Noxilicious

Yes.

But I won't tell you. It's a secret.

I don't think it's a farmer-exclusive mindset.

I remember in my early months, I saw someone named Captain Planet Pluto. My friend who got me into this game has been pretty vehement about reporting rip-offs, but I was rather mellow about it. For some reason, I just said "you know, that nick is technically against the rules", and suddenly all of Steel Canyon declared me a huge ***** and I should just stick to my own business and whatever.

That day, my heart grew three times darker and I decided to report any infringement I see. Shunned by society, I saw, for the first time, what society was really like: A gathering of amoral criminals, but not for longer! I shall become the Law, and I shall these low-lives in their rightful place!


... be right back, just got a character concept.

See, this is what I don't get. So here's a scenario, just bear with me

In a tragic accident, the MA just gets deleted from the game. Where will the people go? Assumably, they will start doing normal missions again, whether just for fun or to farm.

Where do normal missions take place? In instanced indoors missions. These are completely separate from the normal zones, far away from broadcast range. People will spend about 90% of their time there. Atlas Park may end up being deserted, but so will everything else be, simply because we're too busy doing stuff in instanced missions.

I get where you people are coming from. It LOOKS like everyone went to Atlas Park to farm the AE, but that's misleading. It simply looks that way because you see people there to begin with. What you don't see is the countless people in instanced missions just doing what they wanna do.

I try to refrain from anecdotes because I recognise they are highly subjective, but during the Double XP weekend, I managed to do three TFs. Two were planned, one just kinda happened and I got into it.

To reiterate, the people that play outside the MA are still there, they're just busy, you know, playing outside the MA. You have to seek them out, because chances are, they won't seek you out.

I realise it would be extremely silly to turn this into an argument, so I try not to.

It just baffles me that wanting to have the German and French part out of sight is a 'common request'.

I also don't get why this is worth the effort in the first place, when you have to actively scroll down to even see those forums, and even then, you don't even have to pay attention to them.

Most baffling still is that analogy to foreign language forums to locked forums. It almost sounds like you feel taunted, dared even, by their very presence.

Like LiquidX implied, not everyone reads every section of this forum, but few would complain about their visible presence, hence why I'm just so confused that it's necessary to introduce a feature to make some sections turn invisible.

The default pile of rocks has no primary or secondary sexual characteristics. A pile of rocks is, for all intends and purposes, androgynous. Hell, I can't even imagine how a "female" pile of rocks is supposed to look like.

What you're asking is akin to asking the men behind Nintendo to redesign Samus' power armor to be form-fitting around her chest. I mean, seriously, why would I want to put two special breast rocks when I'm already wearing an armor made of rocks?

A pile of rocks with breasts?

Yeah, it's pretty much an RP thing. My toons start at level 1, after all. They cause some trouble in Paragon City, and then a level 50 hero one-shots them. Being a freelance villain in the Paragon City is pretty difficult, after all. I'd like my villains to go from lowly vermin to despicable Big Bad, so Break Out is canon for all of them, whether explicitly mentioned or not.

Actually, a Boot Camp tutorial zone for VEATs would be nice, and make sense. And yeah, in such a boot camp they would also tell you about how to advance in your career and what it'll entail.

As far as HEATs are concerned, though? I'm actually not sure. Every hero gets their feet wet in Outbreak, and there's no actual plot reasons why Kheldians shouldn't, too.

But yeah, in the end, a special EAT starter zone is very low priority. It's nice to dream, though.

It's just that when people look in your eyes, they find themselves lost in them. Quite hypnotic, really.

Well, there's also the thing where basically everyone in the Zig is a Destined One, hence why Lord Recluse has his men break into prison and rescue half the inmates twice a week.

Soldiers of Arachnos however are... kinda not really Destined Ones, really. I think the idea is that you just got finished with boot camp and you are on guard-duty on Fort Mercy when Alan Desslock lures you into his van with promises of candy.

It IS possible to satisfy you, right? I'm starting to have my doubts here.

What this means is that for the next seven issues, people will ask for a whip powerset. Can't give one AT fancy new toys without other ATs getting jealous, you know?

This is why CoH is bad for you. It spoils you with sweet, sugary goodness like its character creator so that the character creators in other MMOs seem like prison meals, to the point you don't even want to start the game proper because you know, you know, that you will meet your perfect clones, of which there are numerous, at least twelve times an hour.

Really, CoH was the first MMO that gave you the satisfaction of saying "this is my toon, this is my in-game avatar and mine alone". It made you feel unique in a game with a hundred thousand players and at least ten times as many toons. Compare that to most other MMOs, wherein you just need, oh I don't know, three ploayers for two to look alike already.

I'm not much for PuGs, and I have yet to try my hand at a Brute, so I can't speak about them, but I know that MMs have a, for this game, purely relatively speaking, a steeper learning curve.

I think the worst part is the three macros an MM gets upon creation. When I rolled my first MM, I assumed those three macros were obviously sufficient because, hey, the devs gave you them, so they can't be bad. Well, I have yet to set up binds or macros of my own for maximum control, but I started having a greater control over my pets when I removed those three starter macros from my tray and set the pet menu controls to advanced.

I guess I should elaborate on my problems with the default macros, though. For starters, there's the fact that they all effect all pets. That alone is bad simply because it means two of three macros will put all your pets out of bodyguard mode, meaning that any stray bullet could end you.

Then, one of the macros will set all your pets to passive/follow. I can see some merit behind not wanting your pets to shoot stuff in some situations, but most of the time? Not having them in bodyguard mode is, as I said, foolish.

Then there's the aggressive/attack macro, which seems to be the cause of most of the grief players have with MM toons: Once on aggressive, your pets stop caring what they're hurting, and aggro everything. You are actively abandoning your control over pets that way. Hell, I really see no reason to set your pets to aggressive, ever. I'm a Mastermind! I should tell my henchmen what to do, not just tell them to do as they please!

The Defensive/Follow Me macro is the only one I actually like, if only it sets all your henchmen into bodyguard mode, which should, for all intends and purposes, be your henchmen's default state. I could see myself still using this if I didn't already got rid of it.


Do note that I *love* Masterminds. But the thing with them is, daddy just put some extremely wobbly training wheels on them, and you'll actually be safer if you get rid of them. Hell, one of these days, I ought to set up some keybinds myself. That's gotta make being a Mastermind even more awesome, right?


And because I cannot ranting: I guess the problem with 'incompetent brutes' is that they have no idea when to actually stop attacking? That they actually aggro as much as a bad MM's henchies do, except on purpose, and then end up surprised they face-plant, or even blame the Corruptor or Mastermind for not supporting him when they were in fact too busy to take care of the rest of the team? Is that correct?

Right here, my good friend.