Captain_Photon

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Hmm, interesting. I think it'd be a little more in keeping with the Tanker philosophy (and a closer converse to Fury) if it were a scaling damage resistance buff - the harder they try to kill you, the harder it gets to do it - though I suppose if that wasn't balanced really very precisely it'd either be a useless pittance (like old Defiance) or a godmode.

I should hope they do, given that there's supposed to be just such a set in Going Rogue.

Well, then, pipe down. "Don't introduce convenience features because I'm philosophically opposed to using them but lack the strength of will to live up to my own beliefs" isn't a valid argument against.

Don't use them, then. Keep tracking down your contacts to buy your inspirations if you prefer the inconvenience. Other players' desire to save time isn't going to be your problem unless you make it your problem.

I'd say /bug that, because it's clearly Bad and Wrong behavior. If they don't want you overlapping the things, the vendor should just tell you to sod off, not take your non-money and give you nothing.

It's crap. The Stig said so! Some say that he's never wrong about this kind of thing.

You could be right; I'm not really in either network's broadcast area. Let's go with Dragons' Den then. Or EastEnders. There's plenty for BBC partisans to be embarrassed about, is all I'm saying.

The problem with Giant Monsters in the starting zones is that really-low-level characters don't have many tools with which to handle something like that, even with "levelless" foes. That's proven to be a pretty significant hassle with holiday-event monsters and zone invasions over the years; even if the enemy cons, say, orange, if it's a huge pile of hit points with a number of attacks and all you've got is the first two tiers of your primary and secondary, you're not going to accomplish much. You end up with a horde of higher-level heroes coming down to deal with it, since lowbies just don't have enough firepower (or defense, come to that), and there's not a lot of point in making more of that, IMO.

IIRC (and I'm sure someone will jump in if I'm wrong), the invaders in those events spawn wherever there are player characters out-of-doors. So if they're congregating in one small area, that's because the PCs did it first, bunching all up in some easily reached rallying point at the start of the invasion. If they started just scattering all around the zone, you'd probably annoy the people who like the huge lagfest fights, who, since these things have been around for a while now, are presumably a pretty well-established group at this point.

Me, I couldn't really care less. I've never particularly liked the invasions and wish they would go away entirely, not get bigger and louder.

Yeah, one does kind of damage one's credibility as a spokesman for Evil when one quotes Dark Helmet. I mean, this is a man whose evil minions couldn't even design a Helmet of Evil with an evil mask that he could wear without evilly suffocating.

Bearing in mind shows like Big Brother and Strictly Come Dancing, that's a very, very depressing thought.

Only one of the Blaster ancillary pools has a self-rez. The rest of us are out of luck.

So that's it, then? Those are the only two choices.

Well, good to know. Glad you've cleared that up for us.

Not for the community moderators.

Well, all I'm saying is that there'd be more to it than "just" reducing the opacity of the front bit of the Tech Helm.

I'm not sure the proportions would actually work out - oftentimes in comics you'll see a character with a full helmet that, if you do a little math, can't possibly have an actual human head inside it, and it wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that the early Full Helmets models are similarly misproportioned. They could be revised to accommodate character heads, though that would suddenly and arbitrarily give everyone who's already got a Full Helmet a Giant Helmet Head, which would probably cause some outcry.

That said, a new head set (a la Half Helmets, which, IIRC, weren't in the game at launch) with full-enclosure helmets that have a head inside them would be cool. A lot of work, I suspect, but cool. I've often thought it'd be nice to have some proper spacesuit parts available, for instance, and something like an Apollo-Skylab A7L helmet would almost have to have such a design.

Something for JLove's costume thread, perhaps.

Technically, those aren't shorts. I mean, it's not like the Hulk just rocked up to Chess King one day and said, "Yes! This look right for Hulk. Purple Jams go great with Hulk's green skin! Does puny salesgirl have this in 4XL?"

I don't think there's a second human-style head inside the Full Helmets options...

To be fair, I've always wanted this for one of my characters. Or rather, I've wanted it back, since (apart from the auto-fire part) that's what Radiation Emission:Fallout used to do way, way back when. What it does now is much more useful, but there's just always been something I love about the idea of my containment-suited radioactive hero exploding in a nuclear fireball when he takes too much damage.

There's a reference to this practice in Remembrance of the Daleks that confused the stuffing out of me when I first saw it (because that was on PBS in Maine and I didn't know anything about UK television law at the time).

Play a Blaster. Job done!

Come to think of it, games are unnecessary. Wastes of time, too. They're just a way of circumventing the content of real life.

It's too bad that cell phones are killing off the pay phone, though. You may sneer, but it's a different story when you need one and they're all gone.

Indeed, and I wasn't subscribed when it was a problem in the first place. Which is what I think we were originally talking about.

Wait, what? I know the one I named was the one who conned people into going out and committing murder because he couldn't think of any other way to have friends, but what was the shock rocker in clown makeup on trial for?

A couple of times. They're not very impressive - think of the things from the old Star Trek episode "Operation - Annihilate!", if you remember that one, and you're basically there. (Though there's one in Remembrance of the Daleks that's frisky enough to try strangling somebody. It doesn't get very far with the job before being bludgeoned to death with a softball bat, but at least it had ambition. )