TroyHickman

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Let's not mix mechanics with concepts, though. What you're looking at is an AT, and one not necessarily confined to being Tech and using power armour. It's just a different technical application of abilities and shouldn't be written into the character's origin or concept.

I'm all for more types of ATs, Assault/Defence being the top of my list, but I'd really like to have those be made generic so that every player can come up with his or her own concept.

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No, it'd be intrinsic to power armor, just the same as the archery sets. You can't really have them without the arrows, can ya? Now, how you want to define that becomes a bio issue (your arrows can be magical or technological or a construction of your psyche, or whatever), but it's still defined as an arrow. I'm talking about a set that's defined as being some sort of armor, and what you do with it beyond that is up to you.

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power-armor set.

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Well problem with that is the fact that alot of the attacks in the game are very easily explained with a suit combined with the large armor selections... unless your talking about something more mechish like the titan robots... in which case...

.../signed under the fact we get choose the color of the mechsuit

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No, no, you're misunderstanding. Look at the various power-armored characters of the comics. They have far too wide a variety of powers to be covered under, say, a blaster set. If you look at your Iron Mans, your X-O Manowars, your Guardsmen, your War Machines, etc., they might have a separate power set that looks something like this:

Energy Blast
Power Punch (to simulate super-strength)
Hurl (ditto)
Hold (Energy Net)
Stealth Mode
Aim (to simulate computer sights)
Override (similar to what Iron Man uses to KO the Hulk)
Damage Resistance
Defense
Stun (sonic scrambler)
etc.

Now, you could combine some of the existing sets plus pools to get a number of these, but there's no way to get them all.

It wouldn't be for everyone, but I think it'd be of greater use to the player base than dual blades.

I don't think that people are morons (Rosie O'Donnell or the "don't taze me, bro" guy notwithstanding), but I'm not sure I'll get much use out of the dual blades set myself. I'm largely a silver-agey comic guy, and there are enough swords and such in the game now for folks brought up on the Black Knight and the Swordsman. I can see maybe using the set for a pulp-inspired character, but overall I'd rather see something like a water-based set or a power-armor set.

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Dear devs,
Please post on the boards more. The boards get lonely without you guys posting.
Love,
Vanden

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I entered Tiger Beat magazine's "Win a Dream Date with Lighthouse" contest...

Smoke and Mirrors? Where the hell have I heard THAT before?

Ah, sweet, sweet comic trivia...

I don't get back from Canada until the night of the 19th...

But it's only a freakin' hour from my house...

It saddens me, but these things happen.

If I had my druthers, and I never do, I'd like to see the CoH comic keep existing at least as an online comic (though I'm a paper man myself). I think I'd do it as a mix of established game characters and newbies, throwing in as much player content as possible (and certainly with a fairly extensive section for fan art and fiction). Stories would fluctuate between arcs and single-issue tales.

If the folks at Cryptic ever decide to bring it back in some form, there are plenty of people who would VOLUNTEER their time and efforts to work on it (I certainly would).

Goodbye, CoH comic...aside from a bit of spending money, you allowed me to meet a lot of great folks here on the boards, and that's been the best part.

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SG Name; The Pariahs of Justice

SG leads; @Pheyde, @Supergilly, @Near Dark, @Raven Darkness

SG Recruiters; the SG leaders, @plea bargain, @Subdegree, @Baslisk, @Gimppy and @Star Shadow

Webpage; is still in the making - http://commongrounds.darkstargamers.com/

Ventrillo; we have a vent-server, and players that "fit" with us and stay around are invited to join (is decided by SG leads)

Other info: The SG was founded in 2006. We have both vets and newly started players. We have a fully functional base, and also have a global channel (common grounds) that we use to keep in touch over alts and servers. (this channel is not for SG people only - friends and people we team with often also get invited to it). We ask that members wears the SG-uniform when teaming with the SG (over lvl 30). We also encourage members to play in SG-mode and are happy to help with influence when needed.

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Is everyone involved required to buy the Common Grounds trade paperback?

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I smell a lawsuit!

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Nah, that's my new cologne...Eau D'Me Royalties...

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SG Name; The Pariahs of Justice

SG leads; @Pheyde, @Supergilly, @Near Dark, @Raven Darkness

SG Recruiters; the SG leaders, @plea bargain, @Subdegree, @Baslisk, @Gimppy and @Star Shadow

Webpage; is still in the making - http://commongrounds.darkstargamers.com/

Ventrillo; we have a vent-server, and players that "fit" with us and stay around are invited to join (is decided by SG leads)

Other info: The SG was founded in 2006. We have both vets and newly started players. We have a fully functional base, and also have a global channel (common grounds) that we use to keep in touch over alts and servers. (this channel is not for SG people only - friends and people we team with often also get invited to it). We ask that members wears the SG-uniform when teaming with the SG (over lvl 30). We also encourage members to play in SG-mode and are happy to help with influence when needed.

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Is everyone involved required to buy the Common Grounds trade paperback?

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I thought States was like Hickman...you have to intone his name 3 times for him to appear. Watch!

Hickman.
Hickman.
HICKMAN!


*pants fall down*

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You don't have to yell.

The trouser sacrifice was a nice touch, though.

If I read this correctly, I'm ineligible...

Just like life!

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Wait... you're a celebrity?!

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(in best "drill sgt." voice) Celebrity? Hell, no, private! I work for a living!

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'Course, a Troy_Hickman pet, complete with bad attitude would top them all.

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Hey, let's get our stories straight. Wizard magazine calls me an "amiable midwestern type" and you claim I have a bad attitude. So which is it? Make up your #$%@ minds, you @#$%!!!

Oh, wait...

I'd get the monkey, then teach him to throw his dung at a camcorder. The next thing you know...bam...we're winning $100k on "America's Funniest Home Videos"...

Cut me a check, Tom Bergeron!

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The idea has occured to me a few times, too. But I enjoy being a fan too much. It'd suck to have it be my job and enjoy the shows less as a result. Besides, TNA would be my only option, as my first act as a booker for WWE would be to send Cena back to OVW.

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I'm hoping Cena will follow the Rock's path to the movies, and then we can just avoid his films until he becomes too minor to even continue making them (and then the Rock can come back and take Cena's place... ).

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While I'm fond of Sabin, that's a bit extreme. Now, if it were Ultimo Dragon...

Russo has had successes? I mean, yeah, the Attitude thing, but that was equally as much Vince McMahon as Russo. And he's pretty much fallen flat on his face ever since then.

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I dunno. I keep thinking I should see about getting work with one of the feds, since I know I could book this stuff so much better than a lot of the folks who have done so (Dutch Mantel?). I sure as heck know I could write better stuff...

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[cranky old man] :::shakes fist:::
Darn kids and your "islands". In MY deeeee, we didn't have no "Periginas" or "leve 50's". We had Perez Park! That's all we had and we liked it![/cranky old man]

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That's right! And we didn't have any travel powers, either. We had to WALK to get to Perez Park, and it was fifffteeeeen miles in the snow! And when we got there, there were only three villains. And we all had to take turns. You spent six months there and you were lucky if you got high enough to start a Super Group. That's the way it were AND WE LIKED IT! [/cranky dilusional old man]

NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!

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Heh heh. That was funny.

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My son loves Russo.

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Have you looked into an exorcism?

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Don't even get me started. My son's life is wrestling (if Chris Sabin and I were hanging off a cliff, and he could only save one of us...well, hail Sabin), so we have these long talks about the nature of the business. He's much more a "cutting edge" and "breaking kayfabe" and "pushing the envelope" kind of fan, whereas I'm much more a wrestling traditionalist who thinks it can only take so much messing with the formula before it crumbles before your eyes.

He gives Russo credit for the successes he's had, but then blames the failures largely on other folks. Sigh...

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Oh yeah, final thought, I hated the Hollows real quick even back then. Haha.

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Everyone hated the Hollows. Everyone still hates the Hollows. The Hollows are the Vince Russo of CoX.

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My son loves Russo.

But then, I also dig the Hollows. I used to hate them because of the danger, but once you learn what you're doing, you can take the squishiest character and get them from one side to the other unscathed.

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If you get to play the cranky old man after a year and a half, what does that make those of us who have a year on you?

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Troy Hickman!

Gosh, that guy is so much fun to poke fun at.

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"Oh come onnnnn! Stop beatin' it! Get out there yourself. Stop feedin' off me. Get out of here. I can't breathe. Give me some air!" - Paul Newman, Cool Hand Luke

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Stellus wrote:

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From the MMORPG.com interview with Jack:
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As befits the company name, Emmert also hinted at things to come for the City of Heroes/Villains franchise. When I asked him what he was most excited about moving forward, he told me that it was Issue 9. Given they’re still in the
middle of putting together Issue 8, this was a surprising answer. Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait and see what they have up their sleeves.

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Would anyone have educated guesses as what is to come in Issue 9, seeing as how Issue 8 is still halfway through its development push?

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Statesman is excited about Issue 9 because of the new technology that allows them, finally, to actually make Hickman wear pants. ALL of the time.

--NT

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A digital restraining order?

By the way, where is he? Its been more than five posts, hasn't it?

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Sorry, I was busy roughing up elementary school kids until they bought copies of the Common Grounds tpb...

Amen.

Thanks much for this thread, btw. Another ostensibly similar one kinda cheesed me, but this one is right on the mark.

As the Cyrus Thompson statue says, "Heroes may die, but heroism never shall."

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In another thread I saw a post by Shyster that led to this bio of Frostfire .

After reading it, I'm not so sure that Frostfire didn't get railroaded a bit.

Frosty was acting in a Good Samaritan manner and things went kablooey on him ... and he was going to get jail time for that? Is that kosher?

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Well, there are some laws that cover Good Samaritan stuff, but maybe not in this case. Either way, sounds like he had a bad lawyer. Unfortunately, he eventually went bad anyway. Self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess.

I guess now I'll feel fairly sorry for the guy...each of the 37 times a week I defeat him...

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You can learn more about Manticore, his mysterious absence, and his hot torrid love affair with Sister Psyche in "The Penthouse Letters of Manticore", coming this fall from Troy Hickman.

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lol now that shameless plug should be enough to draw him out

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"Dear Penthouse Forum,

I'm a superheroic archer at a small midwestern college, and I never thought anything like this could happen to me..."