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#61
Bug Fixes:
Fixed a bug with Guardian Fiery Composition's Phoenix Awakening that caused the effects of the power to unintentionally stack excessively instead of only once as intended, dealing highly imbalanced amounts of damage and possibly affecting server stability. The base stats of the power remain unchanged.
#62
Last post by Joshex - Mar 23, 2025, 05:33 PM
UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie
This series had long been suggested to me by a friend in highschool back in 2004. I finally watched all 32 episodes of it a few years back and though I felt it heartwarming and a good story, I was kinda (:/) at they way they ended it (though I wont spoil the contet nor ending, this is just my opinion). I thought "Surely there must be more to finish the story", so I went looking for the manga hoping to see the story continue to it's end.
that... did not go as planned.
What I found is there's only 4 issues of the manga in existence. The manga doesn't even cover the majority of the story in the anime. And the manga doesn't really provide any insight into how the author desired this story to end. (which is probably why the anime never got that far, they didn't want to overstep their authority so as to give the author a chance to decide on an ending on his own).
Most of the story in the anime is well composed, perhaps better than in the super short manga.
But the questions I have are
"Why did the author stop writing the manga after 4 issues?"
"Who's bright idea was it to make 32 episodes of anime content out of a 4 issue manga?"
Other than that it's a highly suggested anime, it does have some adult content(so it's not for kids), but it's no more so than a similarity to nudity in dragonball (casual nudity in anime was actually normal in japan back then. even japanese children's shows would use nudity in casual or comedic ways), this anime was designed for teenagers in japan, given it only has top nudity and minor adult themes; mostly alcohol, that would qualify it for PG-13 or T for teen ratings in the USA.
The English dub was at one point on cable TV in the US.
If you've never seen this story, it's a kinda heart string puller and perhaps a little depressing at times in my opinion, though I think the story is potentially a great story.
a few notes; due to the plot of this series it may not be legally safe to view in the EU, UK, Canada, nor Australia. If you live in these regions, do not watch it online without a really good script blocker that blocks analytics and trackers, and perhaps a vpn.
sadly alot of japanese anime series are illegal materials in the UK, canada, australia and the EU, and could send you to jail for ordering, watching, sharing, or viewing them.
with that said, I'm not linking where to watch it.
If you do want to watch it, I suggest starting with episode 2 and 3 then episode 1,4 and on. they misordered episode 1 as a kinda "Pilot episode" releasing it first to give a general synopsis of the story without explaining events that led upto it clearly, where as Episode 2 shows the real beginning of the story, and episode 3 is a direct continuation. Episode 1 chronologically fits in after that.
#63
Last post by Joshex - Mar 23, 2025, 04:17 PM
Quote from: Yikes on Mar 17, 2025, 04:53 PMI reckon if we do energy control, it might be more in the vein of hardlight powers a la green lantern
I strongly agree!
perhaps I should reenvision the set based off that.
If anyone has any input on powers of that sort they'd like to see, have them posted here. then at some point we can run a few polls to have the playerbase give their 2 cents on what should be included at each power tier, where the devs use this to inform their final decision.
I'm now thinking based on lanterns, the intellect of the lantern determines the complexity of the things they can create. So perhaps that should be the "special" attribute to all energy control powers a kinda "level modifier"
energy shackles,
lv 1: Targeted AoE (1 target) energy rings to bind the enemies' feet together to stop them from moving. (immobilize)
lv 10: Targetted AoE (3 targets) energy rings bind the enemies' feet stopping movement (immobilize)
lv 20: Targetted AoE (9 targets) energy rings bind the enemies' feet and hands, stopping movement and limiting attacks (hold)
lv 30: Targetted AoE (20 targets) energy rings wrap around the targets in bands from head to toe, restricting all movement and attacks (stronger hold).
not sure this is a good idea but it's an example.
#64
Last post by EDekar - Mar 18, 2025, 01:41 PM
That would be cool. Not because I care about lanterns (I don't know much about 'em beyond what I played of DCUO), but because that's the sort of effects I can justify with a Technology origin, and I always really like hypertech stuff in my vidja gaems.
#65
Last post by Yikes - Mar 17, 2025, 04:53 PM
I reckon if we do energy control, it might be more in the vein of hardlight powers a la green lantern
#66
Last post by Joshex - Mar 17, 2025, 01:43 AM
https://betanews.com/2025/03/10/firefox-addons-breaking-update-now/so, I had to learn to hack my browser to reenable addons, all was well but advanced cookie manager was causing firefox 51 to drop all my other addons. I eventually hacked them all back in successfully, but then.. some sort of timer expired and disabled my addons. in the end I toasted aushelper (as it's the primary addon shipped with ff and built in and needs to be hacked to disable it) so now there shouldn't be any update checking functionality. I also removed all the update urls in
about:config.at first doing that broke all my addons, I had to remove them individually add them in temp, then hack them in permanently and changed the extension update interval to as high a number as it will go then disabled all updating in about config as well. even so I expect it to break again, just maybe half a year later instead of daily or every 2 days.
I'm hessitant to try to hack advanced cookie manager in again, I do have ccleaner as a backup, but that only allows cookie deletion while the browser is closed, where advanced cookie manager allowed full cookie manipulation while the browser is active. As it took some major messing about with hacking and backup files to get the main functional addons (a good adblocker with an options page that actually works and is visible, noscript, and downthemall download manager) in place again, I'd rather not attempt to hack in an addon that requires a browser restart right now and risk it bumping all my addons.
at this point I'm almost tempted to go find the sourcecode for ff51 and modify out all it's addon restrictions and just put in a confirmation window and password to install addons as a security measure..
I'm strongly considering palemoon atm as that will be easier as I wont need to do anything other than install a browser. I'm only a hero if I have to be, redoing sourcecode? I'd rather not, I have enough projects this addon disabling issue is already effecting (I'm spending time hacking my browser and fighting mozilla's new attack on legacy addons instead of working on projects). Worst part is the disabling seems to happen every few days in the evening time. I honestly hope adjusting the timer helped.
software built like this is the epitome of poorly designed. everything relies on connections to some server and opinions of the devs rather than user preference.
oh well, if anyone has any info to help this addon protection process let me know.
#67
Last post by Joshex - Mar 13, 2025, 09:49 PM
well, things have been getting strange again to say the least.
last night as I laid down to go to bed something strange took place. Normally you may be aware from reading here that I've had instances where my mind gets into a state inbetween dream and reality After I wake up for a short time; but yesterday it was Before I actually got to sleep.
this time it happened twice in succession every time I tried to get to sleep.
The first time I actually wasn't trying to go to sleep, I had my eyes closed and I was thinking about stuff and I must have begun to drift off. Immediately as soon as I entered that state I heard the sound of something rubbing on fabric not two feet to my right. this shocked me as I was alone and not moving and still semi-conscious. I had been in the inbetween dream and reality state, and when I got disturbed by the loud sound right next to me, I enetered the fully awake state of mind and the sound stopped immediately as if cutoff abruptly. I do have cloth things in that region something could have rubbed up against, but they are window covering sunshades and there's nothing up at that level to rub against them and the fact the sound stopped abruptly (like before finishing) when I entered an awake state I figure it was not a real-life audible sound.
being a sound situation I am aware that in such a state hearing is heightenned. but still there was nothing to rub against any cloth to cause the sound.
The Second Instance: I calmed myself back down when i called out and no one answered and all was silent. satisfied nothing was trying to make first contact so to speak, I went back into my thoughts and eventually I closed my eyes again over the course of like less than a minute. Then I must have begun to fall asleep again. In a state inbetween dream and reality I was aware I was laying on my bed, and I raised my right hand out to the side to stretch as if yawning. but my hand hit the corner of the object (a metal filing cabinet I use as a computer stand to work from bed) but instead of a sharp feeling of a corner cutting me, it was an electrical shock to the back of my hand where the corner hit. I immediately woke up, and my hand was not out to the side at all, it was safely tucked under thick warm blankets and sheets and had not been moved. there was not physical damage to the back of my hand, and the shock feeling was gone.
there was a third event on the same night. It was a strange one indeed. after I tried to get back to sleep and entered the in-between dream and reality state, I was greeted by a young dark-skinned teenager in a suit, he was sat down on something I couldn't see above my head level everything was black like the darkness of space around us, except where he was, it was slightly illuminated like a dull grey faint glow behind him. he said "just so you know, I brought you here by my power, not yours." and I was in a snarky mood, so I said "oh, are you sure?" and tried to see if this situation in question was at all connected to my mind by increasing my brain activity by willing to try to take control of the instance. in doing so I found I felt weak like though I tried hard my mental activity could not control the whole instance outside a small area around me, like a few inches. he just stared at me his expression had not changed the entire time, he looked like he was talking to a lesser being and didn't really care as if this was a task from someone else, yet there was a tiny bit of respect in his gaze.
needless to say upping by brain activity woke me up after a few moments so I was not capable of completing the conversation or asking any more.
for the past few nights before this I.. had a hard time remembering my dreams at all, it was like my brain was full and the memories wouldn't stick, or like I left the memories behind in the dream state. I prayed for help to remember them, as I could vaguely remember some situations but not the words which were spoken. and in those dreams (with an unknown figure with a skirt and long hair and a strong light behind them) the words were important. and within seconds I was back asleep and had the same convo in the same place as in the previous dream and the repeated the same words, but as soon as I woke up I could not remember them though I tried to keep them front and center in my mind and that remembering of the words took such mental strain that I woke up in the process.
I can remember the basic idea of the convo "if you want to meet with me whether in dream or reality, just [can't remember, but it's an easy and simple task for me that comes naturally], [can't remember, but it's an easy and simple task for me that comes naturally], and [can't remember, but it's an easy and simple task for me that comes naturally]." in the dream both times I recollected "that's easy".
3 things. but I can't remember them at all. I tried for hours to try to retrace my dream to try to see if I could force a recollection of what was spoken, no go.
oh well, I have been praying to God for specifics lately, some about what I aught to be focusing on about the near future.
I had an eerie dream a few weeks ago where there was this girl who said "with your rate of working, I'm worried you don't have enough time to pass-on anything." and previous dreams were about me teaching things, or making things like games.
Also irl my heart isn't doing too well these past few days. it's beating alright and such but I feel like it's filled with some sort of chemical the kind like when you feel anxious or stressed. 2 days ago it was the worst after I did some physical work outside raking up stuff), bagging the stuff, and lifting and carting the bags around. they were heavy. I took a day off after that, because that night.. I could not get to sleep easily. it was rough. my heart did not feel good at all.
According to that other dream from a few months back I'm supposed to have 264 lives... but.. does that include healing when I come back like in city of heroes? or do I come back with the same worn out organs?..
that one time I actually died in reality from a lung infection in 2016.. God passed judgement and let me come back, albeit with damage to a few things; lungs, heart, brain, tendons, muscles, and probably a few other things, I honestly thought I was getting better, haven't had any low blood oxygen incidents for like a year. But I still apparently get winded easily during physical labor, and apparently my heart, (though I thought it was much stronger than before because I can sleep with my left arm at any angle and it doesn't fall asleep, and my heart seems to beat semi-normally) still has issues, mostly chemical issues it would seem. so.. physical labor in certain levels is a no. I'm only 39 and I already have the physical capabilities of a 90 year old. oh well, not much I can do I'm not worried about it. I just gotta get my butt to work on computer stuff, after all, that doesn't require any special blood oxygen or blood pressure.
the look on the doctor's face who took my blood oxygen readings a few years back - priceless.
"can I try it on your thumb? it's saying 0 oxygen on your index finger, I think it's broken"
"nope it's still 0 on your thumb, can you try breathing?"
me "oh, right, sorry my subconscious went on holiday and I forgot to breathe manually" *breathes*
"... well that's mildly better.. you really shouldn't be up and walking around with blood oxygen levels like this, do you ever faint suddenly while doing things?"
"nope, sometimes my vision goes black but that's about it"
*doctor stares at me* "lets try not to have you put yourself in such situations then".
sorry, but that makes me chuckle.. idk what it is about 0 blood oxygen and still being conscious that makes me laugh when people get freaked out by it. sometimes I joke that I'm technically "undead" though not like a zombie or anything as I am quite alive actually, I just died once that's all. ok now my brain is making comedic materials, I just imagined a zombie passing by, stopping, and saying "hey.." as if he recognizes me as a fellow lol.
ok enough morbid jokes and talk. I'm not goth, and I try not to be emo. maybe my health is why I have these strange situations. I don't worry any more because at least from my experience I know God is there and who he is, even if he was quite wroth.. so either way I have someplace to go. now I just have to focus on actually doing something with whatever years I've got left, even if it were 60 years, I still need to accomplish more than watching anime and gardening don't I?
#68
Last post by EDekar - Mar 13, 2025, 03:27 PM
Street Justice is and has always been the best of the combo 'token' system powersets, and it gets particularly nutty with Stalkers thanks to the absolutely ridiculous burst damage of a Build Up -> Assassin Strike -> (level 3) Crushing Uppercut combo. Even better if your Chance to Hide proc in AS goes off and your Crushing Uppercut gets to auto-crit too! The fact that this is fine but Energy Melee isn't allowed the same concession has always struck me as strange and inconsistent, but here we are.
There isn't much I can say otherwise. Super Reflexes is among the best armor sets out there if you want something that's hands off and does one thing really well: DODGE! (/piccolo) Otherwise, it offers next to nothing for you offensively and its only real click is its T9, Elude. Safe, boring, effective.
QuoteDisplacer - Hero Stalker
Build plan made with Mids' Reborn v3.7.5 rev. 21
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- Primary powerset: Street Justice
- Secondary powerset: Super Reflexes
- Pool powerset (#1): Teleportation
- Pool powerset (#2): Fighting
- Pool powerset (#3): Concealment
- Pool powerset (#4): Experimentation
- Epic powerset: Martial Prowess
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Powers taken:
Level 1: Heavy Blow
- A: Touch of Death: Accuracy/Damage
- 3: Touch of Death: Damage/Endurance
- 5: Touch of Death: Damage/Recharge
- 11: Touch of Death: Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- 17: Touch of Death: Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- 46: Touch of Death: Chance of Damage(Negative)
Level 1: Hide
Level 2: Initial Strike
- A: Mako's Bite: Accuracy/Damage
- 3: Mako's Bite: Damage/Endurance
- 5: Mako's Bite: Damage/Recharge
- 15: Mako's Bite: Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
- 17: Mako's Bite: Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- 39: Mako's Bite: Chance of Damage(Lethal)
Level 4: Focused Fighting
- A: Reactive Defenses: Defense
- 9: Reactive Defenses: Defense/Endurance
- 23: Reactive Defenses: Endurance/RechargeTime
- 23: Reactive Defenses: Defense/RechargeTime
- 34: Reactive Defenses: Defense/Endurance/RechargeTime
- 37: Reactive Defenses: Scaling Resist Damage
Level 6: Assassin's Strike
- A: Superior Stalker's Guile: Accuracy/Damage
- 7: Superior Stalker's Guile: Damage/Recharge
- 7: Superior Stalker's Guile: Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- 11: Superior Stalker's Guile: Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- 13: Superior Stalker's Guile: Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- 13: Superior Stalker's Guile: Recharge/Chance to Hide
Level 8: Focused Senses
- A: Red Fortune: Defense/Endurance
- 9: Red Fortune: Defense/Recharge
- 29: Red Fortune: Endurance/Recharge
- 29: Red Fortune: Defense/Endurance/Recharge
- 37: Red Fortune: Defense
- 37: Red Fortune: Endurance
Level 10: Agile
- A: Invention: Defense Buff
- 21: Invention: Resist Damage
Level 12: Build Up
- A: Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control: Chance for Build Up
Level 14: Teleport
- A: Superior Winter's Gift: Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range/Endurance
- 15: Superior Winter's Gift: Slow Resistance (25%)
Level 16: Practiced Brawler
Level 18: Spinning Strike
- A: Annihilation: Accuracy/Damage
- 19: Annihilation: Damage/RechargeTime
- 19: Annihilation: Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime
- 40: Annihilation: Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- 42: Annihilation: Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime
- 43: Annihilation: Chance for Res Debuff
Level 20: Dodge
- A: Invention: Defense Buff
- 21: Invention: Resist Damage
Level 22: Boxing
Level 24: Tough
- A: Unbreakable Guard: Resistance
- 25: Unbreakable Guard: Resistance/Endurance
- 25: Unbreakable Guard: Endurance/RechargeTime
- 40: Unbreakable Guard: RechargeTime/Resistance
- 46: Unbreakable Guard: Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime
- 46: Unbreakable Guard: +Max HP
Level 26: Shin Breaker
- A: Superior Assassin's Mark: Accuracy/Damage
- 27: Superior Assassin's Mark: Damage/RechargeTime
- 27: Superior Assassin's Mark: Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime
- 40: Superior Assassin's Mark: Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime
- 42: Superior Assassin's Mark: Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime
- 42: Superior Assassin's Mark: RechargeTime/Rchg Build Up
Level 28: Quickness
Level 30: Weave
- A: Red Fortune: Endurance
- 31: Red Fortune: Defense/Endurance
- 31: Red Fortune: Defense/Recharge
- 31: Red Fortune: Endurance/Recharge
- 39: Red Fortune: Defense/Endurance/Recharge
- 43: Red Fortune: Defense
Level 32: Crushing Uppercut
- A: Touch of Death: Accuracy/Damage
- 33: Touch of Death: Damage/Endurance
- 33: Touch of Death: Damage/Recharge
- 33: Touch of Death: Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- 34: Touch of Death: Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- 34: Touch of Death: Chance of Damage(Negative)
Level 35: Evasion
- A: Red Fortune: Defense
- 36: Red Fortune: Defense/Endurance
- 36: Red Fortune: Defense/Recharge
- 36: Red Fortune: Endurance/Recharge
- 39: Red Fortune: Defense/Endurance/Recharge
- 43: Red Fortune: Endurance
Level 38: Elude
Level 41: Recall
- A: Invention: Endurance Reduction
Level 44: Blink Blitz
- A: Nucleolus Exposure
- 45: Cytoskeleton Exposure
- 45: Membrane Exposure
- 45: Membrane Exposure
Level 47: Warrior's Mark
- A: Analyze Weakness: Accuracy/Defense Debuff
- 48: Analyze Weakness: Accuracy/Recharge
- 48: Analyze Weakness: Defense Debuff/Endurance/Recharge
- 48: Analyze Weakness: Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
Level 49: War Cry
- A: Superior Witchcraft: Accuracy/ Universal Debuff
- 50: Superior Witchcraft: Universal Debuff/Endurance/Recharge
- 50: Superior Witchcraft: Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
- 50: Superior Witchcraft: Chance for Res Debuff
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Inherents:
Level 1: Brawl
Level 1: Sprint
Level 2: Rest
Level 2: Swift
Level 2: Hurdle
Level 2: Health
- A: Regenerative Tissue: +Regeneration
- 8: Miracle: +Recovery
- 16: Numina's Convalesence: +Regeneration/+Recovery
Level 2: Stamina
- A: Performance Shifter: Chance for +End
- 12: Performance Shifter: EndMod
- 22: Performance Shifter: EndMod/Accuracy
Level 1: Combo Level 1
Level 1: Combo Level 2
Level 1: Combo Level 3
Level 44: Team Teleport
Level 1: Assassination
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Incarnates:
Musculature Core Paragon
Mighty Radial Final Judgement
Paralytic Radial Flawless Interface
Clockwork Core Superior Ally
Rebirth Radial Epiphany
Assault Core Embodiment
#69
Last post by Jagged - Mar 10, 2025, 10:20 AM
Unfortunately the player character information is unavailable for the foreseeable future.
So people won't be able to use this to generate their own player data sheets.
#70
Last post by Draggynn - Mar 07, 2025, 07:51 PM
Thank you for taking the time to write up this very thorough and thoughtful guide.
I have found it is sufficient with a failed pull in Miss Liberty to have everyone flee to the hospital on the boat to reset for another pull attempt and have successfully pulled one of them after an unsuccessful double pull using this approach. I don't doubt that everyone logging out would also be effective.
Not relevant to the strategy, and it's been a while, but my memory from when the original Master of Miss Liberty was introduced (so this is decades old memory here) is that the Arachnos flyer is actually on a 20 min respawn timer (could have the number wrong) that is unrelated to when it's defeated, so it can actually come back very quickly after being defeated if you take out at the tail end of that timer. So one strategy at the time was to defeat it, and then wait for the respawn, so you would know exactly when the timer would trigger and take it out again before approaching Recluse. I don't advocate this approach, but I it is an interesting mechanic to note.
I was also interested to learn that the Barracuda approach only takes 20 minutes to outlast the spawns. I was under the impression that it took closer to an hour, but I wonder if that's because the spawns are triggered by their defeat, and so if you're actively going after them you can run them down faster. 20 minutes sounds manageable in a way that an hour is not. I will observe that it is definitely possible to burst down Reichsman before being overwhelmed (-regen debuffs help a lot), as this is how Veracity completed the MoCuda on multiple occasions, or to take a heavy support approach that can just last through the ambushes while taking down Reichsman (which is how I did it). Although those appraoches are quicker, they definitely require a specifically built team.
Again, thank you for sharing your insights. I know writing up a guide like this is very time consuming, and rarely feels like it gets the appreciation that it took to assemble it.
