GM Crumpet

blowhole!! <snigger> It's like many words, it's only dirty in the mind of a 12 year old boy. I used to giggle whenever my teacher said Uranus. And cummingtonite. And wait till you see some of the more out there village and street names in the UK 🙂

Clowns!! We need Clowns Masterminds!!

As if we would ever do that to reports of someone standing too close to an RP group and being threatening with a donut......

Necro thread. Locking.

The last time I had to give a blood test it was like treacle and they barely got half a test tube full. apparently I suffer from dehydration. So you are welcome to what I have, but you'll need a fork.

It was Agatha all along

Nobody on the HC team will care either. Clever bio, great costume, fun name. Inspired by is allowed if it's changed up enough. I'd say it's homage rather than parody, but either way it's not even slightly against the CoC.

PPL rights are very convoluted and seem very short sighted sometimes. At least with cosplay the rights holders understand the love for the characters and the free advertising they are getting. And you can multitask better than me. I can barely concentrate on not dying, I can't watch TV and do laundry too 😛

I understand the temptation to create your favourite characters in game. The costume creator is so versatile you can get a picture perfect copy if you want to. Some characters are really basic. Due to the limitations and time constraints of comics originally a lot of the older characters are very simple and are basically a body suit with detailing. We allow parody and homage. Change it up, move the colours round. make a pun name. I have Super-Duper Man. Body suit, pants on the outside, S on the chest, cape. But the colours are different to supes, He's blonde with a floppy fringe and a goofy smile. "Inspired by" is perfectly acceptable. As always, if you feel you have been generic'd in error you have a right of appeal. Pop a ticket in with your reasons as to why you think we were mistaken. It will be passed to the leads to adjudicate. Sometimes people have been successful. But if you have Deadpool and it looks like Deadpool and has a bio that screams Deadpool then don't expect a favourable result 😛

True, but it's not obvious. The kheldian one is basically rescuing the next chief Kheldian host from the Council. Lots of council caves and plenty of opportunity to get stuck in scenery.

It takes as long as it takes. If you have been playing a while and want to PL an alt to 50 then you can do it in a few hours . If you are a new player then don't do that. You won't have the roughly half a billion+ inf to make a decent level 50 character. Add to that, this isn't WoW or Diablo. The game doesn't start at level cap and give you lots of fun stuff to do. Half a dozen trials, half a dozen contacts, a few task forces. This game predates the modern idea of race to level cap. It's older than WoW and is designed round the idea that the game is the game. That's why there is no storyline to complete. It's a game of side stories with lots of lore but no through story. For other players who've been at it a while, it depends on how they play. Solo play enjoying the stories takes longer than 8 person teams where you never stop to breath. Those can be fun but also confusing as you just follow behind hitting powers and hoping 🙂 And my best time? I went from level 1 to vet 27 in two or three Mapserver events 🙂

It's a choice. If I'm solo then I'll KB as much as I like and enjoy bouncing people around the map. If I'm teaming I try not to. Playing something with important melee skills like a warshade or tank/brute it can be deadly to gather everything up then just as hit the button to do what you are going to do the other players knock them aways and you get nothing. Fold space/ shadow slip are amazing, but no good if someone decides it's boom time and my delicious dinner the enemies are nowhere to be seen.

I'd normally lock old necro threads but this seems like it's still relevant 🙂

Does he get captured at all so there is a mission to Free Willy? 😛

People donate, or don't donate as they wish. There is no reward, except to keep the game running. We aren't running for a profit and the staff are all volunteers who are passionate about the game and the players. Some people seem to think that means we are not as worthy as paid employees for some reason, but as with most ventures run by unpaid volunteers the passion and love is often a great deal higher.

And you basically called it right. PB and nictus are the same species, but in the distant past the nictus found they could extend their life and power by eating other PB's. There was a war and the Nictus scattered, and the PB's have been hunting them ever since. Earth is one of the battlegrounds as the Nictus found a home and a good source of often willing victims. They can both merge with hosts, but PB's merge with willing hosts who want to help, and Nictus merge with willing (or unwilling) hosts who want power. Warshades differ from Nictus in that they merge with willing hosts to try to redeem themselves and don't dominate the hosts like Nictus do. It takes a strong will to not be totally dominated by a Nictus. Many citizens of Paragon merge with PB's and become law enforcement agents. Lore-wise Warshades are seeking redemption and often (not always) merge with people who aren't exactly paragons of virtue who also want redemption. Sometimes it's accidental. The Nictus merges and the hosts will is so strong the nictus can only follow the hosts instructions. The act of merging slows the kheldian aging to almost nothing so they can live for centuries by moving from host to host. Many follow along family or religious lines and as one host is dying a new prepared host steps up. It's a fascinating part of the lore to be honest and you can have almost any back story you wish. (Everything I said is from an old conversation with the original devs. I don't have the link I'm afraid)

It depends on your RP take. Some people pick them because they are cool, others because they like the mechanics, others because they have a great back story. My warshade for instance was caught up in a peacebringer/nictus fight and came across a dying nictus. The human saved the nictus life by merging with him and the nictus was impressed with the humans kindness. A peacebringer leader arrived and tried to kill the new warshade but the human convinced her to give them a chance. They now work along with the peacebringers to help other nictus understand there is another way. In my mind it's more Venom than Trill. Two individuals in a mutually beneficial relationship rather than a merging of personalities and memories. The symbiote is generally bad, but the human is teaching it that there is another way to live. It still enjoys sucking the life energy out of the bad guys, but doesn't generally eat the good guys any more.

Well I would after getting over my irritation and slaughtering half the commuters in a wide area 😛

It's also worth noting that during Halloween the 5 badges drop 2 aether per badge for a total of 10 per character. We all stock up then 🙂

Dwarf/Nova shape change. Do it in front of newbies in Atlas, you get "That's so cool" 😛

You're better than me. I'd put my lasers on wide beam and clear a path!!

Excellent idea. I think all of us have spent more than we expected on something due to fat fingers and lack of attention. Paying that inf forward is probably the best way as bad actors will come forward and swear it was their inf. And we can't prove them right or wrong.

Unlike commercial game companies with schedules we release when we are ready and not to a deadline. On the one hand it means we are pretty sure the worst bugs are fixed as we don't have an arbitrary deadline (looking at you Cyberpunk 2077), and on the other hand it means we don't have a set release date where we can drum up excitement for the big day. We kind of go "well that's looking good, next Tuesday?" 😛

Well there's this thing I like, and that thing, and oooo there's that too!! I don't like that though, and that's not quite ready.... So there you go, that's all I know ff the top of my head 😛

I predict a riot!! 😛