Why is the "Spring Fling" hosted during the Winter?

[Echo Night]

We essentially have two events during the Winter, but nothing during Spring, unless I'm forgetting an event that occurs during Spring. Which could be the case as I get on in years. Is it simply to align with Valenines Day? If so, why not call the event something referencing the day and then have an actual Spring event? Two pennies tossed into the snow.

[tidge]

Homecoming has the Anniversary event (in Northern Hemisphere's "Spring"), and the Mapserver "April Fool's" event as well.

[Techwright]

1 hour ago, Echo Night said:

 Two pennies tossed into the snow.

 

*Grabs the two pennies*   They've stopped making these.  They might be valuable someday.

 

@tidge  is on target.  I wish this event was just called "Valentines" or something like that, and one of the other two events had "Spring" added to the name, but it is what it is.

[TheMoneyMaker]

The winter event starts 2 weeks before winter begins and ends 2 weeks into winter.

The Halloween event starts a month before Halloween and usually persists a few days after.

The summer blockbuster used to be a summer event but was made an all-year-long thing.

Why should spring be any different by making sense?

[Echo Night]

2 hours ago, TheMoneyMaker said:

The winter event starts 2 weeks before winter begins and ends 2 weeks into winter.

The Halloween event starts a month before Halloween and usually persists a few days after.

The summer blockbuster used to be a summer event but was made an all-year-long thing.

Why should spring be any different by making sense?

How dare you try to make it make sense! Now, my brain is melting, like the winter snow outside my frosted window in 45-degree heat.

[Echo Night]

2 hours ago, Techwright said:

 

*Grabs the two pennies*   They've stopped making these.  They might be valuable someday.

 

@tidge  is on target.  I wish this event was just called "Valentines" or something like that, and one of the other two events had "Spring" added to the name, but it is what it is.

You put those pennies back! I tossed em there to help the snow melt.

[DoctorDitko]

I have high hopes for the April Fool's event. I'll kick in an extra ten bucks if we see the return of FREEM!

 

(For the unitiated, FREEM! was an April Fool's event that did NOT include piles of dead babies.)

 

 

 

Edited Saturday at 01:19 PM by DoctorDitko
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[KC4800]

Remember to use Brawl liberally on April 1.

[Mopery]

21 hours ago, Techwright said:

 

*Grabs the two pennies*   They've stopped making these.  They might be valuable someday.

 

Dimes are the new Pennies.

Edited Saturday at 01:45 PM by Mopery

[Luminara]

noun: fling; plural noun: flings

1. a short period of enjoyment or wild behavior.  "one final fling before a tranquil retirement"
2. a short, spontaneous sexual relationship.  "I had a fling with someone when I was at college"

[High_Beam]

To me fling also meant to throw something heedless of where it went.  "Just fling it somewhere over there."

[Echo Night]

My biggest "want" for the Halloween event is, to have multiple enhancement sets like the winter event. One of the sets gets a proc that allows you to morph into one of the EBs for "x" secs and use their powers. And since V-Day got one, why not Halloween? IMO, this is long overdue.

Edited Sunday at 01:09 PM by Echo Night

[tidge]

2 hours ago, Echo Night said:

My biggest "want" for the Halloween event is, to have multiple enhancement sets like the winter event. One of the sets gets a proc that allows you to morph into one of the EBs for "x" secs and use their powers. And since V-Day got one, why not Halloween? IMO, this is long overdue.

 

The set I think is overdue is a "Universal Control" set. Attack powers have no shortage of sets (including ATO and Winter)... and there are "control" powers that often have multiple potential status effects. It bugs me that we have Hami-O and D-Syncs that can fill this niche, but such (relatively) limited choices for the levels 10 thru 47 journey.

 

I also feel that there is a subtle asymmetry between the ATOs for different ATs (that is, which primary/secondary powers that can take certain ATs ATOs) that might get smoother out with a "Universal Control" set... plus it could narrow the gap between control powers which have a LOT of set options (e.g. Holds) with those which have fewer.

[Echo Night]

2 minutes ago, tidge said:

 

The set I think is overdue is a "Universal Control" set. Attack powers have no shortage of sets (including ATO and Winter)... and there are "control" powers that often have multiple potential status effects. It bugs me that we have Hami-O and D-Syncs that can fill this niche, but such (relatively) limited choices for the levels 10 thru 47 journey.

 

I also feel that there is a subtle asymmetry between the ATOs for different ATs (that is, which primary/secondary powers that can take certain ATs ATOs) that might get smoother out with a "Universal Control" set... plus it could narrow the gap between control powers which have a LOT of set options (e.g. Holds) with those which have fewer.

I can't argue with this at all. A UCS would be a most welcome addition to the game.

[TheMoneyMaker]

10 hours ago, tidge said:

 

The set I think is overdue is a "Universal Control" set. Attack powers have no shortage of sets (including ATO and Winter)... and there are "control" powers that often have multiple potential status effects. It bugs me that we have Hami-O and D-Syncs that can fill this niche, but such (relatively) limited choices for the levels 10 thru 47 journey.

 

The control sets we have are universal. The universal part of the damage sets are that they can be slotted into any damage power regardless of being melee, melee AoE, ranged or ranged AoE because most of the damage sets are limited by these categories. The control sets fit into ranged or ranged AoE, and I don't think there's any melee controls. Same for all other set types (defense, healing, resist, etc). Only damage is broken up into sub groups, so only damage gets a universal damage set(s).

[tidge]

2 hours ago, TheMoneyMaker said:

The control sets we have are universal. The universal part of the damage sets are that they can be slotted into any damage power regardless of being melee, melee AoE, ranged or ranged AoE because most of the damage sets are limited by these categories. The control sets fit into ranged or ranged AoE, and I don't think there's any melee controls. Same for all other set types (defense, healing, resist, etc). Only damage is broken up into sub groups, so only damage gets a universal damage set(s).

 

Not true, For example: Hold sets cannot be slotted into Immobilize powers. The only pieces that increase control effect (edit: duration) that can go into each are some ATO (but primary/secondary only AFAIK) and HO/Sync pieces like Endoplasm and Peroxisome. Don't be hung up on the "Damage", it is the Mezz/Control part that I'd like a Universal set for.

Edited Monday at 04:17 AM by tidge

[TheMoneyMaker]

So you want a universal set that can be slotted into hold, immobilize, and presumably sleep, disorient, confuse, and knockback?

[Marine X]

I've always wondered why there is no Purple Resist or Defense Sets available, since for Tanks that is their primary power set. I realize you can cap them without a Purple Set but it would be nice to get those levels of bonuses out of your Primary Power Set that all other ATs can.

[tidge]

5 hours ago, TheMoneyMaker said:

So you want a universal set that can be slotted into hold, immobilize, and presumably sleep, disorient, confuse, and knockback?

 

That was the ask. The ask is specifically not about Knockback, because enhancing Knockback is enhancing magnitude and not duration.

 

As I wrote above, the game already has a sort of piece, but they only exist as HO/DS and are limited to Accuracy/Mezz and Damage/Mezz, and offer no set bonuses. There are other combinations of useful Enhancements (in a single piece) that either don't exist (for some sets) or are few-in-number (for some sets), like Endurance Reduction/Recharge, which is a combination from the two existing "Universal Damage" sets.

[tidge]

3 hours ago, Marine X said:

I've always wondered why there is no Purple Resist or Defense Sets available, since for Tanks that is their primary power set. I realize you can cap them without a Purple Set but it would be nice to get those levels of bonuses out of your Primary Power Set that all other ATs can.

 

There are PVP sets for Resist and Defense, but I hear you.

[BZRKR]

6 hours ago, tidge said:

 

That was the ask. The ask is specifically not about Knockback, because enhancing Knockback is enhancing magnitude and not duration.

 

As I wrote above, the game already has a sort of piece, but they only exist as HO/DS and are limited to Accuracy/Mezz and Damage/Mezz, and offer no set bonuses. There are other combinations of useful Enhancements (in a single piece) that either don't exist (for some sets) or are few-in-number (for some sets), like Endurance Reduction/Recharge, which is a combination from the two existing "Universal Damage" sets.

 

You got me thinking. Which would be better:

Mez/Rech
End/Rech
Acc/Mez/End
Acc/Mez/Rech
Acc/Mez/End/Rech
Mez/Chance for <x damage type>

or
Mez/Rech
End/Rech
Acc/Mez/End
Acc/Mez/Rech
Acc/Mez/End/Rech
Mez/Dam

[Major_Decoy]

On 2/14/2025 at 6:20 AM, Echo Night said:

We essentially have two events during the Winter, but nothing during Spring, unless I'm forgetting an event that occurs during Spring. Which could be the case as I get on in years. Is it simply to align with Valenines Day? If so, why not call the event something referencing the day and then have an actual Spring event? Two pennies tossed into the snow.

It's called Spring Fling because you go around throwing elastic coils at people.

[GM Crumpet]

Well considering one of the main parts is to give valentines cards to people and the new update is celebrating a wedding, yeah it's a Valentines event. And it's also Spring somewhere. Technically Spring begins in the UK March 20th, but the daffodils are sprouting and there are buds on the trees. Winter began 21/12/2024 but I'd already had my heating on a month or so by that point. 

[Skyhawke]

Folks, folks, folks...the answer is simple: It's a Nemesis plot. 

[Octogoat]

51 minutes ago, Skyhawke said:

Folks, folks, folks...the answer is simple: It's a Nemesis plot. 

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