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I'd be up for it on my main. But he's in Torchwood, who you'd already mentioned as being involved, or else I'd have tried to reply sooner.

I like the idea, but it could work badly. Plenty of people have raised concerns and offered alternatives.

I'd like it to be more like a Zone Event. Maybe just a group, or single tough NPC who appears in a zone and starts to hunt the friendly NPCs in that zone, until a player attacks them.

"Trophy Hunting Party has been spotted in Atlas" and they proceed to scour the map for Longbow. If they're not engaged by players they clear the Longbow out or are defeated and then vanish. If a player attacks them they get flagged for the hunt too, maybe with the hunters getting reinforcements or something. There could be a few badges, maybe if the event was timed it could be a Survived the Hunt badge, or if you take down a Boss it could be Hunt the Hunted or something. Assuming we don't have badges called that already.

if I set my status to LFT, I expect blinds, and usually accept. Nowt wrong with that. Most of the time, even when I am looking for a team (or at least open to the idea of teaming) I'll leave it grey, put the ol "please ask first" comment in, maybe even specify what sort of team I'm looking for.
If someone's set their status to Not Looking, or asks for no blinds, it's just rude to send them one, and could possibly be considered spam.

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Definitely grumpiER.

And Palladium, not Palladin.

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who is poppadum and why did he leave? and does it matter to the state of i14?

Stuff that's not so much work for them over all?

Some new cossies. I wouldn't mind if it was along the lines of i13. We got a bunch of variations on existing outfits with new suits and shirts and ties. Plus the nifty, asymmetrical police belt. A couple of new patterns, or something like new beards, hairstyles or whatever. A couple new weapons (I'm thinking bows here) would be nice too.

Power proliferation for a couple of ATs. There's still a few obvious ones to do, I think. I'm not as clued up as a lot of people, but I don't think Ninjistu for Scrappers or whatever would be too much work.

QOL changes, and hopefully some fixing of bugs, which amount to the same thing in a very broad sense.

I'm not sure we'll get many new missions. There'll be plenty once the Architect goes live anyway.

and...umm...I doubt we'll see anything else.

i15, I'd expect a revamp of a zone similar to what was done with Hollows (maybe even more substantial than that) and arcs and whatever. Dual Pistols please?

not naming and shaming, but I was on a lowbie alt the other day and got a blind from a guy, which i accepted, only to have him ask for more in local, i asked in broadcast and got 3 replies. when suggested getting said players, he either didn't know how or couldn't be bothered and passed me the star. i suggested sewers, to which i got told the other players were not high enough lvl. then when everyone we'd gotten on the team was waiting for him he tells me to come to him. while he stands at ms liberty. we were all the sewer entrance. he felt the need to continue to tell us how some of the team were too low lvl (he was 7 or 8) and was very impatient. seemed to think we'd all bow down in worship when he told us "I have vl36" too. when I eventually got bored of him and kicked (after he got "40" enemies after him, and kept telling us, no-one else but my scrapper over lvl 6, to "rez me") he followed us to kings, and when i told him "mate, I'm sorry, we can't take you anymore" he says "you said mate" "you must be my friend. pls invite"
i checked if he was not a native english speaker, to which he tells me he is english, but only 10. i told him to get parental supervision when playing a game with a 12+ rating.

playername does not exist on any US maps.

indeed. lets say for example a player was all grumpy one day and didn't bother helping out take down the tentacles, then joined in on the assault on the head, they'd still get the merits and the badge, for only a fraction of the work.

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Several suggestions to make teaming better have been suggested and a few significant ideas made it to the Devs attention via the old "Quality of Life" thread I believe.

The Devs do seem to be receptive to this but it's going to take a while for it to filter through to the ranks.

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you mean no-ones suggested these on the US forums?

i hardly ever send blinds, unless the message says something like "blinds welcome" or "always lft", but usually ask first. always say when i ask if the person is going to need to exemp or sk. usually say what i'm asking for (mish arc/papers/etc)

don't see why it's so hard to be polite when teaming.

and if i've set my message to "ask first pls" then, please, ask first.

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Well, they could get it from TNT if they felt it was that important.

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Or they could just do what I do. Write down a list of all my alts, with powersets and update level anytime one dings. Because I have a terrible memory

(And have no idea what TNT is, other than an explosive or a delivery firm)

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used to be a tv station too

personally I'd like to have a bit more info in-game, rather than getting a piece of third-party software. powersets, maybe SG if any, or let us add a note to each character.

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VEAT cossies are borked and a rip, nuff said. They were thrown together and their execution is half-baked .

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if i wasn't jamaican then why would i be wearin dis hat?

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*nods enthusiastically* Team Squishy, as we named ourselves when we were at 7 players (Controller, 4 Defenders, 2 Blasters), were on FINE form once we snagged Ultimate Stone to tank for us.

The highlight of the TF for me was undoubtedly facing off against Ghost Widow and Scirroco at the same time, and then doing the same with Black Scorpion and Cap'n Mako. There was one tiny moment of doubt in the first fight when half the team suddenly went RED after a particularly vicious AoE, but the healing was all good, and everyone was back up to full in an instant, and after that there was actually zero doubt in my mind that we would be able to take down the AVs, even in pairs. It may not have been blindingly fast, but it was fast enough, and they really didn't stand a chance.

Another amusing moment was after the scrap with Arbiter Sands at the end of the first mission, when someone (I think it was White Warlock, but my memory's pathetic) said "Wait, he was an AV?" That quote sums it up for me.

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haha, yeah, as squishy as we were, some of the bad guys were worse

yeah i only have one 50 and it's that toon i want to do the tf with anyway. shame these things depend on a particular setup of powersets and ats.

then again with 2 blasters, a controller, tank and 4 defs we did it, pretty darn easily. 2and a half hours including a break in the middle.

well done to all who turned up and special thanks to our last minute tank Ultimate Stone.

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Mender lazarus tf when completed gives both the enhancement reward table option plus the merits. I thought there was going to be no more reward tables

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emotes don't seem to work with shields drawn either

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Just made a minor amendment to the thread title for everyone on this. Not sure if I'm around this weekend (I should be), and would like to offer the services of a L45 Rad/Psi Defender who will probably need a SK, so if I can be added to the reserve list for 10/01/09, that would be awesome.

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anyone up for one this weekend? or before that. my 50 hasn't done it yet, and I'd really like to give it a go.
All Arrows Defender, Monarcher.

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It's always nice to flex my comic-book knowledge-y muscle:

That, is 'Speed Demon' - a Marvel speedster (in the picture you linked, he is the central one, with Quicksilver on the left and the Whizzer on the right).

Speed Demon was recently a member of the New Thunderbolts, a reformed villain who once worethe guise of the Whizzer, but as a villain, and not the classic hero.

Try the source HERE

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Thanks winter its nice to know my knolage of marvel comics isn't compleat i thought the only marvel(ish) speed deamon(s) were this lot

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that was one nice looking comic

i wouldn't worry about devs not seeing us on the city of sidekicks board, on their own US forum i'm quite sure there are more than a few folks demanding the right to bear arms in a videogame.

still don't see why its taking so long tho.

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Yeah, but I believe those mods are only client side. YOU get to see purple Rad blasts, everybody else around you still sees green. Changing the powers in-game is much harder, because they have said that the colour is actually coded into the power.

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If its coded into it then surely its possible to get an overwriting code that works similar to the mods and basically code it so that everytime it fires, its coded to follow the same rule as your personal view does.

This sounds a little complicated here so il break it down, if i use power blast for instance and its set to work on a purple blast, the code could be changed so that the colour you have chosen client side effectively overwrites the original for your charecter server side, i mean surely it cant be hardcoded indefinately if it works client side. Thats already half the battle.

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no no no, knowing is half the battle. not sure what the other part is, but i always assumed it was fighting.

i didn't get either email. just confirmed my email settings on nc site. not had anything for ages, not even a confirmation of purchasing extras like more charcter slots or the cyborg pack.

i wasn't sure this was how they were meant to work or if it was a bug.
personally I like the way it is now better, enemies spawning at a lvl to match the zone. makes it far easier to get the candy canes as a higher level.none of my lower lvl toons have been bothered by anyone else's mobs in this event either, unlike at halloween.

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Sewers work best in groups. Villians prefer to solo.

So imo it is not needed or for me even wanted. Just go hunt the streets if you like. Plenty of walking xp around there.

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I find that on villains I'm forced to solo. Would much rather team but its difficult to get a team and keep it together. Don't see why, surely outnumbering your opponents is more evil?

that's it? it wasn't the bug that makes me log in again everytime I click on a WW worker and get mapserver dc?

hopefully i'll be able to go to WW without crashing to login now

chainsaw should be a temp for the next round of zombie invasions.