Mjolnerd

I know there's been some debate over this outlook, but I propose using the names of the channels as a guide. I can't imagine a clearer or more concise method than that. In the case of this particular topic, I'd say as long as it's kept to General and not, say, Help or LFG, hey, go nuts, kids. Or maybe a temporary mute that doesn't permanently ignore the person but does silence them for some amount of time? An hour, a day, a week, I don't know. Just because I don't feel like dealing with someone right now doesn't mean I won't change my mind (or they won't change their behavior) later or in a different situation.

At the end of the day, which armchair copyright lawyer is correct about what constitutes infringement and what doesn't, isn't really all that relevant. Whether HC wants to take on the risk of running afoul of Disney's (or WB's, or any other massive corporate entity's) large, highly-trained and expensive legal team very much is. A court case is a massive headache even if you win -- and let's face it, they wouldn't. Create ripoffs at your own risk. The graveyards are full of people who had the right of way.

That might be the design intent or how the absolute math works out, but I've never personally known it to be the case in practice. I've got certain alts that have been sitting at 30-something for a year at this point, but once I have a 4 in that tens column, 50 is in sight and I'm making a mad dash for it. I can run 40+ content just as well at 50 as I can at 41, ya know? I actually save charges of the Experienced power for that final push; I move it into my tray once I'm (number of charges I have) levels away from 50 and activate it as soon as the fifth bar in each level is filled so that the second half goes by faster -- it's like fast-forwarding Christmas Eve so morning comes sooner.

Are they "spamming" chat or just... chatting? Look, I don't give a damn about probably 95% of what goes on in General (or Help) chat. Part of my "ritual" when I make a new character, along with visiting P2W and rearranging power trays to my liking and grabbing all of the badges in Atlas to unlock the teleporter, is to just remove both of those channels from my chat window. I'm not about to block someone so I don't see them come up in LFG a week from now just because today they said "hey, I'm listening to a song" in a channel that exists for nonspecific chatting.

Okay, fair enough. But my second post in this thread... that counts, right?

Thank you! I will take you up on that later on. Appreciate it! Okay, see, even after just glancing at the TL;DR paragraph in the first post, this is already about ten times as useful as most guides I've tried -- generally those are about 25% self-congratulation about how much money the poster makes, 40% assuming the reader already knows the jargon they're throwing around, 10% "I'd go into more detail here, but of course you understand why I can't winky-face emoji," and 25% implying that anyone not currently Scrooge McDucking their way around an enormous tower filled with enough inf to swim through is either lazy or stupid because making money is just so easy to do you guys oh em gee I can't believe everybody isn't as rich as me. It can be very easy for someone with in-depth knowledge of a subject to forget just how ignorant others might be about it. The vast, vast, vast majority of "get rich on the market" guides are written by consignment-house billionaires, for other consignment-house billionaires -- people who, frankly, don't really need a guide. Almost none of these things are targeted at people who don't already have a comprehensive education about how it all works. They might claim to be, or they might be indented to be, but in practice they aren't. They're just obtuse and confusing and rely on the assumption that the reader has already gone through dozens of other, very specific, pre-existing guides, some of which probably aren't even here on the forums because what do you mean you don't also frequent Reddit and Discord and the archives of the old forums from live? That's why "just use a guide, they're already out there" is so frustrating. This one is much better about... not being that, than most. Also, I thought I'd share this funny meme I found. Apropos of nothing, of course. Isn't it entertaining? I apologize for it being completely unrelated to the topic at hand.

Wait, I think I can save this. Turn it into a rant. Or at the very least, a diatribe. Hopefully not a screed, though -- I don't want anybody to get hurt. Which is to say, I get it, to a point. I've tried reading these mythical guides people keep mentioning, but most of them are so vague and paranoid and secretive as to be almost useless. "How do I get started using the market to make money?" "There are already guides. Read those." "I've read several. They all said I should do something called 'converter roulette,' but none of them explained what that is or how to do it." "Oh, that's because it's explained in other guides." "I looked at other guides, none of them had any actual useful advice. Like, what kinds of things should I be on the lookout for? What should I convert things into?" "You'll figure it out." "Yeah, that's literally what I'm trying to do right now. Can you give me any specific, practical information I can use as a jumping-off point? Please?" "What? You mean mention a particular recipe or piece of salvage in this context, even just for the purposes of providing an example, instead of just gesturing vaguely toward the market as an overall concept?" "Kinda, yeah. Not that I expect it to be perfect, I understand we're talking about a living economy that's constantly changing due to any number of different factors, but literally any kind of actual starting point would be really helpful." "But my niche!" It's like trying to get a mobster to give you a straight answer about how he's able to afford the Mercedes he bought for his wife as an anniversary gift: "I do business. If you know what's good for you, you won't worry about what kind. Capiche?"

Any blast power when you're standing right next to your target, then for no discernible reason you extend your arms above your head and fire straight up into the sky.

I tend to only read/post to General, Art & Multimedia, the various archetype forums, and the one for the one server I play on (Excelsior). I'll venture into Suggestions about once a month, but not regularly. Everything else I pass right over.

Oooh, ideas already bubbling away for these. Grabbing them now to experiment with, I'll release them again in a day or two if nothing comes of it.

Ooohhh it's a female character! Yeah, no cigar for the ladies. For... reasons? I don't know why. But it's been that way forever.

Y'all just jealous 'cuz it's a good name and you didn't think of it.

If I'm remembering right, the cigar has been in there since day 1 (or at least, the point when I started playing, around issue 3 or 4). The cigarette was part of the Gunslinger add-on pack that was added after the transition to CoH Freedom.

Hey, didn't we do a Posi together last night? Speaking of, I've been on kind of an "optimistic heroes" kick lately, so here's my Supergirl/Power Girl/Mary Marvel homage, Excelsiora (Energy/Energy scrapper).

What. The. Eff. Are you talking about? That's not how it works. That's not what enhancements do. And all enhancements (apart from ATOs) are available to all ATs as long as they have a power that can take that type of enhancement. Seriously, your statement makes no sense whatsoever. And neither does the complete non-sequitur that followed it -- what does capping damage have to do with anything?

I mean, I literally quoted the episode in the post, so....

Now that's a name I can trust!

I mean, this is a discussion forum. Discussing things is literally what it's for. If you need to complain about a problem but don't want people to offer feedback or solutions or otherwise respond to you, I don't know, man... start a blog or something.

I was gonna say. Ask for clarification, maybe? This whole thread strikes me as the overly-defensive complaints of someone who doesn't actually want to learn, they've already decided going in that a subject is "too hard" and that they'll "never get it" so they aren't going to bother trying. I work with a lot of retirees who have that same "stonewall" mentality regarding simple tech concepts like passwords despite those having been commonplace for at least twenty-five years now, and in my free time I teach people how to play board games, so I see it a lot -- glance at thing, fail to instantly understand thing, declare thing impossible, blame thing for being impossible. "We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas!"

It should (SHOULD) unlock more or less instantly. But every once in a while... it doesn't. And when that happens, the answer is "turn it off and back on again."

Oddly enough, I find Spinning Strike to be maybe the single most satisfying-to-use power in the entire game. The fun-to-button-press ratio there is off the charts for me. I'd play StJ just for that animation/sound combo alone, even if it were extremely subpar performance-wise (which it isn't).

You're preventing the weapons deal, not... intercepting the weapons for yourself. Nobody is going to be like, "thanks for keeping that cache of stolen experimental military firearms out of the hands of that violent death-obsessed street gang, hero! Why don't you hang onto one as a reward?" The rock isn't one of the weapons, it's just a rock.

They're not an energy blade and energy fist, though. They're a telepathic blade and a psychic fist. Psionic Melee -- the clue is in the name.

This is the same almost-logic that leads to Empaths who spend most of their time waiting for someone's green bar to drop but not contributing anything while everyone is at full health because "I'm a pure healer," and frankly: fart noise. And more to the point, it's also not just there for damage (unless it's Fire, I guess). If you're not blasting, you're not applying that blast's secondary effects either; you're not debuffing enemies' damage resistance, or applying slows, or reducing their accuracy, or whatever your blast set's "thing" is. You're only doing half your job.