EmperorSteele

Yes, but what would you replace the words with? Descriptions of actions? That would be making your character DO things they wouldn't do, and we'd be back to square one.

Take the dialogue tree for Prometheus, for example. At one point, you mildly flip out and tell him off for withholding information and playing a game of chance with the entire multiverse at stake. What would YOUR character do/say there that would ADVANCE the story-tree?

Do you wanna say "Hey cool!"? Do you want to attack him? Maybe, but neither is conducive for telling the story. also, the devs would have to make up responses for every probable thing you could say/do. And they're not omniscient.

Most of the current options seem generic enough that you can pretend your character is saying something else, as long as it gets the same message across. Though we're still a ways away from having Fallout-levels of dialog tree options.

Sure, re-work and merge the AT forums. I propose this:

ill/rad controllers (All posts are immediately followed up with an automatic message pointing to Local_man's ill/rad guide)
fire/kin controllers
other controllers
everything else.

snarkyness aside, here's what i'd really suggest: put the PvP forums under Player Help, consolidate News and Development forums...

Look, I know you want things to be one click away from the main forum page, but with all the varied topics and types of discussion we have, it's not feasible. All this stuff you're doing trying to make things "easier" for the freebie players who decide to purchase ViP access? Not needed. These people aren't going to be brain-dead troglodytes, they'll be every bit as logical and reasonable as the rest of us, and can find what they're looking for in a couple clicks.

I think you'll have to resort to using enhancement boosters for this project. There's no way to get enough healing AND damage enhancement otherwise =/

Going by that page, you can make a level 30 damage IO BETTER than a non-boosted 50. That's kind of sick!

The issue wouldn't be damage, but actually HITTING him. He has beyond-capped defenses while the towers are up... but with 24+ entities taking swings at him, a few hits are likely to get through. Would it be enough to overcome his resists and regen? I Dunno.

I've been on teams that have taken him down by only destroying the yellow and green towers, and this was before incarnates. I would assume that if just yellow were down, Lore pets would be enough to overcome LRs regen.

The fact that you used over-played terms like "strawman" and "ad-hominem" in one paragraph to argue against a perfectly valid point makes me not want to take you seriously. And you didn't actually answer the question: Why should "challenging" things be easy for everyone?

So you say badges should be inclusive. I have to disagree. Most of them are already plenty easy enough to get. Having a -few- that require a bit more luck, effort, and skill isn't a bad thing at all. They are, after all, nothing more than mere bragging-rights rewards. What's there to brag about if everyone can easily attain every badge? And if they are not there to brag about, why bother having them?

As for your badge ideas: I kind of wanted you to make up a whole NEW badge, not just edits of some existing ones. But okay, you don't want to have to rely on teammates to get a badge. I have to wonder, did you solo Lusca, the Malta Titan, and every other giant monster? Did you solo every single Task Force? Did you solo Hamidon? Did you solo 10 mothership raids? Have you solo'd the iTrials in pursuit of your badges? Or did you RELY ON TEAMMATES? The master badges are no different, they're just a bit more opaque about it.

And along that line of thinking? I'd like to see special versions of existing badges for soloing team content! That's a bunch more badges I'd probably never get, but that's okay because I'm not Ash Ketchum.

Mommy Mayhem's hospital reminds me of a certain school for Gifted Youngsters in Weschester County...

That alone makes this my favorite zone in the game =)

Well, assuming a character wants to stay at level 50 (IE, not exemp), let's see what they have available...

Roughly 40 story arcs
Tip missions/morality missions (A couple dozen, assuming he's constantly switching alignments)
A bunch of radio missions
Giant Monster hunting
8 TFs (Statesman, Lord Recluse, Imperious, Lady Grey, Kahn, Barracuda, Apex, and Tin Mage)
Mothership raids
Hamidon Raids
4 incarnate trials, with more to come.

I don't think this game is lacking in anything to do for someone who hasn't been around for a few years. Though on the flip side, I've done all those dozens of times, if not more, so -I- wish there was more for my 50s to do, but pragmatically speaking, it's not a bad amount of content.

He's messing with you because of your name. You seriously think that an organization dedicated to the stabilization of the time stream is gonna trust someone with the name Tempus Fugitive?

=P

Good thing some T9s and certain APPs are skippable =)

I mean, on my Inv/EnM tank, I already skip my primary T9 and secondary T8.. though without extra slots, I don't see myself making any build changes.

My experience is anecdotal, but the one time I tried ATI... well, it ran the GAME great, but it would crash if I tried watching a youtube video. It couldn't handle video overlay, apparently. And I was NOT the only one who had this issue, there were entire threads on the AMD forums about this. Most 3rd party fixes revolved around fixing errors with the driverset, though the issue seemed to actually be a flaw in how the card was made.

As for nVidia? Never had a problem with it. I paid a little more for my GTX 460 compared to the ATI i had (though in all fairness the one I grabbed had been on discount... wonder why), and it doesn't seem to run the game QUITE as well, but it's never given me a problem. I'll trade 5fps for overall stability any day.

At the end of the day, IF your ATI card WORKS, it'll probably play games a little better than a nVidia of a comparable class and price range. However, recently, that's been a pretty big "IF"... which is a shame, because I'm a bit of an AMD fanboy but in this case I have to admit, they dropped the ball hard.

Actually, in all seriousness... this gives low-level playing quite a boost. Contained Brawl now does about 8 damage. By contrast, most 1st and 2nd tier controller attacks do about 10 (before containment). So, Mesmerize, Brawl, and Mesmerize is enough to finish most minions. Very nice, especially seeing as how the Vet powers seem to have been nerfed (Seriously, Sands of Mu and the staffs don't seem to insta-kill like they used to)

Hmm... *Puts 3 rech enhancers in, holds a foe, and puts brawl on auto* This should be fun =P

Well, he IS the only actual PLAYER. Most times, a second player brings far more to the table than a couple pets.

Usually.

What we have here is a semantics debate. He's the only player... but with 2 I-Pets, more damage is being dealt than if he has a second player with him. As long as the player can keep the Pets safe (mind you, their AI is no better than the boss), the encounter is far easier than if there were a second player and neither were using I-Pets.

Let me ask this: If a Stormy uses Tornado and Lightning storm, are they no longer soloing? Those powers do the same thing as a pet: provide an independent source of damage and mitigation. What about an Electric Blaster using Voltaic Sentinel? What about Controllers and Dominators actual pets? Can it be said that MMs with their pets out aren't soloing? What about villain PPPs that have the Pet as a T5? What's the difference between a pet that comes with the character, and a pet you get on a temporary basis? At what point is it no longer soloing?

GO GO GO D_R! You can doooo iiiiitt!