Zamuel

Originally Posted by The_Masque

Back in my day we ran things because they were fun not because we were going to get rewarded for it!

Originally Posted by talnar

I for one will be switching my main toon Tal'anor Ja clw/nin to blue side.

Originally Posted by Avatea

Team Search Improvements

• This color scheme came about along with other behind-the-scenes work to make searching more useful in Going Rogue. It used to be that heroes could see heroes and villains could see villains and that was that. With Vigilantes going to Rogue Isles and so on, we needed a more sophisticated approach. Now the people you see are people you could team with, and who are in the same part of the game world as you (eg. people in the Rogue Isles can't see people in Paragon City and vice versa, regardless of their alignment).
• The new color scheme works like this:
  • >Jade green>: Same team as you
  • >Red>: They have 'not looking for group' set
  • >Yellow>: They can't be invited to team with you because they're on a mission map or in an arena match
  • >Orange>: They're the opposite faction to you and not on a mixed team, so you have to go to their map to team with them
  • >Violet>: They're the leader of a team with less than 8 people on it
  • >Pale blue>: They're not on a team and you can invite them
  • >Green/grey>: They're on a team but not the leader, so you can't invite them and they can't invite you

Originally Posted by Eva Destruction

Also, you should play Fred's arc cause he put Fusionette in sewage.

Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex

For some reason when this topic comes up the conversation tends to head toward "it must look like a realistic sparkling ocean foregrounding a breathtaking Tahitian sunset." I think that's setting the bar impossibly high.

There are water fountains, water falls, and exploding fire hydrants already in the game. The water doesn't need to be any more persistent than other effects.

Originally Posted by konshu

Over the last several days I've had some bizarre situations with the Architect editor not carrying the latest version of the arc.

For example, a few days ago I edited a published arc. I made some changes to the final mission, and to playtest it, I moved that mission to #1. I published, exited the editor, started the mission in AE, played it, decided I wanted to make a minor change, and exited after having played through a longish map. So several minutes had elapsed.

When I opened the file for editing, I was surprised to find mish #1 was mish #1, and mish #5 was back in it's normal spot, and none of the changes I had just made - and played! - were in the file.

So I fretfully exited the editor and started it up again. This time the missions were in their proper places and the recent changes were present. Whew!

I've had this sort of thing happening a lot lately, to the point where I regularly now open for edit, close, and re-open - check to be sure I have the latest edition - and only then proceed.

For the record, this arc I've been working on is published, and I'm only working on the published version. When I started encountering update problems, I saved off a version, but this isn't a situation of confusing local v published files.

Also, I've only been having this problem since like Wednesday or Thursday.

Anyone else?

Originally Posted by je_saist

Let my try to set up an example here: Let's say you were out hunting a Devouring Earth Monster in a Praetorian Task Force. You are deep underground in Praetoria and you come across a chasm that you can not teleport through due to a teleport denial system, there's no place to land for jumps, there's no ledges to super-speed across, and due to an EMP that was detonated during the last fight you were in, you can't use temporary mechanical powers like Jet Packs or Rocket Packs.

You have a choice. You can fly across the chasm with a native flight power. On the other side of the chasm are 8 obelisks or some other object. With the full team assembled, you can unlock a door and proceed with the mission and go ahead and fight the Devouring Earth Monster. Fighting it early might give you a special reward: such as additional merits or a special drop.

Your other alternative is to work your way through the caves system around the chasm. Your access to this other caves system is through a new mission map that you can't return from. Say you jump down a big hole in the ground following a map, and when you get to the bottom, it's now blocked off by a cave in.

The Task Force itself can still continue. The player isn't locked out of the content, which is one of the big complaints against requiring powers, but the rewards will be different, trading off a larger special reward for increased chances for minor item drops, more experience, and more inf .

With this type of system, content could be created that could leverage particular powers and make you want to have a specific uncommon power. The game is not requiring you to have that specific power, but you might see or experience certain aspects of a story only if somebody has the power class required to unlock that specific story branch.

For another quick example: let's say that you come across a wall that you can't pass through, but you can fire through. A player with a sniping power could destroy a target on the other side of the wall, like a computer control panel, and allow you to proceed through the wall early. Players without sniper powers would have to go track down a control panel in another map, which would change the story they see and experience.

Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master

the only change i would make to team tp would be to increase its base range, since 25 ft is nigh pointless

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

1. Remove -tohit
2. Give GrpFly slightly slower than flight speed
3. Make it as stable as hover is.

Sorted. Power is fixed, win/win

Originally Posted by The_Cheshire_Cat

Making a custom NPC difficult is a lot easier than making them balanced.

Originally Posted by Eva Destruction

In that same vein, it would be nice to be able to give them some mez RESISTANCE without giving them mez PROTECTION. So whatever mez or mezzes you give them resistance to just doesn't last as long. It's less binary than mez protection, it makes the critters tougher for characters that rely on mez powers without rendering said powers totally useless.