Ultimus

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No, it wouldn't.

We are going to have our own badge issues suggestion thread (like the base one), and this needed to be discussed HERE.

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Have the developers (Castle?) ever mentioned why it is like this? Perhaps it is a coding issue? Have they ever acknowledged this problem?

Anyone tried PMing them?

Wish these came to AZ

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Pax, please don't explode! If you can see the boards, you're in. If you can't get into the Training Room, then you should contact Ex to let her know.

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No, it is confiremd, I am NOT in the Beta. Hopefully the PTB won't mind my sayign this, but:

I got an email, inviting me to the beta. That was an error. They currently, I have been told, have two lists - one list of people authorised to access Test. One list of people sent email invitations and flagged for Board access.

The two lists are not identical; the second has extra names on it. "Oops."

And yes, I've been in touch with Ex over it, and just tried to log all the way in; I'm not authorised to be on Test just now.

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Honestly, the only reason I'm saying this much (as doing so probably locks me out of the i11 beta; testers aren't even allowed to admit they're part of it ... so I'm not breaking any rules, but ... *shrug*) is because someone ELSE might get that email, and be unable to log in.

Rather than panic, they should just PM Ex or Lighthouse, and ask for a check / confirmation of access. Ex has done that for my account already, and again - I'm noton the Authorised list.

I just gotta wait just like everyone else. ^_^

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As for testing, well, I do have one hero (scrapper, 30) and one villain (mastermind, 41) in level range to test stuff. And I have truly "been helpful" in non-CoH-but-still-PlayNC closed betas before. But when push comes to shove, I'm still not on the proper Invite list.

Just ... noone blow a gasket for joy if you get the email, until you can verify you're able to log in. ^_^

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Did you get a message from Lighthouse confirming?

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i wonder if the new weapons customization is a nod in the direction of SigPows for a future issue?

makes me a little more hopeful for the possibility of seeing this actually make into the game.. next year at the soonest. (maybe the last issue of next year?)

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I thought the same thing, we just got a step closer.

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Heh can't believe I was mentioned

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You should start a thread about it.

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Hmm maybe I should

Heh can't believe I was mentioned

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I was wondering what happened...i was sure it had been stickied...ah well
/signed

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And its back...

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Ultimus:

Read the following

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We have not announced a schedule or when such process will be run


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Read
Digest
Understand

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And it doesn't answer my question. He said it is a manual process. Does that mean the servers have to go down for it to go into effect? If it does, that means it will go into effect August 29th after the servers go down.

If it doesn't, (And they can do it with servers up) I'd expect it sometime that evening.

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As a point of clarification, the actual process to enforce the name policy and free up names is a manual process, not one that runs continuously. The purpose of this advance notification is that we are now considering running that process on a regular basis. Previously, we had not been enforcing this policy or running this process.

We have not announced a schedule or when such process will be run, other than our desire to run it prior to the Character Rename feature going live. As such, customers can consider that it may be run at any time and if any names on characters under 6 on accounts inactive for over 90 days are lost, this would be the reason why.

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So this means that on August 29th the names will be freed after a server downtime?

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I think both of those explainations work well. Altough, with either one of these explainations I wonder: do they take the runesword away from Ultimus. It would be a logical course of action, but then how would he get it back?

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Yes thats how I pictured it but he got it back during his escape from Bethla Garrison.

Quote from Lighthouse:

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By having it stickied it tacitly implies more support for that idea over others. That's not a position or a perception we want to convey.

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Cool thanks for the reply.

1) I have two ways to explain this:

A) The rest of the Silverguard fought Ultimus since he was labeled a traitor.

B) Ultimus simply went quietly because he didn't want to hurt his "allies."

2) See thats the thing, I am MUCH more of a fantasy person. I kind of like the fact my character is out of place. Not really sure how to tack it in more.

They unstickied it?

I wrote this for another thread so I decided to post it here:

The Build and the story behind Ultimus Decimus Omegus

Broadsword/Regeneration/Magic Origin

The story and lore **NOTE: This is long but I hope you like it

Ultimus Decimus Omegus is a loyal vassal of Emperor Gestahl and principle general of the Silverguard Knights. The forces of Ultimus were critical in turning back the Ordallian invasion of Arcadia. It was during this era Ultimus rose in the ranks of Arcadia and the Silverguard was established.

The war with Ordallia, better known as the Tenth Ring War, began with two sub-divisions, Sanctuary, a sub division of Arcadia, and the Legacy of Steel, a sub division of Ordallia. Sanctuary was led by Fell Gleaming with his wife Goldlily Gleaming in second command. Fell was a charismatic leader and a powerful sorcerer. His wife was a druid capable of wielding the powers of Earth. The Legacy of Steel was led by a powerful Warlord known as Draed Vahn. These armies comprised the backbone of the two warring empires.

Ultimus was but a low-ranking squire in Sanctuary. However, Fell took him under his wing to teach him everything about combat. He saw his potential in combat and the two eventually grew to become the best of friends.

During the final battle with Legacy of Steel the forces of Sanctuary were crushed on the cold-front known as Veoshul. (VEE-O-SHOL) Ultimus was one of the few survivors of this battle along with Freon, Dersid, Laostu, and Aelodyn. At this point, Arcadia was doomed to fall to the forces of Ordallia and their powerful army of Legacy of Steel.

However, Ultimus with his remaining allies went on a journey to find a weapon or weapons capable of defeating an entire army. The quest looked bleak but this was Arcadia's last hope.

The journey led to Karnor's Castle, a section of the fallen kingdom of Guardia that now lay taken over by the undead led by the powerful necromancer Golgoth. The heroes discovered five powerful artifacts that would grant them enormous power:

Blade of War: Given to Dersid, a powerful blade capable of splitting into two weapons. It had the power of the God of War and could slice any opponent into two.

Fist of Zek: Given to the Monk Laostu, these wrist wraps gave his fists the force of shattering even the most powerful of armor with bare hands.

Soulfire: This holy blade was given to Freon. It wielded the element of fire and was capable of incinerating those with a heart of darkness.

Executioner's Blade: Aelodyn was granted this battle axe. It gave him untold speed and hastend his attacks faster then any opponent could follow.

Runed Blade: Ultimus was chosen by this blade. This "Holy Sword" was found locked deep in Karnor's Castle. It appears to be an ordinary blade but on closer inspection it can be seen decorated with runes. It is said that whoever wields this blade is granted near unlimited protection. This blade granted Ultimus his incredible regeneration abilities and the ability to withstand damage so long as his heart remained pure.

These five heroes then formed the Silverguard. It was then on the outskirts of the city of Migar that they faced an entire army by themselves. They were successful and went down in Arcadian history for defeating the forces of Ordallia single handidly. Each was given a high rank in Arcadia and peace lasted for several years in Arcadia...

***Jumping a few years into the future***

Obsessed with the stories of magic, Emperor Gestahl had overseen the rise of Arcadia as the world's preminent military and political power thanks to the development of Mayhin. Gestahl was the first volunteer for the experimental Mayhin infusion, although he gained the ability to wield magic it warped his mind turning him into a brutal sociopath. In his obsession to conquer, Gestahl began opening portals to other worlds to conquer. He then manages to open a portal to the world where Paragon City is home to.

Due to his divergent viewpoints with Emperor Gestahl, Ultimus is framed as a traitor by Balkoth, a ShadowKnight who plans to take Ultimus' place in the Silverguard. Ultimus is tossed into Bethla Garrison, a massive prison housing thousands of people.

However, during the confusion of war Ultimus is freed by some heroes who found their way to his world via the portal opened by Gestahl. The heroes were searching for new allies to defend their world against the new Rikti invasion.

Ultimus has then taken arms against the Rikti and the Arcadian Conspiracy. Once he aids this world he hopes to go back to his world with new allies to bring peace there once again. For Arcadia now threatens this world with the portal they've opened...

Since they just announced they reactivated all former accounts, does this mean that technically the name policy won't go into full effect until October? They have to be 90 days inactive but if they are all reactivated...

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And I think I'll go with the folks (the devs) that have ACTUAL DATA about how many trail accounts and names aren't used.

Pretty sure this will free up more than you think.

Besides Ex said if it doesn't work they can always adjust it later.

Leave it be for now folks.

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The devs data once said Regen Scrappers could solo +8's...

And the Passport badge (If you have it like I do) allows you to server hop...

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Reiterating my support of this great idea as well!!

/signed

P.S. Have their been any dev statements regarding this thread?

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Actually I heard Ghost Widow (A developer playing Ghost Widow in game) mentioned it. Or was told to go look at it.

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you know PvP would be an absolute mess so I think that it would be maybe a god idea to not be able to use those in PvP cause it would be a mess, AN ABSOLUTE MESS might be a bad idea but watever

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Wouldn't effect PVP much unless a guy sat in his base and came out everytime his signature power was up. Like I said in my original post, they would function like accolades with long recharge timers. Accolades don't imbalance PVP to the extent it becomes a mess.

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It might be interesting if you could apply various effects to your signature power, and then modify its Magnitude. So a play could have their signature power be a really powerful hold, or an attack with an extremely high chance for knockback.

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You can, I covered it in the orginal post

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Stop linking to your own treads.

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What he said x 2

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What both of them said x 4

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Yet these are the same people that spam bumped my threads to keep them on the front page. My signature power thread has about 20 replies from Serp

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*looks at pic*

That's... not bad at all, I must admit. I was all set to go "Pffft, you look like that, yeah right" but there's actually some truth to your claim.

Which is not a bad thing! Hey, perhaps you ought to try spiking the hair. Now can you Energy Melee in real life...? the $64,000 Question.

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I would love to but my hair is too curly. That would be fun to do that and do a photo for one of those costume Halloween contests they have haha.

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My photo

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*Click*



*Eyeballs burst into flames*

HORRIBLE! HORRIBLE!

AAAUUUUGGGHHH!

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Dangit, I took that photo while casting my signature power "Eyeball Flame Burst" -- Sorry about that, and happy birthday

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Here is a cool screenshot I took when I was soloing Citadel. Just wanted to share it I thought it looked cool.

If only an Android could know fear

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Nice job on taking down that #$%@!, $#@&% bast*** Citadel, and great screenie.... but I just have to say.... your Brute? Tank? whatever he is, anyway... is actually quite, er, hawt. Good-looking character you got there.

Unsolicited opinions FTW:
Bad

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Brute -- I generally am inspired to make characters after myself. They usually look like me in some shape or form.

Here is a real life photo of me, granted the quality sucks it is with a camera phone. I don't have spikey hair like my character and unfortunately there isn't a curly option.

My photo

Taken from my AV thread here if you want to see more

Here is a cool screenshot I took when I was soloing Citadel. Just wanted to share it I thought it looked cool.

If only an Android could know fear