Rock_Crag

I suppose you never enjoyed The Three Stooges either. Satanist.

I am, of course, kidding. It just seems you're judging these things from a distance and I've never been a fan of such things. Did you watch The Number 23? Or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? Or Bruce Almighty? Or Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events? Or The Majestic?

If anything, I beg to you to watch Man on the Moon. His portrayal of Andy Kaufman *IS* brilliant.

I did, actually. I was in the Infinity Server Event. However... I didn't bother to read the flavor text because:

A) I don't read well on the fly. I often find myself re-reading good chunks of text to make sure I understood what it was saying. Unfortunately that means that the chat bubbles often fade away before I can get done reading... So I usually just let it go rather than go to the trouble of keeping track of where I left off and get the rest of it on the next go-round.

B) It was very quickly pushed out of chat view by tons of broadcasts (for the most part). This makes it even more difficult to scroll through the chat window and read the flavor text...

C) It was pretty difficult to keep track of anything that was going on... because I was rather busy trying to stay alive, support fellow players and kill critters. I rather dislike the Devs recent affinity for popping up text during potential combat situations. Any story the devs want to get across with that text... basically... 'falls on deaf ears' with people like me... because we often miss it completely.

Brace yourself for a lot of text. lol.

This theory really only works if the powers are equal in their usefulness.

For example: I must have spent 20 hours of play trying to get my Crab Soldiers Tier 4 Cardiac Alpha. The main reason I went for it was because my Soldier benefits from the Resistance boost. It also gives an Endurance Redux boost, but I don't really feel like I need it that much. Now, what if they release an Alpha that focuses more on a Resistance boost than Cardiac and gives something else I could use more... like damage or accuracy?

From here, I have 2 options. I can stick with the tier I have and settle for only having some of my needs met... and feel like I'm missing out. Or I can switch, start the new tree from scratch, leave that Tier 4 Cardiac hanging useless in the air and feel like the time it took to create it meant nothing.

It's exactly what happened when the new Lore Pets came out (I was working on Seers, thinking their psi damage and semi-control would be beneficial [which it really wasn't]) and then they friggen give us 20 other pets to choose from. So now I have a Tier 3 Seer Lore that's out there doing *nothing*, because I found a pet tree that's better.

This game has constantly proven itself to be the casual players MMO. Where you can level up the fastest, contribute to any team in any way you want without having to have the best equipment and have fun while doing it. Hell, I consider myself only slightly more dedicated than a casual player... and I have about 8 or 9 level 50 characters and the rest of the character slots *full* with varying levels. But even then, I only have 3 characters with a decent amount of Incarnate abilities... and probably only 2 more who even have the bloody Alpha slot unlocked!

I'd hate to think that the Devs are purposefully making Incarnates a slow process because of some obligation to the 'end game' or because they're afraid they'll lose players for some reason.

Don't forget the Globe Trotters.

While kinda close... my suggestion is more about the fading clones than the blur. I don't even care if there is a blur to it... I just want to see the copies of yourself trail away. They don't even have to be animated. They could just be after images of the specific animation frame.

Although, something just occurred to me: This would be difficult to pull off simply because of all the various ways players can run. That actually kicks it from 'plausible' to 'notgonnahappen' territory.

I approve.

I think the barbarian belt would work really well on this character.

Drive? Really? I dunno... I got a very bad vibe just from the commercials. It screamed 'YOU MUST LIKE ME! I'M THE NEW TRANSPORTER!'. I would like to know how it is, though... if anything... to see if it broke through my expectations.

Totally. I'm glad I'm not the only one who got the girl-crush vibe. As soon as Myka got stuck in the ropes too, my mind was chanting 'kiss her' over and over again. lol.

Strange... I could have sworn I tried it with a my VEAT and wasn't able to access APPs until I switched sides. Perhaps I remembered wrong... I do that sometimes. My apologies.

And yet... It's called CoH Freedom. And the first page on the site says "Play for free. Forever.".

Don't ya just love false advertising? They really should have put quotation marks around Play.

City of Heroes Freedom. "Play" for free. "Forever".
Or better yet... Play™ for free. Forever™.

My apologies... I sometimes have trouble explaining my line of thinking.

Right now, Heroes have to switch for PPPs and Villains have to switch for APPs. If you add Hero PPPs, that's another thing Villains will have to switch sides for... while Heroes won't need to.