Gemesis

First off.. the "gift" was that we get to keep 10 enhancements during a respec, not the respec itself.

Secondly.. I've yet to see one reason from you as to why we should be able to pull out more than ten enhancements during a respec. I won't say "Because I want to" and "I spent time gathering them" aren't valid reasons, because those are personal values, and you can think they're valid all you want, while I can disagree to the same level. You said you don't see how it would hurt the game, and that it is a good idea... but why is it a good idea? How will it help the game become more successful?

And before anyone says "It'll make a portion of the player base happy, by giving them what they want", don't. Not unless you have some hard numbers. Remember the Pop-up with Mystic Fortune? People complained about it, so they took it away. People complained about it getting taken away, so they put it back in. I would think more people would want that pop-up taken away, but evidently, there were enough that want it there. So while you might think more people would be happy by giving the ability to take enhancements out of their slots, not everyone will, and it could be the majority.

In regards to the graphics settings, and not being able to see the blue fumes before the Circle of Blue Death, I personally play on min settings for everything. Next year I get to save up so that I might one day play in mid-ranged ultra mode... But I play min settings and I could see them just fine on my first and so far only time running the ATF.

Also, I kinda of chuckled at the "Lrn2dodg" Zombie said because when I was on the ATF, the only person on the team that had run the TF before only said "Keep moving". I had no idea why, or what for until I died, and then they said "avoid the blue flames". So once I, on my tank, got the idea, I started doing hit and run style and just wished to myself that I had PvPed more.

Never writen a haiku before... and it's late so that wikipedia page just confused me... so if I'm doing this wrong... well, I'm going to sleep soon, so I won't care

Red versus Blue
Eternal struggle, now in your hands
/em victory

Ok... so yeah, spamming the board with six posts when it could have all gone into one was unnecessary. If what you typed up wouldn't all fit in one post, then you reply to the original, starting one thread, with six posts in it.

Secondly.. I read the first couple... then skimmed that last four. So overall tl;dr!

For what I did read, it is all way waaaay too complicated. I've been playing this game for years, and I find there's stuff I'm still learning about it. One thing that's always made sense... travel powers! If I take Super Jump, it means I get to jump really far, really fast. And you're wanting to turn that inside out upside down, and add in so much more crap to it that it just doesn't make sense anymore.

I'm honestly surprised that you could have come up with all this stuff when you don't even realize that there is no "Underwater" in the game. I could forgive that you didn't know that the Super Speed cap is at that level because the technical limitations, but c'mon... underwater? Where?! There are two.. two instances of where you're capable of actually going underwater in the game. In of the the Cimerora cave maps, and the easter egg in Grandville already mentioned. Not enough to warrant added powers, and drowning capabilities.

Granted BaBs is no longer with us, but he did say once that as long as he had any say in it, there would never be an underwater zone. Since he's gone, who knows? But I'm betting it's still no where on the horizon.

Overall it seems you're wanting to add extra dimensions to what we have, to make it all seem more realistic... yes, it's more difficult to move through water, than it is through air. Could they make it so you were slowed down when moving through water? Possibly. Had it been part of the game at inception, then fine, but adding it in after 6 years? It doesn't make sense, and it detracts from fun.

When I read that Angel from the X-Men has hollow bones, and can breath in low oxygen/high altitude climates, it made sense to me, and I liked that for the realism it brought. He's a guy with wings that can fly, but there's more to it than that. I mention this to show that I understand where you're coming from with thoughts like this, but it changes the game way too much to be practical. These elements can be explained easily with RP, or your characters other abilities. Your speedster should have some damage resistance? Use IO set bonuses, or pick up Tough.

Lastly.. it's obvious you gave this a lot of thought. Had some ideas, and tried to make a viable solution for what you see as holes. I applaud you for that... I think you should continue to try and think of ways that improve the game. Just.. do it all on one thread, and remember, in the end it's a game and supposed to be fun.

I like this idea.. so much I suggested it months ago... maybe even a year ago.. long time ago regardless, and I don't feel like searching for that post to link And unfortunately I would agree with what others have said about the idea, that it would make for uber min/max builds, or severely gimped builds, making the balance of the game shift dramatically. So I have two ideas that I thonk would make for a decent compromise, but would still require work and balancing...

1: Currently, there are 4 levels where you don't have any new powers open up in either your primary or you seconardy powers. 14, 22, 24, 30. Now assuming you choose only powers from your prim/sec powers, at levels 24, and 30, you're forced to choose a power pool, as enough are open to choose from at 14, and 22, to not have to take power pools. So I would suggest that at these four(14, 22, 24, 30), or two levels(24, 30) you're able to choose to take a power, or extra slots. The extra slots would be 2 at a time, as only at lvl 31 you're able to get three. So you could either get 8 extra slots and skip out on 4 powers prior to level 31, or 4 extra slots and skip out on 2 powers prior to level 31.

Of course it could be argued that those four levels were designed that way to make it possible to get powers pools, ideally for travel powers. But then we get into that age old argument about the devs forcing us to play the game a certain way... which this is not a topic for, so lets not bring it up again!

2: What you could choose slots, over powers, or powers over slots, once every ten levels between 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, and 41-50. Why not 1-10? I just don't think it's necesary. at 1-10, you get seven powers total(Not including temp/vet) and eight slots. While you might think that's when slots would be most needed, your character is supposed to be weak at the begining of his/her career. So I say, put it off.

Now come 11-20. Your character is getting to know his/her abilities better, so saying that Corpral Fisticuffs(a Super Strength Bture in this example) practiced his punches more than he did his insulting abilities, he could take two more slots that he could add to Jab, and Punch, as opposed to taking Taunt. OR, on the reverse side, again, he's prcticing his punches more often, but a different style of punching. And rather than honing what he already knows, Corpral Fisticuffs adds Boxing from the Fighting PP, rather than increasing his abilities with Jab and Punch.

So on and so forth with 21-30, 31-40, and 41-50. Only once per ten levels could you do this, and in the 11-30 range if you choose slots, they'd be limited to 2 slots per time, and 31-50 they'd be 3 slots per time.


Overall, these are just thoughts, and I honestly don't think they'll ever happen.

So let me get this straight... you're saying that you could be standing there, with Invisibility on(I'm assuming Superior Invis since you said you were Ill/Kin), the tank would run in, and then without you doing anything, everything attacks you?

Because if you used any powers that affected the mobs, they would be alerted to your presence. So even if you used Siphon Power, which while it buffs you, it debuffs them, it makes them see you, thus, the mob AI says "Hey, that guys making us feel weaker, attack him." This would especially be the case if the tank can't/isn't using taunt, or as has been pointed out previously, there are more mobs present than he CAN effectively hold the aggro for.

Here's an old mids file I had, though it is for a brute, rather than a tanker. Also, made a few changes to it, but got a little bored and didn't finish. But, you'll notice that he's got soft capped defense for Smash/Leathal, and Resistance is almost capped. With Granite running he's got a runspeed of 26 mph. That's higher than a level 2 with sprint turned on. Just keep in mind that jumping will still be impossible unless you've got a dozen kins spamming IR on you.

So overall, you can still squeeze in some +runspeed without sacrificing survivability. Though I'd deleted this toon a while back, so I don't remember how good his damage/accuracy was. But he could survive!

Yes! More flyposes, and the possibility of them being made alternate animations for Power-Cust of the power pools would be awesome.

A beacon to Cim or the Midnighter's club would be awesome. Cim would be preferable in my mind, but that would mean we'd probably need more exploration badges there. And hey, more badges are good badges!

I'd also like to see bacon added to the game. Perhaps as part of the incarnate sytem. Eat bacon, get more powerful. Maybe it could be a new tier 4 insp.

PS: I only expect half of this post to be taken seriously. I'll let you guess which half. :P

Did you run one of the Patron's first arcs and collect one of the following four badges?

Bloodletter
Mirage
Spider's Kiss
The Stinger