PsychoPez

But...bah, now I can't post anything, everything's been covered...-sigh-

Then believe what you want to fit in with your preconceived notions. It's your right as an American to do so. And if you're not, you're one of us now!

Naw, this is an internet forum, I fully expected a lot of the "Why would you do that" / "Why post this idea".

As to why? Well, I started out with an emp/rad, and since I don't alt that much I still play an emp/rad. Never had much need for stamina on that build. When I did build alts, at first it was because I didn't need it originally and thus it never registered.

Then, once it became a 'must have', I refused to take it BECAUSE it was the 'must have'. In any game that has something you 'must take' I often don't take it and try to see what/how I can build. I play a lot of 4e DnD (And let's not start that holy war here...), and on the forums there are a lot of SKY BLUE MUST TAKE AT THIS LEVEL powers.

I ignore them, and force myself to build around that.

Same with stamina. CoH is built on fast, non-stop battles, so damage rises up to be king, with preventing damage (buffs/debuffs/control) the matching queen.

To be honest, a lot of my stamina-less builds I couldn't group with, I'll be honest. But it was fun. Slotting cone range enhancments and other odd slotting strats, taking odd powers, coming up with mentalities other then zerg mob, kill mob on missions, for me, that's the fun of the game. Some people like to explore, others like to min/max. I like to see how many different ways you can do the same thing.

The keystone to that was "Not stamina", since it's the keystone in run in kill stuff system.

Am I saying I want inherent fitness removed? No, that'd be stupid, I know how many people have asked for that, and that I'm in a very tiny minority, if not alone, in not wanting it.

Am I saying I'm a better person then you for not ever having taken stamina? Nope. I have an odd approach to life, and this game. I'm well aware of this, of my manias.

Is it game over for me? Nope. At the very least, the baseline is now unslotted stamina, so now I shift into "never having slotted stamina" instead of "never having taken stamina". And I still have a few challenges, like a dry Sister Psyche run, or a dry any mission involving lots of sewer mission. (Dry x run - do not step in the water of any mission you're in or going to, automated movement movement from 'entering door after clicking door' animation excluded. If you make the splash sound fx, that counts as getting wet)

Why did I post this. There's been people throughout the years who've always thought my odd little quirk was interesting, and I don't know if they've passed or are still around or whatnot, so the general announcement.

Meh, my stamina-less db/da scrapper was doing fine, sure, only level 30 or so...

Empaths can solo perfectly fine. They're regen blasters, even at low levels.

You're going to urinate on The Spot to mark your territory?

I wonder if Terra and I can get a Pinky and the Brain skit worked out by this Saturday...

I preordered on the promise of new 1-20 content and switching sides, nothing more. Anything else, or the lack of anything else, doesn't matter.

Thus, as long as those are delivered, I can say good call on the delay of the Alpha Slot.

Our views differ, just giving my reason is all.

That really seems like the beginning of a segment from Whose Line Is It, Anyways?

Yes, but not as fast as I euthanized mine. I'm euthanized my cube faster than any other test subject on record.

Meh, Kel, you were probably doing your Snow Storm wrong.

Gratz on the MoSTF

Theroy: The term bind on pickup is used in other MMOs. Since this is more a marketing thing than an existing player thing, it makes sense to use terms that other MMO players use.

People like to make noise when in the echo chamber.

That's the only theory I have to go on...

Edit: Although, Tired Angel below does make an interesting point. It's not much content, but it is a bit difference, I can understand this line of argument at least.

Maybe this isn't for loyal players. Just a theory (And a bit of rationalization, as I did preorder and am now uncertain at how I feel about that) but the bonus is something to entice fair weather players, or new players, rather than current subscribers?

You know, "Come, play this game, you'll even get this shiny new bonus that current players don't have!"

I mean, it's not a television ad, but once it hits the game blogs and what not, it might even be some sort of pseudo-advertising, or at least what amounts to advertising in the Toon Town Acid Trip that is modern video game advertising...

No, that's wrong, one of the earlier iterations had Epillito using a southern drawl to give character, but it was more annoying then intended, so I tried to tone that aspect down. He originally talked like that in EVERY dialog...thanks for the catch.

Thanks for the review!

To counter argue this, for the longest time every Saturday night on Virtue a small community built up around running the MoSTF. Bring what every you wanted, show up at 6:00p or so.

Tankers stand by the the helicopter, blasters/scrappers over here, fenders/trollers over there. Teams would be made, and a whole force of people would run it as one.

Some nights no one would get it. Some nights multiple people would. Every week would have some regulars, and some new people show up.

Also, your comment sounds like something Posi addressed in his blog this week: http://www.mmodesigner.com/?p=109

I really disagree with this. This line of thinking removes all TF badges, not just MoSTF. (Sure, you could solo many TFs, but that requires a specific build/AT, which you also were somewhat against.)

I really guess I've just been lucky not to run into the situations you describe when trying for my Master badges. We've had deaths at the Thorn Tree, at Arbiter Sands, at Wretch, and for the most part people just go, "Oh well, at least now we can use Vengeance and Fallout". I think people who don't care about badging having more fun getting the Masters badge because they're enjoying the game win or lose, not paranoid over everything being perfect so they can add one to their score.

Just because people can be dicks about a badge doesn't mean the badge itself (or in the case of Masters, the concept itself) should be abolished, it just means people are dicks.

I recommend trying to get Master badges with people who don't care about getting Master badges: you'll have just the same amount of difficulty getting it as you would a dedicated team, but you (A generic you, not focused at you Nericus) just might more fun failing at it then stressing out and succeeding.

And throw enough darts at the board, or do enough fun runs, and you'll eventually get it. Some teams just magically click.

Edit to add: What Turgenev said. Me too.