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_Viridian_, actually. Doc Aeon was responsible for everything dealing with SSA1. You can tell because everyone kept dying anticlimactically.

He'll be back as the main villain of Thor 2.

Yeah...

A lot of recent lore's been pretty lazy or hamfisted like that.

Yup.

My points make so little sense the developers were actually going to implement the range change into City of Heroes based on said points, and a majority of the game's population would happily embrace it.

Yeah. Okay. You got me there, bud.

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He intended to kill Rularuu, and was just about to do it, too. But Mender Silos intervened in the background, depowering the Dagger of Jocas so that it would simply seal Rularuu instead of outright kill him. So blame that one on Silos.

I do know how to play, thx. What you don't realize is it's part of a chain of attacks that each revolve around being 80ft from your opponent. Having the power be 40ft effectively reduces the range on your other powers. Unless you expect someone to have to constantly bob back and forth every few seconds just to pull off their standard attack chain, which is just silly and offers nothing productive to gameplay.

40ft is also close enough for melee enemies to rush in and attack you, seeing as how your 40ft attack tends to root for a second or two. Which works against the very idea of ranged sets.

Also, why does there even need to be an extra trade off to begin with? It's got higher endurance cost and higher recharge already to make up for it's increased damage. It's just silly that you need to be point blank, as well. Especially considering certain sets, like Archery, don't even have that requirement and do just as much damage.

You can have whatever opinion you want, but the fact is the low range on such an important power in those sets was unnecessary, didn't compensate for anything, and worked against the idea of ranged powersets. It was something that needed to go, just like the end crashes on nukes.

You're a Blaster/Defender/Corruptor. Not a Scrapper/Brute/Stalker/Tank. Your blasts shouldn't require you to get right up in someone's face to pull off.

cool story bro

Pressure was probs a bad choice of words for the OP. "Keep up the good work" would fit better.

17k is pretty impressive, tbh.

Why? None of the games you listed are very modern or new, which is kind of what I was talking about with my examples. If I wanted to play an old game, I'd play one of the ones I listed.

Also missed my point about how the gaming industry as a whole has changed for the worse and games like both you and I listed aren't the norm anymore.

I have, and I really like it. But it's no replacement for Doom, y'know?

Never heard of those. I'll have to check 'em out. And this video and this video best demonstrate how I feel about modern day FPS games.

It's a good thing you weren't in charge, then, because those changes sound awful. Further penalization to actual story creators that love customization and creativity in their enemy groups purely because you're afraid of inevitable farmers potentially abusing a unique system is just flat out stupid.

Pohsyb had the best suggestion. If the devs embraced farming and regulated it, it wouldn't have gotten so far out of hand, without making everyone else suffer as a result.

And no, MA was just as much a nail in the coffin as demon farms, pre-ED herding, DFB farming, and Magisterium farms. As in it actually didn't hurt the game much at all. I don't see how it could have killed the game at all, tbh, considering regular content was still being released and people still regularly ran it. But go ahead and use it as your scapegoat if it makes you feel better.

I had a legit response typed up and ready for you, but then I realized you probs don't care regardless of what's said.

So.

I get what you're saying. But I think you need to toughen that upper lip just a bit.

Leandro just did nearly all the heavy work right there. No one's asking for it to be done right this second, either. It's a modest request that, when a mod or rep finds time, they change up the backdrop to something more inspirational and City of Heroes-esque.

It's not a demand, nor a rage filled post. No one's been, or being, ungrateful here. It's just a simple request.

Def agreed on the "help worlds feel more alive" thing. Would be cool to see commercial airlines fly over, like, once every fifteen minutes or so. The helicopter that was added to Brickstown in I24 beta, though, actually has that jerky behavior you're talking about. It looks hella awkward.

I don't understand why something like this would be shot down, tbh