Cobalt Arachne

If we're throwing two cents into the wishing well, here are my two big ones: 1. Heavily expanded weapon temp power selection from the P2W vendor: Broadswords, katanas, maces, Arachnos pistol(plz QvQ), crossbows, etc. There are a ton of RP concepts where the character utilizes a minor side-arm, but there are some things literally undoable currently either because there aren't powerset combos that can do it, aren't existing temp powers, or they're not something consistently accessible. These temp powers could be absolutely terrible for damage per activation so they don't cause any balance concerns, but it would make a ton of roleplaying concepts far more possible. 2. PvP FFA toggle command for SG bases: I have a lot of things in my roleplaying comic project I want to convey to the participants; Things like training activities with sparring, or combat aptitude examinations for new recruits. Or other concepts like a certain character being a Nemesis-type (Resident Evil, not our local Prussian Prince of Automatons) where they're just simply a threat we run away from because they're so far out of our league. Ideally this PvP flag would be less managed than dedicated PvP instances since it only applies in a controlled environment so we can make things like a team exemplered down a few levels to make a 8v1 fight against the big bad more visceral and compelling, confronting them in their throne room in an SG base built to be epic, and having them monologue before throwing the PvP flag up... Would be a delight. I can say right now if we had PvP flags for SG bases I'd have immediate mileage from it right away in my roleplaying endeavors.

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Noticed that when you have Super Speed toggled on together with the Beast Run stance animation set, you noticeably hover in the air while moving. Turning Super Speed off makes it go back to normal and you run along the ground as expected. SS on: SS off:

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Schnuff takes time to build/create; I'm sure things are cooking in the kitchen. 🧐 Speaking of, just noticed the Prerelease version got patched.

IT IS DONE, AT LAST. 😁 With the Valentine's/Spring Fling event re-run now live; I've finally got 'em all after grabbing the last six badges I was missing! Woo! 1548/1547

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Random heads-up; The Firebase Zulu mission door located at 3389.2 1092.2 -2354.1 outputs you inside a nearby tree which causes you to be unable to move.

I know earlier-on because zones were replaced/superseded rather than actually recreated (which is why we have the Echo zones now) characters who happened to log out in them would be able to stay there until they left; IE: If you had a toon logged out the Rikti Crash Site when Issue 10 landed, you'd still have a character inside the RCS (which was a neat pointless thing lol) they just had nothing to do and if they left could never get back in. 😄 I want to say much later they weren't so passive about things like that and when Galaxy City was destroyed if you were logged out there they moved you to Atlas Park; But that's mostly anecdotal recollections on my part. 🤔

Ah, so it was an animation exploit lol; This explains the people I had seen who seemed to have /e lookup macro'd to be constantly auto-firing on their character at all times. I just thought they were performing some high-concept nervous system twitch roleplaying idea. 😅

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So while enjoying some local Nerva Archipelago cultural points; I noticed something out of place... There are Crey Agents + unethical tourists (the spawns that appear by the exploration badge of the same name within the Crey compound to the south) spawning inside the Agincourt Longbow containment block near the Blind Eye exploration badge's location... 😅 Maybe Crey's PR tours have been wildly expanded but I'm assuming the beams just got crossed somewhere as to which spawn definitions are being pointed at for these points:

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Non-superheroes? In my superhero MMORPG? It's more likely than you'd think.

Pretty much; I don't condemn ERP, it's just as valid as any other type of consensual RP. I try and respect everyone's choice as valid and be accommodated (within acceptable range) as that's important for making RP work. It's just a little uncomfortable to be pulled into it by proximity or things get suddenly sexually charged when the initial RP premise was not established as such. As mentioned, it's not too common thankfully.

Haha! I will give you that, it is definitely something that exists outside of RP, and part of it is definitely me and how I react; Maybe I should simply start baking how I respond to that kind of thing into my RP concepts so it doesn't take me out of the moment so much. 😅 Certainly degrees of it doesn't hurt; A couple RP pair in a mission being a couple with those kind of small tokens of love is totally fine. When it starts feeling like they'd rather be doing the horizontal tango than RPing that I begin raising an eyebrow... Which I guess that also happens in the real world too, not that it isn't any less uncomfortable. 😳

I usually try and be as accommodating and workable with any RP concept as I can be, after all, that flexibility and suspension of disbelief is what allows the immersion of RP to work and in-game narrative and growth to take place. You have to be able to work within another person's framework to some degree in order for meaningful interaction to take place, which means making concessions and compromises that are within a tolerable range. ...That being said, I guess there are two things I would say I'm not huge about: Non-CoH lore/canon-abiding RP character concept inserts; By this I mean, their character came from another game's universe/rules/canon and rather than tweak or re-write their character to work within City of Heroes, they mostly brought them in exactly as they were. Then we have a situation where they are expecting you to respect their RP concept but acknowledging it means supplanting the very foundations an in-universe written character is built-on. This game conceptually is amazing for how wide the breadth of possibilities are and how you can really make basically anything work with a little elbow grease. But like, damn... if my accepting your RP concept means my own CoH-written character is basically wholly invalidated, then I dunno man... there's really not much I can do to work with you there. There's a middle-ground that has to be met for RP to flourish, and there are some people who don't make any concessions. Go to horny jail <bonk>; I'm not denouncing relationships and romance in RP, there's a lot you can do there, and it's a natural thing in the progression for certain characters and their growth. But like, there are definitely the cases where somebody is just looking for gratification and it's something that takes me out of the moment real quick. We're fighting for our lives against a horde of enemy soldiers, why are you getting frisky with your partner? This giant monster is destroying the area, I'm trying to confront it and deal with a large threat, please don't make weird passes at my character right now. Like in a bar setting having drinks? R&R? Sure, whatever; But like dang yo, context-sensitivity is pretty crucial in RP and some people are majorly lacking. Fortunately, I run into this one less often, but when it happens, eek.