srmalloy

So when NCsoft shuttered the game, it made them a CoX-sacker?

e. e. cummings says otherwise.

It's been too many years, and I've tried to forget the blotches that Harmony Gold has made of anime and their subsequent issues regarding the copyright on Macross, and HG's litigiousness over terms and images they claimed the rights to.

Which Voltron? GoLion or Dairugger XV? How can it be "the most iconic giant robot in media" if it's just two completely unrelated Japanese anime series jammed together? And now I'm mad that you seem to be one of those western fanboys who think it's all original, like the people who don't understand that Harmony Gold's 'Macross Saga' was made up of Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Genesis Climber Mospeada, and Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross -- three completely unrelated anime series jammed together to have enough episodes for American TV networks to buy in syndication. For an 'iconic giant robot', you'd do better by going with Gundam; the style, maintained across fifty series, films, and OVAs, as well as manga, novels, and video games, is more widely recognized than Voltron will ever be. And if you take this comment seriously, you deserve to.

I ran into this in PI 1 yesterday, an enormous ball of MM pets with the mains set to auto heal, and no one responding to invite requests. What I saw was that they were all left on Aggressive Follow, because as soon as someone (not the cluster) clicked a door and got a trick, the closest side of the swarm would swoop out and attack, then return to the swarm. I wasn't interested in playing feeder for a bunch of AFK leeches, so I went to the TUNNEL portal and switched instances.

I see...

Along with having MM pets inherit the MM's travel power if within a certain radius of the MM, simply change the default value of whatever internal flag Null flips for enabling/disabling the effect of Group Fly on your character to 'not affected'. And while looking at that, look at what causes, when a group teleport power is used, when an MM has the teleport prompt setting turned on, the group teleport power teleports your pets to you before you choose whether or not you accept the teleport. I've seen this happening with my MMs during ToTing at the murder motel in PI.

No, my position is that prioritizing code changes based on complaints of "It's not convenient for me to have to do this; change it so these things are done for me" is poor code design practice. There are enough real problems with the code that should be fixed that "I don't want to have to click so many times" should be deeply buried in the pile.

The way they get run on Excelsior, that's not an issue. The league lead sets up the instanced MSR from anywhere and enters the instance solo or with their core team leads. Then they advertise the MSR, inviting people as they respond. The invitees can be in any zone, and enter the instance as they accept the invitation. There's no pileup in the leader's zone of people waiting for the raid to start, and no having to reorganize the league because the game shuffled the teams when everyone entered at once.

With my Elec/Elec Controller, the only problem is that they take so much longer to go down, which is balanced by the 5x XP value. Two hits to zero their End, with the AoE aura mostly keeping them there, and they're essentially neutered while they are ground down.

@DarknessEternal's request is to enable dumping enhancements, recipes, and salvage to a vendor, not into the AH. That would be an entirely different change.

And then we'll have people whining about how they clicked 'sell all' and it sold their orange salvage for 5000 inf, and insist on either having an option to to disable 'sell all' for salvage by class, or having separate buttons to sell each class of salvage, and want a button to put their orange salvage into the AH so it doesn't get accidentally sold on the cheap.

But by the time your mouth finishes moving, then the bad English dubbing follows, you've already thrown the punch, and your yelling after you swing doesn't help.

Or, given the destruction of Galaxy City, a series of missions that variously send you to rescue citizens, retrieve equipment or research, and defend facilities against an incursion of Shivans, both as a story arc and as 'filler' missions to fill out a contact's mission list. And it doesn't have to be exclusively against Shivans, either -- with all the destruction, there would be any number of groups looking to recover things from the ruins of Galaxy City, with a few missions that could turn things on their heads, like a mission to free captured Shivans from a covert Crey facility where Crey is looking to figure out how the Shivans work to either duplicate their powers, make their own, or just control them. And, of course, one or two TFs into the ruined zone -- strip down Agent G's arc about the PsychChronoMetron to its framework and rebuild it around Arachnos trying to retrieve something, with both Arachnos and Shivans as obstacles.

And an increasingly-rare example of using the term correctly, rather than the incorrect 'desserts'.

There is already a 'sell stack' function for the people who don't want to click once per item in a stack of fifteen or so, but I fail to see how multiple button clicks are so incredibly onerous to require a completely new functionality.

Dunbar's number, which is that a person can maintain stable social relationships with about 150 people. This was derived from an examination of the neocortex structure and group size in nonhuman primates. A study last year at Stockholm University using modern statistical methods and updated data on the structure of primate brains, though, calls this into question. The study found that the average max size is lower than 150, but has a large error bar -- the 95% confidence range for the actual number is 2 to 520.

Fish Slap. The tier 1 is a herring slap, there's a two-handed cone dual herring slap, trout slap for more damage, a PBAoE spin cod slap, and a T9 where you whip out a full-grown tuna and deliver an overwhelming slap that has a chance to be a cone.

The problem being, IIRC, that the order in which selections appear in a list of costume parts matches the order in which they appear in the database, and costume references internally through the game are just pointers into that database, rather than being labels that are indexed into the database (i.e., when you save a .costume file, and it writes your lower body texture as 'Hips_V_Overguard_01', what the game uses internally is, say, '53', because that texture is the 53rd record in the 'legs' texture database; this is one of the things that contributes to errors when you try to load old costume files), so that changing the order of items for a given body part means having to go through every single costume reference in the entire game to update the pointers.

Or, an in-game example, the fact that all the Clockwork are psionically-controlled and -animated extensions of the Clockwork King.

I don't think there was ever a problem with slotting an IO into a power where one aspect of the IO wasn't enhanceable in the power -- i.e., putting an Acc/Dam IO into a power that didn't take Acc enhancements. In fact, I recall that there was a bug where it turned out that you could slot IOs that, due to the "X equals minus Y" nature of some of the enhancements -- Damage and Resist Damage being the best-known example -- you could slot IOs or HOs that would enhance aspects of a power you were normally unable to enhance due to slotting restrictions.

Whether or not the HC staff can do anything to limit EB spawning for solo players, it's not going to happen fast enough to make any difference to the current Halloween event unless they choose to roll back everything, which is going to generate a lot of hate and discontent on its own, so I have grave doubts that we're going to see any effect until next year.

From 'Lore Brand Comics':

There are real-world examples of misleading doors. 145 Rue Lafayette is one such. From the image below, you would think it looks like the Gare de l'Est and Gare du Nord, the buildings on either side of it, but it has no interior, being a facade that conceals a ventilation shaft for the Paris Underground. So being taken to a map type at odds with the door type has precedent.

That's kind of a pity; I was curious, and took Лечение Шока (Elec/Elec Controller) out to Kallisti Wharf to do circuits of one of the office buildings, and the only thing I noticed was that the EBs took longer to grind down than the bosses. But, then, she was an experiment in the viability of "Drain them to zero End and keep them there" as a build goal; once the EB is at 0 end, they're mostly neutered, only using a low-damage base attack. Perhaps if the ToT spawn code was adjusted to check the existing option that downgrades high-rank mobs, so that it would convert EBs into regular bosses (it would be more complicated than a simple downgrade, because it should convert the EB into a corresponding boss, not just lower their rank -- i.e., Crone Matriarch to Crone -- to prevent using the option to make getting the badges for the EBs easier to farm solo).