Kitsune9tails

Understood; I think we should toss it a Ressurect, or perhaps a Mutation.

IIRC, very few arcs proportionally in this game are connected to a specific date and can be left alone. The rest can probably be mostly fixed with text changes ('Malta' becoming 'some mysterious organization'). So the new timeline becomes:

2002 First Rikti Invasion
2004 Statesman calls for heroes to migrate to Paragon
2005-2010 Stuff happens that is accessible only in Ouroboros (if that)
2011 Fall of Galaxy City; Freedom generation heroes arrive
2011+ Your current career

CS Rep: *checks account* He's gone. Looks like he left us due to an acute lack of account currency.

Horatio: I guess he needed a token of appreciation. *walks out of frame*

Music: YEEEAHHHH!

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Not offended at all; this is merely a discussion of the idea. I'm not advocating anything.

Jessica as Sue was ...passable (sad because she can act when she wants to), but Johnny, Reed and Ben were spot on.

Which makes the whole Doom thing even more sad.

You could make the power immune to recharge buffs.

Ask to speak with the guy who wrote the code.

Out of curosity, where exactly does your math diverge from his? Does it diverge prior to the beginning of this month?

I am fully in favor of a 'berserker mode' power for Broadsword.

As far as a unique purpose, how about expanding on the -def mechanic already in place?

In many movies and stories, a powerful strike from a broadsword leaves the opponent unable to defend themselves: they have been disarmed, their shield is broken, their armor is cloven open, etc.

What if there were a chance for a 'critical' -Def effect, that drastically reduced Defense for a very short time? The niche here is that Broadsword could be a 'go to' for foes that have high Defense (sort of 'compressing' the steady drain on defense that other sets like Katana manifest). Burst Damage by way of (team) Burst Accuracy, as it were?

With the exception of Incarnate content, the entire game is doable with SOs.

If you want to hold yourself or your teammates to a higher standard, that's on you.

I have been politely informed that we are dancing on the edge of modification, so I will phrase my comments carefully.

Heads up.

However, I see nothing wrong with clarifying my premise:

When a murder (for instance) is committed, it is my completely made up for this discussion idea that it is done in one of a few states:

1: The attacker is psychopathic (medically incapable of realizing that the attack is not appropriate or justified): the retrovirus would make them capable of having that realization, as any 'normal person'. They would have to rationalize the attack conciously and logically in order to want to proceed. Example: regardless of the degree to which their mother were verbally insulted, they would not desire to attack unless they could logically convince themselves that their mother was actually in clear and present danger.

2: The attacker is sociopathic (medically incapable of caring whether the attack is appropriate of justified): see 1 above.

3: The attack is rational and in defense of self or a loved one: the retrovirus would have little or no effect, although it would prevent the attacker from retreating medically into a psy- or socio-pathic state as a reaction to the act in the aftermath. They would likely feel a mild compulsion to turn themselves in.

4: The attacker is somehow rationally justifying the attack as socially appropriate (example: they live in a culture where failure to attack due to insults is known to frequently result in the insulted party being attacked for their perceived cowardice): see 3 above.

It is beyond the purpose and the ability of the drug to impair free will (at least not moreso than alcohol); however, it is still possible for antisocial acts to be performed. You just don't get a medical excuse for your actions.

EDIT: Reiterating that the above definitions of psychopathy and sociopathy are made up by me for clarity of discusson, and not the real thing. Or if so, it is by coincidence.

EDIT2: Clarifying that I am not advocating any position, simply discussing. I will state that I think that it is something that could come up in the real world some time in the next 5 decades.

What do you (and others) think of the ability to purchase 'chat licenses' for $5 per month?

If a problem with RMT spam or the like crops up, just stop selling them.

It's a derail, but I more or less agree with you. You have to keep in mind that when the game was created, they weren't even sure that people's systems could handle fights with 8 heroes and 24 minions, let alone more than that.

Of course some builds and teams eat Giant Monsters for breakfast these days, so YMMV Not sure if those guys are using only SOs, though.

For the purposes of this discussion, let us define evil as a rational, conscious, antisocial act that results in measurable harm.

Psycopathy is being defined as a medical inability to understand what is and is not antisocial behaviour.

Sociopathy is being defined as a medical inability to care about antisocial behaviour.

In the context of this article, you could look upon the idea of a genetic retrovirus that cures clinical psychopathy and sociopathy (if there is such a thing) as a way to separate such conditions FROM evil.

When you eliminate the medical reasons, what remains is choice.