PaxArcana

I feel compelled to make an observation. One I am sure that the majority of the people in this thread will .... dislike, let us say (heavens know, even I don't especially like it). Nonetheless: The debate has consistently failed to focus on the merits (or lack thereof) of the actual suggestion, and has instead, focused primarily on @Steampunkette. The pattern has been one of Bulverism: simply assuming that she is wrong, and then attempting to explain why ... when, one should first show that she is wrong. This approach is a logical fallacy. Nor are her opponents alone in this failing. Mea Culpa, guilty-as-charged, and all that. Anyway, in the words of C.S. Lewis - the man who initially coined the term: Argue the idea, not the person. (And no, I'm not saying I'm pure as the driven snow - not even just in this thread. It's an easy fallacy to fall into. But, just for the moment, I'm feeling especially lucid and level-headed, so ... maybe I can be a "voice of wisdom" for just a brief moment. Don't worry, I'm sure it won't last very long. )

Yes, it is very good .... but I disagree with it being a spiritual successor to MoM. The two games play very differently, and are only alike in the concept of "fantasy 4X game with color-coded magic". 🙂

I think it's not so much that they are immune or resistant, it's that they are Lieutenant class mobs, and on top of that, are +2 to you.

Hence why these sorts of things cannot be nailed down with precise definitions and numeric formulae: it's a judgement call. Always will be. 🙂

And how certain are you that those complaints are genuine ... and not sarcasm? To me, those posts look like over-the-top caricatures of what the anti-policy camp has repeatedly tried to slander the anti-copyclone camp as being like.

I did say "sort of" and "kind of". I know they can tank (so can Masterminds, some Scrappers, and even a few Defenders with very skilled players) ... but Brutes are almost the literal, exact opposite of Tankers in how they are constructed.

Yeah, that's a Trademark violation. Your "friend" is lucky you I mean he didn't bite an account ban for repeatedly doing that.

Except that is not how it ever worked. Every report involved a GM reviewing the report, examining the character in question, and making the decision whether that character crossed the line or not. Nothing. Was. Automatic. I actually did have a character reported - and the report was both meritless and malicious, pure retaliation for reporting someone for griefing. A GM spoke to me about the report several minutes later - I don't know if they reviewed tells, happened to be in the zone at the right time to see the exchange, or what - to make sure I wasn't going to exacerbate the situation, so I know that the report DID get made. I was never renamed. I was never Generic'd. So obviously the process is not automatic.

... and that is actually LIGHTER enforcement than we had on Live, so, even less reason for anyone to worry.

The problem is, copyright law itself is imprecise. There is no way Homecoming could be any more precise than the law. There just isn't. And I honestly expect that they will err on the side of "no action", due to the very concerns you have raised, in all cases that are not blindingly obvious. On the one hand, I suspect these people are waxing hyperbolic. On the other, I suspect these people are in fact opposed to the policy, and if they plan to act as described at all, it will be out of a mixture of sour grapes, and, wanting to jam up the works so that their favorite copyclone doesn't get reported. (I say that because one of the loudest opponents of enforcing copyright law, in DMs to me, claimed to have actually sent word of copies to Marvel/Disney, DC, and other IP holders ... explicitly out of spite, and celebrated the small risk of HC's servers being shut down, or the negotiations with NCSoft going south, as a result.)

My 5E campaign has an alternate game for when the regular GM can't make it. It's the Tomb of horrors. We had no idea going into it, so I have a Warforged Fighter, "Ellek". 90% of what he is and does will be irrelevant in all but a few situations. But he's got a good Wisdom - I toyed with the idea of Paladin, before settling on Fighter(Battlemaster) - is Proficient in Perception, and has the feat: Observant. Passive Perception 21, ftw. (If I'd wanted to really be obnoxious about it, I could have pulled off a 26 by also taking Dungeon Delver ...) So, he just moves slowly, and spots just about every trap or secret door in the place. He may not know if what he sees is a trap, a secret door, or whatever - but he knows where the "hinky stuff" is. 😄 ... If/when we get to Acererak, if the Wail doesn't TPK us on the spot, Ellek also wields a Mace of Disruption, so ... 😄

This is impossible to nail down with any degree of reliability or clarity. It is always, always, a judgement call, a purely subjective decision on the part of the GM reviewing the report. I would presume that if a single person makes a large volume of reports, which prove to be unfounded - especially if the resemblence is particularly tenuous - that the GMs will take steps to stem the flow of reports from that player. Early steps are likely to be messages to the effect of "cut that out", later steps could include disciplinary sanctions up to and including an account ban, should that player persist. This is not correct. Player A reporting Player B for possible IP infringement, does not produce automatic action. A GM will always be required to decide what happens, and then make it so. ALWAYS. And as I just said, any single player who generates a high volume of reports, especially in a short period of time, and super-especially if those reports seem tenuous at best? Is going to be the one the GMs look at with an unfriendly eye. ... There was no epidemic of "trolling" or "griefing" via the report system on Live. There will be no such epidemic here, either.

.... by accident. Emmert worshipped at the altar of the Holy Trinity. The proof is in the intended roles of the Heroic ATs. Tanking (Tankers), Crowd Control (Controllers), Buffs and Debuffs (Defenders), and DPS (Blasters and Scrappers).

Not all of us "arrest" the badguys. Ask John Castle what he does to 'em ... 😄 EDIT TO ADD: also, some characters are villains ... not heroes.

... go to GOG.com, set up an account, and lend your voice in support of GOG getting the rights to distribute (even, to re-publish) the games. It's how I still play Master of Magic, a DOS game, without having to fight for days to get a 64-bit OS released a decade after MicroSoft killed DOS, to actually run the software. 🙂 Also, I can play in full screen just fine. 🙂 GOG puts together game-specific configuration files so it runs smooth as silk via DOSbox, which can stretch everything to fit even a modern HD screen.

DC is publisher for Watchmen. You're sort of allowed to create expy's of your own stuff. 😄

This is where you're making the mistake. Being offended, and expressing that you are offended, are two entirely different things. And with that, I'm done with this thread. None of you are worth my time anymore.

... this is so far divorced from reality, I think it's not worth even trying to engage with you anymore. Congratulations, you "win". Go celebrate or whatever.

You and I most often strongly hold diametrically opposed opinions. You've only really noticed posts where I've grown exasperated with someone's nonsense. I will admit I don't tend to let things go once I'm engaged - but that's hardly a unique failing. You don't seem to be very keen on it, either, for example.

No, actually I didn't, you just assume I did. I simply elected not to mollycoddle the sensibilities of someone who would be so harshly dismissive of others' sensibilities in turn, because what's sauce for th goose is also sauce for the gander.

My girlfriend and I upgraded to DSL broadband (well, "broadband" by the standards of the day, anyway) specifically for City of Heroes. So it only took ~5 hours to download it all ... 😄

So, anything that isn't agreement or obsequiousness, is "being frail or thin-skinned", now? 🙄

It's not about being "frail" or "thin skinned". It's about wanting to be treated with (un)common courtesy. But thank you for demonstrating what a complete shitlord some people are.

That actually proves my point, TT. MLK wasn't born exceptional, no. But by the time his message was being heard by the entire nation, he had BECOME exceptional. The only difference between then and now, is that now even the ordinary for all their lives people have larger audiences. It is no longer the sole domain of the extraordinary to be able to share their message far and wide - whether the exceptional or extraordinary facet is luck, effort, wealth, or whatever ... it's no longer needed. Every random Joe or Jane Q. Citizen has access to platforms that reach millions, even _billions_, of people. And that is my point. The bar for entry is much lower now, than it was 100, 50, or even just 30 years ago. Anyone can have a voice that gets heard by millions. And that's where your error lays, TT. You think you're hearing more voices, because they all just want attention and don't really have any true complaint. The truth is, EVEN MLK "just wanted attention", when you boil it down to the simplest factors. He wanted it for a damned fine reason, but, most of his efforts in the civil rights movement were to get attention. So what's really going on, is: you are hearing more voices, because more people have access to the means to get their voice heard. End of reason.

That isn't necessarily a problem. Invest a limited resource (Powers and Slots), get a benefit. The problem, IMO, is that right now the benefit is so godawful huge that it's almost an intentional self-nerf to NOT take the power.