Gaming_Glen

A little trick I do when setting up a new base is that the first two heroside TP locations I set up are to King's Row and Steel Canyon. King's Row's exit point is near the Yellow Line station and Steel Canyon's exit point is the closest of those zones that the Green Line station serves. And generally, I keep those two locations on the same teleport pad even after setting up more pads later.

Is posting on this thread a popular thing? Or does it take having 4 or 5 (or more) pages before a thread gets popular?


I mean, I don't want to reply unless it's the popular thing to do.

I'll toss in another odd design: the invention table not in the same room as the personal vault or salvage bins.

I place the invention table right next to the personal vault, and 1-2 salvage bins (usually the ones with common salvage) as close as possible so you can have all three open at once (a salvage bin, personal vault, and the invention table).

The game makes you run around enough as is, so why do players want to do the same thing to their fellow players?

So I'm running around Steel Canyon arresting Outcast leaders to take them off the street (okay, I'm badge hunting) and it hit me... I feel like just one of the many mostly-unsung heroes of the real world: the police (and fire-person when putting out fires in Steel). There's no real glory or fame, the mobs are back on the street within minutes (I really hate the faster respawn rate that was put in some issues ago). On villain side it's about the same, you're just a policeperson for Arachnos (no matter the RP spin you put on it as I often do).

No newspaper has headlines with your name in large print, no paparazzi with a police cordon around outside when you exit the mission door (not even once); I can see not doing with every mission, but end of story arc missions could have them as the news of the completed "case" (arc) is released to the public. In Paragon City being a superhero is just an almost-normal job. Yeah, there's thousands of superheroes in the city, but you don't see that many at once.

Don't treat my character as one of a many thousands cast member, but as one of a few dozen. On the less populated servers that is almost true . Would be nice to see my character's name up in lights. Or for TFs, perhaps the TF name is shown, perhaps on some continuous running marquee in AP or Galaxy (Aeon City in Cap for redside?), or even Pocket D. Make it look like my character's actions are making a difference, instead of the pat on the back by contacts. Have the big names say something to you about your lastest endeavor as NPC chatter (just once per endeavor). This should include zone events that you've taken part in.

Ah, the word finally came to me: recognition. Give my character the recognition it deserves for being a superhero (or supervillain in the service of Arachnos).

OP is 8 years older than I. (yay?)

Seems like so many players don't believe me when I say how old I am. Guess they think I should be dead or something.

I've written multiplayer computer games older than most players. Computers weren't invented just yesterday and computer networks are far older than you think, kiddies.

Here's a little history lesson on a forerunner for some of the computer utilities you use today: (search "plato (computer system)", or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_%...uter_system%29

I think he also means what else can the character do. Frankly, there isn't much. You can get various badges, the exploration and defeat ones are ones I go after with nearly every character. You can help with some of the zone events (e.g., fires in Steel Canyon), but those are limited. Otherwise RP or other player-driven activities are about the only other option besides the game's "defeat multitudes of enemies waiting for you to do so" and "complete missions".

Believe me, I really would like to see and do other things, but since this is based on the superhero comic books I'm guessing there isn't a lot of options. Although, I have seen quite a few good suggestions over the years in the forums which will never be implemented.

Hmmmmm.

Nah, they can't be the same person. One is wearing sunglasses.

Nearly all my characters (as in, all but 1) take Fly as their travel power, but I still fly at times at street level or just above and navigate around the buildings. I'd like to see more outdoor activities as well. I hunt for the defeat badges a lot, but once gotten then to keep hunting for that target has lost its appeal. I'd like to see some other small goals for my characters to achieve, besides gaining in strength (i.e., levels and powers).

Monthly fee: acceptable.

Everything else: $0.0

Pay for increased drop rates? What, you can't farm fast enough?


*sniff* The air around here has a trollish taint to it.

I prefer Founders' Falls over Brickstown. And, snipe(r) hunting is fun. I love my snipe power.

I solo and hunt/street sweep a lot so some of the zones mentioned are ones I am in fairly often, especially Perez. You can get a few defeat badges there. I avoid Boomtown, though.

I'd rather see a dynamic loading screen with a section for part of a newspaper/monitor containing information about the latest news of the zone you are entering. The latest news would be about whatever that zone's TF was the most recently completed giving the names of the participants. It would make the game seem more personally alive, and people could see their hero's (or villain's) name in lights (so to speak).

I think I'll put "petless" in my search comments for my non-MM ATs. I wonder how many will get it. (I have one controller, which got to 50 and is now gathering dust.. just not my style)

Lobsters?

Does someone have butter? I'm hungry.

It's not a big deal. I've already unlocked both by getting at least one character to 50 on each side and I'm not bothered by this.

Maybe those leeching healing aura-only empaths will play an EAT and actually play now?

Maybe there will be less kins bothering me with SBs. Yeah, this is a good thing.