Samuel_Tow

Double that of Sprint, but since the Ninja Run is a travel power, what difference does it make?

I've seen it in action. It's not quite Super Speed, but it's a HELL of a lot faster than anything you can get short of a travel power, and with a lot of air mobility, too. Speed it up a bit, give it a bit more air and it IS a travel power on par with Super Jump easily. It just seems... Unfair that they're handing that around without a power pick at level 4 in a paid booster pack. On of the BIG things with Booster Packs is that they've had anything that gave any real, big gameplay benefits, and this does.

That's a regular automatic that sort of looks like it. A real Desert Eagle would be bigger.

I fail to see how my money is your problem.

That's fun and all, but the biggest (and about ONLY) thing I really wanted to take home with me was customizable eyes. Champions faces suck hickeys, but damn if those eyes weren't cool. It opened up a brand new level of customization that I'd never even considered. Pity that there wasn't a good enough game to go with it.

Well, with the female walk making a return to the game, I might need my hands, at least.

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To play the game with!

That's what it comes down to for me. During the Architect craze, YOU BET I was concerned. I'm a reclusive guy, and even I was getting "ae farm" invites left and right, and I kept running across people who didn't want to do normal content at all. New players, even, who'd shot up to amazing levels in a couple of days and didn't know practically anything at all. I equate this to dragging a peasant from some lost village in Siberia, dropping him in the middle of Manhattan with $1000 in hand and telling him "OK, now go out and take care of yourself." I saw a lot of lost and confused people, and I did see a few who blew past content unreasonably.

But that was then. This is now. We have a difficulty system now which allows people to farm their ***** off without fishing for fillers, as well as a castration (let's face it) of the Architect, which essentially did little to dissuade powerlevelling, but it moved it OUT of the public eye. Right now, powerlevelling still exists for those who know where to look for it, but outside of sewer teams, there is no incentive for veterans to draft newbies into it. I'm not sure if I'd call this a win/win, but it's definitely a win.

Practically speaking, loose lips sink ships. Powerlevelling and farming became a problem (both a literal problem and a bone of contention) only when it became epidemic to the point where everyone was doing it and everyone was talking about it. Does it exist after the changes? Oh, hell yes. Do I have any evidence that it exists? Oh HELL no! I don't know if people powerlevel or not, because I have no way to see it. I'm sure they do, but other people don't know about it. And as long as that holds true, I hold no fear for new players being sucked into a fast-track experience.

Actually, I'm not against special characters in names IF I can type them on a standard keyboard. I don't mind asterisks or slashes or dashes, but accented characters are NOT something I want to see. I don't have them on my keyboard and even though I could probably pull a German or French layout off the Microsoft Language Bar, I'd have no idea which button corresponded to what anyway.

Why no foreign names? Well, let's see you invite Голям Бабаит on your keyboard

If I have to be quite honest, I would like to see armour-specific hairstyles, with longer hair either draped over the back plate or tucked inside the shell. However, this requires new hairstyles unique to just Banes/Crabs, and I highly doubt we're going to see that.

On the other hand, I still hold out hope that we'll get those "armour shell" costume pieces at some point, and if they can standardise the shape of the collar, at least, we might be able to get a good selection of shell-specific hairstyles. It's likely not going to happen, but hope springs eternal.

True, but they clip with things beyond the scope of the category they are in, namely head details. The Bane/Crab Spider chest Armour is such a design that I'm hard-pressed to think of a single hairstyle (other than Bald) which would not clip with it, and that's before we even look into things like hats or beards. In essence, they'd either have to limit head selection to only a few hairstyles and types, or design new armour-specific hairstyles, which would them more or less MANDATE a specific shape of armour neck hole, so to speak, which may not be a good solution.

That said and problems aside, yes, I do very much agree with you. I hope BABs and Jay are looking into adding pieces like these for players, because they're really cool.

It seems to be a problem with the costume piece, itself. Whenever BABs and/or Jay have said "this costume piece won't be made available to players," almost always it has been a large armour vest that covers the chest, back, sides, shoulders and neck. This is exactly that kind of costume piece, which may be why it's acting in a non-standard way.

Am I the only one here who's perfectly willing to admit I like the female walk animation for precisely the reasons of butt wiggle and sexeh and not try to make it seem like I feel bad about it? Seriously, admitting that is what allowed me to make half my female characters

What you don't know is they spent your 30 bucks buying "I H8 VLNS" t-***** from the local Good-Guys-R-Us mart.

Except Fiery Aura is not a burning wreck. OK, it's burning, but it's not a wreck. I've only tried it on Brutes so far, but between one of the best heals I've ever had and a self-rez with incredible damage, the powerset is far from bad. I wouldn't mind seeing Burn put on a shorter timer, or at the very least slottable for accuracy, but I do NOT want to see a return to the old days of taunt-n-burn. Even if it's an attack, it's in a secondary set, and as such shouldn't rival attacks in your primary.

That said, I wouldn't mind seeing it go the Shield Charge route - mini-nuke level damage once every 90-120 seconds with full break-free effect. Held in stone? EXPLODE! It's what they do in cartoons to free themselves from entrapment, after all.

Can I pick both?

Moreover, can I quote you on that?

What's most interesting is that this "experience gained from working on City of Heroes" doesn't actually seem to be showing anywhere in the actual game. What HAS shown up seems more akin to "experience gained from listening to City of Heroes forum rants and whines." Very much nothing else seems to have made the jump between games.

I actually did a tally of experience needed to level and realised we earn over 90% of our total experience for the game in the last 10 levels of play - 40-50. It's also been said that, at least before all the experience smoothing, the 40-50 game was designed to take about as long as the 1-40 game. I'd have to re-look at how experience scales now with all the changes, but the above remains true - the time it takes to get from 1 to 10 or to 12 is pretty much a mere moment in the time it takes to get to 50. In fact, the most recent experience gains adjustment made it easier to level up in the low levels and nowhere else, expressly for the purpose of giving new players an easier, more fun ride into the upper bounds of the lower-level game without the trudge of level-grinding from level 1.

In my estimate, the point of this change is to draw in more players via a somewhat questionable tourist trap approach - they start out and everything is amazingly fast and easy, but at around level 25 it slows down and begins to settle into the slower pace you'll see in the upper levels. You go from 10 levels a day to 2 levels a day, to half a level to one level a day in the upper levels (if you don't push yourself very hard). It may also be a prelude to the supposedly redesigned early game coming with Going Rogue.

Keep in mind, experience gains increase significantly if you boost your difficulty way up, but that's not something I'd be afraid a brand new player would do from level 1.