Captain_Photon

*cough*

Don't forget the environmental impact assessments.

That would also work for a Neon Genesis Evangelion MMO, only there'd at least be a bit of a payoff there, since the more emotionally wrecked your character gets the more powerful your giant robot becomes.

To make it a properly scientific test, there also needs to be a control group. They'd have to be given purples that don't actually do anything, but otherwise operate under exactly the same conditions. We can explore the efficacy of the placebo effect in MMO combat at the same time!

"Why don't you marry safe science if you love it so much! In fact, why don't you invent a safety door that won't hit you on the butt on your way out because you are fired! Not you, test subject. You're doing fine. Yes! You! Pack your stuff! Front door! Parking lot! Car! Goodbye."

That's pretty cool, though the subject line made me think that it would be cool to have a different kind of magic staff - that is, a group of magic-wielding employees. Basically, a Mastermind primary that involves a bunch of freakin' wizards. That would be dope, as the young people say.

Darn. I was hoping it'd be a detective show starring the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing.

Not to be confused with Spork Blade, which is the Titan Weapon model I most want.

Let me help you out with that.

*ahem*

... what.

Inept Victorian sushi chef?

Functionally, no, there is not. The outcome is the same. If the "perfect run" badges are off the table, then the only functional difference, apart from the time taken, is that you don't think the latter courses are slick and efficient enough, and for that you would lock less capable players out of the content? I think not. Peer pressure does enough of that already. We don't need to introduce an official discriminatory mechanism into the game as well.

We had that thread already. It mysteriously disappeared...

Oh! Well, we're all set then! D'accord!

I assumed nothing. You said so yourself. In what universe is uttering the sentence, "Oh, I see, you hit a magic wall," to a technical person who's trying to explain why what you're demanding can't be done not patronizing?

HINT: Not this one.

'Cause patronizing your technical people when you don't understand the problems they're up against trying to fulfill your clueless edicts is clearly the best strategy for leveraging your development assets. They teach that in all the best business administration programs.

Total protonic reversal!

This is a different case than mistyping your password, and so, in the hypothetical case where the behavior of the login page is being adjusted, could hypothetically be left alone. In any event, the behavior the OP is requesting is the "normal" way the Windows UI (and I believe X Window as well, though it's been a long time) handles failed login attempts. It's superior across a wider range of user experiences.

How is the part in bold even possible? Missions in City of Heroes either succeed or they (pretty rarely) don't. There is no variation in "form", proper or otherwise.

Oh, wait, you're talking about not qualifying for one of those "I'm so 5UP44 1337 I did this without $ARBITRARY_NON_FAILURE_CONDITION! Don't you wish you were as awesome as me?" badges, aren't you.

Yeah, that's not success "in the proper form", that's a peen-buffing bonus badge. Expecting people to pass some sort of training process (apart from, I don't know, playing the trial a few times) in order to get some arbitrary "perfection" badge on the first try? That's toolery, son. Thank you, drive through.

That is surely what trailers are for.