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I particularly enjoyed they way they fed blind leads to people that know the original story. Very naughty Mr Moffat

http://thespecialistscomic.com/

http://supernormalstep.com/1/

http://blipcomic.com/1/ (currently on a bit of a go-slow)

http://www.sorcery101.net/sorcery101/s101chapter1/

I just dislike the whole 12+ thing. As far as I am concerned the number of people required to do these missions adds nothing to the game a takes a good deal away. We all know that virtually any pre-requisite for a mission is largely fake and requiring x people to do a specific mission in a game that automatically scales is doubly bogus. However forcing that requirement up to 12-24 no only highlights the ludicrousness of it all but also undermines the genre that we are "super heroes". That's even before you get to the design issues that mean they can fail because unknown-person-1 presses the wrong power button.

I am quite sure I would enjoy these missions a lot more if I could run them with between 6 to 8 people.

I also dislike the grindy nature of the things, but that is a reflection of the design of the Incarnate powers rather than the iTrials themselves. So they shouldn't shoulder the blame for that

Definitely agree on about the Tips. I am a big fan of tip missions and would like to see them add more to the 50 set.

However I am less sure about updating old content. It sounds great in principle but history suggests I am not always happy with the results when it happens. As long as they don't close off old content (like they did with Atlas Park/Galaxy) I would rather they just develop new content.

Four to Doomsday clip

Jump to 8:25 to hear how long he can survive in space

I agree with your 1 & 2.

I hate the LFG thingy

For balance I would rather PvP was purely objective based and the objective was not accomplished by killing / defeating other players. I would change the nature of defeat so that you could always revive where you fell. There wouldn't be rewards for getting "kills" only for winning the match.

The trick then would be to cleverly design the game play so that there is an objective that can be achieved using a variety of super powers and can be skinned in the genre. Which is lot harder than it sounds and if I could do that I would have a different job

Its the nature of this game with its great many powersets and differently configured archetypes that players will vary greatly in capacity. For the PvE game that doesn't matter because they can all succeed. For the same to work in PvP players have to complete against each other for an objective without being pitted directly against each other. Easier said than done.

Skyrim was a big success so thanks for all your sagely advice.

Plus, now that school is back I can send my lad to bed earlier and play a bit myself

I enjoyed it but I have a low threshold for silly action movies

There was some awful acting in between the stuns. Jeremy Renner explaining why he wasn't a field operative any more was really really cheesy, for example.

I enjoyed that immensely.

I am still not sure about their depiction of Moriarty though. I expect him to be cold and unemotional, like Sherlock. On the plus side he is quite scary!

/signed

Like others in this thread I support this idea every time it comes up.

It doesn't need to be server side. It could be entirely client driven but access a list of banned words from the server. A profanity filter you couldn't turn off, so to speak.

I finally court up with the latest episode of OUT. Up until this episode I had been wondering whether or not the Mayor remembered being the Queen. The intro sequence says only one person knows the truth and I had always assumed that was Mr Gold.

So what do you think, does Mr Gold remember the past as well or is the intro just lying?

In another thread I suggested adding web sites to a content filter. They can get round it of course but any way that do that makes it more effort for people to work out their address, which means they are less likely to bother.

Its also something that could be easily maintained through a server side list, rather than needing a client update.