ZacKing

No IO set bonuses is a flimsy attempt to give the illusion that this "saga mode" is somehow balanced. It isn't. Once again, its opening up access to powers at level ranges the content at those level ranges is not designed or balanced for. No set bonuses will serve no purpose other than to go back to "the old way" of using various pool powers and such to fill gaps as we all did prior to the invention system. It's nothing "new", just a rehashing of the old. This is a volunteer team doing this in their spare time who graciously allow us all to log in. They are under no obligation to allow any of us here. As for "not making content fast enough", that's something that professional game development companies struggle with and can't accomplish. That includes the original developers of this game.

It's not "dogma", it's how the game is built. NPCs and content within specific level ranges are purposely designed and balanced for the available power levels of the players within that given level range. It's a core aspect of the game. There are consequences to giving players abilities that they would normally get in the 20s, 30s, and 40s at level 2. All that would serve to do is further trivialize content. It's not fixing or solving any problem, it's just making new problems and making content even more trivial than it already is. What would be the consequences of players having access to level 30 and 40 powers on a Posi or Synapse TF? Your idea is making those TFs even easier than they already are. That's a negative consequence.

Again, your idea is granting access to powers that the content within the level range isn't designed for. That's breaking the game no matter how you slice it. You're still accessing the same powers within a given set, so it really isn't creating a different build option. Well, I could ask why do you care if people want to PL and skip content? Most everyone I know who farms up alts are doing so because they don't care for the overly repetitive grind of leveling the "traditional/right" way. Seems to me that's what most people looking for farms want to do as well. I'm just being honest, I don't see this idea as enticing enough for them to try it out to play through content they find overly repetitive. It's not making the content any less repetitive and boring for them, just giving them access to abilities that will make it go a little faster, which if given the option to PL instead, they'd still go with PLing in AE.

Well yeah, it is game breaking. You're granting access to powers at levels the content isn't designed or tuned for. That's game breaking. Also, this doesn't make sense since one of your stated goals was to make "lower level content more appealing", but now you're suggesting players using this would "burn through levels" so they can blow past lower level content faster. Yeah no, it wouldn't have any real impact on people looking for farms, if any at all. "Saga mode" would mean players would actually have to play the game. Quite a lot of people looking for farms don't want to play the lower level content. It's why people run DFBs, DiBs and AE farms.

Love these suggestions. I really hate that there are a couple of powers that say they have "no vfx", but they actually do have some. Alternate animations are always welcome to me.

How is saga mode going to make that any different other than to give you a nuke at level 2 so you can blow through content even faster?

Not only that, how does the shield bounce off things and ricochet on command? Vibranium is supposed to absorb kinetic energy... so why doesn't it absorb the kinetic impact of being slammed into something?

What if they're a Bots MM named "Dr. Megabot"? Green skin and purple pants is a very loose criteria to use to "get someone into trouble". I wouldn't even consider someone with green skin and purple pants a violation of any kind. This is where context is important. A character with green skin and purple pants named Hulk with a bio that references being a rage monster created by getting caught in a gamma bomb explosion? Yup, that's a violation of the rules. Just having green skin and purple pants? Nope. Depends on several other factors.

Correct and that was the point being made, which was lost and further muddied by the selective editing of this thread. Disney throwing hundreds of millions at these MCU films doesn't automatically equate to big box office returns. Maybe they'd do better to focus more on story and characterization and saving the big expensive VFX spectacles for the Endgame level team up films. From what I've read, Disney is no longer automatically greenlighting anything related to the MCU and there's been a lot of interviews with Bob Iger over the last year or so where he talks about scaling back the number of MCU films and streaming shows per year. Just recently read some articles where Disney has cancelled the bulk of the MCU projects on the slate because they don't see them as being profitable. Having seen most of the MCU films now, I can definitely see the decline in quality story. The focus seems to have become more VFX and more big action sequences instead of just having a good story. Other than the Marvels (which was sewage IMO), the other MCU films like Quantumania weren't as awful as some of these YouTubers say, but I get that it's subjective.

Not that I disagree with you because I think you're spot on. However, the same things were said about people farming up alts to convert EMP merits to Reward Merits, yet here we are with that getting nerfed.

I could be wrong/misremembering, but as I remember it, the issue with this was less about the hoarding of salvage than it was about item counts impacting base performance. Salvage is seeded on the market anyway and like you said, people can already create 1,000 characters per server each in their own SG with their own salvage capability.

Wakanda Forever completely and totally destroyed the character of Namor and the Atlanteans. I agree that Shuri was awful and the role should have just been re-cast instead of trying to pass Shuri off as the hero.

No, it really isn't. lol

Not against the idea, but I don't think the lack of power customization is the reason that Peacebringers and Warshades are the least played archetypes. I don't think coloring the powers will move the dial at all in terms of an increase in number of people playing them.

This sounds like trying to stave off any investor panic type statement. Star Wars isn't the powerhouse it used to be. It's not bringing in the money for Disney, and she may not want to retire, but she absolutely can be shown the door. Best thing to ever happen to the Star Wars IP will be the day she leaves.

I'm sure Disney would love for this movie to have only cost $180,000,000 to make. That budget would make it among the cheapest MCU films made. It doesn't add up when it's reported to have gone through at least 3 extensive re-shoots and doesn't include any marketing.

I think it's safe to say they're using the standard "creative accounting" when reporting on numbers for this. Here's an interesting video on the topic of how Hollywood reports if a movie made money or lost money. I could be wrong, but as I understand it Universal still owns the film rights to the Hulk, so Disney/Marvel can't make any solo movies with the Hulk. As far as She-Hulk goes, they'd have to reboot the character first and find a different actress. The D+ show was a complete bomb and the actress hasn't been endearing herself to anyone at Disney or Marvel as of late.

Right so the accepted source used in schools all over the globe that defines the meanings of words isn't correct... but you are, and everyone else is "misinformed". LOL! Do you even know what a dictionary is? Dictionary dic·tion·ar·y /ˈdikSHəˌnerē/ noun noun: dictionary; plural noun: dictionaries a book or electronic resource that lists the words of a language (typically in alphabetical order) and gives their meaning, or gives the equivalent words in a different language, often also providing information about pronunciation, origin, and usage. It seems to me that you could use some back to school time because you appear to be struggling with the concept of words having defined meanings.

You might want to familiarize yourself with the meaning of that word too. That's not Bond.

LOL! What? Allow me to introduce you to something you may not know about. It's called the dictionary and it tells you what words mean. Misogynist /mɪˈsɒdʒɪnɪst/ noun noun: misogynist; plural noun: misogynists a person who dislikes, despises, or is strongly prejudiced against women. "a bachelor and renowned misogynist"

No real surprises here, there's an 82% dropoff from last weekend. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl2597421825/?ref_=bo_hm_rd Safe to say at this point, this is a flop. Let's hope FF performs better.

No, it has not beaten the opening weekend numbers for Winter Solider. Winter Soldier - $95,023,721 BNW - $87,800,000

Isn't that what the UI scale is for? They could resize the UI to close trays if this happened.

No, it's not doing well. 100 million is about 1/10th of what this movie will need to make just to break even. It's done better than The Marvels (which honestly isn't hard to do), but worse than Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania. Given the very lackluster reviews, we can fully expect the box office numbers for CA: BNW to crater the following weekend. No way this film comes close to breaking even.

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