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The actual timeline of the game is a bit murky. If you went through the Galaxy City tutorial, there's an alien invasion currently going on, and that's on top of things still being reconstructed after the previous Rikti one. On top of all that, as @Snarky mentioned, there have been numerous factions infiltrating the various levels of government for many many years. Frankly, I'm surprised that Paragon City even got as built up as it is. I'm surprised the PPD aren't fully in Crey's pocket, or that there aren't more obvious Arachnos agents within Paragon's government...

My only concern with what you proposed is that it'd be too similar to illusion control - you don't want too much redundancy. Consider how darkness control differs from darkness affinity...

I'm happy to see that Omega finally gets some new duds. As cool as their custom clone trooper armor is, I don't understand why they haven't altered or ditched it by this point; You'd think a squad of guys walking around in clone trooper armor would stick out like a sore thumb.

I would have to go with a gravity/nature controller, with mystic flight. If we had finer control over our powers, besides the explicit individual powers from the game, I could do anything from construction, to rescue, to cleaning up the environment...

As an option, sure. My only concern is if they were too much bigger, they'd obstruct too much in more confined spaces. I suppose they could also add some sort of "make other players' wings translucent" as an option...

Are you referring to coloration or the actual models themselves? Can you elaborate upon this? We already have bird wings, bat-like wings, etc...

I can't help it if you don't comprehend a fairly simple concept. Can anyone just walk up and participate, or is there some sort of application process involved? If it's the former, then it is "open", if it's the latter, then it's "closed". And I'm talking about my definition, not some you or the other poster imagine. Are you saying that anyone can't just walk up and participate in a TF? Is there some 3rd party, besides the NPC contact, involved in starting said TF? If there was some group organizing TFs outside of the game or via other resources, that didn't accept walk-ups, then those instances would be "Closed PvE", by my definition.

Right here.

What are you talking about? I was discussing the difference between "Open PvP" and "Closed PvP".

Right, so to treat NPCs like they need an advocate or referee to ensure fair play is kind of laughable. Did you miss where I said way upthread that I don't care what you do in a PvP zone, since consent is explicit in you going there? It's non-consensual PvP that's at hand here, since the OP was discussing a PvP event that would be sprung on players in a PvE zone.

You don't seem to be understanding the distinction I'm making between "open PvP" and "closed PvP". "Open" means anyone can walk up and participate - you don't have to join anything. "Closed" means there's some application process, or at least some level of scrutiny with regards to who can join. Can you at least acknowledge that difference?

It's "closed" in the sense that any rando can't just walk up to a match and take part. Even if I grant that part, the other aspects of my statement still apply.

I guess you don't understand the difference between PEOPLE and NPCs, then. There's a reason there are things like weight classes other other such divisions in sports. I guess you're having a problem understanding the distinction between PLAYERs and NPCs...

Which would fall squarely into the "tight-knit, closed communities that strictly regulate themselves" that I mentioned before...

Because there is no referee to make the call, such as "X is not in the spirit of PvP, even though the game engine/systems allow it", then it'll either devolve into playing the meta-game, or players forming tight-knit, closed communities that strictly regulate themselves. YOU may be an honorable PvP-er, but short of some external authority to enforce fair play and mature attitudes toward it, it'll just be about what AT or powerset is the FotM or who has the biggest wallet, (most inf/most time to farm, etc). That being said, it would be interesting to see some sort of test event that locked out IO set bonuses, accolades, Incarnate abilities, temp powers, and so on, so it really came down to build strategy and player skill.

PvP needs to be consensual. If it is not, then I do NOT want to have any part in it. If it is forced upon a PvE zone, with the only recourse being "leave the zone", then that might as well be non-consentual. Stick to the PvP zones, and do whatever you want there...

If you can slot translocation, it should probably have to be taken as another power pick. The same holds true, IMO, for jaunt from experimentation or takeoff from force of will; Them not being able to be slotted is the "price" for them being "free" when you take the root power...

I meant the human form attacks and such, yeah.

I wish we could get the Burst of Speed animation as an alternate for it.

I have a bio/savage tanker that's really fun to play. My fire/regen sentinel is also quite good, as is my kin/sonic defender. None of them have hasten, (though the tanker has the inherent boost from the attacks and the kin has siphon speed).

I often find that such people are only familiar with a handful of powersets or ATs, and instead of trying to learn what other ATs/sets can provide, they fall back on what they know, with it never occurring to them that there is more to gameplay than that...

We all have different priorities and different levels of what we'll tolerate, which is also (generally) a good thing!

Honestly, unless it's something that I made a commitment to see through to the end, like a TF, I'll politely excuse myself after that particular mission is complete, and find a team that gels better...

I suppose it's a matter of taste, then - do you want larger AoEs that hit for less, or smaller AoEs that hit for more. Nice to have options, then...

I agree in the case of brutes, but why roll a tanker if you're gonna solo, (or at least play with a solo mindset)? I'm asking rhetorically, as I think you should be able to play however you want, (outside of harassing or griefing, etc) - I'm just trying to get in the headspace of "I want to do my own thing, but I'm going to play this AT that has all this stuff geared towards team play"...