Doc_Scorpion

Some days I want to make a character named "Read the patch notes ya morons" and hang out in the Help channel. And then dual box with a character named "And you idiots should check the forums too".

Quoted for truth. Risk v. Reward. Apex - "the top or highest part of something, especially one forming a point." (ITYM nadir - "the lowest point in the fortunes of a person or organization")

Badge idea: Successor

It's been said elsewhere (by a dev) that ever increasing numbers of mobs overload the server (in particular due to the pathing logic that routes the mobs to the player character). That suggests there's a hard upper limit on horde size that can interact with a PC.

It's not completely unnecessary - it's a game balance issue, no different than recharge, animation time, and endurance costs on big attacks for a scrapper or blaster. (And pets, esp Lieutenants and especially Bosses, are unquestionably Big Attacks. And unlike blasters or scrapper - they're persistent big attacks. That's a key difference that it's important to understand the impact of.) Being able to instantly summon fully upgraded pets significantly alters the MM's tactical balance. It cheapens and lessens the need for heals, buffs, and debuffs. Why bother when another pet is just a click away? I could see some kind of "Build Up" type power enabling insta summon and upgrade for a short period, but it would definitely need to be set up so that it was an "Oh Fudge" type power.

Precisely. Which is also exactly why summoning and equipping them during battle is part of the playstyle. You can't claim the uniqueness and the core of the playstyle lies in "controlling and keeping them alive" and claim that "summoning and equipping during battle" isn't part of the playstyle... The two positions are mutually incompatible because the latter is implied by the former. Deciding whether (and when) to re-summon, or to concentrate on the surviving pets, or to use your secondaries, or to run like heck and try again later... (Or to turn down the difficulty level) These are the key tactical decisions every MM must make. It's a very different playstyle, and not one that's for everyone. No offense, but that's a weak argument. Nowhere is it written that all parts of the game will be fun for all people all the time. From my point of view, if you don't like playing MM's because they're hard to play... That's not on the AT. That's a personal choice. If you don't find playing MM's to be fun, then just don't play them.

Before Amazon effed up their recommendations system (and stopped letting you easily mark stuff as "owned"), I had half a dozen Amazon accounts "[email protected]"... Made it really handy for finding stuff in some of my more obscure and specialized interests.

Gmail also allows the "+" sign... [email protected] or [email protected] for example.

Oops, my bad.

0.o That is... one of the most nonsensical replies I've ever read on any forum. (And after nearly a quarter century online, that's quite the achievement.) Your claim was that "good" content was being "quickly" being pushed off the front page. Given the age of the threads on the front page (months), that's patent nonsense.

I had repeatable problems with it not following me through elevators.

0.o The oldest post currently on the front page is six months old. The oldest thread is eight months old.

I was lucky... Had one of the box sets where acess to the Tiki Room and it's tailor was a bonus.

It's not about travel time... It's about reading the content, not having someone other than the mish holder interact with glowies and NPC's, etc... etc...

Given the... interesting pronunciations my car navigation system uses sometimes, that's about the only possible value of such a system. Listening for it to booch up. Otherwise, yeah. Annoying. Grating. Repetitive. /jranger

I will not be available tomorrow. (My niece's company is letting employees use their Zoom for family purposes for the duration, so we now have a weekly Family Virtual Cocktail Hour on Fridays.)

Disliking your idea or noting it's flaws does not create any requirement that an alternative be proposed. That odd notion has arisen to give the proponent an 'out' to avoid taking up the burden of defending their proposal or working to improve it. It's become popular because it takes essentially no effort. It's a workable idea... but level locking ToT to low levels isn't going to be popular. (It's probably the best overall solution though.) I think I'd prefer top level zones because of the easier availability of toons to exemp people up. But at least Blueside that means PI, FF, or Bricks - busy, popular, zones. Blueside, I think I'd go for IP if you want a "just passing through these levels" zone. Other than as a TF staging area, it's not a zone that sees a lot of use and there's lots of room for ToT teams to spread out.

I guess I never understood quite how the interacted before... Learn something new every day.

Back in my day (14 when Star Wars came out, since that seems to the touchstone in this thread) comics were freaking everywhere. You could stumble on them... Now comics are for collectors and uber nerds and are only found at specialty shops.

In my head canon Paragon City offers the option to house heroes in various city zones in the (vain?) hope of cutting down street crime... Silver Sting lives in one such, a basic apartment in King's Row. From his point of view, as a vigilante, that also puts him usefully close to some of the City's less savory elements. On the other hand, thanks to his mother and father's stature, Doc Scorpion rates a nice place in Founder's Falls. But he spends very little time there. For the same historical reasons he also rates a room in the Officer's Quarters of the Vanguard Base... and that's where he spends much of his time. (He also has rooms in the Scorpion Squadron base, but almost never uses them.) Omega Inferno's official address is on Central Park in New York City. When in Paragon, he rents a suite of rooms at one of the luxury hotels in Atlas Park. When not 'officially' in Paragon, he makes use of the quarters in the Scorpion Squadron base. (Omega is all about image, and carefully cultivates the media.) Though the group is named after the Doc, Atomic Earthquake is the de facto day-to-day operational commander of the Scorpion Squadron and maintains rooms at the base. While the living quarters are normally entered through a lobby/foyer area - his room has a door that opens directly to the base's operations area. That's the only ones I've actually got a detailed enough backstory on.

Quoted for full agreement.

I didn't understand it worked like that... To my way of thinking the only thing that should alter a movement command would be another movement command. (Which would probably break other things.)

And the pro-change reasons aren't equally weak? "Making choices is hard" and "I can't be as l33t as I want!" hardly strike me as anything but weak. Nobody ever claimed otherwise. The dispute is over where "ultra maxed out" should be treated as a standard to meet, or a goal that can only be achieved through sacrifice.

Do we need to repeat the multi-target rez testing? I can be available same bat time, same bat channel.

OK, was just farting around on Brainstorm with my boys... and the leash does not appear to be as short as it should be. Here's the initial position using a GOTO command. And here's how far they moved after being told to attack a mob. Mea Culpa - I thought I had tested it earlier, turns out I hadn't.