Captain_Photon

Well, there's your problem. Probably a Freedomite.

(rimshot!)

I honestly can't say that I give a crap about this, but then, I don't team up with people I don't already know. I suppose it could be a problem for people who team with strangers, but given the vast multitude of other pitfalls of teaming with strangers, what's one more?

And story arc souvenirs.

Hang on, let me consult my internal diagnostics.

... Nope, sorry, don't give even a tiny percentage of a crap about that.

Heh, imagine how it feels to those of us for whom it never had any charm to begin with.

Oh, I'm sorry, were you looking for help? It looked to me like you were just implying absurd explanations for the fact that your pet-peeve bug hasn't been fixed yet, most likely - in the grand Internet tradition - by way of looking for a fight. My mistake!

Yes, that seems likely, doesn't it? They simply can't be bothered.

If a random selection of the nouns were in all caps, I would suspect BAB of having composed his post by going into Emacs and typing "ESC-x yow".

I'd much rather look at a quote pyramid than some of the gigantic graphic sigblocks that are now allowed.

I just want spacesuits.

Oh, so would I, when we can actually do it. I'm looking forward to it a great deal (even if I am annoyed that they're charging me more U.S. dollars for a feature that should've been in City of Villains at launch). Until then, though, it's just hype, and hype isn't an accomplishment, any more than a trailer is a movie. That's all I was getting at there.

Well, that would definitely explain the unmistakable imprimatur of Sturgeon's Law on the whole affair.

But yeah, given that, I can definitely see how it could be a great development tool for someone who knew what he (or she) was doing. In fact, with that in mind I'm slightly surprised that 2L hasn't become the Quake Engine of the MMO world - or maybe it has, I haven't been paying a lot of attention to who's developing what in that regard lately, other than to watch with bemusement as Jack Emmert sets out to make an MMO out of the license with the least MMO-appropriate premise I can think of off the top of my head. Watching the development of a game you know isn't going to work is a bit like watching a car accident in slow motion.

Yes. This. I'd be up for that. It's not that I can't be bothered to start over, it's that I don't want to lose the characters' histories. Souvenirs, time-sensitive badges, and so forth.

That reminds me, I saw a couple of them doing this the other day...

... in a cave.

Seriously, it was Montague Castanella's "Investigate the Lost and Rikti's involvement" mission, the instance was one of those sandy caves that leads to a Rikti interior, and the random scattered Lost dudes in the tunnel were sitting around panhandling. Maybe they were just practicing, I dunno.

I do!

(N.B. This post was mainly so Memphis Bill doesn't think I'm getting soft in my old age. )

Isn't that - and I'm not being facetious here, honestly - what the Arena does? ISTR one of my villains meeting a friend's hero in the "cargo ship" map once via the Arena, long ago.

Mmmmmmaybe. Anyone who set out to do that would have an awful lot of work to do, though, just getting it presentable. I mean, unless they've done a huge overhaul to the engine since I stuck my head in a couple years ago, the character animations, facial models, etc. are deep, deep in the Uncanny Valley, and the game world in general looks like one of those NASA animations of what the Moonbase was supposed to look like circa 1975.

Excelsior!

it's utter crap.

Oh good. Maybe they'll find a way to apply the camera shudder that the Kheldian form change inflicts on everyone in the vicinity to the entire game world all the time during the event, just so the ambience is correct.

I used to live in Oakland. Walking in San Francisco is so overrated. It's all foggy and cold and there are hippies everywhere. Stay in your hotel room and play computer games.

Based on the thread's subject line, it looks like the OP misconstrued i16's "you can change the colors of your powers" feature as "you can pick new power sets".

I have to admit, I've been against ever granting players the ability to do that, but since powerset proliferation I've had to reconsider, simply because there are now a number of my fairly-well-established characters who were created the way they are as compromises - because the power sets they really ought to have were not available for their ATs - and now they are and the characters are wrong but I couldn't possibly zero them out now and it's all just terribly annoying.

Maybe that's something there should be a trial for, like respecs used to be before they started just giving them out at random.