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    Design an enemy group (Speculation/ Wish fulfillment)

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    The Puppet Masters: A group of corporate elite backing various Masterminds and Control types, using them to plunder those treasures desired and obtainable only by less than legal means plus blackmailing others in beneficial positions of power to serve their whims as puppets.  Would be across all levels - Thugs at lowest (1-10), beasts (11-18), ninjas (19-25), undead (26-36), demons (37-48), mecha (49+) for example.  Of course, the mastermind minions could also be experimental types or outliers from the norm as well due to participation of Praetorian survivors with their advance tech and psychic minions.

    They want wealth beyond measure & control of others; to be the actual power behind the thrones in the shadows...of everything. Of course they'd be seeking to bring down other villain groups as threats as well as all the capes.  They are few...but they have expendable armies at their disposal.

    They're making movies...

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    That's actually rather difficult to answer; most of the actors I would use are retired or dead from old age and the current crop have done little to impress. So less so that I stopped even watching movies a decade ago.   

     

    If breathing isn't an issue - I'd likely go with Robin Williams if his schedule was free; mocking bad guys while dispensing a beat down is an art form in itself after all. lol

     

     

     

    In-game places that you wish would have names

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    There needs to be a few Gecko Insurance buildings around...and the only gas station I've seen is in the Lamba Sector of the Neutropolis slums...yet...cars are all over the place. (Probably why most are parked...outta gas or electrical charges. lol ) 

     

    A few museums would be cool; Atlas could have the history one over near the Hollows gate; Steel could have a Science & Tech place; and Brick could have one dedicated to Crime & Crime fighting. :) 

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    The World We Live In...

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    I've personally seen several UFO's, one at a distance of less than 100 yards along with my siblings directly above our truck as dad drove us home to the farm late one night back in '78-'79. We used to sit on the back deck of the farmhouse on clear days and watch the lights flying around the top of Mt Rainier, known for it's frequent UFO sightings thru the decades; some were likely planes but the ones that changed direction from horizontal to rapid vertical ascension?...probably not. 

    Also came face to face with a ghost when 4 and screamed my bloody head off so loudly my entire family came into the room and found a room in our house that didn't exist when I went to show my parents...but I'd disappeared for an entire day playing in it. So yeah, sounds freaky and crazy....but it's only human arrogance that denies such possibilities. We don't know everything; in fact as a whole humans know very very little of the universe.

     

    The secret societies and such...well, DUH! lol  😉   Also kids in Sultan, WA used to hang out watching a crazy old guy building an engine that ran on water in garage as we walked to and from school (he lived about six blocks or so and one street over from the campus). He bragged about applying for a patent and when the dozen or so of us went to hang out with him the next week as we walked home from school his house was empty with nobody next door remembering him even living there. (my life reads like a dark chapter of the Twilight Zone...even I realize that but doesn't make me living thru it all any less a fact.) I won't talk about the US and Russian ,Spoilsport, Systems that have been in place for at least the last 50-60 years either. 

     

    I have more of a disbelief and grumbles about the city zones development and streets in CoH than I do about the less fictional aspects of the mobs, etc. (chuckles) 

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    Disappointed the new Pyrotechnics set does not let us portray Jubilee from the x-men

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    Jubilee takes so much undeserved flak. Nice that someone recognizes she is actually an Omega level mutant...just untrained. One edition of the comics I remember reading waaaaaaay back when had one of her teammates capable of borrowing or copying powers and using them at max. capacity which he then promptly used to utterly decimate the edition baddy by subatomic detonation. Jubiliee's power at max capacity can obliterate planets! The pyrotechnics are simply small nuclear 'pops'...not actual fireworks or fire they get laughed off as. 

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    Nerfs - Stealth Changes - Bullshit

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    I don't know all the fun little tricks the numbers guys do. I'm just a casual player and an old fogey to boot that barely understands computers to begin with. (chuckles) So Last Chance...or all of that stuff is like speaking Greek to a Martian. 😉 All I know is that I've been whiffing with all my toons far more than what I had been doing (which had been less than 50% or so) which is more impression based than numbers based...but noticeable enough to be visible while playing. (shrug) 

     

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    Nerfs - Stealth Changes - Bullshit

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    I've noticed a distinct lack of being able to hit mobs; as in I'm whiffing a lot more than what I was last month across all 30 some toons. In some cases this is despite having ACC SO's slotted. Dunno if it's a result of a nerf or the mobs getting boosted, but it's certainly annoying. Nothing like going up against a white tag mob and then missing the next dozen strikes rather than two or three that was my old normal. lol 

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    Darren Wade... what would YOU do?

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    I've ran this several times with Brutes, Blasters, and Sents...and never had an issue or even a single face plant though I'm running on default difficulty rather than +1 or such.  If you have flight capability, use it...and then make best speed outta there popping green insps as needed. Is how I run with the blasters. Is how I remember things going...but I will admit it's been a few months since my last run thru. To me it's one of those missions that if you end up fighting, you've already lost. 

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    Cottage Rule

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    4 hours ago, Spaghetti Betty said:

    Does the cottage that new Build Up spawns have a decent mortgage rate? Housing is nuts!

     

    No...as a former Public Works Permit Reviewer/Construction Inspector...I can say with all truth that it IS, in fact, a Nemesis plot. (in a manner of speaking)  Nuts would mean there was no actual intention to create the problem and would be much more preferable. 😉 lol   

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    Issue 28 :(

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    On the plus side....first time in Mercy since 28 hit and the big smoldering pile of rubble in the square before the Widow's Tower area is now a shiny new R.I.P. Precinct Station that looks pretty impressive. Nice job Devs!  Maybe see some improvements in Boom next issue. A diner and worker dorms for the rehab area. lol  😉 

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    What would Paragon City look like 21 years later? (Speculation)

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    All the roads would be filled with potholes and cracking, gutters filled with weeds, and parks needing paid passes to be used by anyone due to funding issues, cost overruns, and poorly executed imaginary budgets made by people in charge that don't really get reality. lol  


    Boom might finally have all the buildings demolished with a bit more urban renewal completed around the gate and an ad hoc rail station in place.  Faultline would also have a lot of the at risk buildings demolished and more restoration work completed. The Hollows would also have finally been retaken and life slowly returning with the pit being filled in from all the demo work in other zones.  Kings Row would still be a mess and even more of a full on slum despite the PPD HQ being there (for whatever reason rather than actually close to City Hall in Atlas or in Brick to better support the Zig and its frequent breakouts). Skyway's core below the elevated roadways would be also more slum-like as crime rates skyrocket in the shadows below). Perez would be retaken and cleared out with civilian life returning and the forest getting some much needed maintenance, the open space recovered being useful for a staging area to retake and restore the ruins of Galaxy City.  Terra Volta access will be cleared of debris and security restored...and hostile forces purged from the reactor and surrounding industry finally with Vanguard or US military facilities in place to ensure that things stay that way...though dealing with all the resulting industrial espionage and clandestine off the books projects by scientists of questionable morals and/or sanity would likely need increased hero sweeps. 

    Homogenation - Should all powersets be the same numbers wise?

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    Hmmm...slippery slope there...kinda like the age old D&D alignment feud. 😉  

     

    I don't think all powers should have the same numbers...the whole point is to provide an impression of individual heroic/villainous persona to play for either glory or greed. 

    That said, I do think that each power set within like categories should be at least close to the same numbers or performance per se to maintain a sense of like potential and avoid those situations where power set A is far more optimized and effective than power set B...so power set B seldom appears in play. But like Snarky alluded to...the game, like life, is complex and nothing performs at some illusory level of fairness and balanced equality; more like a series of reactionary distortions based on causality and chaos theory.  So I trying to achieve homogenation would be akin to tilting at wind mills. Very large, very old, and very cranky wind mills. (chuckles)

    Should thugs stay thugs?

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    4 hours ago, bAss_ackwards said:

    Thugs should be reformed and reintegrated into society. 🦸‍♀️

     

    But...but...then they'd be...(shudder)...POLITICIANS!! we already got more than enough of those.  :P (ROFL)

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    I do not like Tunnel maps

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    14 minutes ago, JKCarrier said:

    Yeah, but if you're looking for glowies or hostages, it can take forever.

    Or trying to hunt down that last stupid mob hidden away in some hard to find corner...

     

    Not really worried about time since I solo...the cake room isn't that bad otherwise. Pool room...yeah. That one is annoying...and not really serving any discernible purpose. Fish farm? It sure isn't a water purification type set up...at least nothing I recognize from the water treatment plants I've worked on. 

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