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There are scripted flight responses to certain events or combinations of events. Taking more than X damage in Y time, being debuffed and taking damage, X% of spawn is defeated, inability to affect PC, et cetera. If a set amount of Threat is generated before the script reaches a flight response trigger, they won't run. That's the only exception, and the Threat has to be pre-existing. Taunting a runner doesn't work. NPCs also look for a way to reach the PC, if the PC is out of range of their attacks and they're not set to Prefer_Ranged, which can emulate a flight response if the pathing on that map is particularly poor.

You can't even properly truncate "because", and you expect anyone to believe you wouldn't have problems using powers properly if you were allowed to swap your primary/secondary on the fly? Pppppppfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffttttttttttttttttttttt.

He has at least a few level 50 characters. If he didn't, he wouldn't have logged into a level 50 character which hadn't been Incarnated yet and complained about his Incarnate progress being reset. More than once. Pretty sure he's using his unique and special math when he states that he stops at a certain level.

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Sequestering a bunch of people on one shard with me would be like herding them into the mountain lion enclosure at the zoo.

Let's see... 4, and 104, and 17, and... ah, fuck it, it's, like, 5 total! #Diantanemath

Other MMORPGs weren't shut down for 8 years. That had a slight impact on the game's population. Diantane math: 1000 = 450, 600 = 125... You divide by 0 a lot, don't you.

No.

No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dís

Yeah... that wouldn't actually make any difference. See, Captain D here has very specific expectations and notions. For example, defenders who use anything other than heals or buffs are "wrong". Tankers who press any key that isn't Taunt don't know how to play. Controllers = nope. Dominators are worse controllers. Et cetera. Consequently, his recruitment qualifications tend to dissuade some players, disallow others, and extend the process unnecessarily. When he finally gets rolling, his requirements have historically driven players to depart ASAP, thus a delay as he stops to recruit replacements, who will be, as noted above, have to meet certain qualifications, or are booted shortly after joining if they're not played the way he wants them to be played, or they hightail it when they realize what they've gotten themselves into, creating further delays. He's also restricts himself to lower level play, for various (and hilarious) reasons, so he has a limited target set, and he only runs certain arcs at those levels, so he's competing against the DFB/TF-to-20 crowd. And the AE crowd. He's basically dredging the bottom of the barrel at that point, only getting people who want a badge for something he's running or who have just started playing and are only joining his team because his announcement was the first they saw. In a nutshell, he's spent five years training people to avoid him and is reliant on newbs for teams. And we ain't exactly overflowing with those on any shard.

They did it to spite you.

Did that in '05. It might be a bit better now, with Cross Punch and Defensive Amplifiers being available, but it's still going to be shit on toast compared to every other option. As an actual archetype, it'd be about as popular as petless masterminds.

That jackass stole your name and avatar. I'm getting my meat grinder.

I see that some (most?) of the people arguing haven't read the developer post that I linked, in which he/she not only states that the team doesn't like the idea of uniform KB->KD, but goes on to outline their preferred method of dealing with the situation. Or notice that three of the four things he/she outlined have been implemented. And that the fourth thing is exactly what some of you have mentioned wanting, bonus damage on knocked foes. This is like watching Kelly Bundy and Madison from Zombieland: Double Tap try to "educate" each other.

I've leveled almost 30 characters to 50 solo and I've only done a non-TF street hunt once. And the only reason I did it that time was because I didn't feel like going to another contact. Granted, the contact system itself is unnecessarily convoluted and unintuitive, but the removal of origin requirements on contacts opened up so many avenues for leveling that the only way hunts could comprise a significant portion of your leveling experience is if you deliberately avoided arcs.

Synapés, the fastest hors d'oeuvres in Paragon City! One bite and they're gone!

Like explosive flatulence propelling you across the room? Because I could totally get down with that. *put put put put put*