Clave Dark 5

I've usually got all that figured out - even the "do I bother keeping this character?" - by the time I've leveled to 50, which is why I prefer leveling normally. Whatever works for you though works, yeah.

The fact that this is the one game that won't scold you for playing a petless MM is one of its strengths. Feature, not a bug. I'll say it again (and those coupla people will drop by to downvote me again, just watch), but I recently leveled a semi-petless MM (lion-only Beast/Storm) and never once got any grief or even a "huh?" for it. Every time I asked to join a PUG I'd let them know what I was running and no one cared.

Huh, I was about half ready to try that name for a Psi Dom I made a little while ago... oh well, I'm happy with what I got.

I would have too. I've no problem with petless MMs, but wow, you do have to know your settings. Some of the most face-planty-PUGs I've been on had to do with the ignorant choice of "OK, so now I'm 10th level, so everything goes +4/+8 from hereon out, right?"

I may be both... or one of those I recently got TPed to the mission door on a redside PUG and the teleporter said "what the hell did I just TP?!" when I arrived.

Thank you for the info, I always appreciate hearing from you. Level 1 makes a lot more sense than PLed level 50s. Now the fun question: how come Devs don't do something about that? 😃

You and me both. It's not real Latin but anyways Illegitimi non carborundum.

For any of that gate keeping nonsense: distance, one-star note them, block them. Life is so much better!

Way ahead of you!

I often do this, I'm also quick to tell someone they've got a great name. Shout out to a villain I teamed with recently: Kill-Ade Man. Huge body, no head, giant skull on his chest, everything red. If you don't "see" it, think about it for a second and then you will. When he joined the team and got close, and I could see what he was, I went "OH YEAAAHHHH!"

Same, but I guess it comes down to how one defines "good name," there's a lot of assumptions baked into that. That said, I would really like to hear from a dev on this too, because the idea of someone devoting all the time and effort to PL a handful of toons repeatedly to 50 just to names-it to annoy people seems really unlikely: Did they dual-triple-quadruple box themselves? Think of the time needed to set up all those separate accounts right there. Or did they let them door sit on someone else's farm while they otherwise played? That seems too slow. What's a "good name"? How did they determine what you think is a "good name"? How few "good names" do you think there are or can be? How'd they generate the list of "good names"? Like say they pick "_____ Darkness" as a "good name" (not even going into where they got that one too); did the troll(s) sit down and think up a lot of possible versions by themselves (more time spent now), or maybe run a "random adjective generator" and then plug those in? If one came out "Unacceptable Darkness" is that "good" or not? More time spent making decisions. Moving more quickly by bypassing making any costume or real power picks (to save time of course), still think about how long it would take to make a new character and then get them to an AE building in another zone. Did they make them all brutes or whatever AT choice that's easiest to click on? That would certainly show up for the devs, skewing the numbers. And think about how many people played Live vs. are here on HC, I bet Live population was much larger overall, across the years, so this name grabber would really need to be working even harder to make a dent/mess for our smaller group. Like cornering the market or creating a new account to come scream profanities in char before getting banned again, how long do you think they'd really keep at it all? Maybe I'm 100% wrong and there really is a small cadre of a-holes who hate HC or are just trolling for the lulz, but this is a lot of effort for not great return. Trolls are small-minded people who'd lose interest fairly quickly, seems to me, because this wouldn't provide the instant gratification of personally, instantly seeing the anguished and angry cries of the trolled. That's why that one guy or two kept making new accounts to comer yell all-caps racist stuff in chat, but how long did he last? Occam's Razor. The idea feels like conspiratorial thinking to me.

I clicked Rest and didn't know how to get out of it, so I was stuck on one knee. I could swear I tried unclicking it, but...

Not to sound too flip about this, but citation needed. And that one saying they're doing so doesn't hold too much water, it's easier to troll the forums than spend the time doing that. Heck, why not report such a person too? I'm just not convinced, sorry.

I have never had one of my own! And I've only been on farms twice and was pithingly bored both times. . Man, we could be out there jumping around and pew-pewing vampires or robots or something, and all ya wanna do is button-mash at tissue paper?!

Dom End is often a problem until you've reached perma-Dom, when you'll probably be able to fill up with that juuuust as it's starting to run out. So if you're not building towards your insane-o levels of recharge yet, that alone can make a big difference for you. Even with perma-Dom, soloing can go slower so I don't build to Domination as quickly, which means I might have to start popping blues. I have found that Doms tend to only really feel like they're starting to bloom fairly late - which makes it all worth it for me, but of course YMMV. And then there's also slotting the usual mix of procs in Health and Stamina to help fuel you (Panacea, Performance Shifter, etc.), do you have all those in your build?

Sometimes really early, sometimes mid leveling, sometimes as soon as I hit 50 and realize I have no desire to ever play that toon again.

True of all software, really. Some of the stuff I have to deal with at work really should be designed for the pig-stupid people (cough cough) but was apparently instead designed BY them.

Oh goodness, that's a lot, I should look into some of these...

And then that one annoying guy keeps popping Fold Space to grab the group back to him, because he's the awesome here.

My understanding on how The Things Work is that it's a matter of attachment points, not just setting a flag. I'd guess the shouldery-cape thingies take up that back attachment point, so nothing else can be fit on there.

I see Excel speedruns on lots of things, any and all TFs, and when I find myself on one and say something, I'm generally the only one doing so (I really should just drop when that happens). That's one thing I like about SBB: level-capped so no hiding behind your wall of purples, Winter Expense and fully IOed builds, and you have to take it at the pace it goes at, no cheating your way through. The "meta" is indeed to grab everything like merits and Inf are going to be nerfed (just look at Scrapyard). I'd be happy to join this, except I game during odd hours and even after the big influx Indom is dead during the night (and Excel pretty much reverts back to what it was pre-influx: four people spamming to door-sit a farm, a Yin speed-run, and a Tin/Px, which may also be a speedrun). But all power to y'all! Maybe I'll check in sometimes, just to see if maybe there is something to get in on.

Say WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT? I've been ignoring two new toons I made recently (never a good sign for them) to play my last 50 a lot, and she's been red side fa0 rmore lately than blue, so... yeah, play redside!

But the murk is her friend! She's survived all these years by being a mystery, perhaps an engima, maybe even a hoax! Leave the woman some decency for cryin' out loud!

I just got lost in there tonight. First I'm all "oooh, what's down this hallway?" and before you know it, I was all "how do I get outta here?!" Since we can't have a map, then some signs, maybe floor arrows... a talking NPC who says "main base's thataway" each time you go by them, anything would be nice.

I can't even get into the game now, the game even had me send a crahs report. I went to update the videiod maps. I logged in, was on for about five minutes, tyhen it crashed out with this error msg: That popped up whenever I tried to get back in. I've tried uninstalling the Vidiot maps, and uninstalling/re-installing it, "to homecoming" as instructed by the original page. Now when I do that, I get a msg that says "be sure launcher is closed then click OK." Every time. The launcher is closed, I even restarted the computer and didn't try to open before updating and and I still get this. I should have known this was going to be a headache, every time I touch this stuff it goes south, Snarky was right! 😃 ETA: yeah, the game launcher crashes every time now. ETA mrk2: and now it all works just fine... sigh... I swear I did nothing different. Someone send me a panda please.