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Something to also keep in mind is once a trust is breached, something with the potential to breach it in the same way or, even just cause victims of it to be reminded of it is put under much harsher scrutiny that it was before that trust was broken. From what was posted it seems like the SG is a very tight knit social group that also happens to play CoH, as such more akin to a group of friends. They are offering an opportunity in recruitment to make more friends, but they don't need them so the onus is on the applicant to prove they are worth the time. It no way should it ever be assumed that open recruitment means that everyone gets some kind of fair standardized score that determines acceptance. If something about your past made someone there uncomfortable, they are well within their rights to just say 'no'. Much like a lot of things in the world, you don't get to chose if someone is offended, to you it was a minor thing you did years ago for such a little time it shouldn't matter, but to them it may represent being taken advantage of by someone presenting the same as you are, and would make them apprehensive anytime you are around. Accept that there isn't anything you can do about their memories of something you were briefly associated with, and try again with other people. None of us are perfect, but even if we admit our mistakes that may not be enough for someone else. I mean, there are stories of people ending up with a character name that someone else had on Live and third parties being like 'you may not be the same player, but I just can't interact with that name, sorry' 🙂

Heh, I know that feel, I have a couple artists bookmarked that I like their aesthetic but am unsure they can apply it the way I'd like to my characters. egoNorainu _may_ still have the other custom slot still open but I know they've been having trouble with dA recently, ended up sending me the finished piece by email because it wouldn't upload.

You start with an email/notification that says 'In six months' and allow confirmation of activity through email. Everyone has access to their email at least once every six months if not the game.

More Commission Time! Ambrose "Oz"/Lithium in casual clothes by the awesome egoNorainu ( https://www.deviantart.com/egonorainu ) I love the outfit, all the artist's choice after describing him as 'shy, kinda geek, bad with complements but also physically fit because he does heroics in secret outside of college'

Another awesome Kaiserin piece, this one from Indibun at https://twitter.com/indibundraws with two versions! The ingame since it's not her usual

As someone who can't attend because of prior plans, it would be nice for anyone else in a similar situation if the groups attending would put together a simple advert/summary with contact info for @Shadeknight to post in this topic after the fair!

Well, kinda have to pop your theory about Brickstown 🙂 It sounds like a good idea, and it absolutely started as prison support, The Zig was originally known as The Brick, but there is too much evidence in the game that it's now just another city zone that also happens to have a supermax prison in it. Kinda have to point out that all the city zones are surrounded by walls so that's nothing really different than King's Row, or Skyway, or any of the interior city zones, they all have limited access, as it was to protect from the Rikti(nevermind the ships that fly right over them we're not going to get into that lunacy 😂), that Brickstown only has one 'escape' connection is because the other became an ecological mess. Venice(Crey's Folly) and Woodvale(Eden) used to be central parts of the city, so it stands to reason that once upon a time Brickstown was the fringe, but over time Paragon expanded past it, into the industrial Venice and the well off suburbs of Woodvale(Eden). Technically, prisoners can escape to the Folly and Eden but that just makes their situation worse now. Pre Rikti, the path to Venice would not have been guarded, and from there it would have been easy to hide out or try to make their way to the suburbs and escape the city. Crey actually isn't in the zone for any appeal or use of prisoners, that may be a side gig for them, but there are actually Crey buildings in several zones, and more importantly, it was called Crey's Folly because Venice was their major HQ before the disaster that ruined it, so when they pulled out, they pulled out to Brickstown. You can see NPC chatter in Crey's Folly of them still trying to reclaim things from the zone, it makes sense for that to have a big presence in Brickstown. Their PR reps out on the corners as NPCs also have lines where they are demonstrating for citizens and residents. If you are inclined to consider stuff from the Story Bible to be canon as well, Crey has personnel called Hacks that work exclusively in the Zig as guards which would make sense for their corporate office to manage them to be close by. Most damning though, is that Brickstown is where the Praetorian refugees were resettled. After The Council broke out all the prisoners in the Zig in Marchand's New Praetorians arc(it literally specifies all, heh), it's revealed that the New Praetorians have taken up residence there, and that's where the bulk of the refugees have settled. I can't imagine that many of them are prison employees, and that heavily implies that the infrastructure either exists, or was built, to support a couple hundred to thousand people depending on how many people you attribute surviving Praetoria.

Because I loved the style so much, a semi chibi of Realgar/Gabriel, my fire/storm cross fox coloration half kitsune. Suave talker, black ops, perfect choice for adorable 😄 By Cheetaha8 on deviantArt

Yes, it's not CoH, its FFXIV, but I'm sharing because its a @MysteryMouse commission! In case you want to throw money at a local, so to speak, for art 😄

It's a zip file, so a lot of 'secure browsers/brower features' (especially from antivirus software) will do that because it's not hosted on an SSL enabled site 🙂

I'm cross posting this in Roleplaying and Architect Entertainment because its kinda both and kinda neither. Almost two years ago now, I ran a longform RP story arc campaign for the New Praetorians Initiative SG on Everlasting that had a great reaction and engagement, and so I did my best to reverse engineer it so that other people can run it for their own groups, or, run through the AE portions as a player themselves The arc is called Future Perfect Progressive, and deals with a loose end from the City of Roleplay Discord arc Electric Sheep(which is explained for those that aren't familiar with it!), Malta's actions in Praetoria before and after the fall, and the dissatisfaction of Praetorian youth old enough to remember it ten years later. If you'd like to run it for your SG, you can grab the GM Pack which contains explanations, information prompts, media, assets and example scenes from the campaign, or, if you just want to read about it and play the AE arcs, you can grab the Replay document which is like a Choose Your Own Adventure book where you can read through, make a choice, and play an AE to go through the plot as if you were a member of the NPI SG. Please enjoy it and have fun!

I'm cross posting this in Roleplaying and Mission Architect because its kinda both and kinda neither. Almost two years ago now, I ran a longform RP story arc campaign for the New Praetorians Initiative SG on Everlasting that had a great reaction and engagement, and so I did my best to reverse engineer it so that other people can run it for their own groups, or, run through the AE portions as a player themselves The arc is called Future Perfect Progressive, and deals with a loose end from the City of Roleplay Discord arc Electric Sheep(which is explained for those that aren't familiar with it!), Malta's actions in Praetoria before and after the fall, and the dissatisfaction of Praetorian youth old enough to remember it ten years later. If you'd like to run it for your SG, you can grab the GM Pack which contains explanations, information prompts, media, assets and example scenes from the campaign, or, if you just want to read about it and play the AE arcs, you can grab the Replay document which is like a Choose Your Own Adventure book where you can read through, make a choice, and play an AE to go through the plot as if you were a member of the NPI SG. Please enjoy it and have fun!

Hey, back in those days we were all trying to fight things way over level from forgotten ambushes, it's legit 😄

I will totally hit you up with a file for this! Life got busy there but the makerspace I have access to has a CR10 and uses Cura so the settings file would also be super great to start from! Expect a DM later today 😄

Still have all the Blue King ones! I got rid of the Top Cow ones as the art IMO was more terrible that not, and frankly the stories such as they were were not nearly as interesting to me as War Witch, Apex, and Horus 🙂

Oh wow....I have access to several 3D printers...... what material are you using, and will the STLs have supports in file or will they need to be added?

You can still demoedit! You can find information on how to use Tequila to do playback and such here and if you go to https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Main_Page and search 'demo' it will bring up all the Demo Editing/recording/model names pages, some of the newer models are missing but you can find out their names by recording content with them in it.

So I'm curious, without derailing other threads, how people decide to buy commissioned art. With specific birthday/holiday/bonus money? Do you have an 'art' budget? Whenever the whim strikes you? Anything under X amount? Only things on sale/by friends/on a specific platform? @Draggynn you seem to have the same system that I do, a sort of 'fun allowance' that can be used for commissioned art or new games or books, is that right? I admit that's where I ended up after a couple of failed attempts at curbing my habit, the first being setting a 'per piece' limit(that I then regularly made excuses as to why it was okay to go over...) and the second being setting a 'number of pieces' limit per three months(to which then at least one someone I had been waiting for commissions to open for would open and I'd say 'but who knows when they will open again' and break that one)

I guess we'll have to just disagree then, as I'm very sure that if there were no $25 options, the people who can afford $25 wouldn't magically buy $100 options, that's like saying if there were no Civics/Jettas people would just save up and buy Porsches when really they'd just give up on getting a car! But not going to derail this thread about NFTs any further 🙂

As someone who posted a lot of those artists I'm sure(Jtran/Daos, MaHenBu, HugoHugo, Avionetca....probably a lot more...), I was always happy to share when artists I commissioned had sales going on, because people's budget for art and what they consider is 'worth it' is vastly different. There are a number of wonderful CoH playing artists whose art I think is great, but that I will never be able to afford because of my own budget/guilt limit per piece of art, and it's unfair to say that lower quality lower cost artists 'destroyed the idea of getting any kind of reasonable rate' as most of the people that used them would never have been customers of the higher priced artists in the first place. That said, selling NFTs of something that was done as a commission is very sketchy, considering that most commissions mean giving the commissioner the full size file and the art is attributed with 'character belongs to'.

I will leave this to others as it took a hint and hours for me to find one, and I already found the secret room so I'm good but I look forward to the race! 😄

It's super fun seeing all the styles!

Approved! 😄 Thank you so much! People will just have to imagine, pretend it looks like this, heh

Hi! We do that in Brickstown AE all the time. We've found some fun new people that way because open world RP is a great time. You might want to set up a tab that separates out team and local if its a problem for you, as having what we're doing out in the open is kind of the point. Or at least avoid Brickstown AE 🙂