LittleDavid

Of course there are, but how many of those companies have visible presences in Paragon City?

Look around Imperial City enough and you'll notice that corporate logos for various labs, industries, and corporations are everywhere. Most buildings in Paragon City don't have that; it's mostly limited to the franchise stores.

Making anyone's names fair game, I think, is hardly the answer.

The best method I've seen for handling the issue of characters with the same name was to not restrict them at all, but to give each player an ID number that would appear on the ID cards of all their characters (which were automatically given when you friended one of them), and would display their alts. It was also possible to, with the click of a button, display the ID numbers of the characters around you.

Putting more emphasis on the global name without making it invasive (like what that one guy said about making names look like e-mail addresses) would probably put cake in the hands of most people, and let them eat it.

I haven't read this thread all the way but I'm sure there's been a few people who'll object to ideas like this, given the idea that heroes and villains are supposed to stand out and be unique. However, if you look at the comics industry, you'll see a few instances where the different comic book companies have characters with similar or identical names, and within each company, you'll sometimes find multiple people who've laid claim to the same title or identity. Maybe not all at once, but still.

This is also a good idea, so long as it's paws-ible.

*sunglasses*

Really? I'll pay attention when I get to those caps and see if they say anything.

Or maybe it's related to an inf badge?

Yeah, he really knows how to grab someone's attention!

Keep in mind that just because you've never experienced it, doesn't mean that others have had that problem.

I can't claim to know how simple or time consuming it would be for the devs to add a "lock" option to power tray icons, but if they can do it, I would use it. A lot.

I mean, we already have a right click popup menu for power tray icons where we can either remove it from the tray or get info on it. They could add a "Lock in Place" option right in that menu, and then allow people to unlock it at any time by selecting the same option again.

I got something to say that might take those characters back off the shelf, then.

For mundane applications, you'd be right; marksmanship is not nearly as taxing on the human body as archery, martial arts, and swordsmanship are.

However, there are things you can do with guns that take the kind of effort and training you'd need to be an effective swordsman, martial artist, or archer.

Schismatrix said earlier, "all that training that prize winning shooters do before competing is just morale building; it has no actual effect on performance." Take a look at that video I just linked. You can't tell me that an average joe can pick up a gun and do the exact same thing without training at least as much as he has. Or, to quote Bob Munden himself:

"It's like a magician trick. The difference is the magician is giving the illusion that he's doing something that he's really not. We, on the other hand, are doing something that looks like an illusion, but we're honestly doing it!"

It would take a superhero to apply those kind of skills to effective modern-day crime fighting, just as much as it would martial arts, archery, or swordsmanship.

Of course, Bob Munden is already considered a superhuman by Stan Lee. In the episode in which he appears, they monitor his quickdraw and find that he can draw, manually pull back the hammer, and fire his gun faster than the average reaction time of the human brain.

Not the average time to draw and fire a pistol, I must stress, but the average time in which a person's brain reacts.

Keep in mind that he can do this while firing two bullets almost simultaneously from a revolver, like my video link shows. (He also does it in the Superhumans episode I mentioned, to prove he has superhuman accuracy.)

Which, combined with the abilities he shows off in the provided video, I think is reason enough to shoot down the argument that "guns can't be part of a superpower," if you'll forgive the expression.

Ohhh yeah. I'd love to see locks implemented. I have a serious problem with shuffling power tray icons while trying to click on them in a pitched battle. This happens most often with powers where I need to specify a target location.

For the record, I do make liberal use of the numerical hotkeys--but sometimes, clicking on the power tray is far more expedient than a kotkey combo.

I'd file all of this under "Quality of Life requests," personally.

Aw, man! No, I haven't! Where'd you guys see them say that? Peregrine Island?

Aah. Well, in that case, I'm glad they changed it to what it is now! Those tips are much better for loading screens.

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Though I wouldn't mind having a citizen tell me "It's all a Nemesis plot."

... Boy I wish I had that grinning-while-wiggling-eyebrows emoticon handy!

Huh. Well, I'm glad they fixed it at least!

How long ago was it when they started saying just that one line?

Yes, but now they have much more and different things to say, like my screenshot shows.

Bah, that bird had it coming to him ever since he ninja'd Emperor Cole's throne!

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