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Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei

So instead of a one issue delay with powersets we are now into a 3 issue delay with no certainty on that either.....Brilliant devs...just bloody brilliant.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

What about version of Tips/Adamastor's summoning recipe? Like you'd get a Tip/recipe drop that told you thatm, say, a nearby jewelry store was being robbed - going to any jewelry store and activating the Tip/Recipe would spawn a costumed Villain and some hired thugs from the door, kinda like a Halloween ambush.

Originally Posted by mistformsquirrel

Yeah, I needed a break bigtime <x_x> But I am indeed back, at least for awhile.

Originally Posted by mistformsquirrel

Yeah, Mantid doesn't play anymore sadly <;_;> I talk to him on Steam though, so he knows about the award at least <^_^> (Long deserved too imo.)

Originally Posted by Laevateinn

Here's the context of the scene

Originally Posted by Laevateinn

The villains of Praetoria use their scientific and technological mastery to manipulate the populace and warp the human form while the poor oppressed magic users hide out in a swamp and plot rebellion while squads of sci-fi raygun soldiers try to hunt them down. It really doesn't get any more obvious than that.

Depictions of science and technology in this game are nearly universally negative. Both are presented as powerless in the face of the major supernatural threats confronting the city, which only mystical understanding can comprehend (and this one dates all the way back to War Witch's line in the original CoH comic, "There are things that science will never be able to understand."). There are no examples of research or engineering organizations using technology for the good of the public; all we have are Crey, Arachnos, Malta and the their ilk. Advanced technology, with exception of the medicom and possibly the war walls, is almost always depicted as having severe negative consequences (see Portal Corp) or being used for evil: witness Cole's nukes, Hamidon's genetic meddling, Enriche, etc. High-tech villains abound, from the Rikti to the Praetorians and Dr. Vahz.

And yes, people will cite Positron as a counterexample, but it's worth noting that Positron does very little with his technology, except for a line in the description of PPD hardsuits saying that Positron had a hand in designing them. He just flies around and blasts people with lasers; he could be a mutant in a clown suit and it would make no difference, really.

Originally Posted by Laevateinn

The lore should be made as unintrusive as possible so that I can ignore parts that don't fit.

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

Actually, I don't get why people seem to think it's either-or. My Khelds, for instance, have their own backstories, their own RP, their own interactions - the Kheldian War storyline just happens to be running at the same time *also.*

Originally Posted by Laevateinn

I do play for story - my own, not the yawn-inducing one that's in the game.

I prefer my own stories not because they're actually better than Paragon's in some objective sense, but because they're mine. So when the one in the game starts stepping on my toes, for example by putting translucent Lore FX on my pets, I get irritated. I also have no interest in playing minor enemy grunts from someone else's fiction.

Originally Posted by Laevateinn

EATs also lose power customization, in a game that's renowned for the depth of character customization it offers.

Nobody ever refers to CoH as "That game with the really good backstory, did you see what they came up for with their incarnate storyline, that was really good writing?" Performance not tied to appearance and variety of character customization has always been one of this game's unique, strong selling points. Not the crappy lore, or ATs tied to crappy lore.

Originally Posted by Circuit_Boy

I'm having an issue with an arc I'm working on where the Captives'/Allies' "unaware" dialogue is triggering upon entering the mission. It's supposed to trigger when the captive / ally sees the players, but it's doing it on mission entry.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Gimmicks.

Originally Posted by BrandX

Im going strictly by what the devs stated purpose of killing States and SP was...to make the characters number 1.

Of course, nevermind though, that they dont get the CoL mask in UG and all those other things #1 character you would think, would get.

Originally Posted by BrandX

good idea! Let us take patrons as heroes to really prove we're the number one hero!

Which, remember, Statesman was killed by this point. Sooo...by this point we're suppossed to be THE HERO already.

So we're going to take THE HERO OF HERO characters (our own heroes) and then say "Oh hey, look, you need to grab a patron, because really, you're still so lowly"

Well, as long as they dont offer up any epic power pool with it, sure! Do it!

Originally Posted by Olantern

You know what I liked about the SSA as a whole? We saw all kinds of "incidental" use of existing characters. (Dark Astoria, by the way, does this too.)

What do I mean? Normally, you don't have much interaction with existing characters except when playing content designed around them. Contacts appear in their own arcs, and that's about it. You go steal some stuff for Mr. Bocor, fight some Legacy Chain, focusing on them to the exclusion of all else, then you finish, and both Bocor and Chain are forgotten. That's fine to an extent, but at some point, it makes it seem that each NPC is off in his own, entirely separate, continuity.

In the SSA, we have Luddites mentioned outside Cap au Diable, Penelope Yin making an appearance unrelated to Faultline or the Clockwork King, a villainous contact actually being villainous, and Manticore actually acting like a crazed vigilante rather than just being pointed at and called "crazed vigilante." The SSA was the first content that gave me some sense that the game world's different parts actually interacted with each other. It was the first "CoH Universe" arc.

Dark Astoria, which was presumably written up a bit later than the SSA, did the same thing, only much more impressively, so hopefully we will see a bit more of this in future "special" storylines.

Originally Posted by EmperorSteele

Here's something everyone would hate:

An enemy that can turn off half your powers =) All at random, and it would switch which powers are "off" every minute or so. Would not apply to Temp powers.

Enemies that deal direct, unavoidable damage when killed.

Enemies that "Respawn" with high resistance against the attack type that killed it last.

An enemy that can rearrange your UI >=)

Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei

I run incarnate trials daily so I get that and respect it for the limited use it has been used for so far. A few tip missions and incarnates have the script thing going on. I think its limited and not creative in ways that an optional customized system as outlined above is not.

As long as they make any of this stuff optional I will be fine with whatever they do, I just think painting themselves into the scripted encounter corner is not the best use of developer time. Once folks figure out the script that "challenge" is over vs a new customized challenge each encounter.

Originally Posted by Lycantropus

That's a neat idea, but I could see that being abused, or players complaining about reduced rewards because the fight took too long. What if it had degrading resistance instead, for example? At the start of the fight it would be tough to damage. The longer the fight goes on it lowers until they reach the 'normal' level of resistance (possibly going lower than normal to compensate for the initial difficulty and to help less optimized characters succeed). That would ensure the fight would last longer than 5 seconds, but still capable of being overcome eventually. Think a one-shot (<---this is important) start of the fight power similiar to the Incarnate Barrier power (without the effects of course).

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

From what we know so far, they're an Incarnate "race" that gain power by consuming the Wells of other species - they're also sometimes called "Battalion", without the "the", and treated as if they/it were a single entity.
In this form, it might be connected to the "Dark Father" the old Shivans mention in the Drowning in Blood Trial, who has made their "Mother" it's "bride" - possibly referring to the Shivan Well being consumed by Battalion.
They say that now it's hunting through space for the "Blue Maiden" - which is hinted to be Earth and the human Well.
The Battalion also burned the entire Kheldian race as fuel for their starships, so the basic theme of this threat seems to be consuming/devouring, which is a logical step up from the theme of enslavement that's the basis for the Praetorian part of the Incarnate storyline - where Tyrant and the loyalists are trying to enslave the multiverse, the Battalion are trying to devour it.

Well, they're kinda connected - the whole reason Tyrant has been chosen as the champion of the Well is because the Well is looking for protection from the Battalion.

A Well's "mind" is shaped by the thoughts/hopes/dreams/fears of the race that creates it, so it can change over time - and right now, the human Well is dominated by thoughts of power, the lust for power, and the uses of power - events like the two world wars, the nuclear arms race, the Hamidon wars, Reichsman's victory on Axis Earth and so on have shifted it's "mind" to focus on power on a vast scale, used in a ruthless manner, because that's what human minds have been focusing on in the 20th and 21st centuries.
And because the Well isn't good or evil, it's shaped by positive and negative thoughts - so, for example, both supporters and opponents of the nuclear option would help shape its "mind", as they'd both be focusing on the same idea of the massive use of power involved in a world wide nuclear conflict - just like the Allies fear of an Axis victory would carry the same weight as the Axis powers hopes of victory, as both sides were focused on the idea of global conquest.

So now that human thoughts have made the Well's "mind" focused on massive power, it's responding to people who use massive power, such as Tyrant.
Basically, Tyrant is the "ideal" human in the eyes of the Well, because he's so powerful and uses his power on a world wide scale, and is willing to use it in the wider multiverse too - he's the personifcation of modern human's thoughts about power, so the Well has made him its champion to protect it from the Battalion.

Originally Posted by Seldom

I hope they make a replacement that varies the group a bit better. If you include BaB, (which they do for the LRSF) The team has 3 tanks, three defenders, a controller and a blapper. With the new archetypes and the open archetypes, I hope they consider adding in something different. I'd like to see a kheldian, dominator, corruptor, or heck- even a long ranged blaster.