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Originally Posted by RemusShepherd

The rumors about this film on the movie and SF sites are uniformly horrifying. It's turned into a nightmare for the studio -- they wanted a superhero film but the director and cast gave them a campy comedy. Every source I've read says that Green Hornet will be one of the worst films of 2011.

Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn

Yes, I had forgotten about that (yay for brain farts!). However, it still remains that we don't really know what kinds of problems that reducing characters to 1 foot would create, if any.

Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn

Powers can be separated between the two systems. How your character looks, and their size, cannot. As such, those two systems need to follow the same rules. And likely, the same problems would occur in both systems if you were to scale the models down to 1 foot tall. Imagine if you're a bubbler on a team with a 1' individual, but you can't target them to apply the bubbles.

Originally Posted by Amerikatt

This thread is *not* a 'joke', Sam.

I understand the technical issues side of the argument, but I am very serious about wanting to see my character look the way she is supposed to. Other people have their characters the way *they* want them.

No joke, Sam. Please don't troll me. You don't want a cat model, that's fine. I do, and I will continue to hold out hope -- no matter how long it takes nor how naive my request may sound to certain factions of the community!

I also take umbrance to the people who insinuate that I am spamming my request. A 6-month hiatus does *not* qualify as 'spamming'.

Originally Posted by Cowman

My expectations were actually raised by this trailer.

Now it's entirely possible that it'll still suck, but if what they showed is as "goofy" as the humor will get, I can live with it. Besides, it's just nice to see a hero character who doesn't automatically LOOK like a "Hero Character". It's also nice to see a hero having some fun with his adventures as opposed to the usual super-gritty "living weapon".

I'm keeping my expectations low, but I see potential here. I'll definitely be checking this out.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

I'm not trying to claim that a significant portion of the playerbase wants this. I'm just acknowledging that I have seen requests for animal skeletons many times over the last six years.

Originally Posted by Amerikatt

I suppose that some people would make characters until the novelty wears off -- as they always do -- but I take Amerikatt seriously. She's my main and is a Level 50 heroine. She's not a joke to me!

Originally Posted by rsclark

It's not a penalty. But if you don't bother switching, it's just another average attack. If the tradeoff for weak damage is versatility, then it's less impressive, since most people will never see a payoff from that versatility given the extra steps you need to go through to get it.

Look, I've got a DP defender at 50 and my Corr is at 30 now, and it's not a weak set, but in order for it not to be weak you need to work a lot more than most other sets. DP vs anything is like regen vs willpower only minus the way regen is actually better in some situations.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

Even if it was, it isn't a 'bad' idea. Lots of people would like an animal/non humanoid skeleton for characters. So rather than belittling the OP we're giving explanations on the difficulty of the project and offering alternatives.

Originally Posted by Shadow State

I might be wrong, but i think he's going for melee classes shouldn't knock Mobs out of their range.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

I would actually argue that there is almost no situation in which knockback is preferable to knockdown, but that's neither here nor there.

Personally, I would ideally want to see knockback removed from some of the sillier places where it currently is, such as Hand Clap, Repulsing Torrent, Hurl Boulder and so on. I would vastly prefer this to having the ability to control knockback, because I'd sooner powers be done right than have the ability to fix them.

All of that said, if such an enhancement were viable, you bet your crab cakes I would slot that in Hand Clap and Shockwave in a heartbeat. I wouldn't really go out of my way to make ENTIRE POWERSETS knockback-less, specifically since powersets with all knockback powers tend to belong to ATs where knockback isn't such an issue, and moreover because it would take too much effort to remove, but for the errant few, I would definitely use that.

I'm not sure how the idea that increasing knockback strength works but decreasing it doesn't in the current system, as I really couldn't follow the logic behind that one. I would think that an enhancement can be tagged with a negative number to REDUCE the sum total of knockback enhancing effects, but again Standard Code Rant applies. The problem I've heard is that because the different knockback powers have different levels of knockback, it's hard to judge how far down you need to go. I assume putting a floor there and just going, say, -100 would work, but again - I don't know. I also assume that debuffing whatever hard cap there is on enhancement values to a very low level similar to how some slow powers kill your run speed cap should be viable but who knows?

The problem of "sneaking in" effects tends to be either when effects that the developers don't WANT to be enhanceable are enhanced, or effects that cause bugs are enhanced. As I hear it with damage buff enhancement, that enhancement would enhance itself and enter a loop, which is why we're not allowed to do that. I forget the exact reasoning, but it was along those lines. It's true that we don't have enhancements that DECREASE our stats, but I don't think that's out of impossibility, but more because of a game balance philosophy that dictates you don't balance by taking away, but rather by not giving.

In general, however, I will agree that at least SOME knockback needs to go, though whatever way is technically feasible to do.

Originally Posted by CapnGeist

The menders are completely untrustworthy. Hell, their leader is Nemesis.

That said, it's not exactly a painful arc. It's fun and interesting, and because Cimerora is so sparse the only real reward is being able to go on an ITF... Which I'm sure you've done far more times than you've done the entry arc. MMOs involve content that has to be done to get to other content. If you're willing to run the ITF 20 times, you should be able to run this once first.

Originally Posted by Rock_Crag

Want to know the definition of torture? I had to sit through the Justin Beiber 'movie' preview before Megamind started. There's nothing worse than a hollywoodized 'inspirational story' about a young, white, middle class 'nobody' that got picked to be Disney's new poster-child.

Originally Posted by DMystic

It becomes either or when grabbing people for TF's and Trials.

You're forming a team for Posi 1 and 2

You have 7 people already,and the spread of abilities covers all the essentials, you broadcast room for 1 more, a scrapper and a stalker both express an interest. Which do you take?

Can you honestly say you would take the Stalker?

Originally Posted by 1_Hitta_Quitta

Um, you prolly shouldn't have deleted that toon, wp/em is still very VERY PvP viable. i am sure all he would have needed was a few tweeks and peeks

Originally Posted by Arnabas

Except that, somewhere around the time of the first movie, there was a story in the newspapers about a highschool girl who had invented something for a school project that top scientists had been working on unsuccessfully for years. I'll have to try to research it, but I think ultimately it went to Dow chemicals... It was too long ago for me to remember clearly. But the point is, a real-life teenaged girl created something that professional scientists were unable to do, but it was "too unrealistic" for Peter to be that smart.

Originally Posted by StrykerX

The defender has a 20% resist debuff vs 15% for the Corruptor. Solo the Corruptor will probably do a little more damage against hard targets due to Scourge, but they'll be quite close against weaker targets. On teams the Corruptor will do more personal damage, but the Defender will cause more total damage to be done thanks to the stronger debuffs. Every Defender debuff will essentially boost the team's total damage output by 5% more than the Corruptor will, and 5-10% of the team's damage is going to be more than the difference between Corruptor and Defender damage, and on hard targets more debuffs will be stacked which will offset Scourge. Add in 7.5% more resist debuff in the Defender's Disruption Field and Sonic Siphon and I'm pretty sure the Defender is the better choice for teaming even before factoring in the stronger resist buffs.