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    Destroyed City?

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    3 hours ago, Krimson said:

    It still has electricity and I'm guessing that the plumbing still works. Civilians still walk the streets. It's a functional neighborhood and not at all destroyed. 

     

    I'm not sure that's true. I think some of the buildings are 2 feet deep in "water" and very dark

     

    A bit bothered

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    sounds like a rough time for the OP which is sad.

     

    I also feel sad for the player in question.

     

    I think maybe the player has some serious trauma relating to shutdown. We know memory is faulty and s/he has had over a decade to misremember stuff (a natural thing) and paint rose and gold over those memories.

     

    then the current reality smacks them in the face and "IT'S NOT HOW I REMEMBER IT!"

     

    That can be genuinely traumatic. But if that person was struggling and distressed it's unlikely they would be open to explanations/discussion/teaching and might rail. We know nothing about them or their situation.

     

    I hope this doesn't colour OP's good nature for the future and I hope the other person finds a way back to enjoy the game.

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    Au Revoir My Friend, you were faithful for many years

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    37 minutes ago, Booper said:

    This was brought up before, the most recently (that I recall) was when the NCSOFT Licence Agreement was announced.

     

    In the FAQs, the following was mentioned (see screenshot):

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    Maybe worth reminding everyone that it was going to be switched off a week or so before... just to jog memories. I certainly missed it in the HC/NC announce cuz it was relatively uninteresting news at a time of great excitement about other stuff... easy to skip. I guess most folks know now but I did look in the Announcement section and didn't find anything obviously on a cursory search. Not saying it wasn't there - but if it was, it was not at all prominent.

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    Au Revoir My Friend, you were faithful for many years

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    49 minutes ago, nihilii said:

    My only peeve with this is I got a couple bugs and I'm unsure if it's from the new launcher messing my settings or from the new patch.

    First, power recharge timers were colored for some reason. Took me about 5 seconds of tasting the rainbow to realise this wasn't for me. Thankfully I found an option to turn that off.

    Second, power recharge timers now make the power "pulse" at certain intervals (10s, 5s, 2s, 1s). This is distracting to the point I logged off unable to cope, and can't find any setting to turn *that* off.

    I guess I could kill power recharge timers and live it oldschool, but it's a rather convenient feature...

     

    It's in the Powers section... Disable Power Tray Animations I think. That's what I did and I don't get a pulse. I noticed I had to disable Power Tray Labels too

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    Destroyed City?

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    16 minutes ago, Techwright said:

     

    I do know of cities (with their own mayor and other political leadership, and perhaps their own infrastructure system: water, sewage, etc.) considered part of the greater city either adjacent to them or surrounding them.  The city of my birth has three such cities adjacent to its borders, and while the residents will tell a local that they are from one of these specifically, when referencing for someone not local, they name the big city to say where they are from, since all four (and some unincorporated areas that tend to be thought of as towns) are considered the greater area of the biggest city.

     

    If I recall correctly, isn't the "London, England" that we foreigners reference actually greater London, and there's a City of London inside, complete with its own mayor and governing system?

     

    The one thing I'm reasonably sure we haven't seen is "evidence" that at some point Astoria had its own mayor.  In fact, several plaques in the area instead reference Mayor Spanky Rabinowitz, whose leadership was over all Paragon City according to references elsewhere.  Based on that, your thought that Astoria was a "district", or perhaps more properly a "borough" of Paragon City seems to fit.  Like Brooklyn, NY, it could have had it's own district attorney and court system, but would answer to the Paragon City mayor's office.

     

     

    Ah you picked a case study that especially muddies the waters.

     

    The City of London is its own unique thing that has evolved over time - and some might argue that it's been enabled to do so to avoid proper scrutiny over the financial dealings that go on in there. I can't speak to that per se but it does have an historical context going back well... as long as there's been an England I guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London

     

    (I am inexpert on it but it's always seemed anomalous to me.)

     

    But yes I've always regarded DA as a "borough" in the same way Kings Row, Eastgate and all other zones (even Atlas Park) are regarded similarly. I appreciate however that the game was built with zones to give discrete flavours in days when it was not believed to be possible to have an entirely open environment and it's worked well.

     

    4 hours ago, Frostbiter said:

    I believe, and I may be wrong but lore-wise the Dark Astoria that exists for Paragon City is destroyed. Mot's DA only exists for the people Mot has pulled in and trapped. Head canon for me is that the old DA is what is actually there and Mot's DA is extra-dimensional.

     

    I actually like this explanation but in that case there should be a gaping hole where DA once stood... or something. I don't know if it's actual canon but it sounds pretty cool because the whole DA issue is a horror reference, which is also a comicbook staple.

    Destroyed City?

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    Surely to be technically correct it should be "district" rather than "city" given that it is a part of the greater Paragon City as a whole? Or do we consider Brooklyn or Croydon to be cities in their own rights?

     

    I think part of this issue is that because DA was seriously retconned it had to have its entire story upended - and yet as players we still had a lot of love for the old hazard zone of DA (which continues to exist as an echo.) That meant that the revamping was a bit clunky in places and is one of those areas you just have to shrug and not worry about. The overall arcs work pretty well there so I don't think it's something to stress about but I would agree that "destroyed city" does seem somewhat hyperbolic in a similar way to the Holy Roman Empire

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    Troubles in Tarterus

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    4 hours ago, LKN-351 said:

     

    I have a naga also and I wholeheartedly unequivocally agree the software is the downside. I uninstalled it and Windows boots faster and generally runs so much smoother.

    The only downside is that I can't have colours I choose on my keyboard and mouse. The bigger downside is I can only use two of the three swappable side pieces for the Naga mouse and it seems there is no alternative way to make it work.

     

    Although, my right arrow key has retired recently.

     

    I would seriously advise you to disable the software in start up. It doesn't take long to run up if you need to actually use it.

     

    The physical products seem pretty good but as many have remarked, the software is a PoS

     

     

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    Where do they go?

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    2 hours ago, cranebump said:

    I’m not always facetious, but when I am…

     

    (yeah I’m not sure how to finish that one)

     

    Never start something you can't finish.

     

    That was the original suggestion for Viagra's strapline

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    Troubles in Tarterus

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    19 minutes ago, catsi563 said:

    sounds like you need an actual mouse instead of these tech monstrosities.  itll probably play smoother doesnt require as many updates and wont argue with you as long as you feed it cheese 

     

    I have an actual mouse. A Razer Naga - but it's the new software that seems to be the issue more than the physical hardware

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    Where do they go?

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    2 hours ago, Techwright said:

     

     

     

    Yep, the Rikti were first.  From the wiki article:

     

    Operating word is "derived", I think.  That suggest that though we got something up and running, the Rikti's devices are still more advanced.  Who knows what that means, however.  Long before this thread, I'd always assumed the reason for seemingly endless hordes is that the Rikti, like us, pull their troops at point of collapse and give them a complete recharge spurring them into the battle again.  The also wear power suits which may serve as life protection units not unlike a certain red-clad war lord in a very cheezy, often-referenced video-game movie.

     

     

    Why not go inside the ship?  Because as much as they've advanced into the ship each effort, humans have yet to figure out how to get the shield/boarding repulsion system completely disabled.  Redundancies kick in and repulse them each time.  If Vanguard ever figures out how to get out of the "bowl" and past the access points deeper into the ship, theoretically, humanity should be able to neutralize the threat, but then, no one knows what waits below.  It could be a single greater defense, or perhaps a series of defenses each as tough as all the others.  And remember, heroes barely won the war.  If not for the success of the strike team disabling the dimensional portal, the ending would have been very different.

     

    I'd also note that Rikti are trickling through a lesser dimensional rift, the same one that brought the Honoree through, if I recall correctly, so that's more reinforcements, though not the horde as before.  Still, its enough to keep Vanguard and its allies, still rebuilding super-powered numbers years after the war, from getting the upper hand.

     

     

     

    Great info. Thanks! My understanding is increased greatly

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