Captain_Photon

What the hell do you think we've been doing for the last 15 pages? Playing shuffleboard?

That's a little like saying you don't see anything great and impressive about a pizza other than the crust and the cheese. Not only can you not see anything that might be under the cheese, those are likely to be the two most important parts.

It took us 436 posts and that maddening "open mic at the coffee shop" what-is-art-man beatnik rap just to get to this? I feel like I should be waving away clove cigarette smoke and wishing it was legal to beat art students about the head and shoulders with folding chairs.

... which is one of the greatest inventions in history...

... which must have taken all of, oh, an hour, since the commercial version of the astronaut pen is... the astronaut pen, except plasticked to a card so there's somewhere for the UPC...

That's called progress. It's sort of one of the cornerstones of civilization.

Similar, yes, though I think technically it's closer to "utter bollocks".

There are people who make a living specifically by pontificating on the subject of game design?

I'm in the wrong racket.

It would've been like Jedi Knights in Star Wars Galaxies. "Hey, wait, aren't we set between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back? Does the Empire not know that there are 2500 Jedi having a poker tournament in the courtyard in front of the Mos Eisley Spaceport on Tatooine?"

Wait, weren't you the one that was all in a "well, maybe the whole game should just be a closet with a mission terminal, a door, and a trainer, then, would you like that?" huff when people were asking for reduced travel times a while ago?

I can't quite tell from your phrasing - is this a veteran-player yawn ("Getting sent around the city was interesting... the first time") or a dated-graphics dig ("This game would look superb... on a Sega Saturn")?

(If A, may I please remind you that we do, at least theoretically, still get new players now and then.)

Huh. I like that, actually. It makes those staffers at the enhancement stores make a bit more sense. I mean, that guy at the Parts counter at Cooke's Electronics in Blyde Square must have helped millions of Tech heroes slot up their powers by now, you'd think he'd at least be able to offer some useful suggestions, not just stand there and (let's say) let a Science hero mistakenly buy a whole basketful of Illumination Grenades. This suggestion would make them function a bit like those "tech expert" sales guys at electronics stores, who (ideally - please reserve real-world-example-based scoffing) can help you figure out which TV you need, not just sell you a random one.

It would need a confirmation dialogue, of course, in which the salesman showed you the list of things he recommended and you could change, accept, or deny his suggested list.

Oh, nicely put, sir! You get a point.

I'm not going to chuckle.

You DO realize that's the bloody point?

Yep. Looks that way from here!

Damn straight! They could have used that dev time to code in Madman Omar's House of Mimics!

(shrug) So you say; I happen to think that over-intellectualism is worse, and I've seen a helluva lot of it in this thread.

Mmm... maybe. Upon further review, I thought it was The Full Stop.

What popular fiction have you read in which the villain's doomsday device is configured to be set off by typing a period? That sounds wacky enough to be a lot of fun.

That's exactly why you can't do that - because the designers don't want you casually recouping that value.

I think you've inadvertently filed the Cathedral of Pain in column A when it should be in column B. It's not as if it never appeared.

(Also, I don't recall the Vault ever being announced as done; it was announced as being worked on a couple of times, before it ultimately didn't work out, but that's not quite the same thing, is it? If they'd announced "Okay, it's ready!" and then never rolled it out, that'd make it the Moller Skycar of MMO features. )

... what the crap.

... what the crap.

An inherent that provides 24/7 cost-free mez and KB protection? Er. Would you trade Critical Hit for that? And what would the other flavors of Scrapper (most of whose sets provide toggles to do that) do?

Actually, they did, or at least Manticore did. I still cherish the memory of people pointing that uncomfortable conjunction out to him after the comic issue came out. His response was something along the lines of (paraphrased from memory), "Oh, jeez, you're right, she is. Aaaaaacccckkkkk. I just creeped myself out." I don't think he was indulging in sarcasm, either. It just clean slipped his mind.

Well, I hope it is, otherwise you guys are all delusional.

That said, I'd like it to get its own board area too, not just because it's kinda cluttering up my City Life page, but also because I think it'd be easier for those who choose to partake.