Greycat

... So many potential responses.

Yeah, as has been mentioned, people have been soloing/small-team-ing things for a long time, starting with (as I recall) Lusca vs an Illusion controller - on SOs. Took a while, but it was soloed. While there has definitely been power creep, especially at the top end (perma-everything, capped-everything, etc,) I wouldn't call the 8 person Hami a sign of the end times or anything. If it became a nightly thing PUGS could do? That'd be way too far.

Well, I had some editorial... comment... when it was first offered. I like the convenience, but.. well...

Why does it have to do anything other than not be stealthy? (set stealth radius = 0.)

You should have the option to hide the post, I believe.

I don't know about turn off. Not really for or against it. Sell, break down to brainstorms, there are things that could be done, admittedly.

... where *are* they at with that? GMs, inquiring minds want to know! Total transparency! Or is it a conspiracy... *puts on tinfoil hat and cape.*

Yep. They do a fairly good job of informing us of what's going on, as well as not just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks. I appreciate both of these things.

*Adds a badge for the lack of new badges.*

I don't think Cimerora would "fit," personally. Yes, I know it would be convenient, but the other portals just send you to other locations, not thousands of years back in time. (Also, I don't think you meant "common" there. "Come on," though...)

It's not a question of "when not needed." This goes right along with wanting FX-less armors and such. Some people just don't want their character hidden, whether it's under armors, buff effects or - in this case - stealth. Yes, even in combat. Mind you, I'm not arguing for it for myself. I prefer to have the effect there so I *know it's there.* But it fits right in with requests for other powers to not have effects that obscure peoples characters.

Nope, it was explained in the OP: Some people hate not being able to see their character.

If one's already created, you have to know it. There's no /retrievepasscode or anything similar. You'd have to create a new one, after which I suggest putting it in your SG's MOTD (check the settings) and emailing it to yourself.

I never plan based on updates. Well, most of the time. Honestly, most of my alts are either "I miss this character from before, time to remake," "Huh, that sounds fun" or "*snrk,* (overheard/misheard phrase,) wonder if I could make an alt about that..."

YOu mean the "chained" missions which just drop in? Yeah. Having those be their own missions instead would be nice.

I don't know that I'd want this as an IO. Seems more like a power customization item. Or as mentioned, Null. Though there has to be some sort of indicator, just for those "why is the hostage not following me? Oh, that guy on the team has stealth" moments where you want that obvious.

Also this. Double checked. There's no suppression, per se. You stop, animate your firing animation (which is not that long,) and keep going. That is not suppression. Superspeed still does - there's a noticable few seconds of slowdown (superspeed and aim at someone, attack, and it's decidedly there.) Superjump does. Fly and Sorcery do. If you're not sure if you're being suppressed? Open up your combat attributes window - movement. If you're being suppressed, your Fly speed will be cut in half for a few seconds. Doesn't happen in Nova.

... for some reason I can't parse what this sentence pair means. I sort of get the first (Nova's restricted to Nova abilities, plus IIRC what you pick as the eye attack, if you take it,) the second... they already are since you have to use the human form abilities?

Slots do not get "exemped below." They are all or nothing. If you have the power, you have all the slots that you put in that power. (The IO/enhancement levels *do* matter, but - say - if you had six level 15 IOs in a power you took at 18, but put six slots in in the 40s, you'd still have all those IOs available when you ran, say, a posi 2.)

Your assumption is, Patriot's is not.

Hmmm. I'll often have what a character would do in my mind. As far as how they act, or how I respond? It's *heavily* situational. If I'm on SG night, for instance, most of my replies are IC - we actually kind of keep local IC (with what seems to be standard parenthesis if we're going OOC on something,) the SG chat is IC, and we've got our global which is "OOC bs-ing" by default. If I'm elsewhere, I'm generally talking/replying OOC, since most people don't know my characters. I'm *rarely* in Pocket D, which is kind of my exception to that (and even then half the time someone's talking to me obviously OOC.) General "this is my life" chat... has nothing to do with my RPing and goes into Discord. 🙂

Personally, I don't think this would have the same... allure as "I know I can hit the jackpot." (Aside from the other psychological tricks casinos use to keep you feeling like 'just one more time...' ) Especially with the idea of "Can't delete til 50." I think this would be the most PL'd AT... just so people could get to 50 and delete it. I mean, people like to plan. People like to look ahead (... and PL to get there, admittedly) to get that next ibg power. Masterminds, getting each of their pet tiers and upgrades, for instance. Getting that "big attack." Emps getting their RAs, controllers their pets, etc. The only way I could see "randomness" working would really be "you're at an average for all ATs, you get a random primary and random secondary." (None of the other limits.) Yes, you could end up with armor/armor, or control/control, you could be an empath/pain. You could end up with a fairly unsoloable character - but it'd also be something you can plan to work around, too. That armor/armor - how would you like to be FA/SR? Could you work with that, pools and P2W attacks? How about a Ninja/Bots MM? Giving random but full *sets,* people could do some planning.

... ugh. I'm sorry, this just sounds... really bad. And the restrictions are - well, not particularly logical, either. No AE? There's more there than just farms, so no. And "can only delete when you hit 50?" Why? If you're stuck with one attack and you start getting random powers - say, level 2 you get a teammate rez, 4 you get, say, Fast Healing, 6 you get Personal Force Field... you can see where this is going, right? Would you *want* to be stuck with that? There's absolutely no way you could plan this out, and how would you feel about having one join your team - say, for an ITF - that's randomly been given two attacks, one hold, three rezzes, Sonic Cage, Time Bomb, etc. Sorry, for me this would be a *hard* pass... and I *like* some sets, mechanics and ATs that people generally call "weak" or "underperforming."

Depends. If you're dealing with an AOE-able mob? Sure. But something like, say, Protean, who (a) I'm dealing with 1v1 and (b) has a melee-range attack/effect (his self heal) I want to avoid? Gimme an ostrich, I'm playing Joust. I regularly have him not able to heal or land a hit on me.

There *are* people who don't get that sands - or a confuse - doesn't help. Tell everyone to stay at the top of the "hill" that goes down to Meinst. Go down, use something to pull her, and run back up to that spot. SHe's much faster than her zombies and will make it there and generally get beaten down before they show up. Makes it harder for someone to kill a zombie.