Greycat

While, true, Gauntlet doesn't have an activation time, the tanker has to be in range of their enemies. Same with Fury - must be attacked/be attacking - or Scrapper crits. Assassination, to really get the most out of it, requires you to be hidden (which can be taken away) and, ideally, use your assassination *strike,* which does have a multi second windup time. Scourge requires the enemies to already be damaged to start activating. Containment requires the target to be under specific types of control, so you or someone else *has* to have put them in an immobilize or hold first. Defiance spends time stacking with powers from the secondary set. Masterminds don't have to do anything, granted... but their pets have to be in range of Supremacy for it to do any good. Meanwhile, Domination gives mez resistance and +mag. Doesn't sound like a bad tradeoff for a quick boom-flash-go.

Why on *earth* (any dimension's version) would I leave the alts alone? I mean, for one, I'm an RPer. I not only alt, I multibox. There are just too many stories to create, too many concepts, too many potentially interesting powerset combinations, too many cheesy names that MUST be realized.

Nope. Whoever comes by, comes by. I'm semi-regularly on a later night team that's often 4-6 people. I don't need a full team to have fun, and it's often more fun with fewer.

I think the main issue is that - for whatever reason, see "spaghetti" - alphabatizing (and then later, adding more stuff) to the list would break current costumes when you go to the tailor. Not sure what all would need to be done on the back end to make this *not* the case. And I wouldn't argue with having them alphabatized (and having a "search" available.)

Think someone else suggested this not too long ago. I probably wouldn't use them (I'm mostly on Everlasting, after all) but I wouldn't be against them being there.

First, welcome, long time no see and thank you *ever* so much for this. I think it's obvious you guys (and the rest of the staff that was there, from beginning to end) can be proud of what you made and the community you fostered that ... did *everything* to make this still live like it does now. 🙂 Hopefully what you've been up to since lives up to that 🙂 OK, questions and things.... 1. Incarnates. I know they were initially mentioned *way* back when as EATs, and became the system we ended up with. It always felt... a little tacked on, to me, as it was. So, three questions related to that... *was* it kind of tacked on, at what point (if anyone recalls) was it shifted from "EAT somewhere in the way back burners" to "post-50 power and leveling system," and if you'd been given the go-ahead and funding for a COH 2, would you have created a similar system that meshed more into the game? 2. The never-implemented EATs. (Coralax, Blood of the Black Stream, Incarnates, Avilians.) Was there any more of a foundation somewhere in the back of folks minds for their backstories and what they would be like from a lore and player-accessible-AT perspective, or did they pretty much stay "It's an idea?" And/or - since we obviously got Coralax in game as an enemy group, so I suppose with that specifically - was getting them in the game as NPCs adding to or taking away from the chance of having them as EATs? (IE, when they came up with COV, was the Coralax EAT brought back up as "OK, we should work on that too" or "OK, they're in the game, that does everything we really wanted to explore with them" - or was there some other issue, such as "how do we deal with an underwater set of races" with them and the Virtea, that prevented them from becoming an AT? 3. Other than the moon 🙂 were there any ideas for expanding the COH world out into other locations - Egypt (yes, still thinking of BotBS,) South America, Antarctica (secret villain lairs!) , Cardiff - or would that have been something that, if done, would have been more of a COH 2 thing - or was it thought of at all?

*tosses a vote in for the "it's not a race, just enjoy and play what you want, as you want." *

... which kind of is covered in the very next part you didn't quote. If you fix (IE, get rid of) that, the rest doesn't really matter. 😉

Well, my other main reason to really discard the "cost of enhancement" thing is that - well, 1, if you fix the acc issue, you don't need the ENH any more, and 2, it narrows the perceived impact from "anyone taking the power" to "min-maxers." Sort of like a health risk going from "Everyone in this state who gets water from this source, which equates to millions of people" to "those couple people Dave knows who like snorting Tic-tacs and holding their heads under water." One's impacting a lot more people than the other, and the other's doing something by choice. 😉

Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy? The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker? ... someone needs to make some theme teams. (As far as answering the OP? I'm in the "whoever I'm on" camp. I've only dealt with trying to level one character I thought was decidedly not fun, and that was because I was trying to get one of each MM to 50 and being stubborn about the bots/FF that was boring me to death... finally said the hell with it and farmed him up and shelved him. Hasn't been remade here.)

Could always just play for tickets. *shrugs* While not as extensive as merits, you still have choices (to varying degrees) in what you pick up with them.

Honestly, of everything I don't give a damn about this as an argument. There are so many ways to get enhancements, and cost can be variable, so... As for the rest? Yeah. No acc check would be ideal, as it's already getting penalized pretty hard, and no, it doesn't seem all that sensible for the power.

I want *range,* which is the *point* of a snipe. Not "OMG I need another power I can use at shorter ranges for moah DPS in a powerset type that's nothing but DPS!" I don't know of any other game where someone looks at a sniper and goes "OMG, they need to be right up front and in close range to use their abilities!" I can sit *out* of range and take out troublesome mobs *before they're troublesome.* Not sit there and have to wait because I've used some other power for the *designed purpose of a snipe* to be re-granted to me. I was working with it *just fine* - yes, even in combat, which is apparently SO DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND for some people. And I certainly have never had a team complain about "mah DPS" when I'm taking out troublesome mobs before they could affect the team (no DPS when you're held, or sapped of END, for instance) or pulling from a distance. "Fast snipe" is as counter to its *designed purpose* as reworking melee sets to heal the enemies it hits would be. But you go on making assumptions and wanna-be-clever comments, champ.

Didn't "sit there uselessly" for me before, either, from I3 all the way up to when it was changed... unlike now. Thanks for assuming, though.

Yeah. Absolutely *hate* quick snipe. You don't even need a *pet* to trigger it. Just, essentially, be targeted. I want to use it to *snipe.* If I wanted another in close combat power, I'd pick another in close combat power. For snipes, I want that range. It's the reason I've always taken them.

Other than farms, I don't think I've seen anyone "in mission" multiboxing all that frequently. *Maybe* an "I'm unlocking the patron powers on this alt account." And it's expressly verboten for things like MSRs and Hami raids. I'll generally see it for RP. (Or something like a friend who's building/tweaking a base on a base-builder character while RPing on another.) That said, yeah, if it's on a team, whoever's doing it should be up front about it. And if you have an issue with it (or, really, anything else,) there's nothing wrong with leaving the team, even if it's on a TF.

Heck, I've read the thread and I *still* don't know that... whatsisname exists.

Nice. *waves*

Yes. There are some mobs that "cheat" that way - you won't ever -fly a Rikti Drone to the ground, for instance. I *want* to say *some* of the Longbow Eagles are like that, too, but they seem somewhat mixed.

I don't know, sometimes they really bring me down.

So, if I walk through the parking lot of a stadium while a baseball game is going on, am I suddenly a better baseball player? If I walk through a university's halls while classes are in session, am I absorbing all this knowledge about law or paleontology or chemistry or whatever I'm walking by? Why should I get any XP for just being in the area of a fight - even ignoring the leaching/KS/farm questions (and the fact some groups are already a PITA to find - see Council/5th column killing each other?) I've done nothing to contribute. You want people involved in the zones themselves, create *interesting* events - not "oh, yawn, another invasion" or "oh, gee, another giant bag of XP (GMs.)"

The Shining Stars/hunt the ... whatever they were called was bugged and they couldn't get it unbugged.

1. The OP didn't say it was necessary either. It's called QOL. And yes, your wording where i Pointed it out might as well have been calling him one. 2. The lusca bit is completely irrelevant, so why are you bringing it or your attitude towards it up? Has as little to do with this as your like or dislike of Cherry Cordials or if you like red or blue cars better. 3. The OP never said it was necessary, again. Given the MMs are the *only* class reliant on having henchmen, they're proposing it as a "nice to have."

... which (a) kind of tells me they should run this on inactive accounts first, if that's a big part of the issue and (b) just reminds me that they ran a similar script on live twice and found... not many names freed up / reused, even though they were preparing for what should be a big launch which would use up names. And there were far more people on live, after all.

Bit of a strawman there. The *only* person saying something like that was saying it in response to the "I want a 2 billion INF button" comment. And that came *after* your initial post. Yes, your comment did sound less like "I play MMs too" and more like "My experience trumps yours." (With the final point in your comment sounding, frankly, like you're sideways-questioning the OP's ability to play the class.) Honestly, none of the points you raised were particularly strong. 1. Resummoning, as mentioned, can fail. Yes, it's faster now. Still can fail. Yes, that bit of spaghetti should be fixed, it'd be nice. 2. "Travel can be used as a strategic option." Then why aren't you arguing for the insta-teleport - when it works - to be disabled? The OP is asking for an *ability* - which they'd have to select - to teleport the pets. If you want to have your pets travel, you would... hold on, let me check my notes... not use that power at that time. 3. is ... niche and irrelevant. "We don't need it easier for multi-box MMs to beat GMs, you can sometimes follow a henchman to know they're fighting a GM!" Well, I tend to actually look for the GM spawn messages, for one, and for another, this is like arguing against bike helmets being mandatory because some people juggle chainsaws on unicycles and a helmet might impede their ability to see. Yes, true, the helmets might be an impediment in that situation, but if you have to go *that* niche for an argument against something... maybe you shouldn't be arguing against it. 4. is what sounds like you're basically telling the OP "L2P N00b" without directly saying it.