Zombie Man

Ah, good. All blaster attacks will now do Mag 6 Knockback.

Ctrl+Shift+Esc goes directly to the Task Manager.

Oh, yeah, I'm a power user, baby!!!

Yeah, we'll get the Seattle web team right on that.

What can go wrong?

Copy your character to Test or Beta and try it out there to see if you like it.

While I agree that pre-announcements can be made the day before they leave the office, I disagree that this is as big an issue as you seem to make it.

Brony.

Ah, I'm not characterizing other people's post as that, I'm characterizing my post as that. I'm more than willing to demonize them for allowing the UI to become so whacked up and for continuing to delay Power Pool customization.

And I lay it all at Production's feet (it's you're problem, now, War Witch!). Production has never properly supervised the art department's care-taking of the costume creator interface (along with checking in with the patch notes process and fixing long time costume bugs), and they have not given Coding the go ahead to make Power Pool customization happen. Since power customization was introduced, there has been a lot of other stuff that has entered the game which I would gladly trade away for Power Pool customization. They're just not prioritizing it.

And just like I said when I crushed poor BAB's spirit after he worked so hard on it, I will say again: Power Customization is an unfinished, and therefore, poor job. Until it is truly finished it gets just a C- from me.

The only reason why I'd vote CoH's character creator better than the others (and I did) is because the others have even greater faults that make them Fs in comparison to CoH. If they took care of their glaring faults, they'd jump ahead of CoH.

Also, they did indeed made an attempt to rebuild the base system from the ground up... and wound up with a system that was not qualitatively better than what was in place, so, they scrapped it. That was a lot of code-hours (and money) for nothing.

So, the upshot is that CoH would have to as stupid-popular, and therefore, stupid-rich as WoW for the studio to throw more money on another attempt to re-do the base system.

And the current one is a house of coding cards ready to topple if you tried to do almost anything to it.

Heh, how many times do we see super villains get their super powers while being executed?

Which brings up an interesting paradox in the 'supers universe', namely, supervillains who kill get either super-high maximum security prisons, or, the insane asylum. Meanwhile, petty normals who kill one person in a robbery get the chair.


As for the morality of the death penalty, just about everyone agrees that if it does exist, only the state after due deliberation and a fair trial has a right to use it. Vigilantes who make themselves judges and juries are never acceptable.

The exception to individuals using lethal force is self-defense and police/military personnel who need to use it to stop someone else using lethal force. If the perpetrator isn't using lethal force, or there is a relatively safe way to disarm or capture, then lethal force may not be ethically used.

So, what Superman does is squeaky clean ethically (except that too often he doesn't move the fight away from civilians soon and often enough -- he could punch and run 'taunting' the baddies to an unpopulated area).


As far as the ethics of the death penalty, there is a middle ground between "sure, kill them" and "no, never kill them", namely, "kill them if they can't be safely incarcerated." This is what I call the Gilligan's Island rule: If Gilligan killed MaryAnn and Ginger and attempted to kill Mrs. Howell, but the islanders stopped and captured him; they would have to execute him because a bamboo prison wouldn't hold him indefinitely. This is actually the position of the Catholic Church which most people think is in the "never kill" camp. If society has apprehended someone who is a danger to others and can incarcerate them, then you can't execute. But, if incarceration is not possible, the the state has a right to stop future killings it has no other means to prevent by executing the killer.

This has serious implications for super powered villains. E.g., though the (modern killing) Joker is insane; he is not really able to be kept incarcerated; thus, he should be executed. But, you might say, "Send him to the Phantom Zone!" Bah, the Phantom Zone has a revolving door that spins faster than Arkham's.

I did try to get them to do that when I got them to tie-in all the Ferries and BHs and add new BHs. My mind control powers are not that extensive.... yet.

Of course, adding (H)s to the mini-map is going to make the mini-map pull-down menu even more unwieldy than it already is. I gave them suggestions to fix that too...




Because *you* don't use it then it doesn't get a QoL upgrade?

Sorry starving people of the world, no food for you because Power_NA is full!

And this one, on paper, doesn't seem interesting at all.

Even *if* it's a bug?

It *is* a bug, no matter how much you want to overstate your 'evidence' in order to make your case.

The 16 target cap on Notice of the Well hit players as well as pets. That was an unintentional mistake aimed at neither player nor pets. If there were no pets but 24 players on the Magi League, 8 of the players would not be level shifted. That has *nothing* to do with pets.

Once it was pointed out, it was immediately slated for a fix; which is evidence that it definitely *is* a bug. So, hardly a sleight against MM pets intentionally or part of some imagined systemic anti-MM-pet agenda.

BTW, MM pets have been pretty much been made immune to the Keyes' zone-wide damage pulses and AM's green cylinder of death. For that iTrial, MMs have a clear advantage over other ATs.

My MM is T4'd in all incarnate slots (except Hybrid simply because I haven't had the time yet) and is my secondary iMerit farmer. MMs can be successful in all iTrials; some trials more so than others, but, I find that to be true for all ATs.