Turgenev

Rock on, Zilch.

Here's a roster of members right now:

Conundrum of Furballs
Darc Ranger
dpaquet1
Mahinda_Rajapakse (Cooper, being difficult on the name thing)
matikz
Me
Vizen Healer

Zilch, Aett, Torroes, get your butts signed in. I'm taking the Vicodin Express shortly, I need someone to moderate new members. :P

Okay. Four people were membered into CO, with MR (Cooper) ranked as Officer, and Vixen ranked as Council. Officer and Council cover nearly everything, with membership and site admin reserved for now (I tried to give memberhsip admin, but it requires super admin to do it). Reserving Super Admin until things get spun up and we figure out who's doing what, but we should have all the major bases covered.

I'm not getting notices when people apply, so sorry for delay. Might be on my old email acct...

(Yep, it's because it was pointing to my old Comcast acct. That's now fixed. Sorry for delays.)

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Turg, I have a GP account for another SG. Do i have to reapply for this one?

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Drugged, so typing slowly.

No, you can be a member of multiple SGs on GP.

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Which reminds me... Turgenev, I applied to the GuildPortal site -- though I doubt you will recognize the name. If you have a site application from a long Sri Lankan sounding name with the initials M.R., that's me. Once I have access I can post images from our play-sessions to the GP site.

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CRAP. I can set this up now, but GP is down. I'm out for a few days at this point, but once I get a chance I'll auth you for access and let you go crazy on the GP site for pics and posts and whatnot.

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You'll have to share the knowledge with me Turg.

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It's easy-peasy. Markets are cross-server. Sell something really obscure and cheap here with no bids or sales, and buy it on your home server for an obscene amount of money. You pay the auction fee, but it bypasses any need for asking for fundage locally.

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Say... what do people think about Pinnacle for a potential villain-side edition of Capitol Offense? It's an East Coast server with a good community and comparatively low volumes ... myself and others from the M&G are known to play there already (including the now famous Aett_Thorn himself), and would be available to finance lowbies etc.

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Personal opinion: Let's get the hero crew rolling effectively first. When we hit the 30s, at that point we can branch out to a redside crew, and IMO it should stay on Champion for coop opportunities.

We're just getting the steam rolling with the hero crew. Throwing in a redside component this early on will divide efforts and teaming opportunities. That's not to say do NOT do it EVER, but let's get up to self-sufficiency speed first as one crew. We're in teambuilding mode now.

(On fundage: Y'know, you CAN just transfer funds over the Market. Works like a charm. If you don't know how, talk to me and I'll explain the mechanics.)

BTW, I need volunteers for the GP admin crew. Post here if you have experience with Guildportal administration and want to keep things tidy for a while. The more the better, so there's redundancy. Trust me. You don't wanna leave all of this to me. I'll get weird.

Hey, DB:

Add this to your original post please.

CAPITOL OFFENSE - Our GuildPortal Site!

I'm still setting it up, but we can use this site for event listings, signup requests, etc. I'll also pass around admin rights to the movers and shakers here to get the ball rolling. I have a banner being cooked up, but if Torroes wants to give it a crack, go crazy, Lenny.

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Well, someone had to start this thread. Now who's going to do the website? [j/k]

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I'm cooking up a GP site now. Standby.

I mentioned this in the Player Events thread, but since we're consolidating here, I'll copy the stats below.

In the interest of statistics, here's where Cap.Off stands right now:

4 Blasters
4 Controllers
7 Defenders
8 Scrappers
5 Tankers
1 Warshade

Highest level right now is 20, "Night Arrow-". Average level seems to be 8-11. (There's a large swath of lvl 8's right now.)

Personally, I'm of the mindset of "bring whatever you want to the fight". I have no problem being weighted too far in one direction so long as we win at the end of the day. If you're not playing a class you like, you shouldn't be playing.

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Sorry I haven't been on much recently, guys and gals. RL issues have kept me from playing for a while. Nothing major or bad, just things that need taken care of.

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My SG's motto on Freedom is "Real Life First", so I hear ya, Aett. Can't play when there's work to do. Kinda why I'll be offline for a while come Tuesday. =/

Sounds like you and I are low-lev enough for a level pact though!

Heya DB: Thanks for posting this up today!

For public record, my toon for this SG is Plutarchus Rex (broadsword/shield scrapper). I finally saw his face in hi-rez for the first time last night. (Building toons on my work laptop with the Intel chipset is like rendering LotR on a Timex watch.)

I won't be able to make it for the full TF, so I'll hold off on signing up, but now that my work desk and PC are finally built and powered up, I'll be playing off and on until Tuesday.

NOTE TO ALL Cap.Off. members: Once you're a member of the global channel (@Capitol Offense), check out the MOTD for VixenHealer's Ventrilo info. Thanks to Conundrum for testing my audio levels last night.

I gave everyone I found last night level 3 permissions (which for us permits, among other things, SG invites to facilitate getting everyone in).

Seeya in the game! You guys'll like the Champion crowd, it's like a circus of personalities, just without the small hands and bearded women.

Here's my current roster. Yep, just five 50s... I just really like playing those five...

Dr. Turgenev
Lvl 50 Controller, Illusion/Storm (dinged Nov, 2004)

Cerulean Skie
Lvl 50 Blaster, Electric/Energy (dinged Feb, 2005)

Blackest Light
Lvl 50 Warshade (dinged Jan, 2006)

Supreme Soviet
Lvl 50 Mastermind, Bots/Traps (dinged July 2006)

Rex Obscura
Lvl 50 Crab Soldier of Arachnos (dinged Sept 2008)

Well, it looks like our old 50s thread got nuked for inactivity acc'd to Niviene, without any opportunity to recall. Not a bad thing; it gives us the chance to freshen things up in a thread that was a long time in the building.

So here we go! For hero and villain side, feel free to post your "w00t i gotz 50 lulz" post here for your toons, old and new! Try to give us the basics on the toon with the following format:

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Hero or Villain Name
Archetype, Primary/Secondary Powersets

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(If you're a SG/VG leader and would like to puff up one of your cohorts' achievements by submitting for them, that's cool too.)

Enjoy! Strut your stuff, Freedom!

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So our last SNCC on Freedom *sniff*

WINNERS

Enjoy

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why?

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DDH is relocating to Pinnacle.

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Again Phil asked me how to handle this: remove the meter, or let Heroes get the badge. I made the wrong decision (again!), and had Phil simply remove the progress meter. Yes, I had heard the concerns of a few vocal badge aficionados, and I fell on the wrong side of the argument (it’s amazing, but sometimes being insulted makes you feel MORE right than you probably should).

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Okay, hang a sec. So, if you're doing something we want you to do... we should insult you to cement your dedication to it?

(scribbles that down) The things you let slip, Posi...

Thank you for taking the time to think this one out, and explain it all in one shot. The hardest part about this discussion before today has been the silence on it, which is now ended. Hooray.

This was a thread necro, DJ. It was topically valid last February. Just let this one die.

See, when _I_ start a thread, it's news.

I guess the reason why this thread survived the forum flushes was because of the activity that first weekend... great testimony to a poor design for a "play benefit" weekend.

It's 8:15am, I woke up an hour early cuz my iPod doesn't know what 9am means, and I kept waking up last night cuz I could swear that terrorists were about to attack NYC via the transit system. You better believe I'm freakin' ornery this morning.

/leaves for the hotel's "continental breakfast" - which is a fancy way of saying "we have wonder bread and country crock and Nescafe"

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If we discuss the removal of the "Reformed" badge here, will we get any more feedback than we got in the Training Room?

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We are aware internally of the badgers concerns over the removal of this badge. However at this time the Developers are choosing to not comment. I'll keep you updated if I hear of any change in that determination.

Regards,

Ex

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I hear your position, Ex, but please send a request for the Devs to talk about it instead of no commenting, then. The whole "never meant to get it" when the artwork and text explicitly addresses hero rewarding begs the question, "Why".

C'mon, we deserve more than "no comment", Posi.

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The video was actually... pretty funny

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I completely agree. This thing's broadcast-worthy. Nice to see CoX finally get what amounts to a well-written and funny commercial that's a good hook for new players and old.

I'll bet $5 this gets airtime within the month.

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Garfield: You talk funny Nash. Where you from?
Nash: Lots of different places.

First thing that popped into my head after reading your post Titania.


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Haggis? What's haggis?

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Mr E-Man's semi-regular & mostly useless information post #422

Ripped from yesterday's threads...?

Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse!

"No Deals Frog!"

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OMG i haven't thought of these two in forever!

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Same... I used to love that show... I always remember the name "Minute Mouse", but I could never remember the cat's name...

*raises the mason jar of moonshine) he keeps at work for special occasions) in a toast* Thanks. Jivealarity to ensue momentarily.

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Inspired by this thread, here is my idea.

I say that the devs start working on CoH2, and the ENTIRE game will be the "end game".You can ONLY start a new character in CoH2 by permanently transporting a level 50 character over to it. Your character steps through a Portal Corp portal and ends up in a parallel Earth, an Earth that is meaner, tougher, and darker. In CoH2 Level 50 becomes the new level 1 in essence but not in fact. You keep all of your powers/slots, but now the game goes from level 50 to level 100. Your character can never be transported back to CoH1, which protects the balance of the low level game.

50 more levels of content, yay! Story continuation yay! People get to see the "level cap" raised, but in a different way than they would expect. And the whole game would feel "epic".

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What you're describing is more of an expansion pack than a new game.

IMO: Not a great idea as a "new game". I'd rather see more time and energy sunken into CoX on its own, like a "premium graphics pack" that EVE Online initiated. If they push effort to a new game without terminating the old one, it'll split the population at best. And if they terminate the old game while it's still got an active subscription base, they'll alienate the population, at best.

If they revamp the FX engine and release it as a premium graphics pack, say as a $20 add-on code? It could add years of continuous enjoyment for the game with the added bling.

Yes, I said bling. I speak jive.

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Gimme all your gold!!! or imma cry!

(just checkin to see if it works)

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*holds a cup to Rose's eyes, to catch her tears*
*pours in sub-zero Ketel One vodka, adds three olives*
*drinks*
*relishes in Rose's misery as it adds the perfect bitterness to his Martini of Woe*