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Everyone who wants into Bat Country is in. Send a tell to Whipcrack, Mr. Ripley, The Stygian, or Mr. Corporate. HOWEVER - this pertains only to f13.net people. If someone doesn't have an alias on here, I'm just going to kick them out.

In other news, I have created the more serious guild, Bazooko's Circus, as of this morning in response to how much people like fighting Fifth Column. I will be posting a backstory and whatnot. But for now there are three important rules to get in:

1. A somewhat serious name. How can you get one? Use a  translator (http://www.google.com/translate_t) and go from English to German.

2. Make your outfit look somewhat 5th columnesqe (i.e. vampire, werewolves, dark mechs, and nazis).

3. Take it a wee bit more seriously than Bat Country (even though most everyone takes Bat Country seriously, it seems.)

I'm thinking of forcing teamspeak also. Not sure though.

Oh oh, I almost forgot.

Your character HAS to be of Natural or I believe Science. That way we'll get the maximum number of 5th column missions.

One more thing...sigh...I'm making this supergroup as a vain attempt to get into the comic book as it seems many people in bat country want to.

EDIT: The obvious things are hard.
2nd EDIT: Old banana chips are hard.

Any tips on where to look for pics of the high level nazis?

Why wouldn't Bat Country stand as good or better a chance on it's own merits?  I'm just asking, you've obviously thought about it.  I guess I would just assume they'd cater more to large supergroups than smaller albeit themed ones.

Anyhoo... I'll just go ahead and reserve the character "Der Pfersich" just in case I get the call to "catass to vanity!"

Actually I think Bat Country has a great chance. But we have enough people playing almost all the time that 2 guilds is better than one. And it diversifies the supergroups. One themed with a few of each persons alts in it, then another with the persons main toon in it.

Ok, I'm confused.  Why do you want to look like a nazi and have a German name to fight nazis.  Sounds like you'd want to join them.  Wouldn't it be better to go the GI Joe looking route for this sort of thing?

I like Morphiend's outfit, too... but I don't want to be him. (though I love him dearly)  I already get him confused with the 5th Column... I keep targetting him and wondering why he doesn't fall down.

Bazooko's Circus is the 6th reich, trying to overthrow the 5th Column which is the...yea, you guessed it.

Wouldn't that still make you villians though?

*head explodes*

For battling the 5th column, you're probably gonna need characters like Captain America, the Shield, the Statesman, or Miss Liberty...Fat chance for me to get in the comics too, as the best I've come up with is "El Presidenté".

Just because there isn't pvp doesn't mean you can't play an anti-hero. Who says I want to fight for good? Maybe I'm the one manipulating my contacts into giving me information. </roleplaying twit>

Heh, just watch the "Lightning Bolt" video again and feel proud.

Anyways, I guess your point's valid. I've been lvling a Clockwork-like droid with nothing but Clockwork missions, so I guess I can't argue.

This sounds like fun. I've done more roleplaying in CoH than I have in total since my roleplaying spirit was horribly mangled in Everquest.

Ok, well, let me know what's going on.  I made a new char... Natural Defender, Emp/something else that I forget.  Her name is Frau Zerstorung, after a great aunt also known by that name.

I don't think Science is a good origin.  I have leveled one science origin to 16, another to 11, and have had combined MAYBE 3 5th column missions.  Sciense is VERY heavily Vahz.  Maybe that changes at later level though.

Natural is heavily 5th Column.

Hmm. Perhaps I need to actually start playing Feurelementaur.

So is this going to be an uber-guild?

Probably.

Well, in light of the end of the month patch... or whatever it is... they will be doing 'stuff' to 5th column missions.  They'll be adding that jail thingy and I'm hoping they'll beef them up overall.  It would be nice if it leads to another group of baddies at high level. (read something on the CoH board about this a while back)  This Bazooko thing could be a good laugh.

Jail instead of death? Great. I guess I better get used to running my tin cup against the bars and singing "Swing Low Sweet Chariot".

I would really like to try and get in the comic. I dont know why, I just think it would be kind of cool to see my character in print.

Ether of my characters could be in the 6th column/Reich (hey thats a cool name).

Well, my new main character (fifth reroll) sort of fits being the embodyment of the North Korean Juche philosophy having been sent into the world by THE GREAT LEADER to clean up the streets of the meddling whore America . Using a combination of unyeilding justice and THE PEOPLE'S WILL, she fights an unending battle against the inferior forces of capitalist aggression.

Sadly, other than digging dictatorships there's not much about her that would fit, so I made a new guy and am working on leveling him - a Invuln/Strength Tank named VonBraun. His costume turned out totally titties, the only way it could be better is if WW2 era german iconography was available. I'd post a screenshot, but my work PC hates the screenshot format.

Guns'n'Gadgets Blaster, Nachtermorden. Dressed in night ops-ish gear.

Since you claim you want to have authentic german words. What the fuck does Nachtermorden mean? The translation of Nightmurder by a bad babelfish program?

It really hurts when your native language is raped to death.

Ever heard of ebonics?

If not, you have NOTHING to bitch about.

Your point is what exactly?

If you want mangled German words, thats a dandy concept and fine with me. If you want them authentic, I'm just saying online translators alone are not sufficient because the way the work they translate parts of the words and the whole doesnt make sense anymore. Nacht=Night, ermorden=murder, Nachtermorden=nonexistant. Comprende?

Sorry if your fragile ego saw this as a dig against you, it was a dig against translation programs.

It's not my frail ego. I'd rather my language be raped by a translation program than by it's OWN people. But yes, I agree, I would rather have authentic german words. May I suggest fixing Sky's mistake instead of being mad about it?

If it was indeed Nightmurder he meant, the translation would be Nachtmord.

Tell you what, if somebody isn't sure about the name he chose and wants to check if it makes sense in German, he can send me a PM and I'll check it. Just include what you want it to mean in English because its hard to guess from some babelfished translations.

Well, if you're letting just anybody in... :)

I'll come bother you at some point.

Jacob's Ladder Elec/Elec Blaster

Hey Tebonas,

Do you think Hakenkreuz would get me TOSed? I doubt most people would even realize what it was, and I might be misunderstanding the whole thing. Regardles, it's a fun word to say.

I'm sure no one wants a lurker's opinion on this subject but I just had to ask this question.

Do you really think that Cryptic will want to put a group of players pretending to be Nazis in their comic book? If that is, in fact, what you guys are shooting for.

It seems to me that for "political correctness" , they'd steer well clear of a group of people roleplaying nazis. But that's just my opinion of course.

I can assure you about everybody over here knows what Hakenkreuz means, and it is associated with bad bad things. Swastika is the term more rarely used, but still recognized.

To show you the mindset over here, Castle Wolfenstein was forbidden in Germany, and one of the reasons named was the Swastika that was seen on the overhead map in one of the levels after pushing the right buttons. Yes, even words like spelling nazi make people angry here. I agree that Cryptic will be very cautious if they want to market the game over here as well.

Yeah, i figured they would know what it referred to over there, I was more worried about over here. Where people are losing the ability to speak even their own language. In retrospect, calling myself "A different word for swastika" is probably a super bad idea. I doubt the arguement that it just means "bent cross" would carry much weight. Especially when we're running around being the 6th reich and whatnot. Help me out here man, what would be a good name? Is there a sneaky way of saying "Enormous Penis" that most people would miss yet still sound virile and heroic? Ooooooo, now do you say "Raging Manblast" in German?

And hey, if the Nazi thing falls through, you can all be Bobs. Bobs are like nazis, except they're diametrically to everything nazis stand for and they wear pink. A very un-nazilike color.

I better stop talking about nazis before I'm asked to join Bush's next cabinet.

I <3 angry.bob.

I think you entirely missed the point of why people like to kill Nazi's.

No, I didn't. But ya know, comic books and shit. If I wanted to kill Nazi's because I have a personal deepseated hatred for them I'd fire up Wolfenstein, get some Manischevitz and start screaming, "What do you think of the Jew's now motherfuckers!!"

bleh not worth the rage and hate, but damn youre fast schild :)

Who are you responding too?

Edit: And if it was Tebonas, you should know he has nothing to do with the 6th column, that's me.

You people have confused me again.  You're terribly good at it.  :(

Here, I'll make things easy again:

Let me pull.

Sky, I kinda liked your rant, and I'm usually not THAT fast, though sometimes yes, itchy trigger finger. But yea, I didn't know what you got all worked up about.....fuck, make up a german word for all I care, this is a comic book name - realistic languages need not apply. I shall name my next toon: Frakschtizaugrau. Maybe not.

German words are fun to make up.

Uberliepen
Frein Kranzfround
Der Schwazzlehoppin
Un Kleinzstraut
Ze Ubermeister
Du Hast Me

I should just pick up a Rammstein album, then? Frau Museficken or something?

^^

I call dibbs on Der DosencÖffner

Looks like the 75 member cap is still in according to this thread:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=general&Number=366996&bodyprev=#Post366996

I probably should have mentioned that the customer service dept doesn't know jack when they refused to add "the" to the beginning of The Nanites name without bothering to mention that you've an option to add it yourself at level 15 when you choose your title.

BTW, The DosencÖffner is now a reality.  Who do I pester for an invite into the "uber" group?

I *think* that is outdated, Sonic.

The message is dated today, however.

Either this dev doesn't know they revoked the 75 character limit or the customer service rep was wrong.   My experience suggests the later, but it's really hard to say prior to actually having 75 characters.

Why all the angst over made up german-ish names for a make-believe game? It's not like he was in Berlin ordering vee-ner-shnits-zull.

How do you say.."I'm a Donut" in German?

Think it's right....

Ich bin ein schaumgummiring.

....could be wrong.

Ich bin ein Berliner.

Heh, sorry, but I had to do it..Makes me wonder: What exactly were the Germans cheering at?

Since McDonalds brought Donuts over here, and with the popularity of the Simpsons over here its

Ich bin ein Donut.

Easy, as that :)

Edit: The inhabitants of the city Berlin (now capital of Germany, then part of West Germany surrounded by East Germany) are incidently also called Berliner.

So what's happened with all this?  Is there a secret forum/password/handshake?  Or have we binned the whole concept?

There are four or five characters in the Bazooko's Circus roster and when I logged in with my BC character last night (first time in a week) the other members had similarly long "last logged in" dates. So I guess it hasn't really taken off yet. No separate special forum as far as I know...

I just haven't had time to play or invite new members. The sume total of my playing time in the last week has been, I think, 30 minutes. This friday I graduate from college. Bear with me, life precedes MMO's without PVP.

I figured it was something like that, and I wasn't trying to imply anything, just offering my observations. I've managed only a little playtime myself recently due to RL intrusions.

Just for the sake of clarity- who are the folks that can invite people into the SG? The only I have ever seen on who I know can is Haemish, and he is usually only on over the weekends (or earlier than I play weekdays).

Be nice to at least one person with that ability on every night to get all the alts added in. It is pretty lonely playing an alt when my friends list is dark and I have no access to the SG chat. Maybe add another captain or two?

I can invite into Bat Country, but I haven't made a toon for the alternate sub guild yet. I'm still too into my 'main.'

If you go in the supergroup window, you can see a list of people with little doohickies next to their names.  Those people are the ones who can invite to the SG.  Unfortunately, none of these people seem to play during the day so I've not been able to get another character joined up.  I rarely play Signe (she is gimp extroidinare and cannot solo) unless I know a mid-level group is happening during the weekend.  With the demise of teamspeak, I don't know what's going on, anymore.  

Oh, and advance CONGRATS to the graduate!  Good luck, big boy!!

Oh oh... I met Haemish's wife to be last night.  She is lovely and funny, too.  A nice compliment to Haemish's rather gruff nature.  I can imagine little haemishes with sweet dispositions running around in the near future.  Or visa versa...

uh-oh...

Oh yes, and if you really need a character to be invited into Bat Country and Plague Goddess is on (and it's not after midnight CST), you can ask her real nice and if she isn't in the middle of something, I can bring Whipcrack on and invite you. However, if it is after midnight CST on weeknights, she'll probably tell you no, as I'm hellaciously grumpy when I get woke up.

Yes, grumpier than normal.

There won't be little Haemishes running around for at least 2-3 years. We want to actually be married for a few years before we bring on the crumbsnatchers.

Just give her your info and she can be you.  Then you can stay warm and cosy.  It'll be like the old Shadowbane days, when the King and Queen were completely interchangable.  I never knew WHO I was talking to!  (and didn't care, incidently)