Lemur Lad

VEATs don't get a tutorial as it is now. Don't be surprised if that doesn't change, and if HEATs get the same treatment.

Since the new tutorial has a moral choice(s) that effect your future contact trees, there's probably no easy way to enforce those choices on the EATs without being ridiculous. Chances are it will be easier just to start them in the starting zone under the presumption that people playing them should know enough without the tutorial.

Sorry, you're mistaken. I've been accidentally or intetntionally been clicking or hitting every targeting method I can think of, and have never gotten anything but an error when I attempt to target myself. I've been playing before you left, while you were gone, and currently, and I've played every AT. It doesn't happen. Sorry.

Nope.

In the middle to lategame, you're correct. However in the first 30 levels or so (before you have SOs and the slots to put them in) that's rarely the case. I was giving her concepts that would smooth out their early leveling experience and help them avoid some common pitfalls that may lead them to say certain sets or buffs or useless. If they'd taken that SR scrapper in your example and paired it with Sonic Buffs, they most assuredly wouldnt have as smooth a time leveling up as they would with more compatible buffs.

Dropping thousands of dollars to get a pop video made for your teenagers birthday doesn't really strike me as something people do "for fun"

If I remember the stories right, they did the vanity studio package because no legitimate studios, agents, or producers thought she was good.

Let's put it this way. There's a reason her voice is synthed to hell and back.

only if they already have 3 level 20 villains.

That's insightful and I think I can give you some recommendations:

Your brother in law sounds best suited for Melee. That's perfectly ok and actually makes a lot of game situations simpler.

You and your husband may enjoy Dominators (I think particularly you would). A good dominator can work at any range, including melee, and has really strong control. They're my favorite Archetype simply for the flexibility.

If your husband doesn't want to worry as much about offense, or you guys as a team want the option of buffs, then he should make a Controller.

Now the second part to all this is to look for those kind of stacking or synergy deals I mentioned. Here are some examples:

Compatible controls- if you go Dom and your husband goes Controller, then look at getting matching or similar Control sets. Common mistakes to avoid would be pairing a set that uses a lot of Knockdown killing Immobilizes with a set like Ice Control that relies on a knockdown power to keep things out of the fight.

Compatible Protection- If your Brother in Law goes with a Melee and your husband takes something with buffs, then look closely at the Armor set for the melee, and pick a buffing set that would give significant boosts to the kind of Protection your melee already has. For example if he picked Shield Defense, then picking Cold Domination or Force Field both provide buffs to Defense that would make him much tougher. Counter example would be picking a resistance based Electric Armor and trying to use those same buffing sets. He would get a boost since any protection is good protection, but the synergy wouldn't be there, and you wouldnt get as much kick out of it while leveling up.

Compatible Offenses- This is kind of similar to the compatible control, but it applies to everyone on your trio. If one of you picks a pretty chaotic set with lots of knockback, this could cause friction if another partner takes a set that's more methodical and really shines when things get clumped together and melted with Area Effect damage. Basically, there's nothing wrong with chaos if A) you're all generating it and having fun with it, or B) you each know how to moderate it and can not annoy someone else trying to clump things up.

Sometimes there's nothing more fun than having 3 Storm Summoning characters sending every group in the room flying and just cackling in glee (trust me I've done it), but as a day to day thing that may not be your cup of tea.

I'm being very deliberately vague as to different sets and which I think are "better" simply because my preferences may be different than your's. On top of that, I'm vague because very nearly EVERY set in the game is pretty well balanced, and there aren't really anything stinky horrible to avoid.

If you end up having specific questions about specific sets, I'm sure I or anyone else would be happy to help.

It's not a matter of being calcified and not liking change. It's a matter of fact that these changes wouldn't mean anything. It's the same thing that comes up when people ask for new Origins.

There's no functional benefit that forcing a name change on everyone who picks that alignment would bring, that telling the people who want a different name that they can think of their AT as whatever name they wish wouldn't do without the confusion and disruption.

There's a reason they got rid of End Gain and End Drain enhancers and made them End Mod. They were functionally the same and having 2 different names was needlessly complicated and confusing. Same thing applies here.

I don't need a name to feel heroic of villainous. My alignment is determined by my actions and attitudes.

Someone drank too much Literal Juice this morning.

If it's working correctly, that shouldn't be the case. It should work like procs in other Pseudo Pet or Rain powers, i.e. checking every 10 sec.

How silly.

Sorry, no one said that and it's not the case. Epics start pretty much where they start now. Atlas or Mercy.

It does get posted.

Von Krieger does a pretty good job of posting highlights of the UStream after each one.

Just so the point is made, they've been doing this for months already so that people can work out their issues with getting it to work.

I'm not going to pretend to know what you've gone through already, or pretend I know how to solve your issues. But I also won't pretend your problems can't be solved. Even if it takes an ongoing dialog with QA or the devs responsible for interfacing with the launcher, it can be done.

I don't think they're evicting you, or giving up on you. I think it's going to take some work on both your parts.

You're failing to understand a key thing about a game like this.

1) what the devs mean by revamp and what they players mean are 2 different things most of the time. In development terms more often than not they're better off starting from scratch and making a zone very similar instead of trying to salvage the old zone and edit it.

2) They feel like they can "get rid of a zone" because as much as some people love GC it is ultimately redundant. It's a victim of the old design premises they used where more zones were better, and have since learned that's not true.

3) It gives them a way to advance the story of the game in a meaningful way. No one who plays this game a long time enjoys seeing things look pretty much the same as it did years ago. If they can make big changes and at the same time tell a story that's meaningful, they're going to try it.

4) as people said, it's not going to completely disappear. It's going to be redesigned to fulfill a higher purpose. We need new updated tutorials. We need the story of the game to move in big ways. This should (I hope) accomplish that.