Clave Dark 5

Doesn't sound like a complete failure then, ha ha

I understand the grime complaint, but don't share it because of that wonderful zone variation and ease of travel (to this day I still can't recall which p[art of the blue side map Boomtown branches off from). Plus the grime is a nice contrast against the pastels and weightless glass of much of blue side. And like larger American cities, blue side is very not on a human scale, skyscrapers, those sky highways in skyway... older areas are still more on a human scale, a place where you can see the sky and find the horizon without too much effort, not like looking up from the bottom of as gorge. Red side could use a good Perez Park though, Echo Astoria kind of area, the best it has is what, Nerva?

I have only two that I can think - wait, no three. A Christmas-based toon of mine has one. Another player on a recent group had one too and had that "drinking from a Christmas mug" emote and was kind enough to pass that on for me, s my toon has it now too. Two of my MMs have one or two for the minions; one's just to say something. An early Corr with Accelerate Metabolism has one for the steam whistle to signal team-mates it's AM-time.

Jump for Combat Jumping , which uses less End than Hover, but Fly because it's the most awesome. Run works, but doesn't if there's much vertical variation to where you're running, plus I've never gotten stuck by a building when flying ha ha. Thinking to try out Teleport anew...

I didn't go that crazy, but I've made two Beast MMs that only use the Lions... because I like cats. The second one was a Storm and that worked so well (well... the dmg output wasn't too awful anyway) that I didn't think I needed to try and find another secondary to pair "only lions" with.

Have to disagree with you there. I dabbled in both blue and red side on Live when I started about Issue 6, until the day I rolled my first stalker, then I didn't look back (until I had to, but we'll get to that). At first I only soloed because I wasn't sure what I was doing and didn't wanna fail in front of others, but then I did start to team and was able to team often, pretty much all the time, even playing during overnight hours. As things went along, the pop started fading away a bit, so I had to switch to Freedom, but still was able to PUG to my stupid heart's content. Then, nearish the end, one night I rolled a new redside toon, popped into Mercy to look for a team... and I was just about alone. After some researching, I found was there about a hundred red-siders online (at like 1 in the morning!), and about 80% of them were 50s and standing around in Pocket D for the endless reruns of Incarnate content (thank god our new Devs broke that hold). I never did anything with that toon and had to give up playing redside completely, because I like teaming. Perhaps the current focus on merit- and other farming, speedruns for well known TFs (redside doesn't seem to have too many "well known" TFs, or at leats they never get run as often, so maybe there's a perception that they don't) etc. is having creating the same effect that Incarnate content did. Heck, maybe Null The Gull is making it too easy for people to think "I'll go do some red side later, I can always switch" and then never getting round to it; maybe people needed to be more "stuck" redside to dedicate themselves to it. Maybe, just thinking out loud here.

With a healthier population as we have now, that's less a problem, but more effectively, "holiday fatigue" is a very real thing that keeps the holiday conent from grinding the game to a halt as you seem to think it does; open up the Holiday events (in some fashion, that's a whole side topic) year-round and you'll never have to worry about not being to speed run another Yin or whatever due to those Holiday events *checks notes* "forcing" everyone to do something else that they want to. The game is now being run to not gate-keep anything from us: we all get capes and crazy auras at level 1, we can side-switch with a bird, and we all get endless IOs and purples with hardly any effort, hooray! I love it! They even have the ski chalet open year round. So why not holiday stuff? Plus we already have one holiday thing open 24/7: Summer Blockbuster.

I dunno, a good Dom is a thing of beauty and does a little bit of everything, depending on the power sets and build: ranged, melee, holds, pets, etc. And if it bugs you clicking that one Dom button all the time, set it for the auto-fire option.

Eh, this smells of catering to the power creep crowd. I'm also not so fond of the idea of trying to navigate around an MSR with Oops All 54s! around.

I know right?! Three red dots and I still can't find a team red side. So far I've teamed twice, with the same brute I bumped into there. But yeah, just keep plugging away. I too am more than happy to swap if a call goes out and I'm not already doing something else. Worst case scenario, you can go to Pocket D and start a SBB.

Good news! Go over to the menu, open up a support ticket and say I WANT MY MTV... MA SLOTS and a dev will give you three more - any time, no strings attached! I've done this twice now.

Haven't they been talking about dropping Tequila for awhile anyway?

*ahem*Game recognizes game.

Whoops, I forgot. I don't normal have time for full reviews though.

I've been thru that too. I generally these days try to take god-builds into consideration, but stick to ditching anything I don't want (still very against Tough+Weave), and then see if ti works OK. If not, then I might rework it. But most of the time I do just fine anyways.

Woo, secret insider knowledge! I mean, at least to me... maybe it was already known that all of them were being rejiggered...

If I had to go with just one, probably my Savage/Shield stalker. I have a number of pretty good toons where I either lifted a build straight from these forums, or took one and somewhat adapted it to fit my own particulars, but my stalker is one I put the most work into because I was going in such unconventional directions with: I wanted all the combat TP powers I could get. It's not an optimized build or anything, "why didn't you take Fold Space?!" but he's a blast to play and he's all mine, I took little help from anyone else in making his build. Also has one of the best pun names I've come up with, The Pink Bampfer. You can probably imagine what his basic costume looks like.

You've played the easily-rigged version of the game and won it all, so of course you feel jaded about the rest of it. This one power set, that one power, this single version of slotting it etc. and now literally everything else feels like just the absolute worst insulting trash. 😃 You' treated tweaking the numbers as the game... that way lies madness. Well, boredom anyway. Fun is available in this game in any number of fashions; you've now conquered one of the easier ones. Time to define another kind of fun for yourself! I can't come up with what would be fun for you, only you can do that.. but of course being a person online I have opinions and ideas and will share them with you whether you like it or not (I don't even like some of these, but you might): Make a new toon with only powers you want - skip all the usual prescribed zOMG power choices (unless of course you think they're fun). For example, you think laser beams from your eyes is fun? Take it, even though it's only single target and "only" does moderate damage. Or go for some weird "special trick" toon like a super tanky squishie, a melee with as many ranged attacks as possible, a toon that walks combat unseen... Get into PVP. Create the silliest costume you can. Build the coolest base you can. Give Inf to newbies in Atlas Park, or hold a costume contest or something to give it away. Create your own stories for the MA. Play lots of MA arcs (not farms). Skip all the mission teleport powers. Do some sight seeing. No more speed runs, stop and bash the flowers. Create an AT you've never played before, or take a power set you never have before, even if you know it's numbers are so incredibly awful and degrading based upon your past knowledge of "how to play." Maybe focus on controls and debuffs instead of damage dealing. Create a single-target character even!

Yeah, if you can figure out how to get that 50 to PI. Or how to slot Endurance. Or (etc.)

You misunderstand me then, let me try again: copyright law should last for 20 years then end, as was basically originally written. I never said all copyright law is bad, unless I typoed or left out a word? Where'd I say that? And please? "Puerile" here is still name-calling, it doesn't help your argument.

What tools did the companies lobby to have these laws written, where did you think these laws came from? And lookit you throwing around friendly terms like "puerile," ha ha

Can't wait for the backlash now of "can we get these people to leave already?!" 😃

Ha ha ha, now, let's not say anything we can't take back later....

I'd like this too. I've been told you can reset this by turning off all your toggles and zoning (Ouroboros was a popular option) and then you can swap them out without more waiting, but the timer would still be a useful thing regardless.

Ooooh, great idea. Maybe we should run through them all here in a month, week of this, week of that, etc.