Cptn_Courageous

That's another idea. I'd rather have the option to get the effects of Trick Arrow without the bow animation which reallyd doesn't go well with say... assault rifle, dual pistols, etc.

Cough <gambit> cough.

Maybe they should make another Class -- Melee Primary with Support secondary.

I'd rather have the current ranges from those powers. The others are too close, and Batman seemed to have pretty good range on his gadgets.

I suppose one can argue semantics all day long but it doesn't give one any greater insight into another person's experience or give validity to their platitudes or confirm their assumptions.

What I think is reasonable is that when a player gets a rare drop they should be able to make it up for themselves if they wish. And it should not require an unusual amount of effort to collect the materials. Moreover if they want to finish out a set they should be able to do so with a reasonable amount of effort. One can of course argue with the meaning of reasonable.

All I'm saying that a recipe file would help people who are not power players to get there easier, and that would make everybody's life easier. It would be a good and reasonable addition to the game.

This is, again, an argument from someone who hasn't walked in other people's shoes.

The fact of the matter is you have to approach the game in a certain way to make a lot of money. If one does not approach the game that way you won't.

I've been playing for 7 years and Beta, and have rarely had characters with over 20 million. When it happens it's a fluke. Usually a rare drops on me and for some reason I get the components to make it and then I get lucky because somebody buys it.

Sure, I can make 300K 15min after entering Atlas Park buying discards in the auction house, but that's not a lot of inf. And I can make 1 mil by level 12. Again that's not a lot of inf. It's what it takes to get by. But I rarely get above 5 mil inf. just by playing.

And that's not enough to compete in the market place for recipes or enhancements I need to properly equip my characters. The ingrediants alone for most of the Yellows and Orange recipes of lvl 30+ would clean me out, and that's not even the price of the recipe.
Good recipes often run in the hundreds of millions way out of reach of the normal player.

Sure a player can spend a lot of time playing the auction house, but for me, that's not the point of the game. I use the auction house when I have to but mostly I want to do missions. And because I don't 'play' the auction house, and I can't afford the cost of the spendy ingrediants I'd like something to put my recipes in, when I do get a decent drop that I want to make up, until I can collect enough moola to make them.

Simply saying that because one or some people can make tons of influence at this game and therefore everybody should be able to make tons of money at this game is insensitive because it's simply not true. Some---and I would venture to say most---do not operate on the level of power players.

Wrong Strangeglove...sorry.

And then after defeating the mighty Shivan Asteroid gun pointed at Paragon City and more specifically at Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chip Cookie factory (a secret base for Omega 12), and Gold's Deli (the one with the best Bagels and Lox on the East Coast)....the team again, like true heroes, steps into the breach to save the world for truth, justice, democracy, and chocolate chip cookies, not to speak of a good Kosher deli...

Part 6

Deep beneath the Surface of the Moon, the Shivans continue their nefarious plan. As it turns out the Giant Shivan Boss and his goons have an entire workforce of Igneous constructing a Star Gate to connect their moon base to their outpost in the Asteroid Belt. The invasion of Galaxy City was just a prelude to a bigger invasion. However the team can save the world from this one if they can destroy the gate in time.

Part 7

Having destroyed the Shivan gate, prevented the reinforcements from arriving at the moon base and freeing the enslaved Igneous...

The team discovers the igneous can communicate with them using an ancient Egyptian artifact. It seems that the igneous were the dedicated servants of the Osirians, a group of beings who were worshiped by the Egyptians and Igneous as gods. This group left earth for the stars ages ago, but left colonies of igneous on earth. Apparently the Igneous were originally from the Moon when it still had an atmosphere. A cataclysm stripped the moon of it's air, but not before the Osirian's built a huge underground complex in which the igneous took refuge. There are parts of the complex where the igneous don't go because it's protected by the Osirian security system.

Inside the complex the team finds a hanger with a Horus class space ship. The space ship is currently non-functional, but parts to fix it may be found in the forbidden zone.

To get into the forbidden zone the team will have to pass through a series of trials.

The trial of Anubis--the house of silence. Players must walk across a large hall with stone Anubis statues without saying anything while following a specific path. Failure to do so will activate the giant Anubis Statues who will swarm the party (very nasty)

The trial of Horus--the party must work their way through a gauntlet of flying fire projectiles. Timing is the key.

The trial of Isis--one of the party must drink a vial of poison (DOT) and then the others must mix a series of ingredients together in the right order to make a cure. Failure to do so before the poison kills the party member & fails the trial.

The trial of Ra--players come to a black river which they can't fly or jump over. On the player's side is a boat with limited occupancy. (fox, chicken, feed boat riddle with other objects)

The trial of Thoth--visual puzzle

Having successfully passed the Osirian trials the party enters a large cavern full of Egyptian architecture: sphinx's, obelisks, pylons, hypostyle halls, with a big pyramid in the center. The party must fight their way past the priests of Amun (humanoids with ram's heads) whose staff's shoot energy blasts, and can be used as melee weapons. The parts for the space ship are stored in various temples, and the main 'motivator' is located in the heart of the pyramid.

Seated on the throne in the heart of the pyramid sits the throne of Osiris on it is a hologram of the god holding a balance scale with the feather of Maat. He will ask the party three questions. Good answers will drop a token of light onto the scale, bad answers will drop a token of dark onto the scale. If Osiris is unsatisfied with the answers the hologram will disappear and a boss monster will be released.

Part 8

Having solved the riddles of the Osirians and repairing the Horus space craft, the team flies to the Shivan base in the asteroid field and takes it out. They then return to earth. Omega 12 appropriates the Horus ship and the president awards the team a special commendation (badges).

Not your problem...you're not exactly helpful anyway.

And to correct you... if you go to a car salesman and he says something that sounds like it's too good to be true, it usually is. It's your fault if you buy it because you should know better. So I suppose the moral there is one should always distrust anybody trying to sell you something.

That doesn't mean you can't be unhappy about their misleading sales pitch. Does it? So when Paragon Studios says your benefits from your subscription won't essentially change and you'll get more... and that's not the case...because you're actually getting less...that's the fault of the people who are unhappy about it because it's not as good as marketing said it was going to be.

Of course the change in service and business model was unilateral. I didn't have anything to say about it... so what do I have to complain about? Right?