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Quote:Green Lantern is a job title, not a name. You call a member of the Green Lantern Corps "Green Lantern" just like you call a member of the USMC "Marine".Originally Posted by Ashlocke
If the Flash saw this, he would freak out and call up the Flash, who in turn would be sad and then call up the Flash and tell him to make sure that the old Flash knows what's happening the next time he does a crossover issue with Captain Marvel while fighting The Green Lantern and Captain Marvel unless they are rescued by Green Lantern and Green Lantern and Green Lantern oh and that other Green Lantern.
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Quote:Did you even stop to consider what would happen if people stopped dying?Originally Posted by synthozoic
I'll put out my own disagreement with the people who are unhappy with immortality. Real immortality, where nothing can kill you, is pretty much impossible. But aging could be cured one day and if it is, I want to be ageless and rejuvenated.
I don't think that will be bad because, if it's medical technology, eventually everyone will be able to afford it and most of my peers and friends will be ageless too. And if I get bored of life, I can snuff it. Voluntary and accidental death are still possible. I really don't see a down side to being ageless and rejuvenated given my criteria above.
1. Overcrowding. Exactly where are all the people supposed to live if everyone is immortal?
2. With overcrowding comes diminishing food supplies. As more and more people need places to live the amount of land used for food production will get smaller and smaller. Animals used for livestock will become extinct in the face of ever growing demands to feed a population that never dies except by accident or suicide.
3. Jungles and forests will be decimated to make room for an ever growing population which will result in there being less oxygen produced that is essential to support life.
4. Pollution will constantly get worse just because the need for natural resources will increase to meet the demands from en ever growing population.
5. When the food and fuel resources get to a critical point governments will start fighting wars to grab as much of the stuff for their own people. Or they might institute state run breeding programs. I'm sorry citizen but you need a licence to start a family, and you are only allowed 1 child per household. Governments could also run state euthanasia programs instead of retirement to help reduce overpopulation. Anyone remember Logan's Run? Everyone gets put to death at Carousel when they turn 30. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Steampunkette
Fair enough. Though I kind of like the idea of having multiple elemental Travel pools so people can hone closer to concept. Plus it can help to circumvent some of the need for travel power customization. Add in a neat change to the travel power (Less air-friction) and you get a slightly different power in a very different set.
Strongly disagree. The mechanics of this power are different than any other travel power. It's similar to a cross between Super Jump and Flight without having the full speed of one, or the full control/versatility of the other.
Maybe in the morning... well... later today... I'll look into writing up electric and some others...
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I'd much rather have costume pieces/recipes that customize the basic travel powers than being forced to choose between 6 variations of Fly, SJ, SS, TP.
Right now I can fly like Superman on one costume, then if I get exposed to cosmic radiation I can switch costumes and FLAME ON! like the Human Torch. One day I may drink a magic potion and grow wings, or I might decide to zoom around using the Rocket Boots like Iron Man.
One character, 4 different styles of flight, 1 travel power.
Now I'm not against totally new travel powers, I'd just rather see any variations of existing travel powers be done as cosmetic. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Steampunkette
New Travel Power Pools!
Fire Flight
Tier 1: Scorching Strike: As Air Superiority, but remove the KD and change the damage to Fire.
Tier 2: Hover: As Hover, but with a slightly higher base speed and air friction similar to Fly.
Tier 3: Fire Flight: As Fly, with a Flaming Aura animation, slightly higher speed, and far less air friction.
Tier 4: Burn Patch: 5ft AoE "Drop" power. Creates a flaming pet power at the user's feet which mimics a LOW damage "Burn" power with less ticks and lower damage. Pet does not have Fly. Pet casts a small immob protection power on user.
There is no reason to make new powers to get effects that already exist in the game. Simply changing costumes to one with a fiery body aura like Omega and you can have fiery flight when you turn fly on.
Quote:Ice Slide Power Pool
Frozen Strike: Single Target smashing/cold attack, minor slow power.
Icy Blood: Auto power, resist slow effects slightly
Ice Slide: As "VIP Jetpack" with a higher forward movement speed, low air friction, and a constant jump height bonus roughly equivalent to SuperJump. The speed of this power should cap somewhere between flight and Superjump, probably around 64-65 MPH. The animation should be as the Prestige Power Slide" upper body position with a blue/white cloud at the feet trailed by a blue and white "Superspeed" trail.
Northern Wind: PBAoE Toggle, similar to Whirlwind with a self -Speed and a Kd and Slow effect rather than KB
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And all we need for this is an Ice Slide costume recipe. The animations already exist in game and are being used on the Power Slide sprint power. Just use them for fly animations. -
Quote:1. I explained how they can be abused by using them to avoid the ambushes or even to lead high level ambushers to lower level players in the zone to grief-kill them and then use Mission Teleport to whisk themselves to safety. See unlike dragging a GM to grief lowbies an ambush doesn't need to be attacked to get it to follow you.Originally Posted by Remaugen
What is abuse in the case of travel? Going from point "A" to point "B" is the purpose, where is that abused? How it that justification for the long travel times?
I have no problem with ambushes spawning near the door, it actually makes more sense from a story point of view.
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Quote:Yep. I'd give it 15 minutes before there'd be a bunch of people demanding the feature be removed because they sold their uber rare doodads by accident.Originally Posted by Roderick
*Clicks "Sell All" button*
OH ****!! I had a purple in there! -
Quote:Originally Posted by Remaugen
I would be happy to see the existing travel powers expanded.
For example: Fifth power in the set could be Map Travel. Click on a spot on the map and Run/Jump/Fly/Teleport there with a single screen change.
Sixth power in the set would be Zone Travel. Activating this power would allow the toon to Run/Jump/Fly/Teleport to zones they have been too before, bypassing other travel methods. It would have to be logical, not too Praetoria or Cimerora for example. This would allow toons that do not have base access or toons with small bases the ability to zone without a lot of convoluted screen changes. This would also seriously benefit Rogues & Villians who are unable to add all the beacons to their existing bases.
No one would have to take these powers of course, just as no one has to take any travel power at all. Sprint and/or Ninja Run are fine for many folks.
Yes we already have the mission teleport but it has a huge recharge time and honestly crossing several zones to get to a mission is just annoying. . .
Uhm no.
Some missions spawn ambushes that are supposed to be dealt with. The only way I can see the devs implementing your travel power ideas in the game would be if the ambushes immediately spawned at your destination when you activated the travel power so they'd be waiting to open fire on you as soon as you arrived.
That's the whole reason behind the long timers on the "Mission Teleport" and "Summon Teammates" powers. To prevent abuse. -
Quote:Honestly? IMO it depends on the misspelling. If I see someone with a name like Lronblade instead of Ironblade I assume they are abusing the similarity between the capital "L" and "I" ingame so they can use a name someone else got first. Same goes for names that have numbers substituted for letters. Although I do check their bio to see if they made an effort to explain why they are using leetspeak in their name.Originally Posted by BrandX
Oh no. I got what you said. I don't just don't think people would see the misspelling of Phoenix any different than they do using a number in the name.
Gremlin, is taken! Sooo...a person goes with Grem1in. People say they hate it. So why would Fhenix be any different?
However I've read books where authors spelled "witch" with a "y" and magic with a "k" or a "yk". So in cases like that I assume the player was trying to be creative and come up with a unique memorable name. -
Quote:Well I get a lot of use out of level 10 IO's. I can buy them dirt cheap at the market often for less than I'd pay for TO's and DO's, and I don't have to replace them until level 22 which allows me to save all the currency I get from selling my drops and that money adds up fast.Originally Posted by Biospark
He is suggesting the removal of DOs from the game and increasing TOs to the strength of DOs from level 1 onward. So you would use TOs (at DO strength) until level 22, then switch over to SOs or IOs at that point.
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Quote:I agree that those are very irritating but what bugs me more is how I can use fire powers underwater. It's as immersion breaking as seeing people using a grappling hook to swing from the clouds when they are in the desert or crossing a lake in the wilderness.Originally Posted by Dz131
there was underwater area in Champions online and it pretty much the worst area ever. Aggro from every direction and it's really hard to tell if you're going to be in aggro range because all the mobs are basically floating in the air with no shadows/surface to tell distance.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Yep, 18 months is the number that sounds best to me... 2 years if people really think there's good reason.
That's just how I'd do it, if it were up to me. Obviously it isn't
No worries, J_B
I just don't think the current system needs to be switched. I, personally, like unique names. That's really the difference. Some people like a system that allows for duplicate names and some do not. We can try and explain why (On either side), but at the end of the day, it will boil down to personal preference.
The fact that the game uses the one system means that there needs to be a clear issue and need for the drastic change to a duplicate name system.
The only cause anyone can give for needing a duplicate name system has been that they want names that other people already have.
If name purges were done, then, at least, names on inactive accounts would become opened up (Besides those who come back for one month and disappear).
I think serious name purges should be done (repeatedly, over a series of several months... after all... new inactive accounts will become aged enough as those few months go by) well before a drastic system change is done.
If the devs decided they thought it best to switch to an invisible global name-tied duplicate system... I wouldn't freak out or anything. I'd rather not see it happen. Not because any of my characters might have duplicates (The only possibly likely candidate for that would probably be Electric-Knight, I suppose), but simply because I prefer for everyone I deal with to have their own unique names and not have to deal with multiple players/characters with the same names.
The amount of multiple names would be far greater than the amount of alternate spelling similar names we have in this system. Both because no one would know that name was taken already (So no reason to not go with it) and because very simple, commonly thought of names would always go through.
The possibility of 20 Dark Lords may not be far off, hehe.
It's not out of fear. It's just out of personal preference. The game you choose to play is part of your property or neighborhood. You hope it stays the way you like it, the way you enjoy it.
It's not a knee-jerk reaction, it's just preference.
Just as someone prefers open/sharing names, others prefer unique names. And not because they're selfish and want their names (The same way I'm not saying those who want duplicate names are selfish because they want my name or someone else's name). That preference extends to all players, not just themselves.
It's just a matter of taste. Possibly compounded with the Developers' taste and the existing system that has been in place.
I do have an interesting question (Not that I think it will come to this, but...):
IF (let's just pretend) cross server teaming was only possible through a duplicate naming system throughout all servers... would people be willing to change their minds about their preference?
If it were up to me I'd let that name purge program run after every scheduled maintenance. That way it would constantly release names on accounts that went over the 3 month inactive deadline.
As to cross server teaming all that's needed is a title that identifies the home server the character is from. -
Quote:No you didn't. With a unique naming system it's a lot harder for player A to be mistaken for player b because they can't have the same name.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
He contentds that with duplicate names, the wrong people would get ignored, and further that it would snowball because his his theoretical freinds would ignore that person just because their freind said to.
I countered that such a situation would snowball regardless of the naming system if he truly thinks people can't think for themselves.
Under our current system
Superdude: Hey Hyperstrike, I think I see that guy who was a jerk to you the other day. Wasn't his name John E. Butane?
Hyperstrike: No, it was Johnny Butane.
Superdude: Ah different guy then. Okay Thanks.
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Quote:So when you can't refute the flaws in your arguments you resort to casting insults on the motivations of tight knit communities. Yeah that wins people over all the time.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
If you blindly add people to your ignore list just because your friend told you to, your problem is bigger than the game allowing duplicate names.
As in your example, TODAY with no change to the system, Hyperstrike could tell you and everyone in your global channel that anyone was a jerk with no evidence and he could even specify a Global name just because he has a grudge against a guy he teamed with. The end result would be the same.
That means the flaw isn't with the nameing system, or even the ignore system, the flaw is with you and your friends not thinking critically for yourselves. Changing the name system won't change that either way. It would be no different than it is now.
And frankly, if they are that sheep-like and gullible, I doubt I'd mind being on their ignore list.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Donna_
I can't think of any other travel powers that I would like personally... but i'd like a little change to a couple if it was possible...
Super Speed - Remove Cap please.
Fly - Remove speed Cap pelase.
Teleport - Change Group Teleport to Longdistance teleport allowing you to TP to any zone, this ofcourse could have a long recharge and animation time and you could arrive at the same position you do when using base tp'rs but I think this would be much much better and make the pool alot more popular.
SuperJump - To be honest I like this power as it is.
Some people mention Swinging but many of us agree that it looks absolutely stupid when it's being used outside of a zone with skyscrapers.
Others mention Wallcrawling but it really isn't a travel power, and I don't think it's possible with our game engine.
We aren't getting vehicles for reasons discussed in other threads. -
Here's what I love about this argument.
Player A: This unique naming feature is unfair. I can't get any good names because everyone else got them first. I want to be able to use the same cool names they have.
Everyone else: We don't have any problems coming up with cool names.
Player A: Your names suck.
Everyone else: If we took all the names, and our names suck why do you want to be able to use them on your characters?
Player A: . . . *head explodes* -
Quote:Actually yes they do use that feature to turn off the @thislooksstupid and that's exactly where the arguments start over being mistaken for someone else.Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan
First off, CO had a toggle that many folks never used that allowed you to turn off the @globalname extension in the chat windows.
They turn the feature off then get the wrong person in trouble because they never bother to find out what the global name of the real offender is. -
Quote:Wrong. People don't need to click on the person's text or on the character to /gignore them.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
To ignore someone globally you have to enter their Global Name or click on the person's text or click on the character themselves. Which means you won't be ignoring the wrong person.
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For example let's say I'm in an global channel with Hyperstrike and he tells me and everyone else about this jerk he met the day before running a character named "Johnny Butane". An hour or so later I see you on your character named "Johnny Butane", and I say in my global channel, "Hey here's that guy that was a jerk to Hyperstrike. Someone in the global asks me what your global name is and I tell them. Just like that you've been added to 30+ ignore lists and you don't know why your having trouble finding teams. -
Quote:Ninja Run isn't just about jumping. It's a poor man's SS and SJ. Not as good as either but combines aspects from both.Originally Posted by Dz131
SS lets you jump +400%? which is my point because SS can't get you up high ledges.
That's fine but we don't need new travel powers to get new animations. They could add new costume recipes that modify existing travel power animations.Quote:my main beef with Sj is the animation is lame if they want to updates yes i'm up for it
Take fly for example. That has been modified already with Wing and Rocket Boot recipes. They could easily make new ones for jetpacks, flying platforms, broomsticks, etc.
You didn't suggest any new travel powers. If you actually suggest a particular power then we can toss the pros and cons around about it.Quote:wut? you realize this is the suggestion forum. Tons of ppl asked for ninja run/power cust in the past basically got the same response from ppl like you, but it still happened.
The response was that those particular statements you made sounded crazy. You know . . .Cuckoo. Of course it is possible that you are far too young to get the cuckoo reference. Older people sometimes use it as slang to describe something that is lacking in sense; foolish or crazy.Quote:nice pulling out the "I have nothing to respond with, so Ill just dismiss it with emoticons". but hey whatever, I;m sure you rep as a witty forum celeb is at stake.
For example you started off saying SS isn't useful, and finished with a travel power should be good for traveling long distances. If you don't see how that sounds crazy then there isn't much to discuss. -
Quote:No it isn't. It's a factual example of how lazy people can be, even when it's in their best interest. Yes some people will make an effort to check global names, but most won't bother. It's much easier to just /gignore.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
That is a little more convoluted than knowing two people can have the same character name.
You do realize that most players use the /gignore and notes features more often than they use the /petition. Furthermore it really doesn't matter what a GM decides. Even if a player chose to use the "ignore as a spammer" feature which generates a petition as well as puts the offender on the ignore list, a GM isn't going to go into the players ignore list and remove the petitioned person from the list.Quote:Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
You do realize that if someone petitions "Major Mars" the GM that handles it has to look at the server logs to see which "Major Mars" was in the zone that day and what they were saying. The GM is going to have to check global name to know which account to send the email to. -
Quote:We already have that. It's called Super SpeedOriginally Posted by Dz131
Can we get some more travel powers like a epic version of Ninja run or something
So you want different animations?Quote:Super jump is good but the animation is weird imo. -
Quote:I did type something up but for once took the time to read it before posting and decided I was tired and everything sounded rude so I opted to just unsign rather than irritate the mods.Originally Posted by MunkiLord
Weak. If you're gonna go with that answer, at least say /jranger.
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Quote:I think that's Memphis Bill's character.Originally Posted by Jophiel
There's someone who posts in these threads (sorry, forgot who) who mentions that his low-level trial character ("A Guy With Bots"?) is still alive and kicking after nearly a thousand days. So it's pushing three years at least since even low level names were purged.
I'm not deluded into thinking every name under the sun will be opened up but likewise I don't see any good reason to have trial account names from three years ago still be locked up. -
Quote:Oh please back before they changed the 60 day rule at the consignment house we constantly got complaints from people that had items deleted because they refused to read the rules. There were even people that claimed they had lost items on more than one occasion.Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane
If we went to a system where two people could have the same character name, people would know that and would learn to check the global name when someone was obviously trying to troll a name.
If people can't be bothered to learn the rules so they don't lose millions in game currency they sure as hell won't take any time to make sure they don't ignore/petition the wrong person. -
Quote:Assuming that the people who don't have problems choosing names have "craptastic" names is the lamest justification for dismissing their statements.Originally Posted by BrandX
this continues to be the lamest response.
Sorry, but "Romgon the Orc" is a craptastic name.
And Sakura Rosebleed sounds like a great villainous name. Not all characters are heroes in this game. -
Quote:The OP's post didn't clarify what he meant. Until he does we don't know if he meant underwater game mechanics or simply regular game mechanics in a setting which is surrounded by water outside.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Yes - some people seem to get confused by the term "underwater"