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A Staff as a melee powerset has been suggested before, a bit back, and I do like that idea. There's one issue in the animations. With the varied amount of techniques among staff users IRL, getting a well put together and appealing version to people is straight up hard. Also, animating stuff like spinning staffs and the more 'flowery' techniques would be a lot to ask out of the devs animation crew.
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This was a perennial point of discussion (or complaint) for martial arts and broadsword (katana too until they revised the animations to be more like chanbara-flavored kenjutsu). Yes, any style of hand to hand that looks like THIS will by the same token not look like THAT. Karate Kid, Judo Master, Remo Williams, done in CoH, all look the same. Conan and Zorro too (or Zorro and Cyrano, if you fudge it with Dual Blades). A hack and slash broadsword and a rapier style and a broadsword that actually looks like broadsword, etc. would all be great, as would a tae kwon do AND jujutsu AND classical wu shu AND modern wu shu AND aikido choices for the barehanded crowd.
But it will probably be one-size-fits-all for the existing sets, and one-size-fits-all for any new ones that come down the pike. I don't see that as a showstopper. It will, if nothing else, keep the forums active ;-) -
Not wild about a "wizard staff" set. A staff that has some kind of ranged powers, sure - but up to the player whether it is a magic staff, a tech loaded superweapon, etc. etc.
Two-handed poleweapon/staff melee has been on the "this would be nice list" for awhile, but is not a priority. A weapon based energy set with a staff-like weapon has less general appeal (nor do I think it likely to be as easy to avoid the issue of redraw, but leave that aside - I have never considered redraw a compelling game issue in any case).
But a hackneyed trope like "wizard's staff?" Really outside the realm of the necessary in a modern setting superhero game. -
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Yep, any opponent who sets up a base in an area where the topology forces his enemies into a neatly constrained kill zone (if their approach is to charge en masse ino the chokepoint) is...well, just not friendly.
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Weeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllllll, in caves I'm often in the back [usually behind 3 MM's-worth of pets, whether I like it or not], actually AROUND THE CORNER from the fight. I'm not contributing back there, and the MMs almost never have the courtesy to move their pets to allow others to get by.
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Oh, I agree, most players have no idea how to deal with terrain tactically. But that isn't, I must submit, the terrain's problem.
I don't fight it, I just leave team after that mission, if the team insists on running mission after mission on these maps.
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So in a sense small-bore caves can actually discourage teaming.
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The typical bad tactics or players who minimize other players' roles because their cookie cutter tactics demand approach X (pets in front, tank pull to HERE, etc.) do indeed militate against teaming.
But I must disagree with the implicit suggestion (I may indeed be inferring it, in which case I apologize) that it is therefore better to make tactics even less relevant and terrain even more accomodating to players.
Brute force can carry so many situations in CoX that the only use for terrain a lot of players can conceive of is to stand on it (leaving aside flyers). Soloists, certainly, have to take it into account more often, and in that sense some maps may suit them more than they do a pug. -
Yep, any opponent who sets up a base in an area where the topology forces his enemies into a neatly constrained kill zone (if their approach is to charge en masse ino the chokepoint) is...well, just not friendly.
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You forgot the hokey-pokey animations. Don't even think of putting this together without the hokey-pokey animations.
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Not sure what this would mean in terms of database overhead (storage is cheap. so not much) or more to the point, code and database record structure changes to swap the list of costume slots around as one flips builds.
But it does seem to me that we have numerous costume slots available, and that players can already decide which costume goes with which build (if indeed they want to link costumes to an alt-build). -
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Here's a question for those tormented of posts they consider repetitive: if someone does search and appends their point to an existing thread, how many of you would be in his face for thread necromancy/dead horse/etc.?
Unpleasant posts attacking others for those activities are quite as common as "lrn 2 srch n0o0b" critiques. I do not recall offhand if any posters are prone to both, but any that are seem to be contradicting themselves (or blowing their cover, revealing the shining, brave protector of forum integrity as just another pathetic internet control freak).
And to be sure, even if the intersection set of "Search dammit" and "No Necrothreads dammit" critics is small, or even non-existent, the poor op is going to get attacked by one faction or the other for violating their particular notion of netiquette.
So users may as well post as seems good to them, either searching up a thread or starting their own. For no matter what they do they will be bound to offend someone in the metanarrative.
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By that logic, nothing needs to be modded because you don't need to read my offensive posts.
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ThaIt's the poster's job to do so.
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The poster is a customer. The vendor needs to walk softly in telling him what his "job" is. I am rather at a loss what basis other customers have for trying to tell him such a thing.
The mentality displayed by a remark like "this is the poster's job" underscores what I find repulsive every time the users on this system try to police content, far more than yet another server merge or release-names-on-paid-accounts proposal (to name two topics I personally find repugnant).
Post, though the heavens fall and the same users flood in with 20 replies about using "Search." -
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It IS recommended that you figure it out first, before trying to proclaim a new thread about anything. Blindly posting whatever 'seems good to you'
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I must have been typing too quietly again.
Post as seems good to you. Let the rest sort it out.
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Alternative suggestion: post your idea as seems good to you. Rest assured that moderator wannabes will inform you, usually in the tough tones reserved for the internet, that your idea has been posted before and that you should have used search.
If someone posts a substantive response to the content of your post, engage them in discussion. Ignore the folks who like to go meta about whether you are posting appropriately, unless they have a red name. -
How does one differentiate the decision that a given suggestion, issue, or position be presented to the developers or community reps from the decision not to present a position that the volunteer disagrees with or dislikes?
It seems to me the proposal was to have the volunteers doing a digest or summary of ideas for presentation to NCSoft/Cryptic, no? Is he just a copy editor, cleaning up typoes and taking out "pie," "no," etc. from the discussion?
Does someone have to sell the volunteer on a suggestion for it to be passed upwards?
What are the criteria for "top 5" issues? The volunteers preferences? Are there metrics or is it intuitive, or both?
I must admit, it seems to me that using soft-core words for a hard-core concept doesn't lessen the impact when it actually goes into effect. -
I should think the actual mods would need a means of touching base with player volunteers, and absolutely would need the authority to suspend or remove one for vanishing, going ballistic, etc. Scheduling new elections (or whatever mechanism would exist for installing a volunteer) would then proceed under moderator control, which I would assume applies to non-emergency elections as well.
Recognizing runners up or deputies who take over if the primary volunteer fails could be in place, but deputies might get bored with waiting, or leave, or start muttering "Now is the winter of our discontent..." or something. -
I must admit I have never cared to have one player set in a position of even modest authority over other players, or given the role of intermediary/filter/gatekeeper who decides what is and is not presented to the vendor.
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I like PvP, but I don't like the players I generally have to PvP with.
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So PvP is kind of like Paris? (France, not Hilton) -
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And for the record, respect is earned never given.
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"Basic respect" in this case meaning respecting the other person enough to discuss matters with them calmly...
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Its a quibble over connotation. There is a maxim (or cliche):
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If someone hits notify moderator at the bottom of the post , it gets deleted in a few hours .
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I have known people to claim to report posts they disliked, which did not violate rules, and those posts have remained (good for the mods).
Not every would be forum cop gets his teensy au-thor-it-tay respected when he tries to swagger it.
Clicking the report button is not an automatic delete. People who post "I've said my say so let this thread die now" are often ignored. -
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Has that quote been reworded and used elsewhere? It sounds really familiar...
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Not that I know of, unless they have added the Crowley's Novel DO. -
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Then again, my personal goal is to be able to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip, even so far as spending all their frequent flyer miles.
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"He had fashioned his irony on the model of that hard, cold, cruel, smooth glittering black ice that one finds only in deep gullies of the loftiest mountains; it was said in the clubs that he had found seventy-seven distinct ways of calling a man, to his face, something which only the most brazen fish-wives of Billingsgate care to call by its name, without his suspecting anything beyond a well-turned compliment. "
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Thank you Paul. (It's Paul, right?)
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That would be me, yes :-)
(The quote, I should note, is Crowley, from "Moonchild" - the man did more than invent some DOs after all) -
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Then again, my personal goal is to be able to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip, even so far as spending all their frequent flyer miles.
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"He had fashioned his irony on the model of that hard, cold, cruel, smooth glittering black ice that one finds only in deep gullies of the loftiest mountains; it was said in the clubs that he had found seventy-seven distinct ways of calling a man, to his face, something which only the most brazen fish-wives of Billingsgate care to call by its name, without his suspecting anything beyond a well-turned compliment. " -
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You are more than free to vote with your dollar, and leave. Why is it so difficult to accept the rules of someone's house you're a guest in, regardless of whether *you* agree with them or not?
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I am not a guest in NCsoft's house, I am a customer in their store. Different relationship. -
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Uh, I don't think it is fair to draw a connection between the Civil Rights movement, Slavery, and the Underground Railroad with anything on the forums.
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I have worked out a response to the several posts which object to discussing trivial issues (like these boards) in conjunction with more powerful societal issues such as slavery or the civil rights struggle.
Too.
Bad.
People, my objections were to a sizable set of responses that we must all follow the rules, all the time, whether we find them equitable or objectionable or not.
That mindset is toxic, whether encountered in the large or small.
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Sure sometimes breaking a law that is obviously unfair or unconstitutional (in the US anyway) turns into a good thing. See Rosa Parks. However, that is the exception and not the rule. A Questionable law is still just that, a law. It must be followed.
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Those avenues include civil disobedience (in the larger context of society). the civil rights movement, as you note, is the most potent example of this in recent US history. Antiwar protests come to mind as well. Gandhi was a master of the technique.
There are laws which individuals cannot, from their ethical standpoint, follow. Others may be dismayed or disgusted by the ethical stand in question, but that does not erase the right of a citizen to disobey a law he finds intolerable (even though he will face criminal or civil penalties for doing so).
We may, with the great examplars of civil disobedience, King and Gandhi and others, draw a line that separates non-compliance with a hateful law from violence to others. I can immolate myself in protest of a law I find unjust, even though suicide is illegal in many jurisdictions, and I may face criminal penalties for my action ;-) I have no moral right to set someone else on fire.
Drawing a line elsewhere is problematic. Constitutionality? Slavery was Constitutional for 70-odd years and many abolitionist actions broke laws which were perfectly constitutional, as, for example, the Underground Railroad violated the Fugitive Slave Act. -
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Unfortunately rules are rules. They have to be enforced.
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All of them? Even questionable ones, or questionable interpretations of them?
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Since NCSoft owns the space, yeah.
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I am a by Gods customer and the amount of control I am willing to give a vendor has significant limits.
I am not particularly annoyed by the staff or the rules, but Christ and Horus in a crap game, folks, do you really go through life bowing to "the rules" this way? Accepting the dictates of authority because it IS authority, and telling others to do the same? -
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Unfortunately rules are rules. They have to be enforced.
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All of them? Even questionable ones, or questionable interpretations of them?
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Like it or not the mods are final arbiters on interpretation of the rules. If someone disagrees with that, it should go on PM.
And yes. All of them.
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Never. Based on that logic (that of sheep under the crook of the shepherd) nothing ever changes, or ever can.