AerialAssault

Another "game too easy" thread? Yep, it's Monday.

1. Hell yes. I'd be 100% down for a Mission Transporter power as the final Teleport power. 2. With the free power slot you could get creative. My suggestion would be Jaunt, a short range, quick animating teleport that gives a small Defence buff for 5-6 seconds. 3. Personally I would combine Teleport Ally & Teleport Foe into one power, as we know that powers exist which have different effects depending on whether the target is friend or foe, freeing up another power slot for a Teleport Attack power. 4. Agreed. You could even throw in a ToHit Debuff as well if you were feeling adventurous.

Allow Bios to be edited like text in AE arcs can i.e. HTML text editing for colour, bold, italic and font size. This would naturally facilitate a character increase. Gold Title Requests. Yes, this was something that existed on the Secret Server pre-Homecoming. And yes, I'm aware that there would be a massive demand for them here, which is why I would suggest this: At the start of the month, requests are opened for no more than 3 characters per account for a week (that is, you can only nominate three of your characters to have one added.) Since they can only be granted by GM's, it means they will be fully vetted and always subject to approval. From what I understand, the character limit is virtually unlimited for gold titles, so I'd recommend a soft cap of 38 characters. Adding more Temporary Powers to the P2W vendor, i.e. the weapons you get from Safeguard/Mayhem side-missions. Man wants his shotguns.

Me, getting the absolute shit kicked out of me by Nemesis: "please dark servant, help me" Dark Servant, stood next to me: "not my problem bro" the pet ai really stretches the definition of the word "intelligence" sometimes, it would be nice if they attacked the first enemy that harmed you, and then go about their merry little way once they're within range.

Sick it is.

Yes.

Alternate animation for Poison's Neurotoxic Breath & Envenom where you spray it from your hands and not your face. That's it. That's the suggestion.

Then just turn them back on dude is it really that hard? Do you have to fill in a form to turn each toggle on and off?

This is the least fun suggestion I have ever witnessed

There needs to be an upper limit for technical reasons otherwise some unfortunate soul with Super Speed on who get's Speed Boosted by me, who six-slots Speed Boost for speed increase, will move so fast they shift dimensions and end up outside the map, falling into the swirling and infinite abyss.

Does anyone else think it's funny that it's always Brute mains complaining that the game is too easy and not, for example, Force Field/Psionic Blast Defenders?

The Vengeance stacking is the Nemesis groups "thing", that is, their ability which makes them a challenge to fight. Without it, Nemesis would be a very mediocre group to fight, only notable for their phasing bosses and poison gas stacks, which would make them almost as easy as Council to fight. Imagine Malta without Sappers, or Carnival of Shadows without Illusionists. They would be sub-standard groups at best. In a meta sense, it inverts the players expectations. Here is an enemy you do NOT want to defeat first, however in groups of up to 8, all eager to unload their AoEs, good luck co-ordinating that. One thing that should be changed is non-Nemesis enemies benefiting from Vengeance.

It wouldn't achieve anything. Like everything else in this game, people will find a way to overcome it. That's why iTrials have built in failure states or scripted One-Hit Kills, because otherwise someone, somewhere would be able to defeat it. If anything, all it would do is trivialise content further, because you're forgetting that back in the days of unlocked aggro cap, there was no Incarnate system. Now there is, those tanks won't even need any support because Barrier resists almost as much as it defends, and at T4 it has virtually no downtime. No 'yes' or 'no' from me, just an 'eh'.

Man I sure loved the days when I had to go out and beat the everloving bajeezus out of some Council to be able to buy a new fridge for my super base.

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I'll confess to not reading the thread fully so apologies if this has already been suggested: How about expanding the Ouroboros challenge options to regular play? Perhaps an NPC of some description can offer the same options, which will apply to any and every mission. Oh, and add a little warning before joining a team with these options enabled. As an incentive, upping the difficulty would give better rewards in the form of XP/Inf per challenge added, and more generous reward rolls for end-of-arc completion? And of course, badges.

The game, at it's highest tier of play, is too easy. There's no real denying that. That doesn't mean the game's underbelly needs ripping out. Clearly, a lot of people want alternative challenge options. I'm down for more options, so much as they remain options. But please consider, you may feel that the game is better off without IO's/Incarnates (I'd call you a glutton for punishment for it), you have the option to not slot IO's or Incarnates, and not participate in those things. By removing IO's/Incarnates, you're taking away options that people like me enjoy. In essence, dictating to me how I will play the game. I can't ever condone such a suggestion.

I'd rather not tank my internet for having the gall to open someone's bio. Increase the character limit to 1,500 - 2,000 but any more than that should be on VirtueVerse. In a similar vein, how about having the AE text editor options for bios? (That is, different coloured text, bold, italics etc.)

I've never used loot drops as a way to slot a character, ever. If I get something I need for a build, cool, otherwise I'll use reward merits. I think the balance we have now is just right. Let's not open ourselves to the Purple Rain, or make the game even more of a ball ache to play by adding more grind in.

An easy telling point between some asshole who wants to spout this or that and an actual character who embraces those ideas is that the latter has depth and intrigue involved in their characterisation, the former exists ONLY to be an asshole, where their every moment is spent being a complete insufferable menace on the community and doing their best to aggravate every player in sight. I think we're adult enough here to be able to police between the two. Ultimately though, I think that playing such a villain requires understanding and respecting your audience. If you don't understand or respect them, then they're not required to do the same to you.

I wouldn't worry too much about people taking that character too seriously..

Just as soon as we get the SICK skateboard trick emote

I will only support this if we summon an Icon Employee so we can have this exchange: "Hey I got your message, Icon's got youWOAH! Where the heck are we?!" "Shadow Shard. The Storm Palace to be precise, probably the most dangerous place in existence." "Why would you bring me HERE?!" "I'm not digging the colour of my bandana. Got one in swanky purple?" "Y-yeah sure here you go." "Sick dude. Right see you around." "Wait! You're not gunna leave me here right??" "Sorry, can't hear you, people to save yada yada."

So, rather than post what I was going to post (which wasn't going to be very constructive), let me ask this to the OP instead: How would you change the Battle Maiden encounter? It's all fine and well making a suggestion of "completely change X because I don't like it", but it would stand to reason that an alternative has to be suggested. Obviously, anyone else can bring up a suggestion if they feel like it but most of them so far are "it's fine don't change it", which I personally agree with.