Coyote_Seven

I don't exactly subscribe to the notion of death of the author. Or artist, as the case may be. His crazy rantings do indeed color my perception of the stuff he creates.

I admit that I don't know as much about Fred Perry, however. Other than his Gold Digger comic and that he's a vet of the first Iraq war. He tends to draw all his female characters alike, and all with some rather impossible anatomy. It's a bit silly! Another best of the worst.

I don't know. I've seen velvet paintings with better anatomy in them. I guess he's OK for a Furry pr0n artist, but that's kind of like saying he's the best of the worst.

Plus, he tends to go on these kinds of ultra conservative political rants that make Rush Limbaugh appear perfectly sane in comparison. Who knew Marxists, Socialists, Communists and Democrats were all exactly the same type of people?

I wouldn't exactly call that guy an exceptional artist. Then again, maybe I know too much about him.

I once "solved" a Rubix Cube by carefully removing the cover of one of the faces on a center square to reveal a screw that was holding the whole cube together. I pulled it out using a screwdriver and disassembled the cube. Then I re-assembled the cube in its solved state and tightened the screw back in place.

I'd just like to point out that this is not what I meant by "balance", either. It was not my intention to imply that all player characters should have exactly equal abilities. What I meant was that every player character should have an equal opportunity to win! That still depends on luck and skill, but it really should not depend on what choice of AT you made when you first created your character.

I hope I'm explaining that difference well enough. Because Masque's response to my post confused me just as much. :P

Bag of hitpoints.

The original griefer.

If no videogame requires skill in order to play it, then anyone should be able to win any videogame the very first time they play it, bugs notwithstanding. It also implies that no videogame has a learning curve. This... is some rather outstanding news to a lot of people!

Unless you're using a very peculiar definition of the word "skill", I think this is more about you having some kind of problem with videogames.

My point is that each player character should at least begin with the same opportunity and potential. It wouldn't make sense to stack the deck one particular player's favor just because he happens to be sitting in the "right" chair, would it?

I can't argue with this part!

My ears hurt just thinking about it.

This part... yeah, maybe I'll come back to it later. *sigh*

This is a myopic point of view. Both of those blasters are balanced against the environment, but in different ways. One of them might be more popular than the other, but that doesn't mean that nobody likes or plays the less popular one, nor that it is imbalanced against the environment.

In fact, it's the very fact that one of those types of blasters is more powerful in PvP (or the other is less powerful, depending on your point of view) that is part of the problem. That's an imbalance. It's that sort of problem that needs to be addressed.

Not all controllers use poison.

Exactly where did you get this idea? All that I've read and studied about game design always stressed the importance of balance.

[citation_needed]

I can almost guarantee you that if this thread gets more than three pages long, it will become that very flood of "i13 killed PvP" posts, and from then on it will appear virtually identical to the other thread.

Apples and oranges. Besides, just because some things in the game can be improved on, doesn't mean that they all can, or even should be.

While player characters are arguably well balanced against the game's environment, it's pretty clear that they're rather imbalanced against each other and always have been. How well and how often could a Controller win against a Tank or a Brute on an otherwise even playing field? Even if they're both tricked out with IOs, accolades, set bonuses and Incarnate abilities. I'm sure someone out there's crunched the numbers already!

Besides that, it's easy to say that it could be improved on just because other parts of the game were improved on. But the devil's always in the details. Exactly how is it supposed to be improved? The devs have already made several attempts to improve it and those have all pretty much failed. What more could they do? Give all PCs in PvP zones an equal number of hitpoints? I don't know!

Indeed. Seeing as how so many of the five-starred AE missions are farms, and so many of this game's players will vote down a well written arc just because it doesn't use enough enemies that drop more tickets, XP or inf, I think it's pretty safe to say that the vast majority of the playerbase would not even care about a revamped and improved AE. So long as they can maximize the rate of their loot farming, which they already have.

Aw damn you, you just sold me with that one.

No. The wolves need laser bees!

Because all rules are to be enforced by the letter 100% of the time with extreme rigidity? With a loose definition of the word 'rule' there.

A bit OCD there, I think!

In retrospect, Star Wars was an entirely bad example in the way I was trying to use it. It's still a good example of how a story should follow its own continuity and rules once it's established them.

At least he's making recognizable shapes. For that matter, why are you adhering to the rules of spelling and grammar? Aren't you all about sticking it to the man, or something?

Well, there is the issue of your username, kinda. So there is that. ;p

Yeah... you know, there's a difference between freedom and chaos. One of them engenders creativity. The other is just noise.

But go ahead and keep scribbling your crayon all over the walls, you rebel!

Here we go...

What, so I have to provide videogame examples exclusively now? Does it have to be another super hero MMORPG or will any videogame suffice? Will you require those to be notarized and in triplicate as well? Sakes.

I mean I guess you're OK with costume failures and stupid player character names and you don't care one bit about the game's story or lore, but I'd just as soon do without those first two things. And I'm very sure that the devs take their own game's continuity more seriously than most of the players do. Several forum posters notwithstanding, lol.