Clave Dark 5

AND we sure must make a lot of lame characters...

I've pondered that first point myself; I tend to not fill in the blanks for glowies that pop up the "you've opened this crate" stuff in Chat, as I see that as a bit redundant because "yes, I know, I just clicked on it." But these can also be chances to exercise your creativity, like "Despite the ticking sound inside, you've opened this crate" or even comedy "You can smell that and you're still opening this crate?!" But yeah, I still often leave those bits out. But... not putting anything on the interact bar can make an arc look slipshod imho, or unfinished. If nothing else, those two examples I just gave would work well there, and then you could ignore the other blanks. Regardinbg that second point, I am both something of a sloppy typist, make mistakes when editing or deleting and not a great speller (despite what my erudite posts on this forum might lead you to believe!). I dearly wish there was a spell checker in the AE but as there isn't one, I always cut and past eand my text into an online form to be sure. Fporme there's a compnant of hsame ha ha, but there's also a sort of pride of manufacture, maybe some sense responcibility to the reader/player as well. I want my work to look good and not be distracting with problerms in my typoing. Case in point: I've left this paragraph unedited (up to this point), enjoy! Fixing such stuff makes for a smoother experience for the player, it really does. If you don't feel it's worth the time to fix your story, what's that tell me about how important YOU consider your story to be? All this is juts my two cents. I haven't run the story yet (yet, I was hoping to soon) so feel free to thumb your nose at me or block me or whatever.

Sometimes I just find them boring, like, I can't play a Kin, I've tried 3 times, somehow it's boring, despite the boost it brings to everyone else zooming around in caves like the inside of a pinball machine. Merely melee characters can get sort of dull for me too, an armor set in general is set and forget (don't @ me, I know some are more active), so I end only have attacks to click: bash... bash... bash..., pew... pew... pew... Yawn. Or yeah, the joke/theme/whatever stops working. I have come up with some good names but never made the character, because I knew it wouldn't have legs for me. I have also given up on characters that made the game too easy for me. Once or twice I've gotten some cool build from the forums and realized that clearing hoards of foes via nuke every 30 seconds (or whatever) is actually boring AF. Come to think of it, that's probably one of the reasons I don't care for farming. I'm not here to rig the game, I just get bored.

And not only just that, it hampers new creation. Disney required Marvel (then another company) to redesign Howard the Duck because they felt he was too close to Donald the Duck.

Copyright law at this points is stagnating our culture for the purpose of enriching large companies who own the rights. Extreme-long-term copyright is one reason we are still awash in Star Trek, Batman, Star wars, etc. and won't be free of the for the foreseeable future (note: those large companies rarely actually create these, this is why Disney went and bought Marvel and Star Wars). Wouldn't it be nice to see something new made, rather than another Star Wars show, or a new-ish shoe somehow shoehorned into the pre-existing franchise?Name something like say Popeye, and someone somewhere owns rights to the character and is currently trying to squeeze some more pennies out of them. Meanwhile, these things have become parts of our shared culture, the myths of our times. Copyright law shouldn't allow anyone to own parts of our culture, it last about 20 years and then end; that allows plenty of time to earn from your creation (not from creations you own) and then to release it if it's remained culturally relevant.

Oddly enough, I almost threw in a joke about you being a Dev. It really sucks when you have psychic powers but never pay attention to them!

Is there a page on the wiki for these places?

Yeah, considering how we ended up being able to play the game again yaaar matey, and the fact the devs were/are under NDA types of things and future prospects of employment being affected if there's suspicion it might have been YOU, I'm not surprised that one previous dev ("prevdev"?) wanted anonymity, I think it'd only be prudent. But I'll also guess that a fair number of them probably at least peeked back in, for the hell of it. I of course have no evidence of that.

But they didn't fix the Halloween windows yet. I think it's been two cycles now, in fact.

The other thought was that Mrs. Flood may just be a fourth-wall-breaker for her own sake (see Hartnell breaking the same wall in a Christmas episode long ago). Regarding the weird turn the technobabble has taken, I noticed that too! Maybe RTD just decided to push beyond the usual as it's become a tired trope for anything sci-fi these days. Or maybe it's tied in to the more fantasy turn he says he's taking the show, "now it doesn't have to sound vaguely plausible.".

This is why it's a good idea to at least have one longe range attack, like a Nem Staff if not more.

I don't play this game to do homework! I've been considering running this guy just on SOs apart from a few scattered procs too. The most terrifying villain is the free person!

In deference to you and Crumpet, because of my work hours, I play in the middle of the night often, and there's been a noticeable drop in pop during off hours. I saw the same thing happening during Live. Prime time? Yeah, things are fine, but the edges are dropping off a bit...

I haven't done a Posi 1 since... September? Really burned out on doing the same ol same ol. Yin can go jump in a lake and I'm still boycotting Maria Jenkins too. You can skip Posi and the accolade, you'll still win and be far too OP I promise!

I've been hearing talk of this for like two years now, I don't think we have anything to worry about.

What, is that all? (seriously though, you have some good ones)

It's been my anecdotal gut feeling it's thinned some when the holidays started, yeah. There's the usual holiday sapping of interest and time, maybe some people got a tad burned out during Halloween like I did (I always over indulge :P), and then the span of time between updates too I figure isn't helping either. I may be wrong. We'll see after the new year starts up and especially when the new patch drops.

Ah, OK, got it. I can see your place on all this, I too have blocked a few forum regulars for reasons, and have been very off in my playing as of late (my usual pattern of over-indulging in Halloween leads me to playing less for awhile); after finally finishing up another frankly brilliant masterpiece for the AE (see sig) I was about to take a break myself... until upon a whim I decided to maker said scrapper and apparently have caught the bug for a bit again. I mistook you for a different kind of poster. My apologies and Merry Christmas!... ...until our paths cross on these forums again!

Happy Holidays of any stripe to everyone!* *unless you're a jerk who doesn't deserve it

Yeah, I remember that and have enjoyed it myself. This, like the Halloween windows, is a small, fun little bit of frippery given to us once (or maybe twice?) that then got lost somewhere and is sorely missed by those who liked it. IMHO

I am currently leveling up a scrapper redside, so mostly solo. It was slow going, a bit, until the time I hit about 12; by that point I had three attacks, a couple of my Invul armors, and a Nem staff, along with my unslotted brawl and taser. That's enough attacks! I was and am having a fine time. My guess here is maybe this is just not the game for you as so much of it was designed to be played sub-50. Also, there is much truth in this:

Clave Dark 5, in the living room, with a wrench! At my desk, possibly a cat in my lap, perhaps some music playing. Sometimes headphones, but I prefer not to if I can avoid it. Because of time constraints, I'm usually only playing for an hour, two tops; partly this is because I'm playing overnight hours and the population is starting to really thin out.

I'm sorry OP that you got fed the farmfarmfarm mindset, ignore it. That aside, here's what you can do to fund characters if you can't wait and feel you should get them all funded asap: take a fifty, any fifty, slotted with even just SOs, or even worse with gaps where you couldn't afford to slot anything at all, and go to PI and join the frequent radio teams that pop up, or maybe the MJ arc runs; you can also run any one of the Yin runs which apparently are popular merit farms because they never stop. Run these, do them again. Once you're at fifty, drops and Inf all starts to roll in, and you'll get better at it as you go and can slot; meanwhile, those farm-y teams will easily carry you along until then. I never play the market, and I have always been able to fund all my toons once I hit 50 on one and kept playing them for a bit. And then for the love of god go find your fun in this game instead of the endless farming that "everyone" will tell you is the point of the game (see the advice about the 2Xxp), that'll bore and burn you out faster than even running around only half-slotted.

Agreed, it's the Halloween window decorations all over again. 😕

But people go rabid if you use/embrace/abuse) KB ha ha! But yeah, that's often what I do with them, target them first and keep them bouncing/flopping.