Lothic

I've been running a single-form PB for years and I would have to agree with pretty much everything you've said here. There's no real need to slot for extra KB or DEF debuff because almost all PB attack powers offer these things already and when you get your attack chain going all those small "default" level effects will quickly stack up.

As far as the "relying on human form for ranged damage" concept goes I'd simply say that the ranged damage capability of Human-form is simply not that impressive (and remember I'm saying that as a player who's happily chosen to run with a Human-form only PB). There is a reason PBs have the squid form option. I've found just about the only way Human-form ranged powers work well is to 5 or 6 slot them, which basically dictates single-form only. Spreading slots to the other forms makes concentrating on the ranged attacks fairly hard to do. I'm not trying to say a Human/Dwarf dual form PB is gimp - I'm just saying I suspect that combo probably finds itself in Dwarf-form almost all the time.

Personally I'm planning to maximize on the new I24 Fighting Pool to make my Human-form PB that much more of a "Blapper" melee character. I wish everyone luck with what they plan to do with it.

Well I did say one of many problem(s)... plural.

No I would never claim that the original Blake's 7 was perfect and certainly its special effects are fairly dated.
But the chances we'd ever get a shot-for-shot remake with decent FX is probably very small. *shrugs*

I actually think this was among the various problems the recent John Carter movie suffered from.

I have a sneaking suspicion that had Firefly managed to continue on for multiple seasons worth of episodes that the overall story would have started leaning more and more towards Mal directly opposing the Alliance and even somehow becoming a significant threat to them. Simply "enduring" the Alliance would not have been enough for him in the long run. River probably would have played a key role in that "crusade".

This, among other reasons, is why many people feel it was a shame the show wasn't allowed to fully explore that possibility.

I'm sure these were reasonably good shows for the people who watched them.
As it turned out neither one of them interested me enough to give them a try. *shrugs*

Again I'll just say a "good" remake of Blake's 7 is always possible. I'm simply going to expect it to be crap and wait to be pleasantly surprised that I was wrong about that than to harbor -any- hope that this'll be good and once again being proven right about my negative premonitions.

For what it's worth the American version of Being Human was entertaining mostly because SyFy was simpleminded enough to make an almost 100% exact copy (episode for episode) of the original British show and I'm reasonably sure SyFy didn't have much directly to do with the actual making of the relaunched Battlestar Galactica at all.

Well I did give remakes a 5% leeway of being good...

Heh that figures. Hopefully this was a change that actually fixes some latent problem with the costume editor functionality instead of just being someone's idea of a purely "QoL improvement". Sadly if this was just meant to be a "QoL improvement" then I'm pretty sure there are more aspects to it that are annoying than helpful.

Yeah I realize Hollywood has been remaking movies for decades now.
Doesn't stop me from pointing out that maybe 95% of the remakes are worse than the originals.

Actually I think the OP already tried that before he posted to this forum.

Yeah that might be another way for what it's worth.

I suppose there might be another bug out there that does something like that but I don't think I've ever seen it. I do know that the "brightest white" tends to make some costume items like Tights looks strangely "see-through" and washed out so I often avoid it just because it doesn't look good.

As you say the main reason why the Devs are reluctant to fix these badges is because they are still clinging to the outdated idea that it matters exactly how long a player has been "subscribed" versus "unsubscribed". Because CoH:Freedom revamped the whole subscription system that data is probably more or less unavailable at this point.

I think the only reasonable solution to this mess is for the Devs to step back and finally give up on worrying about the "subscribed time" concept altogether. Instead they should focus on a player's "account creation" date. That info actually DOES exist for every player and it should be a relatively trivial matter for the game to calculate a "years since account created" value to check for these badges. No convoluted account database gyrations required for that.

Now I'm well aware that using the account creation date is not going to be exactly what the Devs intended for this. It'll allow for "crazy" scenarios like people who created an account 8 years ago will have 8 badges regardless if they've played the game for 10 hours since then or 10,000 hours. But frankly I'm willing to deal with that possibility amongst the playerbase if it means we'll get WORKING annual vet badges out of the deal.

Basically until the Devs stop beating their heads against the wall we're not going to see this fixed. I've offered them this reasonable alternative (I actually started suggesting the account creation date idea YEARS ago) and I'm -still- waiting for their response to this.

I suppose this default color thing could theoretically be serving some non-obvious purpose like "reducing file sizes" or some such. But seriously even if you accounted for all the costume files of all the characters in this game you're probably only talking about a terabyte or two of data at most. That amount of data should not be a pressing IT issue for this game's servers.

I hope this was just some kind of "accidental oversight" that can be switched back without causing too much trouble.

Sadly I think the only way you'd have a show today centered around a believable "super-advanced" helicopter would be to have some kind of UAV. The future of combat aircraft is clearly going towards unmanned automated systems. The downside of that of course is that you wouldn't need a cool human pilot who'd serve as the main character of a show based on that.

Basically what I'm saying is that the days of shows like Airwolf and Knight Rider are probably better left as fond memories of the 80s.

I must admit that was not what I thought you were suggesting. So many people have been begging for a "super-fast" Fly power that would combine the speed of SS with a Fly power over the years that I sort of mistakenly assumed that's what you were asking for. My bad.

For what? When I24 will go live?
Your guess is as good as any.

That's cool. Again I think it should be fairly obvious I had not heard of the news of this new power. Would love a link to your source and/or name of the power so I can search more about it myself.

At any rate it sounds like a good compromise - the Devs are making it so that it only takes up one power choice in a build but it's still limited with the "Only Affecting Self" quality. That'll keep it from being overpowered which I assume was always the Devs' original fear with this idea.

Hey if something like that happens then great. I wouldn't be upset to see that happen. *shrugs*

I'm just going by the reasoning some of the Devs gave for why Afterburner had to be a separate power from flight. It was explained along the lines that they didn't "want to make it easy" to have super-fast flight and wanted to keep some limits to it. This is pretty much the story they had been telling us for years even before they gave us Afterburner.

So if they've come completely full circle from their original design concepts and are going to give us a super-fast Fly as a single power then cools. Obviously I'm not -really- going to believe it until I see it, but hey that's just me.

Not sure if it's being saved for I24 or if they're going to push out one last I23 patch first.
Either way we probably won't have to wait too long.