Paladin_Musashi

Disagree... Bots/Storm does not synergize well at all, because the assault bot causes the enemies to flee in terror in all directions which storm only has one tool to counteract (Freezing Rain) and the slow from that isn't really that strong. Storm relies heavily on being able to keep the enemy contained where you want them, taking a primary that screws that to hell is sort of counterproductive.

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What I wouldn't give for a KD version of Hand Clap...

This game so needs -knockback enhancements.

You can only find fault with the principle of the ends justifying the means if you believe in objective evil. And since you literally can't prove the existence of evil, it can't be objective

Or you could just, you know, wash.

Considering that studies show that the rates of those infections are not higher in areas of the world where men are not routinely circumcised than in areas where they are... The argument was blown out of the water years and years ago. But people keep parroting it.

The statistical difference in rates of HIV infection are "significant" but also very, very small. Practicing safe sex is a vastly more effective method

Neither of these concerns really justify lopping off a part of the body.

This is not true. When you're running the Sister Psyche TF, at less than max level for it, with SO only toons that haven't been twinked out with a fortune from a higher level toon, and 6 of your 8 players drop leaving just an archery blaster and a tanker who has not soft capped or maxed out his resists (I forget exactly what kind of tank the guy was) you will find that there are things in the game you simply cannot beat, full stop.

The two of us decided we would pick up Shivans and make another attempt, because we could get Clamor down to almost half health before she finished us off. So we hit Bloody Bay, and the aforementioned Stalker and Brute started ganking us, camping the firebases and basically making ***** of themselves, considering they were just chain-ganking us, clearly not making any rep for most of the kills.

To me, that's not someone being a friendly competitor (Which is something that barely exists anyway, despite the fiction people would like to maintain about competitive activities in general) but rather someone acting like a schoolyard bully.

This duo of people obviously were not seeking an actual challenge, but rather just wanted to have fun by making things not fun for others, griefing, in short. And yes, I have zero respect for PvPers who talk about the challenge of PvP and how PvE is so lame and boring because it's too easy, and then spend their time ganking people who have not built their toons for PvP, do not have a PvP skillset as a player, and will not provide any kind of challenging fight. This is bullying to me, not gaming.

This was in the wee hours of the morning, which is why I had suggested we should hit the zone, thinking it would be empty. The fact that this duo of villains were camping the zone at an hour when there was clearly not going to be any competition tells me they were there to be jerks to people who only want to pick up a Shivan and get out.

So we decide if we sit in the longbow base by the helicopter, they might get bored and go home. No such luck, they start teleporting us out of the base and ganking us. My blaster has a raptor pack and neither of these guys can fly, or even superjump, but the tanker is getting owned.

My response to bullies in the real world has always been to punch them in the nose. So I told my friend, after tricking the jerks into getting droned, to go and sneak out along a route he wouldn't likely be seen while the two were coming back, and I set a trap for them. I switched to a squishy toon, and waited in the base like I was there for the zone time badge. They couldn't resit the bait and tp'd me again. Sadly for them the squishy I had switched to was my level 50 completely IO'd out Fire/Kin farmer. Who already had a full set of Shivans. And an Amy.

The instant I was tp'd I summoned the Shivan. Hot feet did what I expected and revealed the incompetent stalker by doing some damage. I slapped him with my hold and summoned Amy and he was dead before the Brute could really wade in, which meant he ended up dying too.

Final proof that they were pathetic little bullies? They left the zone.

Again, satisfying, but not in the least way fun.

Tanker friend got his Shivans, I switched back to my Blaster, and we went and finished off Clamor and succeeded at the TF. That was fun.

However, I'd be happy if they removed Shivans from the game entirely, as long as they take them out of PvP zones.

PS: Make all the fancy arguments you want, but I know every last one of you PvPers who want the Shivans and Nukes kept in the PvP zones are just bullies who like to beat up on people who can't or won't fight back. There's no good reason to keep them there other than to bring people who don't want to PvP into PvP zones, and the only reason you would want that is if you are a bully who enjoys causing others grief. End of story.

Except that some of us can't have fun when PvP is involved. I've only had ganking punks ruin a run through a PvP zone a few times, because I tend to hit the PvP zones at odd hours if I want a Shivan or Nuke (And I couldn't give a crap about badges in general so I don't badge in PvP zones at all). And one of those occasions I actually pimpsmacked the little Stalker punk and his Brute bodyguard singlehandedly. I took satisfaction in ruining their fun, but it wasn't fun in the slightest for me. Satisfying yes, because I think they're jerks, and it's always satisfying to wipe the smile off a jerk's face, but fun? Not at all.

I do not like PvP. I simply cannot have fun in that sort of competitive atmosphere. It's nice that you can, but a large segment of the playerbase simply cannot and never will. It's the height of poor design to keep trying to force them into the PvP zones when they're never going to have fun there.

That's why it's bad design.

Nothing awarded in a PvP zone should have any effect on the PvE game at all. If Shivans are going to be in PvP zones they should ONLY be usable on other players. Same with nukes. Same with anything placed in a PvP zone, ever. Including PvP IO drops.

I'm still not seeing your point. Obviously NC would have to pay tax on the revenue earned, the fact that inf is not actually currency with an actual monetary value simply reinforces that point. But there remains no sales tax, and since I'm not suggesting they create an "exchange" like LL runs, but rather a store where groups or individuals could register an account and sell inf through an in-game interface, no one but the inf sellers would need to worry about being taxed since they'd be the only ones making money.

If the barter laws were going to be a problem then everyone playing SL would be getting in trouble for not reporting their L$, which they're not. As you pointed out, they only really need to report what they take out of the exchange in actual cash. Though this is of course ignoring the fact that SL is an expense for the massive majority of players, and even content creators usually only make enough to slightly defray the cost of playing the game, so only a few players would really even need to report it as a source of income. The situation would be similar here: Only the few people using it as a business would need to worry about income tax, and honestly most of them don't live in the US, they live in places where making a few bucks a day is a livable wage.