Bad_Influence

....Is someone really trying to hint that the ancient Romans *didn't* really commit atrocities of every type!? Bwahahaha. Be serious. That was an extremely politically-incorrect bunch. In fact, I am mostly of UK descent and the Romans came over and enslaved my ancestors and burned down their sacred groves! EXPUNGE CIMERORA FROM THE GAME NOW! It reminds me of past atrocities when my people were enslaved!!!!111111!!!-!

'Fraid you're in the minority here on that issue, dude.

As time goes on I become more and more melee-centric. Good thing too, from the sound of this!

I have a feeling "reasonable discussion" might be standing in for "Let's have you come on around to my point of view." In this instance, not happening.

I am uninterested in any sort of compromise on this issue. I don't WANT the badge or its name altered in any way. I CERTAINLY do not want it taken away from us over the opinions of like, two people on the forums vs 100,000+ players.

Ok, I will bite: other than Smiley-Girl and yourself, who exactly is "harping" on the evils of the Malleus badge? Please point them out.

Here's my response to that: it is not on other people to do your, or Smiley-Girl's research for you guys. If you think no hero in the entire history of all comics everywhere has never killed anyone, you are completely free to think that. You may not think that, but I think Smiley-Girl does - and that is a total fallacy! Those of us who know differently will smile to ourselves and leave it at that. There are many websites devoted entirely to the Marvel and DC Universes which will tell you all you need to know.

I will try to break it down: the Cabal is an evil villain-group in this game. EVIL. They are not your nice friendly Wiccans down the street. They want to kill everyone they can get their hands on, ESPECIALLY men [going from what I remember re text in the game], but they're not religious about it - they'll kill anyone.

Killing people WHO ARE TRYING TO KILL YOU is called "self defense" and is pretty much sanctioned in most justice systems. Hence the Malleus badge is perfectly appropriate. If you two do not like it I am sorry, but I have at least one person displaying the Malleus badge and that is how it is going to stay!

"Farmhouse." "Bucket of Water." Oh dear Lord, have mercy on us all! *eyeroll* [and do you really think most players are au fait with methods for executing witches? My guess on that one is a resounding "no."] Next we'll be banning "Column Breaker" because German people had to die for us to get that badge, no fair demonizing the Germans for stuff that happened over 50 years ago, SOME ONE PLEASE THINK OF THE GERMANS!~!

p.s. I am about 1/3 German myself, just to nip that in the bud before it starts.

I have several in-game friends who are eying an upcoming game whose name incorporates both a version of the word "devil" and the number three, very very closely.

Implement DR, and ensure that I join them there when it gets released. Seriously. I have been in this game what feels like forever, and I love it. But I will not tolerate PvE DR; promise.

Is there seriously one single person in this game running a damage aura, as a level 50 in Atlas, who bothers beating down a level 5 Hellion?...? Is that worth anyone's time? I know it isn't worth MY time.

Now it is true that my level 50 damage aura will kill a level 5 Hellion in a matter of about 3 seconds, with no further effort on my part. But that is his bad luck; attacking people who are extremely stronger than one often results in poor outcomes.

And Wolverine absolutely kills enemies all the time, because he's a hero and that is what a lot of them do.

See above, sorry. I'm pretty sure Batman does as well - he's killed the Joker at least once. I'd call Batman a pretty iconic superhero.

A few superheroes such as Spider-man do not kill their opponents. A great many DO, however, and you can argue that they DON'T till you are blue in the face, but the fact is that everyone with even a small knowledge of comics knows that.... yeah, they often do. This is the reality of the comics genre.

If you ever actually read Mark Millar's "Wanted"... I dont think you could handle that. It is about villians, granted but I dont think you could handle that well at all. Metahumans are a murderous bunch, villain OR hero. In the Marvel UNiverse a lot of people actually do not like heroes much, because they are seen as massively destructive of property and of life. If the Hulk rampaged through your apartment during a battle, would you be ok with that? I sure wouldnt.

As a matter of fact, I well remember the Anniversary event where "name" heroes were spawning all over the place. Back Alley Brawler showed up at the Cap au Diable BM and started killing everyone in sight. People were mildly going about their businesss at the market and he was one-shotting 'em... Now that is a hero for you, lol... but VERY TRUE TO THE GENRE.

As for whoever made the comment about our opponents not dying because their bodies vanish after a minute or two, my understanding was that this is not due to the fact that they miraculously got teleported to a hospital, but that the more bodies are lying around, the more graphics-intensive things get = increased lag. They vanish as a service to us, to reduce lag.

I know all of this accords ill with your hearts-and-flowers worldview, but sorry.

I fail to see why not, although Nazis were of course not actually the ones interned in death camps, so that might be kind of backwards.

Badge text could go something like: "You've given the Council a taste of their own deadly medicine," or I am sure someone else could think up text even more appropriate.

You turn in one of each kind [think there are four] to the event salvage contact, and this opens up the fifth costume slot for that character.

You can email it to newbies of yours who didnt make the event - works for all levels - or you can keep it and market it later. It sells for a pretty good price, esp. several months down the road.

Yeah, because in real life, all the time people are surviving vicious attacks lasting several minutes with large bladed weapons - or even small ones, for that matter - having a flamethrower turned on them, having a pack of minions fireball them mercilessly and other suchlike violent confrontations, you bet!

Wow, I had no idea all those security officers my villains beat down during bank heists end up in the Zig. Now there's some game lore that makes sense for you!

ain't it Atrocious:
Bad

Agreed on all these points, and we need a badge called "Atrocious" ASAP. Or a title would work, too.

I find it ludicrous that I would NOT be allowed to kill some Longbow nuisance who is trying to use a flamethrower on me for the high crime of.... just entering a building?! Talk about swatting flies with a suitcase nuke, that's a great example.

Nope!

For one thing, I might be on an alt over level 10. For another, zombies will continue to spawn and spawn AND SPAWN, until I am eventually overcome.

Since death when fighting zombies solo is almost a given, which creates useless debt OR a long run back from the hospital on a lowbie, and since they give crap xp, there are few things that will drive me indoors faster when ToTing solo, than a zombie invasion.

Risk is not equal to or better than reward in this instance. I therefore move on.

Call me bad, but I really would not care if they did. They ARE villains, after all. Villains tend to do antisocial and politically-incorrect things.

However no fear because there is no way something like this would ever happen; the vast majority of the playerbase would emit a collective scream that would probably deafen half of the continental US.

It's not going to be changed.

And a good thing too, since changing that would mean changing a ton of other "offensive" stuff in the game, such as badges given out for the number of times one blows a bank vault door off its hinges.... OMG! CRIME! WE GOT A BADGE FOR A CRIME!

What about that badge for defeating CoT Mages? OMG! ADVOCATION OF MASS MURDER OF INNOCENT WARLOCKS! There they were, roasting passers-by in eerie green bonfires when those meddlin' murderous "heroes" showed up and fireballed 'em into oblivion!

We get a badge for killing Lusca. ALERT PETA AT ONCE, CRUELTY TO ANIMALS!

I could go on and on. My best advice to you is, find a real problem to fret about. Because this little crusade of yours is, I am sorry to say, complete balderdash.

OMG I can't believe you have to have this explained to you! Because the Cabal is a VILLAIN GROUP in this game. We most generally earn cash and prizes in this game by DEFEATING ENEMIES. The Cabal are the enemy of every hero.... and pretty much every villain too, since when villains ToT, Crones pretty much dont pop out of that door with a Candy-gram, either. They want to kill ALL of us.

Problem solved! Sheesh!

Its not just this week, as I recall she went off on this nutty crusade to get the badge pulled last year as well.

Meanwhile one of my Brutes is happily sporting the title "Malleus." And unless I greatly miss my guess, he will continue to sport it. O THE HORROR

I wouldn't want to guesstimate how many players actually understand the Malleus reference, but I'm guessing very few, the general knowledge fund being what it is.

OMG.

So I can choose between teaming with friends, and being able to get the tip mission [which is what this boils down to]. Great.

The mere knowledge that one must do research on the event in order to complete it successfully shouts "EPIC FAIL!" to me. I noticed [the one time I bothered to participate this year so far] that the timer resets once the banners are defeated, and this is a good change. But this event is still too much bother for many people. I admit to being one of them.

I have two characters for whom costumes are not dropping at all, which leads to my being unable to get the special tip mission and on this count I am pretty annoyed. One of them even has a costume badge meter that is moving, but no costumes are in his trays. Fun.

Now why would you boycott the cape pack over this?! It doesn't even have a stray power IN IT?!

I agree that devolution [puns intended] sucks. It has however happened to me exactly twice since I've been using it, only once of which was on a team... and I made sure I was far from the action when I clicked it.

If you have to boycott over stray - and mostly useless, I find most of them rather "meh" - over stray powers included in packs, at least wait for a pack with such a power in it. Passing up beautiful capes will not teach the developers any lessons, meanwhile your alts are frowning and pouting over not having a pretty leaf cape. Be kind to your alts!