TheMoneyMaker

Reference the vomit guy. "Hey, did you hear that the vomit guy was in the hospital for weeks after they dragged him out of here? Did he drink too much or did someone poison him?"

I'd love to hear them cutting loose and venting about their daily lives. Civilian dancer: "I so needed this after the day I had. The bank I work at got robbed, AND they blew up my car. That's what I get for parking on the street." Council raver: "They had me sweep the whole base. It's in a cave! There's literally dirt falling from the walls and ceiling!" Longbow: "You see that earlier? I think War Witch was checking me out." Bartender: "Say, aren't you (character name)? I heard about you on the news earlier... [reference recent completed mission]."

Rip Homage sounds like a good character name.

People "toss" stuff on the auction house because they want money. Most stuff can be just sold at stores for a fair, possibly better price than they'd get at the auction house. Only things I bother to auction off are the things that can't be sold at stores. But maybe I'll just keep all that from now on to justify your silly concerns about hoarding.

Can we get the NPCs in Pocket D to be a little more than set dressing? Like maybe add some dialogue when you click on them like random people in the streets of the city? Doesn't have to be meaningful or anything, even just "Don't bother me" or "Do I look like I care?" rather than just standing there looking like they are talking to someone else but never having anything to say unless it's the Desperate Guy and Turndown Girl.

Unless you can share resources with people outside of the supergroup, then being a member of the supergroup becomes necessary for utilizing the storage items of the SG base. It's easy enough for everyone who wants to link their characters with a personal base to a supergroup with coalitions. The inconvenience comes from not being part of the supergroup.....can't access the SG base's storage, don't get the SGMotD, etc. It's like none of the benefits of SG membership but at least you can enter the base at will.

If you're going to present it as an excuse for your disagreement, it was your concern to start with. If you want to present your opinions and walk away with whatever "evidence" you choose, then you certainly can. But as you can put those opinions out there, so too am I free to refute them. No one is forcing you to argue the point, but no one forced you to comment to start with either. Everything is on you the moment you choose to involve yourself in the discussion.

Maybe what they need are some additional options, built using existing powers but following the format of the standard kheldian sets. For example, what about a flaming kheldian? How about a kheldian with pets instead of shapeshifting? Why not try a creating a themed set and calling it a mutation of the species or perhaps you've got a mystic origin kheldian that's learned how to transmute its innate powers into something new? If it works out, maybe look at further expansions depending on how difficult it is to add new sets to the HEATs.

It's also where they wash their time dishes after eating time dinner.

Intentionally "bad" can find a place in games. I think the most noteworthy example that comes to mind for me is Dan from the Street Fighter series with his much more limited attacks compared to main characters like Ken and Ryu. He is often considered the joke character, and yet some people learned to use him despite the shortcomings in his attacks. Of course, Dan wasn't useless, he just had limits compared to similar characters, notably the shorter distance on his ranged attack. I think the trick would be to find a counterbalance to the limitation. As an example, consider if you added a melee attack set for corruptors & defenders. The need for melee proximity would hurt such a character that's typically better off as a ranged attacker, so perhaps add a little more damage to compensate. Of course, that's just an example, not really a petition for melee defenders, which seems like something that should be done as a separate AT rather than trying to squeeze a melee peg into a ranged hole.

Arsenal Assault lets you use the butt of the assault rifle as a melee weapon. Technically that counts. But yeah, no dedicated melee weapon assault sets.

START Vendors offer 5 free enhancements at the start, bonus attack powers, skipping the need for earned levels to have some additional firepower at level 1. And for some influence you can get both an individual and team mission teleporter that skips you right to the door of an instanced mission, buffs to your attack, defense, and survivability, and even more attack and travel powers. Some people choose not to use any of the START vendor optional stuff, or maybe just a little bit. It doesn't hurt the game for anyone else how they choose to use or not use the options. Null the Gull lets you skip past the need to run alignment missions to switch alignments, and doing so immediately gives you access to the alignment power of the alignment you choose rather than having to wait 7 days. But people still run alignment missions despite the shortcut being there. There already exists ways to skip through aspects of the game, ignoring what used to be considered necessary time sinks. And since we're talking about base storage and changes to the game, let's talk about prestige being turned off so that anyone can create a supergroup and build a base for each character they create, as big as they want with every amenity available at zero cost... at level 1. Again, people can create as much storage space as they want and it hasn't stopped the game economy from working. You are perfectly entitled to not want to see options added, but don't make up reasons for not wanting it that are obviously false. I mean, if you want to, I guess go ahead, but I'll happily point out the fallacy rather than just "agree to disagree." I mean, since when are you Mr. Agree to Disagree anyhow? I've seen you like a dog with a bone vehemently naysaying some people's ideas because you don't like the idea of it, and you refuse to just let those arguments sit with a simple agree to disagree. So come on, give me better arguments than the game economy will suffer or just admit you're making up excuses because you don't want the change.

START Vendors and Null the Gull are all about bypassing and ignoring parts of the game that people don't like. So is AE. So are a lot of things. I fail to see why storage is the line that can't be crossed, especially when your reasoning for it is categorically false.

Well, I disagree with your premise of hoarding vs reusing things, and I think the existence of all this potential storage proves that your concerns are unfounded. It comes off as more doom and gloom "people won't sell the stuff I want and I disagree with that" than anything else.

It's not about need, it's about making that storage easier. Why should we have to make alts just to mule around more stuff? It's obvious that more isn't hurting the economy as you say, so not wanting it for false reasons seems kind of petty.

It all feels so empty. I wish enemies could spawn out there, like shadow shard natives or maybe rikti come out of those motherships if you get too close.

Everyone has a great deal of storage space with having personal bases already, additional storage by just dropping stuff in the auction house without posting it, 1000 character slots per server to mule stuff around, and a fairly decent on character storage capacity. Despite all that, the market does fine.

There are better ideas floating around for new MM primaries, but that's the one primary they haven't added anything to. How about a Pie in the Face blaster primary?

I'd be okay with kill all missions if there were fewer of them.

I also learned that if I fly too far off the map to see what's in the great beyond, it will just deposit me on the slopes of the ski lodge part of the map.

The hole in Pocket D. I'm guessing this existed on Live, so for the entire time that I've played both on Live and HC, only just learned about it.

I just found this today. How did I never know about this in all the years the game has existed?

If you end up in court for that, chances are you're also facing the robbery charges for the casino heist... so make a deal with the DA to testify against your teammates for reduced charges, and do it quick before your team tries to do the same to you.