Greycat

Ehhh.... On the one hand, *shrug* sure, why not. On the other, it's not like components are hard to get. Just takes a little time. Not against it, just not all that for it either.

It's not AT/Powerset. It's RP. I'm less interested in "YetAnotherUberPerson did 908023894723E^098723 damage to badguy!" and more interested in playing stories out with people. Long as the sets match (or close enough) the character I have in mind, I'm good.

You missed the point of the "We can do this." What I was saying is that we can already deal with a three color emblem of this sort with a chest pattern and chest detail, so it's doable. As should have been obvious with *creating the inner ring* portion that you cut out. Y'know, if you don't want to snipe at someone trying to support the suggestion.

Even early on, as far as PVP balance, I've generally felt the PVP balance was this thing called "the team." That's what it basically felt balanced around. 1v1? ... sure, if you're the same AT, or at least the same sort of category. (One of my most hilarious - and *long* - fights on live was my MA/Regen stalker vs a MA/Regen Scrapper. We gave up after a while, said nice fight and went our separate ways. We just couldn't get each other to that tipping point where someone was going to win.) But a team? Pickup trio I was on of - as I recall - two Corrs and a Dom basically held Sirens 'til better than a team of heroes finally overwhelmed us (and stopped coming 1-2 at a time.) Teams cover each other and build up where another's got a weakness. (Though those were also really before IO builds went crazy and/or I13.) *shrug* Zones are empty these days anyway. I think I've had ... two? PVP encounters since starting here. And one where the person was just standing in a base, I'm assuming getting time for a badge. I'm not interested in arena. I used to like the random chance meetings, trying to hunt someone by the trail of opened presents, that sort of thing.

Can we add Momentum to that? Sure, there's a click that'll give you Momentum, but I've lost count of the number of times I've JUST BARELY taken more time getting from one group to another, tried to use an attack... and it's greyed out because momentum dropped. (I kind of hate these sorts of mechanics.)

It's not a continual supply. (Plus there are a couple paths the fir Bolg can take.) A tank doing that would basically be finishing the mission with the same XP as if they played the mission, more or less. (Probably less, because if someone just set a tank there and went to grab lunch, the ones that take a back path (a) wouldh't count and (b) could well add up to the 30 and finish the mission early, especially if they're running larger spawn sizes.)

Actually... Chest pattern for the outer ring. Central dot / symbol for a "chest detail." We can already do this, after all. Wouldn't be able to get all of them (and ... eh, shouldn't) but just creating, say, a two color set of rings (or inner "dot" with ring to make a four or five concentric circle one) would at least be doable.

There's a *lot* of lore bits that are barely hinted at, or were meant to start that didn't, or that have a good bit of room to explore. I've long wanted to have the Blood of the Black Stream finally expanded and explored in game, for instance, even if they can't be a new EAT. That would be a well of new content not being centrally tied to Arachnos, or Praetoria, or much of anything already existing. There have been hooks in game completely un-followed-up on. And no, I never said "don't add anything new." You said (paraphrasing) "nothing attached to lore." Which sounds like asking for basketball without a ball or nets.

PVP just isn't a big thing in game. I used to enjoy it before (a) you needed competitive IO builds, and if you don't have them, it's fairly pointless and (b) i13's changes made it essentially a separate game. Every once in a while I'll get into a fight and have fun with it, but... eh. Yeah, I'd think this would just end up with kill-farms instead of actual PVP.

That's about it. That and a somewhat stilted intro if you click on him in Fort Trident, where he obviously needs some work... ... you're ... in COH. What lore would you want it connected to?

Well, we'd just been through praetoria, praetoria, praetoria... That said, it's not the "another alien invasion" - at least for me. It's the bunch of nonsensical "AND THEY WERE A VILLAIN ALL ALONG!" side switching (ok, Scirocco would eventually go hero...ish, I suppose) with lady Grey, the whole "the Kheldians are all being used for fuel" (um, between them also being an interstellar, even intergalactic, species, easy travel away, allies and *other dimensions,* on top of being player ATs... no,) and having it dig into more ("play this subscription to reach them!") Incarnate levels... Bleccch.

... I hope one of the next GMs takes the name "GM Shoutout." 🙂

*nod* and you'd have fewer and fewer people to do each tier of this subscription-grind content - and/or quite a few people getting PLd up who have no idea about the game, used to the "the game begins at the end" model of other MMOs. Honestly, especially given how scabbed-on it feels, I wouldn't have been surprised if that ended up killing off the game if it had gone the way it was described. (I *already* wasn't fond of what I'd heard with the Battalion storyline.)

Are you on a *team* when you're doing this, or just following and punching them solo? Short of that or just sitting back at Point du Hoc or whatever, getting the badge is almost a gimme as it is right now for anyone with a little bit of participation. Also, there's no "forcing" badgers to do anything. Badgers choose the activity of badging for themselves. It's like saying you're "forcing" people to run if they want to win a (typical) race. In any case, if you're on a team, participating, and not (say) in the hospital and way out of range, if you're not getting credit - use the in game tools to send a petition to a GM.

How do you feel about Trashcan, then? (Also, BOTLER's Wiki entry needs updating with HC dialog / item costs / conversion, as it still talks about hero merits. Might have the old location, too. I'd hop in and do it, but not sure how to do so while cleanly preserving legacy info. Plus, wiped out from actiivities.)

Sally. Definitely.

Mirror Spirit. *nods*

Some people are *very* passionate about their badges... and getting them all. *shrug* I'm not one of them, and I don't honestly get it, but... it's a thing. But, yeah. Having something like: - All of one AT in a TF: "Unified." - All different ATs: "Diversified" ... would tend to go over better.

Well, clientside mods would go in whether the devs know of them or not. If it's simply "Put your own image(s) here at ###x### resolution," there's no way they'd be able to control anything - they can't be approved (even, necessarily, of the mod itself, short of changing things in the game to break them deliberately - and universally.) One person could put up movie posters, another could put up centerfolds, and they'd be the only ones to see it. When things like SG recruiting, contests, etc. were mentioned, that's something that would have to go serverside to be of any use, so everyone could see it - which brings its own issues, as SG "The Super Sewer Sweepers" may not exist on every server, so seeing that on (say) Indom when it's not there, well...

Depends who shoots first. ... yes, I do enjoy confusing Sappers.

I've done so every once in a while, but in general... no, I'm not a fan of speed runs, especially when it's decided "Oh, by the way..." I get it (say) in the fourth "Find the glowie/kill the boss" mission 2/3 into an old TF, but that's just rushing the "oh god, this again" part. Otherwise I'd prefer running with a group taking their time and/or RPing.

I'd agree domes or bubbles sounds like dimension shift, but that would just affect you being able to target the enemies. (I want to say you can still target them but can't hit them, but it's been a while.) Shouldn't affect your END at all, though. Hmm. You said you were on a Yin... ... was a Super Stunner around when it happened? When they rez, they also do an autohit -END to anyone in range (which gives them whatever amount of END/health they get back.) I wonder if someone was throwing a dimension shift on them to try to stop that from happening, but the autohit hitting anyway and just draining you enough.

Missed th ecomment you're referring to? The only thing I know of that's happened with that is that it takes taunt sets now (as I recall.)

They can't directly grab and throw (just like we can't,) it'd end up being some mag of knockback. It'd be interesting - though IMHO they'd have to have complementary sets of powers (some attacking, some defending the others, some debuffing, some healing - how much would depend on the number in the swarm, I suppose) but on the other hand, with all the AOE being thrown around in the current meta... of course, we're talking GM-size (or value,) so being "overpowered for solo/small team" wouldn't be a consideration.

Frankly, I've always taken it as just a conversion - matter being a form of energy, and vice versa. The body stays the body, though with slight alterations due to being combined with the Kheldian giving it the energy/negative energy resists and such. I'd say the rough analog would be Star Trek's transporters (the way I understand them,) where the Kheldian joins with the host and copies the pattern (thus being able to replicate it again later) and just transfers between the states. The transporter shifts to and transmits the energy, reforming it into matter of the pattern it copied at the destination. The Kheldian, while joined, can copy the pattern back to actual matter while joined with them. That's in my head, anyway.