Schismatrix

You are coming across as a bit unreasonable, however. You are aware that Shields in conjunction with Martial Arts and Superstrength already do this, and that for many months until the most recent patch the custom animations were broken? i think the implications regarding how simple it all is should be apparent, but maybe that's because i have too many friends who are programmers and enjoy sharing their horror stories about past projects with me.

Making all those things work together is much harder than getting them to work separately. No offense, but you obviously know less than nothing about programming if you think otherwise. (By less than nothing i mean that your assumptions are actually the opposite of reality, not that you're necessarily stupid or anything.)

Yes. Yes. Obviously. That's quite apparent. No it can't, but yes it would be.

It will. i expect BABs won't. Same here.

Awkward wording, but i somehow doubt that the Devs and coders that have spent literally years working on this are going to read the thread and suddenly go, "Gosh, we've been doing this all wrong. We should've just been doing a little cut and paste and going out for biscuits instead of spending years trying to recode the game and graphics systems and sifting through millions of lines of code so that we can add these changes without causing catastrophic failure of the entire codebase. Duh."

i don't think this is as truthier as you apparently do.

Offhand, i think Ming is getting tired of how you're making him look by dragging him into this with all your assuming. (You should know what happens when you go around assuming. And you've been assuming pretty hard so far.)

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i did it because i was bored and felt like giving the Devs a task that would cause a fairly small group to flip out. At first i was going to order the Devs to make Epic Archetypes unlockable using an uncommon recipe, but it turned out it was quicker and easier to just change the level. Besides, there's lots of good players who have been playing for years who never pushed an alt all the way to 50. Since i've been able to create EATs for years and years i felt it would a nice gesture to let them do it as well. It's not like my alts having hit 50 means less because someone else can make an EAT sooner, certainly no more than the thousands who have PL'ed to 50 over the years.

i gave away the epics because i could. End of story.


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You just don't understannnnnd meeeeeeeeeeeee! *runs to room crying*

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*peeks out*
Did anyone buy that?

i wonder if Stimulass is already taken. i'm thinking either Pain Domination, Kinetics or Empathy.

Unless i'm horribly misunderstanding the mechanics the damage should follow a bell curve meaning that while the chance for 0% and 200% damage are equal the odds are highest of doing damage closer to 100%.

Stupid people is what's not really new. Which i guess is just a more general rephrasing of what you just said.

*snerk*
Can no longer take any post, here or anywhere, that uses that phrase seriously. Except, of course, if you are talking about a time when you were literally slapped in the face.

It's been a while.
Yes it has.

Wow, i'd forgotten about that it's been so long since i looked at the manual. For me it was more "the Rogue Isles are East of Rhode Island? *looks at globe* Are we talking somewhere near Portugal here?"

Actually, i think it is fun, but then i don't consider it a roadblock, just a challenge. Every so often your steamroller will encounter a tank trap. Go to hospital, grab a few purples if you don't have any, regroup, and then charge back in and wipe out the Cyst. i'm not absolutely certain, but i'm pretty sure the cysts don't regenerate.

N-n-n-n-n-necropost!

Not saying you're wrong, but that rebuttal was a bit over three months in coming.

This. Any AT can contribute at sewers levels, but at that level a Controller or Defender is more likely to be useful than almost any other AT. If i was running a sewers team i'd take any warm body that can click an attack button regardless of AT.

That usually would make the spawn smaller. It seems that each spawn wave is mostly based on the number of players and pets within a moderately large radius of the Cyst, not unlike how Hami used to spawn Mitos for the old raids. i don't know if anyone measured it exactly, but my best guess would be about 40 or 50 foot radius.

This. i've encountered multiple Shadow Cysts recently on full teams with Kheldians and not one team wipe has occurred. However, it was on TF's and teams not cranked to +2 or +3. In fact the ones i recall most out of recent encounters are the ones in ITF missions. No, not the neutered cysts that are mission objectives in both the ITF and the final Kheldian arc, but the classic fuzzball-spewing cysts. Although it is pretty funny when both appear in the same spawn.

i wouldn't say they're underpowered by any means, but i also wouldn't say they were overpowered either. At +2 or +3 level difficulty on a full team they will be a serious threat, but that's also true of unexpected ambushes when already in a pitched battle at those settings. There are several ways to minimize their threat even at those settings, but they are dangerous.

Some of the guest author and Dev's choice arcs are a lot of fun. You don't get the same end of mission and end of arc bonuses as a regular story arc, but AE tickets are very useful for getting salvage for your recipes. When i'm working on getting sets together i tend to alternate AE arcs and regular missions.

Running a couple ITF's or LGTF's should do it as well.

That's the best way to do it. *bows*

Well, if it had five or six ammo toggles i would have definitely agreed that it was too expansive. Three toggles seems just expansive enough to me.

i haven't noticed that it's expensive as such. At least one person with a 50 DP/EM Blaster seemed to be able to fit IOs into the build if the screenshot was anything to go by.

Hell, my lowbies set it to ice ammo for taking down Hellions and fire ammo for just about everything else.

During beta people were commenting that the swap ammo powers were not slottable, but i'm not sure what people would expect to slot into it. The only thing the toggles do is enable and suppress the different secondary effects of the attacks. The various damage types and effects are built into the attacks themselves.

The ones you can set to normal rewards?
Interesting.
Do they do it with both the AE and standard reward settings?

Which is amusing since it's Fire_Minded who escalated the threadjack with juvenile insults about rep instead of saying that rep wasn't relevant to the topic.

He even posted an irrelevant screed afterward in another thread about the sorts of shady doings that must be required for other people (me) to not have a rep awash in a sea of red which had little relevance anything outside his agitated brain.

i'm not necessarily opposed to someone having their cake and eating it too as long as they understand that after it's been eaten the cake is in fact no longer cake, but something else entirely. (And it's definitely not chocolate no matter how much it may look like it.)

Anyway, this thread was otherwise pretty much finished before the first page was, so i now bid it a fond farewell.

Good point. Just don't forget that Nemesis can also rapidly stack +tohit and +defense on nearby spawns for every lt. defeated, so your -2 and -1 pets can start seeming quite delicate against large groups of Nemesis.

i for one cannot wait to run the Sewers Trial with Masterminds on the team. To me that will be awesomely fun.

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