Greycat

If they get past you, yes, they start attacking the henge.

Well, no. Straight news would be "Hey, they just reported the president tested positive for cornoavirus." Though, given the situation in the US, even *that's* going to get ugly with the followup comments - just look around and you'll see conspiracy theories and ... let's just say fairly negative comments about it and him. Even "just news" can light the fuse on a powderkeg. Honestly, the way you worded the example starts leaning on being partisan (not saying if it is or not) and I could see arguments starting just on that sentence. But even *my* example... like I said, current events and persons tend to cause *strong* feelings and lead to arguments, in those cases. (versus, say, "Chevy showed off a new Camaro.") Boils down to "just use common sense," I suppose.

Yeah. Glad I'm not one. 😉

People can be against something and state it without having to present alternatives. After all, for some people (not me,) an "acceptable version" of PVP would be "remove it entirely."

Honestly? Not really. Not any more than "we have IOs available now, not just SOs, and more power picks from not needing to fit in fitness" and the rest of the general gameplay changes would explain.

*Rusty Muffler looks up, both alarmed and a bit annoyed. "Why do you want to attack mechanics? What'd we ever do to you?"

Thank $deity. A month of that was way too much.

As far as "general off topic type" channels, isn't this why General was created (and in my case, gets shoved out sight?) It's even in the name. No, we don't need a "politics" channel. CoC has this - Controversial and adult content, including: Sexual, provocative, pornographic, or adult content Violent content Controversial religious content Controversial political content Anything involving controversial real-world individuals or organisations Anything involving sensitive events, both current and historical The example Dragon gave drops *solidly* in the last two, and flirts with the third, so... don't say it. No, we don't need mods babysitting. Or we shouldn't.

I've ... kind of gotten to enjoy soloing it, honestly.

I've occasionally given mine separate voices. I tend to have the Kheld and host keep some degree of separation and personality - for instance, in one RP sg with one of my 'shades as leader, I had someone develop a "cyst shell" that could be fired from a sniper rifle, with the intent of damaging the "matrix" of the bonded Kheldian as well as the body of the host. While the host was kept unconscious the Kheldian was able to communicate over a nearby comm on its own while it healed.

Mechanically, the way it works is - Say you have 12% Energy defense, and 40% Ranged defense. Lucky you. A Rikti takes offense at your existence and fires a blast (energy, ranged) to remedy the situation. The game will look at the types covered (energy and ranged) and roll against the highest defense, your 40% ranged. Next, something with only melee attacks finds your lack of being dead disturbing. It's energy/melee. You have that 12% energy defense, but no melee outside of combat jumping (2.5%, I think?) It will roll against the 12%.

Wasn't that a Billy Joel song? "It's still BDSM to me?"

And now we're back to the BDSM-wear.

There are a few other issues, though. First, most -end powers tend to mention "end return" to the player as an effect. This... is rarely noticeable (Kinetics aside.) Second, NPCs seem to just not *need* as much END. Sliver of blue back and you're getting walloped. More -recovery tied with it would help.

Probably has. But, not her body, she probably doesn't care. ... which is one of the things people complain about, especially on redside. (Especially the alignment missions. The one where you get to see three "future yous," because you didn't want to share power with frostfire despite knowing the result is bad? Most of my characters wouldn't make that choice - but I'm told I did, because obviously "evil doesn't share." ) Some, yeah. Elevator ridess are also popular for this in single player games.

That... I'd say would be a harder sell. Some people use the different sprints for different effects, for instance, or have the Stealth IO in one and not the other (for things like leading hostages out.) Not sure if anyone actually mules them all or anything, but yeah.. .the prestige sprints are slottable powers, not just effects, so there's a little more to consider there. Edit: As solar mentioned already, apparently 😄

No, that'd be "give Brawl a minFX option." Or "MinFX for Stamina, please." (And I'm fine with the idea.)

But they stole Helen's beer.* No mercy. 🙂 *Everlasting specific joke.

Mind/fire. Mind you, I like doms in general, but I've loved playing my mind/fire.

Not mission givers. Just a store (one that's, honestly, easily ignored - like I said, most of the stuff is available elsewhere.)

We have something ... vaguely like this (and much simpler... and to be honest, not giving much that's compelling) in Siren's Call. If your side has zone control, there's a vendor that can sell you temp powers. There are two tiers of it, I think if you keep / extend the control of the zone you can get a few other powers (like ... I think it's "IR goggles" to help see stealthed enemies, etc.) There's just not much there that people bother with. (I go to do a patrol for combat invisibility. *shrug*) And some of the things can just be picked up at the P2W vendor. But, the kernel of the idea is there.

I saw them used frequently prior to that, as well. All it took was a blue to keep going. Didn't take much. (First 50 was an elec/elec blaster in I3, and I did watch other blasters I was with. The crash didn't seem to deter too many people.)

Well, your friends don't dance, and if they don't dance then they're no friends of mine!

You know what else I forgot to mention in that? We didn't have SG bases. SGs, yes, bases, no. Those were introduced with COV (and you had to OWN COV to have them.) So there wasn't even a "rez in base" option at the time when I started playing (and even after they were introduced, you'd have to have had enough people playing to afford power, control, rez stations...) So, the question would be, would you completely give up an SG base for the experience? Honestly, Solar, I think you'd end up having a single player experience to get to the point where you want to be. 🙂 I think a lot of the "I want an older/classic experience" would stop at earlier points. Not wanting to give up an SG base. Or the nurse, or trainer. Doesn't make anyone more right or wrong, I just think you'd have a hard time finding people who want to go *that* far back and give that much up. Most, I'd wager, would take a hybrid 'retro' experience (such as "the old travel power progression, but let me keep the SG base, and the nurse in zone.") But you sound aware of that, in any case.

There's not one. Closest we have are devs choice arcs. Nothing stopping them from asking, though.