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And hey, look, multiple-choice polls, as I said, not write-in-your-own-suggestion.

Sounds like just a telephone game happening - somebody somewhere said "I wish they would buff Scrappers", somebody else said "my friend was talking about Scrapper buffs", somebody hears that and says "Scrappers are getting buffs". Nobody lied or deliberately misled anyone, but what they thought was truth was just a miscommunication/misunderstanding. If scrappers (as a whole, not just underperforming sets) get meaningful buffs, I'd... well, I'd be very surprised.

Or, even in an ideally balanced implementation, some characters would work better with certain origins, and some would not work as well.

I agree with all the others here: making origins have more impact on your character is not just unnecessary, it's actively bad. My Magic-origin Norse Frost giant doesn't perform rituals, nor drain mystical opponents. My Mutation hero brute doesn't have self-control problems, and isn't undergoing further mutation. There's not much at all you can do to the origins we already have without screwing up a lot of existing concepts.

Personally, I like Rib Cracker a lot, because not a lot of things in this game let you deliver a swift kick to a Nazi's crotch. Shin Breaker's not especially exciting, though.

My StJ/Fire/Blaze brute does great damage, but it's kinda hard for me to separate how much of the awesomeness is Street Justice and how much is from the secondary/ancillary, since she's my only character with StJ/ or /Fire.

And not only were TFs below your level worthless for XP, you needed people to sidekick/exemplar to, which made team composition a juggling act.

I like to imagine that Arachnos noticed and tried to recruit me earlier, like when I hunted down and killed a hero for making a stupid blog post. However, it isn't until the morality mission that I abandon all pretense of wanting what's "right" and am willing to accept their offer.

What???

That's not what Mids or the in-game text says. If so, that's really, stupidly horrible. How long does it last?

No, screw that, I'm not hunting accolades TWICE on every character that side switches.

I know where you're thinking of, and I doubt they're doing it from scratch in 30 days, either. They didn't let players write in the travel power they wanted, it was just a multiple-choice poll - they gave options they already knew how to do, they don't need to jump huge unexpected technical hurdles in the next month.

Your whole "suggestion" is done in pretty bad faith, anyway.

So, since even the actual suggester apparently doesn't want the feature except to show the devs up, /unsigned I guess.

As Dreadshinobi said, you definitely do receive the actual hero badge. I have villains-gone-hero who got the Atlas medallion for killing the Freedom Phalanx, and and heroes-gone-villain who were immediately promoted to Marshal for being so heroic.

I don't have time for your "facts"!

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OK, yeah, your explanation is better than mine.

Those might be cool, but designing an entirely new powerset is a considerably different endeavor than slightly editing an existing one for proliferation.

You can already obtain the same reward for a totally unrelated task: by side switching, just as you said. In fact, this makes even less sense than earning it through trials, which would at least be story-neutral; gaining hero accolades for the dastardly things you did as a villain is downright silly if you're trying to look at it from the story side. If you want your character to have actually done the tasks that the accolade is associated with, do them, or just say they did it offscreen.

Hunting accolades is annoying, yet it's a task I have to do on EVERY character whose performance I care about at all. Being able to buy them with Empyrean merits or something would be nice when I just don't feel like running another seven lame TFs, or if I missed a Mayhem badge and don't want to spend a week finding a lowbie who can help.

My AT, or my character?

I'm quite confident most ATs can be built in some way or another to withstand Vanessa for a few minutes. I'm not as confident that any of the builds I'm currently using could do so, but for instance, my scrappers that don't have psi holes could probably handle it.

Well, RttC didn't exist at launch, but the scaling-buff-per-nearby-enemy has been around since always, in Invincibility. That doesn't mean the early devs definitely decided not to use it for Regen, though; they may have just not thought about it much at all. When designing all the original powersets at once, they probably didn't have the luxury of thinking through each one as carefully as they do when they release individual powersets now.

I usually think of typed vs positional in a slightly different way from what Claws explained - positional defense prevents you from getting hit in the first place, typed defense protects you from attacks that hit you. So deflecting it with a shield strapped to your arm is positional, and you'd block a grenade blast and a fire-breathing mutant in the same way, but differently than you'd deflect a punch (hence those being different powers in /SD). Meanwhile, for typed defense like /EA, a force field that absorbs kinetic energy will stop the punch and grenade equally well, but would not prevent you from being engulfed in flames. Or Invuln's bulletproof skin will protect you from physical damage, but won't help at all against electrocution. And of course, no amount of dodging will prevent a psychic from frying your mind, but a psionic shield can.

Of course, this doesn't hold up perfectly, because it's a vast simplification from realism for the sake of making the game work. An equally valid reason they don't stack is because that would make +def (all) buffs twice as powerful.

OK... but this isn't that thread. So, you're attacking an argument which no one in this discussion is actually making, which is either off-topic, or the very definition of a strawman, depending on how a reader interprets it and/or what your intent was.

Resistance is indeed always typed, because "melee resistance" is not a stat that actually exists in this game. Defense from powers is NOT all positional, though - Super Reflexes is positional, and so is Shield and Ninjitsu, but Invulnerability, Willpower, and Energy Aura are typed, for example.

The two categories of defense do not add together - the game just uses the highest defense applicable against each attack. This means that you're usually better off building for the kind of defense your power set already gives you.