Baneful

Originally Posted by Healix

Gee, I don't know if the world (or ME) is ready for more than one of me......

TPBM now has the ability to change their face, through concentration, to look like anyone they want.

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

I'd really hope that there is stuff planned as part of the 'free' issues, and not a trend towards pay-for inclusions. The odd booster is all well and good, but making everything new and shiny a pay-for? No. Not cool.

Originally Posted by Goblin_Queen

Agreed. Storm Cloud would benefit the most out of having a secondary color option. I've often wished that all auras would have that option.

Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel

"I am Iron Man..."
Has he lost his mind?
Can he see or is he blind?
Can he walk at all?
Or if he moves will he fall?

Is he live or dead?
Has he any thoughts within his head?
We'll just pass him there
Why should we even care?

He was turned to steel
In the great magnetic field
When he traveled time
For the future of mankind

Nobody wants him
He just stares at the world
planning his vengeance
That he will soon unfold

Now the time is here
For Iron Man to spread fear
Vengeance from the grave
Kills the people he once saved

Nobody wants him
they just turn their heads
Nobody helps him
Now he has his revenge

Heavy boots of lead
Fills his victims full of dread
Running as fast they can
IRON MAN LIVES AGAIN!

tl;dr: Your freakin' metal armor and melee turned me into one of those statues in Atlas Park, so once I regained my mobility, I would KILL YOU.

For the Poster below me, I give the poster below me all the bioshock plasmids (fully empowered), weapons (fully upgraded), and their own Big Daddy or Big Sister Suit.
Have fun!

Originally Posted by cursedsorcerer

Nice, this with my Cockroach Summoning will allow me to RULE THE WORLD!

I grant the person below me the honor of being my lowly henchman.

Originally Posted by cursedsorcerer

You die of nothingness!

I grant to the person below me a book detailing the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire.

Originally Posted by je_saist

... sometimes I miss the rep system because that last post deserves all the negative rep powers in the world. I don't think I've seen such a clueless and rubbish post since the claim that NCSoft had lessened the amount of hardware allocated to host City of Heroes.



From what we know of the incarnate system, it's additive to additional characters. Incarnate powers are not replacing enhancement slots, or are incarnate enhancements replacing training, dual, single, hamidon, or invention enhancements. The Incarnate system, as far as we know, will be a completely separate system.



Moon zone. Really?

Isn't it about time this dead horse got put out to pasture?

Yes. Some missions do take place on a moon base.

Now actually try to come up with a way to represent a moonbase in such a way that it fits into the current engine with no modifications. Now try to come up with a good explanation on what this has to do with Positron's job. He's not an artist.



You know, everytime the developers do interesting groups, somebody eventually complains. Rularuu, Malta, Carnies, Devouring Earth, and Arachnos all have unique abilities to their groups, yet most players don't want to run content that pits players against these groups. The new Syndicate, Detroyers, Pratorian Police, and Resistance mobs fit into this as well. New, unique, and interesting... yet a lot of players complain about the capabilities these mobs have.

So, not that I'm sorry for saying this, but the impression I get is that players demanding another "unique" enemy group, don't actually want a "unique" or "interesting" enemy group. The impression is these players want another enemy group that is like the Freakshow or 5th Column / Council. Easy to farm with non-unique attacks.



Uh huh.

Do you even know why Jetpack costume pieces aren't in the game? Here's a hint. Go create a huge character and a really tiny character. Give them both a jet pack recipe and go make it.

Activate the jet-pack.

Notice anything? Say, maybe the jetpack is the same size on both avatars and that it's not actually connected to the body?

Fact is, the entire reason backpacks and other such items are not in the game is because implementing a scalable add-on object requires time and resources. This is something that, if ever implemented, would need to handled by the engine guys, and by the art guys.

Positron doesn't enter into this equation either.



Last I checked this was what Castle, Sunstorm, and Synapse did. What does Positron have to do with new power-sets, other than raising his hand when the entire dev team gets together for a yay / nay session?



Again. What does this have to do with Positron?



Okay. Fine. You've got an axe to grind here. Fine, it's obvious that you don't understand basic game design, much less the game at all. It's also clear you don't have any sort of grasp over what each developer does. There's also the problem that your post is severely out of date if you were going for a comment on Positron as Lead Designer. For reference, here's what a lead designer does:



Almost all of the examples you used are either tech limited, such as the moon-base, backpacks; or time and resource limited, such as everything else.

Also, bonus negative rep for not not reading post #5. This is about what the Character Positron would say.

Originally Posted by Heraclea

A lot would appear to depend on how surprising the surprise is. No amount of preparation is going to help the person surprised by a 30 foot praying mantis.

What's the frequency?

Originally Posted by GMan3

I'm not sure anyone ever actually said it would be "harmful to the game" to give everyone the same benefits that a Veterans get at a certain point for playing the game. I think what is mostly being said by the people like me is that we veterans do appreciate being recognized for supporting this game for as long as we have. In my case, six years. The recognition comes in the form of these Vet Rewards, or minor benefits. As for your proposal of letting people pay in advance for the benefits now . . . I have no problem with that myself. If someone want to "pay ahead" their account by that long I see no problem with it and I wouldn't even mind if they got some form of discount for doing so.

Now, with that being said, I just don't see it happening. First off, the company would be contractually locked into running the game for at least as long as they sold access for, which I doubt they would be willing to do. Second, the way Veteran Rewards are calculated would have to be changed (again). And Third, I just don't think very many people would be willing to do it. The benefits can be nice and all, but not many would pay several years in advance in order to get their travel power at level six and then effectively not get any rewards for a LONG time. Which would have a major affect on the first and second parts of my argument.

Who knows though, Paragon Studios has surprised us before.

Originally Posted by Eiko-chan

You don't pay for Vet Rewards. You pay for access to the game.

Originally Posted by Angryellow

Yup. It's called beer.


Can you buy me some more?