PeregrineFalcon

I agree with you. The only reason that I disagree with your suggestion is because, as I said before, I believe that it would be a lot of coding work for the devs and ultimately it would not make a damn bit of difference. I hope you can understand why I think that if the devs are going to spend that much time coding that it should be for something that does make a big difference.

No, I don't think the CoC is too restrictive. I think the selective enforcement of it, which was far more blatant a few years ago when the forum was still new, has left quite an impression on me. And I think that selective enforcement is what allowed the toxic positivity to be such a big problem back then. But, as I said in a different post, most of those folks have calmed down so it's not much of an issue anymore.

Oh it exists alright, and you know it does. And you know that I, of all people on this forum, can bring receipts. And you also know how long I'll be banned from the forum if I do. But, as I said, it's died down quite a bit in recent years.

It's part of the challenge of playing a Mastermind. It's also why my two favorite MMs are /FF, so that I'm not having to constantly resummon my minions. Personally I think it's a good thing that the various ATs are so different, there's an AT out there for everyone.

"Toxic Negativity" is a relatively new term. It means constant negativity which can end up driving people away from the forums and the game. "Toxic Positivity" was a term that was coined later to push back against that, and it basically means what you'd think it means. Constant positivity which can end up driving people away from the forums and the game. Yes, I'm sure most of you already knew this but, based on some of the posts I've read in this thread so far, clearly some of you do not. I've been on forums, and subreddits, where players attacked other players for having the unmitigated gall to post a bug report. Wherever there's a group of players who constantly attack anyone who has anything negative to say about the game, even when it's valid criticism, that's toxic positivity. The kind of over the top, constant defense of the devs and the game, even when it's clearly unwarranted, and especially when that poster never criticizes the game or the devs, ever. That kind of crazy, and obviously disingenuous, behavior aggravates people and drives them away. That's why it's "toxic", because it poisons your community. And no, toxic positivity is not disagreeing with suggestions that are hot garbage "I think the devs should give everyone a free nuke that recharges every 15 seconds!", it is being attacked by a dozen posters when you post "I'd like to see the devs fix this bug" or "I was on the test server, and here's why I don't like this change. . ." When it happens all the time and it's always the same group of people that's when it drives people away from your community, and that's when it's toxic. And yes, that used to happen a LOT on this forum. Fortunately, most of those folks have calmed down quite a bit, so I wouldn't say it's much of an issue here anymore.

Well, I got lucky. I expected to spend nearly an hour searching for it, especially since I couldn't remember who said it or when. Here's a weird coincidence. When I posted yesterday that the devs had already said that, it was four years to the day after he'd said it.

That's not what 'Toxic Positivity' means. It's what you've seen me refer to as the "Dev Defense League." That group of players who defend the devs with the fervor of a long unrequited crush, and will attack and insult people who post any kind of negative feedback even when we're giving feedback in the feedback thread started by a dev asking for feedback. They insist that everything's perfect or, if it's not, then it certainly isn't the dev's fault and how dare you bring up anything that's anything less than 100% worship of the devs. Don't you know that making games is hard? The devs are unpaid volunteers and you get to play the game for free so how dare you! You get the idea. And you know who I'm talking about.

Unfortunately, the Homecoming developers have already said that they will not make the upgrades passive. I think that summoning and resumming and upgrading is part of the intended gameplay loop. I suppose I could go find the post if you really need me to.

Ok, let me give you my opinion, for what it's worth. If your mode were created by the devs, I'd roll a EM/Shield Scrapper. By level 4 I'd have Total Focus, Energy Transfer, and the mez toggle. This would clearly make my character far more powerful than any current character at level 4. It'd be hilarious, but would it really make a difference though? Well, Posi run times would probably decrease drastically. People would have some crazy OP builds in Bloody Bay. We'd run some missions faster, for the hour or two we spend under level 20. That's it. The truth is that we already spend so little time below level 20 that I don't think it'd make any meaningful difference in truth, but it certainly could in perception. It's very possible that, the early game at least, could change drastically in ways we can't foresee and that could affect the attitude of the players and the perception of the game as a whole. I'm not sure how, but if I could figure it out then it wouldn't be unforeseen. I'm sorry if you're frustrated because people don't agree with your suggestion. All I can say is, I'm not disagreeing with your suggestion just to be a jerk, I honestly believe it would be a ton of work for the devs in return for no positive benefits. That's not your fault, and it doesn't mean you're dumb or a bad person, and it doesn't even mean it's a bad suggestion. It just means that I disagree with it. That shouldn't really matter to though, I'm not a dev. I'm nobody. TL;DR: I think doing something like this would be an incredible amount of work for the developers in return for very little positive effect and a possible very negative effect.

It's all in the wrist. 🤣 It's my theory that Cap's shield isn't actually made from Vibranium, they just tell everyone that for OPSEC. I believe that it's actually made out of a new, very special and hard to make, alloy called Bullshitium. So it does whatever bull shit the wielder wants it to.

I like your idea. If for nothing else it'd be a new experience. However, I do have a question about this: What do you mean by 'gas out'? Are you talking about running out of Endurance? I ask because in your initial proposal you mentioned that these 'Saga Mode' characters would not be able to use crafted enhancements. Without crafted enhancements I don't see how these characters, especially at low level, won't be constantly running out of Endurance.

And my issue isn't with Arcane, obviously. It's with what was said, and I've seen many others post something similar, in case my post didn't make that clear. My issue is that I want Homecoming to stay around for a long time. Look, Homecoming doesn't have that many players, on Friday evenings it's usually up to what? 5k or so? Just because Concord wished they had that many players doesn't mean that's a big number. When that number gets near zero Homecoming will likely cease to be. That will happen eventually, and I want to delay that day for as long as possible. Every person that gets chased away because someone on the forum, in or game, tells them to go play on another server, reduces Homecoming's lifespan by an unknown amount. And I've seen that these things tend to snowball. People start leaving and then more people leave because people are leaving. Chasing people away is bad for Homecoming. How bad? I don't know because I cannot foresee the future. But I'll ask all of you. If you want Homecoming to stay up for a long time then isn't it in your best interest to not chase players away?

"You lot" is a phrase that is plural, similar to "you all." In other words I was referring to the people on the forums, not to just you specifically. I suppose, but why would you work to ensure that with a condescending post? Look, Homecoming's major draw is its population. Also, Homecoming relies on donations to keep going. So, encouraging people to leave with a condescending post, like you did, does not benefit Homecoming, you, or the person you're responding to. So I'm asking why you would do that. Is that too difficult a question to answer?

Please explain to me how condescendingly telling players to leave benefits you or Homecoming? You know, you lot sure cry a whole lot of "Peregrine's a big meanie" and speed-hammer the report button on my posts, but they you'll hypocritically post condescending garbage like this. I'm disappointed Arcane, you're smarter than this.

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I agree with you, but I'd also like to explain why this happens. People will say they didn't like the movie and even explain why. And then other people will attack them for not liking the movie, demean them, insult them, and then the thread gets locked. When someone says "That movie didn't do well, and here are the number to prove it" what they're really saying is "I think this movie is garbage, the majority of people believed this movie is garbage, here's the objective numbers to prove that the movie is garbage, and you can't argue with that because the numbers are the numbers." So I guess the bottom line is that if I felt it was ok to just say "I didn't like this movie because of these reasons" without a certain faction exploding and demeaning my opinion and even down right insulting me, even going so far as to call me a "not-see" simply because I don't like a particular movie (and yes that happened on this forum), then maybe I could discuss certain movies and what I liked and disliked about them. But as long as people are going to lose their marbles and compare me to a certain Reichskanzler simply because I don't like certain movies, or shows on Disney+, (and as long as the moderators on this forum allow them to continue doing that, while suspending me every time I push back against that craziness) then yeah, I'm going to stick to talking just about the numbers. Hope this clears things up for you. 🙂 PS: Don't forget to go through my post history and put a thumbs down on all of my posts. It's become something of a tradition for you to do that, but I noticed that you forgot to do that yesterday.

Here's an explanation that's not only newer, having been posted just 3 days ago, but it also focuses on the movies and series and explains the various bad decisions that Kathleen Kennedy over the years.

Bottom line: the movies are crap, the merchandise didn't sell, related IP things like Netflix series and the Galactic Starcruiser Hotel haven't done well. I've shown you proof that Disney hasn't made back what they've paid for Star Wars, the franchise is in a worse place now than it was when they bought it, and it's all the fault of the person who was deliberately running Star Wars into the ground and laughing at the fans while doing it, Kathleen Kennedy. So yeah, ya missed something. And, in case it isn't obvious by now, I've been following this whole debacle for the last 10 years. Becoming more and more angry while Kathleen Kennedy and her woke, man-hating cronies, wreaked one of my favorite IPs and insulted the majority of the fan-base and laughed while doing it. Add to that the constant lying and attempts at gaslighting, about how great and successful they are while show after show fails to get renewed because they're garbage, by internet NPCs has finally just stomped all over my one last nerve. And I apologize if I've taken it out on you.

It's about the fact that Disney has lost money on the Star Wars IP and that's entirely because of Kathleen Kennedy. You pretending it hasn't, and TTRPGWhiz going through my post history and putting a thumbs down every one of my posts, isn't going to change that.

I didn't really feel like doing the math myself just so you could refuse to believe me, so I found a video that explains it. Now this video came out in April 2024, so it's not recent. However, nothing has really happened in between that made $billion$. I point that out because that's seems the most likely rational rebuttal to this video.

How about Supergroups? Did you all finally generic The Marvels?

I didn't say they were losing money, I said they were "meh." The criticisms of these movies have been posted all over the internet for a decade now and I'm not going to sit here and repeat all of those explanations all over again. And I noticed that you very specifically didn't include Solo, the one Star Wars movie that actually did lose money. Way to cherry pick your examples. Also, ever heard of "Toys R Us"? All of their 1,500 stores in multiple countries were permanently closed. Know why? Because they spent $billions stocking their shelves with Star Wars toys from the new movies. Toys that did not sell. So the entire company collapsed and is no more. Because the fans did not like the movies and did not want to buy the toys from those movies. Disney paid a little over $4 billion for the Star Wars IP and still hasn't recouped that money, because of the quality of those movies. And that's all thanks to Kathleen Kennedy.

In theory I definitely agree with you. However, in this specific instance, I don't think I do. I think that if Disney is really interested in rehabilitating Star Wars in the eyes of the fans the best thing they could do is to fire Kennedy immediately. After all, what exactly is she going to teach her successor? How to ruin a franchise? How to insult the fans of an IP on social media? Of course I don't think that Disney leadership is trying to rehabilitate Star Wars, or any of their once popular franchises, in the eyes of their fans. I think they're going to stick with their "we know better than you do" attitude. And they're going to continue to either lose money, or not make nearly as much money as they'd like, for the next couple of decades. Star Wars losing money didn't teach them. Marvel movies losing money didn't teach them. A state taking away their tax-exempt status away, thus adding tens of millions to their overhead, didn't teach them. At this point I no longer think it matters when Kennedy leaves. Because whoever replaces her will be just as bad, if not worse.

Kathleen Kennedy just did an interview where she said: "The truth is, and I want to just say loud and clear, I am not retiring. I will never retire from movies. I will die making movies." And: ". . . I’m continuing to stay at Lucasfilm . . ." Now before you jump in and "Holy shit! Peregrine Falcon was right, again." Well, not quite. She then goes on to equivocate ". . . we have every intention of making an announcement months or a year down the road." https://deadline.com/2025/02/kathleen-kennedy-clarifies-lucasfilm-exit-star-wars-future-1236304421/

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