Mjolnerd

I believe you're looking for the Suggestions & Feedback forum, this post is where players come to ask other players for advice on costume design.

Tick Grayson? Though I suppose that would make him a ward. A Burt Ward! (But seriously, I'm seeing Ted Kord Blue Beetle in that design more than Batman or the Tick.)

Is there a particular name, origin story or aesthetic beyond "tech" that you're looking for? There's a definite Wild West feel to what you have already -- are you wanting to preserve that?

I sadly don't have Gargoyle, but I do have Gargouille -- the French spelling, pronounced largely the same and arguably more thematic since a lot of the more famous gargoyle-having locations in the world (Notre Dame) are in France -- which I'm doing... well, not nothing with, but little enough that I could be persuaded to let it go.

Tried it. As I've mentioned twice already, I've followed the guides. As I've also mentioned twice, moderate profits. The 20 million in 20 minutes I mentioned before? Congratulations, that was, like, half your doing! Thanks. But since then I've had "80 million in 20 minutes at the low end" and "fully IOed plus an extra 80 million in two hours" quoted to me. And both parties made a specific point of mentioning how easy it was. Those numbers still sound grossly inflated to me, but nobody else seems to think so, so I guess they could be legit. I've got 20 minutes right now -- what specific steps do I take to make 80 million inf today?

I mean... okay? This is exactly what I'm talking about -- everybody is eager to tell anyone who will listen all about how much money they're making, and even more eager to brag about how easy it was for them ("semi AFK and half tabbed out of the game"), but nobody wants to talk about how they're actually doing it. It's like an MLB All-Star saying "it's only a 90 mph fastball, right over the plate. Just hit it, it's easy!" Here, I'll quote myself too: I've followed the guides. I even had someone very nicely explain to me all what all of the jargon that's used but never explained in the guides actually meant, and give me a few pointers to help me get started. I kept at it for several weeks. I saw moderate profits. Moderate. Nowhere close to what you're describing. I did everything I was "supposed" to do and never saw these mythical 80-million-inf windfalls. Clearly "just follow the guides" is, at best, incomplete advice. I'll ask one more time. Answer the question or don't. How? Not "how much"? HOW?

That's four million influence a minute, every minute. Almost a quarter billion an hour. Sorry, I don't buy it. Either you're overstating how much you're making, or exaggerating how often you see numbers like that, or both. I don't doubt that it's happened a few times, but I can't believe for a second that you're making so much, on such a consistent basis, that 4mil/min is "on the low end." What are you claiming is your average, then? Five million a minute? Ten million? Please. I tried for a month or so, and frankly, I was making nowhere near that much. There was profit, absolutely, but at most I'd pull in about 20 million in 20 minutes, around twice what I make on average just running a farm in AE. And that was on the high end for me, sometimes I'd make significantly less. Unless I was doing something drastically different from what you are -- and I'm sure it was different but not to the tune of 400% or more -- I was never going to see numbers like what you're claiming. Just once, I'd like someone to actually state how specifically they're pulling in these untold millions of inf that are "so easy" to make instead of just gesturing vaguely toward the market and saying "guides! There are guides everywhere!" But wait, you can't do that, can you? You've got some super-secret technique and/or niche and if even a single other person knew about it, your profits would bottom out to, what, four million a minute on the high end instead?

Nobody tell him I posted this here.

These both nail my outlook. The market isn't fun, it's not why I play a game -- any game. Even proponents don't make it sound exciting. I've tried the different techniques, and after about 20 minutes I'm falling asleep. It feels like homework, not heroics. Somehow, converter roulette makes running the same farm with the same enemies for the tenth time today seem like a vastly preferable way to spend that time, so that's what I do instead. And I'm not new by any means, I've been playing since about Issue 4 or so right up until sunset, and on HC since literally the first day it was open to the public. There's a reason that superhero comics, movies and TV shows don't show Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne sitting in finance meetings going over quarterly projections, or Peter Parker balancing his checkbook. They'll mention that those things exist, sure, but they aren't going to make the audience actually watch that stuff -- because it's about as exciting as watching a particularly uninteresting shade of off-white paint dry. It's the same reason even shows where real-time is part of the gimmick like 24 didn't actually take the time to show Jack Bauer using the toilet or waiting at a red light. I understand there's money to be made, and if that's working out for you, cool. But games are supposed to be fun, and that's not fun for me. Sure, I could spend two hours of my day managing my stock portfolio and probably have a higher balance in my bank account than I do now, but I could also spend that time watching a movie or hanging out with my kid or cooking a nice dinner, you know?

No fun. Only zerg.

Highway robbery. I'll need to beat up three, maybe even four entire Hellions to make up the difference!

Sure, it's absolutely a dick move... but unless you're dealing in truly massive quantities, 10,000 inf is still kind of a drop in the bucket.

Well, you're never gonna believe the name I just got on Excelsior!

My first thought was also a Water Blast/Mental Manipulation blaster. Of course, mermaids aren't really known for spraying water all over the place. So you could just go with psychic powers and a mermaid-inspired costume. Or lean into the "siren" aspect of mermaids and use some combination of psychic and sonic/symphony powersets. It's also worth mentioning that ancillary/patron powers can help fill some thematic holes -- all psychic powers and also MIND SHARKS!!! for example.

Well, that was... not entirely incorrect, but certainly needlessly hostile. I don't think I've seen anyone in this thread "whining" or calling for any of the changes made in the game's lifespan to be rolled back, just reminiscing. "Hey, remember this thing?" "Oh, yeah, haha, I do remember that thing!" Yes, things are better now than they used to be. Yes, there's always room for improvement. But seriously, dude: chill the eff out.

Me personally, not at all. For all the pearl-clutching some players like to do about this set not doing as much as that other set (or for extra woe-is-me, being "unplayable"), every set in the game does enough damage. Every single one. Kinetic Melee is fine. Archery is fine. Storm Blast is fine. You may not like them for one reason or another, and maybe they could use a once-over from the devs to address certain issues, but even if that never happens, their damage will still be fine. Really.

Most of them were created several years before SR was proliferated over to tanks (Issue 21, the "Freedom"/FTP rebranding), so probably not. Maybe one of the characters created for the failed Korean launch?

If Spider-Man is a melee class at all (there's an argument for him being a Dominator, I think) he's absolutely a Super Reflexes tank as opposed to a scrapper. He does the punchy-punchy, sure, but it's not his main "thing" -- defense in the form of dodging and avoiding enemies' attacks is. Inhuman agility is his "primary powerset," so to speak. Plus he makes near-constant use of Taunt.

This is also the guy who was surprised that people had more than a handful of Hami-O's on any given character, because what MMO player would run the same content over and over again for the best gear available at the time? And apparently the rest of the dev team had to fight him about marking shops on the map because he had some weird idea about their locations being secret and spreading through the community by word of mouth. Because that's how stores work.

Hulk is strongest one there is, and therefore has no pressing issues. Nor does he have curling issues, deadlifting issues, kettlebell issues, pullup issues, push-up issues, box-jumping issues, or squatting issues. He does, however, have issues with the old guy in the locker room who insists on getting dressed socks-first. Hulk not need see that. HULK SMASH PUNY WRINKLY MAN

Doctor Doom never graduated college and is, therefore, not technically a doctor. Reed Richards, on the other hand, possesses several doctorates, but chooses to call himself "Mister" Fantastic, making him both more modest and substantially more egotistical than Doom. To my knowledge, most of the Masters of Evil do not possess master's degrees. It is statistically unlikely, though technically possible, that every member of the Sinister Six is left-handed. How does one count Doctor Octopus for those purposes anyway?

I'm trying desperately to construct a hilarious joke here involving Luck Charms, the color green, and the fact that it's the magic-themed enemy group in the game, and I'm coming up short, so I'm just going to post this picture instead and trust that you'll all laugh at my (purely theoretical) comedic genius:

The cape mission. Broadcasting that you'd pay however-many million inf to tag along on someone's fortune teller mission, because you'd somehow missed it yourself and there wasn't a way to go back and get missions from contacts you'd out-leveled. People accumulating so much debt that they'd delete the character outright rather than try to dig their way out of that hole. Dying multiple times trying to sprint across Steel Canyon from one train station to the other because the yellow and green lines hadn't been combined yet.

Upon my first reading of this line, I thought I had somehow missed a major plot point wherein it was revealed that the tailor in Steel Canyon was in league with the Tsoo and personally sending them after heroes who came to him looking for a new costume. "Hello, Tub Ci? It's Serge. I've got another one for you. Asked for red boots to go with their green tights, can you believe that? I know! Some of them are beyond help. Anyway, yes, right outside my shop, any minute now. Thanks!"

I'm on the west coast, but I work second shift (2:00 - 11:00 PM) so I'm usually not on until about midnight my time/3:00 AM your time at the earliest. Sometimes that translates to still being around at 4:00 or 5:00 AM PST/7:00 or 8:00 AM EST, sometimes not.