Chad Gulzow-Man

Selectable voices at the costume building screen. I have a hero who is effectively a physically-manifested inner child, and he sounds ridiculous every time he jumps.

How does one pronounce a parenthesis?

(Edit to include parentheses, and to say FPABABs! )

Welcome to the boards, Pathogenist!

I especially like your first idea of getting a better idea of how many people are currently logged in on each server. Though not necessarily an exact number, we really do need something other than the three green, yellow and red lights to let us know where everybody's hanging out.

I'd like to expand that idea further and, despite not being a PVPer, I'd like there to be a way to check an in-game board or character in each normal zone that tells us how many Heroes and Villains (separate number, optimally) are in each PVP zone at that moment. Hopefully, this couldn't be circumvented by players using /hide, because it's really annoying to think you're the only one in Warburg when a Stalker suddenly stabs you and takes your launch access codes.

I don't think I'd like that option to be available for non-PVP zones though. If you could log in and see that 90% of the Heroes are currently in Peregrine Island, why would you ever explore the other zones?

"Subclassing." Once you hit level 50 with a character, you can pick a powerset that's not accessible by that AT and level it separately with "sub-levels" that go up to level 20. Some further points/ideas:

1) New powers are unlocked at sub-levels 1, 5, 10, 15 and 20. They correspond to Tier 1 and 2, Tier 3 and 4, Tier 5 and 6, Tier 7 and 8, and Tier 9 for availability.

2) Any non-power sub-level would give you ONE enhancement slot. (This means your level 20 subclass power would only have a single slot.) The enhancement slots could be used on ANY existing power, from your original powersets/pools or your subclass set.

3) Respeccing would automatically drop you back to sub-level 1, whether you changed your subclass powerset or not. You WOULD be able to have different subclass powersets on each of your character's builds, though.

4) Subclass powers would only be no greater than 75% as effective as they would for the AT best known for them*. Blast sets would do 75% or less of the damage that Blasters do, defense sets would offer 75% or less of the Defense or Resistance of Tankers, control sets would mez for 75% of the time a Controller would mez, etc.

5) Subclass powers would generally cost more endurance and recharge slower than the ATs that can earn those powers naturally. Subclass powers would NOT gain any other AT's inherent powers (Critical Hits, Defiance, etc.), and probably shouldn't even be affected by your original AT's inherent power.

6) Subclass powers would not be available when exemped below level 45, or in situations where they might unbalance gameplay (Master run TF/SFs or zone PVP, for example).

This would offer a greater variety of end-game playability for virtually everyone. It could lead to some overpowered combinations, such as a Stone Tank subclassed as an Empathy healer... but that mostly stems from the fact that certain powers for existing ATs (like Granite for Stone Tanks) are kind of overpowered to begin with.

Ideally, this would be unlocked by completing a brutally hard trial or event, akin to what the Cathedral of Pain was supposed to be. You'd hit level 20 in your subclass in about the same amount of time it takes a new character to reach level 40.

* (The actual percentage would be balanced based on your character's AT--Tankers would have a lower damage percentage when picking up a Blast due to their naturally low damage output, and Blasters would get less out of a defense set than, say, a buff/debuff or control set.)

I just installed Windows 7 Pro 64-bit this weekend.

It's... difficult... for me to say this, but... I actually like it better than Win XP.

I had to petition both my 63 and 66 month badges.

I just sold off everything that dropped and I didn't want for 1 inf--common and rare salvage and common and crappy recipes.

In fact, I still do.

It did go a lot faster when we earned base salvage as well, but it's still not that difficult to earn over a few months. As other people have mentioned, you can always buy up stacks of invention salvage cheaply and then turn around and put it all back on the market at a loss.

Oddly enough, I was already shouting, "It's naked time! BING!" (Dana Carvey reference) whenever I switched to the BP Shaman costume, and didn't even think about the possibility of water transparency.

Yep. Porn = art. It's a creative display recorded on a medium for others to enjoy (or not enjoy) according to their tastes.

You can't say stuff isn't art just because some people don't like it. A gilded turd in an art museum: I think it's gross and ridiculous, but obviously somebody thinks it's art. Someone would likely argue that the golden shell represents the face that civilization displays in public, and the fecal matter on the inside is the contempt we feel for everyone else. I'd argue that the artist needed a piece for the following day, had some gold spray paint and too many bran muffins, and was likely on drugs.

In any case, I suppose I can't disagree that that's a creative way to deal with excrement...

My name is Chad, and I approve of this Dev's Choice.

Look at the bright side, Deej: if you keep crying like that, eventually you'll have your very own water zone. Hope you find your own tears as delicious as the big bad ebil devs do.

Awwww, Aquaman's got "Little Man" Syndrome. He thinks he's one of the big dogs, it's so cute! There there, Fishpants, I'm sure your cephalopod psychiatrist wants to hear aaaall about it...

P.S. It looks like he's trying to make Supes smell his blue finger...