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Yes...

BUT not right away. As soon as we get newspaper tech in, we'll get the mission completion sharing in...

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Newspapers? For heroes?

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And the lack of XP due to mission sharing giving completion XP and not the "defeating hordes of enemies in the mission itself" XP. Still, for pain in the [censored] missions, a great thing.

Very good tips. I like to think that I'm a bit proactive in my healing. If I'm not dumping a heal other into someone and 3 or 4 people are down a sliver... why not top them all up with an aura. That blinking splinter later may be the only thing between them and debt.

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Ok so let me get this right. The winner wasn't chosen because his costume was good or because his story was original. They just wanted an agyptian costume and a character of egyptian origin to add this little snippet of information about the BotBS which is part of the card game.

That seems rather unfair since they didn't say that they wanted egyptian characters and it ruled out the chance of Kheldians chaacters being viable. If I'd know that I wouldn't have sent in my Warshade.

And no offense intended to the person who won but that costume is utterly terrible, dull in the extreme.

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The character was chosen because we liked the background *and* the costume. I had the idea to tie him in to the Blood after he was chosen.

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I'm just relieved that you did not choose Xanatos. His ego is hyperinflated enough!

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ROFL!

I mean... uhm... Xan's just this guy, ya know.

Oh, hi boss

OGMWTFBBQ!!11one!eleventy1!

Ah well, take it light Gil. *goes to save the articles for posterity and to wave in the face of the alleged "successor"*

Hopefully you find a place at least as enjoyable as this, and with people at least as nasy as us

((I too had a guess after the last article))

First time looking at your new guide IV. I think I'll copy it to our SG forums (with credit of course).

Good guide, covers all the bases and really helps with the number crunching.

As for struggling to 18, I hate to say it but just get PL'd, or go scranker until you can respec into a post invince build. My invulns are doing it the hard way, but as tenthiary (what is the word for 10th on the playlist) characters I can easilly only play them when I have a good team.

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No. We have NOT been recording SG mode since ANY issue. I will also confirm that NO datamining will be happening (for exactly the reasons given above).

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Thanks Positron! Excellent news!

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How is that good news? It means that until the prestige system goes in, nobody is earning any and an SG that's been around since Day 1 has to start from scratch just like a brand new SG just made to get a small base.

Pez is the guy keeping us all chomping at the bit for another Ms Indy segment.. that's a good thing

SepTa... c'mon, it's da CAPE! Gotta give love for that.

I'm concerned by States saying "...fires off invincibility...", it being a toggle and all. He's confusing it with Energy Absorbtion from the sounds of it... I'd have to check his numbers again but I think he's mixed up EA and invinc.

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Getting a dedicated POC per AT might make many interactions a whole lot smoother than they'd otherwise turn out to be. Especially if it can keep States from having to scramble to make a soothing post on no sleep and tossing out incomprehensible numbers for powers (as in the Ice Tanker thread where the statements from his two posts don't go together).

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I honestly feel that this was only thing SOE ever got right with SWG.
Each profession had a player corespondent selected by the dev team based on appropriate resume's. Each profession ALSO had a dedicated Staffer for "official responses".
Very good system. Often times, we as the players are better at filtering our own crap than a Dev would be. Thus only the relevant information, and proof/data about it gets to the Staffer, which in turn takes it to the Dev team, then takes the reponses back to the community after filtering through the corespondent for clarity and relevance.

Hmm. Badges. Candy. Excuses to haul out the level 50 and hit the streets!

God I love 'em.

Thanks. That's all.

/em sends the dev's some breathing apparatus so they can stay in the Halon room.

Anyway, I'm just curious why it was a Def and resist drop across the board? It's been shown (at least to us) that someone running with 90% resists getting hit every time is less safe than someone with minor to no resists being hit 5% of the time in most instances, (alpha's excluded).

That coupled with the massive drop in elemental protection has virtually gutted inv tanks who now take 90% fire/cold/energy/negative damage instead of even 50%. And they're hist just about every time by those attacks because they've got no defense against them.

Hopefully your dataining will reveal this to you and you can adjust accordingly. I like the direction, just not the methods.

No complaints! I love these changes. Kudo's folks.

Brass Betty (Sara Woodward)

Invul/Axe Technology

**Excerpt from "Heroes of Paragon, In Their Own Words. A coffee table book"**

Sara Woodward was on her way home from the movies. She was about to step into an intersection when a large, filthy hand clamped down over her mouth and several more hands dragged her back into a dark, garbage strewn alleyway. The Skulls beat her brutally then grabbed anything of value and ran, leaving her for dead.

She awoke to a blood red haze of screaming agony. A dirt encrusted man in a bloody smock and stained surgical mask knelt over her. An insane glimmer lit his eyes and he brandished a twisted hacksaw in one hand. "The arm bone's connected to the... shoulder." The saw came down and amidst the screaming, the red haze darkened to black.

Later still she woke to a throbbing ache, pounding through her body. Ticking and clanking sounds surrounded her on all sides. She could barely manage to open one of her once beautiful green eyes to see what appeared to be a wind-up robot holding a copper faceplate. From above her head came the sound of cracking electricity, then the spark and glow of a welding torch. The small robot put the plate over her face and she screamed again. A scream that echoed in the shadows, ending in a gurgling rasp of a shattered voice. Beginning a shattered life.

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Cometfall

Stone/Fire Mutation

**Excerpt from "Heroes of Paragon, In Their Own Words. A coffee table book"**

Untold years ago, far across the galaxy, a planet exploded. Fragments of this former planet were hurled though the cosmos, exposed to gasses, cosmic rays and various radiations on their journey through the icy blackness of space. Some of these shards, burned up as they entered planetary atmospheres, or were diverted by gravity wells and sent off in new directions.
One such splinter of a former world hurtled through our own atmosphere, burning away jaged lumps and layers of debris, ice and softer stone. It impacted near the centre of "Eden", a cordoned off area in Paragon City. Days later a swarm of heroes, thick as locusts, located and destroyed a gargantuan amoeba like creature nearby. After several hours a thick blueish-green goo seeped out of the earth and pooled at the bottom of the crater where the remnant of a dead world lay still cooling. Later that night it rained and in the cooling rain the stone hissed. This artifact of an ancient people, a single fragment of a world long forgotten cracked. It had survived the cold void between stars, had survived hazards not yet seen by men, had even survived entry into our atmosphere and a screaming impact with our own world. It cracked. The substance in the bottom of the crater seeepd into the cracks and an inner fire erupted. The boulder from space cracked, shook, unfolded and stood upright, looking around in confusion.
And that, dear reader, is where our story begins.

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Thanks 4.

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More clarification: Zeb had nothing to do with the Planescape PC game. He created the original setting for D&D (the pen and paper version, that is).

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Greyhawk?

I was never much of a fan of greyhawk. Now the Iseries modules with Laura and Tracey Hickman's desert of desolation set and the ravenloft modules etc was the best.

My first module as a kid was I2 Tomb of the Lizard King... still got it in storage somewhere hehe.

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In the D&D cosmology there are Planes of existence (well, a sort of). Greyhawk, Faerun, Dragonlance, Dark Sun (sorry I don't remember the correct names, just the name given by TSR) are all Prime Material Planes and they are different settings of D&D. Planes are interconnected via Astral Plane. Planescape takes care of the connections between all the different planes adding a center of the universe, i.e. Sigil.
So many years have passed, maybe it's not 100% correct :P

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I'll nerd myself for ya

Based on the 2nd edition cosmology as put forth by TSR/WoTC/Hasbro, all the various Settings were within Crystal Spheres. All the crystal spheres were on the Prime Material plane. How to explain...
Get a donut with all the little sprinkles on it and put it on the desk or table in front of you. The donut is the Prime Material plane and all the sprinkles are crystal spheres, or game settings. There's one for Forgotten Realms, World of Greyhawk, Dark Sun, Dragonlance, etc. The hole of the donut is where the Inner (elemental) planes are. The area around the outside of the donut is where the Outer Planes are. The Astral plane connects all planes together. The Ethereal only connects the Prime to the Outer. The plane of Shadow exists near the Prime but also touches the Ethereal.

Totally off topic, really simplified, but it gets the idea across I think. Now, eat that donut!

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More clarification: Zeb had nothing to do with the Planescape PC game. He created the original setting for D&D (the pen and paper version, that is).

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Yes. The super-setting that went on to dominate the whole of my 2nd Edition days, (and get homebrew conversions to 3.5 as I need it).

I adored the work in the various Planescape sourcebooks and other material.

Pen & Paper for teh w1n!

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Kheldians only receive the link bonuses when they are in human form. Shifting into Nova and Dwarf forms causes all auto powers (the bonuses, stamina, etc) to disappear. When you shift back to human, then the bonuses begin to affect you once more.

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Excellent, but the to negatives still apply in nova/dwarf forms? Or are thenegatives even still there. I knew that at one time there were flat penalties that were offset by grouping and getting the link bonuses. Are these still in existence, and if so, do they affect all forms?

Wow. He looks a lot more... normal than I expected.
I guess I'm too exposed to the industry nutjobs. I expected a kind of "Back to the Future" crazy Doc kinda look. Wide eyed, paranoid... nope, he looks normal.

...damn...

Just read through the whole archive this afternoon at work (damn you for keeping me from my beloved Tanker forums!)

Very nice. I love the perspective used and have to sympathise with you on CRM. My main is an Emp/Rad/Psi and I have felt your pain. I also feel for MM as my main is slowly plodding forward to 50 and is currently 45.6 with no chance of completing 90% of my missions solo anymore :/

Anyway, keep it going!

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I thought "I'm Leaving" posts were banned?


Hehe Good luck and much fun in your next position!

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No, "I'm quitting" posts are banned

"I got a kickin' promotion" posts are still encouraged

Take it light V.

::Young teen sounding female voice::

Lollipop Candi: Am I on? Ow! Turn down the radio...

::screaming squeal of static then silence::

L: Better, so uhm... Hi! This is Lollipop Candi. I have a question for Mister Clockwork King. Uhm, so what's it like to be mostly kinda just a brain in a jar? Like do you have to have the water or whatever that goop is changed every so often to keep the neural synapses clear and amplify your psychic powes? Uhm, and stuff? Oooh, does fungus grow on your brain or pond scum? I remember once when I had these 4 goldfi

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DJ: And that's enough of that. So, See Kay. how do you care for that grey matter? Hyper little girls with crazy names want to know... strangely.

TankHQ

Started on Champion, but great for tankers anywhere.

Tankers & TankHQ, two great channels that go great together.

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Hey Positron, I was just wondering... when you're testing the Arena, do you get to control the actual Positron, with powers and all?

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Nah, I usually just play whatever archetype needs testing that day. I generally play Defenders or Blasters though.

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Aww... I figured you guys had your own personal heroes coded into the game.

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I know I wouldn't mind if the NPC Positron went missing for a few hours. Or maybe acted like a Police Drone.

Or just made up his dang mind and picked a group or villians to hate on. Go beat up Vaz, now clocks, now thornies, now vaz....

There's no member of the group that has a huge hate on for CoT. Pick them. Synapse already took Clocks.

Name : Cometfall
Powers : Stone/Fire
Origin : Mutant
Cut/Paste from ID Tag.

"Far away, in a distant galaxy, a planet was destroyed. Shards of this ex-planet drifted through the trackless void for unknowable years. Over time they came in contact with strange gasses, objects and other stranger things.
Eventually one of these fragments burned its way through our atmosphere, shedding layers of ice and stone as it plummeted. Slamming into the earth near the centre of the Eden section of Paragon City, like the spear of a god. It tore up a swath of rich soil and rested in a deep crater.
It rained. In the rain was a chemical stranger than any this visitor from a long dead planet had encountered in the black heavens, The Will of the Earth.
The core of the fragment ignited and it grew warm again. The dormant, preserved seeds of it's homeplanet sprouted in its crevices, seeking the light of day. The fallen comet cracked, unfolded and stood upright, peering around in confusion.
And that dear readers, is where our story begins... "