ChaosExMachina

This.

I'm not going to get into the OP's suggestion, but the whole nature of power pools needs to be fixed. They're indisputably the most imbalanced powers in the game, some of them strong and some weak, and the unloking process could be better.

Which idea? This board is full of suggestion trolls, which is why sometimes I just don't even respond to particularly bad ideas rather than posting.

This idea would lead to even greater concentration of populations to Freedom and Virtue.

Other explanation: The bug report system sucks as demonstrated by a dev never even hearing of a commonly reported bug last year. The petitions go to some other department to be verified, possibly by people who work on every NC game. A mod read this and found it.

Yes, you do it with the power hide. None of the others.

Most of the sets have non-obvious sources of hide. Even dark and ninjitsu don't specify what you do to hide. If you RP it with explanations, you're doing exactly the same thing you would do with ANY armor set. Shields are no less appropriate than most of the other sets, but the shield POWERS are inappropriate to stalkers.

Every stalker armor is about how you defend after being seen.

You make it sound like he's some sort of brat who bars sets because of his tastes.

I took that as an obvious joke. The real reason may be that clowns are much lower priority than like 10 other possible sets.

When somebody asked Castle about PVP IOs being at the inf cap, he said that obviously there was an issue with them being over the inf cap.

But he implied that the issue was inflation, rather than PVP IOs being 10 times as expensive as most other premium items, including Miracle and LOTG.

So you're opposed to every Stalker armor other than Dark and Ninjitsu?

So very signed.

No, what I'm saying is that the hero/villain ratio will get even higher, to the point that it is no longer possible to find even villain pops in PVP zones and there will not be even as much recipe supply as there is now.

J_S does this kind of thing everywhere. He/she just gets a high from insulting people, and putting it in BIG ORANGE TEXT BECAUSE THEY THINK IT MAKES IT MORE CREDIBLE RATHER THAN CALLING ATTENTION TO THEIR FORUM HOBBIES.

Examples: here and the links they just posted

That's generally the idea.

The main point is badges and souvenirs.

Debatable would be:

Recipe storage size
Accolades (you keep them while exemping, so why not?)

But that leads to the "well it might make people reroll instead of alt" so I'm not going to argue that. They are ancillary to the point.

Debatable but I do say they should be included:

Merits

Supply of them has to be higher as it is, and forcing people to roll them ahead of doing this would be pointless.

Day Jobs

Technically accolades, but they are among the most grindy badges and have next to no use to a rerolled main anyway. That, and anybody can get them at 1.

Counterpoint: But some of them can be handy for 2 hours!

Countercounterpoint: In order to get charges you have to log out, which is exactly what you would do with a reroll. There's no scenario in which this would make you significantly more powerful than a new level 1 unless you logged in and systematically went to multiple locations for a very, very long time, and if you did that with a new level 1 they'd get tons of them anyway. Even then, you would get at most 2 hours of slightly better buff, and for what? To... level maybe 5% faster in just 2 hours? Nobody would have any reason to do that.

Inf

Mostly because there is no reason to include or not include it, since you can just email it to yourself either way. Inf is irrelevant, so go with the more enjoyable option.

Temp Powers

I consider these collectables like badges and souvenirs. Anybody who wants to PL has far more powerful options than temp powers, and keep in mind this is a high level who has earned these temps and would be much better off using them at their level.

But since this would lead to controversy, a possible compromise might be specific powers, like how there are a few temps nerfed the second time you get them.

It's how the suggestions and ideas topics generally go. Some people just get a buzz from flaming, and the community in general is insular and hostile to different points of view, as demonstrated by, say, the reaction a person who imports team concepts or nomenclature from other games may get.

Remember that there was an effort to adjust badges like empath and remove the farm incentives from AE badges? A reasonable developer realizes that incentivizing behavior like that is a bad idea in the long run.

Consider that not even a single negative response has related to the idea on its merits, only tons of claims that the devs love grinds, without support. The absurdity of the argument is that this would save far less time than, say, travel powers, and I don't see anybody clamoring to get rid of those.

Snow Globe did bring up potential technical difficulties, which is plausible. There may very well be technical reasons why having certain badges at certain levels might not work.

Really?

By the way you recently went to the effort of posting your collection of BIG ORANGE TEXT NOS in another topic, I get the idea you enjoy saying it quite a lot.

That, if anything, would support the idea.

Solution A: They AFK farm with arena gladiators

Solution B: They reroll, and then reroll again to their previous combination, which likely leads them to play MORE since they leveled to 50 2 extra trips

I think this proves that it does, since this is quite different from the respec idea.

Intelligent and creative people like to find novel solutions. As a developer, I take a topic that gets lots of requests, but has an obstacle, as a challenge to find a solution. It's a necessary skill to programmers, scientists, and most who have discovered things throughout history, every one of whom was 'one of those people.'

That's actually why I bring it up, more so than wanting to use it. My primary motivation to use it would be addressed by global event badges, though it's possible another set could be introduced that might make me want to reroll mains.

Or I'm recognizing a point that serves as a distraction and reponding to it with no argument. Accolades are not what this is about. The idea doesn't require that accolades or inf be included with the reroll.

In essence, this is mostly about cosmetic features. Any potential exploits would not be part of it.