Psyonico Posted May 19 Posted May 19 Thanks for your explanation, @Rudra I’m hoping a few more people will chime in with their reasons. i certainly don’t understand your reason, but I respect it. 1 What this team needs is more Defenders
tidge Posted May 19 Posted May 19 10 hours ago, Psyonico said: Can someone explain why there are so against drive-by buffing? I legitimately don’t understand what the problem is. IIRC, the OP was upset because they felt that "drive by" buffing was affecting their data parsing. I can recognize how this circumstance could be seen as a negative, but I find the request bordering on absurdity, especially with respect to "I want to stand by Ms. Liberty in peace!"... There is no shortage of other trainers, and there is a second trainer in Atlas Park. You can install a trainer in a SG base. At low-levels, I don't understand the desire for parsing logs The game is applying scaling boosts There are few powers, with few slots XP will bring levels, which also changes scaling It's incredibly easy to delete an unwanted buff, or to just play content "behind closed/instanced doors" If the data parsing is in "open world", I also don't want to hear about "kill stealing" or "stop debuffing my targets!" I don't do script-based data-mining, but I do try to remember to activate the "deny Mystic Fortune on myself"... frequently whatever I have been "gifted" doesn't matter, but there are a few circumstances where it has made a character's performance 'uneven enough' that I've come to not like it.
Forager Posted May 19 Posted May 19 On 5/17/2025 at 11:47 AM, TheMoneyMaker said: This request comes off as: "I want to exist in a world where people exist but can't affect me unless I give them permission to do so." Umm... 1
Forager Posted May 19 Posted May 19 I think this is a high priority issue since at its core, it's about consent. I think it is extremely important that we have tools to enforce and withdraw our consent, especially givem how boldly vocal these people are about us NOT having those tools. 4
Super Atom Posted May 19 Posted May 19 This having 3 pages is crazy The 3 pages will waste more dev time than making the anti-buff buff would
Psyonico Posted May 19 Posted May 19 Are you really going with “consent” as your reason in an MMO? I would argue that in a MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER game, you give consent for others to interact with you simply by logging on. Drive-By-Buffing is more akin to a stranger saying “Hi” to you on the street than someone touching you. Would you scream “I DIDN’T CONSENT” if you were on a walk and someone said “Good Morning” to you? I generally don’t talk about my real self in game world, but here we go. I have multiple anxiety disorders including agoraphobia, which can be so severe that at times playing this game solo is too much interaction with people for me to handle. And I still think you’re going too far. 8 minutes ago, Super Atom said: This having 3 pages is crazy The 3 pages will waste more dev time than making the anti-buff buff would Nah, I’m sure the devs stopped reading after the first post, now we’re just wasting GMs’ time. (Sorry GMs!!!) 2 1 What this team needs is more Defenders
arcane Posted May 19 Posted May 19 I think there’s some kind of Paragon City variant of Godwin’s Law where the discussion is pretty much over once a poster compares Speed Boost to rape. 1
Game Master GM Crumpet Posted May 19 Game Master Posted May 19 locking this thread as it seems everything's been said and it's not going nowhere
Game Master GM_GooglyMoogly Posted May 19 Game Master Posted May 19 (edited) Crumpet beat me to it. But I also went back and hid a bunch of posts. Let's leave the mental health diagnoses to the professionals. Calling other posters insane, sociopaths, or other similar labels is not acceptable. Some otherwise non-offending posts were removed because they quoted an offending one. Edited May 19 by GM_GooglyMoogly
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