Techwright

Glad you said that, it clarifies. I'd been thinking of "goo" like Nickelodeon "Slime", and wondered how that would be accomplished. Now I'm thinking more like "gummi bear".

I'm fine with wider caves, like that in the Atta the Troll mission. Blue is a tad disorienting, but it is the space compression that is the problem. (well that, and the layer-cake room) Design a wider cave tunnel that's blue and I'll likely have no problems with it. Even throw in a few bottleneck points. I'll recognize them for the tactical advantage/disadvantage they can be, and I'll be fine with those.

It does seem like it would be an obvious choice. I mean, our portals can show clear distinction of which zone instance is which, so why not the announcements?

Kesinger has a lot of great Star Wars/Calvin hybrids!

You did say "real world vehicles" and it is.

Probably using Lady Bathory's skin care bath additives.

Lotta good points in the thread. Whatever is to be tried, has got to be with communication to the team UP FRONT, before the team starts, not as you're racing away from them. This gives you or them the option to back out and find a team that does align with one's desires. Remind me, gang: is there a distance point where a teammate closer to the door might not get XP from the kills of the path makers? If so, that's a problem to consider before dashing off. So is the end room scenario. I've seen and been on teams that speed and stealth zip past the cave goons in order to lay waste to Jurrasik, leaving behind those teammates who do not have a chance of slipping past, and no effort at teleport is made. That's selfish, especially if not communicated. It's why I love it when a recruiter announces the mission or task force will be a speed one. If I join with a slow toon, I have to consider it might not get a lot of XP, and might not be present when the AV is felled.

Everyone else has general ineptitude? Why am I asking? Of course they do! Not should it (in most circumstances). WOW introduced me to the concept of raiding. When a high ranking player described it to me, I learned it required players to be at specific spots or the raid mechanics would kill ya. It required specific rotations of powers. Many were required to hold to specific raid schedules or be penalized. I steered well clear clear of all that.

Marking myself as safe from hurricane Helene. 🙂 We think the eye went right over us. Hard to tell because all power failed at 5:20 am, and we didn't get a sense of that quiet that storm eyes are known for. As I write via phone, most of the western half of my state is without power. I realize to a coastal area used to bad hurricanes this is probably nothing, but it is a different story 250 miles inland. We're used to getting tropical storm remnants this far inland, but we've never seen amounts of water, wind, flash floods, and outages like this, and the area just isn't prepared to a level like our coastal cities are. I am hearing there are many deaths, tragically. I'm hearing the mountains close to Asheville, North Carolina are even worse. The village of Chimney Rock, for example was apparently wiped out ( The Last of the Mohicans movie was shot nearby), Lake Lure, where Dirty Dancing was shot, is so saturated they're fearing the dam will break. I know many other states are hit, I just have limited connectivity at the moment and don't know their details. Power restoration time here is anyone's guess. The closest we've ever seen to this was a great ice storm in 2005 that knocked out all power, and it took up to 10 days to restore all power to the state. Hoping to be back up to full annoy-the-forums mode quickly. I am certainly not the only player in this mess, so keep your friends in mind as they recover. I'm now seriously thinking the next big game event threat should be environmental, and supers have to help out during and after the storm, including rescues and dealing with gang looting.

My etiquette requires wiping the blade of the last victim's blood before striking another. Less chance of infection that way. Joking aside, if you want to do non-PvP stuff in a PvP zone, might Grant Invisibility from an Empowerment Station help? Or is that only for PvE fights? I've not tested it in PvP, since I've not been to a PvP zone in at least 4 years.

It's a fair point that it was late in his career and he wasn't top form. I never read "From the Earth to the Moon", but I did "read" HG Wells' "The First Men in the Moon" via one of the old Classics Illustrated comics which were pretty fair adaptations. Suspension of disbelief is a must have with that, but it is still a lot of fun. (I'd love to find those old Classics Illustrated and re-read them.) I did not know that Verne was that prolific. 🤯 It rivals, maybe even surpasses, Alexandre Dumas.

Of what, exactly? The Thunderbolts haven't formed yet. In baseball (and there's sports folk out there who understand this better), an asterisk is used to denote an accomplishment, but with a condition that makes it suspect or sullied. A player might have an achievement score with an asterisk beside it, because of steroid use proven after the fact, but not proven in conditions that would remove the score. I'm wondering if Thunderbolts* is due to something like that: it's been pitched to its members as a lofty-ideals team like the Avengers, but they'll discover they've been manipulated (something we already highly suspect due to scenes with the contessa) and the victories they have are actually being used for the wrong purposes.

If they do have an equal chance, then there's something gumming up the works. I've often had play sessions where 8 out of 10 inspirations dropped are accuracy ones, and the other two are orange damage resistance ones. And it goes on long after one counts up 10 of them.

While I do like Verne, I must say I was sorely disappointed in "Master of the World". I read it for a couple of reasons: 1) I'd heard it focused around another superweapon far ahead of its time (much like the Nautilus) 2) I'd heard Verne wrote it after he visited the mountains of North Carolina and decided it was the perfect locale for a new book. Well, I live a mere couple hours drive from where the story centered. I'm up that way frequently and consider it part of my region, so I was intrigued. But...Verne got the idea of a volcano in the Appalachians all wrong. Not only would that look completely awkward, but the people in these parts, by the scores, would not hesitate to climb that thing and look inside out of overwhelming curiosity. In essence, what would have worked as a disguise in, say, Washington State, would be a complete failure of a hiding place in the Carolinas. In addition, the superweapon, though concept-wise was intriguing, was ridiculous in execution, in comparison to the Nautilus. I think there were a couple of other "off" things I've forgotten. I really tried to like that book, but it just never took off in my mind. Perhaps some Hollywood writer can make it work some day. I know there was a 1950s movie from the book. As to Earthsea books, I discovered the first story on a bookshelf when I was house sitting at age 14, and stayed up reading all night, finishing the book around dawn. I read the rest over time, but none ever had the impact for me as that first book did. Growing up, at a time when paperbacks were $2 each, I had hundreds of dollars in Star Trek books. I eventually sold the lot, but looking back now, there are only two authors whose works I'd consider re-reading: Diane Duane, and John M. Ford. Duane's Trek masterpiece, IMHO, was My Enemy, My Ally. It advanced Romulan society concepts, and presented really fresh concepts, for its time, in out-of-the-box Trek combat tactics and alien crew appearances (meaning no humanoids for these). Ford's masterpiece was The Final Reflection, and although it was outdated the moment Worf first hit the screen, it's study in pre-Next Generation Klingon culture was astonishingly good. Fans still try to get Paramount to incorporate elements of his take on Klingon society, especially many versions of "Klingon chess", including the live, gladiatorial version. There is one series I only read one book from, and always wished I'd read the rest. I refer to Edgar Rice Burrough's Tarzan series. Perhaps I'll look into that soon. Other childhood reading collections included a Tom Swift book series from the late 1970s/early 1980s (now sadly forgotten, but in my mind superior to the 1950s books which I also read), and a collection of works on Sherlock Holmes. Dad started me off with the complete set of the original Conan Doyle stories, then I started collecting the works of other authors. Some were really wonderful. Even picked up some cool games along the way. I retain everything I bought in regards to Sherlock Holmes, though most is packed away. I'm not a member of the Baker Street Irregulars fan club, but it's likely I have one of the largest Sherlock Holmes collections for my region.

Dancing with the Stars just gets crazier every year.

You might actually get me to watch sparkly Snarky wannabees with that setup.

Setting aside "what about Bob?" for the moment, I know you know Ross is more Rogue (by CoH definitions) than he is hero or anti-hero. Did you forget about him, since he's not in the teaser? I'd consider him at very least a nasty, scheming, controlling menace, though perhaps not the Big Bad. Perhaps no CGI in this teaser, yes, but ...did you forget about Ross?

Okay, no teaming with any guy dressed like a cross between T-Mobile and Verizon.

So you made a love child of the AT&T logo and the old Sprint color scheme? 😛 J/K. It does look sharp, truly.

Additionally there are players like myself who are actually affected by the long dark, both in the real world and in the game. We actually had a forum chat about this years back, though I don't recall a lot of details other than the devs stating their understanding of the issue and limiting the amount of "night" during the event. Remind me please: what triggers Jack and Eochai in P.I during October? Is it a trigger that works anywhere, in this case Kallisti Wharf? Because tackling them is a second thing the "murder motel" crew do in PI.

Interesting. I wonder if it might be handled slightly differently, with sound being a feature to be placed like a fountain jet is. Click a spot then drag either across a floor or perhaps three-dimensionally to define a space where that sound is to play. That way, as but one example, you could have a restaurant that plays sound both inside and in the al fresco dining area, and it would not be limited to a specific item. You'd be able to place an item, a mute item, in the sound area to imitate sound coming from it.

I'm all for new concepts, but I hope you realized you just described Martial Arts' Dragon Tail and Eagle Claw.

Welcome to the majority opinion of the last two decades. 😛

Would that be set to their account rather than the character? And what if they're running a second or third account? I'm certain Okie has been running events on multiple characters. Either that or someone is really skilled at imitating him. I do agree some sort of stand-out recognition is in order for those who consistently go above and beyond. Is gold lettering the way to go? Not sure. Haven't we had a history where devs have handed out gold titling for fun stuff beyond what you mentioned? I think the OG devs used to do this for fun but silly reasons when they'd make appearances in the game.

Hey, it could still happen. If MCU's Crossbones can become DCU's Rick Flagg, Sr., Daredevil become Batman, Jonah Hex become Thanos, and several other swaps, it can happen. There. I've ruined another minute for you. Perhaps two, even.