Rastille

Your character name: Deathrunner Your Global handle: Rastille Are you the owner: Yes Are you the builder: Yes Your base’s name: Skull Haven The shard it is located on: Everlasting The passcode for entry: RUNNER-35723 The category your base is entering under: Realism Contributing builders’ names or Global handles: N/A Any additional information you wish the judges to know beforehand: RP-friendly, neighborhood-style base with a variety of businesses and living spaces. Several businesses are interiors accessed via a door portal (e.g., Cloud Clean, Flamestone Apartments, Nina's, Urgentis Health, Runetech, Emerald, RedStar Fitness, and The Neon). Others are walk-up accessible (e.g., Runners, Rustford and Banebury, Lazarus Investigations, and The Farmer's Market). Several of the businesses have less-than-legal activities going on in (casino, smuggling, cage fighting, brothel)! A few additional RP-oriented spaces are tucked away on the rooftops.

When playing a Savage Melee scrapper, I have noticed that enemies (of all types and levels) very frequently run away, resulting in a substantial amount of chasing. There are one or more "runners" in every single enemy group. This disrupts solo play (i.e., too much time chasing) and team play (i.e., scattering groups). It is particularly miserable on AV fights. Romulus is a huge fan of parkour, apparently? At first I thought there might be a bugged "hidden" but thematic "fear" effect in Savage Melee. Enemies run away from the scary person scratching their face off? But I checked with the wonderful Help Chat folks, who offered two other explanations. First, the damage-over-time (DoT) in Savage Melee may trigger a "Yikes! The ground is on fire!" NPC response, and enemies try to leave the bad place. Second, enemies have a small chance to flee on any tick of damage, and Savage Melee DoTs have many more opportunities to trigger it. In any case, it's tedious and annoying. In short, enemies constantly running with Savage Melee might not be a "bug"... but a weird game mechanic that is perhaps too aggressively applied? Changing the underlying mechanics might be impossible (too many other powers and situations affected). But perhaps a Slow (enemy speed debuff) effect could be proliferated across all Savage Melee attacks? The slowing effect could be unenhanceable so as to not change enhancement slotting options for the whole set. Enemies would still run away, but not quite so dang fast. It's thematic: enemies are slower because they are bleeding out.

Excelsior Server Supergroup Name: Riftwatch Code: RIFT-5556 In-game messaging: @Rastille Theme: Riftwatch is a coalition of diverse organizations working to together to defend the Earth (and allies). It exists within a pocket dimension that takes the form of small, walled city. From the Lost City, visitors can access The Facility (scientific research and technology development), The Arcane Academy (mystic archives and magic training), and the Spirit Garden (commune with the avatars of the elements). Brave (or foolhardy) explorers might also find a strange portal in a magic vault. Where will it take you? (the base is pretty much "done" other than tweaks here and there)