GM_GooglyMoogly

Let's circle back to this after the movie comes out . . . hopefully with less animosity and bickering .

Just kidding! Don't vamp out . . . again . . .

Let's keep the discussion on CoH and not real world politics, please.

Yes, because your friend on Closed Beta may have given you a hint.

Posts revealing what is being tested on Closed Beta (Experimental) and links to those patch notes are not permitted. Please don't do that.

As stated by Captain Fabulous, complete with pretty pictures, generic flight and speed enhancements are permitted, but not any set enhancements. A long time ago, in a place far, far away, the original developers removed the ability to slot Set IOs in the Inherent Fitness Power. One reason was stated above: People were slotting one of the stealth procs and ended up not being able to complete escort missions. If you ever have a doubt about acceptable enhancement slotting in the future, you might check out https://cod.uberguy.net/. Here is the entry for Swift: https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=inherent.fitness.swift And you can compare that to Sprint here: https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=inherent.inherent.sprint In the top right of both boxes are the allowable enhancements. Round ones are generic and hexagonal ones are set IOs.

Crumpet sees you! Hide!

Both of these positions can be true simultaneously. A posted idea may get a comment that the poster takes offense to when no offense was intended. Sometimes, it seems to me, that the poster needs a thicker skin; sometimes I think the critic could have phrased it better; on occasion I find that both parties would benefit from seeing the issue from the other person's perspective. This glass is more than half full of what appears to be room temperature, flat, Coke. Is that a whirling dervish cat? How did spam get so many meanings anyway? This is my new, favorite explanation: "a colorful bit of Internet jargon meant to evoke the effect of dropping a can of Spam into a fan and filling the surrounding space with meat."

I wonder why? If you get too close, you might get burned. Just ask Icarus.

What are we taking about? -Recharge? Forum Etiquette? The first one seems to be covered. The second flows from the power of Bill and Ted:

No.

These are both pretty restrictive towards players and would require a lot of GM work. We don't want to shut people up, just keep them respectfully discussing the topic at hand.

Mentioning anything that may or may not be in closed beta is not allowed. Quoting a post that has been hidden will also get the responding post hidden.

Mentioning anything that may or may not be in closed beta is not allowed. Quoting a post that has been hidden will also get the responding post hidden.

You can, if you wish. But privately, please.

Also:

Can you point me to the thread where that happened? I can still see hidden posts, but not deleted ones.

I don't know what that one or the rest of the back half of emotes mean. In my head, I think of microphone as "mic drop!" Whether that's what's intended . . . *shrug*

I'm not talking about multiple people. I'm talking about individuals going on and on saying the same thing usually as they argue with others. That said, thumbs up & down are perfectly valid forms of feedback.

I forgot to comment on the Focused Feedback stuff. Those threads are not just a discussion among players but between players and the devs, specifically on new content. I moderate Focused Feedback threads a little differently. To me, it's not whether the feedback is positive or negative; both types are important and that's where we find bugs and other issues. "I love it!" is just as valid as "I hate it!" But I will move or remove arguments, bickering, insults, and even negative feedback if that feedback is "you did it entirely wrong, scrap that and follow my 12 point plan" much sooner than I would on a normal thread. Nobody likes to get criticized, let alone having work, which you sank hours of sweat into, criticized. But the devs really do want to have constructive criticism that will help make the content better. Calling them idiots, neckbeards, poopyheads or snollygosters is not constructive and just adds noise that makes it harder to find the constructive criticism. For them, the best feedback is a video or data showing that there's a problem or demonstrating why you hate it. But even constructive criticism has limits. Posting the same thing over and over is not helpful. It does not make your criticism more weighty. It's just adding noise that makes finding the other constructive criticism harder. PS - I'm not accusing Peregrine Falcon of doing any of that. I just quoted it to explain focused feedback thread moderation.

GooglyMoogly might be a snollygoster, but at least I ain't no lickspittle!