Mega_Jamie

Doesnt matter what build you are using when you run the trial, it just matters what build you are using when you engage the respec

On map

Its quite possible in other places the lines now have a connection terminus, but travel between the 2 furthest apart zones is just as quick as travel between 2 interconnected zones on the choochoo, as the other would be crazy.

Its quite easy to explain that away, and suspension of disbelief isn't too much required.

Doing the same with completely different boats as they are now is slightly harder.


Tho for the record, I think it should be easier to get to PI from IP, especially since Statesman specifically asks you to go there.

"We need you to get to Portal Corp stat... so take that train over there to Talos, run a few miles to the ferry and erm, well you're gonna need to wait until it's normal scheduled departure time, then race a few miles from the dock to Portal Corp"

"Couldn't we just take this boat statesman? or the submarine thats clerly too cramped for all of us plus the MM's pets but we took it to the Rogue isles anyway? Or even Stutter's boat?"

"...no"

Of course, theres always the Ouro portal...

Individuals who were willing to spend the amount of money on the game that got you to 6 slotting all you're powers would have a massive advantage in pretty much any build situation than an individual who did not.

Whod effectively be creating an extra tier of segregation between those happy to just use the points they get as their subscription for littl ethings, to those willing to spend more money on being massivly OP.

I'm sure the devs want our money, I'm sure they want it enough to know that a fair few people would stop playing if they needed to invest a massive amount of money into the game to have their builds have the potential to be equal to others.

Would it be a one off purchase for all characters on an account? (and when would thse slots be given) or would each individual character have to have it bought for them?

More flesh Chris Hemsworth shows off the better, no sleeves!

I always got the impression that very few were chosen to go and look into the time vortex and actually choose a new name and become a time lord, but that this alternate state had become synonymous with Gallifreyans, when it existed more as a superhero/higher class structure, and the name caught on as synonymous because they had most of the dealings with the outside universe.

Rather humerously, its called Inertia Reduction...

Yeha im not posting here to cause aggrevation and second guess, while I totally agree it reads like have to use the power, and its how I've read it each time I've read it, A part of me sees a small hint, that perhaps it could work the way I would like it to.

I was mostly just curious whether it had been confirmed over how it works since i'm not lucky enough to be in Beta, or have made it all the way to San Diego

i was going to quote that, and be ever so slightly more crass...

The Procs in Pet sets Provide the player with an aura power which affects your pets these work just by being slotted, but provide you with a bonus regardless of how often they are used.

I guess my hope was that the simple fact of having it slotted would grant you a power which had a 3 in 60 seconds chance of proccing a BU affect.

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Were you at Comic Con and Or Directly asked a Dev to clarify this is how they work?

I could read both Proc chance on power activation or global proc chance based on having the power slotted from that description.

While I admit the former is more likely based on what it says, the latter is more inviting...

1) Cell cillia, definately would make it feel more alive, im guessing the hardest part of the Hamidon encounter in making it feel alive is that it has to be stationary as theres no way to tether the Mitos to the Nucleus.

2) Cell division would be cool, but it may increase the difficulty on leagues if theres say ony 1 tank showed up and you're needing to coordinate efforts. Also as a 'Super-Cell' theme, Mitosis based divison is to create 2 equal cells, which would mean 2 Hamidons (oh noes) Meiosis based division creates only 2 half cells, which I guess could reform halfway through the fight.

Whats boring about the Hamidon encounter for me is the repetition, Perhaps have (and I know this is deviating slightly from the art topic, but since its suggesting new art assets, hopefully staying close) The hamidon attempt to go through mitosis, and have the structures involved in the Prophase begin to appear, the Nucleus would become immune to damage (and perhaps untargatable just to let people know) and the centrosomes begin to mvoe away from the Nucleus to prepare for DNA replication,

these would become the main target, control affects would all slow their progression to the outerwalls of the cell, while raw damage would ultimately be required to defeat them and they must be defeated before they reach the outerwall (this would allow teams that are control heavy to defeat them by leveraging enough control affects, and teams damage heavy would achieve also)

Once defeated the Nucleus would remain in its open state with the DNA available for targeting.

If something like this happened near the end of the fight, even perhaps that last 25% it would go along way to making it feel like a living organism, aswell as getting rid of that Fight-Bloom-Fight-Bloom-Fight-Bloom-Fight mundanity.

3+4)More outer detail - yeah, awesome

5) Floating stuff - Brilliant, maybe a few Crey Scientists, an odd 'Random Button' hero (or villain) corpse, maybe even a few skeletons if thats possible and within the age rating... humerous props for a Shivan or 2...

As has been mentioned to go along with this, an applied hover affect would be awesome, of course some people won't want this, so have the vendor or a NPC give away a temporary power which grounds you, -fly - jump kind of thing.

6) Additional Organelles - as I mentioned earlier, anything to get rid of the repetition, tbh, you know now you will win the Hamidon encounter if you can get to the first bloom, assuming no-one leaves etc, it becomes just a repetion time sink after that.

7) Cytoplasm Bursts - if this combined with 5 and 6 (the part of you're 6 where some are aesthetic) then you could have the organelles break down and release their sub structers that float around a bit


I think alot of the aesthetic could be altered aswell without too much of a tough change, Hamidon's Nucleus does a good job of looking like a cell Nucleus (although again, in Biology this has a surrounding structure which could be broken down as the first wave, but again, more work)

But the Mito's do a pretty poor job of looking like actual Mitochondria, their shape is off.

And Why have just Mitos? you could include, just as an example Lysosomes and the Golgi Apperatus, replacing 2 colours of Mito with those.

Or, while Hamidon closely resembles an animal cell with no cell wall etc, since he has such a big control over the Devouring Earth, he could be a hybrid and contain Plastids.

Or even better, have the initial part of the encounter being to break down a cell wall that has formed around him.

Bad guys always understand the finer points of dramatics.

The flip side of the latter half of that is then having to wait a whole year before you get a new Reward, which could stagnate for a lot of players.

which tends to be the approach I take in life in general.

I dont go around broadcasting perosnal infomation, but if theres an annecdotal story about my boyfriend that fits the situation I will nearly always tell it, because its just as normal for me to as a woman would about her boyfriend or girlfriend.

it doe shave a special levity in online games, new clan members when I played counterstrike were often very... confused that a homosexual just took all their heads with his Para Machine gun from across the map...

In MMOs it just creates a funny conversation path so familiar I barely need to experience it, but honestly, its worth the sharing personal information a bit just for a giggle, and lets be honest, I'm the guy that could be using his real name as part of his pseduonym...

to OP and on topicish;

How soon after gender locked servers do we get ethnicity locked servers, just so people arnt afraid of getting racial abuse, infact, lets just go one step further, there shall be the @Mega Jamie sever, and I shall choose who is allowed on that and therefore control every powwible interaction I may possible have.

Sure it would be a fairly low density server, but atleast I wouldn't have to taddle on anyone with the /report tool.