Captain_Photon

Guh, no thank you. Cutscenes are already one of the game designers' great mistakes - they're intrusive, disruptive, jarring, momentum-killing, and half of the time they trigger at completely nonsensical moments (I'm looking at you, Signature Hero saying "$VILLAIN! I knew you'd show up sooner or later!" when $VILLAIN is in another room and cannot possible be in your line of sight or within earshot for you to posture at) - and that's with the Paragon devs at least spelling most of the dialogue right. Give the power to visit that experience upon players to everybody? Shudder.

No, but it is a prefix. It connotes ancientness or the original version of something, e.g., one might call one of those old black-and-white toaster-shaped Macintosh computers an ur-Mac.

Oh, ye gods, Chryssalids. There was one very satisfying moment when I managed to lure one into a gas station (I had one squaddie who had a ridiculous number of TUs, such that he could actually outrun the damn things) and then blow the whole thing up, but apart from that, fear and loathing. Which was kind of the idea, I admit, but still.

Canonically, it was Energy Blast:Power Burst.

They make me weirdly nostalgic, especially if they're in a box-cluttered warehouse. Not nostalgic in a good way, but just in the sense that they bring on memories of something else that was infuriating in the same way. Anybody else remember terror missions in the original X-COM? Hey kids! It's time to play Where's The Last Sectoid?

I was about to say "What? He hasn't got one" when I remembered that I've turned them off.

Apologies; my terminology was a bit vague. I meant "wealth" in its general sense - the overall store of stuff a character has, including things like costume parts and special powers and all the rest - not in its strictly economic sense of tradeable goods and/or currency. You can't trade the Mission Teleporter for in-game cash, but in a general sense a character who has it is a little wealthier, in the sense of having more stuff, than one who doesn't.

If you chain them in that sequence and get the timing right, it's a helluva combo. It's like hitting Build Up, Aim, and popping a big red before firing your dismay.

But if they kill you and then your DoT kills them and you level up from the XP you get, that would be pretty funny.

(I wonder, actually, if, say, a Fire Blaster has ever done that with Rain of Fire. Or does RoF stop when you die? I can't remember now. Oh well.)

Okay, I guess I missed a memo here someplace. I took a bunch of time off from the game, starting long before the Architect was launched, and didn't come back until just after i16 went live. Since then I've played a bunch of Architect missions, presumably after whatever was done to "murder AE", and you know what? I've had a great time. Whence comes this commonly-bandied reference to it having been murdered? It seems like it's working perfectly fine to me. Yes, Sturgeon's Law applies to the available content, but it applies to everything in life, so big deal; and yes, the system for trawling through the dross looking for the pearls is not as elegant as it could be; but murdered? Srsly?

Connecting in-game wealth to real-world wealth is never a good idea. (Yes, it can be argued that they've already done it with things like the Booster Packs, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea, it means the Booster Packs weren't. And that's a whole 'nother argument.)

Recharge and range are probably too unbalancing to make accessible by inspiration (particularly recharge), but I find myself intrigued by the idea of an inspiration that increases the magnitude of status effects (sort of a one-use version of the Vanguard Medal). I think it'd have to be available only as a drop, not to be bought from contacts, and I've no idea what they'd call it or what color it'd be. (And, being an Energy Blaster who's fed up with people constantly whining about Knockback, I'd want it to increase KB magnitude as well. )

-Fly effects in PvP are a sore subject for some reason, and I don't partake anyway, so, no-op.

Serious as a heart attack, mate. He drank the "City of Villains is a whole nother game!!" Kool-Aid back when i7 came out and still believes it today...

... aaaaand that's why they'll never do that.

(And also to prevent people from TPing teammates into the dancer cages and then leaving them trapped there.)

That being the case, powers that only teleport oneself away shouldn't be suppressed at all. SG base teleport, mission teleport, market teleport - I can see no possible harm in permitting those to be used to leave the D, apart from the possibility that a whole bunch of people will gang up and use the long, flashy lead-ins to bring people's GPUs to their knees.

"Hi, Hero Corps Adjuster? Yeah, Captain Photon speaking. Listen, can you spread the word that I'm equivalent to no super-heroes? Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure. I'm a complete blancmange. Great! Thanks." <click> "Hee hee hee... did it work?" "Yeah, they totally thought I was Cap. This is gonna be great. He's gonna be so ticked off."

Well, there you go, then. Mind you, I don't think I've ever encountered a Dominator with the patience to wait around for the setup phase of this particular stunt, but...

Buy the Mac edition. You'll get as close as you can.

Not from the OP, apparently. Between this and the other post that actually starts "don't bother telling me where the board this should've been posted in is", I'm starting to wonder what's going on around here.

Well, if you already know where you should've posted this, why didn't you? It's not the Rhetorical Player Questions forum, after all.

That one happened. Boy, did it happen. It was a fad, and like all fads it passed, but it was just as annoying as we thought it would be while it was going on.