Twisted Toon
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Quote:My understanding is that the dots represent server load, and not number of players logged on.Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
Very interesting server order. I wonder how that happens.
The server order, however, is sorted by the number of players logged on.
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Quote:A friend of mine said that he wold boldly state that he was racist and the defendant should fry. Doesn't matter what color the defendant is either. I guess that would work.Originally Posted by Supernumiphone
The last time I got a notice I was complaining to a friend about it and he told me what to say in my reply to the summons. I don't remember what it was but it worked like a charm. I said I was mentally unfit or something like that. ;P
The two times I was sent a Jury notice, it was 2 months before my summons date. I'd stick the notice in a location where it would remind me to actually contact them when the time came for jury duty. The next time I'd see the notice, I realized it was a month after the date.
What's really interesting though, is that I went 35 years without getting a jury duty notice, then I got 2 in 2 consecutive years. -
Quote:I remember that. It made navigating Galaxy City and Atlas Park...interesting, back in the day.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
That might actually work. It would let people that can't get to the Shadow Shard unlock the Rularuu weapons.
Since the Invasion Code presents the invaders as even con to your level, it wouldn't be as annoying as the original Rularuu event with the eyeballs one-shotting lowbies that hadn't even gotten into draw distance to be able to see them.
Then there were the occasional lost ambushes of level 35+ Rikti in Kings Row, milling around behind a fence, just waiting for a lowbie to make that leap of fatality. -
Quote:She probably forgot.Originally Posted by Steelclaw
Congratulations 2Short2Care... How old do you have to be before you change your forum name to 2Old2Remember?
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Quote:She ain't old.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Look back. See that bump in the distance? That's The Hill.
This is now your second anniversary of being, officially, too old to trust.
Happy birthday youngster! Welcome to old-farthood.
Ifn she was old, I'd be ancient. Seein as I's jess got ta 40 meself.
Weel, maybe not ancient, but the next worse thing, exceptn bein' daed.
She's still a young'n.
Shoot, I don't plan on being old until I get to be 95 at least.
Drinking is over-rated.Quote:Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Wait until you're granted the ability to drink legally.
The liver is evil and must be punished!
Also, alcohol tasted terrible.
This message was brought to you by something or other.
Funny thing, when I was 23 or 24, people thought I was 27 or 28.Quote:Originally Posted by Schismatrix
i've been celebrating my 42nd birthday every year since 1997.
For the longest time people would insist i was around 19.
Now they tend to assume i'm in my 20s.
"Uh, no."
(Well, not the people who hung out in the same bars back in 1997, but they accuse me of even less likely attributes.)
Now that I'm 40, people think I'm around 29 or 30.
Aging at that rate, I should be 40 in another century or so.
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Quote:Was it really all that far of a drive to full-blown insanity?Originally Posted by Steelclaw
It is my sincere belief that none of this is real and that nearly three days without access to spreadsheets or computer has driven me temporarily over the edge into full-blown insanity.
I thought that would have been more like a saunter across the street for you.
You know I'm kidding.
You only hurt the ones you love? I guess that means they REALLY love Steelclaw.Quote:Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
Hate is just the flip-side of love. They only punish you because they care about you so deeply.
Or, they just wanted to add to his enjoyment of creating new rules for his tournament.
I'd say that Zwillinger had something to do with it in either case. -
Quote:This is what happens to me about 95% of the time.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
... it just doesn't "register" with me...
I'll have emptied all the storage on my character, do a few missions*, and the next thing I know, my recipes, enhancements, salvage,and inspirations are full and I'll have gained 5 shards. I'm just too busy doing other stuff to take notice of those messages.
* By a few, I mean about a half a dozen missions with a team of 5. My regular group. -
Like some of the other VEAT players said, I use one build for a Night Widow build, the second build for a Fortunata build.
My Peacebringer has 2 builds. A Human/Nova build, and a Human/Dwarf build.
Once I get to level 50 with her, and do the Alpha Incarnate arc, I might make a third tri-form build. -
Quote:Ladyhawke would have been a good one to use too.Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Actually, this was the first thing that came to mind, but I had to look to find the clip:
http://www.splicd.com/LZ7HgkRpsT8/390/397
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Quote:Would this be considered a Rick Roll?Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Morning everyone!
Taking a break from PAX planning and getting ready for Issue 21 to share this little bit of awesome I came across this morning.
Hope it brightens your day!
(No, it's not a Rick Roll.)
I like the mad drummer's (Steve Moore) performance.
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Quote:She spins you right round?Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Meh. I wasn't expecting her to swoop in and tell you how wrong you were, or even that you were wrong. She has enough people that she has to keep telling they are wrong as it is. She doesn't tell people that aren't wrong that they are wrong, so you should be safe here.
I was just waiting for her to come in and expand on what information had been given and do it in such a manner as to make my head spin.
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Quote:I live in SoCal, I don't give people a hard time about earthquakes.Originally Posted by Tog
Someone on Twitter commented about the SoCal people making fun of the reaction to "just a 5.9" by saying something like, "You people freak out if it rains more than three days in a row. Let us have this!"
I also thought of this when I saw the Twitter feed:
http://xkcd.com/723/
I do, however, give SoCal people a hard time about rain, snow, and temps below 75 degrees.
I moved to SoCal from Oklahoma, where they have Winter, Tornado, Summer and Lesser Tornado seasons.
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Quote:I think the Suggestions forum, not too far below this one is the best place for...suggestions.Originally Posted by NerfSliver
Before I go posting incorrectly I will ask: is this where I should post my ideas on how to make the game even better? I am not big into forums and want to make sure I place it where there is at least a chance someone at NCSoft will see it...plus get the reactions from all the great minds in the CoH community. Please point me in the right direction if I am lost...and then promptly destroy this thread.
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Quote:You got that right. I remember playing Ogre in the late 80s/early 90s.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
And even more interesting in terms of game design is the game Ogre, which was in my opinion the absolute pinnacle of asymmetric game balance. You can't get much more asymmetric than Ogre.
I love Steve Jackson's games. Started out with Car Wars. Most recently, been playing Munchkin. -
Quote:Actually, I think it would be something that would cause Steelclaw to delete himself, thereby causing the TF to auto-fail.Originally Posted by Rangle M. Down
I would think you could never actually finish the Steelclaw TF.
Half way through you'd find something, without fail, that threw off the team balance or made it unfair to one of the team members. Because of that, you'd have to start over again each time, no matter what.
(That lack of balance or fairness is inherent to the TF, so that no matter what you do you'll come across it.)
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Quote:I believe I actually started PnP role playing games about the time I started playing video games. Never really had the money for the arcades, so had to make do with games for the Atari and the Texas Instruments computer we had at the time. Although, I do remember having Pong as well. Not that I played it much.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
1984, so I'm primarily a child of the 90s, yes I think the first game I played with any real memory and understanding was Captain Comic in 16 colours, but I did play a bunch of old titles on the ZX Spectrim, like Army Moves, Attic Attack, Jetpack and a few others that I don't remember the names of. And that's around 10 years before I actually spoke a word of English, too
RPGs was where I had the most enjoyment. But, never really cared for D&D (advanced or not).
Oh, and I'm a child of the 70's.
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Quote:I think most of the people ignored your timezone conversions in favor of more whining about downtime.Originally Posted by DKellis
I am posting mainly to check that my timezone conversions are at least relatively accurate, despite today's Live Server Maintenance announcement post stating that it should have been done about fifteen minutes ago.
Sorry
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Quote:you are much younger than I thought.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I didn't know that was an Arcade game, but I suppose I should have figured. The reason I inferred that was the only system I ever played Gaintlet for was the ZX Spectrum when I was, like, four years old. Understandably, I did not do very well at it
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Quote:I love it when people erroneously use the discrimination card.Originally Posted by halfflat
In many other circumstances, it's called discrimination, and is actually illegal in many countries. (Again, before you go off on a tangent, I'm not claiming NCSoft is acting illegally.) Companies often DO have a legal obligation to act equitably in many important regards, and inasmuch as they are participants in our society, they also have an ethical obligation to act equitably.
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Quote:I knew I shouldn't have mentioned that...Originally Posted by Twisted Toon
I'm pretty sure that as soon as I mention the lack of auto log-offs I've had, I'll get logged off.
So, I won't.
stupid log off bug.
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Quote:The thing is, he's not forced to delete and repeat. He does so, because he wants to. Which is why I, jokingly mind you, refer to that as masochistic behavior. It's what floats his boat, so to speak. I respect that.Originally Posted by MaestroMavius
I guess it's just hard for some of us to fathom that it's a good thing.
We picture how we would react in such a situation and assume that's how your feeling.
If I had to actually delete all my characters?! Even the thought of it makes me sick to my stomach. I have the same issue about level 50 as you though. Which is why I only have 3 and it took 6+ years to even get one.
That's game over, no growth left. I'm all about the journey too, so I make TONS of alts. But I can't delete something I've created and given life to. Eventually, I tell myself, eventually I'll get back to them...
So, when I hear about you forcing yourself to do another reboot. I imagine how I'd feel, then I urge you to reconsider because I don't want you to get so frustrated that you leave. Now that we know it only creates new adventures and you don't get that down over it. More power to you!
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Quote:I think Masochist is more accurate.Originally Posted by MaestroMavius
I always knew you were a glutten for punishment.
I still have the second character I created. He still hasn't made it to level 50 yet. But, I log onto him occasionally just to run a mission or two. -
Quote:I'm pretty sure that as soon as I mention the lack of auto log-offs I've had, I'll get logged off.Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards
Bleh. It just happened again.
So, I won't. -
Quote:Sounds like a rockin' band name...Originally Posted by Dante
Goatee Statesman and the Clockwork Collective
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Quote:I hate to sound cold hearted about this because I do feel for your situation. However...Originally Posted by ricktu
You all just keep going back to "it's when the least people are on" point without addressing mine. Those of us in my time zone are paying the same amount of money for a lesser service. How is this right? If there was absolutely no way that NCSoft could do these shutdowns at a different time it would be a different story. However this isn't the case. NCSoft are taking money from money in a particular time zone with out using some of that extra money to look after that customer base. Even not spending that extra money there is nothing stopping them rolling the times through the normal eight hour business day as it is. Which spreads out the pain and makes it tolerable to all.
Now using the argument that it's a business and they should do the most economical / cheapest method is an invalid one. If you ignore the needs of even part of your customer base you risk either losing them and potentially damaging your reputation at the same time. When a customer of any business is paying for a service there is never any valid excuse for that customer to accept a lesser level of service than any other customer. They don't care that it's because they live in a certain spot. It boils down to they are paying for something they are not getting. If the company can't provide the exact same service in that location then they should adjust the price accordingly. Why is it because this is an MMO we are talking about that it is suddenly alright to charge a certain segment the same for less? I suspect it is because this issue actually doesnt affect you at all. And that a lot of you might not want to risk one of the shutdowns hitting you.
The Bottom Line: All we are asking for is some form of rolling schedule so we are not the only ones being constantly shut out of the game. Not a lot to ask for seeing as we too are full price paying customers too. You are getting extra profit for our corner of the globe how about spending some of it looking after us too.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.
Any business that is looking to stay in business (unless funded by someone with unlimited funds and altruistic reasons) will tell you that. And businesses, in general, don't really care about the individual. Although, NCSoft does seem to care more for the individual than other games I've played. Still, they have to look at the broader view. Would inconveniencing a small group be better for the business than inconveniencing a large group?
From a practical stand point, which would you choose?