Aracknight

I experience toxic positivity at work, hence my slogan above. The definition I generally adhere to is: While the first part is arguable both in intent and in observation, I can absolutely vouch for the effects of the second part. Not necessarily in CoH per se, but generally.

I guess I'm looking at it through the view of the lens that asks "Would it make it more fun" combined with "We survived getting 3-4 Powers back when they made Fitness inherent, so what's the big deal?" I see and respect your point though, and thanks for giving specific examples.

I personally felt like the (far easier to get on HC) Incarnate system, combined with the (far easier to get on HC) fully "purpled out" builds are what tipped the scale more than the power relaxations. I remember having to farm council missions on +4x8 to save up >2 billion inf for an enhancement I had to buy from a player, not on the market, that I can now get for 10-20 million or a hundred merits (also easier to get o HC) today. I'm pretty sure it was a Gladiator's Armor Teleportation/Def PVP IO back when you could only get those in PVP zones. Blah blah blah, get off my lawn, etc, I know. But anyway, that's how I feel, anecdotally, about what let the horses out of the barn balance wise. Edit: which means I basically agree with your last point about the ease of making a build I guess.

If I can have the knees I had in 2003, I'm fucking in.

I kinda sorta incredibly like the idea of the first three powers in any pools (Power, Travel, Epic, Ancillary, Patron whatever) being available at T-1. Hell, extend it to Primary and Secondary, since we already got a choice to take either t-1 or t2 in the secondary recently (Being forced to take Thunder Kick on my Tanker annoyed me greatly, so thanks to whoever fixed that). First because I like the idea, second because I hate taking powers that don't even make it into my toolbar (Looking at you, Boxing), and third because think of all the people who'd shut the fuck up about it if we got it. We could end the war and save thousands of lives lol. I get the balance concern. I get the power creep concern. I get both these things as a general conceptual idea, however, in my specific application, not having to take a power, that I will never use, that i will not be getting a slot back for, to take another one-slot wonder like Fly or Warrior's Challenge doesn't seem to tip the scales, balance wise. All it would mean is that I could fly without spending inf on a jetpack (maybe, I'd have to count my power pools), or taunt a single target running away instead of shooting them in the back with one of my epic/patron powers. I'm not saying it couldn't be unbalanced by people more clever than I, I'm just not seeing it in my specific application, which is probably why I am so much in favor of it. YMMV.

We all have bad days. We all have strong beliefs, and we all want what's best for the game. Thank you for your grace. See you around the city.

I'm sorry I made you feel that way.

Which is why I said most of it wasn't aimed at you. I apologize if I did not make that clear enough. Your sentence was interesting to me, and I riffed off it. Coming up with a way for both sides to either get or keep what they want via a change is a greater way to deal with this, which I can absolutely agree with.

While preventing others from making their preferred builds. To me, the idea that a change is bad because it would affect one side's personal preferences isn't really fundamentally different than someone asking for a change that they think is good that would enable the other side's personal preferences. The key difference is that one side currently has the high ground known as the status quo, which is then used to bludgeon idea people into submission. This pattern is repeated ad infinitum every goddamn day. For fuck's sake, some of the denizens of this forum don't can't or won't even say "good idea." They say things like "I would not argue against this" instead. This is where the perception issues in this forum come from, because instead of saying "cool, I like it," they say shit like "I wouldn't oppose it" which can lend to the perception that they somehow control the outcome when it reads like an imperious form of "I would allow that." Stormwalker, the majority of this isn't aimed at you specifically. I just quoted your post because that specific sentence struck me as an interesting point that you made.

Oh look. Right on track. Idea, followed by shitting on idea in condescending fashion while quoting rule empowering shitting on idea in condescending fashion when questioned on why the shitting on idea in condescending fashion is happening. Thread devolution until next idea. Repeat. PS. I like the idea OP. Personally I think every set whether primary, secondary, or eighteenthiary should be balanced in this exact fashion. Snipe at x level. Status Resistance at x level. Build up at x level. But I'm monstrous like that.

Lol. "I thought all opinions mattered"

I'm pretty sure that's whataboutism.

Perhaps gatekeeping is the wrong term. I propose a new term, one we can use to keep from arguing the definition of the word and using that to invalidate the feelings of posters in the Suggestions and Feedback forum. The term I am suggesting will be Billying. Not to be confused with Bullying. Billying is best observed in the Adam Sandler movie Billy Madison. Here is an example of Billying: Random Poster: Hey you guys I love City of Heroes and I have this idea! S&F forumites: Poster, what you've just suggested is one of the most insanely idiotic things we have ever read. At no point in your rambling incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this forum is now dumber for having read it. We reject your idea out of hand, and my god have mercy on your soul. Random Poster: Fuck, you could have just said no or nothing at all. City of Heroes fucking sucks.