Fleeting Whisper

"The squeaky wheel gets the grease." Sure. But the quacking duck gets shot.

Penelope Yin is also a "girl", though her age is never really specified. She's younger than "adult" or "woman", but old enough to hold CWK's attention, so I'd put her in the same age range as Penny.

We have one description of the Center, from Viridian:
(emphasis mine)

It seems that the Center's super power is "getting people to follow your command", or perhaps more succinctly, "Super Charisma".

I like this version

/win

/bind j "autorun$$++up"

I think I can safely say that even cross-server PvP would not cause as much server stress as a major event on Virtue. Server instability due to PvP population is highly unlikely.

And, in the event that such a thing did happen, the only way to get cross-server PvP would be having the PvP zones on a separate server; a PvP crash would just crash the PvP zone(s), not the server itself.

Well, Siphon+NR could surpass unslotted Super Speed

Yes, I think very few would object to cross-server PvP. The main issue is the resources it takes to get that working, compared to how many people would actually use it =/

Agreed. Another thing I'd like to see would be auto teams. I believe WoW as something similar (but as I've never had my own WoW account, I can't say for certain). My experience comes from the Halloween Event in Guild Wars; one part of the event was a "Costume Brawl". You entered a queue, were automatically placed on a PvP team with random teammates also participating in the Costume Brawl (the "brawl" part) and given a set of skills and stats based on your gender and primary profession (the "costume" part). As my character was a female Elementalist, I became Cynn for the duration of the battle, a for-hire NPC ally throughout the game's storyline.

(Amusingly, the stats and skill layout of Cynn in the Costume Brawl was very similar to my normal stats and skill layout...)

With an idea like this, trying and failing is worse for their business than not trying at all.

That is extremely unlikely. With the exception of newbies who level their characters completely within the AE, or completely via newspaper/radio missions, everyone is given an introduction to the PvP zones. So you can't claim ignorance of their existence. Anyone interested in PvP has the opportunity to try without needing world PvP.

Further, the low PvP population in world PvP would simply be spread out more than it already is, making it more difficult to find an opponent, short of badgering someone who doesn't want to PvP.

Further still, the "broken" version of PvP (which you yourself have pointed out) does not easily lend itself to new players becoming interested. If you want to increase PvP participation, "fixing" the current state of PvP should be a far greater priority. (I will admit, as someone who does not actively PvP, I can't claim what is broken nor how to fix it.)

Aside from fixing any broken aspects of PvP, I think cross-server PvP would be a far greater boon to the PvP-inclined. Cross-server PvP in the PvP zones would concentrate the PvP playerbase from 11 servers (15 servers if you include the EU) into 4 zones (plus arena, if that's included). Creating world PvP would spread the population of one server's 4 zones into 44 zones, diluting the pool of potential opponents.

I should think concentrating as many PvP players as possible from the small PvP population would be more desirable than diluting it.

Claim: "Champions online is based off the Champions Paper and Pencil game which had a very good very good free form system."
Refute: Champions Online is based on Champions in story only.

The CO freeform system is not based on the Hero system utilized by the Champions tabletop game, and legally may not be based on it.

I will concede that a freeform system can be balanced. However, comparing CO's freeform system to the Hero system is fallacious, as they are not related. (OTOH, I will not concede that the Hero system is balanced, at least not to the degree required for a computer game)

Shouldn't "Noisy Cricket" go to an Energy Blast Stalker?

Grandville isn't too bad if you learn the locations of the elevators (to reach The Tangle), and learn to navigate the tunnels (which is an extremely quick route from the central square to the Black Helicopter landing pad to the north).

Also, Jump Pack will let you clear any single obstacle (and often multiple obstacles) in GVille.

Amen.

Actually, it was random bugginess that hit both heroes and villains.

And 90% of that 10% is perfectly content with PvP zones and the arena. So not spending money and developer time on world PvP would then only be ignoring 1,000 customers, or $15,000/mo. And maybe 10% of that 1% would be willing to quit over the issue, for a loss of $1,500/mo.

I think NCSoft and Paragon Studios are perfectly happy to lose $1,500/mo if it means retaining $13,500,000/mo.

As others have said, military action in America originating from the Etoile Islands would result in the Etoile Islands transforming into a smoking crater.

Do they make hats in "Hati"?
(It's Haiti)

I believe it depends on the power, and in some cases it even depends on which effect of the power you're considering. Some effects check "if target = player", while others check "if in a PvP zone".

Which of course just makes it more complicated to figure out what your powers are doing in PvP if PvP gets enabled outside of the PvP zones.

When I attended the wedding with my Mastermind, my powers didn't come back when the PvP started

I didn't die, though. I managed to escape getting killed by a Tanker by jumping off the edge of the citadel. It's still weird that so many people don't realize that's safe to do.


I also attended with my Tanker, and I did get my powers back that time, but I didn't manage to kill anyone that I recall.

... have you ever used IRC?

Who doesn't love a good panty raid?
Happosai agrees