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To be fair, only some people will get any reference. I'm not even trying to be a smart-aleck pointing that out; it's just the nature of things. We could put a dry cleaners into the game labeled Tony Starch and there will still be people whose heads it goes over.

They're kind of not, though? They just don't chime in every time the thread is cloned or resurrected. It's been mentioned by devs in the past (can't remember whether Paragon and/or Homecoming) that Null is a workaround because the options UI can't do his functions. The Homecoming team has also mentioned on other topics that they're not keen on MacGuyver solutions.

I know this phrase gets thrown around a lot but: as a menu option then? I actually would like to see when others are using it, especially if their character concept is a fourth-wall-breaker.

Don't want to get caught-up in the discourse but... IIRC, the /enterbasefrompasscode or whichever command was stated to be a GM/dev command that players shouldn't have access to but were given until the solution of summoning a base portal with a power was properly implemented. Is it not feasible to make a new command whose only purpose is to grant/revoke oneself the Group Fly token - only that single, very specific token - and purposely open it for general use?

As with Uun, I'm all for spreading draw-in to fitting powers. Emphasis on fitting, though. Spreading it for parity's sake and dismissing the powers' themes isn't something I would like. And, Rudra already beat me to the punch, powers like Ring of Fire / Fire Cages already do have reasons they'd immobilize someone. They were designed with that in mind, even if some reasons are flimsier than others; they were not designed with any explanation on how someone would get pulled-in.

Yeah. I'm more of the mentality, personally, that we should use power customization rather than separate sets for these. For those that want the elemental damage on the weapon sets, the interface slot exists. It does suck that you can't use it until level 50, so the character concept will feel hollow until then, but it's there.

Limiting any badges to specific level ranges probably won't go over well unless that's via the missions themselves and not actually the character levels, allowing people to reattempt. It'd be a shame to accidentally hit 21 and go "whoops - forgot to get the badge for that level range; time to remake," much less 30 or 40. That or any of the gazillion new and refurbished set gimmicks accidentally doing AOE damage and harming a civilian unintentionally.

Forgive me if I'm reading into this wrong but this seems like a thinly-veiled request to make it easier to harass people for character names. I can't imagine it's a pressing need to check name availability while logged-in because you'd still have to log out to create a character to lock it in if it was available.

A bit of a stretch but there's some manga/anime characters that can flex their muscles to take on a bulkier form. We're not just talking bodybuilder posing vs resting but technically shapeshifting from skinny to Mr. Universe. It's a conscious effort, so they revert any time they're not actively maintaining it. The two that come to mind are All Might (My Hero Academia) and Galatea Undine (Claymore). I don't think it's a far cry from conceptualizing a character doing the same for height.

Man. Delivering a smackdown so intense that the TVA prunes your whole league for it? I feel for you.

I'd been contemplating similar ideas on a henchmen-and-armor archetype, given the multiple suggestions/discussions cropping up about it over the past several months. I find it helps me, personally, to have power tables to visualize what full sets will look like, so here's some of what I had banging around in my head so far. Feel free to take any ideas from it. (I'm going to wrap it in a spoiler tag so as not to spam a wall of text the thread.)

This. I think aliasing the command with something shorter is simpler and more accessible to both the end user and the dev team than rewriting how the command is parsed. How about /toggleon and /toggleoff?

Were you maybe thinking of Boxing and Tough? Man, Flurry is so bad people haven't liked it since before it existed... (Which is probably true, to be honest.)

"I'll make my own theme park! With blackjack and [patrons]! In fact, forget the park! Eh, forget the whole thing." -Bender

If we're talking specifically armor, I'd say the ones that are the easiest to assemble a full set of powers for would be Water/Fluid/Liquid Armor which I posted about here along with a couple of other water powerset suggestions (self plug), Psychic Aura, Sonic Aura, and Temporal Aura.

Was Mass Hypnosis changed while I was asleep or something?

Neat ideas. No strong opinions, personally. Perhaps as a simpler solution for people who don't want to do mayhems/safeguards is to just have the radio/paper continue providing missions even when the broker/detective's meter is full. Maybe with a disclaimer at the top saying "[broker/detective] wants to talk to you" so it doesn't go over new players' heads.

I photoshopped them.

What category does your set belong to? I would assume melee but then you have a ranged attack and a pbaoe kicking it off, which is unheard of. It's also missing taunt/confront if it's melee. Here's some icons I threw together to illustrate what the set might look like at a glance. AspieAnarchy, Alchemystic, and I have taken our own cracks at a spear set in the past here, here, and here if you want to compare.

My concern with this is that you'd be incentivizing the character to generate aggro without management tools - DPS, armor, crowd control, range - and it's in melee-distance with no shields or mez protection. That can be a fast-track to having its face caved-in by a Freak tank or similar. (At least, I'm assuming it doesn't have high damage. My bad if that's not the case.)

Cool story, bro. I've been around since 2005 so you've got a year on me. 👍 I'm not interested in measuring [broad sword]s.

This. Parry (and Divine Avalanche) are utility over damage; they trade the raw power for a hefty defense buff to melee and lethal - both very common damage vectors for someone who has Parry to encounter - that can be maintained as long as you keep sprinkling them between other attacks. By all means, if you don't need that sort of thing (such as already having a defense-based armor), skip them for a pool power but they're a good example of niche-but-potent powers that I would really rather the HC team not touch and turn into a middling all-arounder.

Maybe a system message in the chat window? For instance, You may now change your costume.

It's referencing this post from yesterday:

As an option, I don't particularly care. Not as a forced change, though. Not without the ability to downgrade inspirations. It would be counterproductive if it upgraded something when I was actually saving it in case I needed to merge it into something else, or in case a bunch of inspirations dropped all at once before I could.