Scarlet Shocker

Just going by the title I was concerned that Stealth was being nerfed very badly.

I thought a bit about what an armour set might look like. I didn't want it to be too specific - so it's not based on tech or anything (remember, origin is what you make it) but I threw together this. I know it's gonna get a lot of hate because haters hate as a default setting and it's easy for them but building this was actually quite fun. Libre Office did not cooperate so formatting might be off Armour Set It’s Armour. It’s stuff you strap to your body to defend against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune – and bad guys. It’s not always beautiful or highly polished. It isn’t the ultimate defence but a decent suit of armour can work wonders with a wearer who knows the strengths and weaknesses of it. It might be metal, or composite materials, a blend of kevlar, magic and carbon nanotubes or it might just be a chunk of boilerplate strapped in strategic places. Either way, it’s yours and you have to get out there and use it. Gambeson, Oh Gambeson: (Toggle) You gird your proverbial loins with a nicely padded undershirt of fibre and hard wearing material. Its airy construction gives you a resistance to temperature changes, so Ice and Fire are less effective and it absorbs damage from smashing and lethal blows. I’m Alright Jack: (Toggle) An additional layer of material that boosts your defence to Smashing & Lethal damage. It also protects you from Toxic, Negative and Energy damage, giving you a small boost to your resistance Hauberk: Often made of interlinked material, this layer gives you great protection against Lethal damage as well as some resistance to Energy and Negative damage. It also grants you a bonus against Knockback and Repel Cuirass: A breastplate that gives a solid defence bonus to all damage types except Psionic Lorica: light, flexible, tough, this armour allows you to move fast, giving a bonus to movement when running or flying, costing no endurance The Challenge: You can challenge your foes with a mighty shout and they feel compelled to attack you. This taunt gives them -To Hit against anyone else in your proximity Alright, Squire: You can repair damage to your armour on the fly giving you +Absorb and +Endurance. The Tilt: Your armour is so clearly well crafted that your opponents instinctively know you’re a champion in battle and so are tremulous and fearful, giving them a -Damage and -To Hit penalty when in combat against you Lord Helmet: You don your great helm, and your foes tremble before you. This boosts all defence and is the only power that gives protection against Psionics but it’s worth having.

Moite, if yow've got foive thombs, yow ay from Paragun, yowm from fookin Gornal!

Not at all. You only have to look at RDJ's look in the first couple of Marvel arcs to see how his armour refined. By Endgame he was basically wearing a track suit.

Had a Mind/Storm on live but I feel the urge to recreate him here

I'm not being entirely sarcastic here. Sleep powers used to be so wank they were inherently skippable and I played a lot of controllers. That enabled me to focus on powers that actually worked. Now I'm not so sure. The description seems to indicate they may have some actual utility which means I might have to use them at least to try. Please tell me I don't need to. I get why our Devs decided to go this route... they were wankshite, so nobody took them so it's clear they were wasted powers but hey, sometimes that's a good thing.

I was thinking of building a tank type toon, something I don't play often, ideally one that had an arsenal of weaponry inspired by a mix of the less-well-loved David Gemmell book, Knights of Dark Reknown and Garrison from the much-missed Atlas Reactor. But when I looked I was saddened to see there's no actual armour power set per se. You can have stone armor, ice armor, bio armor, but nothing resembling an actual suit of armour, metallic or composite material. This seems doubly strange given how many actual types of Armour we have in the Costume Creator. I'm a little bit gobsmacked by this to be fair. I know we could fake it - create a character with a suit of armour and the give them energy aura and say "there you go, you have a knining shite in armour" but that, for me at least, breaks the immersion. Maybe I want to create a character that has other powers; radioactive fingers, glue-ridden eyes etc, and wears the armour as a protection itself. What I find even more remarkable is I don't ever recall seeing this even suggested or discussed. I'm a regular forumite as you possibly noticed (but I don't frequent all sections equally) so I allow that I may have missed it but in 20 years? Sure, I've not played many tanks. I had two on live and one got deleted pre-lvl 10. I've got a few more on HC and a Sentinel and a few Brutes so I'm less resistant to them than I used to be and perhaps that's why I noticed? I'm also surprised that such a set doesn't exist from an RP perspective. Suits of well-crafted armour are almost as legendary as swords (qv Henery VIII's ceremonial suit now in the Royal Armouries at Leeds*) and the history of armour is exciting and interesting, far more so I would argue than Tanky Stank's** history with his suits. Is your armour a magically imbued suit? A famous family heirloom? Did you steal it? Was it jury rigged after you discovered your other (primary?) powers weren't enough to keep you upright while you did the job you set out to do? I would love to see a basic "armour"*** set in game and I can't see how it would be difficult to write. A handy but not OP mix of Def and Res with a couple of quirks to make it unique and Robert will be your mother's brother. But this is less of a suggestion and more of a "WTF is this missing from the game?" question. *TYDKYDK; My brother rigged that suit in the Armouries about 25 years ago and they couldn't even get it insured it's that valuable. ** Don't bother even trying ***However you spell it you're almost certainly wrong.

I've tended to use Jaunt but I use it for positioning mostly. It's very handy when I grab aggro and then put the tank between me and the bastard that wants to hit me

Very important, especially if you want to shorten the duratation of Summer Siege.

Posting this took guts!

I loathe Penny Yin's TF as a replacement for Sister Psyche's... but that's more due to the horrible writing that got us to that point. As a stand-alone TF Penny's is ok. I think the original Sister P TF was ok other than it suffered from the same thing as some of the other TFs; overly long, lacking in variety and poor storytelling. Of course all the original TFs were written when one of the biggest issues in the game was limited content and so taking time out of the game (remember, we had to run everywhere until level 14 and these days you can get to 50 quicker than you can get to 14 then.) Hunt missions were far more common. That's an indirect critique of the original Devs, the game was still good they just couldn't have the content we have now. Synapse needs a lot of work to bring it up to par, including a whole retelling/work of his whiny-arsed story. Perhaps then we'd get a TF worthy of the name.

The problem with some of the "longer" TFs (remember, their original concept was to be run over a few evenings) is that they lack variety. Synapse and Citadel are both very guilty of this. It's the same enemy group, largely the same maps and it becomes uninteresting. There's nothing there to capture the imagination once you're three missions in. Sure you get occasional "interludes" such as Long Tom and Babbage but the rest is relentless clockwork. Changing it up a bit would be a very welcome relief and make it seem more engaging.

Not while XP boosters are available from START vendors. the amount of extra XP we can gain is already way too easy. Double XP weekends are meant to be a treat, something special to celebrate events in our game. To have regular events cheapens that experience (pun intended) and doesn't add much to the game. Sure, the DXP weekend brought new players to the game but so did the new page drop. Maybe that's a time to use it but not as an ordinary event

I'm pretty sure /wdwsave will position your windows exactly as you like them and then /wdwload will restore them to that. If you ever have wonkiness (other than accidentally hitting the U key mid-battle) then try it. I also combine those slash commands with /optionsave (or /optsave) and their /optload equivalents as well as /bindsave and /chatsave

Everything you've asked for you can do yourself with the game as is. You can play to your hearts content and then if you get defeated you can delete your character. You posed a question, I responded. I'm truly sad that you didn't like my response because it failed to align with your desire but I am happy in the knowledge that my vests are truly veterans. But just for the avoidance of doubt, I don't think your idea is worth implementing because it adds very little to the game and very few people would likely take it up.

they're aiming over imaginary holes in the ground.

Aside from the unlikely feasibility of such extra code, I suspect shards full of "dead" toons won't populate them, they will become mortuaries. @Snarky will be in his element but the rest of us not so much. The more I think of this idea the more /jranger I become

This is Madness! THIS IS PRINCE BUSTER!

I run radios because I enjoy great music when I put bad guys to the sword/bed/sleep* *delete as applicable

But then you need to mitigate stuff beyond the game and players' control such as net glitches, power cuts etc etc... Getting to 50 unscathed even in regular mode is still challenging for many. I know this, I've tried. Better to just do it on a low pop server - you will know if you've set the rules and if you're honest with yourself...

remember, there is a way to make partial models invisible - this is true of several pets such as the Plant pet which is actually dragged around by a little humanoid NPC which is rendered invisible (alpha layers most like) Given that we can label our own avatars with the Spectrum cover there's no logical reason we cannot use that tech to render any part invisible and plonk something else over the top of it.

That is indisputable. The real question is, where?

This should be in the Suggestions section. I'm in two minds about this. I like the idea in principle, but if I were to get a character to 50, and make a good build and then things went south and I'd spent maybe a billion on that build, I'd be more than a bit peeved if I couldn't get my stuff back at the very least. I also think that whilst this may appeal to a tiny minority of players, it would effectively be a ghost town, and already many of the other shards are very low pop. The amount of work necessary to create this for the practical gains I fear wouldn't be justifiable.

Puppets - the kind on strings which are actually used in attacks and obviously as the big pet would be something crazy chaotic akin to Emu that would seemingly have a life of its own and override the MM PC Failing that, the entire Harlequinade as pets.

I'm not sure I like your tone Mr Goat