Greycat

If we're talking "a badge," sure. Even one for all redside SFs and all blueside SFs seperately. On your way there, you're *already* getting a lot of rewards. Other badges, merits, extra merits if they're the WST, progress towards other accolades that already make your character stronger, prismatics (either for costumes or cash) - "i should get rewarded?" You're already doing so.

I don't mind the VEATs once finished... they fit a couple of concepts, and one of my mains is a Widow. I *hate* the storyline. It may have changed somewhere on live, I don't know, but I played it through at launch and ... I hated it, hated the "yep, you're a sucker too!" and thrown-together feel of it. I play it through level 10 to get the costume and that's it, frankly. Playing... The forced respec at 24 has *always* annoyed me. Yes, Khelds have to open up the forms they want, but they don't have to stop what they're doing and do a complete respec from level 1. And then have to do it again if they do a second or third build. What's even *more* annoying is on soldiers at least I like to go "huntsman" instead of purely Bane or Crab. If they could completely do away with that, you pick which path you want at level 1 or 2, it'd be *much* better. The other thing that kind of annoys me is the effect they had on the playerbase... "Oh, they can get their leadership *and* Leadership! They're a thousand times more useful than any other support or HEAT" - is not only annoying but rather selfish sounding to me. That's not how fun the AT is, it's just "buffbot." I don't think I've heard that in a bit, at least. It was just *one more thing* that annoyed me on them. Generally... I know the lore. I ignore the story arcs. I play them when they fit a character - and they do fit some of mine well, one of them even being a sort of "main" o fmine. I don't mind how they play. They do their jobs and I don't feel like I'm missing anything. I'm sure someone will throw numbers out but... I don't care. *shrug*

There's nothing wrong with taking a break. Honestly, what I'm mostly here for isn't playing yet another ITF or whatnot, but RP. Developing characters in what's essentially a big freeform group writing project (even if most of the writing is in chat) and seeing how their "lives" go is fun, at least for me, and it turns COH into one big sandbox. Granted, there's also writing and discussion outside of the game, but still - there'll *never* be enough new content for folks. There wasn't on live with a paid, professional staff, there won't be here. Have to figure out how to keep things fresh for yourself.

We have nothing showing Khelds on Praetorian earth. (Reinforced, to me, by the not-being-able-to-make-Khelds-goldside.) Edit: (After researching for the Kheld backstory and lore guide 2.0 in the Guides section) The original Dev team in one of the AMAs said there's some link between the Batallion and why Khelds are on Earth. Since that sequence of events doesn't happen in another timeline/dimension: No Khelds on Prae Earth. Though, given War Wolf Earth, it obviously *can* happen.

Why would you expect them to? It's fairly rare that they have to step in and say something - if anything, that'd be during beta phases and in the beta testing area. Also: ... they don't do this. If you donate anything, during the time donations are open, it's to keep the servers running period. No extra anything for doing so, no pay-to-play.

Not just no, but f*** no.

The flip side of this being any attack means they *will* aggro on you when the effect wears off, which may not always be desirable (and part of why I avoid some confuse sets, or the procs in them, on bread-and-butter single target effects.)

I don't think it's needed, honestly, but I will say the movement speed is an interesting take. Flip side being some people don't like having their movement speeds boosted or movement otherwise altered from what they're expecting. I don't know if this would build enough to be an issue for some people, say, fighting in caves or some of the twisty hallways. *I* don't mind - I have a brute or two with Spring Attack specifically for the "... and I'm going to get there NOW and punch you in THAT nose with THIS fist!" feel, but some are more sensitive to movement speeds.

Right, which isn't what I posted that to show. Only the "there's a difference / no XP for rezzed freaks."

Resonance or blast? I'll say part of why I don't play my sonic blast sets is that I *still* hate the SFX. "Ooh, I'm a wolf! Ooh, I'm a fancy sonic gun! Ooh, I'm projectile vomiting!" Resonance is ... eh. OK. I have them, I just usually have other things to play.

I can only say the last Metal Smasher was a rez. Other than that, mix of rezzed and first defeat. No difference in XP. Just in case anyone's needing visual confirmation on getting XP or not. 🙂

Yeah, being able to "undo last power/slot selection" would be nice. Technically possible? *shrug* dunno.

The Edgehog is not amused. 😉 (Setwise.... I'd play it.)

Bio space? Sure. Chat space? As an RPer... I can always start another line if I have something lengthy to say to someone. Besides, there's only so long you can see someone's AFK bubble as they t y p e e x c e e d i n g l y s l o o w ... *oops* backspace...... backspace...... w l y. I prefer finishing conversations before my grandkids die of old age.

I *already* make confusing them worthwhile... by having them start in on problematic enemies, by having them buff me, or bringing joy to my teammates when a confused Sapper zaps the rest of the spawn instead of them.

Just do a little damage and, bam, XP.

Eesh. The help window... I don't know what I'd do with it, honestly. Yeah, a lot could be combined - "rewards" and "merit rewards" kind of jumps out - but it's overall a mess. An obvious section at the top with frequent questions (caps, how to find out what the WST is, Incarnates, etc.) might be good, but overall I think the help window's a hot (and rather outdated) mess. And I have no idea why "My status" is available there as a dropdown. The *biggest* problem with it (and several other windows in the game) is that you can't resize it. Which limits what you can do as far as "put useful information in it" right at the start.

As far as in game billboards changing - There *was* in game advertising for a brief while - Jeeter Clutch shoes and ... one or two other things? - that generally went over like a lead balloon. I think the behind the scenes mechanisms for that got nuked, though - if not, it might be a way to more easily update some of them. Plus I *want* to say some of the ones in game were player created, way back. So it's been done before. The main question is how easy is it to do without all the tools the live devs had.

We've got something that can somewhat stand in as an example, too - mothership raids. If you're a member of vanguard, you get vanguard merits for defeated Rikti. If you're in the murderball in the middle, you can get ... eh, depending on the night, usually 900-1200 seems to be average. If you're one of the pullers (typically tank/brute,) running out onto the edges to pull rikti in for everyone else to kill, very often you get less - you're doing the work to *get* everything, but since you're not in range, you get less. (And more directly related to the conversation, while you're possibly doing some damage to get their attention, you're probably not doing the most damage... but your contribution is *huge* to what the group needs. After-game stats like those being requested would probably show you as a bit of a slacker, though. ) You can also do things like debuff grates to have a steady stream - though slow one - coming in. Again, not something that does damage (and given the powersets that do that, you're also probably buffing, healing and rezzing people) but you're having an outsize impact that wouldn't be reflected in the stats.

Given I wrote up the Kheld backstory guide back in the day... I really should revisit that, clean it up a bit, update here and there. (As well as a bit about raising a Peacebringer that probably hasn't aged as well.) Somewhere in my "mains stable" is always at least one Kheld. How do they play? Fun. But each does it differently. More direct at the outset for a PB, more of a slow burn for a WS. Do I miss Voids and Cysts? (Real ones, not the inert costume jewelry we see now) - Yes. They weren't that big a deal unless people were not paying attention, and Quantums and Voids now are just ... meh. Story elements: I want the Nictus storyline redside. And mention of the Battalion and "using them for fuel" (which is stupid, frankly, given how *wide ranging* Khelds are) ripped out and binned. Shapeshifting or not: Depends entirely on the character. But rarely pure humanform - and if I'm doing that, it's PB. PB or WS? There is no or.

No thanks.

Owl have to think about this a while.

Well, I mean in theory they're supposed to teleport to you anyway when they get too far away... *cue watching minions amble slowly through the zone for ten minutes instead.* I wouldn't think it'd be a stretch... and yeah, dealing with patches and just their built in artificial stupidity are other good reasons to do so. After all, a blaster doesn't have to worry about a shot not working because the power's running down the hall due to Rikti monkey gas.

*reads the OP.* *blinks* *Wonders if they've noticed THE CARS.*

Really? *Looks at allllllll my alts on multiple accounts without weave* Wonder what I've been doing with those incarnated 50s, then.