Memphis_Bill

*looks at title*

Is this related to hell freezing over?

How about providing the information asked for? AFAIK, nobody here is psychic. I can throw out totally random ideas, but the chance of any being right are pretty low. (Such as "He has a virus that's serving porn behind his back and his HD is full," "Someone managed to resize his partition so he has no space," "His drive has secretly been replaced with Folger's crystals.")

Want me to keep going, or would you like to provide the asked for information so we actually have something to go on?

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It... depends. I mean, you can get into philosophical discussions of just what evil *is* (and how it changes from point of view in some instances, or where it differs from 'uncivilized,' or any number of other things) but that'd take quite a bit. (It's also "Is that what you're really asking," which I don't think is the case - get to that near the bottom.)

Part of the problem, of course, is that this is a game, restricted not only by ratings but by the fact we're creating our *own* characters, interacting with the same world as everyone else's characters. It would be, I'd think, easier to "write evil" (and degrees of evil) in a single player game. Of course, even then, part of the question is "how much do you want to restrict your market" (as well as "how much heat are you prepared to take?")

Do you write in theft? Pretty lightweight.
Drug dealing? Again pretty lightweight.
Murder? We've got it implied at points. (OK, "assassination" or "taking out" people.) But you can RP around it if you wouldn't "murder" ("I'm taking them out of the picture.")

We've got an arc or two where you take someone away for implied beating, torture, etc. Would you want an arc where you were the one doing the torturing? With any degree of freedom? Want aside, would you play it? I don't mean "Yeah, it'd be cool" or "it'd fit my character," but you, personally, getting to spend anything from half an hour to "as long as you can" causing pain, psychological damage and humiliation to a target? How about "You skin them alive and deliver the results, and video, to make your point?" Fits evil, yes? I, personally, wouldn't want to see it mentioned ... pretty much any character of mine had done that, much less saying "OK, player (not character,) this is what you're going to do."

I have to admit, I wouldn't play that. *shrug*

But, as has been mentioned elsewhere, the problem many have with COV isn't that you're "not evil enough," but that you're doing someone else's dirty work. (Again, "What are you really asking," as mentioned.) You're not plotting your own schemes (AE excepted,) making a name for yourself as anything more than a "more competent mercenary." The attitude you get ("You. Scum. Go do this") makes sense early on - after all, who the hell are you and why should I be afraid of you? But higher up? You should be having people (a) afraid of you, (b) wanting to prove THEY are more of a badass by taking you down, (c) trying to get themselves ahead by working with you and surviving it. All of which, of course, make assumptions about your character... which the devs have no control over.

A purchaseable anniversary badge? No thanks. Kind of kills the point of an anniversary badge. It'd be rather like being able to pay to have your name added to the list of "People who have climbed Mt. Everest," f'rinstance.

However, I've somewhat come around to the "Make them global" camp. I *personally* still like them per-character, and before anyone mentions alts I've got over 160 of them. But I can see the argument about the account and person being active for the real-life event and how it makes sense for them to be global.

Main problems?

First, you're assuming a LOT about each AT. We'll go back with your defenders. "You've got to keep this team alive!" I bet you're thinking "So heal!" Especially coming from an emp defender.

Ok. So how do I do that with Trick Arrow? Force fields? Sonic? How about the Rad/ that decided to take the debuffs instead of the pathetic heal? (Honestly, early on, EVERY heal is pretty pathetic.) And what about, say, Kinetics or Dark, where that *has* to hit to heal? (I'm not even going into "Training a defender how to be a healer sounds like training them to be a healer is just wrong." I'm sure you'll get enough of that. Oh, for the record - 50 Emp/Rad, 50 Kin/Dark, 50 Rad/Rad, others scattered throughout the levels. And I'd argue with any "soloing problem," thanks.)

Or, tanks. "Keep aggro?" Sorry, but at low levels tanks are barely less squishy than anything else. Hold aggro means you're going *down.* Not to mention that, aside from Gauntlet, tanks at low levels don't *have* aggro holding powers.

The early level missions need to be generic because at that level, the ATs pretty much are.

Now, do the early missions need a revamp? Yes. They're the same missions we've had for years now. And while I wouldn't mind some AT specialization - well, we do get that somewhat in enemy groups later on. But that should come once the ATs actually *diverge* some past "Ranged" and "Melee."

Loved it... now tell life to stop being hell. It's supposed to listen to you, right?

Experienced and saw mention in broadcast and help:

Hitting "Spam" on an email no longer deletes all emails from that sender. You still see the others, hitting spam again gives "(sender) is already blocked."

I logged in to one of my characters and it popped up on screen.

No, not kidding. >.<

Well, it seems we'll certainly know when we've done one -

Pretty sure mine was a stalker. Stayed invisible, stayed in melee. Looked like my MM - at least like his outline.

Used one of mine yesterday just fine. I'd say it's having a moment, at the moment.

Heh. Been on those a time or two.

Don't think I ever achieved "Nemesis Nemesis," though.