GM Crumpet

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!! 😛

Cute boys maybe 😛 And have you seen My Super Ex Girlfriend?

Under no circumstance should I ever be given super powers. I'd like to think I'd be Superman, the reality is I'd be Homelander. Calm. cool, collected, and then get frustrated and irritated and use power wildly in excess of what any rational person would consider proportionate. Cut me off in traffic and half of California would be a radioactive wasteland. "Oops!! My bad!!"

Willpower is great until you get hit by -regen and suddenly your HP tanks. I've had some hairy moments on my WP tank a few times

As others have said, the name thing isn't live yet and there will be plenty of warning before it does go live. Even then it just changes your name from reserved to available, it doesn't wipe it. So in theory someone can snipe in after the time and take it, but in reality unless it's something really popular or obvious the chances of it vanishing are slim.

For people who have the same problem, as long as you remember the email you used to create the forum account you can get a password reset, then go into game account management and see your login name and change the password

I love that 🙂

Looks like the usual suspects 😛

But back on topic, The early Admin staff like Cipher, Number Six, Telephone and Jimmy were instrumental to getting us off the ground and running. It was very chaotic in the beginning, and while I don't know who else was involved I do know they spent many sleepless nights getting us off to a good start.

Pah, another one of my schemes rumbled!!

I am. I'm replying to a comment from earlier

We love puppies!! Anyone who says otherwise has never met our puppers!!

If you just want to bind a power to a key with no fancy business you can use the keybind menu in options