Bionic_Flea

While I always encourage testing, I don't think that this particular wrinkle can be properly tested until it's live with hundreds and perhaps thousands of teams being formed. It's hard to get a team together on test and when you can it's some dedicated players looking to test a specific thing.

You can't stop now! Think of the children! I demand a refund!

I barely skimmed the other responses, so pardon me if this has already been said. I am a comic book nerd. I grew up reading them and loving them and still have dozens of boxes of comics. Growing up I frequently imagined myself as a super hero - fighting crime, helping people, etc. I never imagined myself as Dr. Doom, Luthor, Red Skull, or Venom. I think maybe a lot of other players had similar fantasies. So when this game came out I was in love from my first few minutes in Atlas. I didn't mind playing redside too much because it wasn't much different that blueside in that I had super powers and beat up bad guys. But it was new ATs and some new powers and a lot of new missions and places to visit. Sometimes they were the same bad guys, sometimes they were different bad guys. And as stated above, very few stories actually make the player feel like a villain. The only things that make me play redside more is an occasional desire to do something different, switching over for a quick TF, and the rare planned theme group of players.

Personally, I don't mind the addition of the diversity bonus. I see it as a bonus. But I also never require specific ATs or builds when building a team unless absolutely needed (like a Hammy raid or LGTF). So, for me it would be a bonus if we happened to fulfill the role requirements. If we don't, I would never ask someone to change just to get it. However, the first time someone kicks me or tells me that I have to change my character because "I brought the wrong AT" is the time I stop thinking of it as a happy bonus. I don't run a lot of 4* stuff because many leaders enforce a very narrow group of "required" builds and I-Powers. I hope this Role Diversity thingie doesn't have the same effect, but it might. One solution might be to expand the roles and let more ATs have multiple roles so that it is more likely that just about any group would have the requirements as long as the ATs were different. I'm not against the bonus, I'm against other players enforcing diversity on me so that they can get the bonus.

Hey, @Captain Powerhouse! Can [ICE ELEMENTAL] be allowed to tale slow sets please? The Patron Pets can take KB (Leviathan), DefDebuff and AccDefDebuff (Mace), EndMod (MU), and ToHitDebuff + AccTohitDebuff (Soul). As Ice elemental is patterned after the Patron pets, with the same super long recharge, it seems only fair that it also get to slot for it's secondary effects, like the Patron pets can. Please? Never mind! It CAN take holds and slow sets in addition to pet and intensive recharge pets. Thanks!

I think that is a selling point for me!

Would splitting the baby be worth considering? Half Absorb and half +MaxHP? That would certainly make it a unique power.

Like a dark beanbag of singularity reverse repel?

It's here!

But Cipher, how soon is now?

But Jimmy, can you smell what the Rock is cooking?

But Jimmy, why do you tease us with bacon? Are you saying we will be having new bacon powers?

But Jimmy, why do you have to add complications to my already complicated life? It's hard to keep up and I only have a tiny bug-brain.

Is there a particular kind of buff that you are looking for? Or a certain combination?

I nominate Andreah to start a Faux-Yomo Cheese and Cracker Snacker donation. Send e-mail, receive 100,000 inf. Do I have a second?

When I grow up, I want to be Yomo . . . with an assistant to do the clicking for me . . . while I slurp bloody marys.

Fire melee does, but not fire armor.

IMO, rad/rad would be a better all around for content and can farm, while rad/fire will be a better farmer that can play general content.

Keep reading . . . But again, we are arguing over an agreement that neither of us has seen. You can choose to believe whatever you want, as can I. No sense in debating this further.

Well, I guess we are both guessing since I assume that neither of us has read the agreement. But generally speaking, license agreements allow the use of intellectual property under certain conditions. Just like Marvel can't stop Sony from making Spider-Man movies, including all of Spidey's rogue gallery. Marvel would, l'm confident, love to have all of Spider-Man back under their umbrella, but they can't because they licensed it to Sony to make movies.

Comas, mean everything. Butt speling is impotent two! Also: fixed!

But Jimmy, why are you so mean? I just want to do what I want, when I want, to who I want. Is that so wrong?

Also, don't forget that a license works both ways. Meaning that both sides have entered into a licensing agreement, a contract, and as long as HC abides by the terms of the contract, NCSoft cannot arbitrarily shut them down. Before the agreement they could just say "Stop." Now NCSoft has to abide by the agreement just as much as HC does.

I can understand your position, but they could have pulled out plug anytime over the last few years before granting us the license. What makes you think that it is more likely that they will pull the plug on us now vs. before? If anything, I think the unlicensed ones would be hit first. And finally, the code is out there. Anyone with the knowledge and desire can make a CoH server. If NCSoft suddenly starts issuing cease and desist letters or formal lawsuits they will find themselves playing wack-a-mole.

But Jimmy, why can't I have maximum XP all the time, everywhere, for free?