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Pictures....Pictures!!!!


Grats to the winners.

Good guide, needs a bigger font.

Smidgen Sr.

Make him look like one of the 7 Dwarfs, and give him a shovel (Axe).

Scooter is everyone's best recruiting tool (in both senses of the word). Sad part is he probably doesn't even realize it.

GATTling Gun

DP/whatever

Avenging Angie

Broadsword/WP scrapper with angel wings and a halo

Gotta be some back end stuff as well.

Yay for a fixed badge icon, I guess.

You could always do what Erfworld does. They have artwork with speech bubbles, but then they supplement the regular work with text stories in between. This way you get deeper character development, but the action is not obscured by walls of text.

Great costumes in these pics, everyone!

Here's my guide:

1. Make a costume that YOU like.

2. Don't get bent out of shape if you don't win, and be a gracious loser

3. If you don't like the way the contest was run or judged, don't participate in future CCs if those people are running/judging, and save the Drama for private tells.

4. Profit.

It's a 5 part miniseries, so the writing ought to be more than decent, since they have a definite boundary to work with.

If the human characters aren't too annoying, it should be good.

Missions that can't be auto-completed usually have a badge associated with them, or are timed. This has been the case since that feature was put in. I believe that multi-step missions also cannot be auto-completed (like raiding Base A, then Base B, then Base C, where you don't have to call in between each part).

My thing about grammar and spelling, especially in forums and emails, is that people type like they're in a hurry or they're under some sort of character limit. You have all the time in the world to spell things correctly and use proper grammar. I look up words that I'm not sure I spelled correctly before I hit Submit. I want people to understand what I'm trying to say and not get distracted by how I said it.

Like it or not, people base opinions of you and your intelligence on how well you can speak or write before they even look at the content of your post. There are some folks on the forum that might be taken way more seriously than they are, but their inability to use punctuation, capitalization, or even paragraph breaks, dilutes their message. Non-native English speakers have an excuse. The rest of us do not.

I'm not going to correct every mistake I see, but I am going to move you down the ladder a rung or two if you're a chronic language hack.

"Prove it!" "No, you prove it!" arguments are so much fun.


There's always going to be games that don't work well for anything but a PC, therefore, the PC as a gaming platform will never die completely.

DOOOOM criers will continue to cry in the hopes that one day they'll be proven right, because admitting they were wrong is harder than actually being wrong.

I think the thought some people have about remakes is that they're afraid the newer version will be the only one young people know about, or will ever see.

For example: Went to see Hereafter yesterday. There was a trailer for True Grit (stars Jeff Bridges, comes out holiday time, looks like it might be good, but I digress). When I first heard about this remake, my first thought was "What was wrong with the John Wayne version?" If someone were curious about the movie, I'd point them toward the Duke every time, no matter how good this new one is because it's John Frikken Wayne. There's a bunch of people that have probably never seen any John Wayne movie (and they're missing out, but I digress again), and might think that this year's movie was the original. The people that are old enough to have seen the classics don't want those movies to fade away when newer shiny versions come around, especially when they tell the exact same story. If they took a different approach to telling the story (set Romeo and Juliet in modern times, for example), then a new version is more tolerable, and can be dismissed more easily if it's not any good.

The wall you're going to hit with trying to put more content in the base itself is that bases, with all their decorations, are very taxing on the average computer, and that's just when you're in there by yourself. You add a team of people all firing off powers in the same room that already has torches burning and other f/x heavy things going, and you're right back to what made the old base raid system totally unfun for a lot of people.

Until they totally revamp the entire system, I'm not sure what you can add. If it were up to me, I'd put in a reason why SG "A" even wants to invade someone's base, but then that goes to why the original CoP trial wasn't well received. People didn't like the idea of putting in work to obtain something only to have it so easily taken by someone else. If there isn't anything else but PvP in a base, or using the mission computer to instance to other content, what are we really adding that has any value?