Oedipus_Tex

According to the United States 2010 census, about 5.6% of the US population is either Asian alone or Asian in combination with one other race. I would call "being Asian" a fairly common condition in the US.

Or to look at it another way: on a league of 24 league players who are males, 6% of 24 is 1.44 people per league who are color blind. In a league that is 50/50 male/female, the chances are slightly less than 1 person per league.

6% isn't "fairly common," it's "so common as to be assumed."

That's assuming the 6% number is real.

Well, the point was not intended to be that a level 6 character could pick powers that would fit into a level 50 build. At least that is not what it used for in other games I have seen it in. It's just a small finishing touch that IMO makes them look modern and polished. Yes you can reroll in those games as well for about the same time sink, but you don't have to. You can test out a few starter powers, get an idea of what the ones you have do, get an idea of what the ones you don't have do so you can consider that in the future, and just play from there.

And to avoid confusion, the contact in those games specifically says "You are allowed to rechoose your powers until you leave this tutorial." Are some people envisioning new CoX players literally having to type "/respec?" I was thinking more of the talk to dude in Galaxy City, except only in the tutorial zone and without a check to see if you have respecs stored. Anyway it seems to work fine in other games that have it. Certainly much easier than the counter suggestion to use the Test Server, which if I'm not mistaken means getting to whatever level without picking any powers, then transferring, because you don't get unlimited respecs there either and the auto-50 code is not always turned on, and as was pointed out, you can't use an alt build either. And even if you did level up without picking any powers, your first pick was locked before you ever set foot in the game and cannot be changed without a respec.

Only if there is cosplay involved and he(?) pays.

Yes, thankfully you were here to provide a 2000 [EDIT: probably closer to 4000 now] word essay across 8 posts. Without you, this might have been implemented overnight when no one was looking and my god, what a disaster THAT would be. :P

I can appreciate what you are saying, but thanks to IOs, many characters can deflect attacks with no rational explanation whatsoever. If someone wants to claim they are surrounded in invisible Ice armor I think they are obviously mistaken, but to me this isn't the same as saying the only way a cold based armor makes sense is if you can actually see a solid sheet of ice wrapped around the player. I think players need to take individual responsibility for making sure their powers makes sense for their concept, whether this means using some of the effects but not all, using auras to achieve the desired effect, or having some other explanation for why their powers look the way they do (e.g. "I am made of Ice, not wrapped in it.")

A possible solution would be for the elemental armors to contain the option to select armor effects identical in appearance to other effects in the set. That way you'd always ensure there is *some* effect, but there would be some more room for variation. I think it is kind of unnecessary though.

Of course this is off topic, since the OP was talking about Electric Control.

The OP is actually talking about Electric Control I believe.

Personally I would vote for a no-FX option for the various Elec/Dark/Ice/Fire shields though, other than the PBAoEs. I have never bought the explanation that it is critical to show the armor effects visually, and don't personally believe the explanation for any of them has to be "you are wrapped in this element" as opposed to "you are made of this element" or whatever else. Shield Defense is probably the exception case.

Correct. Both Gravity and Electric lack AoE -kb. I tend to feel that while Storm made some of Electric frustrating-ish for me, Gravity would actually do worse on the whole. Most of the supposed benefits of Gravity/Storm (e.g. ability to knock down despite immob) are also true of Electric. I guess Gravity can stun stack between Thunderclap/Wormhole, but I'd give Synaptic Overload by itself higher marks than that combo. If they ever fix the animation time on Propel and get serious about gravity's AoE control options it might be a more competitive comparison.

I'm sorry but six posts later from you and I'm still not exactly sure what it is you disagree with. That a developer might spend time on this instead of something that needs it more? It's just a weird amount of attention to pay to a threadbare topic. I don't care to defend the topic very vigorously because it just isn't that important. But also IMO not really worth a debate about player intelligence and guilt trips for not using existing resources.

Your suggestion to use the test server on a level 6 newbie, BTW, is bizarre. Much more so than anything in my OP. Rerolling or using an alt build would be more realistic.

There was. It did that at least as recently as when I first started playing. If it hadn't I'm sure it would have taken me a long time to find out about it.

I pretty much agree with your reasoning. I also agree with the OP that the encounter is fairly boring. I think meeting half way by having the waves spawn only after the previous wave is defeated is the ideal combo.

I suppose it could force a full respec at the same time, which in turn removes any possibility of slotting illegal invention pieces. I would guess the hardest part is dealing with taking away the temp power and replacing it with a different one.

But this also doesn't seem much more controversial to me than gender switching.

It was a small QoL suggestion, not a complaint in disguise. I don't really see how it could have generated so much controversy. If it happens great, if not, whatever. I think the amount of effort you're going to to say it should never happen is kind of over the top though. Other games have this feature without the world coming to an end or people being guilted out of using it. :P

To be honest I doubt if at this point more than about half of any Keyes team has any idea what is going on moment to moment. I have read multiple guides and done the trial 4 times (3 successes 1 fail) and still usually have no idea where I am supposed to be going or doing at the appointed time. I tend to see people scattered all over the map, running every which direction because many of them don't know what is going on. My suspicion is the vast majority of Keyes victories are carried by 8 to 12 core league members, with everyone else maybe understanding not to attack the AV and basically just trying to follow the crowd, without any real understanding of what they are supposed to do. I know my first two runs I didn't use a single temp power despite getting 4 or 5 of them dropped on me because it was too unclear what I was supposed to be doing, even after reading multiple guides. The vertical element on the map makes sticking near people much harder than it might otherwise be.

Please please please tell me this isn't true. At least with the current system I can moonlight my way through a BAF half paying attention in the hopes of rolling a Very Rare while watching something on Netflix. If I have to start farming Keyes for the chance of getting a drop, my grade for this system would drop from D- to a solid F.