KingSnake

IRL, legally insane people are insane... and while dangerious, aren't Joker level dangerious. And Supermax prisons are not easy to excape... if fact, i don't think anyone has ever gotten out of a true supermax... I may be wrong.

So, it's difficult to blend fact with fiction in this case, but, if i had to hazzerd a guess, if someone ever proved themselves to be as dangerious as the Joker, and couldn't be held, like the joker, the goverment, in the intrests of public safety, whould have to put him down, reguardless of his mental issues. At the end of the day, your elected officals are there to keep the public safe. And sometimes, doing so can be a dirty job. Which is why i don't really blame Batman for Jokers constent excaping and murdering spress. It's a failing of Gothems legal system and general common sence IMO.

I've been gone awhile, but still, i'll reply.

*My* screwups are never intentional either, but they'er still screw ups, and I'm normally called to account for them where *I* work. Working for an MMO must be awsome. You screw up, and thousands of rabid fans come with pitchforks and torches to defend your honor. >.> Well... I guess there is the other side of the coin, the OTHER group of angry customers with pitchforks and torches wanting your head...

So it's a wash i suppose. I'm not demeanding my money back. I'm still on board. I'm just not happy with how things are playing out.

Indeed they are. And frankly, from my expearince, (BS/SR softcapped stalker and a DB/Ninja with def over 35%) they aren't as squishy as people make them out to be. Maybe the poor resistince based stalkers are that squishy, but my BS/SR was easy and cheap to softcap, and as a result is a mother to kill. And he brings MASSIVE burst and single target damage. I beat the heck out of AV's. And my DB accually has some decent AoE. He really does. Plus good defence, softcapped with one sml purp when needed, and a great heal.

Both of my guys can hold there own with most scrappers, both in survibility and damage, when doing a *scrappers* job in a team. That is, killing stuff. Some scrapper can almost tank, (and some CAN) this is true, and no, a stalker can't. They don't have the HP, nor the argo tools. And when you try and tank, you get hit. Even when softcapped, the number of mobs attacking you are much greater and have a much higher likekly hood of landing But, if you have a tank, a brute, or a tanking scrapper dealing with the brunt of the damage, a stalker can bring the melee damage just as good as a scrapper and have enough defence for *that* task.

Not to mention you can't ask for a better stealther for speed runs. Stalkers have there nitch and roll in a team. I love mine. And i've yet to feel overshadowed by anyother melee class in the damage dealing department.

You got me. I haven't been brave enough to call there bluff. I, will NOT abandon an team on a TF unless i HAVE too. (It has to be a real emergincy or, VERY late at night, to the point i may oversleep and be late to work the next day. Work, comes first... i have to pay the bills for the net and game after all...) And since i won't quit on them, i'm to afraid of being stuck on a tf for hours and hours if they were wrong. *shrug* I'll just take there word for it and go about my business.

If the mesure of a good emp is keeping up ALL our buffs 24/7 then i'd fail that mesure. LOL.

I'll pass fort out like it's going out of style. I can keep it pretty much perma on about 4 people if i'm on top of my game. I'm happy if i have 3 perma. (I try for 4 but don't beat myself up unless i drop below 3 icons active at once.) The RA's go off whenever they are ready... and clearmind... eh, ah.. i foget i have that thing half the time... Granted, if i'm on a MSR, IT'S my primary buff i use (on non melees) but outside of that, and using it for a tank on GW in STF's, i use it reactively if i see someone stuned or see ZZZ or some such indicator they need it. It's duration is just way to short to keep it up 24/7.

and lets not forget AB, which, when i have it (i exemp alot) i use whenever it's up, normally on a blaster or a tank that seems to be struggling. (either with damage taken or endurance burn. i've seen both)


And frankly, i've found if i keep up on my forts(and give them to people that accually NEED them... namely the squishes first, unless your tank isn't tough enough to handle the argo on his own. most i've teamed with are... some need fort, most don't IMO.) and keep my ra's up, i don't need to heal all that often. (Prolly helps i'm a controller controlling too.)

My measure of sucess for my emp is, first, did we win? second did anyone die? If the answer is no, then, awsome, we, as a team, totally rock. If it's yes, i ask, could i have reailistialy have saved them? If the answer is no, the crasy scrapper was on the other side of the map alone, then, eh, it doens't count. If the answer was, yes, if you were faster on the draw, then i try harder next time.

And frankly, i enjoy an active set. I've seen some defenders, bubblers mainly, who seem to bubble the team and... just wait to do it again. Rarely attacking... or really doing much of anything... THAT would tire me out, from bordem. My FF defender is an Archer too, so, when the bubbles are up, i go wild with the arrows, a rather fast attacking set. I like to stay busy. heh.

It doesn't work with controller pets, or at least i can't get it too or find it. *shrug* I have MM's, 3 as a matter of fact. i know what your talking about, but, it doesn't work like that with troller pets as far as i can tell.

And i know the stack, (to the other reply) i've got them on my MM's. What the person told me, was that if i slot both resist IO's in the *same* pet only one works. As a controller, gravity and earth, you only get one pet. I have the 2 in pooman. But, have no way of knowing if they are both running... well, i guess i could try and do the math... somehow... i mean, i'd need to have the pet attacked with, and without the effect running... meaning, i'd have to get 40 feet away, and have him take damage... then be near him... but, the pet will follow me...bah.

Sales people do it ALL THE TIME..... At least at my company they do. Customers are genearly not a pacent lot. They want there stuff and want it NOW. Sales does what they can to placate them, but promiseing the moon. Then the scream at US, the people who get it done (production control in my case). When we ask them what the heck they were smoking to give the customer such an unrealistic date, they genearlly shot me back a blank stare and say they NEED it by that date and make it happen.

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Needless to say, this causes friction from time to time.

But we'er aerospace, this is gaming. I'd imagian it wouldn't work the same way, but from my expearince, sales promoses stuff production can't deliver, and that's how this happens. You need to learn to ask the right people the right questions for the right answers. heh.

Fair enough. Maybe it's just my ingame age showing, I think at one point in time i may have been more "excited" about seeing the sights. And i'm sure i'll be eager to "explore" the newer zones coming in GR. But still.. to me, a contact in a zone should have contacts for that zone. It just makes since. Like cops have ares they cover, there jurastiction. Always hit me as both odd and slightly or epicly annoying that the founders fall people were so worried about what was going on in brickstown.. and vice versa.

Mid I6? Try running FF missions Per I1 and having every... single... one of them send you to Brickstown... back when there was no tram in FF so you had fly to Talos tram and connect to bricks.. only to finish the mission, and fly back.. cause you didn't get the phone number till you nearly maxed the bar... only to be sent to bricks AGAIN... and AGAIN... and AGAIN...

This is epic game, let me assure you, but it is not an "explorer" game IMO. I've played many an MMO that i'd consider true "explorer" MMO's. Back in my AC days, (Asherons Call, the original poormans Evercrack) we'd run for hours to get anywhere, big raid teams, running a cave quest in the diers would buff up, and have a marithon run, like 20 guys, booking accros the landscape for 20 mins. it was kind of awsome really... And it was accually pretty fun. (to an extent) Runing east to get to the dierlands, running by caves you'd never seen, jumping in and exploring them, getting mangled by mites in said cave.. losing every worldly possession you own... been sent back in shame to your home viliageto beg for a magic wand so you can do SOMETHING and start rebuilding yourself.... !@#$@#$ evil little mite sons of @#$@!@#~!s .....


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Ok ok, i'm better now... that was repressed memory coming to the surface...

anyways.. no visiable loading screens, new and shifting horizens and landscapes. It had an epic, you lost in the woods feel to it, and was FUN. SWG, for all it's flaws, was an epic explorer game. Huge planets. Hidden gems. Epic space tavel. Crawling into Rancor nests to try and steal there cubs... faily and running for your life... ah.. good times...

CoH, does not, even with the new shinny ultra mode, live up to THAT. (IMO of course). Now doen't get me wrong, I'm still playing CoH and have played it longer then all my other MMO's combined... it's my FAV game, but it's not an explorer's MMO. All missions are relitively static selfinstenced missions. Each zone may have one zone event, some may have 2 at most.. they are relitively small when comparied with SWG's plantes or AC's world map in general. And... there's really nothing to "discover"...

But, it's just not that style of game. The adventure of a superhero MMO imo doesn't come from exploring the city, but saving it. (IMO of course)

Don't think so. I haven't ran many contact missions hero side unless they are like Hollows or Straga or something that keeps me in the same zone honestly, but, last time i did, a few months back, i ran the freakolimpics i think (always liked that one.) and i was all over the map again. (world map, not zone).

I know some contacts now give there number sooner. Like, the first bar, not the 3rd like they used too. But some will still take like 4 or 5 missions to even get to that.

? Eh? What in the world does reducing unnessessity time padding to missions (IE, unnessesry travel) have to do with breeding more AE babies? You still got to travel within the zone, and like, when you outlevel the zone, move on... you just don't have to run to Kings, grab a mission that's in prez, go to prez, finish, run back to kings and get in in skyway... and wash and repeat until you get the phone number. Then you just have to call and start hoofing it. I'd rather zones work like CoV's or the newer zones for CoH. (straga, croatoa, ect)

How does that, again, breed more AE babies???

Or to sweaten the pot because the alien skins weren't "mutant" enough for alot of people? Personally i dig the mutant skins added and the wolf tail will be nice to added to my one lonely man/dog hybrid i have built, but i have to wonder... shouldn't something like a wolf/dog tail be free... like all the other specis tails already in the game? It just seems... odd that there are free cat..lizard.. and demon tails but no dogs...

you at least at some point need to release a free version... IMO of course.

You get a TON more rewards for soloing a -1 X8 spawns in a mission then you'll EVER get soloing AV's or GM's. It's more about bragging rights, and testing the extream limits of your tricked out builds. That's honestly about it. I've got a few toons that i'd consider are "close" to AV soloers. But, the long fights bore me. And i'd prolly rather just make an alt.. heh.