Scarlet Shocker

lol Happy to be of service.

Cosmically? Seriously? In a game?

Only if that's the only question ever asked and we all know that's not the case.

Actually it was pretty poor form. I had to read it several times to realise it was actually a Moderator editing a users post to make a point. He should have replied and quoted directly in his own post to be clear.

It's not even an especially valid point either. Maybe that's why he buried it

If being right is so very important to you, feel free. I've not said you're wrong, I'm simply going by what has been said and said that the case is yet to be proven. If you think that's sour grapes then I'm rather sorry for you. I have no problem with the market merge at all - but you've been quite selective in your response so I think I'll draw a line under this because it's not actually terribly productive.

Good points all.

I actually hadn't considered what they'd do with the flashback missions but that's a relatively easy fix. Hell they could make them part of the AE "Virtual" experience if they wanted and open up hero and villain content to all comers regardless of alignment. It would be hard to imagine Dr Aeon not having access to Ouroboros considering how many metahumans have it.

Also yes, the Devs rarely ever remove stuff irrevocably - but they have made serious modifications that fundamentally change the structure - RWZ, Faultline, etc. But we'll see.

Whatever - I19 is one of the most exciting issues to me in a long time

I kind of get that Pool Powers shouldn't get customisation - without necessarily agreeing with it. They are all the same for everyone, but yeah SS and Hasten have some of the worst effects.

Well first be careful you don't put words into my mouth. I have never said "absolute" and if you look at my posting history I'm highly critical when I feel the need to be so.

Secondly, GR and the Market Merge has only been a very recent phenomenon, and it's hard to know yet what the long term effect of that might be.

Thirdly in 2007, there was no GR. Without the ability to side switch it is entirely possible that things may have looked very bad for the market. The Devs had said several times they looked at the numbers and it was not good.

Even if you are right, and as things stand I'd suggest it's case not proven yet, given the large swing towards hero-side, this is the Devs game and they have a number of plans and goals that we aren't privy to, which may affect stuff down the line. The fact that after 6 years the game's still releasing big content tells me they are doing an ok job in many areas, so if they aren't proliferating now, there's probably a reason for that. Nobody's said they won't proliferate more but just now we've had 4 brand new power sets that give us a lot of new combinations. I'm hardly surprised, having produced all that content they aren't quite ready to rework other sets that have been around in game for a while. We'll see them expand in due course I've no doubt, but not for a while.

I wouldn't call that horrible at all. I'd say your response is pretty subjective tbh and it's made almost no difference to me.

I have no argument about the Devs listening - they certainly do, much more than Cryptic ever seemed to - NCSoft, not so much

That'll be why I saw two NPCs... at the time I thought they were brother and sister, Jen & Eric

That'll be a disaster!

(probably what the badge is called too )

If it's an OCTOpus, what does it have TENtacles?

Very like those

You know the problem with the links you posted though? They are obsolete.

All of those threads kicked off before GR launched.

Manticore and the Television have disappeared into the ether apparently.

And as I said previously no senior Dev has made any meaningful post regarding the game since GR launched.

Why do you suppose that is?

It's going to be a lot easier to get around on the ground which is largely what Ouroboros has been for a long time - a shortcut from A2B. With a new Monorail in Talos down by the Ferry it'd be easy enough to get to almost any zone, especially if the SG Base exit points were put in more travel friendly locations. Founders Falls will probably become one of the main travel hubs, connected as it is to the Monorail, Vanguard and Pocket D all in reasonably close proximity.

So are we somehow going to lose the Temp Power? I suspect we shall, but probably not in a way we expect for a couple of reasons: The Devs dislike removing stuff from game and more importantly the nerdrage would be phenomenal (even if a bit fun to watch?)

I'm completely guessing here but I suspect this is how it will work:

Temp Power is removed - only limited access to Ouroboros - maybe via Ice & Flame pillar - so effectively the Midnighter club or SG base is the only access.

Then after a few issues that move the story forward, we get a new Inherent power that's like the Portal or maybe a portable Pillar of Ice and Flame that we can unlock and use for ever.

No because I like the other bonuses that SB gives, and I don't get horrible concussion from running into walls at 100mph ;-)

And, also I have a thing about letting people play their own game and SB seems to be a Kin's favourite buff so let them spam it. It becomes a problem if they have to miss out a player. There are ways to mitigate SB somewhat, turn off travel power, detoggle run etc - and using hover is often a good work around.

I took SS the other day on a char and realised how much I hated it and so effectively wasted a vet respec to get rid because that plus run (which had a stealth IO so needed toggling frequently) and SB made the toon unmanageable

That said, I'd have to see how SB was on a given toon if caps were lifted - I'd hope I'd not have to, but I can't say until I've tried it.

I believe that no single attack in game can kill - sorry, defeat, a PC outright. It's something along the lines of the max damage an attack can do is PC Max HP-1. Thus any character on full HP will still be standing (just) no matter what hits them, but the next attack is highly likely to finish them off.

Personally I'll trust the devs to decide what's right for the various issues and moving the game forward.

Sure there's all kinds of stuff we'd like to have but they know why they (don't) do stuff and so far their judgement hasn't been so horribly wrong has it?

Well although it's been denied, I remain unconvinced that Romulus Augustus and Romulus the Warshade are two entirely distinct entities.