Memphis_Bill

I think you're thinking of Tom, who's sleepin' wit' da fishes over in IP.

Little extra information though - have to find the source again - has Adamastor initially from the African coast. The BP's gods were also from the region.

DA's presence - this I seem to recall being the old Prima guide, but where they got *their* backstory info from I couldn't say. They're drawn to it because of a god even older than they are, whose power they want to tap (I want to say it's Mot.) While heroes were distracted with the Rikti, they fired off a ritual which sacrificed ... well, everyone in DA. DA got walled up because they couldn't deal with it at the time.

Whether Mot is "The Sleeper" the COT keep referring to keeping bound, we don't know.

A long, long labor?

Hmm... COH +this +TS/Vent.

Much hilarity ensues.

You'd be upset if COH introduced their New Graphics Engine?

And why would it make you get rid of your car?

Will Ferrel? Ick. Dennis Miller... and SNL was going downhill at the time. Weekend Update was pretty much the only thing I watched from it. Then Colin whatsisface took over.

For some, yes, it's easy - they take away the gun/tools/swords. But for others...
They make a MA/ stalker or scrapper or a Superstrength brute/tanker forget how to hit and kick?
They forcibly separate a Kheldian from the host? You don't have the same character, then.

For *some* characters, maybe - though you'd better have some *damn* weak enemies there. Masterminds are survivable because of bodyguard mode. Now, yeah, it "makes sense" they can't just whistle up their mercenaries/thugs (for instance,) but without them, that's one of the lowest HP, no-defense characters around. And who's going to say "Oh, they're weak now, we'll use the worst guards we have in the area to watch them?"

Don't get me wrong, I like the... I guess "gist of the idea," would be the best way of putting it. Some good (single player) RPGs have done that to players. (And don't most sequels, in general, end up with you back at square 1?) But on the flip side, I'd see it being annoying or frustrating - or just dropped - more often than not.

Finding some way of doing it where you *fail* if you use powers (inherents and autopowers aside - you can't really do anything about those) until you destroy a detector of some sort, for instance, might go over better - but that's going to be a hard mission to tailor. It'd pretty much have to be a stealthing (without using stealth!) sort of mission - no guard deaths, no indication you're there until you hit the device in question. Or you have to not use powers, sneak over and disable a detector - then you can start drawing guards into that room, working your way through, perhaps, so you get more "power-usable" rooms...

I'd say work through various permutations of the concept.

This - and for that exact reason. The devs initially *replaced* seldom-chosen powers in the PPPs (I was surprised some of the pets stayed.) The outcry was ... well, I'm sure they were expecting to see the parking lot swarmed with people holding pitchforks and torches.

For your idea? For me, team teleport is the perfect example. Removing that would have a *huge* impact on some characters - for instance, I've got an elec/elec blaster that plays as part of a (themed) team. I TP everyone in, the team fires off, the enemies are stunned and generally have no END... if they're alive.

Your replacements would not only be completely useless to me, but completely useless to that team, and in fact be *detrimental* to them all.

So... /no.

I've got so many respecs, vet specs, etc. I wouldn't.

The problem with that is that (a) it's not the full population (Arcana, IIRC, got the info from BaBs posting about something, and (b) even for those who voluntarily run one of the clients that reports back, they have to remember to do so and keep it up to date. I know mine are out of date by at least ta month and probably more, for instance, not showing some additions or deletions.

It'd be like using Steam's user hardware profiles to determine what the population as a whole has for hardware (and OS) configurations.

Low levels it wasn't bad. It hurt in the 30s - of course, at that point, we also tended to have a content gap at 38. Running out of things to do (other than run someone else's missions - no newspapers, of course - and rerun a SF) was bad enough. Running out earlier because of debt - with no 1/2 debt indoors, no patrol XP, no form of "debt protection," no patrol XP and double the debt cap? Ow.

Debt now... pretty much isn't a penalty. You rarely see it, when you do it's been softened considerably, and you're out of it *fast.*

Raise your hand if you've been at the old (1.5 million) debt cap. Raise the other if it was in one go at a hami raid

Now with both hands up... gimme your wallet. >.>

Been seeing it higher than Freedom rather frequently, actually.

Discussed previously. Both game (safety, most controllable, 3 axis movement) and technical (increasing fly beyond a certain point causes problems) reasons.
Do some comparison first. By which I mean - "too slow" is like saying it's "too red." Does it FEEL too slow? How does it compare with other cones (wider cone, shorter cast than Shadow Maul, for instance.)
Because it's such a vital power... oh, wait...

With all the other ways to get around, not a big deal that it takes that long. It's a "gimme" power.
No. It'd be completely and utterly stupid to fall off a skyscraper and take no damage. Ski zone = another dimension, different rules. This is just silly to me.

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Dev comment previously, paraphrased:
If they did this, they would NOT increase the drop rate. You just wouldn't see the others drop. Still want it? (In other words, say you're at 25. You currently - making up numbers - get, in a mission, 2 TOs, 7 DOs, and two SOs. You would, instead, have... two SOs. And wonder why the drop rate was "nerfed so badly," most likely.)

No. It's a city. It makes sense to have mass transit. The trains going back and forth add some life to the city. So, again, NO.

Wow, two I can agree with in most instances.
No there doesn't. There doesn't *need* to be a badge for anything. I'd *like* one for Khelds facing Voids -but they've nerfed voids to where they aren't much of a threat.

Yeah, they need to lighten up, giving people things like snowballs or jingle jets inste... oh, wait...
Again - do research. 80' is standard. They certainly don't feel "too slow" to me - and that's with RL archery experience, thanks. It has just the right feel to me.
Because it's not slotted for generally?
So when they drop, don't vendor them. Put them on the market. The invention system is NOT the market. The invention system can work perfectly fine without the market (see merits, drops, trading with friends.)

And get rid of what for it? In other words, NO. Take Fighting.

It's already been reduced massively. Your argument for why is lacking.
While I want stuff in DA, it'd lose a lot without fog - especially for 12 hours. It'd be like a horror movie with no darkness, nobody doing things like investigating that noise, set instead in the middle of a nice, brightly lit field where nothing can happen. It'd be having Freddy Kreuger come around handing out donuts instead of killing people.

Go play with the Jade Spider. Experience the targeting issues. THEN come back to this.
No.

This echoes with the statement made by - probably Positron - around the time of the bigger AE PLing crackdown. (And FWIW, I agree with the sentiment.) He mentioned something similar to "leveling too fast." When asked what "too fast" was, he pointed out that (paraphrasing) if he said, oh, level 20-30 in three hours, the people PLing would just be sure to wait until it was three hours and one minute, and then turn around and say "But you said...."

Leaving it up to discretion is fine.

Is this not set to expire sometime this year? I don't even know if it'll get security updates and the like, since Win7 is released...

There is a price cap already. 2 billion INF. You can't carry or transfer more than that.

And if you don't want to farm INF... don't. First, no IO is needed. Desired, yes. Desire +rarity = higher prices. However, you can trade among friends, run the content that drops the IO (purple = lvl 47+ mobs, PVP IOs = PVP, TF specific, etc,) use the merits you get for mission arcs and task/strike forces, use AE tickets and try for a good roll... the market is not the only source.

Yeah.... pity that thread went poof during one of the maintenances.

For the OP: No, thanks, not that many v.merits for something that does nothing. Far fewer for a mini one, maybe.

Yes. AE is as much a part of the game as Atlas Park (or Mercy Island.) You won't *not* be able to use it. Every edition has the exact same access to everything (this will probably change with GR and its zones and such, as it is an expansion.)

Doesn't help the bane.

The reason you could see that stalker is that they were only relying on hide, and SR has +Perception in Focused Senses.