Captain_Photon

He's hardly alone. As Bill pointed out, Cybermen aren't robots either. Hell, it could be argued that Daleks aren't even proper cyborgs, they're little blobby aliens on life support driving tanks. Go-Bots are cyborgs too, and an 800-series Terminator is kind of a cyborg in reverse.

It's still a pretty great illustration.

Well, except for those of us who already dismissed the Incarnate system because we like raiding for lewtz about as much as we like undergoing medical procedures. We would C) be completely unaffected.

I think it's perfectly indicative of what'll happen at busy times. (I'm not talking about right now. This was a week or so back, during the first round of VIP testing, when things were proceeding as normally as they ever do in beta.) On the busier servers it's bound to cause occasional havoc, and while occasional havoc is not continual havoc, I maintain that it's still unacceptable, particularly because it's so damn avoidable.

Look, these are characters people need access to. Anything that encourages people to loiter in their vicinity when they don't need to is a bad idea. They have one job: to let us get our new levels. Giving them other things to do, particularly things that inherently involve hanging around, is like modifying the machines in subway stations that sell tickets so that they're also Internet access points. It messes with the traffic flow in irritating - more so because utterly unnecessary - ways.

If they could put one of those weirdly-out-of-place Architect buildings in every damn zone, they can expand the tailoring chains as well - and have, in fact. Which makes this thing with the trainers doubly pointless, unless we're going to start being able to pick out our new powers and slot positions at Icon too. Hey, fair's fair, even when it's dumb.

Technically I think it's $9.99, but close enough. Same as in town - er - for a name change.

Yeah, I've seen it. It does and it is. Reeeeeally annoying.

Ooh, and the transit system. And enhancement shops. And the invention interface. And contacts! And mission doors! Why, we could finish the tutorial, cozy up to Ms. Liberty (obviously her click range will need to be expanded somewhat), and never have to move again except inside mission instances! The dream will finally come true.

And still another reason for pointless crowding around the trainers. When I first got to New AP over in Beta, I wasn't entirely sure Ms. Liberty was there at first. I thought maybe her absence was part of the (IMO rather bizarre) zone revamp/retheme. But no, it was just that she was utterly swamped, like Elvis at a middle school dance. By people who, as is usually the case, couldn't be bothered to shut off their auras and PBAoE powers while they futzed with their costumes.

No, sir, I do not like it.

Conversely:

Colorblind - You have been defeated by x enemies you had no business engaging. Can you not see the purple names, or do you just like making floor angels?

'Cause makin' floor angels isn't fun. Full stop.

Well, that's the really ironic part. The doomsayers' doom came to pass? And it... wasn't really a problem. Partly because, well, you know, currency devaluation in the Rogue Isles, whom would that inconvenience? And partly because the situation only took about a week to stabilize. Funny thing about completely fictional economies in which no one can lose a job or starve.

We've been over this and over this. If you want the devs to throw you the whip, you have to throw them the idol first.

No, I mean, people were saying if the market merge happened, the redside economy would collapse - and it did.

... which happened.

That particular international cheap shot would have more teeth if the game weren't specifically set in the United States. And if we didn't also use the word cinema. I think you might have been groping for a "theater/theatre" jab there.

That said, good idea.

I have no joke, I just like saying.

Man, people around here just don't have a sense of humor any more.

you're Doing It Wrong.

Standing on a power line is not in itself lethal. Birds do it all the time. Touching the line and the pole at the same time, that's what gets you. It's like that old saying about falling vs. the sudden stop at the end.

I've long thought we needed:

Slowhand - You've been defeated x times with your cursor on a green Inspiration or healing power. Work on that reaction time a little.

Obviously it's a bit meta, but we all know we'd have it on a bunch of our characters by now.

Even the female ones! Because:

The visual effect would be the character owning the power saying (in Local chat), "Hey, Kool-Aid!" The Kool-Aid Man would then burst through the nearest wall with his trademark battle cry (OH YEAAAAAAHHH) and Refresh the character and his teammates. Of course that doesn't make sense for robots, the undead, hyperintelligent shades of the color blue, etc., but roll with it, it's the Kool-Aid Man.

It's OK, though, that helicopter doesn't actually have rotor blades. It's just a mockup to fool Arachnos.