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Are there still any active modern age RP heavy superhero SGs out there? Like the JLA or Avengers, pretty much. But without Bendis or James Robinson. >.>
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Quote:So noted. Learn something new every day.Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
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A quick FYI on psychological terminology. MPD (or multiple personality disorder) was not all that long ago renamed to Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Same disorder, same incredibly rare rate of diagnosis, different name. It fits it better, in my opinion, and also helps people remember what classification of mental disorder it is: a dissociative disorder.
Quote:Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven
Also, by "psychotically insane," I am going to assume that you mean the character has Antisocial Personality Disorder (aka a sociopath/psychopath... both terms are somewhat obsolete, BTW.
Upon further review, I seem to have had my wires crossed on the meaning of psychotic. How about a homicidal lunatic? The particular persona is sort of like Drusilla from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, only more prone to killing. And what I had forgotten to add in the line about Burning-Star is that another one of her personas is lawful evil in nature. -
Quote:I don't know about Freedom, but I did move a bunch of leveled toons to other servers when they had free transfers. I'd play one of them if so many VEATS running around now hadn't gotten me in a mood for one of those.Originally Posted by Jharber
Yes, I just decided to make my new toon on Freedom lol. Virtue is going down way to much now for whatever reason.
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Quote:Haha. Yeah, I'm Shadow Scourge.Originally Posted by ChiosuBlues
Was that a Tarkoss SF? If it was, I'm Mamoru Tadayoi, the MM heading the team.
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And the even funner thing is that the other servers seem to be working fine.
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So it wasn't just me. And I just started a SF too. >.<
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Quote:He is. They're all on Virtue, for what it's worth.Originally Posted by Tyrrano
Wouldn't happen to be on Virtue, perchance? }:>
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So do the interwebs hate me or is virtueverse down completely now?
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It varies. I like to think my villains cover a wide variety of evil. Few of them will admit or consider themselves to be evil though. And there are lines my villains won't cross, yes. Two I can think of offhand.
Agonus is a would-be world dictator. He raised an army to take over the world and enforce his vision of a Utopia, and to him, the bulk of that army is comprised of beings that are little more than cannon fodder for his whims. I like to think he's a smooth talker able to get others to do what he wants, but he's more than willing to kill/torture to make a point if someone challenges or disobeys him.
Ahreman the Red/Aaron Tetherson is in it for power. Massacring a cult he started to appease a demon, Ahreman essentially willingly damned his own soul and (unwillingly) cursed his bloodline to get what he wanted.
Tim Tetherson is a misanthropic anarchist, and once he found out he could summon demons and get them to cause destruction, he was more than happy to do so.
Burning-Star has a psychotically insane person as a part of her MPD.
Steelbane is a futuristic AI that hates anything sentient and organic and is willing to do whatever it necessary to wipe out humanity.
Starscourge is an alien that feeds off of human bio-electricity. As such, he views humans as food and little else.
Nix/Johnny/Jane. Johnny and Jane are twin children ghosts who want to become the greatest serial killers in history. Nix is the demonthing that coerces them along.
Shadow Scourge sees no value in existence and wants to destroy everything, pretty much.
Iron Reckoner is one of the few characters I have who's in it for the money as long as it follows his own “noble evil” code of ethics. -
Quote:Reminds me of when they first announced Patron Power Pools and I expected to Recluse to be one of the Patrons you could choose from.Originally Posted by Rymos
I did some searching and was rather surprised to not see this brought up yet; ive had this idea for 2-3 years now and I guess it's worth discussing.
An arachnos primary power pool for MM's; finally orderin those buggas around!
Tier 1 Pet: 3 Spiderlings
Tier 2 Pet: 2 Huntsman
And in the spirit of trying to make things unique maybe this could be the first Powerpool that players can choose what their Tier 3 Pet is! But if not then one of the following;
Tier 3 Pet: 1 of eaither Arachnos Heavy Blaster, Calamity, or Arachnos Drone
LvL 18 Power: Originally I had thought of calling in a dropship of Wolf Spider Enforcers; similar to Gang War; but then because of gangwar I had to get crafty! Instead I present to you... Arachnos Bomb Run!! Title says it all. Long Recharge, AoE Heavy Damage.
Feedback guys? Faults and Praises?
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Down below i'll quote mr. Rangle M. Down says,
"Personally I'd like the Arachnos Drones, Spiderlings etc. as an alternate visual set for Robotics.
Maybe the Arachnos Soldiers for an alternate for Thugs or Mercs. "
This is a great idea and could be done with relative ease!!! But would making alternates for current pools be worth if not equally difficult as making a new power pool altogether? DISCUSS!!
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Original Post: 5-31-2010
Update 1: 6-1-2010: Added Henchmen Custimization for current sets!! -
Lord Recluse- Dr. Doom in that he's a ruler and his hatred of Statesman, with a bit of Cobra Commander mixed in for the thematic army and his level of control (or lack thereof) over it.
Ghost Widow- Visually she resembles Silver Banshee, but that's about it.
Mako- Killer Croc
Black Scorpion- It's a loose fit, but the closest I can think of would be Mac Gargan/Scorpion crossed with Iron Man villains like Titanium Man or the Crimson Dynamo.
Scirocco- I'm sure there's someone that matches his characterization, especially from the Patron arc, but I don't know offhand.
Statesman- Superman crossed with Captain America with a bit of Captain Marvel thrown in.
Positron- Nuke from Squadron Supreme crossed with Iron Man.
Synapse- The Flash.
Manticore- Batman crossed with Hawkeye.
Dark Watcher- The Shadow.
Nemesis- Luthor mixed with Dr. Doom. If -anyone- in this game is a Mary Sue, it's Nemesis with the level of awe he's supposed to inspire. He's formidable in modern times with steampunk tech, he's supposed to have a hand in everything, is impossible to find, and has long reaching plans within plans within plans. -
OuroPortal? Huh, hadn't heard of that one before today.
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Nice. The backpack/legs setup must be a pain to move around with though.
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I dusted off my level 36 Dark/Dark Brute. Respec'ed and experimenting with builds. Touch of Fear and Cloak of Fear stacking seems like it could be nifty.
Quote:By EM you mean Electric Melee? Even if it's not one of the top combos I do like the look of EleM/DA.Originally Posted by OminousVoice
I run a DM/DA brute. DA is almost pure resistance and lacklustre at that. However it does have some nice tricks up its sleeve to aid survivability; Dark Regen, Cloak of Fear and if things really go sour a self rez in Soul Transfer.
That being said, because of it's relatively low resistances, its better paired with a high dps set like EM or DM, that way you kill things before they kill you. DM has Dark Consumption which really helps with End recovery, Touch of Fear, which stacks with Cloak of Fear allowing you to have bosses shaking like a jello pudding, and Soul Drain which provides a nice Dam/Acc buff.
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Between all the melee ATs and options for offensive powers to match up with it, what's the best set-up to take advantage of what Dark Armor has to offer for PVE?
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Quote:So let's say you defeat badguy A and... get... inspired for a technique to perform a better Cleaving Blow. So you research and meditate on the concept, but you're still a bit off from inhaling too many smoke grenades from earlier fights, so in a haze you determine that you need... a demonic threat report from a mage, a kinetic weapon from some soldier, and a pneumatic piston from some machine. But we're not done! So you get your salvage, and take it to a table to combine those elements into... what exactly? And that... thing... enables you to perform a better Cleaving Blow.Originally Posted by Xanatos
Enhancements make perfect sense as I've outlined in my prior posts. Many of the natural ones have training style names. Many of the mutant ones have mutation style names. Many of the scientific ones have chemist style names. Many of the magical ones are trinkets/spells/blessings that would fit a magical character. Enhancements are the things we don't see in comics - the things that happen off screen. Basic maintenance of a superheroes powers...
Yeah, some details of the game are better left glossed over from an RP standpoint.
I get the general idea though. I've played it that a magically powered character I was going to respec began researching new rituals to increase his own power, with the ritual being the respec. -
Never moon a werewolf.
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Quote:According to this thread, my -merit- rewards for running SFs are skewed because of players speed running through TFs. And although we both go about it differently, we are ultimately playing the same game format with the same goal of how you slot your character.Originally Posted by Panzerwaffen
...Since the game is not, in fact, a competition, why do you seem to feel you 'need' to do anything based on what other players do?
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Quote:That's part of the problem.Originally Posted by PumBumbler
I would suggest that your unhappiness be directed at the dearth of SFs
So's that.Quote:..the rewards from any SF, since all merits are benchmarked to median value.
And that too. Actually hadn't even thought of that till you mentioned it.Quote:I'm still waiting for Black Scorpion, Ghost Widow, Scirocco and Mako to have their own SFs. -
Quote:Ah, my apologies if you stated the underlined sentence before. That was all I was getting at.Originally Posted by SpittingTrashcan
I'm having trouble understanding what you're asking. I am saying that this game is not a competition. I am saying that it is not necessary to obtain rewards at a faster pace...
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Quote:Originally Posted by SpittingTrashcan
This game isn't a competition, so how are you so sure you're losing?
Really?!
You're saying this game isn't a competition, so there's no need to min/max and speed through content to get rewards at a faster pace? -
Quote:To expand a bit more, I've been given all sorts of excuses as to why other RP SG/VGs don't want to RP with us.Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
We (The Supreme Society, I'm the "co-" Agonus mentioned) tried to interact with other SGs, tried to get another group to play foil to the Society's plots and do some back-and-forth fights and arcs and such, but it just never worked out. Those other groups wouldn't set aside time for us, would mostly miss any appointment agreed upon, and most of them vanished off the face of the earth (one more or less told us, "Sorry, we're going to go play the new shiny and forget all the stuff we've done with you, bye!") leaving us back where we started.
So we pretty much keep our plots to ourselves these days. We venture out to the D to cause trouble every now and then, but the effort taken to try to coordinate things with other groups has just never seemed worth the cost.
You're too organized.
You have too many members.
You don't have enough high level members.
You're not online enough.
You have too many high level members.
You don't have enough players.
RPvP doesn't make any sense to us.
You don't PvP.
You don't textfight right.
We're too busy with RL.
You want us to lose? To villains? Seriously?
Screw you guys and everything we've planned and done up to this point, we're going switch to CO like we wanted to do all along. Bai!
So we decided to stop trying to RP with outside groups. It's not worth the aggravation. -
Quote:So it's a bad idea for you to play closer to my or Eiko's slower style, but it's okay in the current system where your speeder style forces us to match how YOU play to get decent merit rewards? No. Try again.Originally Posted by PumBumbler
Are you suggesting people adhere to your style of play simply because you don't find theirs valid? I'm not sure that speeders are that small of a minority, but I am sure they get over represented in the data mining.
In my experience, I can get a full team and start a task force in about 5-10 minutes, including recruitment on public channels. Basically I only do task forces and I always speed. I usually have more people (non-globalfriends/non-SGmates) asking to join my team than I have spaces as well. The demand for fast TF/SFs is there in the general population and not as small as you've stated.
Just remember that whatever system you want to devise, like a defeat half, the speeder will always do it the fast way and then get out. To be honest, that's kind of the reason why I play. I like teasing apart the hard points of the game and working around it. The (merit) rewards don't even matter to me anymore. A change to a grading system reminds me of figure skating, would be complicated to (re)program and would confuse the casual player.
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I can only suggest that you come over to Justice and take a peek at what we're doing. I'd be more than happy to describe our strategies and show you what we do. Then you can decide where best to optimize your TF/SFs and then you can decide if you want to skip parts or defeat all or try for the lowest time. I've never had anything to hide and you can always ask me what/why I do the things I do in a TF.
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It depends. For example...
I don't care about soft-capping.
I haven't seen Avatar.
I won't pay money to watch Kick-***.
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I was there in AE during the "early boom." >.>
Iron Man is my favorite superhero movie.
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Quote:Before I get too carried away, exactly what level of RP are you looking for? Just to give a few general examples;Originally Posted by Quinz
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So, you are implying I do not care to give from the group, or take? Because that is the feeling I am getting from the original post within these quotes. I will be honest, I am not a fan of Forums, I don't like having to reference outside of the game to get information, but there are plenty of unscheduled things that groups I have been in have dealt with, and because of those it makes it harder to get in, sinc eyou can't try to 'reserve' a spot. The Millennium Paladins did everything from the forums. If it wasn't scheduled, it was just, like, a fun IC/OOC mission run. It was easier, unfortunately I could barely get involved with their RP sessions due to, well, I had a wednesday club and that's when they had them at time time. (Not to self: try to apply with them again they were amazing.)
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-Light RP groups dabble with IC commentary on missions and the like, but that's about it.
-Medium RP groups interact IC, but tend to leave story levels at doing missions or done-in-one-night impromptu type things.
-Heavy RP groups interact IC the most, and usually have their own ongoing RP storylines that take upwards of weeks or even months to resolve. As such, yes, there is continuity in these groups, and if you're not around during prime activity and prefer to rely on information available in the game, you'll get lost. However, most RP groups use forums to keep track of what they've done, what they're doing, and what they plan to do. In my limited experience*, a lot of players don't like spending in-game time discussing OOC matters in-depth. But when you need to coordinate who's going to be online when, for how long, what's happened before, and the general plan of what's going to happen, it reeeaaally helps if that information is listed somewhere other than players heads. That's part of the point of forums, pop on there in your off time to catch up or bring others up to speed, so you can spend your time logged in to, y'know, play the game.
*I started and currently co-lead The Supreme Society, a heavy RP VG with a classic comic book supervillain take over the world theme.