Schismatrix

Why so rancorous?
Almost all the people posting here are just saying they consider it money well spent. No one's really complained about you starting this thread, though a couple may have taken issue with characterizing the money spent on the game as "sunk" and "depressing." Saying that there was a similar thread several months back is hardly a stinging rebuke. (Stinging Rebuke would be an awesome name for a power.)
Lighten up a little.

This guy seems happy enough.

That's just silly. Though it's only fair to point out that you would notice -rep less than most.

Still, fear not. There is an answer to those so lacking in acumen.

Birds have been doing it for millions of years following in the footsteps (literally) of their dinosaur ancestors... Stability issues aren't really greater than being a biped in the first place. Actually, most bipeds are digitigrades.

Edit: See above. Birds, humans and several other primate species are primarily bipedal on the ground. Bears, Pangolins and a variety of rodents are partially bipedal. Mostly for combat, manipulation, digging and looking around.

Or were you using animal to mean mammal?

Same here, but 69 months this past Sunday.

*hides under bridge* (Actually i used to do that when using TP Foe in Siren's Call on my Brute. Before the revamp of course.)

So far i've seen little here that i feel is worth replying. i mean... ELK trolls himself, everybody else trolls everybody else, and nobody's really interested in any viewpoint unless it agrees with their own. Even me.

My DM/Elec Brute has one in most attacks and taunt.
Cheap damage proc that does psi damage? Yes please.

*meh*
Try again.

In digitigrade legs what you're thinking of as a "reverse knee" is actually the ankle. It's just that the carpals and tarsals are elongated and the animal walks on its toes. Which has some definite advantages for moving rapidly on the ground.

i do both. Sometimes in the wrong order. Also, coffee can frequently be replaced with tea. Mmm, tea. Be right back.

At this stage it's an ongoing and interesting conversation that mostly ignores the OP. Then again i'd say that was true by the end of the first page.

i'd tend to use toe over tongue, but that's because i can't think of any examples of vestigial tongues at the moment.

i'd suggest that a Looking For More flag would be a good replacement for the Looking For Patrol flag, but implementing it would require recoding part of the team interface. It's still a good idea in my opinion, and it's possible that something like it is already in the works.

i wonder if this proposal has already been posted in Suggestions. It seems obvious enough that i would expect it has. It's not the first time this topic has come up.

i do have to agree with StarKitten regarding your subscription time.
i especially like how you phrased it as a question since that's how i would've read it anyway in light of your prior posts.

If you've been playing the entire 51 months prior to now you've come to the boards not a moment too soon.

Welcome. It's about time.

That will be the prepping for the closed beta, yes. At 51 months there's a good chance you'll be in the closed beta at some point, but it's not guaranteed. Hell, i just got the badge that's 18 months farther along yesterday and there's still no guarantee i'll be invited to the first part of the beta either.

Anyway, while it's easy to level faster than ever now, the leveling curve does slow down a bit in the late thirties. i've found that SF/TF runs and teaming, especially with friends, makes it go by very quickly.

If it's solo leveling you're looking for then continuing what you're doing and upping the difficulty is usually the best way to go. Generally speaking mission arcs outside AE give the best xp per minute spent in the mission due to the end of mission and end of arc bonuses. By the later thirties travel time shouldn't be too much of an issue unless you skipped the temp powers and taking a regular travel power.

For me the LFT setting usually lasts until i log out or join a team. Frequently it persists after i log in a new alt.

Some of the flag settings make no sense, but i guess they're left over from launch when standard MMO conventions informed a lot of the interface design. At that time open world hunts for 200 rats, street hunts or whatever were more the norm, so a "Looking for patrol" flag may have made sense. Nowadays it makes little to no sense at all as a teaming flag.

Works for me. i always look at all available builds and see if i can incorporate what i like most about each into one. i consider builds advice and ideas to help me design my own, not strict blueprints to follow.

Edit: Personally i would consider the most skippable/replaceable power in the builds i posted to be Maneuvers. In general i only take it on my Force Fielders and Soldiers.

They have telepathy precognition: they know when someone's mind will be read by a telepath. Unfortunately (or fortunately) they can't foresee much more than that.

At this point i just mention that buffs provide more overall benefit past the early levels and that heals are useful as well, but less effective as a primary focus. Then i generally tell them to do whatever they want.

The "I RP my Defender as a pacifist and that's why I don't use attacks" people annoy me far more. Uh, sure, you just go around enabling your teammates to beat the hell out of people by patching them up when their victims fight back and/or shielding your teammates from retaliation and/or giving them the occasional dose of steroids or PCP to help them hit harder. That's not pacifism, that's just a coward who lets his friends beat people up for him. There is no way for a pacifist worthy of the term to level at any useful rate in this game short of massive hypocrisy.

Now if their reasoning was "I'm not capable of arresting criminals effectively on my own, so I assist those who can", then i'm fine with the reasoning. But Pacifist? *snort*

Well, if you visit Wincott preemptively you won't be given the mission to talk to him later.

Angry, drunken post in functionally illiterate English that gets every fact wrong and accuses all other posters who disagree of being stupid.

Boast about how being big and tough enough to beat up smart people means poster is smarter than them.

i laughed. Out loud.

Oops. i ate the ashes instead of wearing them. Can i has more?

And some more sackcloth. i, uh, used for something besides wearing or eating. Let's just say it was used some time after eating. <.<

That's a good point, a very good point. Still, i would take Gloom and Blackstar long before i'd drop Gloom for Blackstar.

That was probably around the time that one of my characters survived a backdraft hit. i always figured it was due to a server hiccup since it never happened before or since. IIRC it was not a high defense character either.