Scarlet Shocker

I'm not even sure how a Praetorian shard would work. What would it bring to the player experience and to the game environment? The existing shards tend to function for specific communities in a very loose and "unofficial" way. Reunion is aimed at European players, Everlasting for RPers and the other shards give you options for your population preference. We don't even have a specific "Villain" shard or even Hero oriented shards (not that one is needed) so I have no clue what OPs vision for that would be. Remember, we're a niche game with few resources and an entirely voluntary management structure. What we have serves us well but even trying to get a Goldside team on Excelsior is enough to make dogs cry and babies howl sometimes so creating a new even more ghostly shard seems like a great waste of resource and unless I'm missing something, adds little to the game. Rather than adding to choice, this would seem to detract from our existing choices.

However hip you think you are, it would be a waste to encourage that kind of thinking

I have found that as I've aged my vertical progression has largely become static whilst my horizontal progression seems to increase exponentially.

This I find genuinely interesting. You're playing a 21 year old game, with a huge amount of history, and for the vast majority of players, a huge amount of emotional attachment, that literally came back from the dead and you buy into none of that? I'll take what you say at face value but I admit to finding it strange.

Curiosity is a thing sometimes

That rather depends on the size of the room and the radius of the sphere doesn't it?

ok so let's assume that we are in a sphere, for the sake of argument. Where is the locus of the sphere? I'm guessing around your groin/stomach area, but it could be feet or head.

This sounds like it should be moved to Bug Reports

That does sound like an interesting combo

I think that's what is being pointed out. It's inconsistent with the whole power set. Ice should by definition slow stuff down even if it doesn't fully lock down a powerful opponent.

I think I give you top marks for callous honesty but not much else.

I need to find a way to create the villain "Oblate Spheroid" in game. A cross between Hamidon and X-Blob maybe?

I do not believe any of the existing maps should be changed or altered in any way. Legacy maps and missions are good learning experiences for those who wish to and it's not just about learning how to play it's learning the history of the game's development over more than two decades. To change or alter some of the maps is to cheapen its legacy. It's not too different to making Independence Port smaller to get across it more easily. The game is the game. Add to it, sure, but retrofitting it for modern tastes is a big No-No in my book. That's not just a "We had to do it so you should too" but it is "this is the experience that made the game great and why enough people fell in love with it to keep it alive against the odds. Nobody really hates the blue cake cave. They love it really - because it's a great memory. We remember the annoying stuff more than the easy stuff. That's human nature. Advocating for change can be extremely dangerous in unanticipated ways and this is, ultimately, just a game so let's keep those annoying things in because they are few and far between and give us amazing stories to tell which is why we fell in love with this whole thing in the first place.

The worst room in the game is the one you couldn't get into while the game was shut down. There are precisely zero worst rooms in this game in its current iteration.

I'm not @Snarky in any way, shape, size or form. 😎 I have never been @Snarky

If all AoEs are spherical that's just a load of balls! Interesting idea. I presumed they were tubular but if a sphere then somebody hovering at the edge might get missed simply because they are outside of it but look inside

we know and can see the radii of our various AoEs, but I wonder how high they reach. I noticed I had a mob above me on a landing and they hadn't noticed me so I popped Ice Storm down on me and it failed to touch them. I was vaguely surprised. Hence the question. You'd think that shards of ice falling from the sky would hurt almost all the way down...

For me it's the one that @Snarky is in!

Usually you end up with a jack of all trades that can't do anything especially well. Personally I think we're forced to take too many powers as it is. I understand what you're saying but when you have 18 main powers and then at least 6 pool powers, you get too many choices. It is probably easier for well-seasoned veterans to know what to choose, once they've mastered a specific AT, but for a newer player they would have no clue and we have seen how taking the wrong powers and/or mismanaging them through ignorance turns them off the game which is a bad thing. If perhaps we had say 12 main powers and we could specialise in 6, then add pool powers we might find greater diversity but with 18 powers, some of which are specifically designed to be of greater power, it's hard to say we increase diversity. I understand where you're coming from but in practice I don't think it actually is the case.

I'd choose Chloe Grace Moritz as Scarlet Shocker and Karen Gillan as Invincible Woman

Dual Blades/Super Reflex brue but he's flightless currently

a new kind of superhero movie and your main is the shining light in the story. Who plays your main character on the silver screen?

The Switchblade Bug sounds like a very interesting insectoid villain with dual blades!

Ample, but never enough!