Techwright

Loved it as a kid, but then, we also used to make white break, sugar & butter sandwiches at the school cafeteria. How we ever made it through afternoon class, I'll never know. I've avoided SPAM in my older years due to medical concerns. As long as they don't come to take the scrapple too, then I'm fine.

Is CoL the abbreviation for Champions Online? I've actually never see that, but then I don't follow CO (as I used to see it). I did dabble in Champions Online years back, and I seem to recall that their swinging travel power fired lines into thin air. That seemed stupid and immersion-breaking then and now. But if you put something on the end, a small anti-grav pack for the naturals and techs, a glowing rune for the magic types, some biological bubble for the mutant and science-y types, then at least it doesn't look entirely ridiculous hanging in mid-air.

I see you hacked the security camera feed covering my work team.

Actually, I've given that some thought over the years. Webbing would incur Marvel's legal wrath, but what about an anti-gravity "grappling hook" attached to a hi-tech fiber? It doesn't have to look like a hook: a small metal cylinder, perhaps. Fire it forward, a-g hook goes to open-air distance, holds position, character swings, hook and wire retract as next hook and wire are launched.

First off, how is there not a thread in this forum on this topic yet? 😕 Okay that aside, who else is stoked for the last 2 episodes of season 2? Share your discussions and theories in this thread. And remember, use the spoiler feature to hide sensitive info. This is the way, or so the Devs have spoken. Oh, and any thoughts on web chatter about possible spin-off series?

Preeeetty sure it's not a gaming pc. Sorry! 🙂

Low cost solution: place a large cookie sheet with a lipped edge under the bowl, or possibly get some of those high-absorbent puppy housebreaking pads to keep under the bowl. I'm curious to know if this behavior predates her time with you. If not, it may be some emotional effect due to the change. I've not raised cats in decades, due to allergies, but I've seen dogs go through odd behavior due to trouble coping with change.

Thanks! That would explain it. For all my time in the game, I've yet to tackle Night Ward or First Ward.

I see this sort of thing all the time in my business IT department. Without holding the laptop to examine it, I wouldn't know for sure, but it does strongly resemble damage to the monitor, as opposed to a software issue. Really wish I was closer. I'd have been happy to swap out the viewscreen and keyboard for you. I don't know if you have the like in your area, but a flea market about 20 miles from me has an IT vendor of used parts who'd not only sell replacement parts, but handle the repairs for a modest fee. I can just barely make out "Toshiba" on your viewscreen. Vendors like him get most of their stock from decommissioned goods businesses want rid of. This doesn't necessarily mean ancient hardware. I've worked for companies that prefer to replace their models soon after a 3-year warranty runs out, and this is the kind of business he likes to "shop" at. Agreed. The challenging cost might not be the hardware, but finding a qualified tech to swap it for a reasonable fee. Keyboard, too, since Emmy pointed that out. Neat find! I was interested in finding just such a monitor. Just the thing to go with this new, inexpensive Raspberry Pi keyboard computer:

Curious, as we have both staff fighting and NPC in Cimerora that throw spears. I'm guessing it would fall under ranged in the same way that the Energy/Energy set is considered range, even though the secondary is energy melee. I've long thought the idea of an elastic ranged punch would be animatable, but I'm not sure something like an elasticized wrapping effect to essentially hold or immobilize an opponent would be doable, and for the same reason that Greycat says wrapping whips and grappling hooks wouldn't work.

Thanks! I'll look into that.

Such a wealth of information, thank you! What's the previously-undocumented mission?

Using Ouro to actually do what the Menders keep talking about. Cool concept.

Don't you have to do that 3 times?

Somewhere in there is a character.

Where is this in the game please? I'll be the first to say I've not experienced every corner of the game, but I've never even seen other people's shots of this before.

I can only speak from my perspective, though judging from other comments, it overlaps. My personal preference is to team through content, rather than solo or duo. This is polar opposite to any other MMO I've regularly played, probably because Pick Up Groups here are usually polite. Unfortunately, that means almost always sacrificing storyline missions. If you watch the LFG channel (in my case on Excelsior), PUG storyline teaming is almost never brought up, though radio/newspaper teams reasonably often are. I suspect this happens for a few reasons: 1. zone containment. Original content was written to send a player often outside a zone. Why? Probably because its a time sync: keep the player occupied in the game, but not pushing for a volume of content not currently developed. When storyline PUGs are run, I usually see calls for ones contained entirely (or nearly so) in one zone, such as the Hollows missions. Bottom line is players are willing to go to a zone, but not all over the place. Why else is Numina TF so reviled? So a hard look at storyline pathing might make it more appealing. 2. No investment by the team in story content. That is, the team has been conditioned to "go there, kill/arrest/rescue/find that", and that's about it. As a result, it's the rare PUG team that's willing for a lead to read through the storyline content on each mission. There needs to found a better way to invest the full team in the storyline. The Summer Blockbuster might serve as one template towards this end. 3. XP. Why run missions for an hour for half a level's gain when I can plow through a task force/strike force in the same amount of time and level twice? I mean, I do this, but even I'm aware that it gets dull after a while running repeatedly even something fun like Moonfire TF, I'm not sure what the answer is: bump up the story mission XP? provide an increased chance for rare drops? Give diminishing returns for running a TF after getting the badge for repeating a Weekly? Other? While I'm mentioning this, I feel street sweeping could use some love as well. Back in 2005, there was a lot of it going on. Today, it feels like an afterthought, and about the only time I see it is when a TF requires it. One thing I've felt it could benefit from is the street boss. This is the "Hogger" types, for those of you who've played WOW. Being able to beard the lion in his den, and hopefully get a nice drop with it. The closest thing I've seen to this is the prison break event in Brickstown. I actually enjoy the event. It's one of the few things on the street that makes me nervous to solo as I climb the ranks, rather than feel like I'm the alpha predator. Changes to these, especially where it feels like a challenge even to a 50, might reinvigorate this content, and consequently add to retention.

Welcome home! If you've not figured it out yet, the game is not static, and we recently had Issue 27 drop. Might take some time to read the notes, as there were some notable changes to transportation, among a host of other new and revised material.

Perhaps change to War Mace/Rad brute? WM has a very satisfying hit rotation, and the backpack has a bat, which is available as a war mace. Plus, you can tune the radiation to more or less match that sickly yellow bioluminescent color of your character. Alternatively, maybe give TW a try again, as Issue 27 smoothed some of the gameplay.

Ascendant? THE Ascendant? The one that rode a dino and used a laser sword? Wow, for a guy talking on the phone all day, he really managed to crank out creativity.

Not only that, but it's advancing. New content, and revisions/improvements to some older content drop periodically, including the new Issue 27. Europe is that way --> Reunion server Excelsior server <-- most populated server is that way Roleplay is that way --> Everlasting server Indomitable & Torchbearer --> earn some lovely participation trophies. (J/K...put down those rocks.)

"Normal" being the operating word (see below). And yeah, AzureAngel, Little Lost Boy looks fantastic! Hat's off to you. It's not easy to make youth look natural in the game. (Just ask Baby New Year.) I rebooted my character Vincent Poe. You may have seen, earlier in this thread, the original character's look like an attempt to mimic Vincent Price. Rebooted, Vincent Poe's starting look was as a child just on the edge of his teenage years. With his name and dark/dark powerset, I went for "creepy kid" look, not normal. Now at security level 50, he's aged to his late teens, and has a refreshed look.

I've a staff brute, built more like a scrapper. I'd recommend just defusing any potential issues right up front by explaining immediately to the team as to how he functions. Usually, you'll have courteous responses.

Hear, hear! 👍 If there's anyway possible to unleash these people into designing new instanced mission environments, please give them the tools and unleash them!

Then there should be a counterpart: Not It: Be the first to click "Accept" for your queued event 10 times.