Coyotedancer

So Mac, you're going with the idea that City was designed with the idea of open-world factional PvP from the very start... Interesting. I know SOME form of PvP was planned, but I've never heard that idea before.

And with that one post Liquid has absolutely erased any interest I ever had in Titans.... Not that I had all that much to start with, mind. But still. 😝

CoH/V just isn't a PvP-centric game. It never has been, and never will be and the majority of the player base like it that way. We have very little interest in regularly trying to slaughter each other or in seeing the game become an open-world kill-fest. One of these days the people who keep making these suggestions may realize all that, and maybe accept the truth that the majority of us are scrubs and carebears... or whatever the current trash-talk terms for PvE players happen to be... But I'm starting to have doubts.

Wailers also blink. A lot.

My human-only, Bahir, isn't actually a Kheldian even though I built the character as a PB. He's one of my odder Oranbegans... a heliomancer... So, in-character for him, there's no alien hitchhiker to deal with. He's just a mage whose magic revolves around photonic effects. With the two I had back in the live days, I took the "two made one"-approach. They weren't two distinct personalities sharing one body so much as one combined entity that had all of the memories and a mixture of traits pulled in from both halves of the pair. Mist in Moonlight, for instance, still retained the Elysion hunter's taste for munching on raw natterlings, along with every bit of his ferocity, protectiveness and territoriality... while also having the Kheldian linguist's diplomacy, habit of quoting favorite bits of poetry and absolute fascination with human music. Anima Sola was a similarly mixed blend, though in her case Solarin (the Kheldian) had a less obvious influence than Mist's partner had. He and Ani'ka had just started out with more similarities in outlook and attitude than Shining Mist and Moonlight Poet had, so it was harder to tell which traits had come from which personality.

It is a lot of dust... I'd be for having the option to take a swiffer to it.

I'm always surprised that Mother hasn't had a terrible, terrible accident with that belt buckle and her... frontal augmentations, let's say. That's just a disaster waiting to happen. You know it is.

There's a pretty wide gap even between an "okay" IO build and a really well-tuned high end one, I'd say... That would have to be taken into account as well.

Agreed. It's still far from universal for characters to have complete IO builds, but just based on talking to people in-game and looking at the character information windows (Something I do habitually-) of the people I team with? I'd say about half seem to use them, at least to some extent. Not all of those have anything close to "complete" IO set-builds, mind. There seem to be *A LOT* of "mix of common IOs of various levels, plus a few sets here and there, plus a few procs and specials"-type builds among the Everlasting and Excelsior players. I'd even go so far as to say those make up the majority of the IO-users I've seen. It's just one more reminder that those of us who hang out on the forums and routinely build absolute monsters aren't exactly the "Everyday Average" we tend to think we are. 😝

That one I'm okay with... Even though a good half of the times I've run it, I've been on a Stalker. 😝 Maybe I'm just amused enough by the Mu guys (That one in particular. I wonder if he ever got to visit Jezabel?) and the goofiness of the wailers for it to overcome the janky pathfinding and general bother of ambushy escort missions.

Absolutely. And again taking cues from Wellman, there are definitely elements from native folklore involved. Things like the dakwa are as much a part of the area's lore as the tollers, mammots and flats.

Fusion is kind of a jerk, as I recall... But yeah. He might be more fun to have around than that near-sighted excuse for a coyote. <_<

*coughs* Yeah.... I always said that was a matter of Anigan just not fighting fair. XD

Back in the day, I had a pair of bi-forms... 'Mist in Moonlight' was my Human/Dwarf (His two pre-merging halves were an Elysion hunter named Shining Mist and a Kheldian linguist named Moonlight Poet-) and 'Anima Sola' was my Human/Nova. I didn't see a compelling reason to stick strictly to the "astronomical names"-thing for either of them. My human-only PB here on Homecoming is named 'Bahir'. That's the Hebrew word for brightness. Which works really well for a perma-Lightform "fuzzball of fury". XD

I'd suggest picking up a copy of Who Fears the Devil if you can find one that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Aside from just being good fun to read, Wellman's Silver John stories really do convey pretty well what I feel like the City version of Appalachia is like. (He never actually sets a date for any of his stories. The supposition is that they're mostly set in the 1950's, but there's a timelessness about them that jives with that "not as developed/modernized as the region is in our world" feeling I have of the place.) Cabins in the woods and isolated towns with little general stores aren't out of place.... Witch's Gap, the place Shonokin is from, is like that.

No worries, dude. We all have days like that.

That's also a good point... The dynamics of playing on a small team, or duo/trio, are a different animal than being in the middle of an eight-player wrecking ball.

Wow. You sure read a lot more into that than what I actually wrote... But hey. If it makes you feel better to tilt at windmills and pretend they're giants, have at it, I guess.

Yes. I have some trouble believing that anyone found sidekick-juggling when you wanted to play with mixed-level friends or constant "You're too far from your mentor!" flash-messages fun.

That was such a ridiculous pain in the rear... and people WANT THAT BACK?! Yikes. o_O

As I said in that other huge thread... On high-level teams? Yep. Absolutely. Those kind of teams absolutely do not need me and my support characters. They never have. Which is why I run all but one of mine (a Time/Dark) exemplared with mid-level teams rather than at 50+. Those lower level teams actually need me. I make a difference there.

No thanks. I prefer being allowed to join a team with my Peacebringer when I want to, instead of being treated like the character has the plague. <_<

It could actually be a heck of a lot of fun as an optional mission setting, I think. I hope the idea gets some consideration.

I'd have to mention it... Probably as a "Oh hey, did you guys know that X does Y? You know... That same Y we've been looking for for ages? Cool, right? Tell me it doesn;t break anything vital so we can keep it."

Ah ha! I am Mighty Martial Artist! *does big kick attack* Smell my foot, evil-doer!