Memphis_Bill

Because you weren't supported in the first place.

As they are with... oh.... most other games.

I don't see the surprise in this. Disappointment, as Linux users have moved from "Usually/sometimes works after various amounts of voodoo" to "Not working," but really, Linux just isn't seen as a major gaming (or, really, much of anything mass-market on PC) platform. Most development, if anything, is by small indie game houses. Off the shelf games? I'd be surprised to find ten in the last five years whose attitude toward Linux support was anything other than "If you can get it to work, hey, great - we still don't support it."

Would I like to see that change? Sure.

Do I expect it to? Not in the next five years.

Same here. And a 15 day jetpack. Apparently they've missed me in game.. from... an hour ago? And I left for financial reasons?

I have no idea.

I have a friend who uses that JUST for stress relief when "That *#&4# Ninja ran off again." She just blows them up.

/this. The last console I actually spent time on was an Atari 2600. I've *had* an NES and PS2, but they went away quickly.

The games I like and the flexibility I want are not available on consoles (go ahead, try to play Sins of a Solar Empire on one... or find a *real* flight sim) - and I almost never have trouble with games on the PC.

o.O

O.o

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Wait, I know, that's a typo. It's supposed to be "super."

NP, just giving you grief.

That doesn't resemble concrete at all.

(Personally, I'm thinking/hoping dark/dark.)

Oh, it's pretty clear to me, to be honest. *Immediately* after installing 11.6 - and I tend to not just "install over the top," but uninstall, head to safe mode, run driver sweeper, THEN install the new ones fresh - I went from rock stable to crashing repeatedly.

Uninstall, re-download, clean, reinstall - same thing.

Immedate reversion to 11.5 - all issues stop. No COH patch in between.

... I read that as "A feast for cows." Not quite the same impact with that imagery.

*cough*

>.>

If only there were an actual victim instead of an overblown sense of entitlement.

*Goes back to playing my electric dom which I'd wanted for years but couldn't make until not very long ago*

Loved the character, backstory and look. Hated the powerset. Pushed to 50 because I was (still am) working on getting one of each control set to 50 - only have Electric to go.

Others? (Can't say I'm not giving Illusion a chance, but really, it's my lease favourite control set) :

INEMOC 10 - My complaint with Illusion. "I need more control." That's about all it boils down to - Ill/TA.

Nuclear Shadows - Ill/Rad - Basically inspired by some of the post-Hiroshima/Nagasaki photos with nothing left of a person but ashy shadows on the wall. Haven't really fleshed him out, but he's a lowbie.

And yet, two of my favourite PVP zone memories deal with numbers being very imbalanced - *against* me.

My Peacebringer, in Dwarf form, holding off a near full team of villains while everyone else tried to get organized in the hospital, for instance.

Or my Fire/Kin Corr and - I think it was one other corruptor and a dom, or two corruptors, taking and holding Siren's Call for quite a long time against at least a full team of heroes. We finally fell when *even more* came in.


And I seriously hope that doesn't happen. Coming out on top against uneven odds is a great feeling.

You know where it's REALLY annoying to have suppression kick in, though? When you take an *inspiration.*

Fix't.

Actually, no, making a blaster is fun. Period. I don't need "a few billion in influence lying around" for that.

I don't *care* what other people or other ATs do. If I want damage with a side order of damage, I make a blaster. If I don't want to sleepwalk through a mission and actually want to have to pay attention, I roll a blaster.

Perhaps you're just no good with blasters, which is why they're an "Exercise in frustration" to you.

Er.... Most macs these days (and for some time, really) have come with multi-button "aware" mice. They're busy pushing their "magic mouse" with the current lot, admittedly, where they want you giving it gestures. (And frankly I can imagine the sorts of gestures I'd tend to give it minutes before going out to buy a decent mouse.) They tend to have it disabled in system preferences, however, specifically because of the old one-button mice they used to come with. They had this before it - also multi-"button," hidden under a "buttonless" shell. And of course you can go out and buy and plug in pretty much any USB mouse.

They've come a long way from the hockey puck (which should never have made it into production. That thing was awful.)

*bzzzzt* Wrong.

Dominators had domination changed to remove (as it was appropriately described) "Jeckyll and Hyde" gameplay, where there was a vast gulf between performance in and out of domination - *including* the damage boost it formerly gave. Now they get that damage all the time to help even out the gameplay experience (and some sets such as psi got a needed rebalancing.)

It's a damage boost compared to what they had outside of domination. For some people (no, I'm not one of them) who managed to stack perma-dom, it was a damage reduction. But what they got was *consistent* damage as opposed to "low if you're not in dom, high if you're not."

/this.

Now for something useful - this (should warn about the llittle language at the end,) or for something a bit different (takes longer,) this (with the same language at the beginning.)

So you want the power with no sacrifices?

If you don't want "incarnate-level power," what do you want? Because Alpha, other than the level shift, basically gives an SO or high level common IO's boost across the board, with some effect from ED. To get that, you sacrifice some time to run either a trial or the arc, and grind away to get shards.

And you can certainly meet or exceed what Alpha could give you in various cases - including areas that Alpha can't meet at this time, such as defense in characters with little to no defensive potential in their powers - using set IOs.

It's a choice in what you want to sacrifice.

I suggest you check my various posts on the trials. I'm not exactly a cheerleader on "grind, grind, grind the trial." I've been pushing for solo and small team paths since the system hit beta.
As far as "accruing shards, etc," see comment above. I preferred the alpha *system* over getting a whole new set of exclusive salvage to deal with tier2 and beyond.

And how do the other powers not mesh with a concept? Ignore the funky glow around the Lore pets, pick a robot (or Longbow) and viola, you've got a perfectly "natural human" character that can summon some help... or do you skip things like the Backup Radio and the like? You can explain judgement powers by way of an invention or device. Interface as a new technique you've learned. And Destiny... well, you use inspirations, right? Call it a very big one.

Funny, I haven't found my Blasters, Controllers, Corruptors, Dominators, Defenders, Kheldians or Tanks incapable of completing their own missions.

Yes, even against Malta and Longbow.