The Energon Pub

[Psychout]

Just realised I totally missed a trick and should have put 'lightsabers' instead of swords in the title. NS would have loved that.

I blame The Potentate, the thread name was his suggestion. Or was it Wrath? I've drunk since then.

Must have been Wrath. I suggested "Lawyers guns and money."

HC's suggestion of 'Spearmint Ramhorn' very nearly made the cut as well.

So many great names, only one thread to mess with.

[turbomagnus]

Might sound like a weird question, but with the Jedi Starfighter alt up for the Autobots, I thought I'd ask it; anyone have the one that was used for the first Anakin, Vader and Obi-Wan toys, the TIE-esqe one, or at least the instructions to it?

I've been looking at the images in the Seibertron toy gallery, but I can't figure out where the arms are supposed to go and I'm mentally-bashing together a custom based on it that I need that to work out something for...

[S.o.L.]

It looks like this is the website you are looking for.
http://www.unicron.com/tfitem/itemimage_db.php?mode=instructions&year=2005&seriesID=22

[turbomagnus]

Crud, no wonder they're so spindly, they just tuck into the cockpit area and disappear... Well, that won't do what I'm wanting... Double crud...

Edit; It looks like a spaceship dropping a giraffe onto a car.

[Bun-Bun]

Edit; It looks like a spaceship dropping a giraffe onto a car.

When a-hole martians attack!

[Wingz]

Edit; It looks like a spaceship dropping a giraffe onto a car.

When a-hole martians attack!

Indeed. Those hooves are gonna leave a nasty mark from that altitude

I'd like to see the ultimate tentacle match, where my squid faces off against your octopus and Psych's tentacle monster Tentacles everywhere! Tentacles for all!

[Bun-Bun]

I'd like to see the ultimate tentacle match, where my squid faces off against your octopus and Psych's tentacle monster Tentacles everywhere! Tentacles for all!

I'm trying to ink of who else we could sucker into this contest of tentaclure fortitude?

[turbomagnus]

I'd like to see the ultimate tentacle match, where my squid faces off against your octopus and Psych's tentacle monster Tentacles everywhere! Tentacles for all!

I'm trying to ink of who else we could sucker into this contest of tentaclure fortitude?

Meanwhile, I'm trying with all of my might to NOT GO THERE... augh....

[Psychout]

Edit; It looks like a spaceship dropping a giraffe onto a car.

When a-hole martians attack!

DEPLOY THE LONG HORSES ATTACK!!

[Bun-Bun]

This is a place for gentlemanly discussion on all topics yes?

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[Burn]

Hiding at any lower level doesn't pay, oh sure, you might earn XP hitting a higher level and not giving any out yourself, but you quickly lose credibility with the rest of the playing community.

Just sayin' ...

[turbomagnus]

Whoever laid the bricks did so in a very nice herringbone pattern. Actually, you know what I always find myself thinking when I see bricks; that the concept of a homogenous 'brick red' is a ridiculous myth. Take a look in the picture itself, the colors range through tones that are almost yellow or orange, through the 'classic' 'brick red' all the way to dark brown and almost black. But every time you see someone draw or paint some kind of brick building, they always do so with the bricks solely in 'brick red'...

Even the bricks of the buildings in the background are tanish-yellow, not red.

Same thing with the grass and the concept of 'green grass', really. It's not a pure single-tone green, it's mixed tones of light- dark- and mid-, with some yellows and browns in there, but people still perpetuate the 'green grass' myth.

What? I build terrain as one of my other hobbies, I think about these things.

Oh... we were supposed to discuss the subject on the sign in the picture and not the picture itself? My bad.

[Psychout]

Turbo, you're American. You've never seen a building old enough to have proper red bricks.

I'm totally going to quote myself again.

Kills mean nothing if the xp gain is pitiful.

Staying at a lower level just makes your game boring. I fell into this trap at level 3 pre-reset as I didn't play much and was worried I'd get destroyed at level 4. This time around I'm heading up as fast as I can, and the xp difference at each level is massive as it gives access to fighting more higher levels above it.

Level 0 though? You can't even make proper use of tactics, so it's all just RNG luck. May as well just flip a coin.

[Redimus]

If this game ever got a programmer again, the first thing that needs doing away with is lvl 0. It actively puts off players quicker than an order from your supreme leader telling you lvl one isn't for you.

[turbomagnus]

Turbo, you're American. You've never seen a building old enough to have proper red bricks.

That's because we have modern buildings. Do you Brits have anything built under the current monarch?
Just joking, you know, no disrespect to Brits in general or Her Majesty... we've had some Presidents that have made me want to beg her to forgive that little tiff with George the Third and take us back...

If this game ever got a programmer again, the first thing that needs doing away with is lvl 0. It actively puts off players quicker than an order from your supreme leader telling you lvl one isn't for you.

The other side, though, is that I think the Victory Bonus for XP/Energon needs to be raised to at minimum no less than the CR cost of the midean level for a mission. (I.E., a 1-11 would have a Bonus equivilent to the CR cost of a level six) It would reduce the 'your team wins but because you got Stasis Locked in the opening moments, you didn't even cover the cost of your repairs' stigma that the missions can develop sometimes (even among veteran players...)

Make 150E when your team wins, but it costing 200E to repair your TF just doesn't help the game's image among new players, you know?

[Bun-Bun]

Turbo, you're American. You've never seen a building old enough to have proper red bricks.

That's because we have modern buildings. Do you Brits have anything built under the current monarch?

Talking about bricks > playing level 0

[turbomagnus]

Turbo, you're American. You've never seen a building old enough to have proper red bricks.

That's because we have modern buildings. Do you Brits have anything built under the current monarch?

Talking about bricks > playing level 0

...That's because a brick could probably beat a level 0.

[Burn]

Turbo, you're American. You've never seen a building old enough to have proper red bricks.

That's because we have modern buildings. Do you Brits have anything built under the current monarch?

The new US embassy.

[S.o.L.]

Unearthed this antediluvian artifact dated 03-26-2008.
Screenshot from 10 years ago when Graverobber made it to 4th place of Ecto-1 alts.

Don't know for sure why my images were turned off. Probably to make the website run faster on dial-up. Note the rank numbers. Also no turbomagnus Ecto-1 seen.

[turbomagnus]

Oh, that's because I have, to use a term, a 'stable' of characters that I can rotate in and out as I feel (and as available alts and/or competitions necessitate). I probably wasn't using the character "Ecto-1" at the time. I think, but am not certain, that I was using "Shifter" or "Firebase" around that time...


No, no, no! Blast it, Impactor! 'Ablative Pointman' means you were supposed to tank the enemy and get them to focus on you while the rest of us did the damage and got the XP... Geez, this is why people don't PUG...
Okay, enough acting like HMW is WoW or something.

[S.o.L.]

Oh, that's because I have, to use a term, a 'stable' of characters that I can rotate in and out as I feel (and as available alts and/or competitions necessitate). I probably wasn't using the character "Ecto-1" at the time. I think, but am not certain, that I was using "Shifter" or "Firebase" around that time...

At that time, I believe the alt was not available, hence only 5 using it, and there wasn't what we know of as an alt rotation.

No, no, no! Blast it, Impactor! 'Ablative Pointman' means you were supposed to tank the enemy and get them to focus on you while the rest of us did the damage and got the XP... Geez, this is why people don't PUG...
Okay, enough acting like HMW is WoW or something.

For once in you life, Do Not Smash.

[Psychout]

No, no, no! Blast it, Impactor! 'Ablative Pointman' means you were supposed to tank the enemy and get them to focus on you while the rest of us did the damage and got the XP... Geez, this is why people don't PUG...
Okay, enough acting like HMW is WoW or something.

Impaction seems to enjoy going off-script lately.

[Wingz]

No, no, no! Blast it, Impactor! 'Ablative Pointman' means you were supposed to tank the enemy and get them to focus on you while the rest of us did the damage and got the XP... Geez, this is why people don't PUG...
Okay, enough acting like HMW is WoW or something.

He's probably Alliance (For the Horde!)...but at least his parses will look good.

[Bun-Bun]

We've got a couple days until the hunt starts & I have a couple Cons that are over-performing for my liking.... So I'm gonna drop them to level 0 to see what the fuss is about down there. Anybody like to join me for pure randomness, long-ass mission wait times, and crappy XP payouts?

[Redimus]

I'm good thanks.