Herotu

Sirenia!

It does sound fun. I'd like to try something underpowered sometime, but I live in a different time.

One might go so far as to say a, "City of Heroes"

Hard disagree. People can already hoard names. Costume competitions don't encourage this AND giving away (not auctioning off) the name to a player who has a costume judged by multiple people to be WORTHY of the name will satisfy the current holder that it's not going to someone who doesn't give a flying monkey's, as currently happens if you release a name.

This is what happens when we tell people to just enjoy the game and don't worry about your build. They get frustrated because we didn't give them an easier way to understand the enhancement system. Then we have to do all this remedial work on the symptom of the issue instead of fixing the cause of the problem.

Does Foot Stomp count as a kick?

You can say that about any public/community relations exercise. These forums themselves are nice but impractical.

Are you among the "Do your own thing, but not if it ruins my fun" hypocrites?

Looking forward to the IT vs IF spin-off.

Do we have to sign this? Is it a petition or something?

I appreciate a good wizard, and this looks like a good wizard, right here!

The USA is up against one of the best teams in the world: India. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2024/jun/12/usa-v-india-t20-cricket-world-cup-live

I Googled (DuckDuckGo'd) your definition ... please note the circled words.

Before I begin, I know there will be legions of pedants lining up to tell me there's no objective "Best". Okay I've covered my arse, you can go home now. Now they've gone, I know that you know there are lots of "better" story arcs around! Come on, let me in on the secret, which are they? Here's some info in case you want to suggest something to suit my particular taste: I don't usually play far beyond level 30. I'm generally in decision hell at that point, with epic pools to choose from in addition to pool powers and the end of obvious archetype power choices. Additionally, the missions seem a little dull and don't grab me in the same way I'm used to. So that you might get a grasp of what kind of arc I enjoy, here are some of my go-to contacts; Matthew Habashi Sondra Costel Aaron Thiery Field Agent Kieth Nance Jenny Adair Roy Cooling All the Faultline Arc(s) I'm also interested in what happened with Statesman and the surviving eight, so if I've missed low level stories about them, I'd be interested in playing those. Thanks for helping me! 😄

Thanks for helping with the issue, that's good infos. I think, however, the point was that the hump is something the devs could/should flatten out i.e. that the hump itself should not exist.

See? This is another example of the secret stuff I mentioned in the "How do we fail new players" thread. We need this information foremost for players somehow. All these niggly things that make a difference should either be; 1. entirely eradicated from the game or 2. much more prominent so we all know about them. There should be no build-oriented secrets.

I hate popup boxes as much as the next bot, but ... Streamlined as in creating story arcs that introduce new players to elements of the game? - people complain about Twinshot, but that's exactly what that is. How else could it be streamlined?

I'm looking forward to watching Paragon Squares...

Well that's BS ofc. People can do what they want, BUT if new players aren't being sufficiently informed that they have options, that's a different story.

Hey! I did a blue character recently, too! Thin Sky Blue King You can do anything but lay off of my sky blue suede shoes.

What's wrong with powerlevelling to 50 then doing all the skipped content through Ouroboros?

I'm sorry. I'm just going to refer you to the text you quoted. As you see, you never pre-determined the group size as the determining factor, but you could have done. You don't limit yourself to just Training Enhancements. These are limits you *could* place on yourselves. The freedom to NOT impose them means they don't get imposed. I once heard of a group that wanted to try levelling with just SOs. A special, one-off group that disappeared after a time (perhaps they were ninjas). The problem being that people bump up against the limitations placed upon them by the developers. Absolute freedom for freedom's sake is not desirable. Changes to the game that improve things by imposing some kind of restriction aren't necessarily bad.

I refer the honourable gentleperson to the answer I gave yesterday. I am going to state WHY we're talking about this again because it seems off-topic when it's not. My point is that freedom isn't always desirable. People are defending a lack of change by claiming freedom is always best, when it's not. "Self-appointed dictator"? Is that what you call the Developers?

I am a big fan of the "feeling" you get from some powersets, and I did notice this with Dark. I wondered why I stopped playing it, and you've taught me!

My point is that when you don't fill a group, it's not because to decided that you'd place a predetermined arbitrary cap on the number of members, although you are FREE to do so.