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Genuine circus music playing rn

Here's my general take, and this may be a bit off the beaten path: If the best source of reward merits comes from group content, that is because you are challenging yourself to play at another group's pace and keep up with them/collaborate on a greater effort. And doing things with other people is USUALLY going to be faster unless your team is just that incompetent. However, if you're playing solo, you have nobody to keep up with and therefore are playing at your own pace, meaning the rewards coming at a slower pace than team content shouldn't be that much of an issue, because you're purely playing on your own time and nobody else's. Truth be told, if Homecoming is to move forward and represent the expansion of the live game we held so dearly, it needs to start playing like a MMO - where the "endgame" is relevant for the best rewards and the solo alternatives are slower, but possible.

Might be a little off-color of me to point out the MMO thing, but I can understand solo should be equally prioritized. If you spam-run the Heather Townshend Dark Astoria arc through Ouroboros, you can get down to 8-10 mins per run solo with a decent build or even just low enough difficulty settings on a mediocre build. You're guaranteed emp merits, and you could run it for reward merits too I believe? If not, I'm pretty sure the new Incarnate arcs for Cimerora will reward such.

Agreed.

I think this change is needed. People should actually play endgame content to make endgame builds. What a concept!

My question is: Do people actually use Bloody Bay, Siren's Call, and Warburg for anything but for the temporary powers for PVE sake? I don't see why they shouldn't have more stake to them. I feel like there's an unspoken rule you'll be blacklisted from the community for currently treating those zones as PVP zones if you spot another player. I always get paranoid I'll be seen as a griefer if I fight someone in those zones, and I feel like at least hitting 50 means those people will have access to their incarnate powers, which means if someone REALLY isn't feeling a fight, they can pop barrier/melee and run if they're that scared for their survival. I see no reason why these zones shouldn't be brought up to Recluse's Victory and be seen as actual PVP zones.

I pick up girls at the bar by telling them about my reputation on a 20 year old videogame's forums.

City of Heroes was not a very popular game in relative terms when it shut down. It's unarguable to say it was loved, inovative, and had the best community and all that. But going off numbers, it got more than left in the dust compared to the big dogs at the time. Statistically, City of Heroes having as many successors as it did was already impressive and showed how dedicated a small community could be. However, also statistically, the chances of any of these successors being at all close to reality and if they were reality, on any sort of presentable and professional level were and now are very low. There won't be a direct successor to City of Heroes in the forseeable future. Most upstart MMOs prefer to stick to grounded fantasy, and bringing the creative freedom of City Of Heroes to a modern day game is a lot to ask even of a professional studio. Not only do I think a modern day City of Heroes will never happen, I don't know if it really needs to happen, because it'd have a lot of catching up to do with City of Heroes. Obviously any superhero game that comes out isn't going to have half the content a nearly twenty year old game has. It would be nice, though, even if it's a far fetched dream. tl;dr I don't think a successor was ever going to happen.

I don't know if you need a GM to tell you harassment and abuse is bad.

Funny Matt Miller did that when he said he hated redside. (Unless I misread him in the AMA)

Interesting idea! As I poke my head back into this game once more, I wouldn't mind being able to broadcast myself and what my priorities/preferences are.

City of Heroes was honestly a lucky shot from Cryptic. I hear Star Trek Online is good but Star Trek's never been my thing. Champions did a lot right but even more wrong, and Neverwinter Online was a major disappointment for how hyped up it was.

GM Flint I'm so sorry your debut post is on the nipples thread.

I mean this is why I don't ERP anymore anyway. But this is a far more complex problem bordering on some 1984 levels of monitoring what everyone in the game is doing that I doubt the manpower exists in the volunteer team to do so. Personally, I don't think you should ERP strangers because you never know what the other side will be. If I were into roleplaying on MMOs back when I was 17 you bet I would have lied to get some electronic action. But on another note, I don't get why this game attracts so many people with sexual intent anyway. I just wanna play superhero and supervillain and watch Superboy fight Dr. Dinosaur, who's whole motive is to turn everyone into dinosaurs for some reason. Wouldn't it have been weird for Starfire to show her breasts in the children's show Teen Titans?

To further my point, as a girl, maybe I don't want to feel even more objectified in a videogame than I already am. And if you're against male nipples being shown, the last person I can think of to advocate for the censoring of man's chests was Chris Chan. Should see what they're up to lately.

As a girl, I am completely sexist against women. This makes sense. Anyway, if we're going down this rabbit hole where I have to spell things out, I'd like to say there's a difference between a woman pulling a breast out in public to feed her kid and a woman throwing her top off at a wet T-shirt contest. While I'm of the opinion nudity should not be as taboo as it is, I'm also of the opinion there comes a certain 'intent' with portraying nudity. There is tasteful nudity meant to be appreciated. There's a lot of it at art school where you paint a nude model in a room. However there's also art of big bouncy anime girl chests that are purely meant to arouse. There's the beautiful art piece 'Venus Rising from the Sea' portraying a topless woman with her breasts, and then there's Powergirl with her chest pressing against the pages. One is art and the purity of the human body, while the other is soft erotica. Going to the ERP strawman argument, ERP is typically in a private area or in a private chat channel where it's not thrown into our faces. If ERP is in public in any form, it is against the code of conduct. Just as exposed genitalia would be.

You're being unnecessarily aggro over a disagreement. I'm saying bare nipples should not be in a T game, nor do I find it natural to awoogah at nipples on a pair of breasts made up of maybe four polygons haha. I already find it a little excessive this game has to add defined buttcracks to girl tights options. Also @ The ERP thing: Calling that a strawman argument is like calling the assassination of JFK a headache. I don't understand what is drawing you to the correlation that not wanting nudity in a T-rated game is in any way shape or form bordering on pedophilia. I am fully against underage ERP.

Please tell me why you want to see the bare chest of women in a videogame straight out of 2004 in a neatly worded essay.

I'm of the opinion this is a great idea on paper but in execution I think it will make an easy game easier, or actually somehow more monotonous. With how animation lock works, I imagine having an auto attack going off between queueing attacks would just mean it'd make it harder to maneuver.

Expect a post from @Davy soon with a new bounty!

Yeah I remember you! Hope you're doing good.

Ever since the Scarlet stuff in GW2, it's lost me forever. That was terrible. That said, the actual gameplay and everything is spectacular and one of the best I've played in a MMO. So if you're able to just ignore the bad writing, you'd have a blast. It was bad. Humans roleplaying wanna-be Game of Thrones and nobility jerk sessions, Charr whining about furry racism, or Sylvari doing...Lewd things. All the time.

I actually found kinetic melee is best on stalkers, in personal experience. Power siphon is a cool concept but lackluster in execution. I feel like I'm whiffing enemies with a pool noodle on anything but a stalker. In regards to the patch, been waiting for a "toggle off" power for a long time. Thanks HC team.