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It's a matter of semantics; if you're charged 10% of the sale fee less the listing fee on sale, it's exactly the same end result as if you're refunded the listing fee and charged a full 10% of the sale price.

IIRC there's only a single line, with a figure that's 10% less sales fee, written to the chat box when you collect your inf - so I'd regard "10% less sales fee" as being what "officially" happens.

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exception: healing should be allowed if all players signing up agree

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If you limit healing to the med pool that's done via the tricorder anyway - sounds thematically workable.

Ah - you could well be right; all concerned may point, laugh and dance around me chanting "Just like George! Just like George!".

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Knockback and Knockup are really the same thing; if you increase the magnitude of Knockup enough, it turns into Knockback.

(Which is why Knockup attacks can send blue/green mobs flying backwards - it has a greater effect against them.)

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Knockback and Knockup are really the same thing; if you increase the magnitude of Knockup enough, it turns into Knockback.

(Which is why Knockup attacks can send blue/green mobs flying backwards - it has a greater effect against them.)

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Yes - IIRC the system ignores the "_", and will look for a match at the start of the command when trying to process things, so either of our options will do. I have to agree that powexec_name makes the meaning of things clearer though, so I'd go with that.

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I think that's about it...right?

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Not quite - the typo on the command pow_exec is still in there. Quick, before the editing window closes!

I don't think you do contact QA, normally - it's an internal department that runs tests on the game to check everything's working properly before release, and investigates/verifies bugs.

Depending on the nature of your problems there might not be a fix that can be applied here and now to sort things out; that might need a fix in the game code itself which will need to be rolled out in a patch. If that is the case "passed to QA" means they're trying to reproduce your bugs, and if they can they'll pass details of it on to the development team. Then it'll be prioritised, and sooner or later a fix might appear on the live servers.

The only way I can see things coming back from QA without going through a patch is if the problem's something like database corruption on your toon(s). In that case if they can reproduce it a dev might make a specific fix on the affected data.

Lower end cost? That's current TP's current weak spot, before you can get it slotted up.

Some info here.

(Short answer: Yes)

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Where are you all getting the "soul" bit from?

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Some power descriptions:

Eclipse
The Dark Nictus powers allow you to tap the essence of your foe's soul and transfer it to yourself...

Dark Extraction
Defeated foes are ripe for the picking. A Warshade can extract the essence from a defeated villain and infuse it with Nictus energy.


To my mind, the Eclipse wording strongly suggests that when they're talking about "essence" it boils down to souls...

Easy to describe, but that's making things a lot more complicated to implement.

Not only do you need to check the SG size when pricing items for base building (that could be quite easy), you also need to add a whole new table to the database for past SG members and their leaving dates. That last bit will need a lot more work.

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Energy Blast has no real element, it's raw energy.


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Source?

Base AT powers are as generic as possible, it's up to the player to decide how they work.

There is no such thing as "raw" energy. Electromagnetic radiation is as close as you are going to get.


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Cheerfully ignoring the fact it's all comic book physics anyway, they do seem to have got their terminology a bit mixed up with the Power Set names and corresponding power effects.

From RedTomax, "Energy" Blast attacks are all a mix of energy and smashing damage - you need to go to Electrical Blast to find pure energy damage.

The best spin I can put on this is that Energy Blasts are actually plasma based, hence the smashing component. This might also (sort of) explain the KB in Energy Blast attacks; if they were really 100% photonic energy you'd need rather huge amounts to knock them over via the momentum of the photons alone! (Hmmmm, guess it could be some sort of ICF ablation effect...)

Edit: Fixed url closing tag - thanks for heads up Jay!

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it could be changed, the parts cost more the more members you gain, with a cap ofcouse.
so that way, the cost can be lowered and smaller SG's can grow better, while the bigger SG's don't profit from it.

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I'd be all for smaller steps between different levels of base capability, either by making expensive things cheaper or adding new things with capabilities between the current steps, with intermediate prices to match.

I can't see variable prices being brought in though - if things are seriously cheaper on small groups that would be exploited, with stuff like "everyone leave the SG for the weekend - I'm redesigning the base and will reinvite you on Monday".

All good points, Deadly_Buzz - I was similarly boggled at the big step up from "starter" to "next viable" as far as power and control's concerned.

FWIW with that step made, and the starting plot size now full of rooms and stuff (some of it actually useful!), I'm finding the next step up (larger control room for Oracles, and maybe larger plot too) is a doozy too.

After earning about 1.5 million Prest from various alts, and that lovely double prestige grant, to get where I am now, each subsequent add on needs a million or so each if I want to take things further.

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Technically we have Negative Energy channeled from the Netherworlds, and Warshades have Nictus Energy/Dark Matter/Gravity Control. Damage type is the same, but thematically and graphically they're completely different. The only actually "Dark" aspect of Warshade powers is the power names.

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There's nothing dark about using your enemies soul to make a pet? Even at anti-hero standards thats pretty low.

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Yeeesss, having your last opponents' extracted souls hovering around you, enslaved to your bidding, does slightly undermine the whole "I just knocked them out, and they've been safely teleported to the Zig" idea, doesn't it?

Would it help to think of it as some sort of Karma-building community service thing for their next reincarnation?

Just a thought - if you build up a list of participating toons' names (from chat/tell lines) in a first pass of the file, you could then check for chat lines starting with any of those names. Those that do will be emotes and/or a subset of the system messages.

Assuming the system messages are pretty boilerplate ("X has defeated Y") you could identify a good number of those too.

All more work than you'd need if the "[System]"-type tags you've suggested were in, of course, and quite possibly something you've already thought of!

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We now accept PayPal as a payment option for all digital code purchases made through the PlayNC store (not for subscriptions or NCcoin). At this time, PayPal is only available for US Dollar purchases, though on Wednesday support for Euros and British pounds will be added. The PayPal payment option will show up beneath the Credit Card payment option and will require you to log into your PayPal account to complete the transaction. If you have any questions about this new payment option, please visit the Support Center for help.

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With this being said will we get this for us and to use to play the game? Paypal options on the us

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You don't really, read do you? They said we're getting it in Sterling Pounds and Euros soon (probably today). Also, it says it won't be used to pay subs or NCcoin.

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That could just be the potential to make PayPal payments in UKP or Euro for US based accounts.

Using PayPal for EU accounts - a completely different company, financially speaking - wasn't clearly addressed by the quoted text.

So Forsaken's question was entirely reasonable.

It may just be you - I got in OK 1 minute ago.

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yeah i was looking to go to cimerora, thx for info.
And as far as i'm aware Cimerora is the only new map.

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Well, it depends on how much you need to catch up on - there've also been new maps for Faultline (same entrance as before), the Rikti War Zone (was Rikti Crash Site - new entrances) and Pocket D (replaced Paragon Dance Party - new entrances).

It's difficult to be sure, given how you're swamping us with detail, but this may be what you're after.

(See also the link to Cimerora)

Burpy hippy day Okton!

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2) Petrifying Gaze: Range Hold
I do not think the corruptor version does damage, so some minor tweaking would be needed.


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It does - just not a lot.

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It doesn't, not one jot.

Without commenting on specific figures, remember that Dark isn't actually available as a Controller secondary!

Sounds like the new behaviour you get when disconnected/ghost towned.

The "/sync" command should get things connected again when you find you're subject to this.