Rylas

Shame on you, Bill! EA is a pretty good set already. Softcapping all but Psi is pretty easy to do with IOs, and now it's going to be even better.

I'd have prefered that over SR. SR looks to... plain... for me. I like a little utility in my sets. Still, I won't be able to stop myself from trying it on a tank.

Oh, and MA is rather dissapointing. I can't remember ever seeing requests for it, but I remember endless begging for Broadsword.

Part of the problem could be that I'm responding more to the tone Dur is notorious for having, (Condescending and Arrogant) more so than to what he is saying. If he'd lose that part of his posting habits, he'd probably get a lot more accomplished.

Mine's already soft-capped to all but Psi. Now I have to figure out if I want to take some of that out (since Energy Drain will make up for it) and add in some recharge bonuses to stack on the aura, or just leave as is and make it iTrial sturdy...

Damn... I started foaming...

Oh, and added the link to the OP... oops.

I'm going to try my best not to foam at the mouth while I think of how my DM/EA Brute will become even more unkillable. Energize is a vast improvement for its healing.

I was wondering the same thing. It's that, or a Sentinel.

Robot Devil is Mr. Sinister.

Leela as Rogue?? You lose a nerd card for mistaking the Phoenix as anyone else.

Hermes is Bishop.

Fixed that for you.

You're splitting hairs between the two. They're the same thing. Even the SG series shows gates built for armadas. Either way, you're talking about worm holes. And I'm not bashing your idea, so there's no need to get in a twist over it. I'm simply pointing out that it has strong similarities to a known franchise, and it would behoove you to make sure you develop, and highlight, some strong contrast. Not because your idea is weak, but other people are out there zealously gaurding franchises and looking to squeeze out anyone they can make a decent case against. It's just in your better interest to make sure you don't give them that case.

Seriously, I like your idea. I know I usually point out your flawed arguments and poor reasoning skills in other threads, but I genuinely think your idea has potential (yes, that's a bit of a backhanded compliment). Don't let constructive critisism make you defensive, that's a good way to shoot yourself in the foot. Just look at the majority of self-published books.

While I can understand that warring civilizations can take up resources, times of war are also some of the most innovative. In 5,000 years of war (which could be comparable to human history now) do you think another 5,000 is needed to advance to the point of making these gates?

Ok, having it take 10,000 years for the first set of civilizations to advance enough to make Star Gates is acceptable if that's the time line you want to go with. BUT, if the Jotnar are advanced enough to know how to operate the gate, then it's not going to take 9,000 years to reverse engineer it. Especially when the Jotnar were advanced enough to operate if for a 1,000 years before that. This part of the timeline could be drastically reduced.

A comment on the material itself:

It sounds like you've put a lot of deep thought into this, and in my opinion, if you pay attention to detail and continuity, you could have a very epic story background for your game. Kudos! That said, this reminds me too much of Stargate, and for purposes of not being sued, you'd be better off making some plot point changes to help really separate the two. For starters, get rid of anything named Atlantis. Best of luck, though!

On the flip side, shorter life spans make advancement more difficult. With less time to pass knowledge along to others, we'd advance slowly as well. Regardless, I don't think you could stop procreation altogether. They only claim to have a cure for aging. Not dying. We'll have to replace the population that finds itself unfortunate enough to have been diagnosed with cancer, been hit by cars, OD'd on drugs, etc.

Too bad it doesn't have a silhouette of a panther's head on a red background for the icon.

If the average family has 2 children every 25 years, then in 25 years, the population doubles. In 50 years, it will only increase by 50%. In 75 years the population will increase only 33%. After 200 years the population will be 16x more than it started with. And that's assuming NO ONE dies from ANYTHING. After 1000 years, it would well over 40x. Fortunately, the population would plateau off around the time the average life-span is reached. Because with an average of 2 kids per family, you're making only 1 replacement per person.

Considering our warring nature and our capacity for mongering fear for resources, I doubt anyone would make it to 1000.

If you're going to make broad generalizations without giving examples to back them up, you shouldn't require any in return.

You're using two different terms here, so it's hard to tell what you mean. Do you mean with a 24 Hour TIMER, you'd not be able to get one everyday if you ran one in the evening? Because if it was based off the 1 per 24 hour period, the time of day wouldn't matter from one day to the next.

When you say more difficult, do you mean requires less people to start? Personally, I prefer playing the Lambda trial much more than BAF. The bonus merits are easier to coordinate and it takes fewer people to start.

And why would anyone want to be FORCED to play particular content. It's frustrating for most people already that you trials are the only good option for becoming Incarnates as opposed to single player content. Being forced to play one trial in particular would be a good way to lose subscribers.

Have you really gotten yourself on that many ignore lists?

I think taking the 'Only Effect Self' off of Invis would make it just like 'Superior Invisiblity', which would be breaking some Power rules. Primary>Secondary>Pool Power. Taking the interrupt out of the medicine powers would be the same problem, so you'd have to adjust numbers somewhere else in the powers to keep them below the strength of Secondary counter parts.

But I'm all for improving pool powers so long as they aren't better than their counterparts. Also, get rid of the phase rule, or keep it in PVP only.

I formed a team that had 5 tankers on the LGTF. None of the rest of the team had holds, and we had limited debuffs. We did pretty darn good. Mito's took a little longer, but we breezed through that last 2 AVs pretty fast (except for one 5 minute break for the honoree's cheating).

I've only pointed out how your suggestion isn't necessary. To be honest, it's more of you raging because you deleted a purple recipe. Many of us have been there and not felt compelled to ask for dev time to be wasted to make sure WE don't make mistakes. Mainly, because there's always going to be room for you to make a mistake even in the suggestion you outlined. Maybe your suggestion would work for you, but then someone else will complain the prompt didn't work the way that THEY like.

The one prompt is enough. Your suggestion wouldn't be a good thing to implement for reasons stated throughout the thread. Sorry.

Now, if you want to suggest something like making Temp Power recipes something you buy from vendors and no longer drops, I'd jump behind that in a heart beat. If you want real clutter, it's that garbage*.

*It's garbage in my opinion, but I realize some people make use of it. Considering the number of people I've seen who complain about it, it doesn't seem so popular that making it a vendored recipe instead would break the game.

Yes I killed that balrog, and I hope he burns in hell!

I concede, he doesn't respond to EVERY single post. Regardless, he's certainly spending more time here than he would be if he took 2 seconds to pay attention.

Now, if you're trying to insist that my posts have been disproportional in "tone" to the OP, I don't think there's really a way to prove or disprove that. A tone you read could be completely different from that of the person's intent. But I would argue the OP has had equal "tones" to many of his responses.

All that aside, if you come into a forum and make a suggestion for change because you can't be bothered to pay attention, then any response calling you lazy is pretty accurate. Do take note, though, I never directly called him lazy, I only suggested he pay more attention and asked why paying attention was so grueling. Sorry if that comes across as being superior.

Again, it's meant to let you level from 1-50. Why would anyone want to walk to a level 15-20 zone on their level 1 character to use it for one of its intended purposes?

While I prefer not to PL (for the most part) I really don't care if someone decides (even as a new player) to only do that. And if it means they suck at using that character, it's ok, because I can always kick them from the team or take the time to explain some things to them if they're patient enough to learn. Either way, you just gotta let it go.

You play the way you want to play, they'll play the way they want to. I doubt you'd want them suggestion a way to limit the way you like to play.

My first post in the thread was anything but personal. I even related that I had made a similar mistake (in the vendor window that doesn't even give you a prompt), and claimed that only I was responsible for that mistake.

It was the OP being offended that we weren't readily jumping on board with the suggestion. And when someone suggested he just pay better attention, his only sentiment was that he shouldn't have to pay attention. Now, your terms for laziness may be different than mine, but if you can't bother to pay attention, you're lazy.

Ironically enough, the OP can't take the time to look at the color of recipe in the window he's deleting from, but he can be bothered to respond every time someone disagrees with him on an idea meant to buy him more time (in seconds) that will never be implemented.