Aett_Thorn

Yup, a Yellow-jacket is a wasp, not a bee, but either works for me. It's a yellow/black costume, so either one works pretty well.

Sigium,

Also, there is a thread going on in the Brute forums about Ice/Ice Brutes. Basically, with the reworks of how Fury works, and the fixes to Ice Melee that came about after CoV, Ice/Ice Brutes are definitely viable now for proliferation.

Hey everyone,

So last night I made up a new character, an Elec/Dual Blades Tanker, and made her have the costume of a bee. Now, wanting to stay on the bee theme, I had trouble coming up with an appropriate name. I liked the name Yellowjacket, but it was taken. After several other tries to get a name that I thought fit, I did something horrible: I named her YeIIowjacket (with two capitol i's instead of l's), since in game, it looks the same as Yellowjacket. This was a placeholder, and I fully expect to change the name as soon as I come up with a good one, especially since I just googled it, and it's on of Henry Pym's names (is there a persona that guy DIDN'T take on?).

So, having though for most of the morning, I'm still having trouble coming up with a name. So I'm asking for a bit of help here, to see if any of you creative types can help me out and come up with a good name for her.

Thanks!
-AT

Nope, not bored here. Just created a new Tanker last night (an Elec/DB), and once I got the costume right and everything, it's still been fun, even at the low levels for me.

Always fun to try out new sets and combinations of powers.

I'm a big fan of both of these ideas. Well done, good sir!

I'd like this kind of tool, just to see what the numbers are, and see if they differ from server to server.

/signed.

Zero. Just go talk to him with the right sized group and start the TF.

Something I haven't seen brought up in this thread yet: when Ice Melee was first given to Brutes, Frozen Aura had not been fixed yet.

Ice Melee was still crap back then. Frost wasn't buffed, and Frozen Aura was still the pitiful sleep that it was. It wasn't until well after I6 that the set got buffed. Before the buffs, Ice Melee would have been a pitiful set on Brutes. Now, it might be okay. Not great, but okay, even with the -recharge (which shouldn't interfere more than other sets, as many of you are saying). But before, it WAS a bad set for Brutes. Bad single-target damage, and horrible AoE potential does not a good Brute set make.

I still think that the low damage was a more major factor for dropping it than the -recharge was, although that didn't help with the beta version of fury.

Also, the definition of an exploit isn't what I say it is, or you, or Lemur, or Westley, or anyone else in this thread says it is. It's what the Devs say it is. If something is considered an exploit by them, that is all that matters, and they don't like them, so be prepared for them to shut them down.


I guess I just don't get how people are surprised when the Devs specifically say, several times, that the AE system is not for PLing or Farming, and then actually take steps to make sure that people can't PL or farm it, and punish them when they do. That like people being surprised for getting a speeding ticket for going 20 over the limit after the cops publically announce that they're going to be cracking down on speeders.

Raymaiha:

The Devs set up a system where there is a certain amount of work that goes into getting a level 50. Either in time that it takes to get there, or actual work.

People were exploiting a new system to get to 50 with much less time and effort. That is an exploit. Yes, games have exploits. Guess what? Game developers don't like people using them, and tend to try to shut them down as soon as they can. People who get to 50 in no time at all, and can afford everything they want with a minimum of effort are going to leave sooner. It's a business decision. People who get everything they want get bored, and then they leave.

Name me one game that didn't try to shut down massive exploits when they become aware of them.

There is a big difference between farming, PLing, and exploiting the game. The Devs don't really care about farming (although they did say, multiple times, that the AE systems was NOT to be used for it, and that people who did so were at risk of being punished), and PLing to a certain extent is fine. What is wrong is that people could get to level 50 in a matter of a couple of hours, AND that it was becoming the norm, instead of the exception. That does become a problem for both the game and the players. If you don't accept that, it's fine, but it is a problem.

Been suggested before, and I'd be all for it if it could be done. But the game engine doesn't really allow for things like this. Everything the moves has a collision cylinder around it, and objects like the zeppelin and even cars going about the city are thus unable to be landed driectly on.

I don't know how much work it would take to change this, but I'd be willing to bet that it's harder than we might think. Still, I'd love to be able to stand on the dirigible.

OP: the game is NOT punishing those who work harder. It's punishing people who put in less effort, but are trying to get more rewards out of it. If you think that is socialism, I don't know what to say.

Seriously, does any of this even matter? Can we drop this thread yet?