Schismatrix

i still think I Can't Believe It's Not Lard was better.
The main ingrediant? Butter. <.<

NOOOOOOOO!

;James T. Kirk

wut

Eh, my more formative linguistic years were in the Northeastern US, mostly in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey (more the agrarian Western part rather than the Eastern "Joisey" region ) and Connecticut. My actual accent is mostly an amalgam of those regional variations on English. Mostly. Of course the accents change over time and i pick up some of the local accent depending on where i am.

Oddly enough i do not pronounce "calm" the same as "mom". Bizarre as it may seem i pronounce the "L" as a sort of transitional phoneme between the "a" and "m" sounds. (If that explanation makes any sense.)

We start...

Here!

ALL

YOUR

FAULT.

Oh, redside. Yeah, redside seems to have a small fraction of the population of blueside on most servers. Add to that that i know many people who are more likely to use /hide when playing villains. Personally i never hide and welcome PuGs on either side, but i know quite a few who don't feel the way i do.

*drops to the floor with a Bloop! and stares at the plasma tv; tilts head and turns plasma tv into plasma*
*realizes that that wasn't the intended effect and turns the plasma into plasma*
*realizes that it's still not right and turns it into a plasma plasma*
*with a sigh gives up on it as a bad job and reverts it the original plasma tv*
Um, yeah, i was trying to do something, but then i lost track, and then i forgot how to do it, and then i realized i was in the wrong house. Later everyone.
*waves at FeyDuex Fedor et al*
*exits upwards with a !poolB*

Force Bubble has a radius of 50 feet. Yes, 50 feet. With Force Bubble you don't have to be close to repel mobs from someone.

Good point. My apologies.

FWIW, i think j_s generally means well. It's just when you believe yourself to be an expert on a subject it leads to overconfidence and not checking your facts before delivering incorrect missives from on high. Gods can cheat when that happens by changing the facts afterward to match their edict. Mortal experts not so much.

...As for the main topic...

Well used Force Bubble can be an incredibly useful tool on a team. Badly or constantly used Force Bubble on a team tends to be annoying and counterproductive.

21 skidoo!

Wait, what?

A little more explanation of this point would be appreciated. What do you mean by "NOT use the market as intended"?

The intended use of the market as best as i understand it is to provide players a convenient means of exchanging influence for other in game assets while destroying a small amount of the influence. Some PvP IOs tend to get sold outside the market because they go for prices that are over the market's cap, but that has less than nothing to do with AE. Do you mean that AE users don't use the market at all?

Inf tends to become less valuable over time in large part (IMO) due to the much higher rate of inf generation compared to everything else once a character hits 50, but that also has nothing to do with AE. How does AE enable unintended market use, whatever that may be?

Ah. Right then. Does it have at least the readership of Rock Paper Shotgun?

Who, AFAIK did not get a Utopios package either.

i have noticed that other sites tend to have writers who play CoH as well, so i'm not sure playing CoH makes you uniquely qualified or particularly unusual among gaming sites. Hell, even Yahtzee over at The Escapist has tried CoH.
And he liked it more than he likes most MMOs.
Considering his jaundiced approach to games in general, and MMOs in particular, it was surprisingly positive.

Wow. Uh, non sequitur much? i've reread this several times and while i almost think i know what it's intended to mean, i really don't understand how it relates to the discussion at all.


Which is almost as confusing. No number crunching is required to read up on or observe in game a mechanic that has operated the same for TO/DO/SO/HO enhancements since the game was launched, and IOs have worked exactly as they do now since they were added as well. The info on how enhancement types work is available in dozens of places in and out of game. Where did number crunching enter into it?

i'm not really familiar with that site, even though i'm familiar with Kotaku, and Massively, and all the other gaming sites that have been linked by the Mods on the forums. Do you know offhand how that site's readership compares to sites like Kotaku?

i know that press packages like the Utopios one aren't generally produced in massive lots, so they're generally only sent to high readership outlets who have a significant presence in the gaming community or wider media.

Well, yes, but the "ch" in much is blurred a lot in the song to make it rhyme better with Gus and i was being more phonetic than pedantic. Silly of me, i know.

Questions i might add:
What species is your character?
What is their general moral code?
i would also change "What do they think of the Police?" to "What do they think of the local authorities/government?"

But i would advocate throwing them under this Tanker in particular. Especially since i have a hunch i know the Tanker's server and affiliation. Unless i miss my guess he's either a particular Tanker, or was tutored by a particular Tanker, who has a learning curve that resembles Kansas.

i think Warden's been having some j_s moments today. They also posted in another thread that patrol xp gives double xp.

Every one of those repel powers has a radius of approximately 5' and primarily do knockback. Force Bubble is a repel power that has a radius about ten times that and has a very low chance of inflicting KB in addition to the repel effect. Unless the MM had the Brute set on follow and never got more than a couple feet away none of the powers you mentioned would do anything. Reread the OP.

Force Bubble can cause a "running backwards" effect, i've seen it many times on my Force Fielders. The other powers simply hurl the mobs away. (Inflict KB.) Telekinesis is another repel power, but its effect is very limited. Hurricane is a very obvious repel power. Only Force Bubble can consistently keep mobs pushed out of melee range for another player without the user staying directly on top of the melee player. None of the powers you've suggested would result in the scenario the OP described.

Force Bubble is the only power i know of that works the way the OP described. Although i'm not ruling out someone else having Force Bubble, unless everyone else on the team was staying right next to the MM it would be pretty obvious who was generating the effect.