Bad_Influence

Balancing around IOs [which I thought was something they swore would "never happen,"] SHOULD HAPPEN IN LEVEL 45+ ARCS. It is purely stupid to "balance around IOs" in a level 20 arc. How many people are set-IO'ed out at level 20? I can tell you, I'm not.

Re that Sky-Raiders-in-the-tunnels mish, I hit Stealth, Sprint and ran through that like a maniac till I hit the end. I'm not that gullible, I know a bunch of suffering when I see it [usually] and that looked like plenty, all in one handy little package. I Just Said No.

You mean I missed this by auto-completing the last mish before I ever went in...?! YAY, ME! Every now and then I do something smart, and this was one of the times. Whee! Drudgery and pain avoided!

I can imaginethebeating my little level 20 Fire/bubbler 'troller would have taken in there, yay for narrow escapes. She didnt have SOs then [she's level 22 now, but back then....] so Char DEFINITELY would have missed and then... how. about. no.

I have never suggested adding the ones we have now as permanent backpieces. What I am saying is that the art department has already created many backpacks that are in the game now, its not like they don't know how to draw backpacks. My guess is that the backpack crowd is seen as relatively few players, therefore the issue has been placed on the permanent back-burner. I'm not on the art team so of course that is just a guess.

As far as them looking good on everyone, we have stuff in the game now that looks stupid on some body sizes and types: see: trenchcoats. That's never stopped anyone before.

I just find one of our resident trolls faux-sweetly cooing "Be patient now, my restless little children! Soon!" over an issue that has BEEN an issue almost since the launch of the game, to be both annoying and fatuous. Like people have not been patient! Pah-LEASE.

I am not sure exactly which mission it was, but it was near the end. The NPCs were not Family, they were PPD ["rogue" PPD?] and I don't know about you, I do not need multiple PPD Ghosts glue-trapping me at once. I just don't.

I was Hovering above them, looking down and counting 7-8 NPCs in one wave. If I managed to kill a few, another wave would come running up and etc. That is just too damn many for a solo level 20 troller on +0/0. A wave of three would have been fine, not FUN true eough, but fine. Eight is too damn many.

My level 15 +0/0 troller in Praetoria is having the exact same problem with ghouls and Resistance. Seriously, whose bright idea was this, anyways? Are there people who find this fun? I don't find facing level 50 threats at level 20 "fun." I don't have the enhancements or the slots to even be able to begin to deal with that sort of thing.

I feel your pain, but luckily this issue is easily dealt with via a few keystrokes.

As for "making jetpacks look good," that is a crap reason. We have several jetpacks in the game this instant. Its not like its some unknown, new art that has to be made up, we have jetpacks NOW. It seems plain to me that the rationale is not that the art department is going "ZOMG WE CANT MAKE A JETPACK LOOK GOOD, *bursts into tears*!!!!!" it is that for whatever reason they are completely uninterested in creating permanent jetpacks.

As such I find being told "be patient now, children!" both stupid and insulting, people have been waiting six years for jetpacks and I don't know about you, waiting six years is more than long enough.

I'm not even interested in jetpacks, I just know when its been more than long enough, and now is it. We are not getting them, its time to face facts.

Completely untrue; if people here wanted to be playing fantasy or SW-themed games, they would be there doing it. Some of us are here to get away from all that. I think orcs, dragons and hobbits are silly.

We do indeed enjoy the comics milieu. We just don't do a lot of public roleplay. Public roleplay is rare, and if you are here for that you may find this game disappointing.

This was not a "gimme these pieces naow!" thread, [although there's nothing wrong with those,] I was asking about the antennae because we have a lot of stuff in the costume creator, and between regular faces, Masks With Skin, Full Helmets, Half Helmets etc. there is a lot of room for stuff to be very hard to find, indeed. I was thinking I might hve been looking in the wrong places.

Good point though: I would like access to every last piece Nightstar has on, and they can start with the antennae I dont expect arm-blades such as she has on, but a sword option with that cool belled edge would be a nice addition, as well.

Yep... that's pretty much what we will get. I would bet money, not MUCH money true, but money.

As soon as I saw the Fireflies aura, a beautiful character popped into my head, costume and name all intact. I waited until i19 to roll her, so she could have her aura.

Imagine my chagrin to realize that yep, she has to wait till level 30 to get her beautiful little glowy creatures of the night. , and once again I say:

I have thought for years that Pocket D was simply crying out for some Daft Punk. At any rate, it sure does need some new music, and this would be great.

Wrong! People who like to solo run TFs all the time. I sure do. One must team for a TF, that's how the rewards are gated.

However we have many, many many mission arcs which are fine for soloers. The expectation is that a single mission is going to be completable by a solo player. Every now and then one runs across one which IS NOT completable by a solo player, and then it usually gets dropped if that is an option.

If Trapdoor were droppable all of this angst would stop. And he should be.... because there is no real choice to be made, the mission completes and the arc progresses no matter which dialog-tree one chooses.

If this is a "must team" sort of arc, then it should be a task force. Again, problem solved.

I think the underlying is that Trappy needs to be made droppable. If he were able to be dropped, almost all of this angst would vanish. This is why we're seeing a ton of complaining abut Trappy, yet almost none about Honoree/Holtz. In my opinion, those two are almost worse than Trppy, especially if you have the ill luck to have both of them respond to a pull AND get hit with the Curse of Weariness.

But you can dismiss that mission - thank the powers that be - and so we see little complaining. Honoree/Holtz are a speed-bump that can be got around.

The issue of people being called liars when reporting issues that other players have no experienced is far older that Trappy or this thread. This behavior has been going on in these forums for an extremely long time. I remember once I was dogpiled for reporting that every now and then, EBs can hit right through Phase Shift. This is especially true for "name" characters like Citadel and Black Scorpion - if the boss is powerful enough, you better keep running even if you ARE phased. I had seen it multiple times, but the screaming on these forums about what a "liar" I was could probably be heard at the rim of the Arctic Circle. The amusing thing was that people were weighing in on this, and they'd never had Phase on one of their characters. Truly, lol.

No one person can see everything that happens in this game, on all possible ATS, on all possible builds. That's not popular news, but its true. For instance I have no idea what happens when an AR/traps Blaster takes on Trappy, so it interests me to hear what others have to say. Such conversations can, in the long term, help me decide what powersets I want to try for myself.

When people tell me I need to bring inspirations, or more inspirations, or different inspirations, I laugh. I enter EB encounters with a trayful, believe me, usually at least half Lucks. What strikes me as dangerous and counterproductive is when my level 50 character, so carefully built and slotted, is forced to rely on some little temp powers [which is what insps are, if you think about it] in order to get through an encounter. That does not say "super" to me, but that's just me.

Bad <----- actually a female, just sayin'.

....I guess out of all 140,000 or so strong, Bad is the only person who had some characters who had a problem with Trappy, so it's alllllllllllllllllllll me and not one thing to do with this NPC and what he can do, and how he does it. Yep, that sounds about right.

Or not.

Look, this is all academic to me. When I meet this kind of crap on a low-damage character, I cut the Gordian knot: I go get a temp power. All of my 50s are Incarnate. Willy, nilly, whichever kinda way: it is done.

Doesn't sound like a "failure" to me. Mileage will vary, natch. Meanwhile one way or another I beat the system.

Your statement is far too all-inclusive. You're speaking for all ATs and all possible slotting, and that's just too broad, I am sorry.

Maybe its not a war of attrition TO YOU. It wasn't for certain of my alts. For some of them it WAS though, and no offense but what you think had zero to do with what went down at the time.

.... what?

Few things will get me to /gignore faster than micromanagement. There's at least three of them on my gignore list right this minute.

This is what I do: I never, ever discuss slotting with strangers. I never discuss it with "what you got in HowlingTwilight?" types especially. This always lets me know that I have got a would-be micromanager on my hands, and I get enough of that at work. I am not putting up with it in my ENTERTAINMENT.