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  1. Thirty-Seven
    Synapse: 20
    Back Alley Brawler: 47 - 1 = 46
    Manticore: 18 + 1 = 19
    Sister Psyche: 30

    Statesman: Dead
    Citadel: Dead
    Numina: Dead
    Positron: Dead
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg View Post
    I just want to put forward my favourite theory, or whatever you might want to call it.

    Take "Darrin Wade", turn the W upside down to become an M, and now rearrange the letters.

    "Dr in a dreaM" - the Dream Doctor.
    While anagrams are by far not uncommon... that one seems a bit too far. But, it is as likely as anything.
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    Synapse: 21
    Back Alley Brawler: 44
    Manticore: 18 + 1 = 19
    Positron: 5 – 1 = 4
    Sister Psyche: 27

    Statesman: Dead
    Citadel: Dead
    Numina: Dead
  4. Thirty-Seven
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nos482 View Post
    Read it, the movie sucks compared to the story.
    I've already done both... but thanks anyway (hence the re- in front of both of those).
  5. Thirty-Seven
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mr_Grey View Post
    Guys, even with Nostalgia Goggles on, the old Tutorial Missions are vastly inferior to the new one.

    One assumes you will always be a criminal breaking out of the Zig, the other assumes that the First Rikti War ended a couple years ago. They're outdated and I could have sworn people have been complaining about getting railroaded into the story...
    That's kinda funny considering that five years from now... Galaxy will STILL be (just now) getting rained on by Shivan meteors... and refugees will STILL be standing around in Atlas.

    The new tutorial looks a bit better now, but later on, it will look just as dated. Not to mention that the tutorial is FAR too short to ever be considered Epic under any definition. (Keep in mind that I dislike strongly both of the Tutorials on Live at the moment. Praetoria's is better than either AND the Galaxy one IMO.)
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    Way to derail, Scotty. Now I want to re-watch that movie and/or re-read the story.
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    Synapse: 21
    Back Alley Brawler: 44
    Manticore: 18 + 1 = 19
    Positron: 6 - 1 = 5
    Sister Psyche: 26

    Statesman: Dead
    Citadel: Dead
    Numina: Dead
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    Re: the 'Tether'

    What if Mender Siolos going back in time so far is the event that causes the "Coming Storm" in the first place? Maybe this race of beings who have attacked the Rikti and use Khelds for fuel, the Batallion, is like a race of creatures akin to the Langoliers? Perhaps the Batallion is tasked with the cosmic duty of cleaning up that which is broken in the universe... like a section of reality in which the cardinal laws of physics/time have been torn asunder?

    Of course, this seems far too interesting to be the case. And, this would lend a bit more credence to the idea that the Dream Doctor is the Letter Writer since his experience with a cosmic entity like Rularuu (who seems to be a primal force like Galactus is in Marvel), might clue him in to the greater purpose of the Batallion as well as a way to stop them: Taking down the Menders (esp. Silos) so that they can stop meddling in time completely thus giving the Battallion no reason to "eat" our reality/time.
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    The one problem with naming a character with Chinese "words" is that since Chinese is a tonal language, it depends on pronunciation, context and/or written character to be properly understood. SOOO, if you choose to use a name that is rendered with English characters using Pinyin, you will inevitably lose out on all of those... it will have no tone marker (unless you intend the name to look like this: Shi3 Tou2 Ma4), won't have any context and will almost always be pronounced by folks who have no idea how to say it correctly. As such, making it "real" is actually somewhat of a disadvantage in this situation, I would think.

    But, if you want to pick a name, use the MandarinTools site and search for things in Pinyin without any tones and see what other meanings come up.

    For example:
    Shao — is a word all by itself, and exists as a different meaning with all of the different tones in Chinese. It ranges from a surname, place name, a spoon/ladle to meaning "very little" (which is the meaning I am most familiar).

    So, in other words, do glance down a list once you pick a word with a meaning you like (especially at words with different tones than the one you have chosen). Also, as Leo said, don't just smash two words together. Most all of the Chinese I know consists of strings of independent characters. In fact, the only words I know that are made up of two parts like that are words that have a particle attached (eg. to make something plural or past tense) or are approximations of English words (like when they smash a few random characters together to approximate the sound of the English word "whiskey"). Of course, now that I said that, someone who speaks fluent Chinese will come along and tell me how incredibly wrong I am.
  10. Thirty-Seven
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    But if the person is not well established, then the reveal just stumbles into "And the killer is... Wait, who's that?"
    Got to agree with you here! I would hate for them to pull a bad Scooby Doo ending on this arc that has lasted for literally YEARS of real time.
  11. Thirty-Seven
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    I considered this, but ultimately discarded the theory for one vital reason: The Dream Doctor has nothing to do with time travel, whereas the Letter Writer is pretty much all about time travel.
    The Issue 11 video that you mentioned earlier talks of 11 means by which time travel is possible. Is it not possible that magic could be one of those methods? Or a mystical artifact? Both of which are things Midnighters just might have access to. Also, isn't the Dream Doctor connected to Rularuu in some way? One would think that would grant him access to a rather large amount of powers, eh?

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    The Dream Doctor is a Midnighter, or was one, anyway, and we know that the Midnight Club had no capacity for time travel until the Letter Writer gave them the crystal of ice and flame, and even then that can only go to Cimerora.
    We have no way of knowing that that is the ONLY place it CAN go, merely that it is the only place it goes NOW. Likewise, I don't know that it has been stated definitively that the Midnighters had zero access to time travel before they received their Aspect of the Pillar.

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    Also, I went about trying to figure out if this could be a Midnighter, and I don't believe it is as the writer refers to the Midnight Club as "them" and not "us." It's not conclusive evidence, obviously, but he just doesn't sound like he's from the Midnight Club.
    You said yourself in the previous paragraph that he might no longer be a Midnighter (when you said "or was one"). As such, if he no longer considers himself a part of the Midnighters, he would have no reason to use inclusive pronouns like 'we' or 'us.'

    I am not making the case that the Dream Doctor IS the letter writer, merely sparring with your reasoning a bit so that we can all come to a proper conclusion.
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    I must amend my statement earlier regarding the Issue 11 trailer... Mender Silos states that the pillar is "an artifact from the end of the universe itself" NOT what I stated earlier.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Suichiro View Post



    I can't say that I like the colors that were chosen on a LOT of those... they are clashy and do not sit well when next to each other. This is especially true of the minions you have there. The row of Thorn Casters are least offensive, color-wise, but still the Fire and Ice Casters look... off to me. The Soul, Life and Madness Mages look by FAR the best IMO.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MajorDecoy View Post
    Which end of time?
    Who the heck knows... that's just what Silos said in the trailer. I would imagine from the era that he came from. That would be the farthest "end" that he would be familiar with, right?
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by TheDeepBlue View Post
    Not that you would know, eh?
    True.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill View Post
    Then why would they keep saying we haven't met?
    I don't know about you... but *I* have never met myself from the future. Just saying.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    Besides, the crystals of ice and fire are said to be one of eleven time travel methods, which Silos chose because these were the most reliable. I think, at least. It's from the I11 Trailer with the awesome voice actor for Silos, so it's been a while since I've seen it.
    Just watched the trailer again... He states that the Pillar of Ice and Flame is an artifiact "from the end of time" and that it was chosen due to the accuracy as well as the accessibility it provides to supers of this time.
  18. Thirty-Seven
    I feel a bit cheated... I got only about 5 or 6 levels total this DXP... between an unscheduled house guest, and cleaning for said guest, I had little to no time to play DESPITE the fact that I took off a day of work!

    Got a Praetorian from like 14ish to 19 and my MA/Regen from 42 to 43.

    Not very productive for me at all.
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    Synapse: 19
    Back Alley Brawler: 42
    Manticore: 21 + 1 = 22
    Positron: 10 - 1 = 9
    Sister Psyche: 23

    Statesman: Dead
    Citadel: Dead
    Numina: Dead
  20. Thirty-Seven
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn View Post
    I'd like people to learn how to spell archetype. I mean, it's not like it's not posted correctly in several places on the forums.
    That is right up there in my list with people forming "Respect" Trials. Ahhhhh!!
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    Steamponehs.

    POST-ACTION



    Just so we all remember how cool they look.
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    Synapse: 21
    Back Alley Brawler: 41
    Manticore: 19 + 1 = 20
    Positron: 11 - 1 = 10
    Sister Psyche: 23

    Statesman: Dead
    Citadel: Dead
    Numina: Dead
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    Synapse: 21
    Back Alley Brawler: 41 - 1 = 40
    Manticore: 19 + 1 = 20
    Positron: 11
    Sister Psyche: 23

    Statesman: Dead
    Citadel: Dead
    Numina: Dead
  24. Thirty-Seven
    First, do NOT take the following post to imply that I actually agree with Je Saist... because I almost never do. I am merely toying with the bit of math that was provided.
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Neuronia View Post
    you easily had 20 teams (counting both sides)
    Okay... let's do a little math here:

    20 * 8 = 160 people
    50,000 = Let's say that is an EXTREMELY conservative estimate of total subscribers for this game

    Lets also figure that for each of those 160 people you are talking about that are on-line at a given time PvPing in the window you describe, there are 10 more people who are not online. So:

    160 * 10 = 1,600 PvP Enthusiasts

    1,600 / 50,000 = 3.2%
  25. Thirty-Seven
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by elvnsword09 View Post
    It had better be I21, and not something non-consequencial to interrupt double XP weekend!

    Seriously Maintence downtime during the middle of Double XP weekend... after you ALREADY CANNED it once and rescheduled!

    I am not one to usually complain to the Devs... but this reeks guys... ::sighs::
    It's an hour... suck it up and deal.