Samuel_Tow

Touché

By the way, it occurs to me that while I didn't check the patch notes thread (something I don't do when there are, in fact, patch notes) I did check the Dev Digest before I left work today, and I didn't see a post from David in there that wasn't days old. I'll have to check again.

Knowing that it will be fixed and fast is enough to quell my dislike, really. What bugs me the most about these things is the fact that almost all of them have been in the game for years, and they bug me more every day. This one has years before I start freaking out

Well, I should hope so. Then maybe if this gets fixed it will be the first of many fixes the female model in general requires, such as the ability to use inspirations while animating an Awaken, not cycling through one step of slow running animation if under the influence of run speed buffs, not randomly dropping out of combat mode and refusing to use stances until you draw a weapon and so forth. I've been reporting these things for pretty much as long as I can remember.

This was just... It kind of finally caused me to blow over, because it's the most obvious of the bugs that only affect the Female model.

That's the case for me. I don't feel like enduring an extra loading for no reason when I'll be logging out anyway. Especially since people have no way of knowing that this is happening (I didn't, and I'm usually an observant guy), it makes sense to not leave "surprises" like these in the game.

Personally, I prefer a game that's bug-free and refined over one with a lot of stuff where the bones of the system are always showing. Those kinds of quality of life changes put more value into the game, in my opinion.

Then I really have no grounds for an argument against it, provided it doesn't default to that at least for existing users.

I didn't want to go TOO overboard, but yes. Having the ability to pick the background at least from the specific zone would be nice. Actual in-game backgrounds would increase load times inexcusably, as you'd basically have to load into the game before you start loading into the game.

Back when I was suggesting an Assault/Defence AT, that's the status protection I designed for it... Pretty much. So I'm inherently for this. Allow this power to be used from out of a hold, but give it a low uptime and possibly make it immune to recharge. I'd take it, believe me.

Especially if all pool powers were opened without prerequisites.

We only have three pages, and I already have three pages of characters on Pinnacle and just about three on Victory.

The reason I say "halfassed" is because any form of automatic grouping done by the game for me is, by definition, half-*****, because it would group characters designed to have nothing to do with each other.

Unless:

I am allowed to define my own particular groups as many as I want at a time, including loners who would show up alone. And no, don't tie this to SG status, it would be a bad idea. IF I can customize who shows up with who, then I will have no problem. Any halfassedness past this would be my own fault. But I'd rather have a "ghetto" character selector than one that takes control out of my hands.

As far as I remember lol those were specifically for farming lol This lol however lol does not change the fact that lol even back in the day lol you could still level 1 to 50 off nothing but the architect lol Just in the same way as you can level off street sweeping lol if you were so inclined lol

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I realise what "freestanding" means technically. What I meant to say was a structure the height of which is uninterrupted and direct. Grandville's tower, for instance, is a lot taller than it actually looks, but because it's mired in the Web and those hanging cables, it looks less tall than it is, and while the sheer scope of the Shard dwarfs everything else, that's still distance measured THROUGH levels and between islands. It has no single monolithic structure that dwarfs the Faultline dam, with the possible exception of the Chantry and Storm Palace. I never thought to measure the two, and I can't measure the Faultline dam now.

I'm not sure I'm reading City of Data correctly, but what you describe feels like the equivalent of Tough and Weave. Personally, I'm against being able to take enough Pool powers to more or less "mimic" a defence set from a melee AT. Instead, I'd pick something different altogether: -jump protection. You don't gain anything extra from this power, other than the ability to ignore or at least mitigate -jump effects.

Normally when you're web-grenaded, you run slowly and can't jump up a street curb. With this, you'd be able to jump at least a couple of feet up under any circumstances. And, yes, this includes under the effects of Caltrops, Rooter or Granite Armour, as well. How's that for an esoteric power?

Again, I don't actually have a problem with a flight speed boost that only really mattered for Hover. I suppose you could also give it a very high-level protection from -fly effects so that you can fly out of things like Quicksand, Impale and those annoying fly debuffs that the Hydra throw around, but only for a limited time. But I do like the power as presented. I'd try to take it on a few characters.

Placate doesn't actually fit the concept of having a strong presence, now that you mention it. "Presence" as a concept is that when a person walks into the room, everybody takes not, and when that person speaks, everybody listens. Presence is the ability to command attention, respect and obedience. As such, I actually think this is a better place to put the commanding shout, as a form of presence that affects your team-mates instead of your enemies. You serve as inspiration. I'm not sure what else you could put for Leadership, though. Unless...

Howe about for Leadership, you get a "protective" aura that saves people from the more insidious of side effects like -perception, confusion, fear and probably gives them resistance to... Either endurance drain effects or slows, whichever is more feasible. It's the idea that people who are around you are less prone to give up to exhaustion because they don't want to let you down.

It also means that anyone with the Reveal power gets to sidestep a limitation, which for a veteran power is... Iffy. You're also going to tare your hair out trying to teleport around zones with multiple levels like Grandville, Terra Volta, Eden, Perez Park and so forth. I'm just not a fan of it.

Personally, for a fifth teleport power, I want to see combat teleport - a power which teleports you INSTANTLY with no animation whatsoever, with very little cost, with no Hover time at all, but is limited to about 30-40 feet and is on a recharge of, say, 2-4 seconds. Teleport itself is far too sluggish and far too costly, to say nothing of far too ugly to use in battle.

Also on Fighting - I would love it if Kick turned into an AoE or was otherwise made "better" to differentiate it from a copy of Boxing, such that it can be moves a tier lower. I really don't like Pools that have copies of the same power in different slots. What would also help is either if they make Fighting powers work without putting your weapon away or otherwise if BABs gets around to removing weapon draw like he said he would when he had time.

You don't need to dismiss tips. Morality Missions don't count against your tips inventory.

As far as the original idea goes, I agree completely. The tech already exists, as that's what finishes arcs and gives you Merit rewards, so it can simply be used to reset your tip status. After all, your clues disappear when the Tip mission ends.

Didn't they use to do that in medieval Russia?

You're a bit too late on the draw there

To point: the tallest free-standing structure on Primal Earth that we see used to be the Faultline dam, before they flooded the zone. The dam wall was over half a mile tall from the base of the Reservoir to the top of the "tower" crane above, which was still lower than the top of the actuall dam wall where the shield wall is.

And they had to go and ruin it...

I don't think you can do this any more. At least I know I've tried it and the game told me I had to finish my currently-selected mission first... And the team didn't HAVE a currently-selected mission. I guess it might work if the team leader were in the zone, I don't know.

Male. I think... I'm pretty sure!

Scrappers, Brutes, Masterminds, Blasters, maybe Stalkers, in no particular order after Scrappers. As for reasons why, those are pretty simple. I pick the ATs that get things done in the most direct way possible, with the most direct means available. If I want to kill something I... Kill it. I don't beat about the bush by slowing it down, tricking it or anything of this nature. If I want to survive, I tough it out, or outright kill stuff before it has a chance to endanger me.

I'm not a tough guy in real life. In fact, I'm pretty much a wimp. However, I enjoy simple, direct solutions, preferably involving large tools and much showmanship.

Any side whatsoever. My heroes all have a reason to want to do the right thing and my villains all chose to be evil. I'm not quite sure what overall definition I can give to Praetorian Earth, other than that all of my characters there need to be politically minded, which is why I've had fewer made so far. Haven't done any rogues or vigilantes yet, so no definition about them.

Let's see... Division: Line, The Eternal Nemesis, World Wide Red, Time After Time and the remake of a Hero's Hero, I forget what that's called. All of these arcs are grand in their scale, epic in their consequences, deep in their revelations and they all put my characters on an even keel with enemies and friends hitherto considered main players.

In a sense, these arcs are more than just "Go there, do that and I will pay you." They feel like they mattered when all is said and done, and they feel like an accomplishment, lore-wise.

In no particular order: the vast amount of costume customization, the fact that this is different from most other MMOs in how it approaches gameplay, the fairly simpler build system, the fact that the game does not devolve into grind and there are precious few "you are not awesome enough to have this" achievements that are actually required. Basically, it's exactly the right kind of game for me - one where I can be awesome without having to try too hard, meaning I can play it again and again and again and... Really, never burn out, because I only ever burn out when I'm not having fun.

Everything under the sun... As long as it's on the PC. As of right now, primarily this game, Darksiders and Alien Swarm, with a helping of Half-Life 2 and its episodes. Black Mesa: Source and Operation: Black Mesa if I'm lucky. I mostly stick to action games, however. The breadth of my attention isn't nearly enough to play strategy games of any kind - I can't split my focus and it bothers me, and racing games rarely thrill me unless the presentation is good, which after Need for Speed: Most Wanted, it has not. Simulations don't thrill me. Arcade style games (or actual arcade games) are what I like the most at heart.

I'd have to check the exact months, but since May of 2004, and pretty much uninterrupted. I did skip a couple of months around September of 2004 before I learned what burned me out (turn out it's the MMO aspects of the game), but beyond that, I ought to be looking at some 70 months or so.

Around 23+26 split between Victory and Pinnacle, respectively, so call it 49. They've added up over the years, but I rarely make many at a time.

I don't bother with Set Inventions at all. I firmly believe in "good enough" when it comes to character performance. As long as I'm good enough to do well and easy enough on my chosen difficulty, I'm happy.

As for what that difficulty that is, it's either +0x2 with no bosses or -1x3 with no bosses. With the Incarnate system not dropping shards for 49s (50 at -1), I'm trying to play at +0x2. -1x3 is also actually harder and rewards AoEs far too much, making Blasters without many a bit too hard to play.