Captain_Photon

No, there again, IIRC, the macro system is specifically designed to prevent such things. The game designers simply didn't want players to be able to do that.

Not to the /powexec mechanism. All it knows is that this power is a click, this is a toggle, etc.

Ah, nostalgia. That was a deeply irritating period for my Rad/Rad Defender, because he had things to do and was constantly getting tells from total strangers to the effect of:

"r u rad? JOIN OUR TEAM NOW!!1!"

People were occasionally petitioning him for declining to join; the perception that Rad/ was indispensable actually drove some people to believe that characters who had that power set had a duty to show up and just stand at the back throwing Lingering Radiation, and that refusing to do so was in some way against the rules.

Just look around the boards and that'll become apparent.

(rimshot!)

I know Super Reflexes:Practiced Brawler does. Or it did the last time I played my MA/SR Scrapper, anyway.

Nope, you're not missing something. That's how it is. It's designed that way specifically to prevent people from automating their characters' actions much.

Wow, it's just like giant monsters in... what was that... issue 7? The more things change...

My favorite part was how he combined "you are very rude" and a childish insult in the same sentence. That takes a special kind of... something.

I've just thought of something brilliant, though. What if we got all the people who post saying the game is empty together? They could form their own supergroup and blame each other for ducking out of team-ups and TFs instead!

Not hugely? But I'm guessing it was uproariously funny if you were there to hear the tones of voice used.

What the heck, it couldn't skate any closer to the edge of the trademark pool than... I dunno, all the scanner detectives.

... which is great, except that, um, they're not.

Some of 'em already do! (I'm looking at you, Tech Wings.)

Oh, here we go.

(shrug) Well, in this case, that's kind of the point. You're a bit... well, let's be honest, you're a lot late to the "objecting to the implementation of a veteran reward program on general principles" party.

Conversely, I've never understood the need some people have to get things they haven't earned yet.

That, I'll grant you. That would be good, if only because I've got a metric ton of characters and I simply can't be bothered to log each and every one of them in every April.

I wasn't actually referring to the anniversary badges, though; I was talking about the ones from the original Halloween and Winter events, not all of which repeated the following year, to great storms of discontent (which is why they reappeared in subsequent iterations - in the Winter event's case, as buyable loot, no less).

Yeah, I hadn't realized how big Posi is. Cap's not exactly a little guy, and, well, you see the difference.

(Not sure about the pattern, though. I mean, he's dressed as Anti-Matter, not Posi, and last time I saw him A-M's texture was just the grey-to-blue Blend. Mind you, I haven't seen him in a while, maybe they've updated him like they did Posi?)

It's against the TOS, if you squint - hang on, let me find the exact phrasing:

I guess someone saw me and petitioned, and the GM whose desk it landed on decided I might make people think I was, uh... the (at the time) deputy lead developer? I dunno the logic there, exactly, but that was the clause they cited.

Well, be that as it may, we do all know which kind Crey is. And Dr. Aeon's the number-two man at OCP! OCP runs the cops! YOU'RE A COP!

... ahem. Excuse me. I meant to say that Dr. Aeon's the number-two man in, well, if not Arachnos proper, at least the Rogue Isles, an internationally recognized Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy (I believe it's actually a UNESCO World Villainy Heritage Site). If he showed up at a convention, his nametag actually would say

Hello! My name is
DR. AEON
MUAHAHAHAHA!
Evil Scientist

I can see MJ's point. I think she's overreacting... um... catastrophically... but I can see where she's coming from. It is kind of a flimsy backstory for something that heroes are going to be involved in, especially ones experienced enough to know anything about the AE principals' backgrounds. I mean, hell, Countess Crey framed Captain Photon for murder once. That's not really going to make him inclined to become her customer for anything, much less virtual reality situations in which things may try to kill him.

But don't go by me. I've also long thought that Hero Corps was way too shady for most of my characters to want to have anything to do with them, which has made setting my difficulty level a sort of grit-teeth-look-away experience. I don't hold with these tortuous in-game explanations for out-of-game mechanics in general (Hero Corps Adjusters, that hugely silly "Positron's Diary" thing about alternate builds, the handwave about power proliferation). The Architect is just the latest square peg being hammered into a hexagonal hole.