Captain_Photon

That is the most specious comparison anybody's ever made on this board. Which is impressive, since this is the official board of specious comparisons.

Annnnd we're back to that not making any damn sense.

Oh, and there's the ad hominem. I was starting to wonder.

That's what we in the usage-of-language business call a Conveniently Un-Verifiable Made-Up Excuse.

Because it does interfere with me. It gets in my way. It makes for a lot of extraneous power effects and suchlike for my system to animate when I'm just trying to get from point A to point B. It makes loud, annoying noises and clutters up chat channels with inane posturing. Did you ever play Star Wars Galaxies back when it had subscribers? Did you ever try to get across the courtyard in front of the Mos Eisley spaceport? Did you notice the hordes of Jedi and bounty hunters, Rebels and Imperials having their huge lagfest-inducing duels right there because they couldn't be bothered to leave the high-traffic area in which they happened to encounter each other to have their pointless fight? I did, I did, and I did, and I don't want to go through it again in City of Heroes. Leave PvP on its island where it belongs - and then we're back to the other option, heroes and villains traveling openly in each other's territory but mysteriously unable to attack each other. That'd be acceptably peaceful, but makes no sense.

Lacking any sort of incognito or changing-sides mechanism at the present time, there is no way to implement your suggestion that I consider workable, and which would not alter the in-game experience to an unacceptable degree, full stop.

I'm sorry, you're right. I should have said that worldwide PvP of any kind is unacceptable. I have no desire to wade through other people's slap fights to get to the tram, which is what would happen with a factional flag system.

No. Just no.

Not particularly, no. Player heroes and villains being unable to fight each other in City Zones is nonsensical, and worldwide open PvP is unacceptable.

I see what you did there.

Tosh! That was Mark 1 PvP, surely. "Heroes! There's no such thing as player villains, so.. uh... fight amongst yourselves!"

If I were in a slightly more precious mood, this is where I'd replace "largely" with "entirely" and say "Fixed! "

But I'm not, so I won't.

I can't build an Invulnerability/Energy Blast Tanker.

Actually, based on the developers' track record with previous cyclical-invasion events (Issue 10, last year's Halloween event), the question is will it end entirely? Or will they bury some latent trigger condition into the post-event build such that the Deadly Apocalypse never quite goes away?

Oh, okay. I guess if it was a Nixon smiley it'd be >--<.

... Is that a Richard Nixon smiley?

No, no; that's when you don't know what I am talking about.

Possibly. There's no T in "Wesley".

True; sometimes it involves putting in a moderate amount of thought and a little effort.

James May says:



"Oh, c*ck."

Venture, you've been predicting the imminent death of the game for, what, five years now? Is your plan just to stick around repeating the assertion until the laws of thermodynamics make it coincidentally true, then say Aha, I told you! just before the Sun winks out?

If one follows the Victor Borge school of phonetic punctuation, one imagines it would be a sort of ascending whssst! for the open paren, and a conversely descending one for the close paren.

thank God for that.

(There, there's the other perspective represented, and at the expenditure of only four words, too. )

Well, there's your problem. The game's always been designed with the expectation that one single character shouldn't be able to do/see everything.

Anyway, having just reached level 50 a few weeks ago after nearly five years of duffing around, I can honestly say that I don't think it needed to take longer, but I am perhaps the wrong guy to have asked.

Catastrophically.

Well, be fair, did you really want to feth Rikti? I mean, I know it sounds like a cool thing to do the first time you hear about it, but...

Er... it already had. That's kind of why they had the resources to bother with the villain part.

Well, I should hope so. What would be the point of implementing all those fancy new enemy groups if we couldn't fight them?