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Feedback and Suggestions / Squid Girl Hats

« on: June 08, 2013, 09:36:09 pm »

I'm just sayin it. Let the Inkvasion begin!!

It would be a simple hat to make. Just a white cap with fins on the side

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The Signal Tower / Sky Tourney vids

« on: June 06, 2013, 05:05:19 am »

They going to be posted eventually? Was looking for Group A & B but the original recordings have vanished from Qwerty's page.

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The Lounge / The Codex of Zuka

« on: May 28, 2013, 03:34:22 am »

The jokes around Zuka'Esrai's matches aside, lot of us have sorta spawned legends of Zuka dolls and steak sauce. So building upon that I bring you something you can all participate in. The Codex of Zuka. They can be silly, off the wall, or stupid. Either way folks keep asking me for new codex entries and I'm not a machine so...lets hear some of yours!

I'll start off with...

From the codex of Zuka:

"Zukaflinging is an an Olympic approved sport involving lumberjacks and Zuka. There are no winners or losers, only those that get Zuka'd!"
"Moonshine may get you there fast, but Zukashine will get you there Zukafast!"
"Zuka doesn't just crew airships, they become part of Zuka."
"Airships aren't constructed, they're Zuka'd from Zukamidion rams."
"Zuka hand stitches every Zuka doll...because he cares"
"Valentines day may be for chocolate but Zukatines day is for Zuka Steak Sauce!!"
"Zuka doesn't always drink beer, but when he does, he drinks Dos Zuka"
"Zuka can stack teams with all AI due to his aura of Zukaness"
"The aura of Zukaness turns mice into men, noobs into leets, and can serve as a floatation device in case of water landings."
"Zuka doesn't get mad, he gets ZUKZILLAAAAAAA!!!!"

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Feedback and Suggestions / Hardcore mode

« on: May 13, 2013, 07:03:06 pm »

Probably never going to make the vets happy with the balancing issues so heres my proposal. Introduce normal and hardcore modes. Hardcore taking the game back to pre 1.2. Working hydro, flames that instant disable guns, non nerfed artemis and carronade, etc. Can keep the weight changes and such the same but just the core mechanics we miss the most seeing a comeback.

Will also serve as a way to combat against new players feeling beat down on. Make hardcore mode only able to be reached via match list so no quick joiners. Then you can do whatever you want with normal mode and save hardcore mode for tuning after the community has provided input.

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Community Events / Cogs reflections...

« on: April 28, 2013, 04:41:42 pm »

Wish I could say I was happy about our entry match into the Cogs on Saturday. Getting on the test server should make one happy as it is getting to see content as it is coming out and help tune it.

But, in the end I just don't feel right about it....

I don't like when people have messaged me later with props about my squid flying because that was the most uncomfortable flying I've ever done on it. I absolutely hated every moment of it. I felt like a bird with clipped wings thanks to the changes that hadn't been corrected yet. Like flying a brick vs flying a quick agile vessel. I got on later that night in the main game and took my original squid out and just felt beyond free. Gotta love what you fly and I do love it. Never been so happy to fly that ship.

I don't like the pats on the back for beating Muse or kicking them out. As far as I'm concerned that match was not on equal ground because of it being on the test server. Yeah their loadouts were not optimal but I think they could have played much better had they not been on the tester. Both of us could and I personally will not be happy till I've faced them on equal footing in a non broken match. There was no glory in that victory. I'd welcome the opportunity to face them again.

I also don't like the constant tear down of their team. Yeah they don't practice or play the game as heavily as we do but Brick and I discussed this before going into that game. We'd respect them by playing them like they were an advanced team. There would be no going easy, we would view them as a legitimate threat. We'd face them with the mindset that they could potentially turn the match around on us if we underestimated them. The changes did impact the ability to do this.

Drama as a whole seems to be pretty high. I won't comment on things which I am not involved in or apart of but that was a overly tense day. I could clearly tell from the commentary on the matches that things were rough. Talking with others from other teams later just expanded that more. I don't know who's doing what or who isn't doing what. I run a rather successful guild in SWTOR since launch so I understand well when tensions happen and people clash. From that I recognize the amount of work that has been put in and I thank the Cogs founders for doing it.

Perhaps the tensions are being raised because things are going unsaid, unaddressed. Or its just plain disagreements. I'm sure there are things we can all do to alleviate the tension and I do encourage it rather than letting things fester and get worse. It does not reflect well for introducing others to the game, specially introducing new content. I don't plan to post the last Cogs vids elsewhere for others to see because I don't want them to have to see that. Maybe it was qwerty's edge of his seat style which helped break up this in past weeks so I didn't notice it then. I don't know.

Guess I'm just posting this because I feel some of it needs to be said.  Talking with others about it last night and then today it just bugged me more. Maybe others are too. I dunno. Just putting this out there with respect to all the players and hosts.

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Gameplay / Defend point achievements

« on: March 24, 2013, 05:07:48 am »

Sorry if this has been asked before but I haven't been able to find info on it and folks in game aren't sure either. I'm on that dreaded Scraps Pilot achievement. I've shot at ships, killed ships, and gone into the point and defended it from ships but no points are counting to that annoying 8 defend point part. At the point now where I'm running out of achievements and this one is preventing me from hitting more.