Herotu

THIS is how to do a great reply. Thanks a lot, @srmalloy.

Go and post this trash in someone else's suggestion thread. There's a whole subforum for you to have a crack at.

I actively mod and publish (in this and other games). I do my part for players. And I understand the difference between "telling" and "suggesting". Unlike some, apparently.

I'm not making a prediction, I'm making a suggestion. ... but if I were to make a prediction, I'd agree with you. That's a very important point, thanks. The suggestion does mean making the patterns into a left and a right that probably have an "invisible" other side. I don't know if it's possible to overlay one pattern on another. It seems a big job, but hey why are we even here?

Chest/Leg patterns seem to be limited to symmetrical patterns. Would it be feasible to split them into two separate halves in the same way Gloves and Boots were recently split? So left/right? This would then allow new patterns to be made with asymmetry.

TBH you should find out a build with a solid, tried and tested pairing of powersets and use that. There are too many weak or crappy combinations to be experimenting, particularly when you're new. For my first combination I went with the old Controller Fire/Kinetics, knowing that it was used to farm level 50 maps way back in the decade-before-last - holy smokes... what did I do with my life?

I love supergroup uniforms. Check out all the other supergroups all uniformed up in the background! Amazing!

Ye... I get this. ... and YET, I still want to be able to go and grab Scorpion shield etc. without jumping through a million hoops on the way there and another million to get back. I think a lot of players don't understand that games require limits. That's what makes them games.

I think the OP has a very good point. I also believe there are ways around the need for Hasten, BUT they are ways around. It'd be nice to see every skill in the game rebalanced regarding cooldowns, but even if you did that, the aforementioned "ways around the need for Hasten" (I'm talking about IO set bonus "reduce cooldown of all your powers") would become more powerful than ever - so THOSE would need to be retuned, too. It is a mammoth task, but not one without a reasonable cause. Having said that, who really gives a shit, right?

Distinguishing between genres of medium is easily said when not actively participating in their consumption. The word "immersion" is bandied about a lot and you can see the reason why. It's because when you're absorbed in a game, you're actively participating in ROLE-PLAY: you're being the character.

Does that stack well with Titan Weapons? It seems like a similar thing..

Yep, I'd suggest you drop the graphics settings and see if that helps.

Brutes seem to have taken over the Scrapper's spot - the original idea with the Scrapper (before Brute was availlable to heroes) was that it was the single-target DPS counterpart to Tanker's AoE. Now Brutes are available for heroes, they merge Tankers' AoE with Scrappers' DPS. It's the best of both worlds! Or is it? Does the Scrapper archtype double-damageauto make up for it's lack of AoE? TL;DR Why play Scrapper now? FIGHT!

Thank you very much, mysterious people who made this happen. I found that I had taken screenshots as far back as 2006 on Union EU server ... and in the metadata I found that I'd got the names of the people in my teams... so here are just some of the names (my characters appear a lot obviously). Thanks to all of these people who played way back when and made my life a little bit better. Isaac A52X-69E, Virdigris, Brother Smash, Captain Equality, Ichi Zengetsu, Foraois Gadai Brother Smash, Virdigris, Captain Equality Abdiel., swilly0.4, Burning Miracle, Ace Neutron, Crimson Lady, Primaria, Hibrido Shmite, RIGger Ixatami, Master Control Unit, Kit Thug, VX-03, Evil's Incarnate Queen Radiation, H A T E, Ordinary Girl, Fioran, Protector James, Shakespearean, King Touchstone Undervoid, Fioran, King Touchstone, Ordinary Girl, Miss XS, Posie Lou, Spartann, Snow White mike lighting, Commander Justice, Ordinary Girl, HFA, Energetico Krome, Ordinary Girl General Thomson, Master Control Unit Ordinary Girl, X-Star, Total XP, Krome Master Control Unit, Argerlich, KleenKut, x Chojin x Master Control Unit, OrangeAgent Krilban, Master Control Unit, Killer Al, Legendary Legend, Professor Ruin, Claudette, Mar'Duk, Merciless Fate Suz, Santa Clauwz, Darcath, Boss Frankenstein, Hoodoo Dolly, Necro-6, Master Control Unit Nasty Nas, Marisa Warrior, Master Control Unit Sneaky Sensai, Master Control Unit, Crystal Meth. Silent Sorcerer, Dryxx, Darkweb, Master Control Unit, Evil Administrator, Rayn Bo Saphfires, PsychoRedeemer, Ordinary Girl, Brocalia, Golden Link Ice Ice Boogie, Cabbage., Ordinary Girl, Medic dude, Phoenix Volcano Great D, DOC ., Captain Equality, Sentryman, P H D Great D, DOC ., Captain Equality, P H D, KungFooChikin, Snuggleshot Galatic Man, X-Radia, Captain Equality, Neoke Redefined Captain Equality, Mystic Flux, Hottie Healer scrapperman, Vincentx, Captain Equality, Asura DGod, SuperGodfallElite, Zica, Trollbot, Evolution. T0AN, Angel of Illusions, Ice-Kalki, Whirlwind Visionary, Captain Equality, PyroMinxx, Kintensity ArmourGeddon, Liquidat0r, Ariad, DylsGoodside, Captain Equality, Awe-Shade Autumn., Numph., Bianca-Jade, Sedgwick, Colossus 2 Aretta, D-Mented, Burnt Sienna, Diablos Jr, Ur Mum, Hero 2, Gangstez, Knightly Vengance Ann Hancemen, Third Strike, Razorwind, Nova Celestia Big Red Git, babel, Captain Equality, MR JR, Storm Enchantress Blue-Reaction, Sgt. Stride, Mother's Love, Captain Equality, Admiral Freezer, Fulcrum Arrow Brother PsychoPlant, Pointy stick master, Brain Wheels, Captain Impossible, Envoy of Flame, Arachno-Murk, Bubba Bash, Blinky the Troller Brother Smash, Zhao Xia, Captain Equality, Migician, Azaral, Invisible Lad Captain Cowtastic, CEBU, Aplite, Captain Impossible, Steele Titan, Markalicious, gothic queen 40k, Professor Arcane Captain Equality, Blaze Eagle, Star Jewel, Toxic Red, HAIJEN, Frozen Echo, Blaze Marauder, Scarr Dark Reptillion, Vectorial, Ms Freedom, Nightwysh, Caryatyd, Monkey Chop Banana, Red Spines, Captain Impossible

Are the recipes for the new IOs correct? I know it doesn't matter because they all cost the same (i.e. come from the same pool), but the salvage is all the same on each recipe of a set.

This joke still makes me lol.

Wow, it's striking isn't it - what a cool concept - it's like a supergroup uniform!

It seems that the Path aura is a sub-choice of the regular aura. If you change the regular aura, the path aura resets. Is that what you mean?

Melee + no defences = blapper style.

Could this be described as the blapperiest dom?

[edit] I just checked one of my alts and that doesn't have this problem. ... but I checked my main again and it DOES. In one of the Homecoming patches, a mistake was made on the Info panel. The one where you right click someone to look at their badges. If I look on the info panel at badges, it looks fine, but it's NOT. When I mouse over any badge on the info panel, the badge enlarges and the name is supposed to be displayed below it. BUT somewhere along the line, the name has been put BEHIND the badge, so you can't read it very easily.

I like how the top number 255 like bytes are how power is stored. Funny! 😄

Yep yep, I headed this one off at the pass - I covered all of it in the original post. It's also why I think it would be interesting to take a weakness some way to make yourself super-strong in another - this way there's a special reason to do it. BUT what I'm trying to eke out of the community is a WAY to manifest the weakness. I don't want it to just be a weakness to a damage type or special NPC, those don't see satisfying. (are you thinking Nemesis System?).

Well how about this as a notion? The powers are arranged into a circle/wheel or whatever, and each power has an opposite. It's easy for some, not so easy for others. To do this it may be necessary to lump several into groups (like assault rifle might go into a group with dual pistols etc)... anyway, the notion is that you've got these opposites... here's the trick... You're vulnerable to one power/group, but you are strong against your opposite. This way you can have weakness but also strength. I am not sure I like this solution, but it's in it's formative stage - I mean it's obviously copied off a zillion prior concepts such as Fire/Ice elemental opposites and, Magic the Gathering.

Let's not be defeatist! Computers are getting smarter, let's give them some credit!