[Warburg Nuke as an Incarnate Judgement Power]

1 hour ago, Rudra said:

No, it isn't. Not even. A facility is a construction in which entities act or live.

An entity is something that exists. A facility is also something that exists, but not all entities are facilities, so facilities are subsets of entities.

 

The unmanned missile platform is autonomous enough to keep you in sight at all times and fire upon your command. The Robotic Drone lores do pretty much the same thing. At the size of the projectiles being fired and the level of technology available in City of Heroes, you could Missile Justice raining from space with something the size of Siege.

[Warburg Nuke as an Incarnate Judgement Power]

29 minutes ago, Rudra said:

Because the Longbow echo is a Longbow soldier firing that grenade. It is an echo of an entity. (Edit: And that entity gets to use the weapons it used previously.) The Warworks? Still entities. Robotic entities, but entities. Phantasms? Storm elementals? The other echoes we can summon as Lores? All are entities. They aren't space stations, because a space station is not an entity, it is a facility. They aren't missile launchers because missile launchers are not entities, they are operated vehicles or facilities. The Orbital Missile Platform is not an entity from the Well, it is an orbiting station that fires missiles. Why would the Well have an orbiting missile platform? That's like expecting to call forth an aircraft carrier from the Well.

A facility is a subset of entity. The difference between a Warwork and an unmanned missile platform is a matter of scale, and if the explosion has a blast radius of sixty feet, it can be a really small missile. It'd have a smaller payload than a Davy Crockett.

[Warburg Nuke as an Incarnate Judgement Power]

3 hours ago, Rudra said:

The difference between summoning echoes as Lores and using attacks as Judgements is the Lore pets summon echoes of enemies whereas the Judgement is an attack the character launches himself/herself/themselves/itself. So a Warburg nuke doesn't make sense as an incarnate power. A massive attack from the heavens like Statesman's, Tyrant's, and Reischman's lightning attacks work, and so calling down a beam of destruction could work, but a launched nuke doesn't fit.

If a Longbow Echo can fire an rocket propelled grenade and do damage, I don't see why a Orbital Missile Platform Echo couldn't fire a missile.

[Name Purge]

I suggest re-naming all of the characters Bruce to prevent confusion.

[Name Purge]

I don't think that the number of "cool names" can possibly be in the "less than a million range" so I cannot believe that all the cool names have been taken.

[New Universal damage set for KB2KD]

11 hours ago, Rudra said:

Sorry, but this proposed set is nonsense. All 6 enhancements provide a KB to KD proc? And would all 5 set bonuses also be KB to KD?

 

Edit: Also, the level range is ridiculous. Only PvP sets and ATOs get a level 10-50 range, and nothing gets a level 7-50 range. So maybe a level 20-50 like other sets, but most definitely not a level 7-50 range.

Technically the ATOs have a level 13 to 50 range because you can't slot them until level 10. If you can slot it at level 7 it has a minimum level of 10.

 

So PVP sets have a level range of 10-50 but ATOs do not.

 

Edit: It looks like the minimum level for Overwhelming Force is also 13.

[Will you get avoided if you have Debts?]

Yeah, I don't recommend smoking.

[Will you get avoided if you have Debts?]

Depends on who you owe the Debt to. If you owe Drea the Hook you better pay her back fast.

[Please stop moving badge locations]

I disagree: Entirely randomize badge location every server day. Every time the sun sets, the badges move to a new location. You can now only find badges by accident or exploration tips.

[Character was reset...due to copywritten costume? WTF?]

56 minutes ago, Snarky said:

On the bright side you can use what is in the public domain.  Its not original, but no problemo.  I use Nosferatu.

 

And hey, steamboat willy is now available!

Book Dracula and Book Frankenstein's Monster are both public domain, but Universal Studios' Dracula, Frankenstein, and Mummy are not.

 

You can make a Mummy, but if 100% of the things you say are "Oh man, I wish I could punch Tom Scientology Guy and Brenden Fraiser" you might fail into a treacherous realm.

[More Nature types please]

1 hour ago, Greycat said:

 

They seemed like they wer avoiding elemental sets, so I skipped sets that were like that. (Yes, I know, water's not an element.)

Fair, that's kind of why I skipped fire, ice, and electricity. Though, I did forget Storm support set too.

[More Nature types please]

16 hours ago, Greycat said:

Yeah... need to be a bit more specific on what you're looking for. 

We've got  (since you're ignoring elemental effects) - 

Plant control

Nature affinity

Beast Mastery

 

Arguable:

Savage Melee

Spines (kinda-sorta) 

Bio armor, *maybe.* 

 

What are you looking for? A "nature blast?" Wood armor? 

 

Blaster: Seismic Blast, Storm Blast, Water Blast/ Earth Manipulation, Plant Manipulation

Controller: Earth Control, Plant Control / Poison, Nature Affinity

Corruptor: Seismic Blast, Storm Blast, Water Blast/ Poison, Nature Affinity

Defender: See Corruptor

Dominator: Earth Control, Plant Control/ Earth Assault, Thorny Assault.

[More Nature types please]

4 hours ago, Saiyajinzoningen said:

excuse me poison set would like a word..............

While Poison trap is possibly the most skippable power of the set, it does feel very much "not nature" It looks like a glass ball.

[Bio Armor Ablative Carapace Removes Its Own Absorb]

Yeah, and while it's annoying while you're kind of idling, as long as you're taking about 40 damage every six seconds you won't have to worry about the cap. I could see where this would be a problem for a defense set like Super Reflexes, but Radiation and Bio Armour have varied enough sources of damage mitigation that it shouldn't be an issue even if they do have high defense builds.

[Character was reset...due to copywritten costume? WTF?]

What you're really looking for is "Similar to but legally distinct from" You want two different Nickleback songs, not "Ice Ice Baby" to Psylocke's "Under Pressure"

[Bio Armor Ablative Carapace Removes Its Own Absorb]

Well, there isn't exactly a stacking effect, but it's clearly using your existing absorb to calculate how much new absorb you get.

 

I suppose that, if there was another source of absorb, like one person using wild bastion and another person using particle shielding, you could check to see what the numbers look like as the different buffs expire.

[Someone explain Fault (stone melee to me)]

On 3/9/2024 at 8:23 AM, Yomo Kimyata said:

EDIT:  just made Absolutely Stunning on Excelsior, a beauty queen contestant who would do anything to win.  

 

Wouldn't she need to be Faultless?

[Is there really a massive proc nerf just around the corner?]

Given how they approached Dual Pistols, making it so that Suppressive Fire was still proc friendly in normal fire mode but had a shorter recharge in any of the other ammunition settings, it seems like that would be a lot of work they could avoid if they were going to "massively nerf" procs.

[Bio Armor Ablative Carapace Removes Its Own Absorb]

4 hours ago, brass_eagle said:

 

I thought that too, but when using--

 

Wild Bastion --> Burnout --> Wild Bastion in the course of 10 seconds, you still see this effect. Wild Bastion has a duration of 1 minute. 

Oh, I see. It's flagged on City of Data as "Replaces Existing Effect" not "Stacks With Existing Effect" (so are Ablative Carapace and Particle Shielding) so the question is why the values are stacking at all? I know the first time I noticed it on my Radiation tank, it was kind of a loop. 1110 Absorb, recast get +1110 Absorb, hit Absorb cap (for tanks) of 1874, get just +764 Absorb, initial absorb expires get left with +764 Absorb. recast get +1110 Absorb, +764 expires, run around with 1110 Absorb.

 

These values are definitely stacking and they shouldn't be.

[Bio Armor Ablative Carapace Removes Its Own Absorb]

This isn't exactly a bug. What's happening is that the absorption is stacking, hitting the cap and being limited, and then the original absorb is expiring. This happens on Radiation armour too. The closer the power is to providing the absorption cap, the less absorb remains once the initial expires.

 

This is less of an issue if you're actually taking damage because you're farther away from the cap.

[Database scraper?]

Database really seems to be more of a support set, but I suppose you could make a scrapper armour set from it.

[Scales: Numbers]

3 hours ago, Herotu said:

Oooh, you can do that?! I'm such a dope. 

That's also how you can make characters very slightly taller or very slightly shorter than the costume maker allows.

[A glitch in outfit customization?]

It's probably the redraw revamp, if you haven't updated the costume for while. At some point they got rid of "quick draw" animations and just made that the standard. If that's the case, you should have gotten a free costume change token.

[Super Strength for Scrappers please]

1 hour ago, twozerofoxtrot said:

Show me why SS needs to be homogenized to be brought to Scraps.

I would not be in favor of homogenizing Super Strength to bring it to scrappers, but neither am I in favor of porting it as is.

 

I think giving it something like Reach for the Limit for scrappers, a passive power that gives both passive +to-hit and +damage and a chance to proc +to-hit and +damage.

[remember, Target through Emissary]

No. You don't target the Emissary. Sisko has had enough trouble.

 

Fire at Will! Or Thomas if you can't tell them apart.