Majestick

Never! I was merely jesting about a fear of admitting to be wrong...

I am

WOW! And there was me fishing - Flame on!!

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P.S. I hope you spelled customs wrong...lets not get into the way the Scots dress, please

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This Scot generally wears jeans and a t-shirt and would never wear a skirt... sorry, kilt. I know others who do things differently, but hell, what's an individual in the way of blind racial stereotyping, eh?

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lol - I'm from Edinburgh mate!

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I think that saying that the culture and costumes of a country comes from ignorance when they are not our own is an example of ignorance itself. Wrong is wrong in some places, tho in others it may be right

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As I said previously, this does not come from some sort of patriotism on my part. The concept of human rights has been in development for hundreds of years and is not isolated in the west. Nor is it one which only comes from 'ignorance of other peoples culture' - one of the greatest proponents of the idea that people have in-alienable human rights was a chap called Gandhi. He did quite a good job in freeing oppressed people. And it was human rights which freed Nelson Mandela.

I'm going to leave you with a quick look at the idea that 'we are all human and should all have the same rights', on the link below. We were having a discussion about the nature of right and wrong and somehow people are now talking about wars and bombing - argumentative.
http://www.hrweb.org/history.html

P.S. I hope you spelled customs wrong...lets not get into the way the Scots dress, please

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And before you dismiss the hat analogy so quickly - let's remember the culture in particular you're talking about here. The same one in which women are not allowed to show their faces - they're to remain covered at all times. So, it's not a hat, but part of it is certainly a head garment.

Now, some of these women, believe it or not, actually like to do this. They love their faith and believe it only right to remain covered. Some may not like it, but others do. If you were to tell one of these women to remove the garment because you morally objected to their right to wear it, you would be denying them their rights - something I believe your culture doesn't agree with?

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I'm afraid their belief system has very little to do with their male-dominated-society clothing traditions. And speaking of the very same traditions you think they love, this is from Wikipedia - just a couple, these kind of lists are very long. (lazy but quick - info available in countless places) [ QUOTE ]

In October 1996 a woman had the tip of her thumb cut off for wearing nail varnish.
In December 1996 Radio Shari’a announced that 225 Kabul women had been seized and punished for violating the sharia code of dress. The sentence was handed down by tribunal and the women were lashed on their legs and backs for their misdemeanor.
In March 1997 a married woman, from Laghman Province was caught attempting to flee the district with another man. The Islamic tribunal found her guilty of adultery and condemned both her and her lover to death by stoning.

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As I have said previously, so much of this stuff is just handed down through generation to generation. "Give me the boy at 7 and I'll give you the man" etc. Just because something has been done for a long time doesn't make it right. Your culture argumant is a red-herring to the actual discussion of whether there are things which can be universally called called 'right' or 'wrong', whether as human beings we all have the same rights or whether these rights must be given up because of living in certain parts of the world. Culture and heritage and tradition should be preserved, but not at the cost of basic civil liberties.

black olives and

jam with green

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Just because someone lives in a town where the general concensus is that zrape is alright, it doesn't actually make it right.

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Actually it would, that's their consensus and we would not have any right to go there and tell them to live as we want them to live. It's up to them.

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If this were not the case then there would be no case in taking people to court. There would be no such thing as a criminal as everyone would just say 'from my point of view it's not a crime' and get away with murder.
Nonsense. Pure nonsense.

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Nope, because when someone is living in a country he is judged by that country's laws, not by individual points of vews. That's why laws (and punishments) are not the same on every country, and some thing maybe considered a crime in some countries and not even a fault in some others.

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I understand where you’re coming from with this. I’m not arguing that ‘our principles are better than other countries’ just because I think ‘we’ must be right. And you are right to say that we shouldn’t ‘go there and tell them how to live’, FOR THE MOST PART and in particular for small differences e.g. in America the death sentence is still in place in some states, and those states have decided for themselves what penalties are appropriate etc. etc.

But the system of laws we have developed in the western world, the common widely populated laws, are simply and obviously better than a law which states for example that a person must have their hand chopped off for stealing, or that stoning is an appropriate punishment for infidelity. For the most part countries which have these kinds of rules also have poor education, so that should be a big indicator. It implies that the country behaves like an abusive family, where the abuse is passed down cos it’s ‘always been that way’. Equality of the sexes, freedom of speech, the right to have a say in who governs you. These are basic human rights which should be available to everyone.

Secondly, (and really it’s an extension of the same comment) I’m not suggesting that we ‘go there and tell them to live as we want them to live’, you’re right – it’s up to them. But when it’s not up to them, when these archaic, outdated, medieval, dictator orientated laws are forced on a populace then those people deserve the chance to create their own future, ‘shrug off the shackles of oppression’ etc etc, insert rhetoric as you please! If a people are aware of their situation, are aware of the alternatives and have made an educated and free willed decision to live that way, then that is up to them, yes. But you’ll find those situations few and far between.

Wrong is wrong. Living with it doesn’t make it right. More than likely it just means they don’t know better.

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Maybe villains hurting innocents is justified then, it's all a matter of perspective

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Interesting. By your logic, the persecution of the jews then is just a "matter of perspective"? I think you'll find that there are some things which are so undeniably wrong (what a lot of people call evil) that a presentation of the facts combined with an understanding of human rights will make that wrong-ness apparant. Luckily for you there are other people prepared to fight that 'wrongness' for you (eg our grandparents who fought in the second world war).

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My grandparents didn't fight on the second world war.

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Sorry - I was using "Our grandparents" as a generic example. I meant "the people who fought against the invading forces of Germany and it's allies in the second world war".
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...and what is good or evil is entirely a matter of perspective, and depends on social acquired habits rather than on an 'universal truth'.

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I prefer to steer clear of terms like "good" and "evil". What I am saying is that people have in-alienable human rights - murder is wrong, zrape is wrong, theft is wrong etc. Just because someone lives in a town where the general concensus is that zrape is alright, it doesn't actually make it right. If this were not the case then there would be no case in taking people to court. There would be no such thing as a criminal as everyone would just say 'from my point of view it's not a crime' and get away with murder.
Nonsense. Pure nonsense.

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Maybe villains hurting innocents is justified then, it's all a matter of perspective

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Interesting. By your logic, the persecution of the jews then is just a "matter of perspective"? I think you'll find that there are some things which are so undeniably wrong (what a lot of people call evil) that a presentation of the facts combined with an understanding of human rights will make that wrong-ness apparant. Luckily for you there are other people prepared to fight that 'wrongness' for you (eg our grandparents who fought in the second world war).

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Gah so once again, the same deeds have different names depending on if its profitable for you or not, kinda like murderer/war hero or genocide/fight for peace

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Oh dear me! Are you telling everyone in the military that they are evil murderers?

Wow! Has this thread been de-railed or what?! Was kind of hoping there might be bit more advice for Anwyeth on the IOs side of the question...

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Yep, Defiant is kinda quiet. When I say ''hello'' in my SG I get no reply.

Sad really - but it's just life, I guess. People will come to servers and go on other ones - Defiant may be quiet, but it's still got it's shining community to keep it alive.

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I quite often turn my SG chat off when guys in the SG are having 4 way conversations and I'm in an 8 man pug. Can be quite a pain. And it's easy to miss the odd "No-one wants to reply" when you're button-mashing with your scrapper!

Sorry to zombify this thread but - WOW. Never new there were so many lvl 50 elec/elec blasters. I made one in my early days but deleted him as I was hugely disappointed in the damage I was dealing (obviously I missed the point with elec/elec)! Admittedly I only ran him to about lvl 15, but I then made an en/en blaster and all my expectations were fulfilled...

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I'm actually starting to get semi satisfied. The prices are dropping again on BM.

No idea if this post made any impact or just more player like me starting to sell lower, but it seems to be going the right way now.

Still quite absurd overall to hero side, but maybe one day the villains financial will be as good and the tinker bells.

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I noticed this too. The first time I finally get a cossie piece drop (Insect wings) and the prices have come down to a few hundred thou...have you noticed what you can get for them at a shop if you sell them? 100!!! lol. I find too often now that the drops I end up with loads of are worth more selling to the Shops than on the market. I suppose eventually if everyone realises that then the prices will go up as demand increases...?

Looking forward to finding out, as long as I can get on for long enough to level before the wife kicks me off "that damn computer"!

Loving this. I often wonder why people complain about the build people pick to pvp with. It's not often (although I'm sure it happens) that people say "Last night I healed a couple of guys and rezzed 2, but I had so much fun when I died for the 48th time in half an hour!". By which I mean that surely people like to win...and why not pick an 'easy to win' build? Sure the old hands are going to want more of a challenge than the easy-to-use sp/reg when they've been there, done that, but surely they should be happy at the prospect of "another spines/regen scrapper" to try their uber-knowledgeable kinky builds on?

Glad you're having fun dude! That's what the game's about

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Great fun, i even managed to get my 100 rep badge on Wails (+ about 20 more ^^) it truely was madness, buffs and debuffs everywhere, my health bar was bouncing more than i was, gotta <3 emps though

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3 emps...

It be nice if the sides were balanced.. More people need to level villains... Evil and me are not enough to take on the might of union heroes

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Working on it! Rad/rad corr on his way up - Irradiated Rabbit

Oooo...snikt! Had a look on youtube (city of heroes pvp) and no-one seems to be using claws...

Thanks for this - makes sense! Sorry to drag you into the past - my flux capacitor is playing up!

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Regen's probably the best choice to be honest.

Not that I'm biased or anything....
(My first 50 was a kat/regen scrapper!)

Divine Avalanche is a great way to "turtle up" when you get in over your head, and the nature of regen means that when "turtled up" you will get back to full strength very quickly.

You'll not get a real feel for it until level 16 when you can grab integration, but from 16-30 it's one of the strongest toons you can play. After 30 the other scrapper secondaries will start to catch up, but really the only thing that a Katana/Regen should find difficult is fighting against AVs or GMs.

You'll be able to solo anything short of an AV, when teamed it's probably best if you stick to the typical "boss killer" role (although Golden Dragonfly and Flashing Steel are quite nice cone-damage when you get used to lining them up). Concerning the /regen powers, you'll want the usual: everything except Resilience, Revive and MoG. Resilience might benefit you if you plan on PvPing against Energy Melee users though.

A properly slotted Divine Avalanche (2Acc/1Recharge/3Defbuff) will let you Pseudo-Tank just about anything. That build will NOT need MoG by any stretch of the imagination!

You said you wanted to PvP though, so I'd suggest looking at Broadsword instead rather than Katana (unless your heart is REALLY set on Katana). They're virtually identical, except that Broadsword is geared more towards spike damage rather than speed and soft control. Good spike damage is very important in PvP.

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Could you explain this spike damage please? I made a katana regen toon last night specifically for pvp - if broadsword is going to be better I can still delete and start again!! Thanks dude.

Nicely done sir! Huzzah!

I have 2 gig of ram! I like it looking lovely!

curse you alt-isis! MUST GET TO 35 with ONE TOON!!!!!!!!!