ParagonScout

There are so many issues with this video. The uber conservative, religious views our country is trying it's hardest to adopt (especially since the Bush administration, or gestapo if you will) is truly putting our freedoms in danger. They claim it to be "family values", when in truth these family values are religious values. I have nothing against religion per se but I do not appreciate my gonvernment trying to shove it down my throat.


Some say if you have right to complain if you did not vote, in all actuality, this is totally untrue. Our current system of voting is extremly "bugged" (to use a term we all are familiar with). For example, I live in Indiana. During the presidential elections Indiana goes red (or republican) almost immediately, with no question and it has for quite some time. Did my vite count? No, not even close.
Then some say not to point fingers at parents. This is a huge cop out. I am a father of four (three of which are CoX players) and if my kids cannot differentiate between reality and the world of games, then I have fallen short in my job as a father. Parents these days too often blame everyone else for their childrens short comings. When it is the individuals short comings as a parent are truly to blame. Parents too often do not want to be parents, sadly they have children just to have children. To be part of the family of four with a dog and a white picket fence crowd, yet take no reponsibility for teaching their children imortant life lessons and values. Children these days are much different and grow up much faster than we did as children. They have exposure to things we never had exposure to (and I am only 35) and too many parents do not understand or even take note of this. It is important as a parent to educate yourself in the internet, your childrens culture, music and so on. Especially the internet, as it is something we did not have available to us as kids. Our kids literally have the world at their figertips via the web. Parents should not be afraid to supervise their kids, take note of their interest and try to understand them as humans and not as babies. So many parents are also afraid to tell their kids no and dicipline their kids when the actions warrent it. No, I am not saying beat your kids or anything even near that but kids do need dicipline in their lives. I see it all the time, parents afraid of thier own kids and wondering why. It is because the parents (and they are the only ones in a childs life to truly be able to teach this) never told the kid no or never punished the kid for bad behavor, so the kid feels they do not have to listen and they have no fear of consequence. Honestly, i could go on all day on this subject.


Back to the video. This video to show a game like CoH in it, simply shows the irresponsibilty of its creators. They apparently lack research and simply tossed CoH in with games that obviously contain adult content. Too many censors are guilty of this. It is the same in the adult industry, they group all adult content producers in with pedophiles when creating any new laws. i understand this is an extreme example but it is true and it is another aspect of our government forcing our freedoms in the gutter and trying to censor our lives. The sad thing is that if the adult industry loses the battle they are fighting, we all will lose because it will only be the beginning to a long line of censorship and loss of our freedom of speech. If our government can put the stops of the adult industry with the massive financial backing and power it has then there is not much to stop them. Please understand, i do not agree with everything the adult industry produces or even close to it but it is a harsh reality that the adult industry is fighting tooth and nail for our rights as free americans. It is the same in the game industry, as game producers are all lumped in to one nasty group for all intents and perposes by the censors and conservatives with no research into actual content of games produced by individual producers. The kind of blanket censorship is a huge problem.
OK, I will step down now as I could truly keep rambling for hours on this subject.
Take care all,
CJ

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Speed Boost is supposed to be 50% recharge. But the Phantom Army itself is unaffected by buffs, so Speed Boost and Fulcum Shift doesn't affect it at all. I say Rad is better than Kin as a secondary for Illusion.

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Is this true? I understand PA cannot be buffed but that means that the recharge time on the casting power cannot be buffed also? I swear I noticed a difference while stacking Siphon Speeds in the recharge of PA. Can someone help confirm or deny this please?
Thanks.

Question about invis if anyone cares to answer..
What is the perception with Hide + Invis? Would that stop most any heroes from seeing you in the upcoming PvP zone? I understand you cannot attack while Invis is on.

My thoughts on Defiance are it is not going to be at all helpful post level 6 or so. Once you hit 40% of your HP it usually only takes one more hit and you are down. Like many others have said if we get to 40% we are popping insp like mad or trying to find somewhere to run. At 40% I have always felt defeat is iminent while using my blaster. Especially after lvl 40. My blaster was consistantly one or two shotted after lvl 40.

If you are going to go this route I feel there should be a few more tweaks and here are a few ideas...
1. when hp hits 50% damage starts to climb, along with defense. If you add some defense along with the damage output you may give blasters a chance to even utilize defiance.
2. start defiance at 90% without any defense added. from 90% to 50% could not be an extreme difference but some difference 50% and below would be where the major difference in damage comes in. It still will take some thought as how far you want to let yourself drop before popping insp or running.

Anyway, those are my thoughts. Onto the other I5 posts now.

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With the addition of SG bases have a bank where SG Members can deposit Enhancements and Influence for other members in there SG to use.

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I agree this would be great. many of our members have enhance we can give to the lower lvls and for lower lvl alts. It would only make sense because at the very high lvls the toons have so much infl, selling off enhance becomes even a waste. I wouldn't think a bank would even be hard to do, nothing fancy just functional for the time being. I would think about a limit of such though, for example you can withdraw one or two ehance per day and maybe a cap on infl withdraw also. This would stop any would be digruntled players from screwing things up.

Heck I would even settle for now with a personal bank (many people do not have an SG to help them so this may be a better alternative) to drop stuff in. I have been helping with some mishs waaay above me and have gotten some great ehance but it is quite a few lvls before I can even use them. So, I am forced to sell them off, I would much rather hold on to them.

Chris
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