Neuronia

Thanks to his subtle influence, it's no surprise Psoma didn't know that.



Hehe lots of laughs seeing the animated version of Street Fighter; I especially never expected the Mack truck driven by M. Bison at the end. I think someone donated a copy of Street Fighter on VHS tape to me years ago, imploring that I watch it. I don't think I have any way of watching that these days, heh.



Edit, also funny was that our local Uni still has coin-operated arcade machines (I thought those were long since gone to the Old Game Heaven) and the X-Men vs. Street Fighter one still draws a huge crowd of people.
Haha, the silly things people spend money on while "learning".

This. I know the dUmbies are all having a blast, there's just a few forumgoers that like to be drama llamas.

Pretty much bang on. I spent a fair amount of time on my first arc, which admittedly wasn't great, only to have a bunch of Dudley Do Right Critics rain down invective and so on. Fair enough, I unpublished then wrote another arc which people have liked.

Through it all, I wonder if I should even write another arc. If I do, it likely won't get more than a handful of plays and be overshadowed by the AE "Elite" that have the Dev's ears, or those that have become the self-appointed "Hoity Toity Kontent Kops" that will downrate the arc to the point of oblivion.

A big part of the early AE was all the badges and they took those away.
A friend of mine wrote an arc about his characters. Sure, it's Mary Sueism but he had a lot of background notes and clues and dialogue in there.

After three weeks he said:

"No one played my arc, I don't understand."

"Did you advertise it on the forums or in channels?"

"No, I didn't know you had to do that."

So then he went and build a boss farm that got 20 five star ratings.

What did he learn? He learned that he was rewarded for manufacturing grossly exploitive content that gave players quick levelling and fast tickets.
I hardly even look at AE anymore. Honestly. I sometimes log in, try a nice arc and give feedback but what's the point? The author might never get the feedback, might pull down the mission or might not care. These days I just use AE to PL my lowbies to 20 and beyond. I dip into Dev's Choice missions but they've been very uneven. The only ones I have truly enjoyed were the Discount Task Force and Hickman's arc. The latter had custom mobs but they weren't INSANE. The former had a funny story and normal mobs which made it great. A lot of the "Critic's picks" had long arcs with tedious objectives and were just boring, really.

Here's my TL/DR advice to the Devs:

-Add an XP Rating flag to the missions
-Allow farms and add a "Farm" tag to the AE
-Honestly try to get more Dev's Choice or good arcs looked at. There is some GREAT stuff in there but...WE NEVER SEE IT. PLEASE remove Dev's Choice from the front page. When I go into AE and all I see are Dev's Choice I am missing out on a LOT of good missions. "What? Dev's Choice ARE good missions? What are you talking about?" No. Dev's Choice are missions the DEVS LIKED for some reason. A lot of them aren't challenging, the rewards aren't great and the story is so-so. Just as an example, someone wrote a GREAT arc about the Trojan War but it likely never got looked at.
-Make the best stuff Canon. Heck, make zone of the zany, crazy challenging missions canon too. How cool would that be?
-Add a "New Arc!" tag that shows you new arcs in AE.

But please...Devs...AE was a great idea but the split it created between RP-focused writers and farmers was inevitable. You can't stop the farms and you can lead players to AE but you can't make them drink from your mission well.

Just add an XP flag to the missions so we know what to expect.

Thank you.

And you might not turn Scarlett from the corset...

I just spit orange juice on my screen, too funny.

To answer the OP, I'd go with a Sonic/Sonic Defender or hmmm...I was originally going to suggest an Empathy Defender but the other person might not like buffing. How about a Blaster sidekick? You could have your friend on a Scrapper in Melee and with yourself pinging off stuff from range. Oh, the fun to be had in killstealing them!

There's nothing wrong with ANY of these.

Fire/Fire Tanker...my longtime game friend still rocks his Fire/Fire Tanker and farms Dreck with it, he still fairly tears stuff up. Good friend of mine has a Storm/Elec and he used to herd 5th Column in the day, it still pulverizes stuff; perhaps the issue here is people are afraid of knockback. Rad/Ice Blaster? It's a little offbeat but with the patch, fast blasts, - Defense from attacks...stuff is going to die. Earth/Sonic? Slows + holds + team buffs sounds like something I would want on my team. I have a Sonic/Sonic Corr and no one has complained about that. Defenderside will deal less damage but that's a lot of -RES, team buffs...and lastly the FF can give you an incredible amount of defense and Archery is pretty spiffy too.

It sounds like you ran into some elitists or people that just wanted cookie cutter builds. Short of your own behaviour, which I have no reason to doubt as this wasn't brought up, those powersets are all fine. Some people are just jerks. Just form a circle of friends that will appreciate your toons and go from there.

Good luck in the City!

Welcome

(shameless plug)
We have a fairly active group on Pinnacle (a lower pop server, but still decent teaming) called the Lethal Ladies. Check us out and register at LethalLadies.Guildportal.com.

Outside of that, I will personally be glad to help you out with any questions, missions, anything you have. My globals are @Neuronia and @Neuronium and I'll send you a global friend invite as soon as I am on. To find your global friend tab, just click "Friends" then use the tab to "Global Friends" and you'll see a name. That name can be used to communicate with that person anywhere on any server.

Try all the archetypes, explore around, have fun!

Yeah that's true, I don't think anyone has brought up Max in dUmb chat ever... why would we, he's pretty good and knows what he's talking about. It's usually: "Oh man you have to read what barrier said here" or "Did dahjee really say that? Is he/she kidding around?" or stuff like that.

Also, a bunch of us moved toons to Virtue for a few days during the free transfers and it was ok. Not saying it was good or bad, just ok. I don't think anything can compare to Freedom these days and I wish I had rolled stuff there before the I13 Cataclysm if the zone was any more occupied in the day.

Also:

I was in Freedom Pocket D the other day waiting for practice to start and some Fire/Storm was spamming for a duel, so what the hell if I get rolled on my Ill/emp no harm done, if I win no harm done. He goes: "No insp TS on cage match, Oh man I'm so sorry you're gonna die so bad XD." So I ask if we can turn off heal decay, since he's so uber...after 10 minutes I had 1 kill on him, told him I had to go practice and that was that. To be fair it was close with the end drains and such but I can't shake the feeling that some zoners just...not talk but run their mouth (?) and either haven't tested their builds a lot, duelled a lot or are just cocky heh.

Of course, the Devs could then either:

A)Block players from bidding more than 200M through those trades (simply auto-complete trade after 200M has been spent) or
B)Prevent IOs from being sold between 'live' players at all, which would necessitate either use of the Market or SG invites so you could take them from bins.

There's always a way to screw the players, the Devs here are pretty nice though. I wonder if any of them have GMd RPGs before where they had to deal with Monty Haul scenarios, etc.

Anyway, I think we all agree price caps don't work. If the Devs are worried about stuff going for more than Inf cap, they need to either increase the drop rate on those items, make them accessible by other means or perhaps lower the personal inf cap? I'm not even sure if the latter would do anything, given that you'd just fill slots with empty bids, they would just be 1 billion bids instead of 2 billion.

In the end, they might be better off just adding some MASSIVE Inf sinks into the game, or taxing us.

lol. Did anyone rage on you?

Oooh Mad Libs! I love these...

Tonight...you get wrecked by XFunk?
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This.

GL HF and attack the XFunk.

Pretty much this, Psy/EMs are crazy right now, the delayed damage packets are very nice. Also, come to Freedom, you'll find everything from fiteklub to serious arena 8 v 8s to kickball to...whatever you like, it's in Vegas, err Freedom.