Captain_Photon

Yeah, it's because devs hate heroes.

I still giggle a little every time I'm reminded of the post he made when it was pointed out to him what he'd done there.

If you're calibrating your auto-teaming system based on players' anticipated "function" within the team, you're still overthinking things. To put together a fun team in City of Heroes you need the following things:

1) More than one non-stupid player.

That's it. Anything beyond that is overcooking the soup.

That used to happen, back when people you saved from muggings would follow you doggedly until they got a chance to thank you, no matter what. People whose characters could fly would elude their rescuees' attempts to thank them and cruise around Atlas Park accumulating a vast horde of grateful citizens, then take them to the plaza and get their bizarre kicks out of seeing how low they could make the local frame rate.

In terms of suspension of disbelief, there's also the small and inconvenient fact that loading a heavy crossbow takes a couple of minutes' work with a small winch, which is not something most superheroes are going to have the time to do in a fighting-with-villains situation. This is also why you don't often see them in movies, and when you do they're always some kind of silly high-tech thing in a setting where there's no earthly reason not to just use a firearm (I'm looking at you, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra).

The punch line here will be when the rest of us learn that Umbral and Tokyo are actually two people's ELIZA-based posting bots having an automated argument.

Why do you believe that ur just trollin nao?

By an eerie coincidence, this is how babelfish.yahoo.com works. And you thought it was computers!

Er, no, I would consider him quite good at math. Charles Babbage was "rather intelligent". His difference engine, as constructed at the British Museum of Science, isn't. It's just a pile of cunningly arranged metal bits.

Like I said before: I think you're giving this "strategic vision" thing way too much weight. I sincerely doubt the Corporate Masters are analyzing the overall situation in nearly as much detail as you seem to think they are. "Resource management" might get that involved in Settlers of Catan, but not, I suspect, in the real-life world of running a multinational computer game company. No one is sitting in Seoul thinking, Hmm, well, City of Heroes players have been asking for this feature, and the man-hours are available to do it... nah, screw them, give it to Aion, they're where the money is now. It's just not that granular to them.

The irony of this statement from the originator of a thread with the basic premise, "Are this game's shiny bits being given to another MMO instead?" is... considerable.

I dunno, I'm pretty sure I would define that as the exact opposite of intelligence. Mindless obedience is mindless, as the young people say on the Internet nowadays.

You are ascribing far more coherent and intricate strategic planning to this process than I suspect is actually taking place. The Corporate Masters in Seoul are accountants, not technologists.

1) People having asked for stuff in no way indicates that said stuff was ever in development.

2) City of Heroes is developed in the US, originally by Cryptic Studios, then by an in-house NCsoft team; Aion is developed in Korea, by a completely different in-house NCsoft team. As such, wondering if stuff originally intended for one is going to the other doesn't really make a ton of sense anyway. That'd be sort of like wondering if something you were expecting to be in a Sims 3 expansion pack wound up in Mass Effect 2 because of internal politics at EA.

Have you ever noticed that people who say, "I'm not going to dignify that with a response," are automatically, by definition, lying when they say it?

The quest for the Do What I Mean interface is one of the oldest and most frustrating in all of computer science.

"Problem exists between keyboard and chair," as we used to say in the closeout notes for trouble tickets at the PC manufacturer I once worked for.

No thanks. We've got far more than enough of this kind of thing happening already.

Buy a wristwatch, for crissake.

Like I said, our standards must differ. With the appropriate bind, it's quite instantaneous enough for me. In fact, combat, especially in a complicated multi-level room with a lot of fiddly staircases, is the only circumstance under which I find Teleport actually useful. It's certainly not much cop as a travel power, plodding along 200 yards at a time and encumbered with line-of-sight restrictions and the possibility of command lag causing a near-fatal fall. If it weren't for its tactical handiness it'd have no value to me at all.