Black Zot

Stacking is pretty much irrelevant with that duration anyway. If it was more like 20 seconds, the stacking might make a difference, but as-is, anything that poses a threat will be in position to lay full hurt on long before you can finish it regardless of how many stacks you theoretically put on it.

Trailer or not, I'm long since sick of that splash page. Time to scrap it and let the address resolve to the actual site instead of a magazine ad.

Miss a starter zone that was all but empty by the time I started CoH and lacking half the basic services? Not in the slightest.

The math for any given kill doesn't change based on mission or location. The only way to increase your chances of a purple drop is to increase the number of enemies you take out. Ergo, you should seek out anything that pits you against large numbers of enemies. This has the side effect of also providing you with proportionately large amounts of standard inf/prestige rewards and lots of other sellable salvage and recipes.

Depends.

1. What's the opposition? Are you playing against the same AI as the game in question uses? A new script made for the live action version? Human opponents?

2. How well do the live-action game mechanics match the original game?

3. Personal limitations. Are you playing as an in-universe character or your own self-made avatar? How much freedom do you have to select your own capabilities?

I could go on, but you get the idea. There's always a raft of practical considerations to get through before you can get to the fun stuff. And yes, I approach every game this way, examining every factor that could benefit or hose my enjoyment of it.

/signed as something that should have been implemented at the same time supergroups as a feature went live.

Elec/Fire brute for me. Triggering Lightning Rod and watching the results tends to induce a giggle fit in me.

Wow. If that goes through all they need to do is replace/rework Time Bomb into something useful and /Dev might actually be viable.

Practical issues:

1. Being as the closest thing to an urban environment is 2 hours' drive from the town I live in, and the suit has no real options to cut travel time, it's all but worthless to me. I am NOT hiking or super-hopping from one end of a sprawling suburban string of communities to the other, full stop.

2. Regardless of how tough the thing is, it's only a matter of time till the response escalates to a point the suit can't shield against. Stick my nose where it might get blown off? Thanks but no thanks, I'll leave the Darwin Awards to someone else. Maybe if it was made of some form of unobtanium that made me near-godlike in my defensive abilities, I'd consider it, but "bulletproof" doesn't get you near as far as the average civilian would think.

3. This ain't no comic book. Taking the law into your own hands is itself a serious crime. The minute I use that thing, for good or ill, I'm going to have every cop in the province looking to put me in cuffs. Again, not worth the grief.

4. The crime rate isn't high enough in my area to justify extra police presence, much less a superpowered vigilante.

Personal issues:

1. I'm pretty apathetic when it comes to the part of the world that exists outside my own little corner of it. Even if the scanner showed me where to go to stop the bank robber or save the schlub who got himself caught in a burning building, chances are I'd let the pros handle it. That's their freaking job.

2. There's no real incentive for me personally to use such a suit, and as I stated above, it's really not powerful enough to shield from reprisal if I tick anyone off. Even if someone did offer to compensate me, I'm not big on risking my hide for the nobody du jour.

3. As an addendum to the above, I have such a low opinion of the human race that most people don't register to me as being worth any effort on my part. The suit as described doesn't offer the kind of power I'd need to act on that belief - just as well, for the 90% or so of the human race that I believe the world could do without.