Greycat

And as an example of how to get people to *quit* playing your game - Diablo III started a new season with a "buff" (I guess.) Which makes an obnoxious constipated whale noise every 3 minutes while firing off useless elemental effects that are triggering migranes in people while (some) fill the screen. Well, maybe not the snowball that rolls so slowly a rooted stone tanker could outrun it. I think I lasted 20 minutes before saying "nope, I'm good for another 6 months or so." (Honestly, I don't actually like the game that much, but it's there for that urge to play that hits about every 3-4 months. Usually lasts a week at most.)

There is (was?) hero activity elsewhere - it's part of Hero Corps backstory, for starters, and I'm fairly sure other groups are mentioned as well. Even just ignoring player decisions about where they're based or from. 🙂 And yeah, I'd love to have just a *taste* of being elsewhere without having to go to another plane. If we can have giant towers in Praetoria to fight on, why not... the Eiffel Tower? Big Ben? We know Gadzul Oil (and the dropped Blood of the Black Stream) were active in Egypt, why don't we end up there for a few missions? Or head elsewhere in Africa to cripple the Banished Pantheon on their old battleground? There are "mystic" sites around the world, and magic plays a not insignificant role in the COH world. How about having to investigate a mesoamerican pyramid? (which... I built up and did elsewhere.) We've gone to Cimerora, why not check out the ruins? Just *maps* would be useful (and nice in AE, as well.) (And yes, it was NC Norcal.)

I'm ... not sure what BB's argument is, or why they would have to 'gut the rewards.' For each individual SSA arc, there's a 6 1/2 day timer for the rewards. Yes, you can run each arc more quickly than that, but the first run would net you (say) 20 merits, but if you ran it the next day, you'd only get 5... until 6 1/2 days would pass. I'm not sure how that would "cater to power gamers," or cost those who play casually or less frequently anything.

I honestly kind of wish I could choose to disable fast snipe all together, but I'm fairly sure I'm in the minority there.

Graaaagh! No! Break out the pitches and torchforks! Far and tethers! 🙂

For a while back on live, I used to do reverse-FOTMs. Ice/Energy blasters a thing? I ran energy/ice. Granted, there aren't really "reverses" of some things (fire/kin controllers,) but it got interesting at times.

It's hard to argue against this, since it's essentially already being done - people advertise their patron arc and others join, often at low level, so they're already unlocked.

Which is why I said, very specifically, "I don't think I'd ever use." Which does not discount other people using or liking it. And I read the other post. I still do not know that it would work the way you think. But that's why I said I don't know.

How are other warning boxes implemented? Do you think there would be a special "no, you must LOOK AT MEEEE" box set up just for this? It is *reasonable* that the OP is referring to a warning box similar to the others that come up in game. As for the second? I'm me. And I did not say "good enough." I said good. Which, by the way, is also an opinion.

The first, I'd love to have, yeah. I know I've missed that changing and misconverted at times. The second... I don't know if it's feasable, since it is a different IO. The third, I don't think I'd ever use. I've run across some "Oh, wait, that would work out nicely!" IOs while trying to convert to something else. I'd hate to miss out on those.

So disable it if it were implemented. It'd be a whole half second out of your life. I'd probably disable it too, but it's not a good reason to disagree with having it. It's brought up often enough that there are obviously people beyond just the OP who would like to have it. That said, there's enough market fluctuation that it'd probably flag at odd times or just be problematic. If someone picked up a run of (say) common IOs that someone listed at 100 inf because they were going for a crafting badge, say, and you bid 50,000, it would be reasonable but "well over" the last few bids. (Not to mention the price display bugs going on atm.)

... I'm wondering how many "just get to 50" folks are from other MMOs. Unless I'm part of a RPing SG, I think I have a sudden drop in how much I play my 50s when they hit that. I don't care overmuch about incarnate content - it's just... meh (probably because we *did* have to grind it, not to mention the game forcing "The Well" on you.) More often than not, I'll continue a character's story with an alt. Either a shift in powers, an alternate version, something. "Loot" for me isn't necessary. Nice to have, sure, but chasing it just sucks the fun out of things for me. There are other MMOs I could go to if I wanted to grind away mindlessly for the next "thing." And none of it is required. As far as X,Y,Z "sucks, not worth playing, why would you play that?" Well, that's pretty much why I don't have General on any of my tabs (aside from other ignorant and/or vile conversation) - other than that, it's mostly an opinion to be ignored.

And, for a bit (and when I had a smaller screen) I was collecting some of the related pieces into wallpapers. This one cost four Bills. 🙂

And one just for fun. While I appreciated the *convenience* when trainers were given the ability to be tailors, too, well... IC, I thought it might be problematic. Here's BABs illustrating one of the issues, with the help of a character of mine and another character run by a friend. I'm not sure it's better with him being outside by a little park now.

Since I'm on ice, here's my Ice/Emp 'troller, who you may have run across on MSRs on Everlasting, Caduccia. Created her back in single digit issue days. The most memorable things with her are... hmm. First - and really only - character I had, from I3 to the end and in all the time I had here, that I ran across someone with a very similar (but not exactly the same) costume. (Not the one shown here.) Also - same single digit issue days, back in the hollows, I got invited to a team. Team leader was fine, second person insisted (after I was invited) that we needed a "healer." And *refused* to believe that Controllers had Empathy... despite me standing right there. Some peoples' kids.

So, since servers are down and I haven't posted here in a while: I had one ongoing character - actually Therra's daughter. Initially in a sg/duo with her brother, decided to make her own way, joined Longbow, went undercover in the Isles, quit LB after that and became a hero of her own. (I had a fairly long bit written up for them, back on live, explaining the whole thing.) Erin Snow (emp/psy) / Caitlyn Haruspica (ice/ice corr) / Caitlyn Snow, all in one:

I started on pinnacle back in the day. Servers falling down drunk with no warning is nothing new to me. 🙂

.... I'm now picturing the sound effects for Arctic Air replaced with some smooth jazz with that filename, Solar. 🙂 (Edit: And yes, that's why I worded it very specifically that way - there are several effects some people find annoying that others like, so I'm all for *options.* )

For me, it's great that people can make mod files and such. Even make them for download. That said - though I don't even notice the sound, frankly - I'd be for this being done, or at least presented as an option, "naturally" in game. Not everyone wants to deal with it, be told to go to the forums, search an who knows what trying to find the file, etc, etc, etc. Heck, listen to in game chat - not everyone wants to deal with the forums. Yes, I could (if I wanted to) do this myself. Not everyone can or wants to mod their game, for any number of reasons. An in game option as a goal would be nice for them.

None were mentioned in the description. I highly doubt that would be the case without them mentioning it.

Sounds overpowered. Probably trivializes AVs, and would provide one hit kills in PVP. 😉 (Actual answer? Been asked for since live. I don't know if there's a technical reason or not that would cause issues. I wouldn't mind, though.)

The closest I came to a ... "pacifist" character was a ninja/pain MM. Used to be a doctor, worked in a war zone, swore never to hurt another after that. Her staff... well, not so much. They did promise not to carry guns. That left a lot of leeway...

Unless you add shapeshifting and 1-50 storylines, then no. (And I'm saying this as someone who loves Khelds.) Heck, if you look at the powersets, they're heavily borrowing from existing sets *anyway* in a lot of cases. Heck, you could say it was already done. Look at an En/En blast powerset, a Peacebringer - then Energy Assault.

Overall, Blue King. I man, come on, that entire run, facing Requiem, and Apex ended up at level 17? 🙂 Still, yeah. More relatable than "The things the *real* heroes are doing while you're playing." I don't think they generally portrayed the Phalanx well. And yeah, one of mine showed up in the Top Cow run gathering to face down Arachnos. Remade that character here. 🙂

Well, there's a difference between "being supportive" and "just happening to have the tools someone else used to make a game." (In Myst's case, as I recall, that was Hypercard - at least in the games leading up to it.) At least they're somewhat consistent. (Unlike, say, OS/2's support back in the day - which went from being indifferent to "We're supplying tools to assist gaming" to "Due to internal politics (IE, "another division is trying to axe this because they're selling windows PCs and this is competition,") we're taking those tools away, but at least they weren't released." We *still* got things like Galactic Civilizations, but... could've been better.) I'll take indifference over actively hostile. 🙂