Doc_Scorpion

You haven't established there's a reason not to do what "no one is asking for"... Of course, the answer to that is that there's absolutely no reason not to do so. When you're working at that level you're looking at the larger game, and the playerbase as a whole. Being in the top echelons of anything requires a very different outlook than being down in the trenches. As above, you haven't established that throwing sand in the gears of the process is in any way useful.

I'd love to see some of the Showa era stuff on the big screen someday. It looked like they gonna run the original 1954 film last year, but it turned out to be the Raymond Burr version... Fortunately I sorted that out before I got tickets. Ain't no way in [censored] that I'm ever gonna pay money to see that. Got lucky about six years ago, a local arthouse place got hold of a bunch of 35mm subbed prints of the Ghibli films... It was awesome to see them in their original form.

You have no idea what's in any of my builds, nor I suspect what's in the vast majority of the builds out there. As to how it happens... Based on the discussions in the Beta threads by the various dev's, they identified some holes in what was available to the players and developed sets to help fill those holes and give players some flexibility and opportunities they previously didn't have. (It's usually in the set bonuses or the uniques.) They weren't chosen by random roll, they were specifically designed. Are they for every player or for widespread use? No, some of them are pretty niche. You're basically asking to be a dev... Which I suspect means you need to demonstrate the as much as possible of the abilities and knowledge required to work at that level. You'll need to participate in the existing (Closed and Open) Beta process and demonstrate an ability to do so usefully.

For Godzilla Day on Nov 3rd - Fathom Events is screening the 2002 Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla. I've already got my tickets... Not so much because I want to see that particular movie, but because I've never seen an actual Toho Godzilla on the big screen. Anyone else going? https://www.fathomevents.com/events/Godzilla-Against-Mechagodzilla

Yeah, the problem here isn't the action or inaction of the dev's or mod's.

I agree... and disagree. It's not that Posi 1 is in and of itself harder, or that players are unequal to the challenge for <handwave> reasons. It's because Posi 1, especially the final mission, is cruelly unforgiving to teams that are poorly lead and/or contain a significant number of players who don't know how to play as a team. Posi 1 seems to be difficult, but that's down to the combat meta on HC - to the ungraceful zerg rush and the players who are soling the map that everyone else just happens to be on. I agree, I'd love to see more task forces, more missions, that demand competent play... but that's going to be very difficult task in a world where people can zerg rush the final mission of the ITF. You can't quite levy the same demands on the playerbase at large that Hard Mode content levies on the super hardcore.

I suspect that if you made a Venn diagram of the circles "people who make bombastic and hyperbole laden statements" and "who also then give actual reasonable criticism/feedback in the same post", the overlap would be thinner than the lines defining the circle. That being said, the take home here is easy - if you want to be taken seriously, act like you want to be taken seriously.

*sigh* Older players were in the game back then. And we're still here. Demanding the "easy way" has nothing to do with age.

The big S3 I'm looking forward to was announced this morning... Laid Back Camp S3.

It started like three weeks ago... Unless you're already jonesing for Winter 2023?

Would be adding them to the HC Wiki.

No, thank you. Down that path lies tankmages. CoH doesn't need tankmages.

There's already a solution to that problem - the XP lock.

Heavily depends on what your T8/T9 is... For my Bots/FF MM, getting Upgrade early (she's currently level locked at 29) was a massive uptick in capability (on top of the other buffs). I expect the same will be true of 'trollers. Their pets are game changers.

Since I don't like leaving emails in my box... I usually send myself a global with 1 inf, then when it shows up, reply to it with the actual amount or item. Then once I've claimed them (and TRIPLE checked that I have done so), I can delete both.

Do I actually need to repeat myself? Or do you honestly not grasp the simple and basic principles of "nobody with any sense makes more work for themselves" and "you don't fix problems by breaking other things and making things worse"? Not to mention your last sentences is patent nonsense. They are working on equalizing and standardizing everything - you just don't like how it's being done. Had the devs encouraged non-AE activities, you'd have a point. They didn't. They did the same kinds of things they've in many other Pages, with and without changes to AE. There is no conspiracy. There is no secret agenda. There is no "pressure" being applied. There is no pressure to do something you don't enjoy. The AE buildings are still there and fully functional. The farms are still there and you can still farm to your heart's content.

Nor should it be happening. When you find a nail sticking out of the floor, you pound it back in. You don't eff up your entire house and give yourself a thousand times more work by raising the floors in the entire house. Or, to put it simply, the devs were faced with a simple choice... They could do grave damage to the entire game. Or they could modify the one part that was causing problems. The choice is a no brainer.

Made me LOL....

Just a heads up - If you're not watching Akiba Maid War, you should check it out. It's deliciously insane!

Right. Your math, not having 11 attacks, means each 'bot on a full team (six bots) has less than 1.8 attacks each. Yeah, no. Fully equipped and upgraded, the Battle Drones alone bring 9 attacks to the field. Protector Bots bring 6 (3*2), and the Assault Bot brings another 3, for a total of 19. (I leave it as an exercise for the student to work out whether 11 or 19 is the larger number.) Not to mention it's not like your blaster cycles through all 14 attacks - more like 3-5 with the balance being either situational or longer recharge. And also not to mention those six pets can fire off more attacks per unit time than any single blaster. That is, just like a team of players can fire more attacks per unit time than any single player. Another factor to consider is that an MM and his pets, just like a team, represent multiple targets for the mobs. Your hypothetical blaster represents a solo player - a single target. I give and grant that an MM's "team" is a bunch of bumbling sidekicked up semi-competent n00bs... But they are absolutely, unquestionably, the equivalent of a team.

Right - multiple attackers with significant damage output as well as various secondary powers in no way equates to team. No, they're not the greatest team ever, but they are very much a team. Drop by the Robotics Revamp thread over in the Beta forums where @Sir Myshkin discusses his solo tests against Rikti Pylons. MM's may suck in post 50 play, but there's 49 levels before that which need to be considered as well.

No testing on Brainstorm?

Giving and granting that I've been guilty of participating in such derails myself... Yeah. The problem here isn't the system, the problem here is the people. And the problem we're currently experiencing is a small number of individuals getting butthurt because their off topic and against the rules posts got hidden. (A number of whom are also experiencing paranoid delusions that they are being deliberately and individually targeted and excluded from some mythical "club".) Yes, there were some people unfairly caught up in the dragnet, but... That's just life. Mods are human and make mistakes. (BTDT)

I think it was the old Live forums... But I've been on forums where there was a 10 character minimum post length. And you saw exactly that - "I agree, ten characters worth."