Fleeting Whisper

Not quite true, actually. The mission has patrols in it which you're not supposed to attack. IIRC, there's one patrol, and killing it calls an ambush (and killing the ambush calls a second ambush); if you kill both of the ambushes, you fail. There's also a boss you're not supposed to kill, but that's easy since he's just in the middle of the final room.

If you don't touch the patrol, you're absolutely fine. The patrol will attack if they see you, but the point is that you're meant to stealth through the mission. And since I don't ever recall encountering Drones in the mission, that's not a problem either.

In fact, that's the arc I used to get the Ouroboros Mender badge (run 50 Flashback arcs). The arc is "The Strange Case of Benjamin A. Decker". A rescue on a small warehouse map (Arachnos, with a Warhulk that spawns near the entrance when you have Arnold Decker), a rescue in an instanced RWZ (Rikti, with allied Vanguard; B'Nadek is almost always near the mission entrance, and the turrets will often kill his captors before you find him), and a glowie hunt (4 glowies, all in the final room and far away from Rikti). The arc is really simple to finish quickly:

Yeah, chopping up civilians to make fleshbots is benign. And that's just the level 1 NPCs!

Unfortunately, the OP is on a trial account, and therefore can only speak in Local, Team, and Help; they can't start teams, and they can't join SGs.

You're looking at the wrong power, but I don't know what you're looking at. Many pseudopets have a power called "Self Destruct", but the power available to players is Self Destruction

No, you didn't ask that. I extrapolated that someone (not necessarily you) would ask that based on my knowledge of human nature and debate. The "you" in my earlier post was the general "you", the ambiguous reader, not you American_Valor.

And 'kill' does not imply 'murder', nor does 'murder' (premeditated or not) imply a surprise attack. By your own argument, since you did not explicitly state premeditated murder by surprise attack, nobody reading your post should assume that is what you meant. If you want to ask me, though, my declaration still stands. Under any circumstances you want to set for me, with any target and with any executioner, one life to save the world is absolutely worth it.

Unlike you (where "kill" means "premeditated murder by surprise attack" and cannot mean anything else ever), I meant what I wrote. I have no issues with killing one person to save the entire world. Somewhere beyond that things get ugly, and the only way I could tell you where that line lies would be to start slaughtering people. And I'm not about to go do that, particularly not to prove a point in some random internet thread when the fate of the world is decidedly not in the balance.

To head off the next question you might ask ('you', the ambiguous reader, not you American_Valor, in case you American_Valor were confused. Again): the same applies to multiple instances of saving the world. If the world needs to be repeatedly saved by killing a single person, I honestly don't know how many times it could be saved before the killing becomes an issue. Killing a single different individual multiple times is the same as killing multiple people at once, so I would put it at the same unknown line.

Call me what you like. But my statement that I would kill one to save 6 billion is about as evil as you imagining yourself flipping off the idiot in front of you on the freeway.

Let's assume that I killed someone, saving the world. How that act is seen (good or evil) depends more on the circumstances than on the act itself, I think. For example:

• I kill someone. If that person had lived, he would have become a mad scientist and blown up the planet killing everyone during one of his experiments. Result? I'm seen as a random murderer, because nobody knows the future. I'm locked up for life, or put on death row.
• I encounter a man charging up his Super Mega Death Ray 5000™, and kill him before he completes his act of evil. Nobody else knows what was happening, his body burns up on reentry (because, of course, Super Mega Death Rays have been mounted on satellites ever since model #150). I live with the blood on my hands, but nobody knows that they were saved, and nobody knows that I killed him unless I confess.
• A man is holding the world ransom; every country in the world will do X unfortunate thing, or else the planet explodes. You have one hour! I kill him on sight of his webcam. The world heralds me as a hero.

Et cetera. Circumstances can drastically change how others view your actions.

Full information can change things, too:
I kicked a puppy. Therefore I'm a bad person.
I kicked a young rottweiler who had rabies and was attacking me. I was acting in self defense, and should probably get checked out at a hospital.

These are modifiers relative to one another, which becomes a problem when AT modifiers change. For example, the standard ranged damage modifiers were set up with Blasters at 1.0 (100%), and everybody else's ranged damage noted in comparison to that. But then Blaster damage was buffed, and there isn't really a baseline, because players didn't really want to change the 'modifiers' for all the other ATs just because the baseline changed.

Your last link was to Red Tomax; you can look at the Ranged Damage Modifiers table to find absolute modifiers:
Blaster: -62.562
Corruptor: -41.708
Defender: -36.147

These are the same ratios as your listed 1.125, 0.75, 0.65, but they're the numbers the game actually uses. For example, a T1 blast attack will be "Scale 1 Damage" or "1 Damage Scale" of some type. A T2 blast will be 1.64 (both the 1 and the 1.64 may be split among multiple damage types, such as Power Blast with 1 Energy and 0.64 Smashing). Multiply the damage scalar by the absolute ranged damage modifier and you'll get the actual change in health.
Blaster T2: 1.64 * -62.562 = -102.60 health; [Power Blast] = 40.04 + 62.56 = 102.6 damage
Corruptor T2: 1.64 * -41.708 = -68.40 health; [Power Blast] = 26.69 + 41.71 = 68.4 damage
Defender T2: 1.64 * -36.147 = -59.28 health; [Power Blast] = 23.13 + 36.15 = 59.28 damage

Yes. Against Mind Control, old MoG is more equivalent to flooring your resistance than it is to a T9 defensive power.

Some good advice, since you're on a trial:

Open your Team window while you're not on a team. You'll see the Search Comment box. Write something along the lines of "Please blind invite. On a trial and can't respond to tells."

The trial restrictions could've been done better, and I'm sorry you're having trouble finding people to play with. The kicker is that all of the best methods for finding teams are not available to people on trial accounts, which leads them to think that the teams aren't there to be found.

Tenzhi isn't greedy, he's just a curmudgeon.

What do you think? I said I think it's perfectly ok to kill one person in order to save the world. That's my stance. The obvious next post is "would you feel the same if you're the one that has to die?" And I intended to head that off at the pass, as it were: yes, I would feel the same if I were the one that has to die in order to save the world. One life (any life, including my theoretical wife or child, my sister, my parents, &c.) for 6 billion? Yes, I have no issues with that.

Really, it's not that hard to figure out what I meant.

Did you even read my post? I have absolutely no problem killing one person to save the world. There is some line where killing multiple people changes from 'being worth it to save the world' to being evil. And I don't know where that line would be.

4.e. You may not select as your Character Name the name of another person, or a name which violates any third party's trademark right, copyright, or other proprietary right, or which may mislead other players to believe you to be an employee of NC Interactive, or which NC Interactive deems at its sole discretion to be vulgar or otherwise offensive.

4.f. You may not create a Battle Cry, Character Description, give a name to a Super Group, or give a title to a Super Group member that is the name/description/title of another person, or a name/description/title which violates any third party's trademark right, copyright, or other proprietary right, or which may mislead other players to believe you to be an employee of NC Interactive or its affiliates, or which NC Interactive deems at its sole discretion to be vulgar or otherwise offensive.

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While it's unlikely that you'll have anything happen for creating zombie Benjamin Franklin, it looks to me like NCSoft is well within their right specified by the EULA to generic you for it. IANAL.

Actually, it says: In essence:

1. You have to have the rights to what you make
2. You can't infringe on someone else's rights with what you make
3. What you make becomes the property of NCSoft... unless NCSoft can't have it, in which case NCSoft gets the right to show what you've made in their own context

The last point is most important. If, for example, you've already published a character you developed, NCSoft can't automatically gain ownership of that character simply because you created it in CoH. By re-creating your character in CoH, you're only granting NCSoft the right to display your character (as I understand it, this is particularly important because NCSoft requires that right in order to display your character to, say, the people on your PuG).