Fleeting Whisper

Known? Or known?

A whole pantheon, as in, W.I.S.D.O.M., a supergroup consisting of Foreshadow, Mirror Spirit, Rose Star, and Spark Blade? Half of which is already in the game?

UI is easy. The hard part is the stuff that the UI manipulates.

(General statement on all programming)

Look for the Iron Eagles supergroup (I think they've got a thread in the Events forum). The entire supergroup is 'debt = delete'.

Foreshadow and Mirror Spirit both show up in Scirocco's arc.

I think a War Witch TF would make more sense dealing with the events in the Blue King comics. IIRC, that was... Vahzilok and Cranival of Shadows?

Why would BAB deal with Hellions? He's the "Just say 'No' to Superadine" guy. Superadine is used by the Trolls, distributed by The Family and the Skulls, and recently the Skulls have tried making it. (The original 'dyne manufacturers are unknown, since new supplies of 'dyne would just appear in suppliers' homes when they woke up)

Did you use Touch of Lady Grey: Chance to One-Shot, or did you use Touch of Lady Grey: Chance to One-Shot Self?

While there is a "Negative Stealth" power which is applied to you when you rescue/kidnap an NPC, stealth cannot go below 0ft. You can't make yourself seen from further away than the default distance.

The only thing negative stealth would do is make people who use a stealth power easier to see. It would do nothing to people not using a stealth power.

It's not possible to make an Empathy Defender with no heals. At level one you're given the option between Healing Aura and Heal Other for your primary power pick.

That said, I've got an Empathy Defender whose healing powers are (1) Healing Aura, and (2) Vengeance*. (3) if you count Resurrect as a heal.

Oh, and he's /Energy Blast

He's quite fun to play, but I must admit I rarely play on PuGs with him. But then, I rarely play on PuGs with any of my characters, but that's just the game experience I prefer.

* My Radiation Emission/Dark Blast Defender doesn't have Radiant Aura (or Life Drain for that matter, but I don't think self-heals count for healing badges). I got the Medic badge using Vengeace

In general, I make only a few types of posts:

• Snappy one-liners/silly/post count padding (whatever you want to call it)
• Opinions (which I try to make obviously so)
• Facts, so that the people fighting can use real ammunition instead of rubber bullets (like in this thread)
• Devil's advocate (because with reasonable people it encourages putting more thought into an idea)

Unless I'm expressing my opinion on the subject, it's unlikely that I have a stake in the matter, or care about the outcome. In that case, I'm more interested in seeing a reasonable debate between participants than I am in the result of the debate.

When it seems the participants are lacking information, I try to provide it.
When it seems one (or both!) sides are not well thought out, I poke holes in their argument until they figure out what they want and board those holes up.
When everything is going well, I amuse myself.

If I do have a stake in the argument, I try to use the facts and think through my arguments before presenting them; but of course if I've got strong feelings about it, my feelings may overcome my logic. I'm also a fallible human (or a really good AI!). I make mistakes. My facts aren't 100% correct 100% of the time, my arguments aren't always perfect, and I'm rarely funny once the joke leaves my head

I don't really care if Fly is made faster. But Fly is not the most expensive travel power, Fly is not slower than Ninja Run, and comparing NR and two extra powers to Fly alone is not a fair comparison.

Note Ben's point of comparing Fly+Swift to NR+Hurdle; this is much more fair than Fly vs. NR+Swift+Sprint, and puts NR a few mph ahead of Fly. I would say that's still not quite fair, since Hurdle has always been a bigger speed boost than Swift. Fly+Swift is faster than NR+Swift; since Swift adds 1.9mph to fly speed and 5mph to run speed, all that comparison really says is that the difference between Fly and NR's flight speed and running speed is larger than the difference between Swift's flight boost and its run boost. Usefulness or fairness, comparing Fly and NR comboed with other powers doesn't help in the analysis of their relative speeds.

On the other hand, rather than comparing the speed of the two powers, you could compare the ease/cost of reaching a higher speed using Fly vs. NR as the base.
Fly, 1 enhancement slot, and 1 power selection can reach the flight speed cap (58.6mph)
Ninja Run cannot easily pass that mark on run speed (NR+Swift w/3 run+Sprint w/3 run = 58.1mph). However, it can easily pass that mark with jump speed: Ninja Run, 1 enhancement slot, and 1 power selection can reach 63.6 jump speed (NR+Hurdle w/2 jump)

This can also be compared to speeds with Super Jump; SJ alone, no slotes is 50mph. The default slot can bring it up to 61.8mph. Adding unslotted Hurdle will cap it at 78mph.

Yes

Just because it's a limitation, doesn't mean that it was malicious or ignorant.

I cannot reach the top shelf in my mother's kitchen without a stool. This is a limitation of the combination of the location of the shelf and my own height. There was nothing malicious nor ignorant about my height, nor about the placement of the shelf. In fact in the shelf's case it was the opposite of malicious, since including the high shelf prevents the inclusion of "bug catcher" design in the house (high, horizontal surfaces which collect dust and dead bugs because they're rarely cleaned).

I dunno, I've duoed it before, and I was on a Mastermind at the time, so most of my damage was catching up to me during the time we had to attack.

Nope. I don't really care.

And that was pre-ED, wasn't it? So his dozens of damage SOs actually mattered.

Did he also use a geometry hole in the Hive which prevented Hami from shooting back?

I think the only word on merits for challenges that any dev has mentioned came from BAB (and hence, is really just a player's opinion, since BAB has no control over the subject). He said something along the lines of 'if merits are granted for challenges, failing those challenges should reduce the merit award' (heavily paraphrased).

While guessing that they're using 3DS Max is a reasonable one (for a professional game studio, guessing 'Max' would probably have a 50-60% chance of being correct, 45-50% for 'Maya', and the last 0-5% for 'Other' including things like Blender, Wings, and ZBrush), the game itself wouldn't be looking at the standard 3DS Max save format. 3DS stores more information than the game needs, which is why an exporter or conversion program would be used. In fact, if you look at *cough wheeze hack die*, you'll see that they aren't using MAX files. (Unless the filetype is just renamed, which would be a bit silly. But it's not like I've memorized every 3D modeling program's file format, so I don't put my word at 100% certainty.)

Since you weren't the FF Defender, and we weren't the FF Defender, this thread should be 'No habla "FF Defender" ...'

This has been your Spanish lesson for the day.
To Speak: Hablar

(Present Indicative tense)
I Speak: Yo Hablo
You Speak (Familiar): Tú Hablas
He/She Speaks and You Speak (Formal): Usted/Él/Ella Habla
We Speak: Nosotros/Nosotras Hablamos
You Speak (Plural Familiar)*: Vosotros/Vosotras Habláis
They Speak and You Speak (Plural Formal): Ustedes/Ellos/Ellas Hablan

* The plural familiar form of a verb goes unused in many Spanish-speaking countries, and the plural formal is used for all forms of the plural "you".

QFT. Mesmerize is good too, since it can one-shot sleep a boss (mag 3.5)

Hah. Many GMs get soloed all the time. I don't think every GM has been soloed, but that may be due to lack of opportunity or because the GM is an ******* (see: Caleb)

Yes, an Ill/Rad soloed Lusca, though some people don't count him since it took several hours along with multiple hospital trips and inspiration purchases.

Since when does Fly cost more than Teleport? The only time I've run out of endurance using Fly was when I coupled it with Superior Invisibility (total endurance drain of 2.04 EPS unslotted, compared to base recovery of 1.67 EPS). Teleport at its maximum speed is 6.5 EPS, or 3.25 EPS if you go the minimum speed without falling.

Fly is not slower than Ninja Run. Fly is 45.2 mph unslotted; Ninja Run is 34.4 mph running and 33.9 mph jumping.

Comparing Fly to Ninja Run paired with other powers (Swift, Hurdle, Sprint, etc.) is like comparing Fly to Fly+Swift. It's stupid.