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They trigger sporadically with the comment referencing the character's last mission. It can be a contact's mission/arc, but it can also just be a paper/radio mission. I think even tip missions come up as wandering NPC comments. Edit: The OP's request is for the rate at which those comments trigger be increased. And while I agree that the comments can be a feel good thing for some, I would like to point out that increasing the comment rate would also increase the red side insult rate. And those insults routinely have me wanting to mangle some NPCs. Some random person unable to fend off a Hellion minion is walking around calling out my level 50+3 incarnate as being pathetic? Yeah... not a fan of increasing civilian comment rates.

This has been brought up before. Not inclined to rehash the conversation for you, so just do a search on the forums for yourself. When someone forms a team/league, the team/league leader gets to determine how things go. They usually have an established procedure for how to deal with things expeditiously. If you don't like that, then form your own team/league. And I am vehemently against penalties for anyone leaving early. Just because someone else has to deal with real life doesn't mean you get to pitch a fit and impose some sort of punishment. They can apply to become a dev. No one can claim a GM. If they won't let you join or you don't want to work with them? Form a team and take the GM down. Like @Techwright said, just contact a GM. I misnamed one of my SGs and was deep in building the base. Had spent several days working on it, then realized the name was wrong. Sent a support request asking if changing my SG name was possible and suddenly there was a GM there asking me what I wanted the SG to be named. (S)he/they then renamed the SG for me and went about the rest of his/her/their day. SG bases don't have AI pathing beacons. So MMs, Controllers, Dominators, and Crab Spiders can't use their pets. And you have 10 minutes before the game boots you. So some time in that 10 minutes, do anything. Holy fuck. I'm done trying to read your post. Please limit your suggestions to one idea per thread. Your suggestion is an epic (as in extremely long read).

The 5th Column and the Council? Will work with a noble hero/villain by holding a hostage while holding another hostage that the noble hero/villain is threatening? And that noble hero/villain won't say do the super thing and simply rescue said hostage like we and even the NPCs do on the regular? The Circle of Thorns? Giving a tech hero/villain technology. I thought the first counter-example was a stretch. I'm just leaving this one alone. You know, considering said nemesis is powerful enough to be our character's nemesis. And this is most easily done through AE. Sorry, I disagree with you. With how personal a nemesis is to any given character, what you are asking for is far more than I would be willing to try to implement. Fortunately for you, I'm not a dev, so your suggestion still has a chance. However, I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.

Imagine having a noble villain nemesis or a hero nemesis and that nemesis shows up leading the 5th Column or the Council randomly. Imagine your hi-tech, disdains magic nemesis leading the Circle of Thorns in their magic rituals. Imagine your misogynistic nemesis showing up as the leader of the Knives of Artemis spewing his bullshit creed. Imagine all the possible ways a nemesis just randomly showing up in missions not designed for such character will go against the nemesis concept/design. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess there is a reason why nemeses only showed up in very specific missions back on Champions Online.

You need to decide on what position you intend to hold. Because right now? You're talking out your ass with your both sides of the debate stance. You can't both want the Code of Conduct upheld as is and have it relaxed at the same time.

I'll make you a deal. If the proposal also includes a down arrow even without having to max out the number of trays so your QoL isn't stepping on my game play, such that if I have 2 or 3 trays open I can collapse back down to 1 or 2 without having to go all the way to 9 trays before I can do that? I'll agree it actually is a QoL thing and stop arguing against it. That's not much to ask for to have your suggestion modified, is it?

This is where I have a problem. "Regardless of Code of Conduct violations". A player can make references to in-game lore, any part of it, and still abide by the Code of Conduct. If a player violates the Code of Conduct, then the how or why doesn't matter. For instance, let's take Westin Phipps as an example. He's scum. Anyone who has ever done his arcs know he is scum. Many players, myself included, avoid doing anything for him. However, a player can include in their bio, make a reference as part of his/her/their character name, and even talk about what Westin Phipps does and why without violating the Code of Conduct. As a character name, that character could be Haven House Janitor or whatever. And your bio can talk about how you work for Westin Phipps. And you can RP that you are wandering the Gutter to encourage NPCs to go to Haven House so Phipps can look after them. None of that should be a violation of the Code of Conduct. If however, your character was say True Master of Haven House? That's a problem. If you are out there even just as a character and promoting extremist ideology? Even if just as part of your character concept, that is a problem. I don't know what happened that you got generic'ed. And to be perfectly frank, I don't care. We can play the game, even as despicable scum, without violating the Code of Conduct. No NPC in this game is violating the Code of Conduct to the best of my knowledge. Because of how those NPCs are treated and approach the appropriate topics.

We routinely full on kill NPCs in the game. There are lots of NPCs we fail to save and full on die. Having a deranged NPC show he is deranged is not a violation of the Code of Conduct. You aren't going to get generic'ed because your bio says you killed a made up character somewhere in your character's past that isn't a protected character in the game. Neither is he a sexual predator. A deranged idiot out for revenge for being told he won't be dated isn't sexual predation. It's still a problem, but you aren't helping him commit a sexual offense. You are helping him drive out Longbow and murder the group leader. Which is actually fairly sedate for villainous content. Mass murder as a plot is normal for villain content. It is not hate speech. It is not promoting gambling, child pornography, terrorism, (real world) illegal controlled substances, real world criminal activity (as specific to any incident), and does not threaten, denigrate, or abuse groups based on race, religious beliefs, political affiliation, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. It does not contain sexual, provocative, pornographic, or socially recognized adult content. It does not have violent content (other than is normal for a RPG or most other video games). It does not address controversial religious or political content/beliefs. It does not have anything to do with real world individuals or organizations. And it does not involve any sensitive real world events. You're trying too hard for retaliation. It does not promote terrorist ideals or groups. You're trying too hard for retaliation.

*sigh* I'm just walking away. I saw the apology. Thanks for the apology. That was why I thumbs up'ed that post. I'm not up to arguing over what boils down to nothing.

You're still twisting my comment, but I'm not going to argue this further. If you're good with dropping this, I am too.

I think the other one got locked because of the responses.

The devs here have already stated they will not be taking anything from the other servers. I did not state that I don't really know know or understand the differences between HC and the other servers' underlying code. What I stated was that to the best of my knowledge the other servers are unstable because of the changes the devs there have done. I don't play on those other servers, so I can't know for sure how unstable they are, only what I hear from others that do play on those servers. I am not attempting to defend the devs or their abilities. I was pointing out that it does not matter what any dev from any other version of the game says, the devs here are only interested in what they can do as per what they themselves have stated. I am not "shitting" on this thread. I have not even commented on this thread other than to agree that some of us are also unwilling to farm the necessary Prismatic Aethers, where other players can find auras for their characters, how they can get Prismatic Aethers for themselves, argue against an overhaul of the costume creator itself for the sole purpose of re-aligning costume parts because from experience it has always broken existing costumes, point out that the devs here have already stated they won't take from the other games, and to point out that the example aura is not just limited to color customization. So please show me where I have been shitting on this thread so that I may learn and stop. (Edit: Now if said overhaul can be done without breaking everyone's costumes? Fine. I'm for it. It would be nice for things to be alphabetical rather than somewhat alphabetical.) I have not once in this entire thread argued against players getting to have multiple auras at once. Not a single time. So please show me where I did.

When I went on the test server, I admittedly grabbed the aura that I wanted, to test. My only option was change it's color. So if I'm missing something (as it's become obvious that I must be), I'd appreciate a bit more detail and or direction. Because the vague back and forth instead of flat out educating is becoming tiresome. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. Then maybe say which aura that is so others don't have to go through all the new auras to show you what can be customized?

Kindly note that I didn't address the "dev here" part. I only addressed the "devs elsewhere" part. I did that for a reason. Because the devs here can do whatever they please, but dev statements from other versions of the game don't fly here. Just the one example aura has 12 aura options that we can further customize with our color selections. What are you looking for before you are willing to accept something as not just colors for customization?

That one aura has twelve options for it before you even get to choosing the colors. That is heavily customizable.

All good options. Didn't think of those first two. Thanks. I know some vanity pets are set to drop as recipes. Which (I believe but don't know since I don't have any) we then have to craft. However, I think it would be easier to add the temp power deletion code to our vanity pets (as a mass application so all vanity pets could simply be deleted if we don't want them regardless of how we got them) than it would be to go back and make new recipes for each of the vanity pets that don't already drop as recipes. (Edit: After all, people change their minds all the time. What about that person that crafted a vanity pet from the recipe, but later decides it doesn't fit their character after all?)

I'm not seeing where Lt. Harris or Westin Phipps are violating the Code of Conduct. The "anything illegal in the real world" part doesn't apply to NPCs since they are the ones that are supposed to be providing us with the feel that we are operating in a criminal environment as villains/rogues/vigilantes or for us to stop as heroes/vigilantes/rogues. Lt. Harris isn't espousing any hate speech, he is espousing his anger at his perceived betrayal. He isn't engaging in any gambling, sexual/pornographic content, religious content, political content, addressing real world entities, or addressing anything I see as sensitive content. He is a bitter, delusional person lashing out until we put him down. So please show me where he violates the Code of Conduct. Westin Phipps is supposed to be slime. And he does it very well. However, even he doesn't violate the Code of Conduct in any way I can see. So if they are, please enlighten me on how.

Can it be deleted? If not, then maybe asking for the ability to delete unwanted vanity pets would work just as well for you without having to go back and change the pets to recipes? Edit: Nope, it can't be deleted. Just tried with mine. So maybe the ability to delete vanity pets from our characters would be a better option seeing as how you already have an unwanted vanity pet on your character.

The problem with "devs from elsewhere have" said is that the the devs here have already stated they won't be taking anything from the other servers so that argument won't be accepted and also because (to the best of my knowledge) version of the game being run by those other devs have gotten unstable from their simply throwing things into the game and kuldging them to work no matter how much it disrupts their own game. And I personally don't want that to happen here.

*face palm* That is a much better approach than what I posted since it doesn't need to have the tray activation buttons redone. Thanks.

Then please don't take this the wrong way, but, you can download the source code, code it to be in Iron Man mode, and run the server yourself. "Ideally" from the perspective of anyone making a suggestion, that suggestion would be wildly popular and have lots of other players clamoring for it and then playing/using it when implemented. The world isn't ideal and Iron Man hasn't proven to be particularly popular even on other platforms.

A bad idea is a bad idea. This is not an idler/auto-play game. And I will always oppose requests to make it so. This conversation has been had before, so you aren't suggesting anything new. And in those threads it got quashed too. There is a reason why we are only allowed one power to be on auto-fire. And a quick search through the forums will show why.

Okay, I imagined it. And now I am imagining said hypothetical dev giving consideration to the ways this idea could be exploited to make the game an auto-play/idler game. Now what?

And that is a good reason for it to not be implemented.