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That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification. 👍

Yes, but they have completely different costumes/visual representations and different names and backgrounds. The only thing really similar here, is (obviously) the powersets, but the power imitations alone are not going to trigger a copywrite battle, elsewise CoH is already on a sinking ship. 🤷‍♂️

Here's my rule of thumb: Don't be obvious. If you have to jump through a several mental hoops to make the connection to a trademarked character, you're probably okay. If you can glance at the character and instantly think, "Oh, yeah, that's obviously a copy of so-and-so character," then there's a strong chance the Devs are going to delete the offending character. It is, of course, subjective. The Devs ultimately make that call, and their opinion on the matter may be different than yours (or others). Regardless, it's their domain and they are within their rights to make that judgement call, before it could potentially become a legal issue (and a pain in the rear for them and everyone else that enjoys playing here).

Little secret on those fire farms: Most of them, if you figure out where the glowie is, you click on the glowie and it deactivates the timer, so you can then finish the mission at your leisure. So on your first run, just stealth + Fly/hover (if possible) around until you find the glowie and note where it is on the mini-map. Then you can run straight to it and click the thing and finish the farm at your leisure. Also, as a general rule, there's no particular penalty for not finishing the mission. You can just restart and go again, once it boots you back to the AE room. Oh, and one final tip: Ask for a hitter or two to help you out when you run those. Often someone will volunteer to give you an assist. This makes it go much faster.

It's not common these days (as far as I can tell, anyway) but I know there ARE players that enjoy this style. I've seen posts to that end, on these very forums and in the discord. You may have to network a bit to find these groups (I do believe there is an actual group formed around this sort of play, I can't remember what it's called though- or which shard it is on). But, yes, such players do exist. That's the main thing I want to express to you. Also, starting a topic like this is a great way to find them (though you might get more traction posting something similar on Discord, the internet being what it is these days), so good job! 👍

No, but it's a cool idea! As long as you can get the buy-in from your player group, I say go for it. I'd love to play in a campaign like that. I ran various one-shot games of MSH rpg back in the late 80's and a DC Heroes campaign in the 90's. They were very popular and my group had a blast with them both. While this was long before CoH existed, of course, I see no reason why it wouldn't make a great setting for TTRPG play.

What we mean by this is that if you want to learn all the fiddly bits about character building (different enhancements and incarnate powers, how to make and slot them, how they interact with one another, which powers do what and so on) can all be quite complicated and confusing and it often requires a great deal of trial-and-error to figure it out. But yes, if you don't want to worry about any of that stuff (stuff which is where, for many of us, a great deal of the fun comes in when customizing, tweaking, and experimenting with different character builds), you can just slot your character with whatever drops during play and just go about your business at +0/1 and, once you have a decent amount of practice under your belt, this game is going to be pretty damn easy. So yes, when put into context, both things can be (and, IMO, are) true.

While I am not really interested in implementing most of the OP's suggestions, I must admit that this has always irritated me to no end: Yeah, I agree, actually. It's quite irritating that my objective is to retrieve the Liquid Computer (or whatever), but when I sneak past the guards, find the McGuffin, and grab said McGuffin without attracting any attention, I still have to go ambush and kill guards, instead of just being able to sneak out. If you want to force me to fight, at least put guards with high perception right next to the McGuffin, so that engaging them makes sense. Or... yeah, change the mission objective description to: Steal the McGuffin and kill "X" number of guards. Still doesn't make any sense, but at least you're being clear and consistent.

I would be a natural SJ/WP scrapper. Except... I suck. So actually, after attempting to be a SJ/WP scrapper, I would wind up being one of those cowering civilians getting terrorized by thugs. 😝🤷‍♂️

While I'm not against it personally (even though I am too poor to donate, myself), I worry about the optics of it. This as a not-for-profit hobby project and it works very well that way. I would be concerned with how it might be viewed if a rewards for donations model were to be adopted.

I figured it was something like that. Understandable, but sad, as I love the idea.

Color me fascinated and intrigued. 😎 *joins* EDIT: Or not. Apparently the link has expired. 😝 EDIT THE SECOND: Aaaaand... now it's working. Nevermind. 🤷‍♂️

Yeah, I don't think a Sentinel is going to get you there, for the type of sniping we're talking about. Not that I don't like Sentinels: I love them, actually. Play them more than maybe any other AT. They just don't make good long-range snipers, is all.

I mean, honestly, all joking aside, I would be satisfied with this. There are things I would "like" to see in the game, certain changes implemented that I think would make for a more enjoyable play experience. But I can and will continue to enjoy the game in its present from for years (or however long it continues to exist) to come.

It's really fun to make these kinds of characters but this specific gimmick is more a hindrance than a help on lots of indoor maps (caves, apartments, etc.), because tight rooms, corners, and narrow confines only allow you to put some much distance between yourself and the target. I find too frustrating for standard play but, on the right maps, it's a hoot!

Well, I don't ordinarily agree with griping about player performance on PUGs but, in this case, it was a Master of run and the guy leading wasn't up to the task. I totally get why you would find it frustrating.

In real life, I've lived in both the East Kansas City Metro and North Minneapolis. Talos is clean, friendo. Trust me. 😄

I'm far from an expert because I don't play a lot of dominators and I have only rarely tried assault rifle primary and ninja secondary. Generally speaking though, Dominators will have a lot more toys to play with, while being somewhat more brittle. The Sentinel will be less versatile and more pure damage focused, with a bit more ability to survive. I have a lot more experience playing Sentinels and I'm just better at running that AT, so that would be my choice. Skilled Dominator players could give you many reasons (very good reasons, I'm sure) for picking the other option. My suspicion is that Dominators are the better class (at the very least, the more versatile class), I just tend to personally favor Sentinels because I lack the player skill to effectively leverage the Dominator's many abilities to best effect.

I use a savage/sr brute for s/l farming. Not optimal, of course. But he does well enough for my purposes (typically rake in 8 to 12 million inf per run of Boom Box Tunnel Farm, which I consider to be adequate for my needs).

This movie is gonna be so epic. I can't wait! 😁

Maybe you read the post, but it absolutely was not until after you appended the laughing emoji to the post. And yeah, it was literally about 3 seconds (maybe less) as I saw it pop up not seconds after I hit reply on my own post. That's simple fact. I know, because I observed it in real time. I was trying to have a nuanced conversation about a complex, emotionally-charged topic. Doing that requires more than a soundbite, and I'm sorry that you couldn't be bothered to take the time to consider a different point of view before you reacted to the post with contempt. But look, I've said what I had to say on the subject, so I'll show myself out the conversation now.

Sharknado Man/Woman could be a hoot to play. 🦈 😁👍

@PeregineFalcon I see that responded with a laughing emote approximately 3 seconds after I posted my reply, which means you didn't actually bother to read it. This is disappointing, but not unexpected. So it goes.

I”ll try to lend a little clarity here. This is what I think is happening and where the disconnect is: Star Wars, in its original form (I’m talking about the original trilogy from the 70’s and 80’s here; the one that many of us, including myself, cut our teeth on when we were kids) is a product of its time. It’s a traditional, Campbellian hero's journey, about a young man discovering that he’s the heir to a great heroic legacy, then going off to perform said heroic deeds. In this story, we have 1 female protagonist (Leia), 1 black protagonist (Lando- at least for the last two movies) and everyone else is a straight, white guy. This is not uncommon for entertainment media of that era (and still not terribly uncommon now though, of course, that is rapidly changing- as indeed it should, IMO). Most of the Star Wars fans who were cultivated during this era were (like myself) boys and young men. The original Star Wars trilogy really was an adventure story written mostly for boys and men that was mostly about the adventures of boys and men (this is not a criticism; I love the original Star Wars Trilogy and will always love it. When I tell people it’s white male-oriented entertainment, that’s just a fact. Again, this is typical of entertainment media of the time we grew up in.) So, a very large portion of the Star Wars fan base is composed of these straight, young, white men and boys that grew up watching the stuff. No great surprise here, I think. That is as it may be. But here’s the thing: Some of the fan base (a much smaller subset, I think) are women, queer people, and people of color that also love the franchise, for all of the same reasons that us straight white guys love it (high adventure, quippy dialogue, booming orchestral tracks, and dazzling special effects). But, just like we straight white guys (again, understand- I am one of the straight white guys), women, queer people, and people of color would like to see other human beings like themselves represented in the fictional universe that they love. So, what Leslye Headland and others mean when they say that “It’s not for you”, is that the show is not really written specifically to appeal to the (admittedly huge) part of the fan base that is composed of straight, white men. This is a story set in the Star Wars universe that is meant to provide a space where fans who are women, queer, and people of color can enjoy a show about protagonists that represent people just like them. And that’s okay. There should be a space for stories set in the franchise that are not mainly about straight white guys. We (meaning myself and other straight white guys) did not think there was anything wrong with having just one female protagonist, one black protagonist, and no queer protagonists in the OT. It was pretty much just about the white guys, and that was fine by us. But the problem is, now that we have a show that inverts that dynamic, all of us straight white guys are *blanking* our pants over it. Now, I don’t think this is conscious. What I mean by that, is I don’t think most straight, white men who are fans of the franchise are actively trying to be sexist/racist. But subconsciously, I think they’re having a sexist/racist knee-jerk reaction to the inversion of the straight/white coded entertainment that is familiar and comfortable to them. It actually reminds me of an anecdote from the late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. She related a story about how she confided to some person that was interviewing her that, one day, she would like to see a Supreme Court comprised of all-women judges. The person interviewing her was shocked and scandalized by this. Isn’t that a sexist position, Judge Ginsberg? To which she replied (quite fairly, I think), that up until very recently in history, the Supreme Court had always been composed entirely of men, and the men seemed to be perfectly okay with that. Why shouldn’t women get the same treatment? Of course, she was really just trying to make a point here: And that is that the unconscious (or overt- but many times I think it’s unconscious, because we men take our male-dominated world for granted and don’t often pause to think about it- or what it would feel like to live in a world as something other than the straight, white men that we are) hypocrisy of male thinking. The reason Headland and others are upset is not because the fans are angry about this (they expected some of that, of course. This fan base is made up largely of straight, white guys, after all), but that they are being verbally savaged like dogs (one video by a guy I saw literally compared Headland, physically, to a Pug dog. Why is this sort of petty, mean, and demeaning personal attack relevant to any criticism of the media itself, as a story or art form?) The answer is, it’s not. It’s a cruel, sexist attack on a female showrunner, by an outraged white guy that feels like his personal space is threatened. That kind of thing is NOT okay and yes, of course Headland and other women (and queer, and brown) people pouring their creative hearts out into the show are angered by it (as, IMO, they should be).

Hm... sounds like you're maybe looking for something like Medusa of the Inhumans (or, possibly just Crystal Gayle, if we're going for a real-world analog). Unfortunately, I don't think you're going to find anything that will work for hair like that. Would be cool, though. 👍