battlewraith

Sure, if you want to be pedantic about it. I'm drawing a distinction between actually using language to express a specific meaning and flashing a symbol, which may or may not be meaningful to the recipient.

There would be more merit in that imo. What we have right now is a miniscule subset of the population that weigh in on what they want and what they think the devs want. The mere fact that a suggestion basically has to conform to some sort of feasibility study is a big deterrent to actually making any sort of suggestion. Which I think people here implicitly get--the point for them is to reject things that can't be implemented easily or that they don't want (ie the dozen or so that probably regularly do this). That defeats the point of having a suggestion forum. Do the opposite. Encourage people to drop ideas. No matter how crazy or impractical. Use that as data to determine trends that are reflective of the types of things in which the larger playerbase is interested. Stop fixating on individual proposals that people find fault in and then just summarily dismiss--wasting the feedback and making people far less likely to tell you want they want.

No , you're the one who can't handle disagreement without attacking someone over it. You're literally doing exactly what you described.

Which sounds exactly like what someone who "can't handle disagreement without losing their shit" would say.

I think this thread itself is a trap to get geriatrics to out themselves....by saying cursed words like Howdy Doody.

I don't think so. I think the actual function of the suggestions forum is to discourage people from making suggestions. There is a small cohort of players who reside there to shut the majority of ideas down. Then there is no apparent connection between anything discussed there and actual development. There is also no clear indication of whether anyone that actually matters would read that stuff on the website or in Discord. I think the honest thing to do would be to spare players who have something to say a bad experience. Get rid of that subforum altogether and instruct players who want to have more input on development to get involved in Closed Beta discussions.

I heard that Nicholas Hoult also auditioned for Superman. Now I am truly saddened at the loss of what could have been. Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor AND Superman. Maybe even Hoult as Lex, Superman, and Lois. It could've been this generation's Dr. Strangelove.

Because they aren't communication, they're just signaling. Like when you watch a reaction video and people drop in memes as a lazy shorthand to indicate that something's funny, stupid, boring, whatever.

The majority of confused emojis I've received are from the same person. As tempting as it is to imagine they have some sort of mental impairment, I take it to mean that they are signaling that you're opinion is bizarre, not that it's actually confusing. https://tenor.com/bgt2J.gif

You realize that this is already an option right? For the purposes of pvp you can instantly make a lvl 50 and just pick up the accolades that are relevant to pvp. This is implemented in a way that supports the minigame without inflicting pvp concerns on to non-pvpers. People have pointed out that that the reward structure for the game is content. And there is a basic incredulity in response to the idea of making something freely available. But the fact that it's content doesn't make it a good thing, any more than content on the internet is inherently a good thing. The activities under scrutiny are compulsion loops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsion_loop Obviously these loops are a feature of most rpgs, to the extent that somebody's going to say (again) just go do something else. The reason to stay is the game as a platform for creativity, problem solving, community, nostalgia, and so on. These are the things that set the game apart for me, not killing stuff and getting rewarded for it. I suspect I'm not alone in this. So it's not unreasonable to advocate for some way to diminish that aspect while still following your passion, whatever it is. Is that solution making everything free--most likely no. But you have to plant a flag somewhere to start things off. Even if you know there will be a stampede to rip it out of the ground.

Time The forums are a flat circle.

That might be the case, but it still seems to me to be misleading. Your friends might be in the majority in terms their playing habits. But if you look at a metric like hours spent playing, the bulk of those casual players might represent a minority of the player time actually spent ingame.

It's a thing in pvp, which is almost exclusively centered around single target burst damage. You want as much damage, done in as few hits as possible, to land in the shortest window of time possible so that the enemy doesn't have time to heal up or run away. It's weird to talk about in pve. I don't think it really matters what the single target attack chain on a scrapper is like when you have people running around with procced out aoe attacks and in teams you'd do better with ranged dmg and debuffers anyway.

I think his comments are in the vein of "did we learn anything from this." Go back to the start of this thread and it's people complaining that the suit looks bad. Go to the "shill" thread and it's people saying it's going to suck based on what their favorite influencer thinks. I think it's fair to point out the pointless negativity of a lot of those remarks now that the film is here. Speaking of which, I thought the costumes in general looked great. I really liked Mr. Terrific's jacket. To me it looked like an actual item that somebody would wear as opposed to a costume piece.

I don't disagree with your stance on this. I think people should play whatever they want. But I find it hard to believe that it's just a small group of min/maxers who are concerned with this stuff in light of all the nerfs that occur in this game. Tanks get buffed. Wooooo tanks are great now.--Devs issue nerfs. Weeee creeping vines is awesome. --Devs issue nerfs. Etc. I think you would have to believe that the Devs have an obsession with balance, which I guess is possible, or that people in general really do care if their powerset is suboptimal and they will complain about it. Based on my experience, it seems like the latter.

How many builds do you have? I explained this. I like making characters. I typically play when I get an idea for one. I run content on existing builds I like in order to grind the enhancements. And then I'll run content on the new character until I get an idea for something else or just do something else entirely. You have tons of inf, racks full of salvage and thousands of merits. Why are you not satisfied?

Used it for new builds, as it says in the part you quoted,

Like OMG BECKY it's only been 20 years, how can be tired of stuff already! LMAO. Well that tracks. You got a ton of cash and don't play the market, but you're gonna die on this hill to have your dream of fun preserved for everyone. From days ago: "My main interest is making new characters. I plan the character in mids and then level them. Probably 75% get pled straight to 50 and the others are a mix of standard missions and PLing. To finance a new build, I run weeklies, Tinpex, Market Crash, radios, or whatever random shit seems to be going on. Also Incarnate stuff. During the Valentines Event I ran that blue wedding on 8 different characters every morning. " It's not a case of "blame the workman and not the tools". It's a case of you wanting to argue for your preferred status quo while being unwilling or unable to respond to any point made to you. Also, inb4 Brainstorm (again).

One of the things I liked about this movie is that I pretty much agree with Luthor in that, at least in a comic book world, intellect should be able to overcome Superman's abilities. Superman is not a supergenius and he tends to react in predictable way. But Supes' most defining feature is his moral character and he acts almost like a moral hub for other characters. So when things get bad for Superman, he draws people in to help him. Whereas Luthor's an asshole, so when things go bad for him his support base crumbles.

It can be poorly reasoned. Which is why people will change opinions on things when presented with arguments, information, etc.

My assumption would be that you sink a lot of time into this game (or have) and that proportion of time you spend outfitting characters is much less--it would pretty much have to be if you are spending 3 weeks leveling one up. If it were still a retail game, you would be their ideal player. The Brainstorm thing has been responded to, no just by me. You just stick your head in the sand and then repeat it, so there's no point in rehashing the argument. Yes I get drops and do respecs and all that jazz. There is no mystery to any of this. I simply have an interest in reducing repetitive tasks that I've already done ad nauseam. And your self interest dictates that other people need to be doing these tasks so that you can make a buck off of it. Things are so so easy to accumulate but you'll argue till your blue in the face to keep people paying for stuff. Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

It's the Market section. So this the area of the community least likely to agree with this kind of proposal. If the game is still here in 5 years, it will be interesting to see what the population is and if the hardliners are still making the same arguments.

FFS tidge it's not that hard to understand. Planning and executing a build, which is a part of the game I enjoy, is not a flex on other people. Particularly in a game full of longtime players like you who are drowning in inf and could do whatever the hell they wanted. Back in the day, I only played for pvp and I would have to do all the same grind as everyone else just so I could do a fun activity I liked that had very little in the way of material reward. Eventually, developers came along that understood the problem and did something about it. But back in the day there were tidge's running around that made the same arguments: the game is fun. Leveling is fun. Why should they be able to skip stuff just so that they can do...whatever that thing is that I can't relate to. Calling me judgemental while speculating that I don't have fun in other aspects of my life because I disagree with you about a game---LOL what?!?!

The people that respond with thumbs down to my posts do so predictably and regularly. So If I post something and they don't respond, I know it's time to send a wellness check to their house.