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Me, too. It started about 9 this morning and we already have a few inches accumulation.

Looks like a CoX weekend!

This question occurs to me every time I see "tunneling" suggested.

I can't imagine ever using it on a character.

Wow, and I thought I used a lot of exclamation marks

Just a couple of remarks:


I don't now why we need a brand new different Control item - is this mainly to give the new A.I. a functional purpose? But you then give it tons of other stuff to do


I also would prefer this search capability be by bin. Allowing anyone to pull from inventory in any bin thru this item would sorta negate the individual bin permissions added in Issue 13.

"Yes" to something to allow searching, "no" to one item allowing access to all.

Meh. I don't think I agree on what an SG Leader does best, though.

Although I will never, ever Base Raid, allowing an Item rather than a Player Character to make the decision about priority targets (take out the Healer before the Tank) during a Raid sounds awful.

<soapbox>On a side note - this game doesn't have "Healers" BTW.</soapbox>

Erm, if you have an Empowerment Station (that's the name of the Buff Machine), why do you need the A.I. to do this? Is this another effort to give it something more to do?

No opinion either way.

So here I just noticed that you are proposing an item that is universal and could be placed in any room, whereas in the current setup, a Control Item goes in a Control Room and a Workshop Item (such as an Empowerment Station) goes in a Workroom.

(p.s. - I think you may have meant something other than a "formal" member in the library dissing the Leader's weight - that's not a very "formal" thing to do).

A message board function has been asked for, and I've supported it, although I don't personally need one since I can just turn to my fellow SG member across the room and tell her what I want to say.

There's a solution in place for this since Issue 13. Set each bin with it's own permissions and Voila! Problem solved. BTW, this individual permission I think would be somewhat egated by you universal search function above.

A Hologram Security would just be an additional graphic - cool, but not really needed for functionality.

And if the SG promotes too fast, your Security hologram would still have let the miscreant member clean out the bins, since their rank would be high enough to do it anyway.

Only post ideas that are clear or make sense?!?!? Have you been in S & I long? We would lose easily 35% of the ideas posted here and that would lessen the entertainment value of the forum significantly. (I know it's your first post, but I can't tell how long you may have been lurking about).

Please, no. Just no. /jranger.

Why add something to an idea that I don't really support? And you will have opinions on both sides (support & non-support) and you as the OP do not get to shape the kinds of responses you will get.

Nice SG Recruitment plug there at the end.

Overall, lots of ideas, but only a few I can see a real use for right now.

But don't let that stop you from thinking of more of them. I will be interested to see what you dream up next.

Pretty much this.

I understand the desire for more immersion, and agree it would be silly to see a hero stand by and watch the police get beat up (although I have seen this happen in the current Paragon City), I loathe the idea of PvP breaking out spontaneously right next to me, or worse yet, involving me when not my choice.

But then you went here:


Then today (about an hour ago) you said:

For someone who "didn't say I didn't like the game", it really seems that you don't like the game. You had several complaints, some of which we tried to point out where your perception was skewed - but you don't care, do you?

I understand that you are finishing out your trial, but unless you came here to have some of us help you find fun in the game - and are willing to try some of our suggestions - there's little purpose for you here except to troll.

Best of luck in your future endeavors, etc. etc., blah, blah, yada yada yada.... (insert standard buh-bye language here)

I'm very much in agreement with you on this, which is why I typically try very hard to refer to them as "Characters" or "Alts" (if I'm feeling a bit lazy).

Back in the day, I also had Toon characters while playing the Steve Jackson game. Since they were part of a friend's Teenage Mutant Ninja Wombats campaign, they generally were characters such as Rocco the Rhino and Polly Possum or other such whimsy. They don't translate very well to this game, so the use of the term "Toon" is somewhat jarring.

To get back to the thread topic:

Same here.

I really don't need the badges on all my characters - I have over 60 running right now.

Some characters are better suited to some events and/or badges than others. I make sure all my ice characters get the Winter Event badges, especially "Cold Warrior". My characters based on 11 1/2 inch fashion dolls all get "Toy Collector". My Fire/Thermal Corruptor Scorching Wrath really, really needed the Supernatural Event badge "A Woman Scorned" due to her backstory.

But some characters have a lot of difficulty getting event badges, as you have discovered. Defenders and Controllers have difficulty with opening presents during the Winter Event, but are great on teams for Rikti or Zombie Invasions. My meleers rarely gather badges that require opening doors or presents at low levels because I hate to chase down the monsters.

So all-in-all, I have one main Hero and one main Villain for badge gathering. The other 60 or so may or may not have them, as the mood takes me. No one character is likely to have all the badges for their faction (let alone having no chance yet to get all those from the opposite faction).

And you will also find threads around discussing the fact that most events have gotten stale for many vets. The vets tend to build new stuff for each seasonal event based on the core from prior years, so those cores are now 4 years old or thereabouts (the first Winter and Halloween Events were pretty different from today's, although the giant monsters were reused).

It's under a different tab in the badge menu, under "Events".

You may want to page thru all those tabs, since there are different badges listed different places - then you can see if there are any you want to start working towards, or even if there are some you got you didn't know you had. (Don't laugh, I've missed Badge Award announcements when combat was hot and heavy.)

A low level character by himself will have a very hard time with the Zombie spawns. No dishonor in taking care of your regular business instead of stopping to fight them.

OK, you seem to be determined to not like the game - so it's not for you.

Folks have offered to try to help you find the "depth" you are seeking, but you don't seem to want our help.

One of the more frequent posters on this board plays from Bulgaria, and I haven't seen him report problems with his connection to the game (sorry if I'm putting words in your mouth, Samuel_Tow). But if you truly have connection problems with your particular ISP, then you will have problems no matter what on-line game you are trying to play.

Erm, regarding the highlighted line from your post above - at the levels you are playing in the trial, those different Dominator powers that trap the opponent do work differently, you just aren't seeing that for some reason.

Entangle - Immobilize your opponent, doing Smashing & Lethal damage over time. Single target, does damage, but only immobilizes, so the target can still attack you back.

Strangler - Hold your opponent, dealing damage over time. Your target can't do anything *at all*. Single target, use it for the foe that will likely give you the most trouble first.

Roots - Immobilize a group of foes, dealing damage (less than Entangle does, at least per foe). Like Entangle, except for multiple targets. They still get to attack you back.

So there are differences, which can affect your tactics against any given spawn.

As far as skills or talents goes, our Inventions system mainly replaces that. There are other games out there that have them, including the 800-pound gorilla in the MMO world, so perhaps they would be more to your taste.

And also, BTW, those Enhancements you are pooh-poohing right now become pretty powerful at higher levels. No one is uber when they start out - that would be a pretty boring game.

This is kinda what I meant in my earlier post about the title of the thread not matching my definitions of "fantasy hair". I think these long flowing locks for guys, with the addition of long spiky (a la the Goblin King from Labyrinth - DumpleBerry's old avatar) and for females, some elaborate braided styles put up on the head and more long hair down the back with different textures (curly, etc.).

Getting them would be great (even if I can't bring myself to make a Male or Huge character because I can't stand watching them run from behind).

Animated hair on top of it would be bonus!

(as an aside - Yay! a picture of Sean Bean/Boromir!)

Don't we have some spiky hairstyles already, then? I know I have short spikes for my frosty corruptor, the Gamine and most of the "Long" styles seem to look very similar to what's in this picture. At least for females, it seems to me we already have a bunch of anime-esque styles (many of which were added quite some time ago). I don't make male characters, so I'm not as familiar with those styles - perhaps that's where OP is looking for more styles?

I'm not trying to be snarky, just genuine puzzled since we have some already. What more is being requested? (Other than animated hair, which I tend to associate with Anime as well).

For those of us who are not Anime buffs, can you give us some examples?

This isn't really a criticism of you individually, but too many people assume that everyone has the exact same background and will immediately understand what is meant by a phhrase that is pretty self-evident to them - like "Fantasy Hair Costume Pieces". When I think of Fantasy, I do not immediately think of Anime, probably because I don't watch anime and don't particularly care for its style or some of the more typical story plots.

And, BTW, some of us have been campaigning for animated hair (a la Ghost Widow) since CoV came out - there are apparently some technical reasons why we don't involving multiple moving pieces being a "bad" thing.