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Aah, got it, just read this:

"Standard MGN Rules apply."

According to that:

"16. Names of winners and results of MGN competitions will be available on receipt of a request enclosing a stamped self-addressed envelope to: MGN Limited, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AP and may be published in the relevant online editions of the newspapers as circumstances permit."

Guessing this is also applicable to our pc contest?

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I'm guessing it will also be available at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'.

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Pedantics never gets you anywhere.

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You mean "Pedantry never gets you anywhere.". Sheeesh!

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But I doubt that a server merge will happen now due to paid for slots. If there where going to do a server merge it should of been some thing they did before the paid for slots.

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If anything I'd say extra slots make a merge easier; previously a merge would have caused all sorts of difficulty if both servers were full for an account. Now, they can just add extra slots to the merged server to take all the toons.

Not that I think a server merge is needed, or would be helpful.

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Yes, but what about having them room after room?

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I fail to see how having the same encounter, multiple times, makes the individual encounter harder.

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Because it distracts and annoys you. That's what the real challenge hinders. It's not their power, it's the repetion. There's lots of XP/Imf/Prestige involved - are you willing to face the most annoying thing in your life to benifet? (a bit like farming, I suppose)

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I've done Citadel and the Shards TFs several times; teh foe cannot bore me to defeat!

Seriously, an arc whose actual objective is annoying the players with repetitive gameplay is doing something very wrong.

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Again i'll retract the doom statement i made earlier if NCSoft EU provide a table of statistics showing average use for the last 3 yrs in quarters. and the percentage of ppl who started on a trail account who have gone on to subscribe for more than a month.

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If that's what would be needed, I don't think you'll be retracting that statement any time soon...

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Can people stop saying CC in CoH needs to be closer to the CC in WoW?

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1) This is a discussion forum

2) It's not "people", it's 1 person

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Can I make a point you may not have noticed?

This is City of Heroes. Not Warhammer, not WoW. If you don't like it, tough. Nobody is going to agree that dumping the Controller AT is a good idea.

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So many people with /blinkers on. Are you not prepared to face the fact that CoH desperately needs to change if it's to compare with other games (*gasp* I said, "other games"! *oh noes*) which are the product of the evolution of the genre?

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CoX isn't perfect, and there are things that could be changed to make it better.

The fact that everyone disagrees with your suggested changes doesn't necessarily mean we're all blinkered though. It may just mean you're wrong.


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Nobody is going to agree that dumping the Controller AT is a good idea.

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...and this is why CoX will never have balanced and fun PvP. When we look back at the game, it might even be seen as THE fatal mistake.

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I doubt it'd have made that critical a difference back then - a lot of people went to CoX solely because it had no PvP at launch.

In any event, at this point removing the Controller AT (and Dominator, and a lot of Defender, Corruptor and MM powersets would need tweaking (read "nerfing") too) to get rid of CC would lose you an awful lot of the existing player base. Think Star Wars Galaxies all over again...

CoH - jerk hackers are dupin rares, and unless people don't let GM'S know of wrong doing's in the game it we ruin it.

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Here is a post from Warhammer Online, they are saying that the CC in that game (beta, I assume) might be too weak:

http://vnboards.ign.com/warhammer_on...757807/p1/?128

The players seem to believe that less CC is good. Isn't it interesting that in this PvE oriented game, players are happy with lots of CC and in the PvP game, players are not.

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Ummm...no?

I don't really see how different people liking different things in a different (beta, and hence unfinished) game has any particular bearing on CoX CC. Especially when those people's preferences are taken from forum postings - a notoriously unrepresentative sample.

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Why in the first place would you be playing the game around ppl you don't trust? It seems odd that ppl are saying that "your account wont be secure" do those same ppl invite strangers and ppl that cant be trusted near a comp into their house when thay have private or secure things on screen?

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1) Internet cafes
2) Annoying younger siblings
3) Shared university accommodation
4) Net parties
5) Annoyed neglected spouse
6) Confusing test and live servers

Not everyone has as secure a computing environment as you...

It might not be quite customisation, as allowing different animations for the same power's something they've done already for Fly, using the current system. IIRC the underlying code for randomly choosing one animation from a set of several was already part of the game code (for Fly, at least), it'd just never been given more than one animation to choose from before. (Then they added the /flypose system to make it non-random.)

So, it might be possible to add a few extra animations for various (say) MA attacks to make things look a bit more dynamic. Not sure this would be the best use of dev time, mind, given the ever present demand for brand new stuff...maybe something for a new hire to cut their teeth on while getting used to the dev tools?

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if they attach the sound on the weapon of choice, then i don't think it's THAT difficult.

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At the moment the sound's part of the power animation, while what gets drawn for the weapon's part of the costume.

To change things so costume selections also affect sounds is likely to be significant amounts of work, as it's completely different to the way things are now.

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a bit rate of 2Mb/s might be used to describe a broadband connection's speed

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Either.

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Latency is measured in ms (As in Milliseconds)

Speed is measured in m/s (As in Metres per Second - and should be close to 299,792,458 m/s for your internet connection)

Bandwidth is measured in (Giga/Mega/Kilo) bits and is just the amount of data you can shove through your pipe at any given time.

Bitrate is measured in (Giga/Mega/Kilo) bits/second.

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My little pedantic heart is glowing with pride at all of this.

Ah well - ta for the confirmation, off to pay money for inf so I can afford the IO.

(jk)

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a bit rate of 2Mb/s might be used to describe a broadband connection's speed

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Either.

I'm going for a Wolf Spider build with my Soldier, and unless I've missed something really obvious there doesn't seem to be any KB Protection available from the AT's power sets.

Should I start saving my inf and head off down to the Black Market for a choice IO?

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I am sure that after they implement that command, you will find out how awkward will be to use it and you will also demand to fix the actual bug...

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Steps:

0) /bind u "stuck" (one off thing)

Then...

1) Enter mission.

2a) Press "u". Done.

or

2b) Forget to press "u"...go in to map, and find you're disconnected.

3b) Press "u". Done.


Compared to what MMs need to do to summon pets, or Defenders/Controllers/Corruptors to apply team buffs, this isn't looking very awkward to me.

Also, as a bit of pedantry's due, you don't call it a "bit rate" when talking about processors.

The "rate" of something's to do with how fast it's happening (in a PC context, a bit rate of 2Mb/s might be used to describe a broadband connection's speed), but for a processor or OS that's not really what's being described. So, an OS simply is 32 bit or 64 bit, in the same way as an engine capacity simply is 1.6 or 2 litres.

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Masterminds are the CoV equivalent of CoH's tanks, yes?

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That was the original design intention, but very few players actually play MMs like that.

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Your pets don't need to be upgraded in order to tank, you just need to summon them and use Bodyguard mode. You can start tanking from the moment you summon your first tier pets.

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Although tanking in Bodyguard mode wouldn't have been part of the original design intention, as Bodyguard mode was only introduced post-CoV release, mainly to make MM's more playable in PvP.

The original intention, I think, was for pets to go in and take the alpha; perhaps they survive, perhaps they don't, but sacrificing minions to keep the PCs' butts safe sounds like a valid villainous strategy.

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Prefer the Heroes content Would post on the Tank forums BUT theyre empty :/

[/ QUOTE ]Well, you're not exactly helping the situation, are you?

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Ummm... sorry for not posting on an empty board and getting no help with my problem? :S

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Just checked how many new posts have gone unanswered on the Tankers forum over the last month or so.

None. They all got at least one response, some several pages worth of replies.

Yep, great team and great fun - thanks for organising, and having me, and not pointing and laughing when I turned up as Arcmight. Doc P lives on Union...

Nice one Max!

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lol the Question. If you read the stuff at the top it tells you haha

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As the Question ain't here I assume you're replying to me.


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Naw - it wasn't all that clear, but I think he meant the "where's the game set" question, that's answered in the text at the start of the contest.

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I need help with the question, it's a toughy!

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Pssst. New York!

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Hell, that case hasn't just been drawn on, it's been crafted. Just like all the really classy stuff...