Electric-Knight

Originally Posted by Kheldarn

September was 9 months ago. Celebration of Labor Day & Back To School.

Originally Posted by Westley

The rep game just keeps getting funnier.
announcing your reps is a dick move

Originally Posted by Bad_Influence

... So epic, that a few months back I deleted an Energy Corr who was... level 38, I think. Or 39... I got tired of not being able to use her primary on teams, without stopping to triangulate exactly where her target would end up in relation to whatever melee'er was holding the aggro. I'll miss her; but I won't miss this headache.

KB is epic. So epic, that the first thing I do for many characters is have a higher-level sibling craft them a -KB IO. Nothing is more fun for me than a sewer full of Council spamming KB, at level 10 or whatever! Well, the only thing more fun is a Storm person running amok without a care in the world as to what it is their powers actually DO, but its a near thing.

Makes me thankful for IOs, yes it does.

Originally Posted by Night-Hawk07

We can? I just went to the tailor today to try it and the only thing I saw that could "change my height" was the leg slider.

Originally Posted by SpittingTrashcan

In my opinion, this is exactly the right amount of knockback.

Originally Posted by Decorum

To be honest, most of it is actually Rob's steadfast refusal to actually learn anything about art past what he did initially...which was copy comic books. He gets a nice bit of dynamics out of a lot of his work, but everything else is so horrible it's hard to care.

Originally Posted by Jetpack

Awesome news.

That ensures that our villains stay where they are. Yay!

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

The problem here is that the two markets are actually extremely abstract conceptualizations. They present a single simplified interface to perform a lot of very conceptually different things. For example, you can "buy and sell" things that aren't tangible, and cannot, within the in-game canon, possibly be bought and sold. Inspirations, for example, are not "potions" in the in-game fiction. They are literally inspirations to higher performance. Inspirations changing hands at all is a very thinly engineered fiction of players ultimately exchanging some of their "influence" or "infamy" for some intangible benefit that will manifest itself as a sudden "author-induced" burst of performance for the fictional character. They are meta-entities that don't actually have *any* physicality within the in-game world. They cannot possibly be literally bought or sold, because they don't exist in the in-game world. They are really placeholders for the players not the characters.

Some enhancements are described as physical items, some are not. But its unclear and ill-defined what the players are even supposed to do with the ones that are physical. I don't myself presume that I'm carrying them all around with me. I presume they are somehow "used" to improve my character's performance. But things like Training Enhancements and Natural SOs are generally described as literal training. "Buying" them from a store or the markets represents the conceptual activity of exchanging inf for training. And its not even necessarily "an exchange ." It could be seen as a post-hoc decision that all along while you were earning that "inf" you were really expending time training yourself as you went along. In other words, rather than "earning inf" you were really "practicing to get better" and the use of inf to buy those enhancements is a retroactive decision.

All of these things are not consistent with a "market" that allows you to "buy" and "sell" them. *Some* things are, but the markets have to conceptually encompass all of them, and the only way to presume that is to presume that the markets themselves are a convenient fiction. We treat them like markets you buy and sell from, but that is a game mechanical dodge to prevent having to represent far more complex trading and training mechanics.

This means just because the only straight-forward way to conceptualize cross-faction execution is by a literal underground railroad of goods and services flowing between the two factional domains, doesn't mean that is the actual concept being represented. The markets are far too abstract for that to be definable. Now, if you *choose* to conceptualize them that way, and as a result role play that concept by opting out of them, that was always dealers choice. Some people probably don't even like the notion of "buying" *anything* from *anyone* that isn't an actual thing and clashes with their concepts of what the items actually are. But this is not mandated by the devs' actions, even if it appears to be an apparently logical conclusion. The axioms of that conclusion are far too shaky for that line of thought to be objective.

Originally Posted by Obsidius

I was just trying to figure out if I needed to travel back to Port Oakes...

But I...

...

I'm an idiot. Yes, I guess that makes perfect sense, doesn't it?

/foreheadslap

Going to take some time to stop thinking in binary terms.

Originally Posted by Obsidius

The great thing about RP is that, used correctly, it can be used to justify anything

Originally Posted by SwellGuy

So it's not the Spanish Inquisition then.

Originally Posted by Moderator 08

Darn lock and sticky buttons are right next to one another.

Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

[picture removed for sanity]
I'll say!

Originally Posted by Agonus

As far as Radio Mission only people and AE babies, what I want to know is what started the Rush Mayhem trend that I've seen waaay too much PUGing redside.

Not fighting to the bank. Nooo, that would be too easy. Now a lot of players seem to think that running/stealthing straight to the bank (a la Safeguards) is the way to do a Mayhem mission.

And, as I've had players tell me, it's a 50/50 chance you'll complete the mission because of the big Longbow ambush that magically pops up when you get to the bank, so it doesn't matter how you do the mission.