Greycat

"Desirable" is a 100% personal and, honestly, shouldn't be weighted anywhere *near* as heavily. Yes, there's a wide range between 2p9384yupekgfwdpfugyperhfqihe and Mr Superspeed (or whatever generic-you considers deisrable, and as a side note, that's available on Everlasting with and without the period for Mr.,) but any constraints beyond that are purely player-imposed on themselves. Of course, some of those limits people come up with - maybe "themes" is a better word - end up opening up a lot for them. Especially when they get into alt groups or families... "These are all part of project Starstrike. Starstrke Alpha. Susan Starstrike. Starstrike Hunter...." probably wouldn't have a hard time, for instance, and doesn't seem to be uncommon.

Nope, that was in the first few days I was playing. No winter event. Just a texture that didn't load.

See: Atari Then: Game developer, console maker, leader in industry Now: Name attached to overpriced (even if I like the case) Linux console and emulator, pusher of failing cryptocurrency.

They're also not an Epic (meaning story-driven) class with their own storyline, which those specific mobs are tied to. It has nothing to do with being "a ranged class with shields."

02/26/2005. Earliest screenshot! ... how did I ever play on a screen that small? (And which zone is that... :) ) Also, textures, what textures? And life (and defeat) before ragdolling...

2009. Yay, widescreen! ... five costumes. Old Atlas...

... because why not. Old live shots. 2005-06-01. Looking at this and remembering ... this was my high res at the time... Comparing to my interface *now* - oy.

Yeah, that's going into modifying the textures in COH's own file format (that .dds, multipart thing) - and as noted you can't increase the resolution, which honestly would probably make them look *horrible* thrown on something in Poser or Daz3d. (I mess around with Daz a little. I usually just try making do and repurposing things. I *should* sit down and (re)learn how to do more 3d modeling, deal with textures, etc, but ... ugh. Need to clone myself.) If you look in your own Daz3d library (and I'm assuming Poser as well, given how much is, or was, shared with them,) you'd find textures under your Runtime library. Looking at them - or loading up a model and looking under its own surfaces/colors - you'll see sometimes just a color, sometimes a pattern (say, a painted scene on a wall,) possibly with a related glossiness map, bump map (often looks like a greyscale version of the scene) and a few other things. What I'd search for are tutorials on texturing in Daz3D. Read those, and the info from the other linked post will probably make sense - they touch on the same things, but the format's different. One quick example (looks like it's a few years old, but you can kind of compare and see how the two line up... https://turbofuture.com/graphic-design-video/How-to-Make-Custom-MATs-for-DAZ-Studio ) (I should do this myself, really. There are a lot of things I'd like to have new textures and patterns for in Daz. But... time, energy, alll that.)

... assuming I remember... and can decide on a character... though I'm not sure what the heck I'd be doing there... I don't tend to fill out what my character is, what they're looking for, motivations, etc. I try to put something up - formerly on virtueverse (though what I had there and what's there now is... interestingly scrambled,) and on FBSA (which is ... mostly names, now,) but I'm horrible at keeping anything relevant updated, and I don't want anyone to think what I mention about a character *there* is somehow locked in stone. My characters are like my builds - they tend to come around fairly organically, and can go from very generic with a sudden bit of inspiration to detailed before I log in, so...

Oh, it's nothing wrong with what you said, it just highlights one of the issues with redside that could've been handled better.

This. (Also one of the reasons given for not liking Redside, at times. Getting forced into actions you *would not* take. There's a lot of forms of villainy out there, it's not just "boy scout good, or mass murderer laughing psychopath evil.")

Just because it'd be amusing: Alternate animation for Clear Mind type powers - Caster throws a coffee mug or coffee pot at the target. "Wake up! *whack*" Could be done on its own, or hey, throw together some other animations for a buff/debuff set to go with it...

Well... I mean, one person's definition of "fun" isn't necessarily someone else's. I could say (for instance) "I love stalkers and being able to sneak through missions, it makes me feel like I'm getting the better of the bad guys" but if beating down a ton of enemies and coming out with nary a scratch is what floats your boat, that doesn't help. :) Honestly I think most of my answers would have nothing to do with abilities or gameplay - I lean heavily into RP for mine, so it's "I like this character because..." If I had to pick characters due to setups I've liked, power wise (and not "I've put eleventy billion inf of sets in" and the like, either,) and look at sets and not RP reasons, I'd have to think about it a sec. But probably these. Warshade. Just... yes. (I like both Khelds, honestly. This is mostly annoying in invasions where bodies fade faster, or against things like ghosts that don't leave a corpse, but otherwise, yes, Warshade.) Mind/Fire Dom - I like mind to begin with. When I started this one up back on live, I started cranking the difficulty early... like single digits early. Still a blast to play. Ice/Dark Corruptor - Takes a *little* bit to get going. But can chew up groups. Pain domination. Paired with pretty much anything... mostly because I like going on mothership raids, I can help out in the center while still blasting away with two AOE healing powers going off, one of which doesn't interrupt anything. (Mastermind-wise, the toggle's a +regen, as I recall. But I don't like bringing MMs to raids. And anyone who's seen Rez Dispenser on Everlasting can tell I don't just sit still, either. ) Most of my Sentinels. Ice/ice, Elec/elec... just ... any of them. I like them. Have to mention my Staff/WP brute. Yes, it's pretty much "you'll be tough without needing to think about it," and the character's also an RP staple, which is part of why I held off mentioning it, but it is also fun to play.

Something like the arc that finishes Croatoa gives more - I'm *not* sure, honestly, if it's tied to "you've completed all the arcs" (the Storyteller badge) or not, though.

Alignment and alignment-changing tips? That was the point of Going Rogue.

So, do we build another tutorial zone, or just remove GC? (Also, I'd frankly like to see Boomtown dealt with, as far as reconstruction. It's got the barest start. But that's a lot of work... Also also, ugh, battalion...)

Well... yes and no. On the one hand, some of those characters appear everywhere because they have a story being told through those tip missions - Doc Quantum going more and more off the rails, Frostfire's turn (and supporting cast.) People shouldn't miss those. On the other, yes, more of it (including people staying just as they are) would be welcome, absolutely.

Eh, I don't know, it's already trivially easy to kite enemies. That somewhat annoying fight with Protean, for instance? Even without SS or SJ, queue attack, run, jump, sail past, animate well out of range, never get hit with his siphon... Besides, why should that be limited to SS?

It's to keep them from taking the travel sets that have the Stealth IO in them. You can turn off Sprint (and thus the Stealth property,) but not Swift/Hurdle, so any rescue/hostage taking mission where they had to follow you would be insanely frustrating if not impossible to complete.

Well, it would kind of fit, though...

Yeah, I'd suspect the first step would be "fix whatever system from the pits of hell is used in text entry currently" with its behind-the-scenes almost-HTML, surprise vanishing (but still taking text, since it sticks it in when you click elsewhere!) cursors and the like. Then work on tweaks like window size and scrolling - though those are also needed.

There is (was?) a copy online. As well as various AMAs.... not sure if I have a link.

Superadine, as I recall, has a *very* small chance to let its user see into other dimensions. As I recall, it also drives them insane at the same time. I *believe* (but might be remembering incorrectly) that this is what's hinted at in a Boomtown plaque about something the Phalanx, BAB, etc. swore to keep secret... which, headcanon-wise, makes me wonder if Dr Webb knew about it and disagreed, but waited until he had something he could announce. Edit: And no, I'm not aware of any AE arcs. Yes, they would be awesome, as would an Ouro mission... We really need to take more advantage of Ouroboros. We have missions through Portal for other dimensions, Ouro should have more "see this moment in history" items.

... ok, let's ask this. Why does *that* bother you and not: - Boomtown barely having cranes in it to start reconstruction after just as long? If nothing else (since straightening buildings require time, inspections and money) the *rubble* should be cleared out by now. - The Hollows still being The Hollows (and yeah, I know, they wanted to have ... part of orenbanga erupt into it, which... *cringe*) - Arachnos - which you can either view as a foreign army or a terrorist group - having a significant armed presence, including time and supplies to build significant bases in *multiple* points in a US city (Atlas, Faultline, Siren's Call) - and yes, the flip side, Longbow being in Nerva and invading Mercy (though the Isles could frankly label them as terrorists) Of all these, honestly the Rikti mothership still being there is probably the least bothersome. It's a technologically superior (at a baseline) armed group, they've set up defenses and have had shielding around it the full time, they have teleportation technology (and so can bring in supplies, deal with medical issues and the like) - they'd be a much harder nut to crack than "US armed forces + metas vs Arachnos invasion." I'm quite honestly curious where your (and anyone else's) lines are on those. Of all of them, Arachnos having anything besides an embassy, maybe a company fronting a warehouse that operations are run out of, in sovereign US soil bugs me the most.

First, you don't know what kind of checks I'm making on what kind of name. Second, no, I'm not giving you any sort of statistic when I say "half the time." That's generally recognized as a fairly throwaway "sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not." I could have said "six of one, half dozen of the other." That does not mean I made 12 name checks and had half unavailable. It's a *figure of speech,* not a statistic. (For the record, most of the time when I'm looking up something like that - like I said, mid-raid or the like - it's something *very* much in the "obvious name" window, or something that's a pun on something. Which does skew results on what I look for.) But you go latching onto that instead of the *actual* portion from *actual* experince I can give numbers with, chuckles. Shows just how honest you're wanting to be in this. You're not listening, and I wouldn't have bothered replying other than you trying to distort what I say. Also, don't make assumptions on the kinds of names I find. I have maybe 10% "name-names" (like peoples' names or a designation,) which would be highly unlikely to be taken, but the rest have a pretty wide range... none of which are zagapoidgh falskdfjadslf or whatever you had. And I'm primarily on Everlasting, one of the higher pop servers - and also an RP server, which tends to mean people *are* more picky about the names they get.