Master-Blade

Indeed. I was basing my statement on this other source: Mongoloid_race#Criticism

"Today, the term is regarded by some as potentially offensive"

"All the -oid racial terms (e.g. Mongoloid, Caucasoid, Negroid, etc.) are now often controversial in both technical and non-technical contexts and may sometimes give offense no matter how they are used. This is especially true of Mongoloid because it has also been used as a synonym for persons with Down Syndrome. A shortened version of the term.... <insert name here>"

Personally, I would have never made that connection without doing these searches. It's seems kinda silly that the shortened word is censored, but the full word is not.

Anyway, I hope the OP figures out the self-mail system. haha

Putting a * in the search will search for any channel with a * in the name, which I'm not sure is even allowed, so you wont get any results doing it that way.

As mentioned above, you could just search for "Justice" or something to find some Justice channels, or it might be beneficial to just visit the Justice Forum and find the thread that lists their most popular global channels.

I'm not familiar with Justice, but a quick search showed that "JFA2010" and "Justice United" seem to be the two current main ones. A handful of the other channels you might find doing a "Justice" search seem to have been merged into those two. That should at least get you started until you play with people and work your way into some of the smaller, private channels.

It's not going to show you everything at once. You have to type something into the search and it will give you a list based on that.

I saw what you said, and I don't take it personally. The problem with what you said was "I feel we share a difference of opinion".

I guess that may be true, but the only thing I'm trying to convey here is FACT, not opinion.

"Healing is useful" is NOT the opposite of "Healing is not necessesary".

Both are true.

Yes you are.. See Below..
The point is, "sturdy teams" are actually quite common. "Healing is not necessary" (for them). People who wait around specifically for a "healer" to show up are the ones missing out.

As i said in a previous post... you can't make a generalizations based on specific situations. There are a million ways to be useful in this game. Having powers that heal just happens to be one of many.

Hence, the impact that mis-information has on the community.

I'm sorry if you are taking it personally. Nobody is getting hostile. Everybody is entitled to a difference in opinion. This thread is more about incorrect facts though, and the fact is.. "healing is not necessary". It may help you and your teams sleep better at night, and that's fine.. but telling everybody else that they need one is just plain wrong.

The problem is, you are contradicting yourself within your own argument. Your original post here stated "Those who say that healing is not needed are missing the point.", then you turn around and admit "Perhaps not needed"

I'm one of the people saying that healing is not necessary, but it is you that is missing the point. I'm not saying it isn't useful.

That's not mis-information. That's mis-interpretation. You are arguing a case with unrelated (and unopposed) data.

All this does is prove that Empathy can be useful in specific situations. It doesn't mean it's a necessary component in every Team. It also doesn't prove that the healing part of the set is what saved the team. In many cases, the extra buffs from Fortitude alone can turn the odds around. A toon with shield buffs might have been just as useful for that team. Not having been there, I can't say for sure.. but that's what happens when people make generalizations about something based on specific situations.

The point is not to say that Healing is useless. It's just to say that there are other options. Not for nothing, but when I am playing my Emp Defender on the same team as a FF Defender, I tend not to have to even bother using my heals. Instead, I'm using my secondary powers to attack the enemy... something that many Emps seem to neglect.

In other news, Empathy isn't the only set that has healing powers either.

Along those same lines, it still annoys me when people refer to one of the towers as Yellow, and make it a main priority as if it's LR's ToHit bonus... thinking it will help the Tank survive better while the team takes down the rest of the towers. If that was their goal, they should be taking down the blue tower, as that's the one that gives him his Tohit and recharge bonuses.

Don't get me wrong. People can feel free to lead their team any way they like and choose to take the towers down in whatever order they wish, but when they are constantly passing out the wrong information to their teams, it causes people to possibly make the wrong decisions for their own teams later on.

In the long run, they are simply just colors and don't necessarily have to correlate to the effect they are having. In fact, the "Yellow" tower is actually Orange and grants him capped Defenses. They could have made it purple to make it more clear for people, but they didn't. It shouldn't really matter what color it is. The only reason I care if people call it Yellow is that it gives a false impression of what it's doing for LR, which can be just as bad as falsely telling telling them it's a ToHit bonus.

Some people may argue that it looks Yellow to them anyway. That's fine. In reality I'd agree it's a bright Orange beam mixed with Yellow flashes of light. The overall color borders on a Dark Yellow (kinda like a School Bus). Either way, the color was never really the point anyway, as I mentioned above.

As for the Ghost Widow strategy you mentioned.. that's still used today, and can work just fine. Saying whether or not it is the "best" way is completely an opinion, and based on specific circumstances. It's not a fact that can be proven or disproven. It's just one of any number of strategies used based on what the team is composed of.

That's what I thought. I just never examined it after they lowered it from 50.

In that case, leaving the Pylon up does nothing to the Mitos that I could notice with the Power Analyzer. Maybe we should just add this to the Mis-information thread. rofl

Yeah, that's the more obvious one I should have realized on my own.

The Valentine Event comes to mind. Before GR, that's the only place it was available for Heroes.

On a side note, I'm curious about something now. If a Rogue toon goes into a Hero's CoT mission (in Paragon City) first, will it spawn the "Villain CoT" the same way it does in PocketD during the Valentine Event? Is this badge now available in the "off-season" to people who don't have GR?

As far as I can tell, all three work just fine in the chat window, in the chat bubbles... and even in character Bios.

Indeed:
Pressed the Red Button

The whole time, I've been following what the Wiki said. "Timer only counts while she is on the map."

I didn't participate in Beta and kinda got a late start on i19, as well as an even later start on the Alpha Slot and TFs. I didn't really keep track of the threads going on at the time, and the ones I did see happened to mention the same thing, so that's what I trusted. Where did they originally get that information from anyway? Let's be clear that this isn't my theory and I didn't make it up. I'm not trying to be right either. I really thought that was the way it worked based on what I've read and experienced, and didn't know any better. All I did was make a silly comment saying that maybe he had more time than he thought, and all this debate suddenly happened. lol

So far, it hasn't steered me wrong, but I guess it's possible that all of my personal encounters could have been in a "butter zone" that fits each of our possible requirements (except maybe one of them that I mentioned before). It wouldn't explain some of the other reports either unless they were also including the sword ambush at the beginning for some reason.

I'll try to run Fraps on any of my future encounters so they can be re-timed after-the-fact for comparison. It might be a little tricky trying to get people to sandbag to the 15 minute limit just to experiment though, especially since they are trying to actually earn the badge, and the last run we did took her down in all of 3 minutes (absent time not included). lol

"Army of Me" is for defeating your 8 clones in the first mission of the second arc. The badge for completing that arc is indeed called "Explosive Finale".

So that makes 3 badges from the arcs tonight... if you decide to fight 8 clones.

Well, it does and it doesn't. When used "correctly", it shouldn't really decrease your overall XP/hour, but it still gives you less XP per individual kill.

I think all standard rewards (xp/inf/prestige(?)) are doubled during Dxp, but unfortunately.. I think the Shards count as drops like the recipes and salvage and would NOT be doubled.

Dumple is a sad panda?

Bring on the Hami Raids!

Well that's a different type of merge altogether. To be honest, I don't see why it would be such a big deal to have access to both on the same client. It's not like the clients are really different other than their server lists to begin with anyway. lol
All they'd really have to do is flag our accounts for access similar to when CoH and CoV access was merged... right?