Memphis_Bill

Have to admit - I'm not quite sure what you mean there.

As long as it's not something else to get stuck in, sure. >.< I'm not sure if the dev team "wants" the portal taking up space or not (and it does take a good chunk of space,) but given the entryway is a "must keep" room anyway, I don't see why we couldn't have a door or some such instead.

A few things:
- "Map port" we're told won't happen. Not least because the 2d map doesn't take 3d into account - it doesn't know if you want to end up on top of a building or in the center of a hill. Things like the mission teleporter are fed the full set of coordinates for the mission entrance.

- Some people - Masterminds, in particular, though I've got a blaster that's part of a set team - use team teleport. Replacing it - as the devs found out with the initial round of Patron power adjustments - is a *bad* idea. (Not sure if you were here for or aware of that or not - initially they just went and replaced the "least used" (or something) powers while the issue was still in closed beta. The (justified) backlash had them add the power instead, giving us 5 in most APP/PPPs.)

... except, of course, that it's good to have that pause to go in, refresh the bubbles, have a few moments as a breather in case you need to heal up/rest/etc, and of course it gives enough time that most of your powers are probably recharged (barring tier 9s) so you can handle the next wave...

Sorry, speeding it up sounds more like "Problem caused" to me.

I found that highly *irritating* when I was there, TBH. Just one of many things. (Along with the "Stretch Armstrong" characters that only had one face, unless you chose to hide it with something, tails sticking straight out the back, the plastic look, the "everyone stand around and wait for this to respawn," ....)

Dual builds have had more impact there, IMHO. One build can focus on offense and self-survival, one on teams.

/this.

You have to go out of your way to be Memphis Bill anywhere - because, y'know, I happen to have different versions of him everywhere (Tanks, scrappers, a warshade, a brute...)

Even in game, per bio his name's William. And you can click on civilians and run across any number of williams.

And yes, from the above - I've been recognized in-game. I've run across Samuel Tow, BillZBubba, Beef Cake, and numerous other individuals who had instant recognition from the forums. When AE was introduced, it was interesting - I was on another brute most of the time, specifically *because* I wanted to poke around (I'd been working on the tutorials in the guide section.) Switched over to the copy of Memphis Bill I'd sent to the test server and had several people ask where I'd been - I had to mention I'd been *right there,* right next to several of them, just on another character. But switching to MB there was no doubt it was me. Recognition *is* a factor, here.

(And no, my global's not @memphis bill.)

I'd drop the "chance of recipe back." The recipe itself isn't "part" of the invention - and what about memorized? (Obviously you can't memorize sets, but still.) The invention fee, yeah, would be gone - heck, i'd say there should be a fee to reverse engineer it, frankly.


Though for the "benches are cluttered," I've got to agree... time to either remind people to use them, or make some of that INF back dropping them on the market.

But utterly useless in PVE, which is where most people are in-game.

In any case, secondaries for stalkers tend to be more defense/etc, so I'm not *sure* trip mine and the like would be there. I wouldn't *argue,* I just wouldn't expect to see it. And besides that... why not take /ninjutsu, which already has two armors, a self heal, smoke powder, blinding flash... it kind of is "devices" designed for a Stalker.

Edit: Just saw the "thought process" post. I don't know, I think I'd go more the *other* way. PFF - to me - isn't helpful on a Stalker at low levels specifically from the "can't attack" bit. If you want a more device-y set, dropping a lot of defense, I'd go for something with more of a decoy/misdirection theme.

Not sure about the "shadow between you and the monitor" - I see that just causing tech support calls

The catacombs... could be interesting, since IIRC Moth Cemetery goes back a long, *long* way (burial ground pre-Paragon.)

I'm pretty sure they fixed that in the old forums.

However, I also think it's re-broken in the new ones - try searching for "Ice" with Blaster, Controller, and Dominator selected. There's absolutely a thread (on the first page, even, as I type this) of the Controller section talking about Ice. You end up with "no matches." But Fire works.

Giant BP ritual near the end of the Rikti war that sacrificed every man, woman, and child in the zone.

Don't be so specific. I could go and ask about "Assault rifle," "AR/Dev," "AR / Dev," "AR DEV" "Rifle," "AR/*" or more terms. Searching on "Dev" is, frankly, a *bad* idea as that's short for "Developer."

I would, frankly, start with -

Term - Rifle
Forums - Select "Blaster," then Control-Click on Corruptor.

Results - 231 hits. Some mentioning AR/ in the title. (At least one even mentioning AR/Dev specifically.)

That said, a direct search on AR/Dev, even within quotes (in other words, "AR/Dev") comes up with nothing. I'm assuming the slash is throwing something off.

Exploration badges also give some XP. And some missions can be completed - but not many - without defeating a single enemy. Just to be *reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally* nitpicky.

It depends on the MM. I find Bots/FF to be very hands off and rather dull. My Thugs/Poison was more hands-on - and the attitude I had towards MMs changed when dealing with the two. I couldn't stand masterminds before, while playing the bot/ff for that very reason. "I don't do anything, it's boring." Now - other than bots/ff, which I still do pull out on occasion - I generally enjoy playing them.

That said - don't forget we do have Going Rogue coming. You like your ill/rad? Hold off and have one switch sides.

It's not broken, it doesn't need to be fixed, any more than someone preferring green over red.

You don't like the lower population servers? Roll on the higher pop ones. Amazing how that whole "personal preference" thing works, huh.

Alternately, if you *absolutely* feel "something" needs to be done, do it yourself. Find people, make up a superteam/SG/themed/whatever, get people who are interested together and put them on the lower pop server.

Banana twins.

Running every AT helps. I remember the blue numbers. >.>

Don't turn off your XP.

Funny how I seem to have gotten so many characters past level 1 in the past five years, even before patrol XP, XP smoothing, double XP weekends, more XP smoothing, XP bumps and all the other BS.

Try not stealthing missions.

Try running missions that arent' grey to you.

If you have half a clue how to play, bump up your rep.

If all that's sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo difficult, try this instead.