Fleeting Whisper

I refuse to start a company, and I refuse to pay cash for anything. If I did, I might be getting money that MURDERERS used!

Champions Online's STORY is based on the Champions tabletop game.
Champions Online has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the Hero system used by the Champions tabletop game.

This is fact. The "Champions" IP and the "Hero System" used by the tabletop games are separate properties. Cryptic purchased the Champions IP from HERO Games. This allowed Cryptic to create a game set in the Champions universe. CRYPTIC DID NOT BUY ANY RIGHTS TO THE HERO SYSTEM WHATSOEVER

And the 5th Column went time traveling to invade the Romans! We've come full circle!

Strength of Will inspirations are still available in Siren's Call.

... um... duh?

Each critter has a fixed chance to drop $widget. If a $widget is generated by the Random Number God, that $widget is given to a random member of the team. Drop rates aren't affected by teaming (positively or negatively), but teaming reduces the number of drops you get (since you have to share the same number of drops with more people).

... on the live servers

Dev stats aren't really particularly reveant. They can just grant themselves whatever they want. For example, JLove has shown up playing a Blaster with every single Blaster power in existence, including multiple primaries and secondaries. Positron has shown up with every single Hero and Villain badge on one character, including all of the patron arc badges, and including the Joker badge which was added to the game files as an April Fool's prank on the pigg divers, but there is no way to access it in the game. Castle has [The I Win Button], which kills all critters on the map which have already been spawned (which he used for testing drop rates). Castle is normally a Fire/Fire Blaster, but for the setup at Manticore and Sister Psyche's wedding, he was tossing down Tar Patches in Atlas Park, which were affecting the players.

Performance Shifter's proc is a 20% chance for +10 endurance. In an auto power like Stamina, the chance will be checked every 10 seconds, yielding on average 0.2 end/s.

Your base recovery (unless you're a VEAT) is 1.67 end/s.

Stamina (unslotted) provides 0.41 end/s.

3 lv50 Endmod IOs in Stamina provide 0.406228 end/s (on top of Stamina's initial bonus).
2 lv50 Endmod IOs in Stamina provide 0.341612 end/s.

0.321612 + 0.2 = 0.541612 > 0.406228

The numbers change a bit if you're a VEAT, or you're using Quick Recovery or Physical Perfection instead of Stamina, but in general, 2 lv50 Endmod + PS proc > 3 lv50 Endmod. Note that it's only true in average recovery over time, because the PS proc is random. Also note that the PS proc isn't actually recovery, but an infusion of endurance, so it can do things like get around the -recovery of a nuke crash.

Also note that, since Performance Shifter is a set that goes up to 50, and one of the set pieces is straight Endmod, you can replace one of the two generic lv50 Endmod enhancements with a lv50 Performance Shifter: Endmod, have the exact same benefit, plus 5% movement speed buff.

IIRC, the description we've gotten of Praetorian Hamidon sounds a lot more like a giant Greater Devoured (tentacles, mobile) than the Hamidon we know.

Well, more specifically it's a dinosaur widow, whose inept thaumaturge husband was killed by a demon he summoned, but couldn't control
(And then, of course, the wife being the competent one, she banished the demon. And then became an Exalt.)

Of course, the character has many other forms, being a shapeshifter. She's got her human form, her Spirit Shape (velociraptor), her War Form (pictured), and a library of creatures whose heart's blood she's tasted, which she can transform into at will.

Edit: The Madame Vert pic is a clip from a full desktop image: 1600x1200 version.
Left to right: Anja Silverclaws (No Moon caste; pictured in human form; Spirit Shape: housecat), Red Jaws (Changing Moon caste; pictured in war form; Spirit Shape: wolf), Strength-of-Many (Full Moon caste; pictured in war form; Spirit Shape: bull), and Madame Vert (Casteless)

I also like the bleed over idea. It more accurately reflects what would happen in the Real World™, and doesn't really step on any toes. The bleed over may be troublesome to make it work correctly, since the two markets are currently on two different servers and there would need to be back and forth tracking, but I think it's probably doable.

Did you check Felucca's full-on dragon form (third link)?

There's also Madame Vert (slightly NSFW), though her Spirit Shape is actually a Tree Strider (essentially, a tree-dwelling velociraptor), not a dragon.

I think the perceived problem is "20 isn't epic".

No, but I think people who want to suggest changes to an existing game economy should have a basic understanding of how economics works.

Most suggestions for changes to the market come from people who apparently don't even have that basic understanding.

Belladonna Vetrano is not the leader of the Resistance. She's a high-ranking member, and any TF against the Resistance would probably include a fight against her, but she's not the leader. The leader is Calvin Scott, Aurora Borealis' husband (and since Mother Mayhem is possessing Aurora Borealis, Mother Mayhem and her Seers can't read Calvin Scott's mind).

As for what I want out of Going Rogue: More badges!
My main villain and main hero will probably stick as Vigilante/Rogue, just to access badges from the other side. That is, unless there's more badges to be had for completing the transition.

I think long-time Stalker players might get pissed at Stalker vs. VEAT, considering VEATs can actually see Stalkers at a great distance

I suspect in the Praetorian storyline they'll generally go with "Emperor Cole", but stick to Tyrant in the Portal Corp missions. (Though I think they did say they would be updating the models used for the Preatorians)





Also: GG's posts seems to have done a heel face turn in tone

I don't think reducing defense bonuses is a good idea; it'll just make the people that spent billions on their defense IO build angry, and won't do a whole lot for solving the issue.

Nobody "caps out" at 45%. Brutes and Tankers cap out their Defense at 225.05% at lv21+. Kheldians, Scrappers, and Stalkers cap at 200.38%. The rest of the ATs cap at 175%.

The issue is that with the way attack mechanics work, it is very very very rarely useful to have more than 45% defense. The only way adjusting caps would work would be if some AT's Defense caps were reduced below 45% (in which case they'd never be capable of hitting the softcap, which I don't really think would be fair for a team of squishies), or if attack mechanics themselves were calculated on a per-AT basis (which is a really bad idea).

And with GR around the corner, they may toss out their mental block on it anyway, since it'll be little trouble to make a heroic /Poison mastermind.

Epic == tied to a story. Epic =/= awesomeness incarnate.