SpaceNut

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Intellectual property laws are probably some of the most misunderstood laws around.

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This.

I can run circles around people when it comes to patent law, since I worked as an examiner for almost 2 years, but I wish I knew more about trademark law. Folks who examine patents have to be engineers or otherwise knowledgeable in the area of technology they are examining, but trademark "examiners" actually have to be full fledged attorneys.

Cap Au Diable 66 (-1)
Sharkhead Isle 36
Nerva Archipelago 7
St. Martial 33 (+1)

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If you want a case of two companies that have the same name, and do similar things, and how the case was eventually settled, I think that Burger King ran into some trouble with this in a city in Illinois or Indiana. The Burger King that was not a franchise of the Burger King that you may know, was created before the chain Burger King was established. As such, it was able to keep it's rights to be called Burger King in the town that it was set up. It cannot franchise out of that area, because of the other legally recognized business Burger King in the rest of the state. Likewise, the chain Burger King cannot set up a franchise within that town, as Burger King the individual place, has that name in that town.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_...oon,_Illinois)

Keep in mind that since you are new, you're going to be leveling slowly as you learn mechanics, geography and other aspects of the game. It took me TWO months to get to level 20 the first time. Now, with the right character, I can do it in a weekend.

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Your prestige intake is perportional to your xp earnings.

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Technically it's proportional to your inf earnings. (If you exemp and get only inf, no XP, you still get prestige.)

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Presti...gs_Progression

What is Arachnos digging for outside the walls of Grandville?

What exactly did the water of the Well do to Recluse? It's clear that Statesman got the powers of a god, but what powers did Recluse get? Most of his powers are pet summons or come from his arms... Did the arms start to grow from the powers of the Well? I can imagine a funny scene where the two of them drink and Recluse starts growing arm stubs.

Hit 'c' to get your chat window to pop up, then type '/menu' to get your health bar, etc to appear, and everything else should be selectable from the menu (nav, powers, etc.).

Footstomp is AoE, Whirling Hands is Melee.

Check out http://coh.redtomax.com/data/powers/ for powerset quantification. "Attack types" is what they are categorized as.

Edit: The classification seems to be based on range - Footstomp can hit targets within 15 feet, but Whirling Hands can only hit targets within 8 feet.

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I think there is a mission saying that some of them think of themselves as heroes.

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A level 15-19 mission:
"I guess you've heard that many of the Outcasts long for the life of a superhero. Well, in Boomtown, they've started acting out their fantasies. I've heard reports of Outcasts harassing civilians for small crimes such as littering, jaywalking, and riding bikes on the sidewalk. Nobody likes a jaywalker, but this is just too much! I want you to get over to Boomtown and stop the Outcasts from harassing the populace.

I'm hearing the most reports from Grenadier and the Cannonade. You should probably start in those neighborhoods. "

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That contact is obviously sending you into a trap! There are no civilians in Boomtown!

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I didn't know that there existed ANY letter combination that would give ZERO GOOGLE RESULTS AND NO ALTERNATE SPELLING SUGGESTION!

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However, this thread now shows up on Google...

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Wasn't there a website dedicated to search terms that would only show up ONE result in google? Dunno if it's still around now though.

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There used to be a game where you'd enter two words into google, no quotes, and try to get as few results as possible. Can't remember what it was called, or the site, though.

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I didn't know that there existed ANY letter combination that would give ZERO GOOGLE RESULTS AND NO ALTERNATE SPELLING SUGGESTION!

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However, this thread now shows up on Google...

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Stores_Inventory

I think certain Council will drop mutation enhancements, but the 30s on the hero side really have a dearth of enemy groups, not counting the mobs in Croatoa:

CoT
Council
Crey
DE
Freakshow
Nemesis
Rikti
Arachnos


That's pretty much every group you'll fight between 30 and 40 unless, like I said, you hit up Croatoa. If you really want mutation SOs, I'd suggest running some AE arcs and buying them with tickets.

Ghost Falcon, just off the dock in Peregrine Island.

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Hehe I always thought it would be neat to have alternate server names to reflect the heroism/villainy of the game. Here are some neat examples:

Freedom / Tyranny
Virtue / Immoral
Liberty / Restraint
Guardian / Destroyer
Protector / Oppressor
Victory / Misfortune
Champion / Anarchist
Triumph / Disaster

Heh I couldn't think of one for Infinity, Pinnacle, or Justice sadly but you get the idea.

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Singularity, Abyss and Injustice.

You forgot the most evil dimension of all - where everything is exactly the same as our dimension, but everyone has goatees.

Also possible that your graphics card is overheating, if the defrag and verify doesn't help.

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the "where is the COH lore actually?"
was a great question and I found the answer a little troubling. essentially there will be no effort to compile this stuff into an easy to access, paragon studios sponsored, single source.

Just asking someone who may have been around for such and such an event and reading every novel and doing every mission and putting together the tapestry yourself seems so scattered, sloppy and arbitrary. It is more something to be ashamed of than proud of.

There really should be a place in game where you have access to common history and this library could expand as you learn more, no matter which character you lerned it with.

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Sounds like what you want is the story bible. There's no way they'll release that to the players, since it contains all the plot points that have been written up to this point, and several years of development's worth of plot into the future. There is a lot of information that we as players AREN'T supposed to know until we get a character up to a certain point.

ParagonWiki has done an excellent job of assembling all the plot so far, including in-game stories, novels, etc. and knows as much as any player possibly could.

According to various bits of lore, Ravenna, Italy is the center of power of the Nictus by way of the Path of the Dark. Requiem was created in caves under Ravenna, and more than one mission from Colleen Nelson involves the Council sending troops over there who return as war wolves.

1) If Ravenna is so important, why is Arakhn (the leader of the Nictus) near Paragon City? Or does she reside in Ravenna and travel to the area every time heroes and villains encounter her?

2) Where is Cimerora compared to modern day Ravenna? I'm guessing it is close by, if not the same place, since Romulus is one of the first humans to be merged with a Nicitus.

There is also a new fan content wiki at http://ouroportal.com - it's for player created content including MA arcs, character bios, etc. as opposed to the developer created content at paragonwiki.

Almost forgot! If you one-shot an enemy, they tend not to stop doing their idle emote (which is bugged in and of itself) and just stand there until they fade out.

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I believe the final mission of Sarah Moore's TF is in just such a map.

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That mission freaked the heck out of me - I was the lead tank and walking blind was messed up.

I'd be surprised if it wasn't live by the end of the month, but remember, the beginning of beta was the beginning of what had been Closed beta, so process is taking longer than the typical time from the beginning of Open beta to Live.

Most combat NPCs who are in a "boss spawn" i.e. a spawn with a named boss who utters dialog seem to be stuck in a shorter loop than the animation should be. This results in a very jerky animation, since it appears to be cut off mid-animation and start over. I'll update with more specific examples if I can.

Edit: First Update:

Seeing this issue on Freakshow of multiple types in a newspaper mission. They are using the punch fist emote, but the part of the cycle where they aren't actually punching seems to get stuck in a loop, and then it jumps back and forth. Make a stalker (so you can watch without aggroing) and run a newspaper mission with Freakshow and it should be visible.


Second Update:

Seems to be happening with any NPC in a mission that is standing still in the default "idle" animation (not walking, or posed with a gun, etc.). They rapidly and seemingly randomly rotate between the fist pound animation, the hoot (two cupped hands to mouth) animation and the "come fight me" (looks like a barbell with both hands) animation, sometimes without completing any of them. It's really really noticeable if you have an invisible character and just watch them for a minute.

THREAD OVER.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showf...umber=13647533