khorak_EU

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*rolls eyes*

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Thanks for implementing the second stage of the Steretypical BS Procedure. They got to be the stereotypical male children, and you got to be the ivory queen!

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Whats RPing got to do with making missions?

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*shoots inZane with a tranq gun and steals his cake*
I was roleplaying a villain, and now you have a mission to get your cake back. See how that works out?
*fires a few more darts into inZane and walks off eating cake*

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Wait...is he short or is she huge?

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Well, theres this thing behind her in the background... Its called a.. (speaks slowly) "t-a-b-l-e", use that for a rough estimate for height size.

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Great. How tall is the table?

Me and Blue Rabbit managed to get spawns of single, +2 bosses in a mission despite, as he insists, the difficulty being as low as possible.

I suspect he's a fuzzy little liar, but we weren't having any problem getting bosses!

Wait...is he short or is she huge?

You would merely get a bunch of missions where heroes invade NCSoft offices and beat everyone up.

Due to the current crisis, NCSoft will only be accepting payment in material forms of stable high value. On the plus side, they won't charge us for the pickup of the gold and oil we will be paying with.

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I am right, and you're very welcome

pats Khorak on the head

Now run along like a good boy

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Oh shut up you idiot, you failed entirely to grasp the point being made and even enforced my reasoning that a united UK team would, and does, perform better.

Next time I'll write a lengthy treatise in crayon with a legal advisor, to make sure it's airtight enough to absolutely guarantee some tool like you can't ignore the entire subtext and explicit meaning in order to make some meaningless nitpick constructed entirely for some masturbatory smug satisfaction.

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Also, the hell are you talking about Khorak? Were you watching a different Olympics to me, North and South Korea were seperate entries last year.

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Meh, they marched together at least, I was mainly referencing the colossal pettiness of it, North and South Korea are constantly on a knife edge of total war in which Seoul will be immediately levelled by tens of thousands of artillery pieces that have been pointed at it for decades, and yet they march together and have been actually trying to have a single team, and the reason they don't have a single team has nothing to do with the megatons of high explosive ordnance. North Korea was even offered two matches of the 2002 World Cup by the specific request of South Korea. These guys are trying, when they really shouldn't bother.

The UK by comparison to that, really is just a joke to behold.

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If this were a rational business decision (and I can see how you might think it could be) it would have been handled in a calm, rational and more importantly phased manner. There would have been a plan put in place to let the Brighton staff know what that plan was, and more importantly reassure the paying client base (ie us)

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There was a plan put in place to tell the Brighton staff. They told them today. What are you expecting, personalised dossiers with intricate plans? What is this amazing world you've been living in, because I'd like to go there too, largely in the hope of it being made of chocolate.

It's incredibly simple; they made a decision in NCSoft HQ. NCSoft Brighton have been told about it today. The insane paranoia already displayed shows why there is no real attempt to 'reassure' us; because people will make completely ignorant and baseless assumptions with just the merest scrap of information to support their varying preferences of injustice and horror.

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That clearly hasn't happened, and the ensuing silence from NCSoft has led to speculation and rumour-mongering amongst the media which ultimately cannot be good for any NC product. The games industry is now going to wonder about the financial solidity of a company that makes such hastily and ill-judged decisions.

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They have offered voluntary redundancies and as GR implied, the possible potential for jobs to be relocated into the US with further potential that current Brighton employees can move there with them.

It is not possible for them to have any kind of detailed plan until they know what all the Brighton employees want to do.

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Ummmmm that's factually incorrect. The Great Britain team had arguably it's best Olympics ever and that is a team made up of the entire UK.

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Hence the example that even Korea managed a united Olympics team. Thanks for the condescension, but I suggest you keep it to use when....y'know, you're right.

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Horses can swim quite well

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Not when they've got a fat nerd weighing them down.

Yeah, some redundancies caused lag. What's next? NCSoft staffing policies killed your dog?

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Very true. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on the other hand...

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....are even worse, and the increasingly pathetic insistence on all having national teams prevents a unified United Kingdom team in any sporting endeavour from having at least a vague chance on the world scene.

Even ****ing Korea managed to get together a unified Olympics team, that's how petty the UK is.

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I do however have a sneaking suspicion that somebody at NCWest is gonna wake up and smell the coffee and go "[censored] WTFidun?"

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Where you got that suspicion from I don't know, because what they're doing makes absolutely perfect business sense and won't have any detrimental operational effect. In fact, we would get our information at the same time as the US boards, since the command loop will be real time across the length of a desk, as opposed to a half day time difference on the other side of the planet.

If we get given a hard working community moderator, he'll be able to answer our questions not by emailing someone in the US and waiting for what we hope is the right information....he can wander over to their office.

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I cannot see England winning anything, ever, sadly.

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Minor correction. Grammatical mostly.

Hell, I'll live in the US if it's the only way to get a job.

Uh....are you mental? They've moved all development positions in order to centralise their operations. It makes everything run smoother and cheaper. They'll leave basic support staff in place to run and administrate EU servers, but the most that'll happen to us is getting the forum merged into the US one so they can roll all community support together.

Essentially, now that money isn't so easy to come by, NCSoft are, like many other companies in the current environment, streamlining their operations and trimming the fat in a way they frankly should have in the first place but never bothered to when things weren't so difficult.

City of Heroes is still an NCSoft moneymaker and marginal as we may feel or possibly even appear, the EU servers aren't going anywhere because of that. NCSoft is cutting its overheads, not us.

*LMAO* You actually fell asleep at the computer whilst trying to complete a Task Force? That doesn't need an apology, that's awesome.

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There's only one pet damage set that has rech enhancement in it, and it's the Soulbound Allegiance purple recipe. Rumor has it it improves pet power recharges.

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Rumour? Be pretty easy to check for someone out there, don't upgrade a bog standard soldier, thug or battle drone and see how long it takes him/it to cycle through his one solitary attack.

Then slot in the purple and time it again.

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*hugs knees and rocks back and forth in remembrance of having done that TF and what it did to own sanity*

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More due to you spending a whole day travelling through the Shadow Shard due to faceplanting 3 seconds into each mission, than anything else I expect.

Scratch Fury! It's only Scott Kurtz, he can't do anything to you.

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It shouldn't be a problem really, most of the rifle powers have crab equivelents.

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Yes, but having the soldier powers AND the equivalents without the slowdown of redraw, would have made him an absolute blitz of blastery carnage and looked incredibly awesome.

It was the look I cared about more. You'd look like a walking armoury blasting bullets, grenades and energy cannons all over the place.

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You do realise that TF has been in the game since I2, right?

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And I've never done it. Do you have a point?

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