BrandX

Originally Posted by Blackdragon1686

Scirocco would look much cooler without the wierd little helmet he wears. Just some wild dreads would look pretty good. Right now he really reminds me of jafar from the aladdin movies.

Originally Posted by 8-J

Odds are the kind of guy who really poses a threat (or even a feeling of threatenedness) would reveal his own gender deliberately. Female to female harassment certainly exists, but not in the same volumes. Nobody is expecting a perfect solution. It's just nice to reduce the frequency of occurrence to a near zero percent. Just because perfect zero is only possible in a perfect world, doesn't mean it isn't a good idea to try and get close.

Some people have tough real world situations to deal with, and go online to escape from it. Not be subjected to it even more.

Originally Posted by UnicyclePeon

Brandx,

Obviously.

But due to my own personal quirks, no other servers exist for me. I already have 3 maxed out accounts, and I am unwilling to play on other servers or open a fourth account. So I am simply hoping for more flexibility. Does wanting this, and being willing to pay for the privelidge make me a bad person or something?

Lewis

Originally Posted by Cold_X

Anyone who plays an Empathy by doing nothing but healing and buffing is playing that powerset completely wrong IMO and I don't want to play with them. The "Pure" empathy concept is ridiculous and should only ever be applied in PvP, and that's old school PvP teaming. Nowadays you could probably squeeze attacks into your toon just for zone.

Any empathy who doesn't take their attacks is not only hurting themselves but the team as well.

Originally Posted by UnicyclePeon

I am definitely cravimg info. The two thimgs I most want to know:

1) Can I buy/gift stuff to friends easily? Like could I pay for unlocking content for a friend?

2) Will we be able to buy a 4th page of characters? One dev comment that came from either comic con or a ustream chat said that they agreed with the idea or that they liked it. But right now my head is banging on the ceiling. I am having to delete level 40+ characters every time I want to make something new.

*Homer Simpson Voice* "Stupid 36 character limit thingy!"

Lewis

Originally Posted by Smersh

There's hot, and then there's stupidly hot.

I love it when people try to trot out that chestnut.

Originally Posted by Roderick

Not at all. (OK, some other people in the thread said that. But not me.)

This is "I want some awesome Patron Power that isn't Gloom/Shadow Meld/Scorpion Shield but is just as awesome, but can only be obtained from the blue side, while Gloom/Shadow Meld/Scorpion Shield are still only available red side".

More options FTW.

Originally Posted by ebon3

Bah, survival of the fittest! Toss some pointy objects into the play pen with a limited quantity of food and let the little rascals fight it out!

Seriously though I'm in agreement, although did meet a woman onetime that didn't live to shabby and she had 11 kids, husband is an electrician - dude must do really well.

Originally Posted by Nericus

Must still be further litigation pending then.


To me though, while this can be said to be a money grab by the Siegel/Schuster estate, both Siegel and Schuster themselves were trying for years to regain ownership before their deaths, and I think they started the legal process again before their deaths and the estate is continuing the fight as both to honor the wishes of Siegel/Schuster and of course for money.

For the Kirby estate, they believe they have a claim to ownership as copyright laws indicate that ownership is allegedly expiring soon. The issue is whether they really have a claim or if Marvel has the ownership since day one. To me this feels like partly a money grab and partly justice for Jack. I'm definitely for the justice for Jack part.

Originally Posted by Leo_G

This is my whole point everytime people bring up buffing stalker damage up past scraps. I love my stalkers to death, but so do i love my scrappers, blasters, brutes and everything else I play. Is it so hard to make a character and appreciate its differences rather than playing the same old set-up.



I guess, if you simply look at the binary. But even on my def capped scrappers, they're limited to just scrapping. Its annoying when you have to go up against a certain foe (over and over again) in a mission that can screw you and your only option is to scramble to deal with them.

On my Kat/SR who is soft capped with procced out attacks and DA for tanking, can run lots of enemy groups no problem. Then he runs into Devouring Earth with the Guardians and their "you have no defense" power. I have to save BU for them, turn on my stealth sprint and pray I hit them before they summon anything. And if there are 2 guardians in a spawn? Scramble!

For a stalker I can outright kill them and if there are 2, placate and turn the corner so his buddies aren't getting buffs. Things are *easy* when you can plan a whole encounter out and execute it perfectly.

The situation most face with stalkers/scrappers is when you min/max. If the scrap can't plan it out? Build them to just overwhelm the challenge. It basically means if there is a challenge in the game, you build the character so it's no longer a challenge. On a Stalker, the fight is still a challenge because you can lose but if you sequence everything, you turn a challenge into a one-sided fight.

I don't want this to change.



Personally, I think Scraps should be the better DPS fighter. If Stalkers were ever to recieve a buff, I'd like their criticals improved. Leave their base damage lower. Make hidden/placate criticals 3x damage vs 2x and make regular criticals 2.5x damage.

Stalkers should seek to sequence their abilities to overcome challenges vs just building to overcome everything.

Originally Posted by SlickRiptide

It raises an interesting question, actually.

When we had real-world ads in the game a few years ago, they were for specific products and they ran for specific periods of time, or seemed to. They also showed up on practically every bill-board in the game, which created some interesting "over-exposure" in certain ruined city zones like Siren's Call.

There's another class of advertising called "institutional ads" whose aim is to keep awareness of the company at a certain level; particularly when they are between product launches and there's no current "shiny" for consumers to get excited about.

While the original real-world ads apparently didn't pan out, the "Clanket" suggests that a well-designed "ad" that was consistent with the game world and whose goal was institutional awareness, rather than sales, could actually be a successful ad campaign.

Players who would ignore a bill-board advertising the newest Ford truck, might well turn around and make a big deal about an ad for the new rocket board that's "built Ford tough".

If you could watch a Ford commercial and then have the Ford Tough Rocket Board added to your game account, that would be an even more interesting situation.

This last form of advertising already exists for at least one brand-name game. The login screen informs you when the RNG has picked your account to receive a bonus, and it gives you a button that you can press or ignore. Pressing it takes you to the commercial, and when the commercial finishes, the resulting "continue" button awards your prize to your account.

As examples, my characters in that game (a mostly social-oriented sandbox) have special advertising-supported items that include an Alienware tee-shirt (looks pretty cool, really; black with the white alien head), Hoodwinked movie posters to put on house walls, and assorted vanity pets including Bambi and Dukey the dog from the Johnny Test cartoon.

If Freedom achieves some respectable user numbers, I could see this sort of advertising (voluntarily watch a commercial, get a power/costume/emote/base furniture as a reward) as a potential revenue stream for Paragon Studios. Especially if they landed advertisers who were willing to customize the advertising to the market and not just run their every-day TV ads.

Originally Posted by DrGemini

I will say it again for those who seem to want to either ignore what I said or misquote me.

There are 0 IO sets or Incarnate abilities that can truly replace the things any normal buff/debuff set can provide. Yes, incarnate abilities and IO stuff are extremely helpful. But, anyone who thinks they can truly replace the classic buffs or debuffs of the game is rather ignorant.
Now, that is not to say that you need a certain mix of powers to win. This game is great at letting people play what they want to play and still have a great chance at success.

Now, if you want to argue that perhaps Empathy should be updated in the wake of all the "shields" that were converted to AoE instead of single target, then that is something I might agree with. But, to say that Empathy is useless is just plain ignorant of the facts staring you in the face.

Originally Posted by Roderick

No. Just like Lord Recluse, Statesman is a TF/SF contact, and would therefore be ineligible. Signature NPCs who have no purpose would be the perfect choices: Spark Blade (The Katana/Gun pool would be taken by a lot of people, I imagine), Rose Thorn, Flower Knight, Coyote (Give him somewhere to hang out outside the new tutorial), Back Alley Brawler (Again, move him outside the tutorial)... There's probably others that could be used as well.

As far as the "becoming their sidekick" part goes... Did you forget the part where you betray them, beat them up, and TAKE their power?

EDIT: And to differentiate the Hero ones from the Villain, a new term, like "Tutor" or "Mentor" should replace "Patron".

Originally Posted by Nyx

Ah...Thats the secret behind a good story. Her Narcolepsy is triggered by sexual communication....

Kidding. I just find that it works.

During battle however in her "Sleep State" her subconscious acts in a psionic manner allowing her to navigate and function in her environment because of the bodies need to protect it's self and survival even when sleeping.

See?

Pretty neat eh.

Originally Posted by StratoNexus

One thing I noted comparing my WP tanker and my Inv scrapper is that the WP can get in danger from end drain and recovery debuffs, while my Invuln can pretty much ignore those effects anymore. Augurs and the other seers in the trials who deal Psi damage are oddly more dangerous to my WP tanker than my Invuln scrapper. I picked up Ageless on my tanker now though, so that has pretty much closed that gap.

As to the two sets, I have to stick with my original comment, both good, choose by personal preference.

Originally Posted by Nyx

Just ignore. It seems to work for all sorts of issues.

Or even better...Come up wit something unattractive about your toon.

I play on Virtue and while my toon is pretty sexy looking, I made her Narcoleptic. So when bad RP happens I can just use the Away AFK Sleep Emote, and say Im RPing. Then I just don't respond.

Originally Posted by UberRod

So how does Invulnerability stack up compared to Willpower for Scrappers. I know it's great for tanks.