bluedarky

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/bind 7, say Energize!$$cce 0 ccCast

Haven't made a new bind in a while but I recall that you needed a comma between the key press and the first command.

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A question on Lord Recluse.
Are the eight legs on his back actually spider legs covered in proto-steel or are they just mechanical proto-steel legs?

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They are spider legs covered in proto steel. (Revealed in the Web of Arachnos novel)

Do the Furies still run the Three Sisters Restaurant?

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I see your points, but i won't have sympathy for anyone running a prehistoric PC. PC technology doubles every 10 years, if you need to take out a loan to get a beasty old pc, do it. It's a worthwhile investment.

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What timescale are you running on, 5 years ago you futureproofed your machine by having 1 gig of RAM, nowdays you need at least 3 gig to have most modern games run happily.

Any hardware is obsolete before it reaches the public, fact of life I'm afraid.

I'm behind you, took you long enough to work out the truh.

Time for some truths, for the last two years Becky has been working undercover for Longbow, she was actually hired by them to recover the chip to prevent it from getting into Arachnos, but realised that it was too dangerous in their hands as well, so she passed it to me.

Now the bad news, Catherine wanted that chip, bad enough to kidnap her niece Laura for it, the good news, she can't have broken the security locks yet. I'm filing this as a 207271 priority mission, to protect the world from a potential threat.

Good luck, you'll need it.

If you don't tell Bluedarky I'll give you a few clues,

1. Becky is likely to have given Stephan the chip to keep it from being abused.

2. Paying attention to what Positron tells you can lead you in the right direction.

Bluedarky wants you to learn to think for yourselves, you have more than enough information to find Becky's brother, if you can't figure it out from here you'll never make a good investigator.

I'm sorry, but he's left me with specific things I can and can't tell you, he says it's to make sure you're paying attention to everything you're told.

All I can tell you is that Becky's brothers name is Stephan Brown and that the chip takes control of AIs.

I don't have a relationship with a brat who runs to her brother whenever she needs help. As for the information, it's from Crey's files, the chip data is verified by what I've found in Posi's files though.

Forget I mentioned anything, unfortunately Bluedarky is out at the moment and I can't authorise an investigation for you, why don't you look over the things you've done already to get more information.

Bluedarky's not around, best give you this information before he gets back.

The newest information relating to Midnight-Strike is that her brothers name is Stephan Brown.

It also details the purpose of the chip, you need to recover it, it allows the user to forcibly take control of any AI and force them to do they're bidding...

Becky would not have allowed any villain group to have that chip...

Not if I know her...

Crey it is then.

I hate to say it though, I can't issue the warrant for Crey however, we've had a few run ins in the past, and the tribunal...

The good news is that Positron will issue the warrant, ask him for warrant 199641.

Oh, and take this, it's a tracker designed by Madam Victim, this ones set to find anything relating to Becky in the system, it should come in useful.

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Greetings lore-hounds,
Question Okay, I'm writing a mission chain called "Family Ties" centering around Ms. Liberty, Statesman, and Lord Recluse. According to the canon I have read, Ms. Liberty is related to both by blood; Statesman is her grandfather and Recluse her great-uncle. SO! Here is what I need confirmed...

1) Is Ms. Liberty's real name Megan Duncan, Jessica Cole, Jessica Duncan, or what!?

Answer: There has been some confusion on this issue due to discrepancies between our website, a web article, the Freedom Phalanx novel, the in-game information, and probably some other places I’m not remembering. Here’s a definitive answer which has all the facts lined up, as well as some additional information.

1) Monica Richter was Maiden Justice and is sister to Lord Recluse (Stefan Richter). She married Statesman (Marcus Cole) and they had a daughter. Their daughter’s name is Alexis Cole and she became Miss Liberty. Alexis married a man by the name of Patrick Duncan and the two had a daughter, Jessica Megan Duncan. Jessie, as her mother liked to call her, was always a strong willed child. Jessica Megan Duncan became Ms. Liberty and took on the name Megan (her middle name) It was suggested by others that Megan take her mother’s maiden name of Cole, for legacy’s sake, but Megan specifically held onto her father’s last name, both for her love and respect of him and her desire to move out of her grandfather’s shadow, and forge her own path of heroism. Other examples of her independence are the formation of the Vindicators and her release of Dominatrix back to Praetoria.

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Anyone else feel this is a way of saying oops we goofed again, nice way of solving the naming issue though.

/Facepalm

Amercian to British Dictionary activated

Pants - Trousers
Briefs - Pants
Ax - Axe
Color - Colour

Because to do that they had to create a second version of the powerset with the new colors.

At a development level this is pretty simple, it's a matter of selecting the right subroutines, copying them over and changing the color references, at an end user level with the way the system is set up it's exceptionally difficult.

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Oh right!, not long to go then!

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Yeah, only got to lvl 21 last night (too much time creating alts and alt server mains and alts! Oh and I had about a two year break!) Yeah knew about the lvl 50 ability to change them at any time, long way off 50 yet!

Didn't know about the every 5 levels though, as far as I saw on a few reference sites it's only available a few times until lvl 50. I'll have to check it out.

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It used to be lvl 15 and lvl 35 with origin specific titles unlocking at 35, now it's changed to every 5 levels and 50s can change it when they like.

The origin specific titles are the same though.

They said a lot of things were impossible to do under Cryptic...

Flashback, Weapon Customization, Mission Creation to name three.

Oh look. We have these now.

Yup it does.

When you purchase the code you get sent to your Master Account to create a new account or apply it to an old one.

EDIT: You may have to start downloading the game first however before the option comes up.

Allow me to get this straight, you want me, to issue a warrant, for the arrest of a woman, based on evidence found in the posession of Nemesis forces.

Yeah right, I have a look into this brother thing though, do you want to check out one of the other suspects whilst I investigate?

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I am glad that they want to encourage non-farm type gameplay.

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Too late. The auction house has seen to that. As soon as you introduce tradable items and an ingame currency, you have farming. Like judgement day, it's inevitable.

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We had farming before in the sense of XP and Inf farming, certain badges like the lvl 5 damage taken badge are farmed.

What MA did however, was take farming and raise it to an unacceptable level throwing the risk/reward ratios so far off balance it nearly, and still could, doom the game.

Remember when you could still use Cimorean Medics in your custom groups, they were removed because people made groups out of nothing but them and just kept overpowering their self - heals.
Snake eggs were taken out at the beta stage because you could get free xp from them.
Prisioners, high level xp, one or two attacks.

And this is the stuff I can remember off the top of my head, what else have the devs removed because it was easy farm material? And what do they plan to remove?

The mission is set, arc ID 187292.

WARNING - This mission carries a 15 minute time limit before Nemesis destroys the evidence. Good luck!

Welcome back, have a cookie.

It's your choice, who do you want to hit up for information first?

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Monica Richter = Maiden Justice (deceased)
Jessica is Miss Liberty (now deceased) and her daughter is Ms Liberty (Alexis?). Ms Liberty is the current hero who stands in Atlas Park (from memory, in-game badges etc and reading the official blurb on the various sites).

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Yawn, you're getting your facts mixed up, and so did I apparently.

Maiden Justice - Monica Cole, wife of Statesman, Sister of Recluse.
Miss Liberty - Alexis Cole, daughter of Statesman and Maiden Justice, named for one of the Furies.
Ms. Liberty - Jessica (novels)/Megan (comics) Duncan, daughter of Alexis Cole and un-named father, grandaugher of Statesman and Maiden Justice.

Also there is no cannon listing as to the death of Alexis, the evidence actually seems to point at the fact that Alexis has retired from Heroing and simply runs Freedom Corps now.

After a little searching I found that Word of God gives Ms. Liberty's name as Megan Duncan, however the Freedom Phalanx novel, which was published after Manticore's post, gave her name as Jessica again causing much confusion.

IIRC, the novels are mainly Cannon, there's a little confusion over Ms. Liberty's real name as it is cited as Jessica in the novels and Monica on the site. Some of the comics have been incorporated into cannon with Ouroboros and the Rikti invasion. Namely the Top Cow run although there are references to the other comics in game in the form of War Witch being dead and all.

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However I smell a rat here. Why would she tell us about this? Unless she wants to put us on a sidetrack.


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Midnight-Strike didn't tell us about these, LOCA hacked into her bank account and "acquired" them whilst you were laying the ambush,

I knew Catherine straight away, another villain with little to no actual evidence of wrongdoing, the shell around the Crey company fell after a cursory investigation and why would a company specialising in Brass Mechanical clocks pay a freelance thief and assassin $12,000? A little intuitive guesswork and it was soon obvious who pulled those strings.

Posi did say during his Q & A session that they were looking at a graphical revamp, if it comes then it will probably not be a major change in order to allow people with older machines to run it.

Think in line with the level of graphical updates that were introduced in WoW 3.0.0. (Not lowering them to WoW levels but improving lots of small things to enhance the overall experience.)