Luminara

I remember those days. Fuckers kept my Inv/SS tank Stunned for twenty minutes one night. I still twitch when I have to run a Malta mission.

I solo at +1/x5-8 on a variety of characters from level 31 onward. And unless I've been promoted and no-one bothered to inform me, I don't qualify as a trinity. I have and use Stealth on numerous characters so I know there's been no change to how it works in standard content, or changes to any standard content enemies which allow them to see through Stealth. Nothing in standard content that couldn't see through Invisibility before can see through Stealth now. None of what you're complaining about is true. Malta weren't buffed, Stealth wasn't nerfed and enemy perceptions weren't buffed in standard content, the game still isn't even hard enough to require teaming at all, much less specific team compositions. You might want to check your facts before posting again. You're either being told lies, or you're making faulty assumptions.

Or just hover over the person's avatar or @ name and select Find Content.

Whereas SoAs are lore-based and not forced to transform into a generic model in order to use their powers. Let's go ahead and look at that lore. Shadowstar has been on Earth for thousands of years, yet strangely, in all of that time, the Kheldians who arrived later never encountered another host. 2000-5000 years and not a single other alien species is compatible? Not one? Twilight's Son is the last of the Kheldians, from far in the future... and he still only has two forms... and we only see one, since he's an NPC. So the Kheldians are dashing about space like a cat with the zoomies for thousands more years, and still haven't encountered any other potential hosts? We know that those aren't the only potential hosts out there because the Battalion story line had them arriving from space, not an alternate Earth like the Rikti, and Battalion was going to give the people of Earth the choice of joining them or being obliterated. And the 2013 Lore AMA directly states that the Battalion are "a collaboration of thousands of alien races". So there are definitely other potential host species. Both Twilight's Son's back story and the Lore AMAs confirm that the Kheldians encountered the Battalion, so they had to have encountered other species which could act as hosts. Kheldians are specifically described as a space-faring species. They didn't come to Earth through a Portal Corp. portal, they came here from space. This is notable, because Kheldian lifespans are limited to 5-10 years. Even with their ability to travel at light speed and open wormholes to travel even faster, even with host bodies, they're not immortal. And they come from outside of this galaxy, which is a fucking huge distance to cross, even at the speed of light (100,000 light years across, 1000 light years thick, 8000 light years thick at the heart). They'd have to find new hosts from time to time while they were traveling, or die in transit. Even if they originated from somewhere nearer Earth, rather than the farthest point, they'd be out there for centuries before they got here, all but mandating that they find and utilize hosts along the way. Circling back to Shadowstar, her information tells us that they're not a "young" species. They developed the ability to merge with hosts, advanced science, technologies, and had their little Nictus split before humans discovered the inclined plane or the lever. We're talking about a space-faring species who was out there exploring for how many thousands of years before they came here? The lore says there are other things out there in space, and the lore says Kheldians are out there, zipping around in space. The lore does not say that they only ever found two other species suitable as hosts, it does say that there are other forms of life (at least two encountered by Kheldians and an unknown number ("thousands") absorbed by the Battalion), and scientifically speaking, it would be statistically nearly impossible for them to travel such great distances without changing hosts at least once in a while. They're an "old" species, they've been wandering around in space, they have a remarkably short lifespan... and they somehow managed to miss every other potential host along the way to Earth, which Battalion subsequently swallowed up, folded into their war machine? Not only does that stretch the boundaries of suspension of disbelief, it's also statistically unlikely that Kheldians would manage to make it to Earth and only find two other host species along the way. If compatible hosts were that rare, they all would've died before making it to Earth. So according to the lore, we should have many more forms to choose from. I'm also not restricted to two generic weapon models. Or even two models period. I can have ten different bows, one for each costume slot. But a lobster is still a lobster, no matter how many costume slots I use.

We're not transformed into Carnival Harlequins when we use Energy Ring Toss, or Freakshow when we use Stolen SMG. When I play one of my */Shield or Shield/* characters, the character's appearance isn't overlaid with costume which hides the one I've designed, nor am I forced to choose between having access to Shield powers and having a visible character model with a unique costume. None of my Archery characters have to activate a model swap toggle order to access the Archery attacks. Even Soldiers of Arachnos aren't forced to remain in Arachnos costume pieces beyond level 24. And if the intent is to imply that the character itself is weaponized, shouldn't all characters which are weaponized have model swaps? Why doesn't Super Strength change the character model to something beefy? Why doesn't Stone Melee overlay the character model with the rock golem one? Why doesn't my Street Justice/Shield scrapper look like Batgirl cosplaying Agent Carter? Where's the toggle that that turns a */Savage dominator into a space badger or multiversal octopus? There are melee primary and secondary sets, /Assault and /Manipulation sets, pool powers, *PP powers and temporary powers which treat the character as the weapon, via punches and kicks, but not one of them imposes a model swap. Except Kheldians, because... reasons. Yeah, anachronistic.

It has always anachronistic that Kheldians force specific appearances, considering that one of the selling points of Co* has always been that appearance and character/power effectiveness are completely decoupled.

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.