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Just so you hear it from someone who isn't Ultimus, a level 10 Brute with any powerset can achieve that, or do even better. Fury has a massive effect at low levels, where mob HPs are not balanced for a ~160% damage boost. I'm not really impressed by 2 shotting them after building up the combo points with full fury (by "full", I assume you mean about 80%). That's no big deal for a level 10 Brute. It's not Street Justice that is absurd in that situation, it's Fury at level 10. That being said, I have no experience with Street Justice at higher levels where one could really judge its capability in comparison to other sets, but on paper, it looks pretty middle of the road to me.

But I agree that you can't call changes to an unreleased powerset "nerfs". And I don't think that there even were changes from what I have seen.

Youtube would be better than what we have now, but I'd still like it to work more like Pandora (I know I said this before, but I'm going into more detail). There should not be a public front page. There should only be your front page. When you use it for the first time, it should ask some seed questions (and "do you just want XP, and don't care about story" should be one of them) and build a list from there. On the ratings page (which would just be like/dislike), it should ask if you want to add the author to your list. It should also allow you to add players to lists (something Pandora doesn't do, to my knowledge), so that it can recommend arcs they liked.

You should also be able to create multiple lists, because some people want story arcs some of the time and farms other times. Sometimes people are in the mood for drama, and sometimes people are in the mood for comedy. Sometimes people are in the mood for classic superhero stories, and sometimes people are in the mood for the unusual.

Anyway, the reason I'm responding to you and quoting that portion of your post is this: if it was designed this way, there would be no need for anti-griefing measures, and people could dislike arcs they immediately know they don't like without having to complete it to get it off their list. It wouldn't be griefing at all-- it would be setting a preference list, and it wouldn't affect the author in any way (unless they want people that hate their arcs to be forced to play them for some bizarre reason).

I also think they should abolish ticket rewards for authors, by the way. That just encourages people who would otherwise not care for writing arcs to flood the system with junk.

Absolutely. In the ideal system, a farmer downvoting a story arc and a story arc player downvoting a farm should either have no effect on the ability to find the arc for players that want to play it, or it should actually benefit those players by learning the arcs that people like or don't like, and recommending ones that similar people liked while not recommending ones that similar people didn't like.

Instead of having my front page loaded with arcs ranked a certain way, my front page should load with arcs aimed at my tastes based on my past ratings. I should be able to add authors and players to lists (kind of like how Pandora works), and it should be able to take that extra information into account when recommending arcs to me. The rating system should change to "like" and "dislike", and try to show me arcs it thinks I would like.

If it worked this way, then I'd be all for the ability to rate an arc without finishing it. I do that all the time with songs in Pandora, and it only affects my song listings.

The problem with the current 5 star system is that it only works for finding arcs you want to run if you're in a massive majority of people that like the same kinds of arcs, and 5 stars arcs that they like.

Of course, Wonderslug brings up good reasons why changing it to this kind of system is unlikely to happen.

That would be nice.

(Yes, I know it won't happen, and is kind of ridiculous, but I far prefer the old CoT design.)

Yeah, but it was even worse than that-- it retconned anything that had to do with World War II to involve something else (aliens, kidnappings, a different war). Post that image you have of the clues from the Ubelmann the Unknown arc when it was changed to use the American Civil War!

Hey, sometimes I like to put "quotes" around things.

Awesome! Thanks!

Yep. See my post from earlier in the thread for my comments on why this is different:

There are more differences, too. Back then, they didn't sell much else, and I was happy to give them extra money for just about anything purely because I knew our subscriber numbers were down and I wanted to help in any way I can. But now, Freedom is changing all of that. They're going to have a ton more people playing, much more income, and they're selling a lot of things--things with a lot more value for the same or lower prices.

It was nice seeing you again at the SDCC Meet and Greet, by the way.

Ditto that (not that I went to dragoncon, but that I will pay stupid prices for things while on vacation). I bought archetype pins and other stuff that I wouldn't have bought otherwise, also, not that those were expensive.

Probably, but the differences are that those were for the convention exclusive ones, not the ones we get every Halloween, that people were willing to pay that much because of their rarity (these in the store have an infinite supply), and that going to those cons was more expensive for some people than the price being paid for the costume in the auctions. I actually paid them $20 for one that I missed when they were selling them at HeroCon.

I will never buy one of these at the current prices (including the sale prices). I'd buy several at a lower price.

This is really the problem I have with the prices on the things. Beam Rifle was created from scratch, with awesome effects. We know powersets take significant development time. With the costume temps we have something that was already in the game being sold for the same price as a brand new powerset. These things are less useful than costume pieces, and they required no new art assets. They should be 40 points.

....but you can convert those recipes into enhancements and store them in the base, too.

How is it more useful than 5 enhancements? Recipes can be converted into enhancements. If anything, enhancements are more valuable, because they contain the value of the salvage and crafting cost as well, and often sell for even more than the sum of it all on the market.

I don't believe that. Look at the prices on the recipe and salvage increases, it's similarly priced (10 enhancements = 1600, 5 recipes = 800), and has nothing to do with pulling more enhancements out with respecs. It's pure storage.

The free points aren't unlimited--there is an opportunity cost to spending them on anything. Spending 1600 points on 10 enhancement slots (yes, I know they are global) can mean not spending 1600 points on two powersets. We've got Street Justice, Titan Weapons, and That One Leaked Set We're Not Supposed To Know About coming out, and those are just the sets we know about. New costume sets are being worked on, new temp travel powers, and other things we don't know about.

You can't act like the stipend means that prices are irrelevant; there is every sign that more content will be placed in the store than the monthly stipend can buy, and that means prices are relevant even to VIP subscribers.

Not panicking. Giving feedback.

10 enhancement slots costs twice as much as a new powerset. Did it take twice the development time?

Yikes. I thought it was $10 each too. $40 to max out my enhancement inventory? I could almost buy a new game for that.

This was going to be the first thing I bought when the store went live. I guess I don't need extra enhancement slots that badly.

Yes. Mars.

Some awesome people/events have come from it, though (my favorites being "Macho Man" Randy Savage, the Andy Kaufman stunt, Rowdy Roddy Piper's movies, and The Rock/Dwayne Johnson who I really hope will indeed one day play Black Adam).

Wow. I'd always assumed that was a picture of adult Peter Brady from a reunion.

Also, is it just me not being used to seeing real unibrows, or does that guy have a fake unibrow?

Thanks for posting this response, Zwillinger. I still don't like the wording in the EULA, but I appreciate the detailed response to concerns about it.

Agreed.

If GR had been 40-50 content with our characters going undercover as Praetorians to learn about the world and the threat it poses, I'd run through it on every character. But I don't play the GR content anymore because I don't want any of my new characters to be Praetorians. I want them to be from the "real" world, not the mirror world that we end up fighting.

It's great content, regardless of gripes that I may have about some of the writing. I love being able to make choices and have that affect the outcome and future missions. I just don't want my characters to be from that world originally, and we haven't had a new 40-50 zone with a meaningful amount of solo/small-team content since Issue 10.

Thank you so much for sharing this, this is completely different from what "clipping issues" brought to my mind, and never occurred to me. I understand completely.

I still want jetpack back pieces, but at least I understand the reasons.

That being said, did they say anything about temp jetpacks clipping with plain backpacks? Are they accepting it because only one animates (I assume you mean the VFX by "animates") as you are suggesting?

I didn't make that assumption, though my wording in my last post makes it look that way because I was trying for brevity. In the post I made before the one you first responded to, I said "assuming there is a problem with them, why is it okay to have temp powers that have this issue, but not costume parts?" Which leads to:

That's the exact kind of thing (though I'd like to know what the clipping issues are) I'm asking to hear from them, if it's the truth. What's so wrong about asking to hear it from them? They sometimes give responses.

I know what you mean by compromise. I'm not stupid. I knew decisions about compromises were involved before posting my first post on the topic-- I just want to understand the reasons behind the decision.

I know it's a compromise. I don't expect the explanation to satisfy me in terms of "oh, now I'm happy that we're not getting jetpack costume pieces". I expect it to explain what the clipping issues are, and why they feel the issues are a problem when temp jetpacks aren't a problem. That's all. Then I could say if I agreed or disagreed, and move on, but right now, I just want to understand. I don't think that's an unreasonable request.

That doesn't mean they have to respond, but there's nothing wrong with me asking, and then clarifying my point when it appeared to me that Lothic didn't understand what I was saying.