Techwright

Pretty sure that would negate our arrangement with NCSoft, though admittedly a lot of the arrangement is not known to the general players. That leaves us with word-of-mouth, and getting gaming magazines to discuss us. Signage from a biplane might work, too, if you own the biplane. Welcome Home, @Rheckawrecka! The first thing I normally point out to returning players is that many sluggish points of the past have been streamlined. For example, the store-bought enhancements have been streamlined, and more powerful enhancements are available earlier, if you have the INF (money) for them. This streamlining also includes travel options. Make a point to find 10 exploration badges as quickly as you can, and the game will unlock the Long-Range Teleporter, which will give you a timed-reset option to teleport to any zone where you've already tagged an exploration badge. The Oroboros portal access has been reduced from level 14 minimum, to level 1. Ask someone near Ms Liberty to drop an O-portal for you to access and claim a copy for yourself. Also, the devs have kindly created the Fast Travel feature (dark green "button") which acts like a menu. Keeping it in your tray means that you don't have to clog the tray with any travel power that can be accessed through its menu. You also may find a lot of useful shared info in this thread WuTang started last year:

The current open beta... Agreed. Had we truly need for more low-level content, farm runs to 50 would not be a thing, nor would repeated trips through XP-gushing Death From Below and the lower-level Task/Strike Forces, and places like The Hollows and Perez Park would be maxing out on player population. Perhaps what we need on low level content is refinements to what is already there to make it more challenging/satisfying for modern players to work through, rather than rushing to 50.

Don't bother. It's not the stuff you used to know. Not really, no. It is the nature of an MMO to not remain stagnant. Even the 2012 version of CoX was not the 2011 version (when I headed out to work with beta on Firefall), and certainly not the 2005 version when I joined during the first Winter Lord event. Some things change that I wished had not, somethings changed that I agreed needed to change. One just rolls with the punches. A comment like the OP is a glib straw man fallacy because there exists no one version of this game. Only stepping stones between patches. I can only guess what their thoughts would have been on WoW, for example, which has significantly rewritten the power sets, zones, indeed most of everything many, many times over. Even their WoW Classic (I think it is called) was not, at release, the same WoW that premiered in 2004. The developers even said so. Instead it was something very similar, but with a lot of tweaks to improve on original faults and to make the game compatible with modern technology.

@Grasshopper and I have a little SG (literally) we play occasionally called The Flea Circus. It's a carry-over from the original game. Here are some of the characters: side view for Ringmaster detail: Grasshopper's "Circus Hercules" has a single-shoulder half-length cape. I didn't get that very well in the shot.

If I may, I've entered the beta, and was completely confused when statements acting as past-tense, that is, as if I should have long known about it, started playing out about the KW branch of the PPD being corrupt. I've spent some time now in the new KW, and I still feel someone whacked me with a 2x4 with that news. It wasn't an organic step, came out of nowhere, and I didn't find any development of it...at least so far. There needs to be something in the game, possibly earlier released than this page that clues the players in that the KW PPD was found out and removed. SUGGESTION: I'd like to suggest that it be the newsboys that have been hawking newspapers for years on the street. If they suddenly started yelling out an Extra! that the KW PPD was being investigated and/or removed, that is a simple way to set the stage and get player curiosity ready for what happens next. I don't play redside enough to know if there's an equivalent to the newsboys there, but at least the dominantly-played side could receive the info. Likewise, suddenly seeing Emil Christie's name everywhere was jarring. Again, something like the newboys announcing some social news about Emil or maybe some financial or political news of Emil would better set the stage. In this case, even the guy walking the streets, the one that occasionally talks about a hero he/she is passing, might do well to pass along the information about Emil and his connection to KW. After all, the public likes to talk about the billionaires and what they do, be it charitable acts, power plays, or scandals.

Just an observation: The last mission of the Ziegler arc contains a ton of text and very interesting lore advancement, but I'm saying that as one who soloed the arc and had the time to read it. As it takes a lot of time to cover the text, is this really going to work for a full team, when the other 7 cannot read the text? Might there be a way for them to at least see what the team lead is reading? Otherwise, they're standing around for a while, which usually doesn't do well for maintaining team cohesiveness, when team members want to move on to the next arc to punch things.

Opening text for Chapter Four: Liquified Assets has orange-colored text reading: Ziegler hands you a photo. But I was calling this in from a great distance. It's a minor quirk, but weird. The game is set sometime after 2012. Might I suggest the text read something like: Ziegler transfers a photo to your smartphone. This would cover the discrepancy of handing a photo when your character is actually not in proximity.

I'm going to hope it is on the mid to higher side. He's bring an ensemble in, with several character either little known or unknown to the audience. They're going to need a bit of time to develop properly.

Says the Magic 8-Ball.

The Doorbuster Badge: Destroy 100 Force Field Doors, Magical Barriers or Reinforced doors. I do a lot of TFs having the required doors, and since 2019 I've never seen anyone interested in working towards this badge. How come? I realize a great many players are not "badgers" but I'd have thought I'd see someone ask the team to take out a few doors in the Yin TF police station, or the Council jail doors in Moonfire TF. Something like that.

Where is this? Somewhere red side?

No not a new kind of costume at iCon. Is there a hard number for when a thread turns necro? Does it fluctuate depending on the nature of the thread? For example, if no one posted a costume in, say, 60 days on the "post your best costume designs here" thread, would it then be a necro thread, or could it be added to at any point without scorn, while a restarted casual question thread with the same delay would be discouraged?

I suppose it depends on what you wish to get out of a community. Excelsior is the largest population, and I'm aware of some larger super groups there. It has some of the big costume contests. Everlasting is the unofficial role-play server, and I understand those can be a tight group. I regret that I know less of the other servers. Reunion is the European server, and Victory is our newest, having recently finalized a merger with us. Pretty much all of the servers have at least a rotation of community events like "Tanker Tuesday" or "Mastermind Monday". Perhaps others can provide better information.

I did some digging, and it appears that some fans have resurrected it, turned it into an HD Edition...and even given it a MMO sequel? I've not had a chance to install and look at both, but here's the link I tracked down: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=126999

Does Microsoft's Freelancer count? That was an amazing single-player game for its day. I'd always hoped they would have expanded upon the universe they created. It had great potential for converting to an MMO, but sadly, all talk of a sequel was deep six'ed and the game, so far as I know, was never updated to play on newer Windows versions.

I'll occasionally do the "Mastermind Monday" stuff, and yeah, visibility is tough, but I think there are three factors at play: 1. number of pets deployed 2. number of power effects deployed, and the color intensity and opacity of those effects 3. the type of map: a large outdoor area, a broad tunnel, blue tunnel, or the Katie Hannon TF in the narrow Redcap tunnels with roots sticking out. The more pets deployed, the more effects, and the tighter the map, the less I like a lot of masterminds. And yes, I know about the macro to turn off power effects. I do use it on my masterminds, however, there's a tradeoff as visual effects communicate information at times, such as who is shielded properly, rather than just putting up bright colors and cool patterns. I've found if a full MM team is in a city street map, for example, I generally like the full MM team. The Redcap tunnels, though, I cannot wait to see the exit signal.

Thumbs Left: "You're out of here!" (baseball umpire reference) Thumbs Right: don't use Finland: don't use Moose: don't use Banjo: light-hearted rimshot Staff of Esca, Aesca, whatever Staff: Healing, I wish healing to you Microphone: mic drop. The best or final word on the topic Pepperoni Pizza: I like this Pineapple Pizza: I don't like this

These are the two that appeal to me. Are they only going with 3 Earth-based Green Lanterns? What of Kyle Rayner? I'm wondering if they're going to take the time to explain why there are multiple Lanterns from Earth, when other sectors only have 1 to cover the full sector. I understand there was a Booster Gold in Smallville, but I'm ready to see a focus on the egotist-turned-hero.

Was it between 2 and 4 pm in the afternoon? Did you hear odd, tinny music playing outside?

I just learned a few days ago that the "kiddo" bit comes up with other contacts as well, just not as often as Twinshot. I'm trying to remember, but I think it was Roy in Talos that used it.

Which all actually makes sense in that, with a comic book multi-verse, some things change, some things remain the same between two close universes. It might actually be fun to have a couple of the previous actors "return" to this universe, but as different characters, much like the Arrow-verse had a bit of fun with that in their multi-verse crossovers and had Brandon Routh playing both The Atom and one of the Supermen. I do hope one of the changes, though, is that this universe's Flash does not perceive himself as a speed skater.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed the Ultraman-styled "U" . Unless there's a big reveal at the end, I suspect its just an Easter egg, but the style is very specific. Metamorpho actually is a good guy in other works. I think in the comics as well? He usually starts either confused, or on the wrong side and switches. His actor, Anthony Carrigan, is no stranger to DC projects. He portrayed one of Batman's Rogue's Gallery, the serial killer Victor Zsasz in the pre-Batman TV series Gotham. The lady I'm having trouble figuring out. Cybernetic weapon arms and a close alliance with Luthor would suggest Mercy Graves as the character, but I see no reference, currently, to Mercy in the IMDB listing. I believe Luthor had another, similar aid, Grace, at one point, but I don't see that name either. I guess she's The Engineer, then? I've only recently learned of the character. It apparently was one of several characters recently merged into DC Comics from another publishing house.

McFarlane, though, is labeling the box with terms like "DC Multiverse" and "DC Universe Infinite". Has Gunn or DC come out and said that his films version will be a multiverse version of the DC comics?

Back on the topic, namely the movie itself, I recognize several elements of the Superman and Justice League mythos, but I do not recognize the kaiju. Any ideas?

Thank you for the clarification.