Blackbird71

Replacing Hide with another power and making Hide inherent, then adding another patch-power to suppress it means one more clicky on the bar (Hide replacement + Hide suppressor). Plus, in a way, it's cheating one more power into Stalkers' repertoire than they should have.

I was more thinking along the lines of that without IO sets in general, it wouldn't be possible to make Blasters (and others) so survivable as to render Sentinels' defenses trivial. Without IOs, Sentinels have a niche. With IOs, they are overshadowed.

The issue here is OVH support, not HC. They claim 24/7 support by three different tech teams to address various issues. https://www.ovh.com/world//us/about-us/support.xml

So what you're saying is, the problem with Sentinels is IO sets? 😜

The downtime doesn't upset me. Things happen, technology fails, and stuff has to be fixed. What bothers me though is the apparent ~10 hours between HC submitting a ticket and OVH actually opening/assigning the ticket, which certainly seems like quite a gap for a company that boasts three different tech teams all providing 24/7 support. Let's allow them to handle the immediate problem first, but I certainly hope that this response is addressed the next time CoH looks at their server arrangement and considers any changes or moves.

No more extra-clicky fiddly bits from P2W/Null to patch powers, please!

Isn't that about where the scalars are now? Sentinal scalar = 0.95, Blaster scalar = 1.125, 0.95/1.125 = ~0.844, so going to 90% (as I believe others here pointed out) is a marginal improvement. Ah, OK, I think I get your point. I think I read your initial statement backwards, that you were claiming the "end game," (i.e., 50+ incarnate) was the whole [purpose] of the game.

What?

I think we've gotten waaay off topic, in a thread that was just a troll to begin with. Probably time to leave this one alone and take the Scrapper vs. Stalker talk to the AT forum.

Also some "ray gun" style rifle skins available for Beam Rifle and Assault Rifle power sets.

No, I meant a "Death-something" would be a Razer mouse - that is the Razer naming convention; the "Death Adder" line. I'm not aware of any other mouse manufacturer that labels their mice as "Death" anything.

Quoting one line from a post and making an argument out of it while completely ignoring the very next line and the qualifications/context it gives is ignoring context.

Context! Read the whole thing! You can't just keep cherry-picking pieces and making arguments out of them. Continuing immediately after the part you quoted: (underline added for emphasis) FL makes it clear he's not comparing apples to apples here, and points out where the differences are. If you want to reduce that to a general claim that "sentinels deal more damage than blasters," then you're being intentionally obtuse/trollish.

Again, you ignore what was actually said and reduce it to a point that was never argued. Can we all just agree now that Snarky doesn't know what he's talking about? Or else that he does, and this thread is just a massive troll?

(boldface added for emphasis) That would also be a Razer...

The suggestions forum is that way --> Suggestions & Feedback - Homecoming (homecomingservers.com) But I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned before.

I've been in SGs that did just this, and it worked very well for maintaining cohesive lore with the current state of the game. Of course, it put things at odds with the RP community at large - as you point out, there is no uniform way of handling the missing years, and it often creates confusion when you have two characters, one for whom Galaxy City was a decade ago, and the other for whom it was last week (to say nothing of the ones for whom GC was "in another universe that winked out of existence and everyone escaped to this one"). Usually this stuff can be hand-waved, but it can still be annoying. Oh well, I suppose that's one benefit of playing in a comic book world - continuity means next to nothing.

Do you even read the posts you're responding to? Umm, that's NOT what Vanden said.... This seems to be the most accurate statement in this entire thread:

Which is great, except it's 10 abilities per tray...

What did you end up replacing it with? I'm dreading the day this one goes out; I love the feel of it, and I haven't seen anything recently that looks like it would be a comparable replacement.

I'll echo the sentiments on Logitech quality; I've been using a G5 for about the same amount of time. Any hardware that lasts over a decade of heavy use without any performance issues scores some serious points.

The HC devs seem more focused on "balancing" (i.e., fixing or nerfing, depending on your perspective) existing power sets/pools rather than introducing new ones. Considering that regular MMOs with full-time paid staffs spend years working on this same idea and never achieve the mythical idea of balance, I don't expect the volunteer team to get to new power sets/pools any time soon.

Why does it have to be 2021 (or real-world 2021 equivalent) in Paragon City? I've never understood the need to tie fictional worlds represented in media (whether games, TVs, etc.) to the real life progression of time. Doing so limits the stories that can be told as threads are lost and time passes in the game world while we're busy juggling reality.

As I noted in the other thread, these are all still available on the original archive site: http://www.cityofheroes.ca/media-and-downloads/comic-archive/

Wednesday is the 16th.