[20th Anniversary Q&A - Question Submission Thread]

To any willing to answer or all: What are you most impressed with what's been done since the Sunset?

[My card hates the sewers]

I think this is the same system I was using back on live, and while it was a sometimes problems... it seems to be happening with greater regularity now. My graphic card seems to hate the sewer water most of all. If I try to pivot it will occasionally "strobe out" and turn into an epileptic's worst nightmare. Guess it kinda looks like  when you're suffering from vertigo and there's a strobe light going off. Any way to help fix this via some sort of setting ... *digs up computer specs* ... I already know this is a potato... 

OS is Windows 8.1 64-bit

Processor - Intel Pentium CPU B980 @ 2.40Ghz (2 CPUs)

Video Card - [] Simply [] Intel HD Graphics w/ 1644 MB Display Memory

                     Driver Version  - 9.17.0010.3223

                     Driver Date - 10/10/2013

 

Laptop is a Toshiba Satellite Model 

[[Suggestion] Time (for all)]

I know this isn't quite what you're asking for and I'm all for a melee set to impose -regen or more consistently a -dam ... But to work with  what's already present, far as a "Time Armor" is concerned. For those that didn't want to be like Daredevil, I've known many to considered their Super Reflexes to actually been seeing into the near future allowing you to OLE! yourself out of attacks unscathed. If you wanted to wander away from the usual interpretation of the Dark Powersets to a connection with the Netherworld; easily connecting them to magic or Natural origins. But you could also  interpret  them as a sort of Entropy, or a "Negative Time" imposing a time dilation where everything's fuzzy explaining the -tohit. Leaning more easily into Science & Tech origins. Psionic Melee's Insight and -recharge  can be seen as forms of future sight, and time dilation, or stealing small bits of time away from them. There's also Kinetic Melee being you know how to Palm Catch attacks and rechanneling the force back out through knowing well placed counterpunches. 

[Praetorian Epic Archetype: The Olympian - Kryptonian-style AT]

28 minutes ago, Bentley Berkeley said:

Prometheus isnt a god, he is a titan. a big difference. And that is only in our myths. In CoH lore they are all just natural spirits that feed off humanities latent psychic energy. Its the lets call it The Will of Existence aka well of furies that bestows power as such. The olympian project is just a cloning thing in CoH. The power is in the body not the spirit.

 

One thing you say taht I do find an interesting idea. instead of a build up/rage ability something more akin to the dual pistols elemental toggles on a otherwise phsyical melee set could be a nifty concept. Perhaps have the chosen energy change 2ndary effects the base attack could be SS with KB as typical, going fire would remove the KB and add a dot, Lightning could add a a strong stun effect, etc.

 

 As I recall, ... the Olympians, Egyptian, and other ancient old world diefic entities were basically all a result  of humanities first discovery of the Well, but since they found a much more potent Well  because it was, assumingly, filling up for untold eons, compared to what Cole found in Greece around five thousand years later. Plus world human population was, for simplicity, say five million when the ancients found it. Compared to around two billion in 1928. [] According to one graph I found. [] https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth

 

Because it not only  cured Cole, and mutated Richter (Recluse) but the reopening of Pandora's Box also gave rise to Nemesis, the Dark Watcher, gave Team Vambrace that final spark of ingenuity for their power armor to work right. The Well was not only power, but also like the Mind Infinity Stone fueling ingenuity and progress. Granted Statesman and Recluse got the Lion's Shares for this new heroic age. But when they opened the box almost everyone also got a piece. It's just not everyone can access their share through whatever means.

[Necromancy Blasts]

Any chance for MM's Necromancy Attacks get the Power Customization Options the other iterations get? <,<

It'd be pretty sweet to do double Skull Blasts  with Gloom AND Dark Blast

[Dark VG Interest ... ???]

Well, I did post this in the Roleplaying Section of the Forums. So, yes some sort of RP would be nice.

Whether it's the casual antics of ne'erdowells, or it's the deep machinations of black souls doomed for the pit.

Or somewhere in-between, that's open to debate. My understanding is Everlasting is the main RP server here?

But I am open to another home for this group. Although I am kind of keen of the idea and irony of such a VG

making it's home on Torchbearer. 

 

Yes I do realize that that the VEAT's can eventually get access to Soul Mastery but they're pigeonholed by their main pools.

I do realize the Warshades aren't truly Dark Powers but the pools being named Umbral or Latin for Shade. 

Plus certain aspects of their Aura is a reskinned version of Dark Aura. I realize that they're not always welcomed

in a party or group cuz of the extra spawns. I welcome the challenge, and I rather enjoy the idea of doing

"Crazy 8's" conquering all the challenges of the Isles under a Cloak of Darkness. If we're so emboldened,

downing all the trials or the Incarnates and taking over the powers of Dark Astoria to claim the Multiverse.

 

Think it'd be fitting for such an accord to be forged on Halloween, as some perceive it to be among the darkest of nights.

 

I find it rather amusing if there came to be a SG that'd act as a foil to "us." ... Something along the lines of ... 

"The Torchbearers" where all the members among them would have at least one of their pools be fire. =p 

... And Peacebringers for the parity... I realize that this would also exclude VEATs again. My apologies, but that's the concept. 

 

One thing I never quite got back on Live was no way  for SGs and VGs to try to pester each other outside of Raids if/when they ever worked.

Champions Online Nemesis System was neat and had some potential. But that's another topic for a different section. 

 

 

[Dark VG Interest ... ???]

Hey all, I've made a stunning realization (although this was a "valid idea" back towards the end of Live, I think ... ??? )

But I have a simple concept for a Villain Group, and that is "The Heart of Darkness" (or maybe "The League of Shadows") <,<

Requirement to be a member? It's super simple... have at least  one dark set for your power pools. [] Willing to accept Warshades. []

Short of VEATs and PBs, every AT -can- be a Dark/Dark and either have access to Dark or Soul Mastery.

I imagine it'd make "sense" for a Necro/Miasma MM to be leader of it all, and the higher officers would be the Dark/Dark's

[Suggestion: Varying Power Mastermind]

I know it's kind of opposite to what the OP was wanting ... but perhaps the easiest way to implement a buff of this type would be the MM's pets get buffed as the others are beaten? It should easy enough for the game to track when a pet is KO'ed and that causes the remaining pets to go into a "frenzy" where they get +ACC +DAM +Special based on who is gone? Like your Arsonist (which dies all the time) would provide an effective perma Insight & Enrage to the remaining Pets. And if one of your Enforcers dropped that kick in that would in a separate perma Keen Insight, Focused Rage, & Luck. 

[Giant Monster v AV]

Far as the old Dev Team's theory on the differences between these enemies is an AV was a foe meant to be faced by at least 5-6 heroes on a team to defeat. They were seen in missions and normally you could only take them on with a team of 8 heroes. Were normally used to mark the climax of a story arc, and bring about memorable moments on the achievement of taking down an oppressive opponent. They were also about the size of your own hero so they could fit in any location. Giant Monsters are exactly that, towering titans to tackle. Could be any size and gave the Team some room to get a bit more creative on design, and what they could do. Fortunately, most of them were "happy" enough to be sequestered to largely unpopulated areas. Think GM's were originally meant to need about 12 heroes to drive them back into hiding. This was back in the day LONG before League's were even thought of so it'd take a coordinated effort between at least 2 teams communicating over Broadcast to help insure all combatants would get the credit as many of them rewarded a badge.