HellsPixie

Personally, I'm against the idea of allowing multiple uses of the same name on a server because doing so would break the genre this game is supposed to be emulating. In comic books, a character's name is their identity. With a few very specific exceptions, there is only one person per comic universe using any given name. When someone says, "I saw Superman today!", everyone knows exactly who they mean. Nobody has to ask, "Which one?"

The simple fact is all the easy and obvious names are in use. Many of the easiest you can't have, period, because they're copyrighted. You need to be flexible with the name when coming up with a character's concept. Don't fixate on a particular name. Let the back story suggest multiple possibilities.

Perhaps this is just me, but I think the game would loose a lot of it's appeal if there were 16 dozen Capt. Incredibles running around.

Eh, I'm not even that interested in getting Hybrid unlocked. The power designs seem very lackluster to me and their limited duration / long recharge situational nature won't provide much in the way of a noticeable improvement in my sole incarnate's performance. I already have bars full of temporary situational powers that have never been used either because I'm never in a situation that needs them or I've forgotten I even have them.

The Devs said in Beta that they'll (eventually) add a small group / solo path to unlock Hybrid. I'm going to avoid the stress of the ITrials altogether and wait for that.

I'm frankly surprised Mr. Yin lets Penelope leave the house dressed like that. Kids these days.

I'm a bit disappointed that the Phoenix wings (like the Celestial wings) don't flap when you fly. I suppose they couldn't animate the existing energy shimmer effect and also have them flap, but it would have been nice. As they are, they seem to lack - "life" is the only way I can think to describe it, but that's just my opinion.

I see everyone keeps saying "the iTrials are quick, just do them!". The problem for me is that they are simply NOT fun. I've tried them and words can't describe my utter lack of enthusiasm when I try to think about doing them again. Having my teeth pulled would be a more enjoyable experience.

Right now, I'm waiting to see if the Dev's will give us a viable alternate path, which the current Shard conversion path isn't. I can average about 1 hour of play per day, and in that hour I'm lucky if I see one Shard drop. I'm currently estimating that it'll take me a bit over a year to unlock and common slot the current 4 post-Alpha Incarnate branches on a single character. That is a bit slower than even "glacial" in my book.

I play games to have fun. When a game stops being fun, I take my money elsewhere. At the moment, I'm still having fun. But the Dev's need to stop focusing exclusively on a single play style. For those out there who enjoy the Trials I say Great! Enjoy yourselves, have fun! Just keep in mind not everyone likes the same things you do or can play as long or as often.

Hmmm, OK, I'm probably wrong then. Must have mis-remembered. <sigh> Getting too old, this seems to happen more often than I like

The problem is, for as long as I can remember, the Devs have always given the reason that they haven't raised the level cap to 60 is that the game engine won't handle it. Things start breaking down past a certain level, or something along those lines.

I don't think I've seen anyone ask this yet, and I know the Dev's aren't letting anything out that they don't want leaked, but just how many Notice of the Wells will we conceivably need? I know there will be those who will want the Ultra Rare on everything, simply for completeness, and most will want at least the Rare on the abilities with a level shift - and we're not sure if all of them will give a level shift at this time. So, let's speculate.

At this time, the only use for a Notice is to get to Rare and above. Using Alpha as the model for the remainder of the nine, and we really have nothing else to go on right now, that will be 9 more Notices if you're only going to the Rare, and 36 for the Ultra Rare. That's not really an awful lot, and may be even less if only some of the abilities give level shifts. Now, they may increase the Notice requirements as you progress up the chain, which is possible, but only known to the Devs at this time.

Will Notices be needed for anything else? Will you need them to unlock further Incarnate abilities? Personally, I hope not. I'm hoping each ability will be unlocked via a mission arc, the same way we unlocked the Alpha. If further abilities only require X number of Notices to unlock, then the End Game will be nothing but a Notice of the Well "grindfest" and I can't think of anything more boring. I still have faith that the Devs are more creative than that.

This is my problem with the current Incarnate progression set up. My playing time is strictly limited. I can play one hour per day, period. That's from the time I log on to the time I HAVE to log off. I have nothing against teaming or TFs, it's I simply don't have the time to do them.

I've joined several "speed" ITFs in the past and have always had to leave before completion. This is not only disappointing for me, but it let's the other players down, and I prefer not to do that.

The Incarnate system was presented as a "leveling" system, not just optional enhancements, like IOs, which aren't necessary to advance your character. Even playing one hour per day, I'm able to -slowly- improve my character's levels. I'm fine with this, but placing a "you have to run TFs if you want these virtual levels" restriction completely locks me out.

Is there a particular reason that the Longfang attack does Lethal damage? It's description implies that it's an auto fire version of the Channelgun, so it should be Energy damage. Is it "as intended" or just a data entry error that the Devs haven't gotten around to fixing yet?

Now, this only applies to me, but even if they made a ton of villain only content, I probably wouldn't bother with it. I like a lot of the power sets available red side, but for some reason I dislike the look of the zones. It's nothing I can really put my finger on. They all have their own unique flavor, but I always start feeling depressed after playing red side for a while. Also, for some reason, my frame rate tends to be lower in red side zones than in blue side - might be because villain zones look more "cluttered" <shrug>.

In any case, once GR goes live, ALL of my villains will be moving blue side.

Tsk, tsk, poor Molly. All the positions for Trainers, Contacts, Arch-Villains, Heroes, etc were filled long ago. She's now stuck in the dead end job of Wandering / Panicked Civilian (although that's easy work) or as a nameless generic Minion / Lt / Boss and get beat up by the PCs on a constant basis. She made the wrong choice, if you ask me

I have to wonder why anyone would want the same name as some other already active character on a server. First of all, it doesn't fit the comic book standard. Every hero and villain has a unique name. Yes, there have been times when different people were behind a particular mask, but there was still only one of that character.

Secondly, even if the Devs employ some sort of system ID tag that operates behind the scenes, players tend to link the name to the behavior of the person running the character. Do you really want to be linked to the possible bad behavior of another? Since all characters can have multiple costumes (and now even different body types) names are what people work from. If someone with a character who has the exact same name as you give themselves a bad rep, there will be other players who WILL link you to that same rep. Some griefers may even use it to intentionally copy another player's character to do just that. And don't try to tell me that it'll never happen; you'll never lose betting on the worst of Human nature.