Nethergoat

sweet!

I can always get behind another reason to take a snipe...


signed!

Another evening of random gamplay on assorted characters.
One thing I can say for the limitations of Freemium, the lack of slots prevented my alt-itis and general gaming ADD from kicking in too hard.

So last night I did my usual nosing around the market, fussed with a couple of costumes & made a new character with the design parameter of patterned tights only. Nosing around the 'post your best costumes here' thread the other day was, as always, partly inspiring (so much awesome!) and partly depressing (too many options, aieeeeeeeeeee!) so I went back to basics for my heroic dark/dark dominator Plasma Noir. I'll try and remember to post a screen tonight, really happy with how he turned out. I did cheat a *tiny bit* by giving him one of the Celestial floating neck things- it was gonna be a cape, but I was browsing around and it just looked so cool on him....


Finally got around to actually playing the game! and rolled through the first 3/4ths of Bane Spider Reuben's arc with Night Bee.

Great stuff, really fun. Loved all the villains hanging around the warehouse in the first episode, I went around getting all of their dialog before heading through the door to chat with Zukor. This strikes me as a terrific way to go about delivering a wordy/story mission that still has replay value. Replaying Twinshot's stuff I find myself madly clicking through dialog trees to get to the action. Replaying this one, I can just head straight to the guy I need to talk to and ignore all the other villains.
Neatly done.

I'd run this mission before with a brute, I think it was my stone/fire, and the brawl at the end was ROUGH. Went down, had to pop the vet reward rez, burned almost a whole tray of inspirations....a real knock down drag out affair.

With Night Bee, things went *much* smoother- thank you, /traps!
Dropped caltrops, plopped down Acid Mortar then laid into him with my electric zaps while he scurried around. Managed to get his end completely drained after a bit (I have Short Circuit slotted with endmod) and that was all she wrote, aside from having to convert some inspirations to blues so I didn't run out myself.

The next mish was Stomp Arachnos, not particularly good or bad- a throwback to the old days.

Next up was Infiltrate Longbow. Went to the mish, hoppped in...and suddenly I was a cool metallic night widow?

Gotta save this one for my son, who loves "disguises" more than anything else besides flying up to the 'roof' of the map then detoggling and falling all the way back down.

Logged out and hit the sack.

Finished that mish this morning- pretty fun, in spite of my innate distaste for longbow. The ambushes at the end were *perfectly* balanced- tough enough to make me worry, not so tough I faceplanted. Burned all my inspirations, made it out the end with a bit of health left. Very satisfying, and let my son run around the (now empty) map until he'd had his fill of our disguise.

He's always disappointed when we leave a mission and go back to 'normal'....I have a feeling he's going to completely flip out over the Halloween event.

Had to head out for work, intend to finish it up this evening and hopefully finally get around to Graves' arc.

the more I think about it, the more Adam X deserves the #1 spot on that list.

Setting blood on fire is a power so ridiculous not even the Legion of Superheroes would admit him....he'd be laughed out of the clubhouse by Ferro Lad & Bouncing Boy.

loved the Ostrander/Truman Grimjack.

That series was the inspiration for my first nom de forum, pre-internet when all we had were individual BBS's we dialed into on our hot **** 1200 baud modems....

here's Patton Oswalt, the OMAC of Twitter, the single reason to sign up even if you think you hate Twitter:

just had to say I love the title of this thread so much I want to marry it.


except that would be bigamy....

This thread is even more like a particularly stupid dog interminably chasing its own tail than most, so I'll sum up and sign off.


Regarding character names, embracing the status quo leads has no down side.

Nobody really cares about "taken names". Names are largely a "black box"- other than devs, nobody knows what names belong to what account, active or inactive.

No player, not even the ones screaming about the tyranny of the evil name-squatters, will hurl their toys at the wall and stomp off because they didn't get a first choice name. They'll come up with another name they like and continue playing.

Meanwhile purging names will definitely antagonize returning customers to zero benefit.

And that's a bad idea, however you feel about the rights of inactive vs current accounts.

An invisible, intangible benefit you get no credit for vs. a concrete harm visited on potential future customers is no contest.

pretty much all of them.

played them to death back when that was our only option aside from street sweeping, never want to see them again.


I haven't even played the low-ish level CoV arcs in a few years, and those are all Oscar nominees penned by Pulitzer Prize winning screenwriters compared to the junk on blue side.

yeah, what Uber said...

twitter is freakin' awesome...it's like browsing the web for entertainment gold, only other people do the work for you.

what makes a blaster fun for me is effective ranged damage.

I don't get hung up on numbers- every blaster I've ever played did enough damage, that wasn't the problem.

what makes them not fun is spending a substantial % of my playtime stunned, held, on my rear or at the hospital.

The only two blasters who've survived my various server purges and achieved a high level are my ar/dev and my fire/ice, two secondaries that substantially improve said blaster's survivability.


To that end I'd say you can 'fix' the AT by improving their survivability, however that is accomplished.