Ilion

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All the physics are client side only, and no information about them is passed from client to server -- so, it's strictly a visual on your machine.

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Ok, I admit I'm jumping in the middle here so might have missed something, but this doesn't seem right. If physics were all on the client side and just visual, then my blaster wouldn't be able to knockback the MOB out of the melee range of my scrapper teammate.

Don't you all think this is a little reactionary? Maybe we should wait to see how the plan will work before getting too up in arms about it...

Yeah with the sliders I don't see a need for teen body types.

And that doesn't cheapen things? That makes even less debt than what States said.

Problem is I outlevelled most of the Hollows and Striga content only doing missions. I made another character just to go through all the hollows stuff and found it difficult to stay within the level restrictions to finish Hollows storylines. Halving the debt in missions means I need to spend more time dying outside of missions.

I'd like to see missions scale to your security level clearance more. I suppose a Flashback system is the alternative to this, but if the missions scaled then the enemies inside would always be around your level so we wouldn't need level restrictions.

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I'd be more worried if they put a cap on debt.

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I thought debt was capped at half of the xp required for next level?

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You are losing time though. I'd argue thats the most important resource you have to lose - actual real world time to commit to playing the game.
that IS a fact. In some MMOs you lose stuff (and yes, that is some invested time "gone") but it has been my experience that it takes about five seconds to repair my gear (more if I'm in say, Laggrimar or Lagforge) but my XP gain is not hindered.

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You must not have played UO pre-trammel. In UO it used to be you died, ran to a healer, and tried to get back to your corpse wearing nothing but a loincloth before everything decayed. People never went out with the best stuff in the game because the chance was too high that you'd lose it (to other players if not to monsters). So yeah, they used equipment that could be replaced relatively quickly... assuming you had the cash and could find a player vendor that was properly stocked.

But they'd also still use good magic items, because you had to to beat the high end monsters. And if you lost one of those, well you'd be out a good chunk of money or looking for a long time to find another.

Imagine this: You have a level 50 COH char. Instead of powers like we have them now, the powers are items and you can lose them. You never use your 9th primary power because it's too flashy and everyone wants to take it from you, so you leave that at home. When going to places you know not many players are going to be you take your 8th primary with you. But you die and lose it and need to spend 6 months getting it again.

XP debt is nothing.

Axel F could also be a reference to Axel Foley from beverly hills cop. No other relation than name (and obviously the G*N*R reference is the main one) but it could be.

Cesium's an actual element.

Atomic Number: 55
Atomic Radius: 265.4 pm
Atomic Symbol: Cs
Melting Point: 28.5 ºC
Atomic Weight: 132.9054 Boiling Point: 671 ºC
Electron Configuration: [Xe]6s1
Oxidation States: 1

In Transformers: The Movie Slag says Grimlock is made of Cesium Salami.

I believe he would have had Fray out at the time.

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"The leg bone's connected to the knee bone" comes from an old children's show called "Readalong". It was sung by Mr. Bones.


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There's a Christian song (I think probably one of the Southern US sects of Christianity developed the song) called Them Dry Bones (or Dem Dry Bones) about the prophetic visions of Ezekiel. This is where the song your thinking of draws most of its lyrics from.

Oh,, there's also the obvious, "You wouldn't want to see me mad!" Hulk allusion from the Hellions you se mugging people on the street.

Daedalus was just the contractor in charge of design and construction. King Minos, who commisioned the labyrinth, would be the AV. That's also where the word minotaur comes from - taur means bull and it was Minos' Bull thus minotaur.

EDEN

The Pit - the pit is another name for Hell, more or less. ie. demons from the Pit.

Serpentine - Biblical reference to the serpent in the garden of Eden. The serpent convinced Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, which God had forbidden. Even then convinced Adam. This is what caused Adam and Eve to be expelled from the garden.

Noting it in the title bar of the Enhancement bar (next to the Manage button) would be the perfect place for it in my mind.