[Returning Noob Question]

If you don't know who has your name, /getglobalname charactername will give you the global and you can PM or email them.

[Make Aid Other 2.5x as strong when used on pets]

15 minutes ago, arcaneholocaust said:

As far as I’m aware the magnitude/value of the core function is weaker in basically every case too. I’m not sure what is special about pets that the power needs to break that principle just for them. 

While I'm neither for nor against the suggestion, at least for MMs, they are the primary offense (and it can pretty fairly be said a big chunk of the defense) for the MM. No other AT can have their offense completely removed by an AOE and have to take time to re-create it (as opposed to, say, a hold where you wait or take an insp and are immediately back at full strength.)

[QOL: Undo the Regen Nerf]

"The" regen nerf.

 

*chuckles.*

[Why is Phantasm so unrealistically tall?]

Nah. You *really* want to scare them, you make it a cute little girl in a frilly dress. Then make her look up, eyes shadowed, and just slowly *smile.* Perhaps throw in a comment about "Ooh, someone new to play with."

[Why is Phantasm so unrealistically tall?]

1 minute ago, Solarverse said:

I don't know, I was thinking normal human height.

Is that normal for a phantasm? After all, you're summoning one of them, not a human.

 

(And yes, I'm mostly just BSing here because I found the wording amusing.)

[Old school playing is getting rare]

1. I play on everlasting. There are low level teams constantly.

2. Do you understand that high level players get exemplared down and can *also* play on low level teams if the offer is made?

 

I see plenty of people looking to do Frostfire, for instance, the Posi duo and the like. If you're seeing "no one to team with," you're not looking. Yes, even on low levels.

 

This is not WOW. There's no real "gear grind" that forces you to stay on one high level character. There is great incentive to alt. And exemping down is easy. So, no, these people are not "disappearing."

 

How to solve the OP's dilemma: Open the LFG channel. Say "Hey, I'm running Shauna Stockwell's arc" or "Hey, running Frostfire, room for 7 more." Get replies. Invite people who replied. Play arc.

Alternate solution: "Starting a content playthrough group!" (or even supergroup.) "Let me know if interested, planning to be around these times, playing through all the arcs we can, 1-50."

This could even be done... *gasp* redside if desired.

 

 

 

[MM>Heat Mastery]

No.

 

Edit: Actually, since I'm the one that first said it on the old forums and can see this is *exactly* the sort of situation it was intended for...

 

/jranger

[Best Powers Against the Tsoo?]

Doms are great. I like mind. Or anything with a confuse.

[Old school playing is getting rare]

20 minutes ago, DougGraves said:

 

I'm a big fan of teaming and playing lower levels.  So I worry about what other people do with their characters. 

So team and play at lower levels. Don't sweat people who don't. They don't affect you.

Some people enjoy RP. Others don't. They can coexist.

Some people enjoy creating "builds" for characters. Others don't. They don't affect each others play.

Some people enjoy base building. Others find it too tedious to do much more than a basic "here's storage, here's teleporters," if they do anything. That's perfectly fine, too.

 

There's room for everyone. Invite people along, don't worry about people who like something different. They're not wrong. Neither are you. Only saying they are or that they won't enjoy the way they play is wrong. They know what they like far better than you do.

[Why is Phantasm so unrealistically tall?]

How tall should a realistic phantasm be?

[Is it possible for non-MM to have a pet control window?]

2 hours ago, MTeague said:

I do not know if the pet window can be opened for non-MM's.

If it can, I would certainly expect all pet commands to be greyed out. 

But I can understand a desire just to have the window as a means to monitor pet health at a glance.

 

It can be opened. The commands are not greyed out, but do nothing for non-MMs.

[Old school playing is getting rare]

Personally, I'm a big fan of "Don't worry about what other people do with their characters."

[[City of Roleplay] Recruitment Fair & Comic Celebration!]

It was an interesting and fun event.  Thank you.

 

I think if/when this is done again, though, we may want to consider spreading out more. I heard a *lot* of complaints about not being able to keep up with chat scroll.

[Suppressing VFX out of combat]

Except it isn't.  You're talking disabling powers. They're talking suppressing vfx. And as mentioned, the tech is already in game, they aren't asking for something created from scratch. So it's  less asking the engineer to adjust your seat, and more saying "you know what would be handy? Having a cup holder for the passenger too."

[More space for Character Description]

2 hours ago, Malithrax said:

The character bio site is called Virtueverse. It was active during the Live years. Many roleplayers include links to their character's VV page in their bios.

 

Unless you guys were talking about a different effort, the site in question is very much in play right now.

They're talking about the in-game bio editor.

 

Also, as far as Virtueverse:

(A) isn't there some sort of issue with it at the moment? Thought I heard something in passing, and

(B) I'd ... kind of like to keep this one separate, personally. I know some people are continuing, others aren't - having a different site and keeping Virtueverse as it was "live" kind of appeals to me. I know it doesn't for everyone.

[Make Scrapper Taunts Ranged Attacks (too.) Share your thoughts!]

I'd be... cautious with adding abilities (like the broadsword example.) For instance, someone who's trying to keep a Natural character would probably be *irked* to suddenly be teleporting around (or teleporting people.)

 

As far as debuffs - and I just took a peek at my dark/dark's Confront - it does already do a -75% range for 12 seconds, which should help draw even ranged enemies to you. I don't know that scrappers need a damage *buff,* but a small set-thematic debuff wouldn't hurt. I wouldn't really even argue about a bit of damage (it would help the taunt function,) though the issue there is "do brutes and tanks get that as well?" (Especially tanks?) (Extra mention here for Dwarf form taunts, as well.)

 

There's already an IO that does a little damage (chance of, at least,) and I don't think anyone calls that gamebreaking, either, so I think that would be safe, in any case.

[Suppressing VFX out of combat]

1 hour ago, Six Six said:

You'd rather have a handful of volunteers who are already taking care of a buttload of details to tinker with god knows how many lines of code just so you don't have to click 4 or 5 toggle buttons?

So what?

 

They also asked us to design a powerset. Which is likely even more work. Others (including me) have asked for new zones, new story arcs, new archetypes. At least this suggestion is taking an existing tech (combat auras) and applying it to the *visuals for* other powers.

 

As far as requests go? This one's probably in the lower half of "how much work it would take."

[Suppressing VFX out of combat]

I have a suspicion that this could be *really* obnoxious at times, but other than that, not against more options.

[Any Pinnacle expats?]

On 8/26/2020 at 8:14 PM, Bill Z Bubba said:

PinnBadges was recreated as a channel. Most of us are on excel but there's a few in that channel on the other shards as well.

I'm on Quattro Pro, personally.

[History question - story arc rewards]

Yeah, given the timeframe, an SO sounds about right. It's still the reward, or a reward choice, in some content (SSA 1, for instance, gives you a choice of 4x merits, some incarnate bits, or... an accuracy SO. Siren's Call has an SO for 1000 bounty. That sort of thing.)

 

[Add an 8th enhancement tab, or add 3 more so we can have 10]

I don't know that I'd personally need more enhancement tabs. Lately, though, I'd been rather wishing I had a button to just "compact enhancements," though, as I sell off SOs that drop and fill spaces between IOs I craft. It takes a while sometimes to move them around between tabs so I can see just how many I have (and, honestly, *what* i have) on some characters.

[Stalwart is now a bad guy?]

3 hours ago, Rishidian said:

I think it would be a good mission to go into a building to bust a drug deal, and find Stalwart in the middle of it.  Being desperate, he sees the drugs he's buying to be his only way to maintain his hero hood.

He puts up a fight, but concedes before unconsciousness, not wanting to end his career on the wrong side of the law.

The hero talks to him, explaining that there is more to being a hero, and more kinds of heroes than crime stoppers,  Convinces him to go to the hospital to get into a drug treatment program and to consider how he can use the rest of his life to help people improve their lives.

 

Well, you get half of that. (Literally did that as a tip mission within the last 15 minutes.) I wouldn't argue with a "talk to or fight out" option in it.

[More space for Character Description]

8 minutes ago, MTeague said:

Option #2: 

In the in-game-editor, manually delete out each space between each word in your bio, and add them back in, one-by-one.  Sometimes what looks like a single space is actually taking up 7-8 characters worth toward the 1024 limit.  This seems to happen most often if you write out a bunch of text, then click up to the middle of an earlier line, and edit something that causes the wrapping to change in the in-game editor.  It doesn't handle that right at all.  But if I manually delete out the spaces and manually add them back in, I can often reclaim like 150-200 characters.

... which is part of why I say the editor should be looked at first. I'll often be typing away and have it "stall" somewhere. Go back and click to look and it suddenly inserts your text elsewhere (well, where you clicked, if it's anywhere but right at the end. )

 

I'll often do the first, as well. It's just irksome.

[Have missions check if you have done certain things before allow you to proceed]

 People can play what they want to play, however they feel like playing them. The most I'd do is mention "part 1 of this is in The Nosehair of Nosferatu story arc" so people who want to do it in order can.

 

Less blocking of content is a good thing in most instances.

[Human Limitation Characters need love.]

8 minutes ago, ninja surprise said:

I just forgot his name but there's a recurring villain, all-natural, uses dual pistols.. not Maverik... in hero tips you have to prevent him from getting bomb triggers... and he teleports so that means it's OK. Try that?

Maelstrom.