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So, uh, MrCaptainMan? What numbers do you like in the lottery? >.>

Yes. The level of the enhancement doesn't matter as far as getting set bonuses goes. A level 10 enhancement and a level 50 enhancement from the same set in the same power will give you the bonus for having two pieces of the set.

It can affect your bonuses when you exemp to a lower level though. If you exemp too low for part of the set to count you only get the bonus for the pieces that are still within the right level range.

The bottom part of this ParagonWiki page has a good example on it.

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Can we use 'bosch' and 'hun'?

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Go nuts? The Huns were an actual people, it was the comparison that was intended to be unflattering. There isn't anything offensive in talking about the Huns, I think. Compare that to "Nip" where nobody has called themselves that AFAIK.

You've stumped me on Bosch though. I knew there was a painter with that as a last name and Google returns hits about an appliance manufacturer?

Incidentally, I'm not defending having the word "nip" in the censored list. It's just that of all the ways to use the word that's the only reason for it to be censored that I can think of. I don't think it's even been in use since the 60's at the latest.

I agree that someone needs to go and weed through both the chat filter and the Mission Architect filter. Wasn't the chat filter just lifted from another NCSoft game and then added to every so often? It's probably full of random words that most people don't even know could be used offensively. I'd guess it's a case of "better safe than sorry" because people are just stupid and easily offended. *shrug* Beats me what the best way to decide a list of bad words is.

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I would like Dark Blaster for Blasters, Energy Aura and Ninjitsu for Scrappers.

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Wait, someone wants Energy Aura?

Admit it, you just have the name Disco Ball O' Doom camped and need to use it.

Archery and Trick Arrow for Corrupters.

Claws for Brutes.

Sonic Resonance for Masterminds.

Going Rouge

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If a word like "nip" is banned because it MIGHT refer to anatomy as a kind of slang or when it's wild-carded in a regex then we're all pretty much hosed anyway. Give us the entire English language to work with and let us decide if a word is "bad" or not.

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I doubt that's why. It's WW2 slang so I understand that it's not the most common phrase anymore but "Nip" is a derogatory word for a Japanese person. It is comes from "Nippon", an Anglicization of the Japanese name for Japan. It used to be a fairly common racial slur.

I agree that there are words in the filter list that shouldn't be though. I'd be happier with multiple filter lists, one for names, one for Mission Architect titles, and one for the general chat. Each one could be more specific about what they filter instead of the generic "it's all bad" we have now.

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Also, IBTL due to the tread devolving into a debate on nationalism

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City Life doesn't get locked. He's beyond locked. He goes plaid or something. I'm a little disapointed in this one though. Usually he puts some effort into not making sense. Must be a holiday in France. (He's French, you know.) Poor City Life will never be Unique Dragon. He's not even Powers.

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I find the post and delete thread bumping hilarious.

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Aw. You ruined it. I wanted to see how many times the OP would do it.

I believe it's still possible to /playernote yourself. Using it that way means you don't have to worry about encountering someone else with the same name as your text file.

Well, there's nothing stopping you from asking. I'd be suprised if they did it for you, but it never hurts to ask.

Other than resubbing the old account you could wait until a free activation weekend rolls around. I couldn't tell you when the next one of those would be. There was one when I14 came out to show off the MA, I doubt I15 will have one though. Maybe the next 2xp weekend?

At least you know nobody will take the name from you in the meantime.

edit: Completely beaten to the punch. And with better info too.

This thread would be a hit, but accuracy was nerfed. At least 14 times so far, plus however many times they did it without telling anyone.

Too bad. It looked like a critical.

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~Teleportors to: hive, monster island, RV, Warburg, Bloody Bay, and Sirens Call

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Honest question, how is it too unbalancing for PvP? I'm not sure what you could get out of it. Die, load up on inspirations and return? Can't you do that now?

I don't see how it would mess with Hami raids either. Don't you count as having left the zone if you hosp to base? So you'll still have to leave, free up a slot if someone's trying to get in, and then try to return. Not sure what the difference is between clicking at the zone entrance and a base teleporter.

But where do the Gundams fit in?

Heh, yes. I skipped number 4 from the cut and paste response. It's about customization and I figured he'd gone on long enough about that.


Hey KMB, are you in marketing? I ask this as someone who is going into that field. It's quotes like this

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I don't know how or what all they would have to do when it comes to coding. When it becomes too much or when it's easy. I'm just posting my suggestions and ideas with as much information on how I think it could be done as possible.
I'm creative, not technical. when it comes down to it the biggest argument against my idea is my lack of technical information

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Always leave you wanting more than do something that was perceived as impossible. It's classic showmanship. You might need to take off your blinders and look outside your box and see what I'm actually saying.

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that make all those tech people hate marketers.


Edit: Saw your last two posts. No, no you can't be. My mistake.

Congratulations!

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- More vehicles as npcs. like the sky raider sky skiffs but more variety. Such as tanks, Jets, Helicopters, unicycles, bicycles, motorcycles, cars, trucks, vans, hummers, jeeps, boats, subs, etc. Something more than just the blow up items in missions. Something that can attack back and/or drive away.

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*shrug* New enemies is fine. I've seen suggestions to have tanks to fight before. Not sure how well it could be done, and it would looking really out of place in a mission, but sure. Why not?

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- More missions that involve vehicles. Perhaps stop a drive by shooting by blowing up the car as it drives by. Or a war scenario (which might be what we're getting with the next expansion, I can't wait to find out more about going rogue, it has to be awesome). Maybe another Hami that is a vehicle instead of a giant cell.

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This isn't different then the first one, and a Hamidon sized vehicle? What?

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Part 2 -

- An expansion dealing with adding vehicles to the invention system. Vehicles would be temp powers that you can create (probably about 10 uses). Vehicles can only be used in appropriate places, no indoor missions, only outdoor missions, on ground that is traversible by SS without jumping, vehicles sink in water and toons come up to surface of water. No strife left or right. No Jumping. Forward, Backward, Turn left or right.

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This doesn't actually solve any of the problems, just handwaves them away. It also means adding something like the Pocket D's teleport suppression to all maps you think vehicles aren't appropriate for, a process that's bound to be buggy. Since I don't think there's any other way to keep me from using a power in a specific location.

I don't have a clue how you're going to stop me from strafing and I have no clue how you expect me to "sink," the water here is pretty shallow. I suppose a huge -jump (worse than Granite?) will keep people from offroading too much, but you know there will be Kinetics players who take that as a personal challenge and get the cars to jump anyway. Expect to see "Off Road Rally" style events and cars hopping everywhere.

It also doesn't address the big honking problem how do you use powers with vehicles?

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- unicycles (read an interesting thread about unicycles), bicycles, motorcycles, cars, trucks, vans, hummers, jeeps, no limos or semis (would cause too many traffic jams), etc. Only land locked vehicles, flying vehicles would have to be a whole other expansion. Not worth trying to push too much all at once. Too avoid any copyright infringement the vehicles could have a futuristic or arcane look to them.

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This isn't really what's keeping vehicles from being added, you know.

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- Some vehicles would be single player vehicles. Some vehicles, the larger ones of course, would have room for teammates, can you say awesomeness when you have a low level sk teaming with you, they can travel with you and not worry about being killed by a random mob as they go to the mission.

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And the new engine to allow me to "carry" another player will be developed by who?

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- All Vehicles would be level 50. Since the vehicle has a level it can be destroyed, but being 50 not the easiest to destroy, depending on vehicle would determine hit points/damage resistance/defense. If the vehicle got destroyed an appropriate amount of blow up damage would be dealt to all passengers and driver, also any nearby NPC.


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So, my level one can get a temp power that turns him into a level 50, possibly with level 50 attacks in your idea. What's stopping me from some invincible street sweeping? And again, there's no reason to assume that the game can suddenly transform you into something else like that.

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- Vehicle missions. Hero side stopping some car jacking, villian side doing the car jacking (ok, maybe I was a little inspired by grand theft auto on that idea, it's a fun and addictive game, til you beat it or use all the cheats)

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This isn't a solution to a problem. It's something to do once your idea of vehicles is added in the first place.

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Part 3 -

- A Paid Expansion introducing An Auto Shop Building (could be part of the university or all by itself). You would have to have a drivers license to use the auto shop, the drivers license would come with the paid expansion pack.

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Another solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Vehicles are already added by this point in your plan. Why am I paying for a add on?

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- At the auto shop you can take one of your vehicle temp powers and turn it into a permanent power. Each toon would only have one permanent vehicle power. Also, receive vehicle related missions.


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Why? What's the point? Why wouldn't I want to keep getting temp powers for free instead?

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- Once that vehicle is selected you can customize it. Custom paint job. Guns. Missiles. Rocket Launchers. Flame throwers. Ice Cannon. Oil slick. Nitros. Chrome. Spinning wheels. Hydraulics. Ground effects. Rockets (back of vehicle that spews flames). Tinted Windows (which might be used as a cheat so you don't have to animate people inside). Spoilers. License plate. Bumper sticker. Chain of pop cans (for the newly weds). Side car for motorcycle (ok so that might be copying wow on that one). Turning bike into a bicycle built for 2. Adding a burley to a bike (like what people put their kids in. etc.

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Again, this isn't a problem with adding vehicles per se, it's something to do after vehicles have been added.

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++ if flying vehicles ever added be similar application only airport or air field instead of auto shop.

++ if boats ever added be similar application only marina instead of auto shop (boats would be great way to add more content to COV)

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The zones aren't big enough for this to matter, really. Where are you going to go in a jet? To the tram/ferry? Where are you boating to?


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There are a lot of problems with the idea.

1. Movement.
Forward and back,even turning - ok. But you can do things that a vehicle can't - such as strafe (direct side to side or angular movement.) It doesn't work with a vehicle.

2. Terrain.
Not every place has roads, or even makes sense for "off roading." Go look at Founder's Falls. Go look at Crey's Folley. Or Eden. Try to get to the north islands in Talos. What, do you have a kubelwagen? Look at the Pit in Sharkshead. Try to use your travel power (car) to get up to some of the doorways in high caves. Cars and motorcycles would be more like Superspeed - horizontal movement, period. And look - I'll be blunt - flat out *stupid* tied with, say, Combat Jumping or Superjump.

3. Combat.
You get ambushed on the way. How do you fight? Just have your powers blast out of the rolled up windows? How do you buff or debuff? EVERY power would need a new animation. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. Then you want people with motorcycles instead of cars. Redo ALL the animations AGAIN. And they still wouldn't make sense - how do you use Footstomp in a car? Or Stalagmites?

5. Making "sense."
This was touched on in terrain - how do you get across water? How about the Shadow Shard? And if you want downright ridiculous looking, go do the heroside 25-34 Respec. Look at the Sky Skiffs inside of rooms or the reactor room. It makes no sense and looks *ridiculous.* Something that, yes, the devs try to avoid.

That's just a quick overview of some of the issues with having vehicles as a travel power.


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La llama es un quadrupedo. Tienes una frente, y un corazon, y un pico para comer meil!

Llamas tienen dientes grandes y son muy peligrosos

Cuidado! Cuidado! Hay llamas!

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And now, a man with a tape recorder up his nose.

Yes and no. The second build will start out as an untrained build of equal level. So you will be able to immediately start training and selecting powers up to the level of the first build.

The two builds will always have the same amount of xp regardless of which you play with. Think of it as having two sets of powers on one character. (not to imply that you can select a different powerset, it's just easier to think of it that way sometimes.)

If you switch to Build Two at level 10, gain two levels, train and select your slots and power then switch to Build One you'll find it a level 10 build as you left it with the level up arrow flashing.

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Wasn't that comment made before the invention system came into play. I'll concede that a power pool it doesn't make sense and I'll stop pulling that dead horse. But my thread is titled Vehicle Travel Pool Set or Invention perhaps. So lets go back to addressing the possibility of it being Invention. That makes more sense than the power pool anyway. All the Heroes in the comics/tv shows/cartoons/movies that have vehicles had it built or built it themselves.

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Okaaay. I repeat:

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No one has given a definite reason why it wouldn't work

[/ QUOTE ] The problems were pointed out in posts 3, 7, 8, and 10. None of them have been addressed beyond, "with enough money and time and a completely new engine it could work!"

What would count as "definite" in your opinion?

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No one has given a definite reason why it wouldn't work

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The problems were pointed out in posts 3, 7, 8, and 10. None of them have been addressed beyond, "with enough money and time and a completely new engine it could work!"

There's also Positron's comment about not putting them in the game.

What would count as "definite" in your opinion?

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ED is dead.. and will stay dead. its 9 issues later and your still crying. Grow up.

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It's not about ED. He says in the first post he came after it had already happened. He gets to the reason for his suggestion in his third post, not that it was much of a suprise.

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mind if i have an idea and express it?

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Yes. It's the same idea for every single one of your posts. Every. Single. One. We get it. The Mission Architect ran over your puppy and shot your kitten. We just don't care.

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I understand what you are saying, but there are MANY remedies to international offenses just like this. The entertainment industry faces this and more daily and has developed a fairly good system to deal with international violations like this.

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You're joking, right? If you ever meet Steve Ballmer, ask him what he thinks of the software 'industry' in China.

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I laughed too. Last year the estimate for losses of the Motion Picture Industry due to counterfeiting and pirated movies was more than $6 billion. Most of the counterfeits came from China. I'd hate to see what a bad system to deal with this would be like.

I doubt the RIAA fares any better over there.

I didn't know that. Learned something new.

It still doesn't address the problem of buffing them equally though. Even going with every power involving regen, recov, def and res buffed, some sets will find these new buffs far more useful than others.

Compare Dark (3 powers) with something like Radiation (7 powers) or Cold (8 powers).