Herotu

It looks like they're publishing them again... or something. Probably in the wake of the Critical Role surge. https://palladium-store.com/1001/category/Heroes-Unlimited.html

That's cool, I like that - but please take a look at the rest of my message. In it I suggest that these event alerts get brought into the gameworld. So instead of spending time gawping at a chatbox, like we're playing some 1990s MUD, we can see alerts in the world itself.

100%. It's completely pointless and annoys your friends. Why would anybody use, let alone pick it? It's the low bar. If it were me, I'd make it work on all your own pets, regardless of range - which would give it a purpose but only for a few classes. Then I'd look at replacing it entirely with something fun. Perhaps move afterburner into the pool instead of having it on that annoying popup. Why should you get that free? That's USEFUL. Hey there's the first thing I'd do. Swap Group Fly into the annoying popup and afterburner in the pool. Easy peasy, problem solved. ... and that's just off the top of my head. I'm amazing!

Is green™ copyrighted?

This one's funny. He doesn't fight crime, he just hopes that the Invisible Hand of justice sorts everything out for him. His real name is Thomas Hobbes. No, that's not right, Hobbes warned us about Natural Law. This would be someone else, but Hobbes could be his Nemesis ... that would make this guy a villain, well we knew that when we saw the name. I'm too tired to sort the intellectual intricacies at the moment 😞, but there's a good joke here, I can sense it.

Superadine sounds an awful lot like GammaRays to me...

I was thinking how you could do an event like the burning building. I came up with ... Assault on Precinct 14. I haven't got much further than that. Thugs attack a cop shop. If players don't stop them the thugs win and... er.. something. Like the burning building, probably no consequences, but still.. maybe a badge if they manage to succeed, whatever that looks like. I suppose that's much like this already existing demi-event in Nova Praetoria.

WEEEEEE! FREEDUMB!

I think we could do with alerts of in-game happenings, and more happenings. I want the city to seem alive and the players to interact with the world, not just mobs placed upon it (which is another suggestion altogether, which is another suggestion <- one for the Police Squad fans). The lazy manifestation of this would be just some "Occurrances" chat channel where things get spammed when they're on. I don't like this idea at all, it seems too meta, too check-listy and non-organic. Instead, I'd like some kind of thing you can check on your own terms, so you whip out your stolen police radio or newspaper and, perhaps, a UI element pops up with currently occurring things on it (and time remaining, because how many times do you just get there when the burning building or troll rave is ending?). Or there is a ticker on a building with HAPPENING NOW, or BREAKING NEWS: on it. Or a video screen, a LED/LCD advertisement board (hello 2023) or some other non-UI in-world element indicates the emergency. Maybe you're a tech origin with a wrist-mounted news feed or something?

There's a power called gang war. Why aren't there any street fights? Would it kill the processors to have some gang-on-gang action? I mean, make the city seem more alive and less about "pods" of "mobs" waiting to be "farmed". A good example is the fire events in Steel Canyon.

Aww, what did our corporate profiteers ever do to you? Oh.

Er... nnnno. Crackers are these: https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/264902491 Ignore the disgusting price. That's just 13 years of.. oops, nearly got me! Haha!

Such a heathen, they're clearly crisps. They come in crisp packets. I don't get it. Could you elucidate please? The player-base always justifies OP stuff with, "you can turn it off if you don't want it", or "you don't HAVE to run a full team", etc. Then we get comments like, "Nutters doing personal challenge runs". I leave it to the rest of you to judge that comment and reflect on what it says about people who suggest that options are better than actual limits.

Who knows what the numbers are? Certainly not me. Or you.

It's ironic to see so many people lamenting the powercreep they've (we've) all asked for/taken advantage of. More speed! More enhancements to speed! Athletic speed on top of that! Teleporters, convenience items and special routes (through pvp, pocket d etc) to allow us to go from one place to another very quickly. Now the City feels small. And we reminisce about the days when it was challenging to bypass groups of mobs. Do we realise now that the journey was part of the fun?

I feel like I don't get ... is directed the right word? I mean, I feel like I don't get pointed in the direction of the big important stories, or if I do, that those are the ones I skip "reading". I always go the same route because I enjoy it: Habashy, Twinshot, Sondra whatsername, Aaron thingymajig, Laura whatsername, The matrix guy in Talos, Ray Cooling, all the faultline contacts... then I usually stop playing my character and do another one, heh. BUT I want to know about the big stories. The one that reveals what happened to statesman and the others... where do I start with those? Is there an indication somewhere and I'm just not observant enough to spot it? I would like to know where the "big lore bombs" are. A guide of some kind would be nice.

Thanks Einstein.

I was going to suggest this combo. I saw someone using it once, the teleport looked fun but I didn't level mine.

If it's a 32-bit client, doesn't that mean it will "only" use 4GB of memory? That doesn't sound awful for such an olde game, to me.

The metadata says 08 ‎July ‎2007, ‏‎21:05:53 but it might be wrong.

Remember when it looked like this? 😄

Ah, then that's where we differ. If it's for narrative purposes and not used excessively, I can tolerate some restrictions, if they serve their purpose properly.

I don't think they exist.

I have a physical one here, I got it with the Good vs Evil edition of the game. It's double-sided. Oh hang on, it's different!