Snow Globe

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Anyone else find the number of people who have taken the announcement seriously even more amusing than the joke itself?

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Sadly, yes.

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cant you AT LEAST keep the normal sounds

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The whole thing is a joke.

Welcome to the Forums on April 1st.

Please see the following announcement.

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Please list artist contact info so we can get permission or have the artist post the pictures here themselves. Otherwise those will NOT appear.

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If it's possible, I'd like to state now that I give permission for ANYONE that I've done art for to post it here for the City Scoop (so long as they link back to my original piece).

-Juggy

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Understood, and if we ever fail to link back to your original piece (this also goes to any other artist who wants to give us the same permission), please let us know so that we can correct it!

As it is, I try to test all the links before it gets submitted to Ex Libris or Lighthouse , but I'm human and it might happen.

Tease!

Thanks!

Updated! Now with a bit of transition between the pictures. It boosted the image size to 122kb (yeah, micro time even on dialup).

You might have to refresh your browser to see it (hold the shift or control key and "refresh"), as I just replaced the previous animated version.

Well they might get a modifed Kinetics (along with a huge nerf to Fire/Kins) and a heavily modified Empathy-like powerset, but it just "wont be the same".

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Sigh, not even an honorable mention.

Oh well, no hard feelings.

Here are the above choices in one tiny animated avatar. Download it, and host it somewhere.

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I believe Positron has a place it can be hosted from. He can give you the details.

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Heh, I'm sure NCNC can spare the 25kb for hosting the avatar.

Sigh, not even an honorable mention.

Oh well, no hard feelings.

Here are the above choices in one tiny animated avatar. Download it, and host it somewhere.

Happy birthday

Appreciated!

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I give permission for anyone to submit anything I've done for them ever, except for that super-rare cosplay porno where I dress as Tifa and do horrible, horrible, wonderful things.

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I lol'd.

Please use the term complementary properly. Complementary colors are two colors when mixed in the proper proportion produce a neutral color (grey, white, or black). These colors are on opposite sides of the color wheel.

Examples:
red and green
blue and orange
yellow and purple

For help with color schemes, I would highly suggest: http://kuler.adobe.com/

Please list artist contact info so we can get permission or have the artist post the pictures here themselves. Otherwise those will NOT appear.

Oh come on.

At least come up with something original to say rather than just quote what someone else quoted. All that tells people is that you can't form a statement of your own.

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Way to post constructively.

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Here is the fixed version, avatar size (transparent background). (original version above)

Here is the fixed vesion, avatar size (with both the hero and villain background so people can see what the final would look like).

Here is the fixed vesion in a larger size on the hero forum blue background. (original version above)

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Honestly...these are great images.

Are you able to complete the shield (where there is the absence of the PPD emblem)?

Really nice stuff.

This gets my vote.

~ Jonathan

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600x600 "proof" version without upper flat section, but with text.
Avatar size, transparent background, without upper flat section, but with text.
600x600 "proof" version without upper flat section or text.
Avatar size, transparent background, without upper flat section or text.

Just so my entries are all in one post and easy to find, here they are in avatar size with transparent backgrounds:
First, Second, Third, Fourth.

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It's simple majority rules man. Of course you can't please everyone, but you can aim to plz the most players possible. I garantee a simple poll would have clearly shown that Dark/Dark was not what the majority would have chose for tanks....or elec/elec for stalkers and so on.

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You seem to forget that this isn't a democracy (just like any business). The final choice was and is only theirs. Your choice, and others, is will you subscribe or will you find something that you find more entertaining.

They might be still working on balance issues for elec/elec tanks for all we know. For instance maybe something in gauntlet stopped them from including elec/elec.

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You can't seriously expect them to tell you that. MMO Game developers never give exact times (unless they are idiots), because they don't have control of funding, manpower, deadlines, QA, etc. The publisher can't tell you that either because something that might be done might get blocked by either lack of resources or manpower, or QA might find a horrible bug that wipes out the database and that would push back any release.

If NCNC could tell you exactly when a powerset would be ported, I would think the team would instead use that ability to win some super lottery instead and leave.


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Exactly what, they most CERTIANLY can do that. As to "exactly' when, they can do that too just you thought of it the wrong way i was thinking. Just like issue 12. Maybe not the exact date, but we know the exact order in which they will be coming and roughly the time (ie next patch to come ie issue 12, and roughly 1.5 months or so.)

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Come on, you been around long enough to remember the Skill System fiasco. The one that was going to add skills to the characters. The one that got scrapped, left in a dank well for a while and remade into the IO system.

I repeat: NCNC will not tell you or anyone else what is going in until it is a sure thing it will be in the game. Even then anything they announce has a slight chance of being pulled at the last minute, which will have a bunch of people with their underwear in knots upset that "they promised". I know that I wouldn't open myself up to that, so I don't expect NCNC to do so either.

As to what sets they are porting for Issue 12, well we know them, don't we? We will not know what they will port over in Issue 13, because that is too far out to make any promises.

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I didn't say anything about the amount of people in grandville. I just said many people have told me it's laggy for them. It was laggy when I had cable service, its still laggy even now on DSL Elite.

No other area no matter how many people are in zone, even Cap's black market which is very crowded so it must be something about Grandville.


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As explained above by someone else, the problem of grandville is how it was designed. I know people that crashed just by going there. It boils down to building/texture placement, and what the game renders what it should not. I got a huge amount of lag on my old computer, I upgraded to a new computer at the beginning of the year. Even with Vista and a crappy onboard graphics chip I'm not getting the lag I had before. I've had cable modem service for the last 10 years.

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As the the patron's, if they add APP's, or change or tweak anything even a single power they would have to grant a one-time patron respec to everyone that has done it.

That may be the fly in the soup that is stopping anything from being done with them, or maybe there are other priorities and not enough time. I really couldn't say, and I'm not going to stress over it. If it can be worked on it will, in time.

However being a Villain only player...I am not complaining. Just suggesting...there is a difference.

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So what if they have to grant a respec that would replace the patron respec? They already have done so before. I fail to see the problem. They could even mostly port the hero APPs with some graphical and balance tweaks so that no one is overpowered. For all we know something along those lines might be in the works for Issue 13+.

Likely that it was a manpower issue, and they had/have other priorities.

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well i see nothing has changed in the year since ive left. You guys this happens EVERY ISSUE. Some group of people don't like something about some aspect of the issue. Issue 3 was that people without 50s couldn't get Khelds. Issue 7 was not enough hero content. Issue 8 was too much hero content. Issue 9 was that the stf was too hard. In issue 7 when the heros complained villains got everything and heroes got nothing, they waited until i8 and they got more and villains got less.....it probably will work out like that here guys so please calm down and turn off the damn DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!

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Issues 10 and 11 were mostly Doom-Free. It couldn't last.

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Snowglobe

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Thank you!

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Actually, none of the power sets being discussed are all that mind blowing.

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mind blowing? thermal and cold for heroes is not? Thermal and cold domination are not mind blowing? PBU and cold domination = -dmg cap pretty much will take out any EB (pve) or AT (in pvp) out of the fight.
What kinda get me mad is the article how they keep describing how MMs cant get kin or how cold armor is not possible for brutes. Kinda adding fuel to the fire.

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Have you tried the combo yet? Seriously, can you give me the exact figures known at the moment to only the development team? Can you tell me how much they will change the powers in question during closed beta, or open beta for that matter? Can you give me the caps they will assign them?

QUIT GUESSING!

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Villains do not need more zones. Heroes need less. Seriously most of the hero zones are completely under used ghost towns. I would prefer a smaller amount of used zones over a larger amount of ghost towns.


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I have to disagree here...I have always wanted an alternative to Grandville. Nothing else, just that, or allow newspaper missions/contacts to go to 50 in Nerva and St. Martial. (probably easier than getting a new zone). Grandville is too laggy even with a fast connection for many people. I hear complaints about it all the time.

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Grandville lag has nothing to do with the amount of people. Grandville was built poorly. (It takes 5% more memory of my 2 GB than other zones, even off hours on Triumph.)

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Oh and make patrons respec-able...only fair.

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How about this. Keep patrons unrespec-able, but add a couple of APPs instead.

As it is, all four Patrons offer pretty much the exact same powers to each AT, so what exactly would you be hoping from a respec out of them? They give you a free respec after the 1st portion of the arc.

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Many CoV people are upset, because CoH side got the best buffing powers CoV has to offer.

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As some else pointed out, heroes didn't get traps or poison.

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In return, CoV got some ok sets, but nothing mind blowing. (FYI only 1 Villain AT gets access to power boost, dominator's, and they don't have access to ally-buffing powers...).

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Actually, none of the power sets being discussed are all that mind blowing.

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I want to hear what exclusive CoH players say after VEAT's debut. If the VEAT's are 1/2 as good as I think they will be....the same folks calling the CoV people "whiners' will be doing the whining and nerf-herding. I will happily remind them of posts like this...

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Well, I'm not an exclusive CoH player, and I am looking forward to the VEATs. I seriously doubt that they will be as good as people expect, unless they expect something along the lines of Kheldians.

If something for either faction is overpowering, it will get nerfed.

My post was aimed at that exact group: CoV-only people that are whining that every single bit of shared content is a personal affront to their being.

The concern that CoV is never going to get as much content as CoH is never going to change. There was at least one more year of development that CoV will never have. They are not going to give both sides equal amount of content. To do that they would have to make the CoX-2 and start from the ground up making both factions.

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Hysterical speculation is counterproductive,

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And that is mostly what this thread IS. Until we get a chance to test or play it, all this thread amounts to is hysterical speculation.

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So please don't lump every player with concerns about proliferation into the category of "crybabies." Just because they don't share your opinion doesn't mean they're whining.

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I don't, but after seeing a few of the same posters repeatedly post "the devs hate us" for at least the last year (and longer) any sympathy I have for them or any causes they take up is pretty much gone.

You want to find someone to blame about my feelings to the CoV-Only crowd? Look to them.

I love playing most of the ATs. I can't stand blasters and brutes. I am iffy on scrappers, tanks, and warshades. I love controllers, stalkers, and Peacebringers. The rest fall somewhere in the middle.