ChaosExMachina

LOL... what?

I said that your claim that removing more IOs would lead to hoarding made no sense.

You brought some kind of statement from another topic to create an ad hominem.

Very simply, people hoard now by having those IOs slotted. You claimed that if people could hoard less... it would lead to more hoarding. This may be due to different ideas of what hoarding means. To me, it means not putting those IOs up at the market. To you, it apparently means being able to access them, which does not work with any definition of hoarding I know of.

Yes, because having more IOs after respec will cause more hoarding than having them locked and thus forced to be hoarded.

I think you are debating the email feature, not IO respecs.

I recently did that with a particularly valuable recipe, listing it for 7 times the normal price, then discovering the next time that I could even get 40 times.

I do appreciate that there was some effort made to make them useless to vets, unlike AHEM some of the mutually exclusive pre-order bonuses from CO.

And hey, at least there is some marketing being done! The only potential negative to me is the precedent of equip binding existing.

So, in one thing you guys have now implemented 2 of the most annoying things from the competition. They are at least rather superfluous, which is good, but I suggest that this would be better as an isolated thing.

I'm wondering if this means endgame will involve the terrible soulbind mechanic that many of the more annoying games use. That's the biggest thing that can be read from the announcement. Soulbinding was added to the game, probably not just for a promo.

Graphics are a whole lot more than polygon counts.

Some games released for NES still have spectacular graphics.

If you have to admit that another game's vistas can often look subjectively better, then you just proved the point that its graphics are better.

A game that had the world's most technologically advanced rendering of a warehouse would be the same way.

I want both of them in Praetoria, so it better not be. They're some of the better characters in CoH game story.

I'm talking about Recluse.

Alternatively, Nemesis is an awesome villain. He's proto Dr. Doom with more style, and steampunk is fun.

While it's weird that he has loyal minions, every group does, and that's villain cliche. What makes him better than Recluse, other than actually demonstrating mental power rather than being a brute cast as a mastermind, is that players aren't assumed to be among those minions, and neither are high level AVs, or tons of text in newspapers and such.

Far simpler would be a simple 50ish-entry DB containing nothing but a list of badge IDs to skip. I don't know the specific internal structure of the DB, but it's almost certainly possible to do it far more efficiently than you describe.

There is no need to make a temp copy like that, and in fact that would be very bad programming practice. You delete last, after everything else.

Most features can create GM work, and that is more of a thing that would happen if there was a glitch not discovered in beta, which, again, can happen with any. If the transfer fails, well that is why deleting is last.

The real technical issues would be questions like what the program does if it encounters a person with high level data at level 1, and few if any players have the knowledge of the internal database to say how important that is.

Nerf travel powers!

It's incomprehensible to read a player praising time sinks (and generally a big warning flag to a game if a dev does).

That said, even if it did make sense, what makes those using it as an argument here think it is SUCH an important time sink that economics trump feature improvement? Most players usually ask for shortcuts, and GET them. Tons of improvements improve efficiency. I17 just included some. And again you're talking about an activity that for most players doesn't exist: rerolling and badging the same badges you got before. So how exactly do you propose it would lead to less subscriptions? Where is your history of posts opposing travel powers or base teleporters? If you have no such history, then what reason would you have to switch philosophies, other than to oppose an idea just because?

That argument is embarrassing and disingenuous.

No, if it counts non-combat NPCs as combat NPCs that is a glitch, easily. The temporary fix was to give less points with multiple NPCs, not civilians.

I can't think of a sufficiently negative response so I'm just going to guess that you didn't bother to read what this was about.

This is a very good thing. I thought GR might be rushed and given how that usually works with games, it's quite good news that they are not guaranteeing July.

Everybody is supposed to SO want to impress him and do his bidding for no reason.

That's kind of the ultimate sue criteria: world unbelievably revolving around them.

LOLNO.

Magneto is among the best famous super villains, with ambiguous motivations that are believable.

It would be an undeserved compliment to call Recluse formulaic, because he isn't even as interesting as the most cliche villain. He's a spider-fetishist Mary Sue with no particular ideology other than GOTTA GET STATESMAN. He can't make any sort of consistent choice between anarchist or fascist, and has 0 fashion sense, style, or charisma.

Perhaps he is the analogue of Turner D. Century... nah that's not fair. Turner D. Century had an amusing theme.

Thanks.

I'm thinking about this, and am also becoming more neutral about it.

There may be a significant number of people that play multiples for alt purposes, but there are none that have told me they do it in game. It's possible that they are an extreme minority.

You could also say that the idea would encourage more alts, even tons of them. I would probably roll alts more freely with 100 slots.

So there's no way to say how effective this would be without knowing just how much immigration there is.

That would work well. It has the advantage over CO's system in that it allows dimensions to build up communities, which makes it easier to find those who want to do the sorts of things you want to do.