Clave Dark 5

I think removing the tedium/making things easier is a buff though; wouldn't extending the life of a Mystic Fortune from 20 minutes to say 90 minutes, be a buff? Or allowing them to stack up? At least MF has the "price" of 50K Inf for the power and then having to put up with team mates since you can't use it on yourself. 😄 (An aside: checking numbers, Mystic Fortune's "The Fool" grants, amongst other things, a +15% Recharge for 20 minutes, while the Empowerment Station's "Increase Attack Speed" grants +20% for 90 minutes. Assuming all these powers shake out about like this, that definitely feels really "Easy Street", although MF is obviously cheaper in the long run, but for the "can't use it on yourself" part.) Consider too that the Empowerment Station's buff prices used to also require keeping your base paid up, so I would expect that the original Devs intended that to be part of their cost and a good reward for working to keep a base. I don't doubt that the Devs of today might have forgotten about it or (perhaps more likely?) just didn't mind letting players take that little extra boost if they wanted it, as they've done in other areas of the game. So it feels a bit much to ask for these boosts to be "even more." They're already great (looking at these numbers, I'm feeling blind that I never bothered to use mine much before!), so go enjoy them, and just drop by your base when it runs out, like an Inspiration that lasts a really long time. I have something of a maze to navigate from my base's entrance to my Empowerment Station, and I could still zone in, go find it in my base, pay for it, and then zone back out in say a minute, two tops - small price to pay for these numbers!

I have severe doubts that you're listening to me, so that must count. I never said no one ever gets any nice stuff, I spoke my opinion that this upgrade wasn't needed because it's throwing too much extra power into a pool we're already drowning in. We already have a whole boatload of all sorts of extra power-ups, so why do we need this one? I haven't heard much good in answer to this question other than "because I want it," and your scornful hyperbole sure doesn't offer anything.

If we could store anything in the Vault like we can a base, that might do away with some of that. Being in more than one SG seems like an easy answer too,but i have no idea if they can code that. Discord can go kick rocks though, I don't wanna have to use that for anything if I can avoid it. I can currently PUG or whatever without it, so I'd like to keep it that way.

You're asking for a buff to be extended by over five times. Five times. Maybe I should make the font larger next time? That is inherently ridiculous, because asking for anything to extended by five times without some major rework or rebalancing is ridiculous and clearly not gonna fly. There it is, dunno how many more ways to say it or put it or whatever else.

Nooo, I'd say that says more about you than the game. I look at the game and see "go fly around the city as a superhero, make a fun costume." I don't see a clock everywhere, counting up my decimal points, or worry over shaving off .2 whatevers because I will be unbearably slightly less somehow. We can look at the game and see it differently, that's fine. As I pointed out above, Grant Invis alone for might-as-well-be-free (when something like that should be more of a power choice, something you have to choose between rather than just slathering on top of your no doubt already kick-ass build) is clearly a big fat extra helping of awesomeness freebie (especially going by your example of playing rushrushrush); if it wasn't, we wouldn't have people talking about it, because people always want free I Win stuff, sure (I don't see that they then have to be given that thing though). I feel I can reasonably suggest that making these buffs last 8 hours -- over five times as long!! - is ridiculously OP, and that as-is, I don't think that popping by your base every 90 minutes is an insulting waste of your time if these already-freebie buffs are something you do want.

The problem isn't playing the game the way I want to or forcing me to play it that way or any of that. It's that the asked for buff is ridiculously OP. I know it's hard to remember here sometimes (very hard for me sometimes too), but the HC devs do still try and balance things to keep the game from being a complete I Win Button every time. For example, they just rebalanced the GMs and Council for those reasons, because people were farming them far too easily, so they're obviously considering such issues.

I never said you couldn't, suggest away! I just don't think this one's any good is all. 😃

You bloody well have loads of nice things already, the list would stagger a player coming in cold from Live. How many more nice things do you need?

Faster means more monies faster means more everything coming more easily for you. Longer buffs Go look around the forums for those threads like "where can I farm merits the fastest" and "which solo toons can clear farm maps fastest?" Go check chat in-game for a bit and see how many speedruns you can count up. Seems to me like lots of players here find time to be very very important. The Grant Invisibility alone can allow you top greatly speed up everything by stealthing most foes. As a Kin, I can argue that I find it tedious to have to keep casting Speed Boost, or maybe my Empathy toon don't like trying to keep up with Fortitude-ing as many team-mates as possible. Doesn't mean they should be extended.

I don't know how to say it any differently, but once again: expanding the length of a buff is still a buff. Using it, you risk the time running out in the middle of something. Using another similar-ish thing, look how Mystic Fortune runs out after 20 minutes. So why not make Mystic Fortune last for an hour? Or allow players to get multiples of them that all last for an hour? How about five hours? Why not? How about we change bubbles and ice armors etc. to all last an hour too? How many M&Ms do you think you need to be happy? Where and how do you draw that line? (I mean, y'all can swing by and just down vote me again, but why avoid that topic?)

Indeed, I don't. I find hiding behind a blizzard of buffs rather boring.

People who are 50s who call for the star or to make everyone a 50 could be doing so because they're going to lose access to their near-end-game powers, taken say after they made 45 or something. If they're below 50, they also can't use their Incarnate powers, and it seems that a lot of high-performance builds crutch their way past some otherwise bad choices with those. Plus all those purple sets now won't work as well either. Please won't someone think of the 50s?! 😃 Snark aside, I'll often drop down below my level for the sake of doing whatever, but there have been times when I was all "look, I just picked up my pet! I don't want to go team and not be able to use it" or something. But I also won't demand to put put in charge or anything.

Not all THAT clunky, but also not a direct change to the code. My stories doin't tend to run long, but it would be pretty easy to implement, once you've got it all written and play-tested: If you want to strangle this little @%*$! then play AE arc #555999! If you want to save the kitten from the tree, then play AE arc #555888!

And here I came into this thread expecting to be ready to jranger it...

A majority of players have probably gotten their new toons to T4 by the end of 8 hours though. If this buff is so negligible, then why ask for it to be "more"? And I again I ask: just how hard is it to go drop by your base to pay for it with trash-level salvage? It's not. At all. Simile Time: City of heroes back on Live gives out ice cream cones, which is fine, fun, you name it - yay ice cream! Now y'all are getting this from HC and now argue that you need to stick some M&Ms in there too, for "convenience." Extending buffs is a power creep. If I wanted my bubbles to last longer, if I want my holds to last longer, if I want the range of my aura extended, if I want my attack's damage increased, if I want slows to have less effect on me...that's all power creep. More numbers for you, in any category, is more power. But hey, those M&Ms, yes, "are already in the game"! Go pick them up, they're right there! Maybe we need to deliver them to you on a pony next? Or allow you to just click a button and have them tumble down from the sky no matter where you are, because going to your base itself even once every 8 hours is far too onerous? 😃

This is such a silly gimme point in the first place, but people are apparently finding it far too onerous a task to go get these extra extra extra icing-on-the-cake buffs. Maybe these buffs aren't 100% OP I AM NOW A LIVING GOD buffs, but buffs never the less, otherwise why bother with them at all. It's power creep - a minor one yes, but still a power creep. Hasn't this game already given us enough of them? Must we go hunting around desperate for more crumbs? XD I mean, how long does it take to stop off at your base and grab them? Seriously?

Time saving is also a way of making the game easier though. And the price of said salvage is laughably negligible.

I'm guessing this would a heck of amount of work to set up, but the idea would fun, sure.

But if we're not steamrolling through paper-thin combatants we're wasting our time!! /s

Throw @cranebump into the pile of people, they've done a lot for the AE community, which most of you monsters completely ignore! Wait, that probably isn't the proper tone to take here ha ha...

I was told there'd be no math...

Really, isn't this game easy enough by now? Heck, I have this gizmo in my base and hardly ever remember to use it and things go just fine for me. Seems to me if you really want an extra inch of thick icing on top of the three inches already on your cake, then that should be on you to go get it.

Couldn't resist.