Doc_Scorpion

Yes, let's be honest - we're running around with a villain group that vaguely resembles Nazis. And equally honestly, that's totally irrelevant to whether people are bothered by naming a powerset after something that's deeply offensive to them.

I'm testing Dark Melee - not P2W.

Just happens I rolled a dark/shield brute just the other day and he was sitting in Atlas Park at lvl 7. Took him out for a spin on Brainstorm... and Shadow Maul's increased recharge time really effs up low level attack chains. I'll get him up to DO levels later and see how it feels there.

- Selecting "G" on the chat bar and typing a message returns "Unknown command: gc" - Selecting "A" posts a message in Local, on the live servers is posts a message in Coalition for one toon, on Local for another... What exactly is "A" supposed to do anyhow? I don't recall ever using it on a live server.

It might not pop up on a CTD... I missed that.

Best to post this in the Focused Feedback thread!

Did you submit a crash report?

Did you submit a crash report?

Not sure where else to put this... In the Feb 18th patch I experienced both a hard lock up and a crash loop as detailed above. This does not happen with the Feb 25th patch.

The way I'm reading it this is a generalist support set (as opposed to a more specialized healer, buffer, or debuffer). That is to say, not all Defender primaries carry full team or powerful heals - nor should they. It should go without saying that "Defenders are not healers".

I don't. In a game this complex, with so many moving parts, it's very believable that a minor bug would go unnoticed for a very long time. Especially since a good chunk of those years were spent with a dramatically shrunken playerbase and dev team.

With the caveat that I haven't seen much of any philosophical nature from any server's dev team... (and am open to linkage and correction) The whole "active and open source" ideal seems to come from the player community. It seems to be their desire, not a goal of any server's operators.

No offense meant, but do you even play the game? Because that's solidly my experience on all my support toons. (Seriously, "I haven't seen that so it can't possibly exist" is a poor foundation for an argument.) And that's at high notoriety levels not the mythical "+0" strawman you keep invoking.

No, there's only one possible theme music...

My mind went from -tor to -inator, and now I want to build a bumbling super villain based on Dr Doofenschmirtz... The other night I was playing the final mish of the Faultline arcs and my wife asked me what my hero was doing. I couldn't remember "PsychoChronoMetron" (let alone how to pronounce it), so I just called it the "eff up the world inator". She got it immediately.

This. And it's pretty much the same distribution as I saw on Live - lots of fliers, a very few jumpers, almost no speeders, and porters are rare as hen's teeth. I suspect that's because many pools open various useful powers, and because they never have to be recharged. I tried a toon with nothing but P2W temps and heading regularly back to a P2W vendor to charge up again got pretty old after a few days. Most of my toons are fliers, but a few are jumpers for concept reasons... and only a couple of the jumpers have jetpacks for those rare times when I just don't feel like jumping (or Faultline or Orenbega maps). I've never built a porter, so I can't comment there, but I don't see anything particularly broken with the other travel pools.

Based on the other reports, I tried to load this character and crashed to the desktop after the zone loading screen. Sent in a crash report.

The economy is not robust - as it depends on an endless supply of cheap salvage supplied by The Goverment and a steady (read: also essentially endless) supply of Converters to keep the roulette wheels spinning. It's heavily slanted towards the crafter and the marketeer.

Strawman that fails to address the point. Nobody is necessarily asking to be Dr. Doom, nor asking to conform to every possible imagined plot. They're asking not to be forced in the role of lackey. The only option you offer if for them to be forced to choose which kind of lackey they're going to be - which misses the point entirely. Irrelevant. The key takeaway is the the blueside storyline doesn't force you into a narrow and subservient role. The writing allows for any number of possibilities even if it doesn't allow for all possibilities. The problem here isn't some "bizarre leap in expectations", it's that there's a fundamental difference between blueside and redside story lines.

o.0 The player is the person to say that - only they're not given the choice. They're forced into the role. There's only one kind of villain in the Rogue Isles - and that's a lackey. 0.o The question isn't where you play, it's what you say and how you act.

Given how easy it is to farm and get double XP from the P2W vendor... No. Not to mention "lack" of inf and XP is not what's stopping people from playing Redside - it's the general dreariness of the zones. This was a problem on Live too. I don't see an Inf and XP bonus every three or five missions changing this.

o.0 This is... nonsense. Those are not the only choices Not having recipe storage leads people to store them on alts, in email, or on the market - none of which are visibly increasing prices. Nor is crafting them and storing the resulting enhancements noticeably pushing prices up. Not to mention that increased prices also brings increased pressure to bring them out of storage and sell them or craft them and sell them.

On average, I encounter a problematic character about every other week or so. They *are* out there.

+1 for the Railgun reference...

Selected an AE arc filled with custom critters, game locked up hard after selecting "standard rewards".