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Here's a fine example of the "creatives" blaming the fans/"internet culture" for not liking the crap they are shilling. https://www.superherohype.com/movies/578398-emma-roberts-madame-web-internet-culture-joke

Some more set photos. These look really bad. Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner honestly looks like an overweight guy cosplaying to me. I'm wondering if there is going to be extensive post-production on costumes? If not, this is shaping up to be terrible.

No personal offense meant to you as I can respect your position, but I don't think either of these statements are fair. Nor do I believe that HC should be engaging with the community to the extent that some are asking them to. If HC were to ask 100 different players what they would like to see in future updates, it's extremely likely that they'll get 100 different answers with no common thread among them. It's important to remember, the HC people here are volunteers doing this in their spare time. They are not paid professionals, and there is no financial incentive in keeping the customer base happy so that they are playing and paying longer. This is a passion project for them and they're working on things they want to work on and find interesting. Personally, I'd rather they continue to work on things they want to work on that keeps them engaged rather than trying to please everyone and getting burned out. Not every change they make is going to resonate with every player. I personally don't like many of the changes they've made over the years, and ultimately I don't fault them for making them. HC has also made some truly wonderful updates and additions to the game that I find a lot of fun and enjoyable. For me, this update sounds interesting and I'll be sure to try everything out, especially the Labyrinth. No, this update doesn't have many things I'd like to see changed or added, but that's ok too. Give everything a try and if you like it, great. If not, that's ok too. Again, not every update is going to be for everyone and try to keep in mind that this is a passion project for a group of volunteers.

There are still outdoor maps where positioning isn't going to help. Unless you would like to start telling others they must take fly or purchase a jetpack from the P2W vendor and fight from above every battle.

And I saw your extremely weird (read: petty) vitriolic "lol" emoji directed toward me on my post complimenting another player on the work they put into their base, which I enjoyed very much. I've no idea who you are or why you would choose to try and throw shade on one player complimenting another on their work. Despite that, if you'd like to have a conversation about why I choose not to support projects being promoted by some, I'm happy to do that via PM. If not, that's fine too. Good day to you.

Well no, I'm not missing your point. There are those out there who may look at your character and find it to be derivative and "too similar" to a trademarked character. You may feel it isn't close at all. What you all think is irrelevant. It's up to HC to decide and their call to make. There's no harm in asking a GM for help.

Yes those are both from Byrne and he's definitely doing it to give Marvel and DC the finger. He had a lot of issues working for both.

How you define "close enough" is going to be different than the next person. Are you suggesting people shouldn't be allowed to PM a GM and ask? How are they to know what HC will consider "too close" unless they ask? Again, what you or I or anyone else considers to be "too close" is irrelevant. It's up to HC to make that call, and a player being concerned and asking a GM isn't a problem in my opinion.

Tell them thank you for the advice, then tell them to stick their advice where the sun doesn't shine.

This has absolutely nothing to do with what I said in my reply. Again, there is no concrete definition of what "close" means. Since there isn't a clear definition, it in no way hurts to ask. What you or I or anyone else considers to be "too close" is irrelevant. That's up to HC to decide where the line is.

I dropped in to check this out and no lie, this is one of if not the best base in the whole game. Very nicely done! The layout is just beautiful, especially when the sun is rising/setting. The view from the top of the steps in front of the Temple of Zeus is truly epic. Well done! You should be very proud of this one.

Considering there is no clear definition of what "close" is, there's no harm in asking. HC are the ones who define what "close" is, so better to ask before getting the generic hammer.

It makes him look even more fake and ridiculous. Brandon Routh and Henry Cavill both are in great shape too. Why this guy couldn't be bothered to hit the gym is anyone's guess.

Looking at this some more, I agree it looks like rubber muscle suit underneath. This looks terrible in my opinion.

That made sense when the game was a commercial, for profit venture. It is not for profit now and will never be for profit again. Hard NO from me on this terrible idea.

Some set photos posted here. Can't say the new costume looks good at all.

If you don't think that Leia or Padme were integral to the story in the original films, had very strong characterization and helped keep those "straight white guys" on task, I don't think you've seen the original films. "Inverting dynamics" has nothing to do with it. It's the crap writing that's ruining these franchises, not the race or gender of the protagonists.

This is the spin that studios have attempted to sell and it doesn't work. It's extremely transparent. Does anyone honestly believe there were no women, queer people or people of color who were and still are fans of the original Star Wars movies? Were there no women who could relate to Uhura, Leia, Sarah Conner, Ellen Ripley or the like? The whole "I don't have someone like me" line strains credibility. Various studios have kept trying this same "inclusivity" formula for years now and they've produced nothing but flop after flop after flop after flop. The second huge mistake the studios made is blaming the fans for not liking the garbage they are producing. That's not endearing any fan to them, regardless of race or color or gender.

If this is a concern for you, form your own teams and set expectations for everyone on the team on how you're going to run the team. Problem solved.

If not before. There are a great many people here who for the life of them can't understand how may others consider the "right/correct" leveling process a boring, repetitive slog.

I appreciate and respect your opinion on power leveling even though I fundamentally disagree with you on it, and you're missing a very important distinction. One thing I think important to remember is that these steps the LIVE Devs took were done for a LIVE game that was commercial product, where the objective was to keep customer playing and most importantly paying for as long as possible. HC is not a commercial venture and according to the repeated statements from HC will never ever be a commercial venture. Ever. Worrying about player retention isn't so relevant as it doesn't have the same meaning anymore. Worrying about theoretical newcomers PLing to 50 and getting bored then quitting no longer has the same relevance here as it did on when the game was live. It isn't up to us players to keep the game going, it's up to all the individuals here and on other servers graciously volunteering their precious free time to keep it going. If all us regular players go away, HC can just trim things down to a single server and carry on just as they had for years before the secret society server went public. HC could also decide tomorrow that they have had enough and shut everything down whether we like it or not. The HC folk are volunteers who can shut everything here down at any time for any reason they like. They are under no obligation to keep things running for us. I'm not at all suggesting they would do this, so please don't misconstrue what I'm saying here. They can do it. I'm not saying they will do it. As for people supposedly getting PLed to 50 and getting bored and quitting, let them. Chances are very good even if they had spent the extra day or two running through story content the "correct/righteous/approved" way and hit 50, chances are very good they'd still be bored at 50 and move on.

They are examples of self imposed caps though. Running a team of 8 on content that's designed for a full league is a self-imposed cap.

Nice work on this! I can see it being very helpful to those interested in maxing out a build and analyzing their DPS. With that said, I'd like to ask a couple of questions about this too. Please know I am not asking these with any sort of malice toward you, accusing you of anything or implying anything about you personally. My questions are in no way a condemnation of you personally or the work you have put into this. With that out of the way, my questions are; does this record and track other players on your team? If so, how can they opt out being recorded? The reason I ask is, I've seen these kinds of things being used to discriminate against other players and shame them in other games, most recently in STO. I'd really hate to see a useful tool such as this be used for that purpose here. Thanks.

Really? How do you explain posts like these? Hamidon is content designed for a full league, which is more than 8, so this group self-imposed a limit themselves. There are other posts like these around with groups of 8 completing iTrials.

I completely agree.