Primal Earth. The main accomplishment of Primal Earth in the war was to make it harder for the Rikti to reach us.

The Coming Storm is apparently multiple things all coming to a head. Shiva, The Battalion, and others are apparently all part of the Coming Storm. It's possible that The Battalion will coming to all known Earths, or maybe only Primal Earth, but the total effect will probably be a threat to all Earths.


*SPOILERS*
Well, Primal and Praetorian Earths were not "contacted by an advanced alien species of unknown origin that converted the humans of the Rikti dimension into what they are now. The Rikti are born as what we consider ordinary, but around adolescence changes begin and they begin to morph into full Rikti aliens." Also The Battalion hasn't shown up in Primal Earth either. The various known Earths have diverged at various points in their respective histories, and maybe the divergence point for the Rikti from Praetorian and Primal Earths was the unknown aliens what Riktified the Rikti a few thousand years ago...

The Rikti have been using advanced technology far a very long time, and are genetically augmented as a species above the human baseline.

The Battalion were not involved in the Rikti becoming the Rikti. To the contrary, the Battalion showed up quite some time after the unnamed aliens had transformed them into the Rikti, which is probably why the Rikti were able to repel the Battalion of their home dimension.

Honestly, the Rikti are actually more likely to become allies in repelling the Battalion all things considered.

From the wiki: "The Hro'Dtohz file This dossier has been put together using mostly Rikti sources. The first few are all about the rise and fall of the Rikti homeworld's military caste, called the Lineage of War. After the initial wars to unify the planet thousands of years ago, the Lineage of War was very small, only rising to prominence during a very few infrequent civil wars and insurrections. Their last big operation was against an alien force called the Battalion about 100 years ago. Since then, their power had been tapering off to its normal ceremonial levels until the start of the war with Earth."

That... will take a while. A long while. i can pretty much guarantee that by the time you get the whole set using that route you could have gotten two (five?) copies of the set by most other routes.

As for teleport...
Team Teleport isn't as effective at irritating teammates and alienating other players as it used to be since players can now prevent it from affecting them. It does (very rarely) have other uses, but those uses are mostly limited to Masterminds or teams built around using it.

IMO, YMMV, BBR, WIKS, etcetera.

Interesting. i somehow doubt it even got past the earliest design stage with recharging everything as part of the design. For very many obvious reasons. *shrug*

By the way, what happens if i type "I'm sick of these PANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEP ANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKE snakes on this PANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEP ANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKEPANCAKE plane!"?

Yes it didn't?

Precisely.

Anyway, saw tonight's episode even though i missed the premiere. Wasn't bad at all. i like the way the characters are developing and the fact that the writing doesn't require characters to be constantly handing off the idiot ball to each other.

But those are all dirt cheap. And mostly of the same quality.