Luminara

Chat channels don't load until your character is logged into a shard, so the entire server infrastructure would have to be redesigned.

Trying to force people to play with you by deleting their names, wiping out their bases, uprooting established sub-communities and imposing long queues during primetime play hours probably won't have the outcome you desire.

You verbally assault the development team, demand that they scrap everything they've just spent six to twelve months working on, go off on tears about "CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DID THIS INSTEAD OF '<whatever>! SO BROKEN! NEEDS FIXED! COVFEFE!", raise a fuss about things without testing them (and when you do test, you do so with the intent of forcing the development team to acquiesce to your demands, which is biased and unreliable), talk to and about the developers as though they answer to you personally, and when someone counterchecks you, you start in with the "ZOMG TROLLING! I'M BEING TROLLED! HALP!" bullshit. Countering your wild exaggerations and atrocious attitude isn't trolling, it's stepping up to do the right thing. And if "the same 5 or 6 people" are the only ones interacting with you, it's probably because no-one else wants to. You said you were relaying the wishes of "the masses" and "most people", so yes, you did make that claim. Here, again, you're speaking for "the masses". You're taking it upon yourself to say that this is the reason "most people" don't come to the forums. You're not implying that this might be a reason people don't frequent the forums, you're not suggesting that this may be a factor in lower forum traffic, you're flat-out stating that a lot of people avoid the forums because of the "trolls". Right after saying that you don't do that, one sentence previously, you did it. Again. "This power needs to be fixed because you didn't design it the way I want it to work" "You shouldn't have been working on <thing> when <other thing> is so important and I can't believe you didn't fix it years ago and why did you waste all of this time working on that" "This change was terrible and horrible and it makes the entire set unplayable and you guys just don't know what you're doing because you're doing this instead of buffing <whothefuckcares>" These are all things you've said, and they aren't opinions with any value from a development perspective. They're not just subjective, they're blatantly skewed. They're biased, self-serving and less than honest, in that they're deliberately worded to make the developers seem to have been lax in their responsibilities, incompetent or deliberately trying to ruin the game. And as feedback, they give the developers no useful or worthwhile information. You don't give opinions, you give the developers a hard time for not getting your approval for everything they do. Why do you have such a hard-on for commandeering the personal lives and free will of the HC team? Micro-manager? Control freak? Delusions of grandeur? Blow-up doll deflated?

I thought it was at least medium rare.

Spambot early this morning. Gambling or something related, not sure, I don't speak Malaysian.

It's hard to say... I'm just not sure... it's possible, but I don't know...

Typo, sorry. The keys were right next to each other.

Most desktops/laptops use x86 processors, most phones use ARM processors, they're not interchangeable and software written for one isn't compatible with the other. If you could install Linux on your phone, you might be able to run Co* with Wine. Other than that, your options are casting to the phone (pretty sure i've read that Steam can do it) or paying for a virtual gaming desktop service that you can access with a phone. A native ARM client for the game wouldn't be impossible, but, like a phone-compatible build planner, no-one's made one in the 5+ years since Co* came back, so deliberate suspension of oxygen intake is inadvisable.

SOs are the baseline for balance. SOs are the reason an attack might deal 100 damage, instead of 75, or debuff Defense by 12.5% instead of 15%. Every power in the game, and the interaction between powers, relies on the fulcrum of SOs, and if that's changed, everything has to be changed. Every power adjusted, every enemy revamped, all of the content reviewed and revised. It would take several years with the current size of the development team. SOs also more powerful than IOs below level 30, and not fully eclipsed by IOs until level 40+. 2XP doesn't disable drops, or restrict access to the player market.

By which you mean relinquish their autonomy, their right to make decisions about how to spend their free time. Let other people take control of their personal lives. Not utilize their time and energy as they choose and/or think is best, but obey. No. People who aren't participating in closed betas, and aren't participating in open betas, and apparently not interested in participating on the forums at all, are... going to vote in polls... on the forums... So... a handful of people, who are apparently still buttsore over disagreements which occurred years ago, have spread word of me around so thoroughly that everyone, even the 90-95% of players who never look at the forums, knows of and fears me. Uh huh. I bet if I log in, join a chat channel and say, "It's Luminara", 99 out of every 100 responses would be, "Who?". I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the 100th response was, "wat a lumra". When new badges are created, people who want new story arcs complain. When new story arcs are made, people who want new base items complain. When new base items are released, people who want new animations complain. When new animations become available, people who want new costume parts complain. And so on. If there are 5000 people playing, there will be 10,003 opinions on what's most important, what's most in need of attention, how things should be done. About the only thing "most people" won't disagree with is that the game should never go dark again. "Best" according to your definition, to your specifications, in accordance with your preferences. "The battle" is entirely one-sided. Hell, it's entirely one person. You wanted a poll? Look at your own post history and the responses and reactions. "Most people" disagree with you. "Most people" don't want what you want. "Most people" have voted against your proposals and requests. Even if "most people" were comprised of a silent majority that avoids the forums because they're terrified of me, they could still leverage their overwhelming power simply by thumbs-upping your posts en masse and never interact with me at all (despite your assertion, i don't "follow" anyone, figuratively or literally). Notice how that hasn't happened? The purported silent majority that you claim to be in agreement with you... isn't. Even the people in your echo chamber apparently don't agree with you, given that they're not giving you any support. That's pretty conclusive evidence that your self-appointment to the position of spokesperson for "most people" is invalid, and that "most people" don't agree that Whitecap was badly designed, or is broken, or "shouldn't" teleport them.

No.

On these servers, the game belongs to Homecoming Servers LLC. Not "the masses". "The masses" didn't untangle the code and spin up the servers. "The masses" didn't form Homecoming Servers LLC. "The masses" didn't spend five years negotiating with NC to obtain legal permission to use the source code. "The masses" aren't spending their free time maintaining the game. "The masses" aren't creating new content. "The masses" aren't sitting in front of their computers, waiting for support tickets or bug reports. "The masses" are guests, not co-owners, not shareholders, not a board of directors. "The masses" play for free and don't lift a finger to do any of the work involved in keeping the game up, running and updated. Telling the HC team that they should be asking for permission to do things or seeking approval for how they spend their free time working on the game is selfish. Demanding that they redesign something because it wasn't what you wanted is ungracious. And if that's how "the masses" are behaving, "the masses" can go fuck themselves. Hanging with like-minded people and shouting into an echo chamber != vox populi. Really? You see yourself waging war against the people who own the house where you're freeloading? You've been snacking on those lead paint chips again, haven't you.

There are two ways to deal with confrontation online: Dwell on it, turn it over and over in your mind, let it keep bothering you until it eats you from the inside out, Bake some cookies.

Roosevelt does.

I have ~50 cats. You'll never beat me in a stare-down.

I'm too lazy to finish building a small dam to run a ram pump so I can have running water in my cabin, or even set up a sluice to divert water to a container. I'm damn sure not putting in the effort to bury a body deep enough to conceal a murder.

This is neither a suggestion nor feedback, so why was it moved to the Suggestions & Feedback forum? It belongs in the Badges forum.

We can reassemble fossilized bone fragments which are hundreds of millions of years old, deformed by geological processes, sometimes reduced to little more than tiny shards and frequently scattered over a wide area, and pull DNA out of bones which are 2,000,000 years old, and murderers think they're outwitting forensic specialists. The unemployment index in the evil super-genius sector is at 100%.

Forensic pathology is one of my special interests.

Thicker bones would also present a forensic problem. They'll crack open bones for the marrow, and swallow smaller or thinner bones, but they typically refuse to eat larger bone fragments, even if they're very hungry. And in the process of rooting for other food, they'll scatter the bones/fragments across a wide area (up to ~2.5 square miles). It would be like shoving the body into a wood chipper and blowing it all over your property. The soft tissues might not be there when the cops show up to ask where SoAndSo is, but the hard tissues would, and they would find them. They also won't eat hair, and hair takes a long time to decompose in nature.

I've had to resort to removing my left hand from the keyboard when I'm at a base portal. Brain: "Okay, once I'm inside, zip over to the transfer poi-" Left hand: "PRESS W NOW? YES? YES! PRESSING W NOW!" Brain: "NO!" Right hand: "Click time? CLICK!" Brain: "What the Philharmonic Orchestra?!" Left and right hands: "MUSCLE MEMORY POWERS ACTIVATED!" Brain: "Left arm, retract. Now." Left hand: "*Darth Vader noooooooooooooooooo!*"

That trailer gives me a Pandorum vibe.

100' -Stealth + NPC aggro system = banana balls.

Something was nagging at me yesterday, while I was thinking about this, but I couldn't coalesce it. It came to me about an hour ago. Ian McShane. He's as perfect for the voice of Doctor Doom as James Earl Jones was for Darth Vader. Marvel screwed the pooch by not hiring him.