Paladin_Musashi

If it were true then Linden Labs would be taxed for the sale of Linden Dollars, which they are not. All they did was put it in their EULA that L$ has no real world value and is purely imaginary. They haven't had any problems with it.

No reason I can't consider my toon to be able to whoop Recluse or States, which would make him stronger than any other character in the game world, and therefore what applies to them may not apply to him.

Anyway, I didn't say it was hard to tank Recluse. My Shield tank can tank him solo with the towers on him. Aid self is awesome. Then again he can tank the other four signature AVs at the same time, so it's not that surprising.

My SS/Shield brute is essentially the redside version of that toon (Though his build was considerably more expensive) so it stands to reason he could do the same. When GR goes live, I'll have him tank the STF just for fun.

This is a myth. Just ask Linden Labs.

My WS has stamina... But I'm the type who can't stand it if I run out of end, ever. Without stamina I'd run dry fighting AVs without a kin or emp on the team, and then I'd feel like a leech if I had to stop blasting and rest.

Since I do TFs all the time, this would be bad.

Yeah, this is not true. Ouro gives you a set of arcs that, as far as I can tell, have nothing to do with what contacts you have access to. And I say that having several toons that were levelled to 50 in the AE, never picked any contacts, never did a single standard contact mission, and then went and did all of Ouro.

What if my character isn't the sort of person to give a **** about "permission"? I mean, if I'm 14 and can't have a license yet, but my mom has a heart attack and I do know how to drive... I'm going to drive to the hospital, right? Illegal or not, I'm gonna do it.

I mean seriously... You're honestly suggesting that my fire blaster knows all those powers, but isn't using them because he's not authorized? Screw that. If that were the case we'd still have the powers, but we'd have to deal with Longbow or PPD ambushes for using them.

Your analogy just does not fly.

Why do people say that like it's nothing, or very little. To me those are the things in the game that are the most fun. Additionally, you have all of Ouro to go and do... And you get to have 2-3 more powers doing them that way than you would have if you'd played through them on the way up...

If we were talking about real life, it would make sense to not use the fancy things in a real fight period... Pretty much any of my teachers would laugh at you if you tried anything like them in a serious, potentially life and death situation.

But accepting that we have a ridiculously over the top and unrealistic martial art as our power set... No, it doesn't make sense. The moves you're actually going to use in a fight should be taught first thing. Maybe you don't get around to it all on the first day, but within the first week of training you should have all the basics that you're ever going to use in an actual fight. The rest is learning how to apply them, developing the subtler, less tangible skills.

In game terms, what I'd expect to see would be that you have all your actual moves within the first 3 or 4 levels of gameplay, and after that you just get better with them. They do more damage, hit more often, and apply their secondary effects more reliably, or more powerfully.

That's a more realistic representation of a person's progression.

Same should go for fire blast. You have the ability to create and project fire. Great, so you should be able to do all your moves within the first few levels, and progression should be about getting more powerful with them, not suddenly magically gaining new abilities.

It depends on the martial art you're talking about. A lot of people in the martial arts world consider all the kung-fus (Of which wing chun is one) to be overcomplicated and impractical. Even Bruce Lee felt that most of the traditional arts were too tradition-bound.

That aside (And granting that wing chun is actually one of the simpler kung-fus), you've just said exactly what I was already saying...
It's the handful of moves you teach on the first day. The practice of those moves, their combinations, and how to apply them is what takes years to master, not the blows themselves.

No offense, but you had an odd teacher. I've practiced several martial arts back in the days when I was in shape, and every school I ever went to (Barring one, when I think of it) taught us all the basic moves all at once, and then we practiced the various ways they could be combined ad infinitum.

I would consider it beyond bizarre to teach someone one block, or punch, or kick, or what-have-you, and make them work on that one thing for weeks. But then, I believe that a martial arts class should be primarily a self-defense lesson, and if I'm going to teach someone to defend themselves, I'm going to teach them all the basics on the first day, so they have a valid palette to work with if they get attacked on their way home from that very first lesson, as inexpert with those moves as they may be.

The only departure from this I ever experienced was studying Aikido, where we learned one control at a time, but even there we were taught the basic elements that are used to create a control from the very start.

On the subject of trainers in game... Honestly it bugs me. I'm not really a fan of developing my powers in a granular fashion in the first place, but it's kind of ridiculous to have to go to a trainer for it. My characters are unique snowflakes. There are NO other heroes in the world whose powers work the same way my heroes' powers work. There is simply no way anyone could teach them how to use them. Put them through their paces, make them practice, sure... But teach them a new trick? Not a chance.