Clave Dark 5

Didn't the Vidiot maps used to note this sort of thing? I'm not at home so I can't check mine right now.

It might help. We had double XP when the Homecoming servers first started up, we could give all villain content XP+1/2 and that would help draw some people over. Heck, my toons would probably be split 50/50 between red and blueside if I thought I could ever find anyone redside. My experiences so far were like what I was seeing on a low pop server just before shut down. At 3 am. Which is exactly when I'm likely to be playing. But say if someone's standing about in Steel Canyon "35 MM blue LFG, please anybody" and someone pops up to say "Redside team looking for 35ish members", and that someone knows they can get xp+1/2 from that? People just might join. Hell, Null Gull is simple enough (for people who read the forums anyway), what if you didn't even need him to cross over?

I think you missed the implied point. Numbers are one of a number of causal factors in what makes something fun. They're the *only* causal factor, depending on how you look at it. All things exist in a measurable state. Colors exist on a scale that can be represented numerically, animation times and recharges are counted in seconds, resources and meters come in and are replenished in a finite quantities, etc. You could really just boil that down and say that fun is logically representable. As in, you don't even need numbers, what causes people to experience "fun" can be narrowed down to a fundamentally knowable state that one can simply measure with their senses. You can even condition people into *being* part of the knowable state, hence my mention of masochism. "Fun trumps all" as a response to numbers is not only a gross simplification, and an empty platitude... It's outright fallacious reasoning and creates a broken form of circular logic, which is utterly useless when trying to make informed decisions. You do realize that when you're creating a game you have to make objective determinations on things like fun, right? You do realize failing to do this is more or less paramount to creating a giant game of Calvin Ball, correct? Fun trumps logic. Ok, ok, so MY fun trumps YOUR numbers.

Fun trumps numbers.

I heard Bio is great on anything that can wear it, so I went Dark/Bio. I'm only about 23rd level right now, but so far it's felt breezy fun and pretty simple to play.

To start with, I began playing City of Heroes, and then... nothing. Currently? City of Heroes.

It's obviously is malfunctioning, it's red! I came across that myself the other day, after having forgotten it existed, so it made for a nice surprise. My fiancee (who doesn't play) was beside me at the time, so we both got to enjoy seeing it there, in fact.

I knew an MMO that swallowed a fly...

I've got two I like right now. The first is a Mind/Martial Art Dom with a heavily white&black-patterned costume called "A Ninja Op Art" (the Mind provides more OP Art to the look.) The second is a lizard-looking Bow/Trick Arrow - um... Don? I forget - called Archaeropteryx. Both were started for laughs and haven't really been played much yet, but the two DfB runs with the first were fun enough.

She's going to look funny with a goatee, but sure, go ahead.

This looks really cool!

This is probably a silly question, but does Soul Mastery's Power Boost ("Greatly boosts the secondary effects of your powers. ") have any effect on the disintegration power? Running a BR/Rad Corr right now and thinking to maybe go for something like that, or maybe take the armor "just in case" otherwise, but I saw that and started wondering..

I'm not exactly a badge hound, but I do tool about and pick some up if I'm bored. Is there any chance anyone could update the vidiot maps for us, or is that long-dusty code at this point?

My take on Hurricane is that it's always been a "you'll never get within melee range of me, stay away!" power, the repel was always the point (and the KB just an annoying side effect).

She'd just be a Lusca with one tentacle that bites. Not so exciting.

That's kind of bad form there.

I was just reading about this on the Titan Network, it's about 30%.

Yeah, lost a few teammates on a team, had a few herky-jerky motions here and there, mainly on outside city maps. Other than the DCs, it hasn't really affected game play, but it was a noticeable thing.

This go-round's been interesting for me, I haven't been going as alt nuts like I did before close, I think I only have ten alts right now, and only say three I'm really enjoying playing. Oddly enough too this time I seem to be melee adverse (my current main is a Beam/Rad Corr). Back in the day my main was a stalker, but now I currently have a scrapper I haven't touched in almost 2 weeks, and a tank that's pretty to look at but playing him feels like pulling teeth (probably because he's Titan Weapon and still low level). I also can't seem to get into MMs much as I once did. I should probably make a Bots/Time and cure myself of that right quick. But I have also found that no matter the tooth-pulling sensation, once I log in and get into a team with the toon, we roll and I enjoy the hell out of it, no matter which one I'm on, so I'm sure this shall pass soon enough.

+1 Inf, as they say. I haven't spent much time redside (I really need to make a good MM for soloing over there again) and had forgotten about this story.

Ha! I remember him from before shut-down! I dunno why but that bit about gingham has stuck in my head all this time.

Hence my advice to keep in mind the differences.

Unless I miss my guess, Psychic is one of the original power-sets from the beginning of the game. Vets often gravitate to the newer sets they haven't already tried once (twice, three times...), which results in not seeing a lot of new threads about them. Your best bet might be to get to the old forums via Waybackmachine and read up on some guides in the blaster section, and keep in mind how Sentinels work to evaluate the info there.

I had forgotten about that Drowning In Blood trial until just this past weekend when I got an invite and went in with a lowbie. It's just about as fast as DfB and makes for a change of pace.

Well, just make it another place where there's missions and XP, but make sure there's NO extra badges, temp powers, accolades, or other things that you can't get in regular PvE. Then PvErs like myself would only have motivation to experience new content, without feeling "forced" to go into a PvP zone for "kewl loot". Problem solved. PvE'ers still resent being pushed towards PvP zones, no matter how gently. And if they do go there, they inevitably get ganked instantly, and then bitch for years. That would be me, I went into one once, got ganked (hard, too), hated it. I took comfort though from the fact that before I was able to get out, the regulars were sitting around complaining in broadcast that no one ever came into the PVP zones.