Jiro Ito

The game started with the conclusion of the first Rikti war and Omega Team's sacrifice, then a few years later we have another Rikti invasion. Depending on where your character is in the story, you are a part of defending the invasion, completing Lady Grey's TF to stop it, and finding the trigger for it in Nemesis. It makes sense that there would be such a large anti-alien contingent. We've also got Kheldians and Praetorians, neither of which are Earthlings. I'm surprised there isn't a larger "Earth is for Earthlings" movement going around.

I was chased out of Star Wars Galaxies by the NGE update (new game enhancements) at the end of 2005, tried WoW for a bit but couldn't stomach the grind and found a new home here. It was after Issue 6 so I never knew the game pre-ED, and I think sometime before Issue 7 dropped in June 2006. I started with only CoH, but once I saw myself sticking with it for awhile, I bought the Villains expansion. I even still have the box and all the stuff that game in it like the PVP comic, poster, TCG, manuals, discs. Sadly, the Issue 13 changes to PVP drove off most of my SG and other friends and I left sometime between issues 14 and 15. The character creation and ability to modify your builds and slotting to make your characters personal to you are top notch and continue to be a huge draw, but for me there's no question it's the friends I've made here that keep me coming back, year after year.

This is so fun to read, I love this so much. Thank you 🙂

The original intent was Twilight Son sold out the rest of the Kheldians to be fuel for the Battalion fleet. I feel like Homecoming is changing the narrative to be something more like the Nictus are the Coming Storm, as the scope of what's required for Battalion, additional incarnate powers, Dream Doctor using the Dagger of Jocus to open a doorway to the Shadow Shard and fuse with Rularuu to eat the Battalion might be a little outside Homecoming's capacity. Something with the Nictus actually being the Storm seems more doable.

I could get behind a power that builds a cottage though. The old SWG rangers had a campsite kit they could unpack, and everyone sitting in the campsite got boosts to buffs, healing, etc while onsite.

that was just a direct quote from the AMA, not a personal opinion. i'd kinda prefer incarnate powers be disabled for all but hardmode or incarnate stuff, and really only want to see more incarnate powers if we get more incarnate content in which to use them.

File a petition and a GM will do it for you. I've had mine changed.

would be great to pair this with what zammy davis jr has been working on

Genesis was coming next, and the basic concept for the slot was creating “patches” or fields that buffed allies and debuffed foes. The Core branches of Genesis powers would get larger areas of effect, while the Radius branches would let you make up to 4 small patches at once at the very rare level. Imagine Sleet or Tar Patch + Accelerate Metabolism or Regeneration Aura + Incarnate-worthy, and you’re on the right track. https://archive.paragonwiki.com/wiki/Lore_AMA/Sorted#4 In the 2013 Ask Me Anything ("Loregasm"), further powers were discussed. Q: Do you have any insight as to what the Omega Incarnate slot might be? The others seemed badass enough already. PBAOE kill everything? A: Jeff Hamilton would know. I don't remember if this was Omega or not, but I know one of the latter tiers did allow you to nuke minions through your magnificence. There were also abilities that let you trade off one stat for another. (HOSUN) A: I've said this in a couple places but the primary trees which had been sketched out on paper were Arete (instant recharge on all powers for a period), Majesty (cause foes to instantly fight for you and then self-destruct), Infinity (summon dopplegangers of yourself), Transcendence (immune to everything and can attack into Phase), and Fulfilment (major PBAOE +Level Shifts).

I wish we had metallic colors 😕

There are a couple of shortcuts you can take, as opposed to starting over each time. One is to save your "thug" outfit template, then you can load the outfit for each new character. Another trick I find helpful when creating similar minions is to create one NPC and save them, save your group, then reopen the saved minion and go to the last page where you enter their name, group affiliation and description. Go down to the Save Path, and let's say your save path says "Thug", add a "1" after that so it says "Thug1" and this functions as a Save As feature. When you go back to the enemy group page, you'll know have two characters there, both named Thug with the same powersets and appearance. You can then make small alterations like changing a shirt color or whatever, without having to recreate each NPC from scratch. Any randomizer would randomize the full spectrum of available options, so not sure you want your thugs with fish faces and bird wings and robot legs, but, maybe you do! It's not an option at this time unfortunately.

Unless you had an enhancement for each type of travel? 1 Jump only, 1 Run only, 1 Fly only, 1 Teleport only... I'm not sure what kind of mileage you'd get out of 6 options for travel. Now, a Trick or Treat taunt set, finally one with end reduction in it? Gimme! taunt/rech taunt/end taunt/acc taunt/range/acc/rech rech/end/acc/range Chance for Fear

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It would be nice to be able to add a friend to a TF midway through if they happen to log in later than we started, and if we have an open spot. That said, it wouldn't be fair to award TF badges, merits, TF-specific rewards (Dsyncs, Market Crash purple recipes, etc) to people who don't participate the whole way through. They would be limited to xp and drops from enemies defeated. Feasible according to existing code? I dunno!

I usually run the Enemies Buffed setting on TFs at level 50 to counteract incarnate abilities. The extra difficulty makes it fun. When I did all the flashback badges on my badger, the No Enhancements was by far the most difficult. I for sure recommend doing that separate from No Inspirations, so you can rely on one or the other. A character who can manage their endurance through their AT will have the easiest time. The other settings are just kind of inconvenient, more than anything else.