Roughtrade

Absolutely true. If you start killing them in the graveyard and then talk to the Doctor then when the counter appears for a very brief second it will look as if the zombies you've done count, but it drops almost immediately. This is because the 'Kill 99 & the Abomination' badge is on a 12 minute timer. Nothing you kill before the timer counts.

To the OP, I don't believe you rage quit. Rage quitting would have involved shouting at him first and calling him names. He sort of 'rage stayed', you just quit in order to get more quickly to a team that was going to succeed.

Seriously? Get over yourself.

Dude. Why the hate? He wasn't being snarky, and frankly you're not either. You're just being a 'rhymes with smoosh'

Look at your first post in this thread. You take a long and complicated route to avoid even naming your character in the forums just in case a GM is wasting time reading every thread while looking for names to ban in the game. Your posts continue to point out how worried you are that you might get the character to level 50 and still lose the name. You continue to worry until you finally petition the GMs yourself and settle the issue.

All of this could have been avoided if you had (a) petitioned the GMs as soon as you thought it might be a problem or (b) changed the name as soon as you thought it was a problem.

His advice is valid, to you and to anyone else with a similar problem. If you yourself look at your own character and think "someone might report it as a violation" than maybe you'd be better off just not taking it in the first place.

And if you do take it, go ahead an petition yourself and get it out early. Or have a fall back name ready if you reach 50 and get nerfed.

I know exactly what I'm talking about. It looks like you're being a Richard-Head by camping a bunch of names you have no intention of ever using.

Why not just leave them available and then people who want them can get them. You highlight my point quite effectively.

IF they read the forums
IF they check this thread
IF they don't think you're going to make it unreasonable to get the name

Or they could just log in and make their character and get the name they wanted without having to go through all that.

Intentionally or not, it appears as if you and your wife used up all the slots on multiple accounts for the sole purpose of camping names you have no desire to actually use.

Seriously?

I stopped counting at about 50 but what is that, almost 100 names? Over 100?

Seems kind'a sad to see people doing this sort of BS.

If you gotta ask, you're not good enough for Virtue. Go to one of the others.

Can't speak for everyone, but myself and several of my friends have been playing around in the Beta test trying to get the Bughunter Badge and generally looking at new stuff.

This sort of player is the number one reason so many people have mental immunity shtick in place. I'd almost bet real money the guy doing the random mind ****** was a hero.

I could play along with someone who sent me a tell saying "My psychic senses picked up a warning of danger and so I'm scanning the room for people in trouble. Are your character's thoughts troubled? Would you like to respond as my character quickly scans your mind for the danger he sensed?" That's a good way to try and drum up from quick RP from a stranger.

On the gripping hand, if someone sent me a tell saying "My character is bored so he's reading your mind. What are you thinking?" My reply would be "My character is bored and so he walks over and strips you naked and dumps you head first into the toilet. Then he pees on you."

Of the two actions, invading people's minds just because you're bored is far more vile and offensive.

I've always been partial to David Bowie (as The Goblin King) answer in "Labyrinth"

"Not fair? You say that so often I wonder what your basis for comparison is."

Internet went out for a day. Found what I was looking for.


Shameless self promotion : Second half of a story I got published in the back up features is in this issue.


Anyways; On page 11 some of the CoH big names get in a confrontation with some of the CoV big names. On page 16 one of them has to go to DJ Zero to get him to set them up with a fight zone. References along the way mention the Power Nullifiers that make all powers useless. Suppose ***** slapping is still possible, but no powers.

Still looking for the back alley reference.

A question about the actual lore. Isn't there a body outline that the bartenders keep attributing to Backalley Brawler getting annoyned at someone? I'd have to check the old comic books but there is something nagging at me about a fight between some Pratorians and Miss Liberty. Someone who isn't coooking dinner needs to look it up.

Not gonna "take level" into account in a fight? Okay. Either in D or out of it, I'm not gonna bother too much with talking to you. I'll buy into a 1st level who wants to 'Act Level Ten" or so. Given a good hour or two, they're gonna be level ten soon enough. But level ten to level 50? Ummm.. Just sort of breaks the versimilitude. Totally depends on what they are. I've done it myself to do things not covered by the game powers available, like a Demoness who has the power to lie. No lie she tells is detectable as such. She tells a lie, tells the truth, both 'read' the same to anyone who has mind reading or detecting or whatever biorythem registering power someone else claims to have.

Or my Sheild / Mace Tank that was given her weapons by Freya. She 'detects' as a true Valkyrie to anyone who can't beat the Norse goddess of magic in power. Except any other true Nordic Magic based hero who instantly can recognize her origin and will assist her in keeping her in keeping her secret unless they want to piss Freya off.

I've also seen several people have 'shapeshifting' as a power and basically have multiple characters with similar names all RP'd as the same person with different shapes and powers.

Never run into this issue with Stealth. I don't hang in D much I guess. But about Psi.

First of all, there is no power in the game listed as "Mind Reading" so when the Psychics out there stop making up their powers under the umbrella of "It's how I RP" then I will stop making up ways to block their "RP" of "I get to know all your secrets and all your weaknesses at a glance" power.

Seriously tho. I have some Psychic characters and some that are not Psychic. One of my Psychics is weak and not in much control and broadcasts psychic static all the time. One of my non-psychics is paranoid and has a device (stolen idea from a Keith Laumer story) that constantly broadcasts the 'hunt-kill-feed' thoughts of a rabid ferret which provides a mental field to prevent mind readers.

Everyone else is pretty much on their own. So, much like the 'made up' power question, it depends on who and what and how it is being done.

Are you using Notepad to write out your bio? I used to get the added 'invisible' characters too when I used other programs, but Notepad doesn't seem to have that issue for me. I might just be lucky.

I also write smaller bios these days and usually provide a link to the Crey Threat Database or the Ouroboros Wiki for further reading. Or Virtueverse if it's on there.

http://ouroportal.com/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.creyindustries.com/login.php

http://www.virtueverse.net/wiki/Main_Page

You can't because Cap doesn't.

FIRST
Honestly, you could have picked almost any other Marvel (or DC) Hero and had a possible point, but Cap is really one of the last ones to 'step outside the law' in the manner which you are hinting at.

SECOND
Even conceding a point that a Hero (Cap or anyone) steps outside the law... and being costumed vigilantes they all skirt it anyways... So the premise is a hero bending the law in a few places in order to catch a menace to society which is too powerful for normal human law enforcement (and this is what most super hero comic book characters are doing).

That's our basic premise for your debate point. 'Stepping outside the boundaries of the law' in no way compares to involuntary manslaughter of over a dozen people.

Ditto. With the combination / conversion thing my MM mostly spends time converting everything to blue candy to pass to pets. Everyone else uses them pretty constantly. I mean, they drop fast enough that I can usually burn three at the beginning of a fight and have a full tray again before it's over.

On toons without much status protection, I save the Breakfrees. And I always try to have one Awaken and one Breakfree in reserve for a battlefield self-rez if things take a sudden turn south. Other than that, empty your tray if you wanna, it will fill up fast enough.

DC had a storyline.... Can't remember exactly when and where, it was during the time when there was like four different Legion of Super Hero books going. The Dominators invaded earth, woke up a bunch of old LSH clones.... lots of stuff happening. Anyways...

One of the many threads in the mega plot at this time had to do with the Dominators trying to figure out why Earth had so many 'super hero' types. Through numerous experiments, the Dominators figured out that earth people had a natural genetic adaptation which caused for extreme mutation in the face of sudden extreme circumstances. In other words, put one hundred humans in the same situation where deadly chemicals are dumped on them at the same time as lightning strikes and most of them will die but some of them will spontaneously erupt with super powers. The super powers they gain will depend upon the circumstances and the personality of the individual.

Humans all carry the genetic code which can cause the 'super change' under stress. We're natural. Sometimes the stress of puberty is enough to cause the 'super change' so we're mutants. The change most often occurs in the face of some disaster or sudden life or death situation, so we're science based accidents.... Or magic based accidents if it's a magic disaster instead of a science disaster.

Anyways, my point remains the same. Origin in CoH is whatever you want it to be.

Nope.

If because of Darwin my evolutionary genetic code says I am supposed to sprout wings and shoot beams of fire from my eyes when I reach puberty, then it's all natural baby. If I'm smart enough to build a suit, or just lucky enough to find it and figure out how to wear it, then I'm naturally smart or naturally lucky.

Why in the world would anyone limit themselves to a particular 'origin type' for any reason? Pick your origin because it's the one you want. Your reasons for choosing to be Mutant are just as valid as my reasons for choosing Natural, even if every other word in our 'origin story' is exactly the same.