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Then again if they tried for an August 30th launch they'd have around 3.5 days to decide whether it was epically buggy enough for a rollback or not before the weekend. That seems like enough time to me.

That's a pretty big indicator. Why would they discontinue the sales of their Booster Packs unless they expected the Paragon Market to be up and running by then?

Well clearly the people organizing these communities will decide they'd be better off if they employed hyper-expensive robotic defenders that would be easier to "control" and wouldn't have to be paid. Then of course as we've learned from decades of science fiction those "robotic defenders" will eventually develop AI, kill everyone in the floating community, then move on to kill everyone else on the planet. Skynet has to start somewhere after all.

I think the only reason we "need" to go to a trainer to switch builds is to prevent us from switching builds right in the middle of a fight. I could see how that could be a little unfair, especially in a PvP situation. But if they created a dedicated "change_build" command line command they could just put limits on it like "can't be used in PvP zones" and "can't be used more than once every 10 minutes" or whatever other controls they deemed necessary to make it balanced.

This is why these "floating utopias" usually mandate that their residents already be ultra-wealthy. They want all the comforts of living in a moderately sized country while also limiting the population of that "country" to only a few hundred people. Ironically these "I'm too cool to pay taxes" visionaries will likely pay millions for the privilege of living somewhere that supposedly doesn't levy all those yucky taxes against them.

There's nothing wrong with liking all those combinations. But the "simple workaround" to not being able to have 10 builds on a single character is to make several Dark/Regens to spread all those build ideas out on.

The Devs have already made it pretty clear they don't really want people to have a single character that can "do everything". This is why (for instance) they've told us we will likely never get the ability to respec powerset choices. They don't want people taking a level 50 character and turning it into -any- kind of powerset combo you want. I figure the same mindset applies for having more builds than the few we already have.

The idea of having something like a "PvE build" and a "PvP build" makes sense because the rules for how the powers work are actually different in those environments. But I really don't think the multiple build concept was ever intended to be a mechanism to allow a single character to have access to every power pool combination possible. You've pushed it to the limit - be thankful they even gave us the ability to have more than one build per character in the first place.

They've opened up the Ski Chalet during other non-winter times that had nothing to do with "unscheduled maintenances".
I think it was just a coincidence in this case. *shrugs*

Wow I've got a few thousand of those things racked up across all my characters. I bought a bunch when people were dumping them for like 10k after the last winter event. Maybe I should toss them back on the market now...

It's generally accepted that at least part of the reason why we've never had an offical standalone costume creator for the NA/EU versions of this game (the Korean version -did- have one) is that it was a conseqence of the Marvel lawsuit. By only allowing costume creation inside the game they can supposedly better police/prevent people from making Wolverine clones or somesuch.

Regardless of the details the bottomline is that the chances of us ever getting another standalone costume creator at this point is just about zero. Sad as that is it does at least save us from -wasting- that much more time with costume tinkering...

Back during the Beta when that ship was added to the game I actually submitted a petition to suggest that the roadway next to that ship/helicopter be edited because there was no realistic way any US Navy ship would be "crammed up" into such a tight space with power lines so close like that. It's not only a safety hazard but a security one as well.

Obviously they didn't bother to listen to me...

As the others have said Sleep in this game may not be useful in every situation, but in the situations it -is- useful for it's almost indispensable. You have to accept that a Sleep Mezzer is a fairly specialized type of character and you have to spend a little more effort minimizing its weaknesses to maximize its strengths. You may find that you simply don't like to play a Sleeper and that's fine. But just because you don't like how they play doesn't mean they need buffs of any kind.

My guess is even though you've been adventurous enough to try 30+ different builds/respecs of a Dark/Regen character that you were going through that process as an evolution to decide what "worked best" for you. Given all that you now know with your intimate knowledge of those powersets I suspect you would really only seriously play the last 2 or 3 latest/best builds you've ever come up with. For instance would you ever likely play with a build you created a few years ago without Inherent Fitness?

Although your idea sounds good "on paper" in practical terms I really doubt anyone would seriously/regularly use more than maybe 3 or 4 builds tops. I'm not strictly against this idea, but I do think allowing for 10 builds seems far less useful than it might first appear.

I think we can be sure that if one of these things actually happens they will have a "security force" that will be better armed and trained than most other countries' entire armed forces. Think "Blackwater" times 100.

Given that they can create "recoiless rifles" with today's technology I would think the ability to create a recoiless futuristic weapon based on any kind of "beam" you want would be almost trivial and fundamental by comparison. In fact if anyone had to suffer a real life hand-helded beam weapon that recoiled I'd think that would be a pointless failure of design. Might as well use a M-16 if that were the case - it'd probably cost a 100x less to boot.

I guess these islands would be kind of like the upper class "cruise ship" versions of that.

It's amazing that some of us survived playing this game for several years before the costume save/load feature was added to the game.

You and I both know that someone, somewhere would scream bloody murder if they ever bought a token that at some point was either taken away by the system or was otherwise rendered unusable.

Again I'm looking at it from a "use versus utility" point of view. If you figure there would (very likely) only ever be a few hundred SG renames needed why would the Devs bother making an entirely new token to handle that? They wouldn't have to worry about a "token" and the rules related to how it would work if they didn't bother having SG rename tokens in the first place.

Basically coming up with a unique SG rename token is a complete overkill of effort for the problem at hand. You're proposing a 15 bedroom mansion for a situation that only needs a 2 bedroom apartment. The Devs would probably even favor a "quiet" command line command solution from the point of view of keeping SG renames to a minimum. If they made a flashy SG rename token available in the upcoming Paragon Market then everyone would be encouraged to do it on a relative whim. By keeping it "under the radar" with an available yet unflashy command line command then the few people who really wanted it could get it and the Devs wouldn't have to spend any extra time messing around with it. A simple timer that would only allow one rename for a SG per month is the only "control mechanism" you'd need for this.