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Or on porpoise?

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The inital hit of copying the game over to the ramdrive is going to take a little time, whatever 2G will take.

After that, the loading times of the game starting, and the zones, will be a LOT better. But that is all you'll see. The actual game syncing to the servers will not change, nor will any in game activities. Just initial load and zone loads.

Ok, now I'm SO going to play that arc. Thanks!

The ones BillZBubba used in his arc... nasty little buggers.

/forget their names... black, hoofed, burned winged demons of hard. It was glorious for Homeslicer.

Do I smell a "City of Heroes: Construction" expansion coming soon?

Issue 16 maybe? Where we can do our own maps ala the Quake series, Flight Simulator, and others?

That would totally rock, and you all know it.

Oh, and so I stay on thread target, I vote for the following:

Moon Base with apropos physics. I'll superjump right off the moon, babies.

Danger Room ala Ender's Game. Although we won't call it that and it won't look like it was described, but you get the idea. An orbital playground of win, freefall style.

/no editing current maps, though, forget it.
//No.
///Really, no. Melissa does a fine job on those.

Definitely. This explains why Positron hasn't been doing anything with Sorina and the team... or as a couple... lately.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....art=43&vc=1

/still chagrined about my faux pas in there..
//Kinda stopped flailing now...

After watching the trailer, I only have one question... When does the movie come out? Because this is gonna be that good, methinks, and there needs to be a movie. Seriously.

/This is gonna be GOOD!
//Or evil...
///or... er... rogue-ish?

I, myself, moved to Skyway or such. Works great. Not very populated.

Then again, I'm not on Freedom, so I don't know if that works for everyone...

No, it's now entirely different... hm.

But I've figured out that it's not missing... it's LATE.

As in, you have to be on top of the hostage/captor group before they say anything... so the point of having 'unaware' dialog is kinda moot, isn't it?

Not real sure what that means... I bugged it... kinda odd though.

I waited all day, and nobody came in to say anything. It's ok. I understand, everyone's to busy playin' with MA, right?

So, to test things, I made an arc called 'One... with Everything." I put in exactly one of every possible thing you can do in a single mission. defeat all, escort, hostage rescue, ambush, defend, destroy, you name it there was one of it, if it was available to pick.

So I rescued Joe Helpless, I escorted The Hated Escort Service, defeated everyone, defeated da Bawss, and his ambush spawn, broke up a fight and then kicked their behind parts, defended an A-Bomb from clickyclacks, and blew up a buncha TNT.

All of which spoke. It was funny to see the A-Bomb say "I'm a bomb.". I had other words, but I didn't let it get to the 3/4 defeated stage. And the TNT said stuff too. Including "BOOOM! Head Shot!" when it blew up and stunned me.

But all of those aren't custom characters, like my two hostages are in my other arc. So I suspect it's either that arc is broken, or the custom hostages are the issue.

I will inform tomorrow or so after I specifically test for this.

Hola all.

Trying to make myself an arc, and my first try is progressing slowly, but surely.

One of the problems I've come across is an issue with dialog for captives, captors, and ambushes. I've typed some dialog in some of the possible entries, but not all, as I didn't want to have this or that dialog.

Is it required that all dialog fields be filled out for the dialog to work? Or am I going to have to start my arc over from scratch to get it to work?

It's currently the first mission, and I can't seem to get the captives placed right, which I can fix with maps, I think... Outdoor missions don't have a front, middle, or back, it looks like... which I find a little odd. But the dialog, I'd surely like to see.

It's not the same problem as the others I've seen in here where the bubbles don't show, but are in chat, or the like... there's no dialog at all. Nowhere. Especially annoying because the ambushes don't announce themselves. Which is an angle I could explore, but I *want* the announcement text.

Thanks for your help!

Best reason:

I have 12,542 arcs I could make. Seriously. They wouldn't be any good, but I could do it.

Now, multiply that by hundreds (thousands?) flinging a "I'm gonna throw together, I just wanted to do it" arc, then abandoning it because they don't have to care about what happens to them is the biggest problem they face... sheer amount garbage arcs issue. Not that they're all garbage, surely, but you get the point.

All the farms, exploits, etc... whatever. The storage/indexing issue is the problem. Gotta limit things where ya can... this is their way. Make an awesome Dev Choice arc and you get a free slot. Don't, and you don't.

Now as to why they picked three? Well, I mean, c'mon... Three is a magic number, after all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11N-BD1aBo0

Indeed! Seeing Sister Flame there was excellent. All three were, but SF always makes me smile, as I remember the stories of her younger days.

An excellent article. I hope to see more of these, honestly, a worthy addition to the Scoop I cannot think of.

...unless it was maybe a set of winning lottery numbers for the next drawing over $12mil that only I could read... but that'd be asking a bit much.

/Sister Flame Clicky-Clack Posse, represent!

Allrighty then. I'm gonna go with laugh.

/PM Lighthouse when you don't want responses.
//And enjoy the lag, I guess.
///Not laughing... rather irked now.

re: Lag..

Just to explain where I'm at: I run on a Core 2 Duo E6750, 4G, Vista Ultimate 32, NVidia Geforce 9600GT 512MB video, onboard Realtek sound, system. I run this through two routers (connected to a wireless, then connected that to a wired... it's a complicated story, but it works) and I run Comcast Cable internet.

I experience no lag during the Zombie events. I have been in them on Pinnacle, Champion and Freedom, both villain and hero sides.

I suspect it's something on your end, perhaps something to do with your computer. You should start a new thread Darth. We can point an lau...I mean, attempt to help you with the lag issue you seem to have. Maybe we can alleviate it that way.

I am NOT saying that my experience is typical... although I think it may be. Otherwise... the servers would be rather dead, and the zombies would win.


Hyperstrike: Use of reverse psychology is an excellent thing. Keep it up, and we'll soon have what I want. Thanks! Everyone else 'complain' too!

^ This

Or better yet, this:

The beginning of Thriller starts... All the heroes/villains (herein 'heroes') will automagically be dressed in either Michael Jackson or Ola Ray costumes. Zombies show up. Everyone, heroes and zombies alike will move towards the gathering location... until a massive group teleport takes place, and everyone is all gathered up. The Thriller main theme theme (DA Daaaaa! Da da daaaa!) hits, everyone faces the same direction, starts dancing uncontrollably for 1 whole minute. The music stops, the zombies are autokilled, everyone gets XP, Vincent Price caclkes, and can go about their buisiness.

That would rawk. I'd so totally pay to take part in this in the game.... once. Afterwards, you get the 'Dancing Machine' badge on that character and you can just be a bystander and watch all the others have to be tortu... I mean, take part.

/No, really, I'd pay for it.
//I know, I know... I'm odd.

Why... I think it is! Yay mods!

/now all I have to do is keep commenting in it... that'll confuse 'em!

'Woman Up'
grammar

<--Official Mid_Forever spell checker and... uh... well, I dunno what I'd be for the first part. 'Gender checker' seems a little naughty...

/Walkthrough I let slide, even if Chrome says otherwise. I think it's wrong, so there.

There you go, using "not used it before" methods to prove me wrong.

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Curse you Zloth! CUUURSE YOUUUUUU!
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/Seriously - Homestar Runner
//Oh... and maybe split up with the good stuff staying, and the weird stuff left behind? Just a suggestion.
///AND... Yes, Mods, STICKY.

Which brings up the topic, so it's not off topic now. Yay.

That's what's screwed up about these Windows products. Can't leave well enough alone, and just *build* on something... Gotta go make some silly change that is "for the better" but just makes it more confusing. I love the Add/Remove Programs, for example, it makes a sorta sense... but in Vista, it's 'Programs and Features'. WHY?! We had it figured out, guys! Stop making the targets move!!!

That change alone torqued me off so bad... Not only is it named differently, it's freakin' MOVED. Now that I know where it is, I am ok with it... I guess... still isn't really 'right'... but I'm sure there'll be an entirely NEW name for the next version... sigh.

Of course, they woudn't have that issue if they didn't allow me to use 'Classic' mode... I refuse to use Control Panel the other way. It sucks. For the record, MY Vista is set to be like XP... with a proper Run and Shutdown. Classic look to it, as they call it. Because that Vista style is stupid, IMO.

Unless you're a Mac fan, I suppose. I can't figure out why else they're doing it. Which is a whole other debate, but really... stop trying to copy something you already pwn in sales, Microsoft. Bad enough one has to 'Start' to 'Shut down'. Now you gotta 'Search' for something to 'Run'? Um... yeah, not so much, guys, that's just taking it too far. Stop obuscating, people aren't *entirely* stupid and need spoon feeding and guidance.

Imagine if, oh, I dunno, CoH had decided that the mouse was gonna be used for firing off powers only you had to move/look with the arrows only. You might be able to adjust, but more likely, you'd move on, cursing Co*, or you'd put it in 'Classic' mode. Which isn't explained that you can do, by the way.

That's what they did. They moved stuff, changed it, and just confused people. I think this and UAC alienated a ton of people. But that's just my opinion.

Now... what were we talking about over here again?

Zloth, I had maybe one or two nitpicks... but I decided that they were so inconsequential that I had nothing to say... except maybe: WOW. You spent a lot of time on that... good job!

I simply came in here to say... the video with the destruction then rise of the phoenix rez? Simply awesome. I'm so gonna make a character around this just so I can do this once a session.

yeah yeah, whatever you nay sayers, and right on you adopters of packs... Include me in the "bought it" category. I now expect Moon Base for I-15, kthxbai.

/wif a space suit costume free.
//and correct gravity
///wif awesme physx bits.
////and a cookie... iced oatmeal cinnamon rasin.

Just had to comment some more on stuff bein' seen in here...

Remember the 'I12 isn't gonna be all that much' vibe we were getting? Y'know... before we found out that it was all that, and a bag of potato chips, plus some great ice cream and a sack of candy too?

Maybe this I13 thing is like that... Posi teases us with some of it... but then the reality is more than we ever dreamed... Of course, you didnt' hear that from me... as truly, I don't know..

Either way... it's pretty damn impressive a list as it is, if you ask me. Programming wise, that list of stuff is a *freakin' huge* thing to get set up and workin' in a few months... Oh, and bugs squashed too, like the backs for crabs(?) and chat issues... I think they're doin' a grand job... although I still don't see grappling/web/nanotube/? slinging as a powerset yet...

*raises his drink in toast* Here's to a very successful and awesomely recieved I13! And a hearty thanks for it beforehand!

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So you really think Pain Domination will have big heals like Empathy? I just don't see them giving MMs a real healing set. I hope I am wrong though. I it turns out to be a good set I might actually role a Thugs/Pain.

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From the notes re: I13:

Pain Domination – Villains can now bend the power of pain to serve their own ends! Those playing a Corruptor or Mastermind have access to this new powerset. The antithesis of the Hero healing powerset “Empathy,” Pain Domination brings parity between Heroes and Villains with a distinctively evil flair.

I read that as I can *dish out* pain to my targets. Totally reverse empathy.

*rereads*... WAIT. Not a Dominator power? Phooey... oh well, she can be a Corr. No big, I suppose... she *is*, after all, a half sister to be...

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That's what I mean. I think most people are thinking it is going to be like Empathy for vilaains as in big heals. I'm thinking they mean it is the antithesis in terms of ideology. I'm thinking it won't have good heals

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The word used is "antithesis". This, to me, indicates exactly what they mean... If you wanted a truly evil sister to the one with Empathy, you dish out some pain... So yeah, I'm totally thinking that if I'm right... heals will siphon greatly... as there won't be any with that set.

However, I'm now wondering how it will truly wind up... Because I can see pain management... but that's more empathic than not. So I really don't think it's about any sort of healing at all, but what Cerise, the Mind/Psi Dom truly wants to be... the dealer of hurt, instead of her goody two-shoes sister Ruby, who's the Mind/Emp 'Troller.

But that's ok, because the just now created Rose Dawn, long lost half sister, is ready to step in on my 13th slot placeholder on Pinnacle. She's currently an Energy/Storm Corrupter, and is standing by in Breakout, waiting to be deleted and reborn as her true Pain disher, whatever that form takes, including MM or Corr. It will be interesting to see what it shapes up to be!

/My anticipation is like a Mervyns commercial: Open. Open. Open. (as in, open up the beta invites and lemme SEE already.
//Now jinxed it for myself, but oh well.