ShardWarrior

I can only speak for myself and those I run with on a regular basis, but I cannot remember the last time I ran a Council radio mission. So no, that is not "legitimately it". There are many reasons. In my experience, it is more about people simply not having a 3+ hour window of playtime for a single TF. I would also add not everyone is running around on a fully decked out Incarnate. Lower level TFs/SFs are still plenty challenging for lower level characters that do not have all the bells and whistles yet.

Going to do some more testing on this one today as I love DB on my scrapper. One thing I remembered that I had been meaning to ask, can the existing ToHit IO sets get Accuracy added to them? There are no Accurate ToHit buff sets and some of the bonuses on the existing ones work well with DEF based secondaries. Thanks.

Ran this with a team of 5 on Vicious difficulty. Overall very fun and definitely something different. Only thing I noticed that seemed buggy was the Hero 1 battle. His constant rabbiting around and healing to 100% seems very buggy. Props to the folks who designed the new environments. Very well done! Purely a personal opinion with regard to rewards - I do not think 40 merits makes this even worth running, even with Incarnate salvage drops. You will get way more for much less effort doing a Hami raid or iTrial than this. I may run this once on the most advanced difficulty for badges and bragging rights. Beyond that, I do not foresee wanting to run this with any kind of higher difficulty. It just takes way too long.

Referring to the below linked post and this sentence in specific... "Hard mode enemies will have higher baselines stats, but nothing unfair and no absolutes. Nothing like big special damage types or auto-hits." Having just run the new Aeon SF at Vicious level difficulty, this statement is not at all accurate. There were plenty of special auto-hit un-resistable damage 1 shot kill you powers being used. Are these part of the new difficulty or just native to the new SF at normal difficulty?

Would be spiffy to mix in an animation or two from the staff fighting set into this to give it a mix of range/melee.

A good place to start is the Base Builders Cheat Sheet in the Base Building sub-forum. The answer to your question is in there.

Batman would win, because Batman.

You are assuming grinding for unlocks is the only means for the game to grow. More actual content, especially for level 50+, is going to do more for longevity than anything else in my opinion.

In a live game that relies on players playing and more importantly paying longer, yes. Here, no.

Name hoarder! 😋

@Jimmy I know I have given you all a hard time over the base teleport stuff, but let me say these are freaking awesome! I am loving Athletic Run! Loved the power Ninja Run, but always hated the Naruto pose, so thank you! Question about the Stances - are there any plans to add other stances to the customization? Like Villain Pose 1/2, Hero Stance 1/2 etc. Thanks.

Sadly, this is very true of the community here in general.

You are assuming they did not know that already. They asked to hear from more people on this subject, so let the people provide feedback.

I do not disagree with you. Again, this is something a GM would be able to answer. This sounds right. I want to say that I recall this discussion coming up when the game was live and the answer was something to the effect of with the amount of work required, it would be easier to create a whole new engine. This is what Cryptic did, hence what exists in CO, STO, NW and so on. No doubt, however I personally think this is the minority of cases. Most names would get released by freeing up those on accounts not logged in in over a year.

For sure people name sitting is a part of the problem, but again with those you can still get in contact with the owner of the name you are after to negotiate with them for releasing it. There are several threads already on the forums for name releases. People are willing to give them up. Personally, I would bet the bulk of names to get released would be from accounts that are no longer active. @Greycat brings up some good points too. This did not work as well as intended back in the day.

I think it safe to say most of us are the same. However, in this case, any names you may have had here would get released and you were still given the opportunity to come back and chose not to. Fair for all.

If they are sitting on character names but playing other characters, the owner is still active and you still have the opportunity to contact them negotiate with them to release it. Again, I am not sure whether or not people are allowed per the rules to have others log in for them as I think it may fall under the account sharing rule. A GM would be able to clarify. Fair enough to say that courtesy emails is extra work, albeit really not all that much. Personally, I think going with accounts not logged in over a year will free up the bulk of any names. This game simply does not have the population to have that many names being hoarded.

I do not think it would need to pull individual character names, just accounts that have not been logged into at all in more than a year.

Well no, you are just upset that someone disagrees with a proposed policy as it is written. Again, I have no issue releasing names for those accounts that are gone and have no intention of coming back and see no harm in at least reaching out to ask.

How hard is it to use a free mass email service? Querying what accounts are inactive should be no problem at all if they are able to do that to release names.

Why not? I get emails from games I have not logged in to for a while all the time. I see absolutely no harm in it.

Again, please try reading. Scroll up. I am not against a name release policy. I simply suggested that the one offered could use some alteration. And if a name is important as you say it is, can it not be just as important to someone else as well? Should they not be at least allowed the common courtesy of an opportunity to keep it? Just pointing that out.

And doing without a name you wanted is?

Most libraries are not gaming machines nor do they allow you to download software onto them

Agrred, but why should this go only one way?