Captain_Photon

It's old-timey pejorative slang for a black person.

No, honestly. See also "coon".

That happened to me once - the logout dialogue box (you know, the one that says go to the login screen or quit to desktop) was vanishing before I could pick an option, and even if I did, the countdown would mysteriously disappear long before ever reaching zero.

It turned out I had a joystick plugged in that I'd forgotten about, and it was ever so slightly not zeroed - not off by enough to actually make my character move, but enough to make the game think I'd "hit any key to cancel".

In the meantime, you could always split the difference and make a pirate who's a ninja mastermind. Here, for instance, we see the vicious and cruel Captain Rik Vortex, master of the pirate ship Dark Matter (before that scurvy dog Statesman sank her), and his trusty helmsman "Bloody Bill" Ito.

Yes, and Bill just explained to you why that was the wrong place to be looking.

Wouldn't it make a little more sense to make this alternate animations for Energy Blast instead? I mean, otherwise you'd have your raygun's energy blasts doing Lethal damage, which doesn't make a ton of sense...

"Start"?

Easily! Just put them in an instance that uses the same map as the "outdoors" area you want the mission to be happening in.

(If you're thinking, "Wait, we have tons of missions like that already," then I think you have this one surrounded.)

If you want bugs, catch the Vahzilok plague.

As for sea monsters, people have already mentioned Lusca, but if a giant octopus isn't your speed, there's also the Salamanca Lake Monster, if you're patient enough...

Turning down safeguard/mayhem missions. "You have flatly refused an offered task 50 times, proving that you are touched by the spirit of JRanger."

Not to mention most of the radio-mission contacts...

I just love the mental images this typo creates. I can't decide which is best: the idea of a character activating a power that makes him move like J. Edgar Hoover (i.e., in small, mincing, suspiciously effeminate steps), or of a character flying around sitting on the back of an old-fashioned vacuum cleaner, like a sort of updated version of the classic witch on a broom. (Though I find myself picturing an Electrolux, since when I think of Hoover I think of uprights, and obviously a canister model works better for this image.)

Nah, I've tried that. The Atlas Park blimp is one of Paragon City's many miracles of modern science. Its outer skin has a completely frictionless surface, your webbing wouldn't stick to it. And then, depending on how you got up there to make the attempt, you'd fall to your death.

Of course, given that this is Paragon, the city with the greatest number of superheroes (or at least people claiming to be superheroes) per capita in the world, you'd probably be okay if you just hitched rides on other heroes with real travel powers. It might mean waiting around the docks for a while waiting for a flier or super jumper to come by, as obviously it wouldn't help to web onto a speedster or teleporter, but still, most times of the day, I think it's a valid strategy.

As an aside, this is truly amazing. I've been away for nearly a year and, apart from the skin on the board itself, the Suggestions board hasn't changed at all. I mean, there's this thread, there's the one a bit further down where PP's banging on about being able to mail yourself money... incredible. It's nice to know that, in this age of constant change, there are some constants in the universe.

Yeah, and City of Heroes and Villains? it's not exactly catchy, is it. (Nor accurate, since each side has its own city. And Cities of Heroes and Villains, people would think that was the 23-minute instrumental track on an early Yes album.)

Doesn't flying without a broom get you a red card in international quidditch? Or is that just under the Olympic rules?