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In the case of the bots, I figure the character reprogrammed them. In the case of the Tarantulas and others, they could just be rogue Arachnos that help you for their own purposes, have been mind controlled by you, have decided to help you to spite Lord Recluse and his lieutenants, the patrons, or for any number of other reasons. In the case of the Coralax, they hate everyone, so justify that however you like. 'You' in this sense being a generality rather than you, @MTeague, the writer of the preceding post specifically. It's kind of like justifying having an MVAS when you're running around robbing banks, blowing up buildings, trying to enslave/destroy the world, what have you. If you try hard enough, you can justify anything. Edit: Or justifying having a Shivan Destroyer as an ally, one of the Freedom Phalanx (temp power) when you're a red sider, having a pair of Wailer Queens (only obtainable once and only for magic origin characters), still having the Arachnos mini blaster when you go blue side or the Longbow mech when you go red side, etc.

But there are only like 20 or 30 good names. *dons defecation deflection device* 🤪😄

*in loud booming voice* I. Am. OZ!!

And that would be the joke, in my opinion. At least, that is what made me find humor in it. I also note you still have not answered Naraka. If Sudden Acceleration's KB to KD proc is to be given a damage component, then why not the other non-damaging procs too? And while we're at it, since they will now have a damage proc and an effect proc, why not give the damage procs added effects as well? See? It is both joke and valid point about adding a damage proc to Sudden Acceleration.

I nominate the Great Kurgen for a new statue! This heroic spy is best known for his penchant for face palming at inopportune times when his uncontrollable telepathy picked up inappropriate or ridiculous thoughts. Which happened rather frequently, usually in response to the random idiocy of those he was spying on. Unfortunately, his other super power was he did not show up on film, so no pics are available for reference.

Yes, please.

Please do not misconstrue my rant... I mean post... no, definitely rant. I know KB is a good thing. I like bowling for dollars or playing pinball with my enemies' bodies. I thought I kept that part clear in my rant/post. If not, I apologize for necessitating you to clarify.

I will never agree that the KB to KD proc in Sudden Acceleration is an enhancement tax. They can slot the set instead of just the proc. The set includes damage buffs already built in, both as direct enhancement boosts and as a set bonus. So what that it has 3 enhancements that boost damage instead of the unique set Overwhelming Force's 5. Look at sets like Eradication, which are damage boosting sets. They have 4 damage boosting enhancements, just 1 more than the set whose purpose is to enhance your knockback. So they slot the set and instead of needing 2.3 attacks to kill the target, they need 2.7. *gasp* The proc does something useful. KD is a big advantage. It keeps the target(s) from being able to attack you. Just like KB does, except now they stay at your feet. Saying the proc is an enhancement tax is like saying any other proc is an enhancement tax because the player chose not to use the set. They all give you a definitive benefit. I don't care how many Min/Max'ers say it is a tax. Those are the same players that think the game is too easy and needs to be made more difficult. While clamoring for things that will make the game easier. I know this opinion is unpopular. I know I'm going to get burned for saying this. I don't care. Sudden Acceleration does not need a damage proc added to the proc effect.

You can't quote a person and change what they say. The post you are "quoting" does not say comic books anywhere. That is not a quote. If you want to respond with "comic books"? By all means, but do not quote someone and edit their comment to say something they did not. Edit: And the only knockdown damage I see in comics is from the target slamming into something, which does the damage, and then falling back down unconscious. Otherwise, they just get knocked on their butt.

You would realistically get more damage from inflicting knockback than knockdown. With knockdown, you knock someone on their tail from no real height. With knockback, you potentially send the target slamming into a wall or other obstruction. The sudden stop at the end is what does the damage, just like with a fall. And the type of obstruction hit and how it was hit would compound the harm from the knockback. "Oops! Sorry about that low bulkhead! Would you like me to give you your head back, or would you rather just lie there and bleed?" The game does not incorporate fall damage for knockback which would simulate this, but doing enhanced damage from knockdown makes little sense. The force of the strike (the damage the attack inflicts on its own) knocks the target down. If the attack lifts the target to fall? You would only really add a few more bruises. It's not like the target is being knocked up that high after all. (Have someone stand on your shoulders and fall off you. Unless they land on their head, they won't likely suffer serious injury. Just likely lay there screaming at you for convincing him/her to do something that stupid until the pain subsides enough to get up and get revenge. And having that person fall from that height is higher than you would knock most mobs. Now powers that lift and slam the target into the ground? Yeah, they should do some real damage. And they do. It is already built into the power as the attack's damage.)

Nope. The Hollows does not need a giant monster. Not from the Igneous. Not from the Trolls (which makes no sense as they are still human). Not from the Circle who already have a giant monster (in Nerva). Not from your choice of deity, cosmic entity/event, or unnamed group. A flood event from the Trolls damming the Red River? Sure. Another giant monster stomping around because people seem to want a giant monster in every zone? No.

I am disinclined to agree with the need for the Sudden Acceleration proc to also do damage. The only difference I see between Sudden Acceleration and Overwhelming Force is that since Overwhelming Force can be slotted into powers that do not already do knockback, it adds the chance for knockdown. As for Sudden Acceleration not doing damage? It gives .5% less boost to damage than Overwhelming Force. Edit: And as a knockback enhancing set as opposed to a damage enhancing set, modifying Sudden Acceleration's individual enhancements for Damage, say by increasing the number of enhancements that have it, to compete with a set that is supposed to be focused on boosting damage, makes no sense to me. Edit again: That said, if they do incorporate more damage boosts effects into the individual enhancements to compete with Overwhelming Force? I really wouldn't care.

Why? Not enough damage procs already available for you?

The original Greek mythology was not a pantheon. It became a pantheon as the various cults absorbed or annihilated each other, incorporating what they needed or wanted as they went. In that the abodes of the gods and titans had no names at the outset is correct. The names were attributed later. (By the way, Zeus was never considered to be Mt. Olympus any more than Athena was considered to be Athens. Athens took her name in her honor hoping for her patronage. [Edit: Though according to the myth it was named in her honor because she gave them something useful where her rival Poseidon did not.] Zeus was simply the ruler of Mt. Olympus.) The exception to that rule being Tartarus, which was not the realm of the dead where Hades came to rule at the end of the titanomachy, but was the realm of the imprisoned within the realm of the dead. And where the titan Tartarus was believed to either be imprisoned himself or asleep. (And then argued about possibly being the realm of the imprisoned himself.) Reading through the evolutions of Greco-Roman mythology, which did have their differences other than just names, is pretty nuts. (The Romans may have adopted the Greek belief system, but they modified it to suit their own needs/views.) Anyway, I really wish you lived somewhere nearby. Sounds like we could have a grand discussion on mythology. Before we wander too much further into the mists of ancient religious roots and beliefs, I'm ending my part in this derailment. I figure you'll make another post on the subject, I'll read it, and without response we can both move on and let this thread get back to debating having separate names for each costume slot. My apologies for having incited this derailment. (It was definitely fun though.)

Yeah, I was trying for comically stupid. Guess I just got the stupid part. Sorry. 😄

Players get access to the GM-level name change command, and the game goes nuts. Let the Name Wars begin! *Player A renames player B's character because wants that name* *Player A renames self to desired name* *Player B renames player A to something rude* *Player B reclaims original name* *Player A renames Player B's character something vulgar* *Player A finds out cannot rename to desired name because Player C grabbed it* *Player A renames Player C to....* Yep... fun to be had by all. Glad that is a GM-level command and we won't ever have it.

Hades was both god and Underworld. Tartarus was the place where the worst of the worst were sealed away and also the most dangerous titan imprisoned there. There was some debate as to whether Tartarus the titan was the place the worst were sealed inside of. That is, the realm of Tartarus was possibly a living prison, with the prisoners kept inside the titan. However, it is known that Tartarus was both a place and a titan. Hades the place contained Elysium, Tartarus, the forbidden area where the Furies lived, and several other locales. When it came to the underworld, places and entities both had the name.

And you've never seen it before on Live either?! I swear they were literally everywhere. (And as a fellow alt-itis sufferer/beneficiary, I've never done that either. I'm stubborn enough to find a name I like that matches the name I wanted that was taken.) (Edit: And still opposed to the OP.)

Points for creativity.

There are actually several references scattered in tip missions starting at level 20 that at least references Bane Spiders breaking free of the network even before the One Good Spider mission. Hells, the mission where you fight Blast Furnace and lots of Arachnos to stop a missile launch is because Arachnos wanted you to annihilate a neighborhood to kill a group of Bane Spiders that broke free of the network. The Bane Spider network is the collective minds of the Bane Spiders keeping each other in line. Humans are not drones though and all it takes is a single mind to question and that doubt starts to fester in the rest of the linked minds even as they repress the disorderly mind. And if the will is strong enough, that repression further fuels the individual's need to break free. It is human nature to fight against a system that represses you, and the Bane Spider network is all about repression. And yeah, it would be nice if hostile Arachnos treated your SoA or WoA as traitorous scum instead of just another Destined. I think that would require some fairly extensive coding though. Edit: I realize you most likely know how the Bane Spider network works. Apologies for the unneeded lesson. I did need the lesson to set up my argument though.

Is what I figured, but it helps to hear the verification. (Well, maybe helps is the wrong word?) Thank you for the response. (Now, who do I have to bribe to up the priority on this? 😄)

Satan and Hades? Sure. Satan rules over a realm where the souls of deceased sinners are tortured. Hades rules over the Underworld, where the souls of all deceased go regardless of how they lived their lives. Except Hades (the place) had different regions where Hades (the god) sent the souls for their afterlives based on their lives. Anubis? Wasn't the god of anything. He was a god, yes, but his job was to ferry the souls of the dead to face judgement by Osiris. Lore/mythology phase of post concluded. NOW! You want to be able to use all 3 names for your single character. Combining 3 different religions and locking down all three names, again on a single character. CoX does not have the ability to share names, so I am against the idea of a single person getting to use multiple names for a single character. CO allowed it because your global ID was part of your character name. (Edit: Which was tedious as all Hell. "Avatar Of Unholy Devastation And Ruin @MasterEngimaGodPlayer, I would like to ask....") I personally think it is silly to want to have a multi-named character, unless you're playing a schizophrenic. (Especially when the character in question is basically three different deities from three different religions.) Yes, I'm that petty,

It didn't happen on Live because players would embed the name they want. oO<Name>Oo X<Name>X XX<Name>XX XXX<Name>XXX ooO<Name>Ooo etc.

Personally, I'm in favor of the silhouettes. Color 1 would be the silhouette itself and color 2 would be a border so it doesn't just disappear into the costume when costume and detail colors are similar.

And even better? Since it would no longer be an offensive aura, it would not drop when you get mezzed.