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I'll say this much. When I'm writing a character bio? I'll use any words I want, and if those words supposedly mean somthing different in "in game lore"? Then in game lore can BITE me. CoH-Verse mirrored enough of our world that's it's entire plausible Requiem has both meanings, and people just distinguish which is meant by context clues. Can I prove that? No. Can you prove otherwise? No. And either way, I'd say as writer of a bio, my headcanon supersedes anything I damn well please it to supersede. How anyone else wants to react to it, is something I would view as their problem.

My default assumption is if someone takes the time and trouble to write up a decently long bio, they WANT people to read it. I doubt they'd mind in the slightest if you posted the character shot with them, but, I can also respect the "what if?" and leaving it off, just in case.

My Assault Rifle/Martial Kombat blaster is not a "Flash" style speedster conceptually. But she is a human-looking-cyborg that, for short bursts of time, can move faster most things can see. Experimentation / "Speed of Sound", I leave toggled on her always, in part so I have "Jaunt" on tap for a repositioning teleport in combat. Martial Combat / "Burst of Speed" as a Teleport Attack gives her the ability to unload on enemies a few times in rapid succession as if she'd moved too fast to follow. Between this and Jaunt she can pretty much be anywhere on the battlefield at will. Martial Combat / "Reaction Time" slows movement and attack speed of all nearby enemies, simulating her being THAT much faster than they. Martial Combat / "Ki Push", with it's slow-fade repel-hold on target gives her 4 seconds of free hits on target, again, as if she was attacking so fast she was attacking them while they were still flying back in the air from her punch. Experimentation / "Adrenal Boost", can be thought of as activating all her cybernetic resources and reactions to give her the 20+% defense, as well as increased Hit and Damage. Sure it's a 10 minute cooldown for 1 minute of power, but it's up a couple times on a map-clear, and if I add even one small "Luck" at the same time, it's SUPER high defenses for a blaster of her level. (still only mid-level) Ki Push / Storm Kick / Dragon Tail / Reaction Time can apply so much chained repel / knockdown / slow that even if Adrenal Booster is down / low on Lucks, she can often kill certain nasty bosses before they can even fire off a single attack on her. Though that is a bit of a gamble. Panacea / Power Transfer / Entropic Chaos procs mimic her cybernetic self-repairs and make her more quite a bit more durable than she'd otherwise be. She is however, still a glass cannon. Later, that may change, but at lvl 25, she just don't have the slotting yet to really stack good defenses / resists.

I dunno. I suppose we do need more incarnate content. There's big demand for it anyway. I just.... would like some story-arc love for non-incarnates too. Maybe even a couple zones were incarnate powers just flat out Do Not Function (achieved by forcibly exemplaring you to 44 if need be). I mean, okay. Yes. We have incarnate powers, there's not that much content to use them, and lots of people want some Bigger Better Faster challenges. I'd just also like some additional content that doesn't get into a competition with itself for "My Cthulhu is bigger than your Cthulhu!", and we don't necessarily have to face the next reality eating monstrosity all the time.

note that these will also show up for the zone even if you mission is complete, but not yet turned in. It doesn't check for "place you still have to go and beat up baddies". It checks only for "do you have a mission nominally in that zone?" Even if only remaining objective is "return to contact", you'll still get the marker in the zone where the door mission is. (not necessarily the zone where your contact is)

My god, it wants me to choose between Italian Sub and Monte Cristo. That's like.... choosing between Da Bears and Da Bulls.

I mean, it doesn't have to be a hockey puck... but if I'm tasting blood, it's not cooked nearly enough. In my book, burgers and steak should have a pink center, but not RED. Yes yes, I understand the "foodie" thing is to sear only the outside. And if they're going to pay for it, and if they're going to eat it, they have theirs that way. If I'm paying for it, and I'm eating it? Pink center but zero red.

I just treat everything like a Kill Most / Kill All 😉 I've never enjoyed or signed up for speed run extravaganzas though. Just not my cup of tea.

I'd like this extended far beyond just Spines/Quills to all sets where plausible. If I'm using Energy Melee and do a Bone Smasher, and Boxing or Crosspunch, let me keep the Energy Pom-Poms on. Or if I'm using Claws and CrossPunch, it would be nice to keep the Claws out. Or for Assault Rifle / Martial Assault, if I do a a few of the kicks, is it really necessary that I put the rifle away just to kick somebody in the head? Ki Push, I can kinda understand, you use your hands, both of them, for that. But Storm Kick? C'mon let me boot to the head while still holding the Rifle. I'm fine with it being a checkbox / option and/or a Tailor Customization option, whatever makes it easy enough to code. And if the devs want to start with JUST Quills as a Proof-of-Concept Babystep along the way, well... okay I get that too. I just wouldn't want them to lose track of eventually circling back to the rest, even if changes were released on a gradual incremental basis over many many patches.

To be fair, there will be a MANY such drive thrus with order boards in the surrounding suburbs. But not in the actual metropolis itself. Same with supermarkets, too.

Please please please make the contact look as close to Ed Wasser as possible.

Even just doing a recolor on the Darkness powers might give it a different feel. Make Darkest Night a splash of Bright Purple, Tar Patch something like Brilliant Red, Twilight Grasp bright Blue... it can go from feeling like "I've done Dark on five characters already" to something that feels different just because of the looks. Bonus points if you also have local chat for each power that uses Bob Ross paint colors. "Just a touch of the Titanium White... a little Alizarin Crimson.... some Phthalo Blue..."

Now I'm getting nostalgic for all those lvl 1 wood elf corpses splatted all around the ground around Kelethin back in EverQuest. Or the occaionsal low-level Erudite Shadowknight / Necromancer corpse who fell into the Hole.

My only quibble there is it's not a story tied to YOU. The Technology Origin arc will never be tied to MY BLASTER, Agent Bluejay. Will never account for anything I add to her backstory. Will never be tailored in any way to anything reflecting any personal nemesis of hers. It'll be common to ALL Technology-origin'd characters. So I really don't see it any more "tied to *you*" any more than Looking Through the Glass is tied to "you". Or any more than tip mission is. It's really not. At most it can give an impression of it. I'm in favor of "you can pick any one" similar to Patron arcs.

I love the graph showing which characters interact with which others in what way. 🙂 Also love the stumbling-into-crime on Ileana 🙂

If a Cheat Death mechanic were to be added, I do not believe it should be available any more frequently than the old self-rez could trigger.

I'm even fine with +Def/+Rchg being available as an option, as long as it's "You finish your Origin Tips. You may now choose any one of the following powers", and then players can choose any one of the bonuses listed paired together with any origin.

I'm fine with an incentive to use the system. I don't want "I'm Super Reflexes, so clearly the only good choice is Tech for +Defense and +Recharge, everything else is crap." I like the idea of doing X many tip missions and then having a reward bonus for it on a special 11th mission, not unlike alignment powers. But if you're directly boosting combat stats, try to avoid certain origins only providing X benefit. Esp when the rationale is vague at best. Why is it Tech that provides +Def/+Rchg? Why not Mutation/Magic? My opposition vanishes if we can eliminate making some origins the "Best" origins from a min-max perspective.

I guess that's where the rubber meets the road for me then. I've played around with base building enough to know I'm not good add it, or perhaps more accurately, won't spend the time to go wild with it, and really learn how. As long as those who DO build bases (and I've certainly seen you post in that subforum enough....) are willing to accept such risk of copycats, then I withdraw any objections. Also, really? people are jerks enough to kick somone and then refuse to pay them for their work? That's just.... man. How low does one go?

I don't like the idea of certain bonuses requiring certain specific origins. You can make anything thematically make sense with certain origins. Let the player CHOOSE a bonus for whatever origin they will? And I'm much closer to being on board.

Keep in mind, I don't see anyway you could "trademark" any portion of this. What one player creates can always be replicated by another player, or even truly 100% independant development of the same finished product. So, no "trademarking" of any kind, not even as a colloqial-use-term, never mind actual legal term. I don't think bases "remember" which actual player created them. So the only way I think you could commission / buy a template from somoene else is, agree on the work to be done, invite their character to your guild. Promote them to a rank with base editing priviliges, then let them go wild. Remove them from guild upon completion of task. But if that artist who made your base has any ability to "Snapshot" any portion of a base to then "Apply Template"? Then so would YOU, the person who commissioned that work. Because the game won't really remember that it was so-and-so's template for any portion of the the base. And then you very very very rapidly lose any abilitty to monetize once the first person starts just handing it out to their buddies for free, or worse, tries to sell copies of it to someone else passing it off as their own work. I think any such Freelance Base Builders are best off to handle things on a "one off" basis, no Take Snapshot, no Apply Template.

Please keep the existing graphics as an OPTION whether or not you add additional graphic choices. It does have a hole against Fire and Psi, but both are very patchable with IO sets. It always feels wasteful stacking so much cold resist to bring fire resistance up to acceptable levels, but hey. Such is life and the OCD of slot allocations. I've never been quite sure what to make of Hibernate. On one hand a "I can't do anything to you" power .... doesn't help you defeat the enemy when soloing. But I've seen ice tanks hold aggro like a champ even when Hibernating, and as long as they can still hold threat while Ice Block'd, then that's all that really matters. And it probably does make a nice "Oh Crap!" button if a sapper sneaks through your defenses on a natural 20, etc. Now Ice MELEE, I have several things I'd like changed, but that is Sir-Not-Appearing-In-This-Topic.

I havne't had that be a problem in most instances, but certainly in Praetoria or the Wards, on a mission that comes pre-packaged with laser-guided-persist-through-death ambushes.... yea.

Some do, not all... particularly the one in the Presence pool.... and certainly wakie's dont.

cards? how quaint. You should try VillainBook. The app organizes all your tips, contacts, brokers, and nefarious schemes.