Jack_NoMind

Yeah, the problem is that none of us can afford her.

We'll miss you, Johnny, but we'll set up a bot that argues the best-mitigating strategy is too weak, and it'll help us cope.

(To be fair, I'd be way more interested in her second game than her first.)

I've heard that slogan before. I think it was from an airline that used to be called Hawk Air; during their heyday they sunk a lot of funds into developing a jet-driven helicopter they called a Propter. After they went under, all that was left was the Propter product... so post Hawk Air, go Propter Hawk.

Fair enough. It wouldn't be the first time for me.

Yup.

Yeah, I should totally jump into the middle of this. It's a great idea.

It's pretty apparent you're just as frustrated as Captain-Electric. Either of you arguing on the forums is way less useful than running a task force or hero tips team on your server. People are dropping like *flies.*

Btw, if either of you have artistic or social media skills, we could use your help in the project coordinators. Drop TonyV a line. And one of the things I'm going to be starting up uh... tomorrow? is either a separate pic thread or an in-thread picture drive for the Masks and Capes campaign. So photo your paper, plastic, or (in one of my friends' cases) crocheted superhero masks now!

Yeah. I'd really like solidarity behind the 'no more money for NCSoft from us until CoH is sold (or Paragon Studios rehired, but, really)' angle in this community but... I can't argue with this. I have less than zero beef with ArenaNet. All I can really ask people is to remember NCSoft's history to date with things that don't perform as they'd like.

Big jpeg, fella. I've fought bigger.

Resistance itself is Resistance debuff resistance; which actually is common knowledge (summarized neatly by Hopeling's little tongue-twister), whatever subset of that you yourself possess. Everything has a resistance, even direct heals.

(Oh hey, here's the paragonwiki entry on this exact subject : http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Damage_R...stance_Debuffs )

And think about that for a moment -- 10% resistance debuff does result in 10% damage increase, but that can only be true if the amount of actual -Res applied scaled with the target's Res. If you have a base damage of 100 and 90% of it is resisted, you deal 10 damage. If you reduce that Resistance to 80%, you deal 20 damage... a 100% increase in damage. A 10% increase in damage would come from reducing the Resistance to 89% (to deal 11 damage)... and 1% net resistance debuff is exactly the amount a 10% debuff that itself is 90% resisted would do. Similarly, if you were fighting something with 0 Resistance, a 10% Resistance debuff increases your damage to 110 -- or 10% more. And since there's no resistance to the Resistance debuff, that's exactly how much gets applied.

http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...istance_Debuff

It is. An unresistable -10% Resistance would be far and away better than Degenerative against high-Res enemies; it would double your dps against a 90% Res AV. But sadly, it's just a 10% damage increase (generally speaking).

The same thing that keeps Google from deciding to accept .txt files that say "IT'S OKAY, GUYS" as security certificates.

You're riding this user-created-content-for-sale model that you have suggested pretty darn hard, but I don't really see the advantages. It looks an awful lot like someone else's scarecrow, to me.

Since I didn't claim that everything in the zone would scale (merely that having scalable content was not the overwhelming awfulness you initially caricatured it as), it's more like you claiming your fridge is made of hamburger and then discussing why that makes it a terrible refrigerator.

I don't know why you bought it either, dude, but it's not the one in my kitchen.

Well, I'll tell you what I think of the Euro in another decade.

The tools Arcanaville and corinna proposed were never in use by Neverwinter, and Neverwinter has a higher degree of player modability than has been actually proposed. I think there would definitely be some fragmentation, but there's no reason that the essential character (starting from a 'vanilla' template) can't propagate across all played servers and exist in an identical fashion on several.

Did they drop the price of story arcs to less than $10?

The complaints you wield are things that are either personal extrapolations of the model (no one ever said, for instance, that you would be able to 'turn off' ED), unrealistic exaggerations of it (OMG a million types of things! Anyone can make their own! Linux will never work as an OS!), easily solveable (the GM doesn't have to approve Chuck and you just to be 'impartial.' There are other metrics than "you both have characters" that can apply), or already part of CoH (a store-purchaseable item that increases drop rate?! Insane P2W!). Some of them are all of these things (I fight level 50s from Atlas Park all the time already in hero tips, and bring level 15 characters with me to do so. What's the problem with scalable enemies, again?).

There are two reasons the amount of energy you poured into these criticisms positively overwhelms me, though. First is that we already have a successful example of this but in a less-flexible fashion (Neverwinter Nights), and 'moddable multiplayer games with servers' goes well beyond that. You even mention some of those, and yet roll right on insisting this is impossible or horrible. Second is that we'll probably never see this game in this form.

I'll toast to that.