Scarlet Shocker

Me too!

I may not be understanding your P.O.V. here but I'm just trying to clarify - are you saying there are deliberately "gimped" builds?

I've never encountered one of those - in my experience you can go left-field with a toon and maybe you will sacrifice one of it's main "characteristics" for a different effect, but it's very rare that a toon gets broken because of that.

Leave out one power or series of powers and you get other powers in substitution - it's not like you cannot take powers... you can end up with something weird I agree, but it can still contribute ably.

I've been on teams that just can't finish a TF, because the team make-up and/or strategy is wrong, but I don't think I've ever, in the four years I've been playing - had to say "We failed because the X never did Y."

The converse of that is some people get fixated on certain powers - I was once offed a million inf BI (before Inventions) to team with a stone tank on my Kin and keep him SBd. I declined, cuz that's not what a kin is all about to me but - and I've hated playing kins because everyone wants SB and FS andnothing else.

The real proof of the pudding is that if someone can make a build that will solo a TF, then a team of 6+ should be more than adequate, unless they are pratting about big style (which I readily admit can happen.)

Odd builds are not the issue here I suspect. The real issue is that there's no team play, and a lack of open-mindedness, which is sadly often prevalent in PUGs.

If you feel that you've been misunderstood by all and sundry then perhaps it's your original post that's problematic, not everyone else's understanding of it.

You get an extra slot up to the max every 12 months of paid sub, don't froget.

Actually what it really needs is a serverless environment.

Never gonna give you up, never gonna say "good pi"?

Enjoy the earworm

Defiant, 2.15 am GMT

My point there was simply to illustrate that the build is less important than the body.

I'd support a list merge and maybe even a worthwhile restructuring of the servers. I'd even support a reduction in server numbers (which would be difficult to do politically I admit) provided we were given an opportunity to swap our toons, and SGs and stuff to a server of our choice intact.

And if the Canary islands slide into the sea we'll become the only customer base. But there won't actually be a game left to play then.

You'd think, and we'd all like to see that, but the dimwits in the offices are apparently oblivious to it.

Spot on Lady A.

Yet another example of how important the EU player base is to NC

Quick suggestion: Stop trying to derail this thread with pointless one-liners. It's actually an important subject to an important chunk of the player base and no word from Paragon or NC.

That kinda tells us a lot but it gets obfuscated by your inanities.

Wrong

I have to say that most participants in the game tend to be really friendly and very willing to help newbies out. That is as true today as it was four years ago when I joined in my experience. (I could just be lucky and have chosen the best server of course, but I suspect it's universal.)

Mostly, internet forums tend to degrade into toxic environments in fairly short order, if they last long enough of course, and it's a credit to the CCs and moderation policies, and to the participants, that once an argument's over in a thread it tends to [mostly] remain over.

You'll always get snipers and mealy-mouthed cowards in any anonymous environment, but for the most part this place works pretty ok.

One thing we do have here is a chance to express negative views about the game, it's direction or other factors not relating to without getting stomped on by the CCs - not every environment is so tollerant that that is a strength of here, IMO.