Techwright

Yep, saw all of Unlimited. I know the "ending" of Batman Beyond was part of Unlimited. I've pretty much seen everything in that grouping of animation with the possible exception of some of the episodes of The Zeta Project.

What might peak my interest is a series connecting Batman: Then Animated Series with Batman Beyond. Show Bruce as an aging Bat who has to continually re-engineer his suits to compensate for his aging body. We've seen in Batman Beyond the last mission of Bruce wearing the suit that eventually belongs to Terry McGinnis, but watching his decline might make him interesting for being more physically vulnerable. It would probably mean seeing the death of Alfred, maybe even Lucius Fox, the alienation of Barbara, the ongoing struggle to help Robin recover from the gene manipulation by Joker, but all that too, could raise the stakes as Bruce more and more is forced to go it alone.

Purely out of curiosity, @Tsuko, looking at your signature, why was the title "La lune Bleue" (Eng: The Blue Moon) chosen as a French channel's name? Is there some significance of a blue moon to French speakers?

Well, it doesn't help that they led with arguably the weakest episode of the season. I get your point, though, and yeah, I can agree with it. The franchise needs a bit of a rest and a chance to breathe a little. It's not like there's not any other interesting characters in DC's portfolio. I've said it several times before: I'd love a series, animated or live, focused on The Question. Also, the CW proved there was opportunity for tales of the Green Arrow, and I'd personally love it if they'd stick to the roadmap and have the GA/Black Canary dynamic. Blue Beetle is now in the public's consciousness at least and his story might be explored more. I'd love an updated Static Shock. There's so many ways to go with this. Cranking out Batman and Superman stories as fast as possible just seems myopic and ultimately self defeating in comparison to growing your audience's taste for the full collection.

Fixed that for ya. 😉 Thanks for bringing this up. Honestly, I never think about Vengeance, unless I've noticed someone using it earlier. In counterpoint, might I suggest that as the team forms, the user of Vengeance take a moment to tell they team they have it and please wait a moment before rezzing. Can't speak for certain mostly dead people, but I'd appreciate the alert at the start. For my part, perhaps I should look into creating a macro I teach myself to push when I've fallen. Something that generates a message to the team "Avenge Me!". By conditioning myself to do so, I automatically remind myself to wait a moment, and the extra seconds necessary to press said macro might be all the teammate needs to start Vengeance.

I've realized the connection to Aaron Thiery for a long time. I'd add to the discussion: the proximity to the trainer version of Back Alley Brawler. The whole setup is almost perfect, except that there's no enhancement vendor near BABs. So when one advances, as is likely at time of finishing Sandra's arc, one has to leave Aaron's area and run all the way back to the Atlas statue for training and enhancements. This is why on previous occasions in the forums, I've suggested adding a vendor near BABs, even it if meant moving that surplus vendor in the basement of City Hall. (Do we really need 2 there?) Then one could exit, train, enhance, visit Aaron and start his missions which run nearby, all without leave the area. As to your other point @Ukase, arranging many more missions so they exit next to a new contact would be a welcome addition.

Bingo! That's what I'm talkin' about! While I suppose I'd have to find something that all posts would have in common (maybe a period?) to search upon, this very largely gets me where I need to go. Thank you so much, @LKN-351! And thanks to @Ukase, @GM Impervium, and @Luminara

*nods*...And has been contacted by Old Centauri and is off to fight Xur and the Kodan Empire.

I've notice in Talos Island that when the Kronos Titans spawn, and even the occasional Babbage, no matter where they start they seem to always move towards the train station, as if drawn to a homing beacon, even if it takes them some time, and of course, unless interrupted by players attacking them. 1) Is this an accurate observation? 2) If indeed accurate, would it be true for any zone where there is a train station? 3) If indeed accurate, if spawned in a zone without a train station, what, if anything would they home in on?

Happy to help...assuming it is indeed accurate. 🙃

Visually, I get it, but am wondering what a Rikti PB would actually do? Rikti body structure aside, they are technological warriors, and it was my understanding that even those with mental/psi abilities found basis for those in technology. Perhaps I was misinformed. If so, having a psi form might be interesting, though I'd draw the line at massive razor sword. That shouldn't be part of a host's form. I'm game for a support form, but I'm not in line with the "no attacks" thing. All three forms current are capable of independent function. Properly played, each form should be able to solo a mission. I'd expect the same from any 4th form. And as I type this, one alternate thought did come to me: what if your suggested no attacks support form, and any other half-built forms were added as 3rd column sets specific to Kheldians, much like the elite mastery sets, or just a standard set for Kheldians? In that sense, an "incomplete" form, in this case support without attacks, would not be designed to potentially be a stand-alone form, but as a rapid-swap form for specific purposes. EDIT: one last thought: what wire frames are in the game? Biped, quadraped, arachnid, "squid", floating sphere, serpentine humanoid, any others? One of those not currently in Kheldian design might be worth designing an alien around. Might be cool to have an alien quadraped looking a bit like a serpentine Chinese dragon.

I've not spawned Kronos in this manner myself, but I was told it happens by doing mission giver Crimson's arc. Homecoming's wiki states: Heroes can find the Kronos Class Titan in the following missions: Stop all Wildflower Agents from Crimson as a spawned ambush after the listed mission, as a Giant Monster enemy. I was also told that where the leader of the team exits determines where the Kronos spawns. So rather than exit the door, they'll teleport to a specific zone. I play on Excelsior almost exclusively, but was informed that some of the other servers have several coordinated teams who create these spawns in close succession on Friday nights. Apparently, teams will wait to exit a mission until all in the coordinated effort have their mission done and are also waiting. I assume the tactic has found its way to Excelsior. I'd also add that I've seen a Babbage spawn during a wave of Kronos attacks, so apparently that tactic works for Babbage as well. Again, this is all from bits and pieces told me. The information may be flawed, and a more accurate understanding would probably come from one who does this all the time.

Welcome, "home"! Not just "still alive and strong" but now with added NC Soft sanctioning!

Thanks! I truly appreciate the effort. I've accomplished similar in my previous attempts. From what I can see, I can get a listing of all postings for a designated time period from a single author, but what I seek is a step (maybe two) deeper. I need to pull only those author's postings within a single thread. Referring once again to the massive "Post Your Best Costume Designs Here" thread, lets say this time I want to find all posts by ....quick search for a random name in the costumes thread... Herotu. With the information provided in this discussion, am I right in saying I'm consigned to only a listing of all of Herotu's posts everywhere, and have to hunt through that possibly long list for anything within the costume thread? or is there a way to filter to only the results of the costume thread?

I feel kind of dumb asking this, but I've run dry on places to search (or have misunderstood what I saw). Is there a method whereby we can search a thread for all posts from a specific individual. For example, say I wanted inspiration for costume making but at a current 284 pages, the "Post Your Best Costume Designs Here" thread has become somewhat unwieldy for quickly finding past postings. Is there a way I can filter the entire thread to show only posts created by forum name First Player?

Not only was "Silent Sentinel" moved to Echo Atlas, but it's location within the zone is more west of where it was last located in Atlas Park. (I say "last" because I think it was moved once before.) Echo Atlas: [-610.1 70.0 -1889.5]

This is a good write-up. A few responses: (b) Wind drift would be to the east not the west. Nuke away, USA! 😛 (c) This sounds very CIA-ish. (d) This does, too. (e) This actually makes sense. We've already seen corrupt politicians in Paragon City. I can well imagine it a step further. While I can't speak to the Caribbean influence, the French influence could certainly have come from the same ones who colonized Canada. And if the Rogues did exist, they'd be a natural bridge/exchange spot between Canada, the Caribbean, and France. Everything's debatable. 😛

Yeah, that's always been a sticking point to me. Do we have any canon statement that the Rogue Islands are recognized as sovereign, even by a limited number of countries? Without that, they're pretty much fair game: the strongest holds them. As to why we don't flush them clean using supers, Paragon City is the prime example: supers are stretched too thin. There's the ongoing Rikti conflict, Galaxy City takeover, Nemesis invasions, zombie invasions, powered gangs of all kind, nightmarish groups of all kinds, especially Mot and its forces as well as Hami and his forces. We're holding the line, but progress comes in small victories like taking down Dr. Vahzilok.

Thanks so much for pointing that out. I've not done a Dr. Stribbling arc, at least that I can recall, and that's good information. That suggests a partial correction. Now we just need to get rid of the "NW of Bermuda" bit. Personally, though I placed a circle around the underwater mountains N-NW of Bermuda, I'd prefer to have much of the larger chain to the NE.

Though my list is small compared to others, I've too many to list. Many of my most-played ones can be found in the costume thread and include: Ace Barnstormer, Major Ray Gunn, Sea Sentry Control Tower Vincent Poe Aged of Aquarius Grill N. Chill Lumineon Watch Commander, Patriot Protector Thistle Wylde Lesser Saint Polar Cola Man The Rainforest Revenant The Eggsterminator Dr. Nightlight The Walking Red Conflygration Thunder Moon Styxian Stone Loony Lid Will Begone Red Skies Rogers Storm Seller

One adjustment I'd like to see made is that the character already has some limited skill with guns and martial arts. After all, he states in the movie he'll not have the comic book character use anything he (the writer) cannot do in the real world. It's too bad Ryan Reynolds and Chris Pratt already have established superheroes to their names. Either one of them would work in this role. David Dastmalchian could probably work as well, if his supervillain appearances in Suicide Squad and The Flash don't interfere in the public' perception. I think his role as "Kurt" one of the "wombats" in the Ant-Man and What If...? series probably is different enough to not matter.

This is a fun little talk that comes up periodically. I was looking at Google Earth earlier and started thinking on it again. I went to the Homecoming Wiki which reports: Geographically, the Rogue Isles are a small chain of islands NW of Bermuda that run in a band 50 to 20 miles off the coast of the US. Officially known as the Etoile Islands, there are dozens of islands in the chain. The main cluster of the group, home to Spider City, is at the 50 mile marker, outside US. jurisdiction. From there the smaller islands string toward the US coast. Now of course the R.I. (I see what they did there) do not exist anywhere near R. I. (Rhode Island) in the real world, however, there'd probably be some real world-like situations that would likely apply in the fictional world which bring this geographical description into question. I refer to the 12 nautical miles (nm) territorial sea boundary (sovereign waters), the 24nm contiguous zone, and the 200 mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). For purposes of simplifying, I'll not refer to the Three Nautical Mile Line, which is contained within the other three. Look here, if you want the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's definitions of these boundaries. I'm going to include a snapshot with additional markings of a NOAA map of these boundaries. The question is: which boundary are they following? If it is "50 to 20 miles off the coast" or the territorial sea (shore-side white line) or the contiguous zone (to the right of the territorial sea line), then the red oval below Rhode Island (with Paragon City's approximate location as a blue dot), is the location, which is what I suspect the OG development team intended. However that places the Rogues still well within US control as the Contiguous line is 24 miles off the coaster, therefore overlapping. Not to mention the protected EEZ, or even possibly the islands own territorial waters, assuming such is recognized by any nation at all. Now the wiki reference also notes the Rogue Islands are "NW of Bermuda", here circled in yellow, with a north-south line in yellow. If we can abandon the "50 to 20 miles off the coast" blatant violation of US control, and we can push the understanding of northwest to be anything west of due north, we have an interesting scenario. In the real world is an underwater mountain chain, the westernmost ones in the red circle to your right. These potentially can fall outside of US jurisdiction, and furthermore, the EEZ might be diminished in the same way Canada and the US agreed to a reduced EEZ for each (seen in NOAA's dotted red line. If in the fictional world these underwater mountains were raised high enough to create islands, you'd have a chain capable of becoming the Rogues. Just something to think about. Nothing to fight hard over. 😊 I'm aware several here have a maritime history, and maybe there are those with experience that overlaps this discussion. I'm happy to be politely corrected if I have any of the real world details wrong.

Just as a point of clarification: are you using "feedback" here to refer to the combat log you mentioned (and after that the animations), or is this "feedback" solely referring to the animations? I'm not one to monitor this stuff closely. There are much better people than I to answer. I'll simply note that I've always been of the understanding that the "transaction", if I can call it that, is nigh instantaneous, but animation, and sometimes info recording, takes longer. It's why energy blasts will curve and follow you around corners: the game has already registered the hit, it's just a matter of getting the animation to match it. One qualification, again, as I've understood it: I use "nigh" because of network/internet connection speeds. It's always possible for a slight slowdown effecting when a command is registered by the server and a response given.

Could the OP concept work towards resolving one wish I've heard a lot of people put forward, that of having more powers more in line with their primary and secondary power sets?