Electric-Knight

I was going to offer a friendly hug, but then I thought this would serve better...



HAW HAW!!!!!

Is this just for the same facepalm emote? Or is the doubefacepalm included? Or might the doublefacepalm emote have finally been activated for those of us who already got the emote from the previous giveaway?

I don't want to grab a code if it's what I already have!


EDIT: PLUS... I wantses the doublefacepalm emote goodness!

Thanks again again again again again, VK!!!!


Hmm... The Rogue Isles need sharks in the waters too!!

((Yeah, just for the record, the new date works well for me! I shall be there...))

Agreed, signed and all that...

I also agree that the respec and training screen is worse (even though the costume screen is far more common for me).

However, I'd suggest that they don't have to design the UI in order to prevent the chat tab from blocking things.
It would just be great if we could press the C key and have the chat tab pop up and/or go hidden.

This is how it works while in the Base Editor. In fact, it took a while for me to discover that we can have the chat tab visible while editing bases. Just hit C (by default) and it toggles it visible and hidden (just like in the regular game).

Obviously, I wonder if making that possible within the full screen Training, Respec'ing and Costume screens is an entirely different and potentially not-feasible matter!
That's not for us to consider, though... We just know we'd like to have chat functionality while in those screens!

Oh, Sam, Sammy, Sam, Sam... I'm going to post a very long reply to this later... Because I am lacking the time to do so right now...

Quickly though...
I believe I understand that you're referring to the overall narrative of telling the tale/adventures of a villain and whether or not I prefer to be shown realistic repercussions of the villainous deeds or, instead, to see an epic looking (or seeming) villain who we all know does terrible things, but they happen more behind closed doors...
Do you want to feel like you've just trekked through utter darkness and seen things you didn't want to... Or would you rather skate along the surface with a sleek looking and powerful villain of cool?

I, personally, lean towards enjoying the disgusting villain experience a little more... However, I absolutely enjoy both.
Just a disclaimer... I actually do not enjoy gore movies or torture movies and things like that. That's different. (I mean, I love some Sam Raimi gore... And I love seeing Jason Vorhees (before the reboot) kill in fascinating ways... but that stuff is hilarious!! Not serious, torturous tragic gore fests!

I think I enjoy the deeper, darker stuff in reading and imagining... but far less so in film. Most likely just through the quality that it is portrayed/performed/delivered.
I did enjoy Titus... I did enjoy Silence Of The Lambs... I did enjoy American Psycho... I didn't enjoy the Friday The Thirteenth Reboot (it seemed a bit more like Saw and the like)... Hmm, can't think of other examples that I didn't like.

However, I also love Darth Vader... Willem DaFoe's Green Goblin...
Okay, running out of time!
My last comment before I run...

IF I had to choose only one way of writing villainous stories for an mmorpg (which, I don't think is necessary, given possible options and various content and all)...
I would likely choose a shadowy glamor and shove the consequences behind the doors and in-between scenes... That way the user/reader/player can fill in the gaps as they please!

One major gaming difference between you and I, Sam, is that I don't look for the game to deliver these stories to me. I prefer to pull them out of my own mind as I run through more generic content.
Neither is greater nor lesser, in my eyes... It's just something I was considering when reading through this thread (and based on past conversations).

This is also why I am completely fine with leaving greater detail behind closed doors.
Still... you can't hide all of it, as a writer, so some of it has to come out!

I think I am going to detail my roster of villains and their stories and my playing of them and see if that helps you, entertains you, frightens you or some such combination of all the above!!

Oh, by the way...
I thought everyone played this way. I know I do!

Wow...
They make them enter a "guilty" plea just to make it official before letting them out...
What a load of injustice.
It's difficult to grasp what the families of the murder victims and the three of them and their families must still be going through.

I do love dragons and would love to see a huge dragon in this game somehow, but I'm not sure dragons would work for a MM set.

I do like the idea of truly flying MM pets, if it is ever possible (tries not to think of flying monkeys).

Maybe... just maybe... a Dragon summoning power could be something like Gang War in a wizardly monster summoning MM powerset...

Which makes me think of this:





I love me some Golden Axe...

Oh, anyway... Thirty-Seven... Fine fine, say you don't want dragons, but leave your that's not superheroy/comicbooky not-in-MY-game stuff at the door! Your opinion is fine and valid without that silliness mucking it up!

I certainly like the tactic for the Lambda grenade and acid runs (so long as the team is not looking to take everyone out... which is an extremely rare tactic, although a good one if everyone is on the same page).

I don't see the BAF door strategy as needed or particularly useful... but it certainly is a different option... and that's a fun thing to learn of, if nothing else!


Still... Dimension Shift during that Lambda phase should receive a lot of likes, considering all of the people who tend to not enjoy getting left behind by the tanks and such (if they don't keep up and such).

Just remember that it is a team event! So, if enough people are against it... there ya go!

Immersion cannot really be used against this change, as it is something that the current Icon Stores already break.
My character doesn't need a tailor in order to change into the t-shirt he wants to wear.
Someone else's super-genius-in-a-power-suit character doesn't need a tailor to perform super-genius upgrades onto his suit...
And so on and so forth...

However, I can understand some of the concerns.
I like the change, but I do wonder if there may be some negative aspects that come with it.

One is over-crowding Ms. Liberty.
Not sure this would really happen nor if it is a bad thing.
It has me a little concerned and I wonder if only trainers in zones without an Icon should get the treatment (since Atlas now has an Icon, this would solve Ms. Liberty being overly swarmed).

The other is more difficult to really figure out...

While I do not believe that this is the end of Icons and Facemakers for the following reasons:

• They're needed for the missions to unlock the capes
• They're needed for the Day Job Badges and the discount coupons
• Some people will always prefer them (some of us are weird like that!)

However, mmorpgs are (were?) built to be community building virtual interactive thingamabobs that Raph Koster could describe far better...
That trend, however, seems to be a relic of the past. Which is a shame, if you ask me.
While I do not believe this change is a major hindrance to this ideal, I can see the appeal of Icon diminishing. Unfortunately, the trend has long been that things that do not give xp or loot or some virtual reward should not come at the expense of forcing others to have to take part.

I always liked the model of mmorpgs that required travel, time, shared locations for non-powering activities... That's quickly going the way of the do-do, I'm afraid.

Anyway, I do not see this particular change as either the deathblow to that game model, nor as a major culprit... Honestly, that horse is pretty much dead already. I just see this change as fitting in-line with what things are like here.
We have Tailors that we can go to and still need to go to if we want certain things (missions, badges, bonuses, in-game tailor pretendy fun)... But we also have convenient access to the costume editor... now at outside locations (yay, for proper lighting!).
To be honest, being able to quick change something without having to zone around and all may actually improve my immersion a great deal! ("Hey, it's sunny out, let me put on shades!" <add in many more on-the-spot changes you can think up!>)

I'm quite certain I've rambled on for far too long to be read by most, but I hope it might offer something interesting for those that did!

Yeah, the problem with the whole impatience creep (and it seems to inevitably reach every game, eventually) is that it tends to be a one-way progression/degression. Impatience wallops patience over the head and runs off quickly... as we watch things change.

Anyway, I am not too concerned about it within this game for a few reasons... One being the fact that we have travel powers and I simply love using them and will occasionally do so just to travel, period. Just the other night, I was out flying around zones just for the thrill of flying. It had been a while since I'd done that... been so busy doing stuff that must be done...

And, you know what... I think that has been the biggest culprit towards the patience creep within this game.
The general balance has shifted in this game, where the overall tendency within the community has become more and more focused on maximizing your time earning stuff (xp, inf, salvage, recipes, merits, ixp, shards, empyreans and astrals...).
This may have started with inventions... It may have been exacerbated by the initial AE xp BOOM... It may have become more prevalent with the Incarnate System... And it may all just be an inevitable movement with the life of a video game (and maybe bits and pieces of all of the above).

However, I think that it is this shift in focus that then makes the travel (and the time in-between earning stuff) less and less tolerable for players.

I'm not sounding off alarms and I know it is all controllable on an individual player basis... And that there is great variance among our player base.
However, there is always an overall sentiment among the community (it just may not be shared by all... and, in fact, never is) and I have seen the change come over players that I have known. Hey, I've seen it affect my own play on occasion.

I've been enjoying my recent change into the slow lane. I've even been pulling into the shoulder... getting out... smelling the roses... Flying around the trees. It's been fun.

But yeah... the traffic seems to keep on going by faster and faster, hehe.

What was I saying...