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The declaration from the devs, IIRC, was that with two animated 'capes' it couldn't be done with the existing cape code. But since you can have a regular cape and the Tech Knight belt with the buttcape option, having two flapping cloth bits isn't the restriction, so I would guess that there isn't an attachment point on the character models for the front cloth, but it should be possible to work with the existing model for the Tech Knight belt to make something like the fore-and-aft sashes work. I don't know how the costume rigging works, so it's just a guess, though.

The double moon was, I think, an attempt by the devs to account for the visual illusion of the Moon being bigger when it is close to the horizon, except that it didn't work well, but was left as is because fixing it was so low on the priority list. That the Moon is still much larger than it should be was concerning enough that I bothered to do the math to check whether it was close enough to be within the Roche limit (which I also did for Voss in SWTOR... yes, I'm a geek).

The moon has been rising South by West and setting North by East in all the zones for as long as I can remember all the way back into Live. What's equally disturbing is that, despite orbiting at right angles to the ecliptic, it's still always full. After I tried asking the devs about it, I decided to handwave it as fallout from the Rikti invasion -- the portal they sent their ships through warped the moon's orbit to what it is now. And for those who don't recognize the directions I used, they come from the 32 points of the compass (north, north by east, north northeast, northeast by north, northeast, northeast by east, east northeast, east by north, east, etc.), and being able to 'box the compass' (recite all the points in order) was a skill expected of a sailor. Yet another of the odd bits of knowledge I've acquired over the years. (And if you think that's a lot, for fine measuring there were quarter-points, and back in the Age of Sail a sailor would be expected to know all 128 of them.)

I have the same problem with Heather Townsend while doing her arc as a Flashback; the interface opens, but nothing will sell.

The only 'special Korean parts' it has is that it includes the anime-style costume pieces that were added prior to the abortive Korean beta; since we got all those pieces as part of one of the costume packs (which are all unlocked in HC), it's got nothing you haven't seen before.

3. I didn't comment on it because you threw enough different powers into it that "burning the use of that power until it recharges" is sort of moot, although many people only have one of them. Still, all it requires is throwing enough inf at the P2W vendor to address. 4. Having the 'solution' to a problem being requiring a specific power choice on the part of the players with the problem is not viable, either. 5. I used quote marks to indicate paraphrasing. "Just click the exit and grumble about it later" is both 'suck it up' and a 'not my problem, I can't be bothered to care' attitude. Yes, your alternatives don't involve the HC staff... and every single one of them amounts to "suck it up, find a way to deal with it, and stop bitching about it". This was a thread describing a problem -- one I've had myself when I try to click on the portal in Ouroboros on the occasions when there were a tight mass of characters jammed tightly around the portal to the point where it took me over a minute to find a viewing angle where I could a) see the diamond in the glare of more than two dozen visual effects, and b) click on it without having someone's character in the way -- to see if there were enough other people who had the same problem to toss it up to the HC staff for consideration for a change to address the problem. Every single suggestion presented on the forums would involve work on the part of the staff -- but if no one ever brings up a problem, they won't know that there are people who consider it a problem, and it will continue to be a problem.

1. ...along with everyone else in your SG and the other people that you regularly group with. Not logistically feasible. 2. ...after the wait for your Ouro Portal recharge, because you used it to get to Ouro in the first place. Adding a several-minute wait is even more inconvenient than trying to fish out the exit from the crowd. 4. ...if you have a teleportation power. 5. "Just suck it up" is a fairly insensitive suggestion, in essence the "It's not a problem for me, so your opinion doesn't matter" attitude. Rather than moving the arrival point or imposing an intermittent repulsion field, a potential solution would be to alter the Ouro portal graphic and activation point to make it taller, putting the targetable part high enough that it doesn't get buried among all the people standing at the arrival point. The third-person view that is the default in the game makes raising the target point a negligible change for the players.

In the invasions, new mobs spawn to the NE of characters, with the chance and size of the spawn dependent on the size of the group of characters. If the spawn position is in mid-air, the spawned mobs will fall to the ground; if the spawn position is inside the ground or a building, the spawn will be canceled. Because of the range limitations of the melee characters, unless you're willing to 'take fire' from a new spawn until it closes with you, characters will follow the new spawns to engage them, producing the migration of the fight.

There are a lot of characters for whom Julius Fucik's "Entry of the Gladiators" would make appropriate theme music... 😉

Blame the predictive options in the keyboard software on my tablet; I typed it as 'carmena', but the 'default' choice was 'carmen', and I didn't notice.

Try listening to the Missa Hilarious, S. N2O, by PDQ Bach, one of his few pieces of religious music, discovered in the Vatican archives along with other documents pertaining to PDQ's excommunication... 😉

I was having abusively bad rubberbanding on Excelsior on Monday, in one case jumping back almost a minute's flight -- halfway across the RWZ -- and taking more than a dozen tries to get from the RWZ base entry to Lady Grey. Later I had the oddest case of a bad connection, where I was zoning via the tram, had the connection hang, drop back to the sign-in screen, then when I was about to sign in again, it jumped to the zone loading screen and eventually dropped me in the tram station in the new zone. I attributed it to a network glitch, logged out for about five minutes, then back in, and the rubberbanding was mostly gone, just some minor jerkiness.

No, it's not; I routinely pick up missions from Rick Davies and Azuria on starting characters along with Matthew Habashy, regardless of the character's origin.

We'll just have to sentence you to listening to "Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice", an opera in one unnatural act, by PDQ Bach, S. 2n-1. The work was a commission for the Vienna Opera Company, and PDQ had almost finished when he discovered that the Vienna Opera Company consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Vienna and their little boy Rudy. Since the work had seven speaking parts, he at first despaired of getting a performance, until Frau Vienna convinced him to rewrite it so that she could sing all the female parts and Rudy the male parts, while Herr Vienna played the piano, decked out in his best suit of formal attire... the famous Tails of Old Vienna... And if that doesn't fill you with trepidation, there are other works of his we can subject you to...

Using Wormhole with "up:max" as a destination has an odd bug -- sometimes, the mobs you loft have a Wile E. Coyote moment and forget that they're supposed to fall, and remain standing in mid-air.

I tried that in Kallisti Wharf yesterday, but couldn't get enough damage on them before they hit for the impact to kill defeat them, so I don't know.

While researching a bug in the Halloween event -- ToTing at the doors on the W side of the spire in the middle of Kallisti Wharf will spawn invisible mobs if you get a 'trick' when knocking -- I decided to see if it was the whole building, and went around to the east side and clicked on the doors there. To my surprise, I didn't get a ToT result. The building has an interior: It's not big enough to hold one of the full-blown costume contests that the HC staff created Echo Plaza for, but it's plenty for most of the more impromptu ones.

The power Lightning Field in the Electricity Mastery pool, if you mouse over the power in the enhancement management window, lists "Allowed Enhancement Set Categories: Melee AoE Damage, Universal Damage Sets, Endurance Modification, Healing". The power is a PBAOE minor energy DoT and endurance drain; there's no healing in the power. The Allowed Enhancements list correctly fails to list Healing.

The four doors on the west side of the central building in Kallisti Wharf (the center island, facing the statue of Statesman), when knocked on in the Halloween event and getting a 'Trick', spawn completely invisible mobs -- they can be targeted, and show information in the targeting window, but the mob model and the above-head name, HP bar, and End bar are all missing: The mob in the screenshot above is a Crone, so this is not a case of a Spirit going immaterial and running away. This happens with all four of the doors on that side of the building.

I'm not sure whether this is working as designed or a bug, but if your character is wearing the PPD Hardsuit costume when the Halloween banner event starts, the 'lights' on the hardsuit turn off: They come back on when the banner event ends, so it would appear to be a function of the banner event itself.

That's 'O Fortuna' ( Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi) from 'Carmen Burana' by Carl Orff.

You will see this any time you are standing on a spot where the area to your NE is significantly lower than where you are standing. Watch the invasion spawns -- both zombies and Rikti -- and you'll see that they spawn NE of you, so if you move in that direction to fight them, the spawns will move NE as the invasion goes on. This is why the Portal Court fights in PI drift toward the drones. What this means is that if you park on a ledge or roof on the N or E edge, or on the War Wall on the S or W sides of a zone, the spawns will be at your physical level NE of you, and will fall away to the ground. I've watched this happen with a character parked in the SE corner of the hospital roof in DA.

I think they're referring to the recurring requests to amend the respec process so that, instead of having to completely redo your build, you can select individual powers and slots to be re-allocated.

Bio Armor didn't come out until after Power Customization, so you can at least color it to look like something else. Stone Armor users were stuck being partially covered in brown glop (loosely stone textured) with optional glowing green crystals (depending on which toggles you were running), so you were stuck running around looking like you were covered in говно.

Today, 10/3, in an unusual bit of insight on the part of an NPC: [NPC] Gravedigger Brawler: Is it halloween already?