Sailboat

No offense to anyone in this thread, but I think the issue of intellectual property in general is confusing to most people these days. Unlike previous times in history, the ability to reproduce someone else's work quickly and with little or no effort (via photocopier or computer file) and distribute it worldwide essentially for free (the Internet, peer-to peer filesharing) has somewhat outpaced the law's ability to adapt. Young people raised in this environment in particular seem to have very different ideas about IP than the previous generations.

Meanwhile, the backlash of litigation for profit or for purely tactical purposes has confused the issue in the other direction, making everyone oversensitive about lawsuits.

I would argue that some of the assertions made by both sides are not yet fully tested. We are in a time of flux.

I recently slotted up Total Focus on my Energy/Energy Blaster. It does take a long time, but I don't seem to have as much trouble with it as you guys report -- thoughtful target selection usually minimizes the corpse-blasting problem. I like the damage, even on a Blaster who has plenty of big damage attacks, so it seems like it might be good on a Tanker.

The problem my Blaster has with Total Focus is getting killed during the long animation. I can partly work around that by mezzing the foe before starting TF, but it occurred to me that another solution would be to be a Tank with Energy Melee.

Granted, I never used it in the old days. And it is slow, no doubt. Maybe I'm just patient. :P But my experiences with (one of) the slow EM powers, admittedly on a different AT, make me think it's not quite as bad as I've heard/read.

I don't have Mid's at work, but doesn't this slotting

I just want to compliment you on your thread title. Often, it's difficult to determine what a topic will actually be about because of a muddled or misleading thread title. "Deleter's remorse" not only clearly describes what you wanted to talk about, but it's immediately recognizable to anyone who's ever deleted a character -- I knew instantly what it would be about -- and it evokes the emotion with a minimum of words. Good job.

tl;dr - allow scaling of tail length and thickness

The costume creator allows one to alter the proportions of faces and some body parts using sliders. You can make a head wider, longer or taller, to varying degrees. Some of the possible changes are too subtle to be very noticeable, but some can be dramatic.

It would probably be some work to add a scaling slider for tails, but it would enable a fair amount of creativity. Tails are very visible and attention-getting, and they’re “hot” right now with the Animal Pack being new; being able to make them shorter or longer, fatter or thinner would add a great deal of individuality to them, and allow the limited number of tails in the game so far to work with a much wider variety of concepts, even before (or instead of) creating individual new tails.

Shortened and slimmed down, the wolf tail would be good for a variety of lab-type dogs. The cat tail, shortened dramatically, would work as an acceptable substitute for “whip” type tails on the sight hounds (greyhounds), beagle/basset types, and bully breeds. Cat characters might like to “fatten up” the cat tail a bit; it’s very slim as-is. A dramatically fluffed-up wolf tail might work for skunks and (maybe) squirrels. A slightly elongated bunny tail might be an acceptable substitute for a bear’s nubby tail. Some demon types may want a substantial tail, not the wire-thin one we have now. I’m pretty sure all the dragon players would like to increase the length of the reptile tail a bit. And so on.

Clipping issues can be mitigated by carefully setting the outer boundaries of the sliders.

This could theoretically also be applied to capes; they could at least be made wider to resemble cloaks or narrower (like a table runner, for want of a better comparison). But I accept that there are probably more clipping issues with capes.

I’m honestly not sure if this would add graphical lag by increasing the amount of costume information packet, but that might be a concern. I know capes supposedly are graphically intensive; I assume moving tails would be too.

Okay. Always willing to play by the rules and support the company. I clicked this thing and ran through a lengthy process of download, configuring, checking for updates, adding COH, adding COH Test, and then deleting my old shortcuts.

What do you know, it worked! It loads them okay, first try.

It's MONSTROUSLY SLOWER than the old method, of course, on the order of one or more minutes longer to get into the game. But what does MY time matter?

An attractive feature of Elec is that it has high smashing & lethal resistance AND capped energy resistance AND some psi resistance. While, as always, s/l is the dominant damage type faced by players (and rightly so, IMHO, by comic book standards) a lot of the high-end content does energy and some psi damage. In fact, Elec is almost tailor-made for neutralizing Ritki, who do huge lethal attacks with their swords, tons of energy ranged attacks, and a modest amount of psi.

I don't have an Electric Tanker, but I do have fully mature, IOed-out Invulnerability/SS/Pyre and Fire/Fire/Pyre Tankers. While the Inv is clearly head and shoulders above the Fire for durability, there are many situations where he'd still be alive, chugging through a crowd of foes, but in the same situation the Fire Tanker would have already killed everything and be healing up from the beating she'd taken.

Fire/Fire's damage is very good for something as durable as a tanker. It's not just a little bit better than the typical Tanker. A Blaster once told my Fire/Fire/Pyre "You kill like a Scrapper!"

Yeah, and the Tier 1 attacks all have short recharges, so it's fairly easy to reapply it. My /SS Tanker has the recharge of Jab down below the cast time now, so he can permanently chain-Jab an enemy if he feels like it. "Bruising is forever!"

I also use it sometimes for a "plowing through water" look around the feet of a character who's based on a naval warship.

Well, my Fire/Fire/Pyre Tanker is currently sporting Spiritual. I guess it's not necessary that the Inv/SS be different....

Currently piling up shards and stuff on my Inv/SS. He's mostly defense-built, and didn't take an ancillary/epic pool worth mentioning (2 slots in a hold for the set bonus).

Very happy with him generally. He can run low on endurance in stupendously long fights, but not enough to be a problem; a couple of times recently I've tanked AVs through four to six applications of Dull Pain, which is on a 2 minute and 25 second recharge, without running low on end,and if I do, I carry a few blues. 50% global recharge from set bonuses; no Hasten.

My instinct is, if no particular need screams out to be filled, use the damage Alpha ability (Musculature). Also, I often feel like enemies are still alive with a sliver of life after 2-3 hits. It seems like an uncommon or rare Musculature of some sort would help with that.

But I haven't given intense thought to Incarnate slotting and may be overlooking something obvious. So if you'd care to share what you decided and why, or make suggestions, please do. Thanks for reading!