Glowworm_Nexus

I'd say dodging a psi assault makes as much sense as not dodging it. It's not a real thing or based on anything real so who's to say you can't mentally dodge it. Maybe you think happy thoughts or focus or go all act-without-acting-zen-mind and it misses. It's as reasonable as it "hitting" and doing some damage but not full because you resisted it.

Specifically for positional defense, maybe it's a visible packet of energy that you can dodge. You can use your 100% psi damage attack to break through doors and beat up robots so it must have some kind of purely physical manifestation so if it's physical, it could possibly be dodged (after all people dodge lasers in the game which should be moving at the speed of light so a blob of mean thoughts might be a cake walk in comparison).

You might want to pack a snack lunch for your wait on the Hamidon Power Set to be released.

Seriously, expecting NPC = PC is unrealistic. NPCs are meant to be challenges to be overcome not equal contestants competing against players on an even field. There are countless examples of NPCs doing things that PCs can't. That's part of the game. Balance is not the same as "exactly the same as players".

In an obstacle course, you expect the walls you have to climb to be taller than you. Consider NPCs to be walls to climb rather than players to compete against.

The existence of the market establishes that it is OK to sell in-game items for influence. That is what the market is all about. Which is not to say that the devs condone name-selling but the argument that selling in-game leads to selling for real money doesn't stand up. I've been selling since WW opened and never have considered selling anything for real money.

The little blue book that came with the game when it was first released said that aliens were science origin. But who is what origin is entirely based on what the player selects. Superman isn't any origin because he isn't a PC.

Regarding the Turtles, maybe they are mutant origin. Perhaps the toxic sludge only accelerated a natural mutation that was going to happen as soon as they hit turtle puberty. IT COULD HAPPEN! And maybe they actually suck at martial arts but they are able to use their mutant ability of "telekinesis - limitation: only works on self" to telekineticly move their arms and legs into MA appropriate positions. All that training they did didn't really teach them to be good at MA but it helped them develop an ability to focus and their hidden mutant TK abilities took over.

Everyone has the ability to become a MA/WP scrapper? I think even within the realm of "Natural" potential still comes into play. People may have the ability to become better at fighting through training but I don't think everyone could become the kind of seemingly super-human elite warrior that a scrapper represents.

*I'm not suggesting that the second and third paragraph have anything to do with Eiko-Chan's post. Sorry for the confusion.

Yes, and the enemies in those TF spawn at 54 so a non-alpha-slotted character would be -8 to them; useless other than for buffing or possibly being vengeance/fallout bait.

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Assuming a future where technology mostly eliminated death, then there could be technological answers to these other concerns too. People might significantly lower their birthrates if they were immortal and, with terraforming and eventually the creation of ringworlds or Dyson spheres, overcrowding would be a non-issue and food production would be no problem either. Cold fusion and similar technologies would make energy abundant and pollution non-existent.

Of course, that's based on lots of assumptions regarding complimentary technologies all being available at the same time. A "cure" for aging is probably a lot more realistic than the engineering resources to actually create a Dyson sphere.

Unless there really are some immortals out there, everyone already has this power. I think the average duration of the self-destruct process is around 75 years or so. You probably won't ever see it CoH because the animation work would be a bear.