Katsamoto

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Origins - definitely.
Comic Con - definitely.
Wizard Worlds - definitely.
Gen Con - definitely.

Our great OCR team is going to post a convention calendar so that you can see when we'll be in your neck of the woods. Don't worry - I'll be going to cons in the Northeast, West, MidWest and Texas...

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What about UK. Or can you pay my fare to come over there :P

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I think one of the problems with having your character fight like an NPC when you're logged out is the AI isn't designed to run every type of power and character. Imagine watching your offline buddy's blaster do a huge attack, then run up to the villian and start using brawl. That's what the bad guys do now.

Now maybe this could work if the Devs made an AI program for each arch type and the NPC versions were more loosely based on the actual characters, rather than being the real characters down to every last power. Blasters hang back and use the first and second attack powers in their primaries(even if they only picked one of them) and fly away if engaged in melee(even if they don't have flight). Scrappers and Tankers charge in and do their thing, and each have a blanket amount of defense and resistance now matter what their defensive powers are(which increases with level). Controllers use holds, and run away if in melee, and like Denfenders, use one Buff/debuff power appropriate to their set. Empaths use Heal other, Stormies use Hurricane, FF use FF, etc.

Defeated offline heroes suffer no xp loss or anything if defeated(since it wasn't really their character anyways), and are not even notified if they are defeated upon logging in. They only get a message that their base was attacked and the outcome.

That way, an offline 50th level Tanker is still a big threat, and the only sure way to attack a base is to stalk it and wait for him to leave before attacking.

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Very good idea.
As long as we get SG bases with a Training Room that can spawn any Mobs we want to practice(with no XP Gain) I'm Happy.

If Offline PC is too hard to implement somehow, just have some sort of Hero Storage.
Science/Mutant = Stasis Tubes
Magic = Phased Out
Technology = Something along the Lines of Borg Regen Hives
Natural = Yoga time baby :P

Just a thought

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A Defender and a Blaster want personal defense powers

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well blasters, ok i'll give em that. but defenders wanting personal defenses? the only defender set i can see that has a real problem with personal defense is forcefields that hardly benefit at all from their own powers. Empathy as well to a certain degree but at least they can moderately heal and buff themselves. But the other 4 sets can benefit from just about all their own powers. If anything i would agree that the above quote and other similar quotes are true BUT, i would ask that not all the epic pools be based around those statesman interview posts.

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have you even played with Kinetics, what defensive powers do we benefit from?

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No offense to the British. I love the English, just not the food


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umm i'm confused, since when does British mean English, there are 3 other countries in Britain you know and us other countries tend to find being called english insulting sorta like calling some 1 from U.S.A canadian or vice versa.

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3 Countries? Scotland, England, Wales, Oh!!!! and N.Ireland, or are you one of them thats been asleep for the past God knows how many Years of fighting.

Oh and Statesman, thanks for yet another swanky badge.

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Shouldn't you have to stand next to the French flag to get the "freedom" badge? Or maybe we could just get Freedom Fries at City of Gyros.

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Hmm. This makes sense because if it wasn't for the French, we'd all be speaking with English accents, and enjoying a big plate of Bangers & Mash with a frothy mug of warm beer. mmmm good

Edit Note:
No offense to the British. I love the English, just not the food

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Warm Beer? what Britain did you come to?

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4) Work around: Why not have a zone/building that is just full of flags on the walls, paired with a dropdown menu in the ID that lists nations. Each char/toon at generation choses a nation of origin and must click on their nation's flag in the hall. If a character decides to change their country, they can go to the Representative or a Registrar in the Hall and change that part in their ID. They lose their badge, but can go to their new flag and get it back.

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Very Good Idea, we have a Origin/AT and Name in are ID, why not a Little Avatar with a Flag, and you can Choose your Nation!
I modelled my current Costume round Hero 1, so have a "Freedom" badge for standing next to a US Flag doesnt go down well with me :P