DarkGob

The post wasn't deleted because it referred to an exploit, it was deleted because it directly pasted a GM response into a forum post, and that is against the rules.

You seem to be draping the word "cartoon" with more meaning that most people intend. When I say "cartoon" I'm not necessarily referring to My Little Pony.

I don't know about you, but I carry on conversations during combat all the time. Not if it's intense and I need to focus on what I'm doing (especially if it's a toon that requires micromanagement), but still pretty regularly. Example:

Teammate: Yeah I've been wanting to try an Ill/Storm troller, I just never got around to it
Me: I've got an Ill/Storm toon, she just hit level 39 and it's pretty great

OH GOD SOMEBODY FIND A LARGER VERSION OF THIS

please

Or maybe because they'd rather not die while typing out the word "character" in the middle of battle? Look, txtspk is silly, but it can be entirely acceptable in an environment where things needs to be typed quickly (and not everybody does type quickly).

I don't get the hate myself, it reminds me of people who hate Comic Sans MS with the burning passion of all the suns in the universe. Me, I use it (the word "toon", not Comic Sans ) because CoH was my first MMO, and I saw other people calling their characters "toons", so I picked up on that lingo. And to me, it makes sense, especially in this game, whose entire foundation is superhero comic books. I use both words interchangeably though, mostly it depends on whether or not I feel like typing out "character".

I also don't get the hang-up about being reminded of what you're doing (playing with virtual action figures, essentially). Why would you feel so much shame over something so ridiculous, especially if it's something you enjoy? If you truly feel shameful about it, then stop, because it can never bring you true joy. If you're not going to stop because you're a masochist or stubborn or whatever, at least chill the hell out and let other people enjoy themselves and call their enjoyment whatever they want. The game's not important enough to quibble over such semantics, and neither are your "characters".

YMMV. While BAF and Lambda are still the favorites, TPN and Keyes get run pretty often on Pinnacle, and MoM also gets run (no one ever wants to do UG though). I've never had any major issues with the Citizens in TPN, and I believe the reason they do as much damage as they do is because of the stacking debuffs from the Telepathists. Pinnacle TPN strategy is generally to ignore outside anyway, although it's starting to look like this can cause the entire league to crash before the final confrontation with Maelstrom.

Huh, must have been coincidence with the timing for many of us then.

Keeps the angry mobs at bay, however momentarily.

The devs have explicitly stated that Statesman is the one being removed from the game world, although this won't happen until Issue 22 due to implementation issues (and is more fitting for an Issue release anyway).

Yeah, that's not suspicious at all...

I think something got lost in translation here.

Carp Melee

Although by posting a potentially Bug Hunter-worthy bug publically on the forums instead of privately PMing it to a dev, you do cut your chances substantially since it's usually some kind of exploit.