Schismatrix

It's like Sigmund Freud said: "Sometimes gibberish is just gibberish." He also said you want to sleep with your mother.
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Freud was a coke-head.

What was the message? What are you trying to say? For every punctuation mark after the first at the end of a sentence (ellipses aside) i get one word deleted from the sentence. i used to think that was a problem except i've been assured many times i haven't missed anything important. Still, i sometimes wonder...

Anyway, i tried drinking Maori Lolzatine, but it always left a bloody taste in my mouth. *blech*

You need an echo effect on that.

Mender-ender-ender Silos-ilos-ilos is-is-is future-uture-uture Nemesis-emesis-emesis.

There. All better.

Yeah, i think i said as much previously. Mentioning it not being a useful travel power was more of a secondary comment/aside. i'd already stated that it was mostly good for edge cases, not the average team. Yes, if your team is built around leveraging things like everyone having PBAoE's or being melee it's great as an opener/surprise assault maneuver, but those are rather uncommon team compositions in my experience.

i still would like to see a version of Fold Space added as an alternate 3rd tier power.

*sigh* It didn't read as 'bullying' to me, but then i suppose i didn't feel like i was being targeted, either. Rereading it it still seems more like a suggestion than a demand or threat, and really you need at least one of the two for it to be bullying in my opinion.

When people with differing views on various subjects advocate their viewpoint i rarely feel threatened or bullied, even if i strongly disagree. Maybe i'm just not sensitive enough to appreciate the threat to my views presented by the presence of opposing viewpoints and opinions. Especially the ones phrased more as suggestions than demands, they just slip under my threat detection triggers, though i will consider the position even if i remain opposed or disinterested. *shrug*

Mind you, there are a few things i do get worked up about, but that doesn't mean i get all ragey and threatened just because someone states an opposed position.

But it can be very misleading, and imply restrictions or options that aren't actually present if you don't know better. Which is an issue with a number of the tips that aren't technically wrong, just inaccurate or incomplete.

And that's one of the few edge cases where team teleport is useful. Group Fly has far more applications and it's still rarely wanted due to the disadvantages it has.

Masterminds and melee team ambush strikes aside, there are very few place where the power is useful. Especially as an actual travel power used for going any distance. Used in conjunction with Group Fly it almost works as a travel power, but the endurance cost is huge, and Group Fly alone would usually be faster if teamed. That's why i describe it as being useful in a few edge cases. In general play it's just not very useful.

Well, yes. And for years i'd suggested replacing Team Teleport with Fold Space. Then we got Assemble the Team as a vet reward, and, cottage rule or no, i realized Fold Space was unlikely to ever replace Team Teleport.
A ray of hope(?): Now that we've had fifth powers added to PPP/APP's there's always the possibility that a version of Fold Space could be added as an alternate third tier teleport power. Hey, i can dream, right?

Then i got nothin'... *shrug*

Maybe they were looking at the disreputable, disavowed, scammer-haven POS wikia site, not the player-supported and updated Paragon wiki.

How about that Team Teleport power in the Teleportation pool?

Concept aside, there's only a few edge cases where it's actually useful. This is more a limitation of the game engine than the concept of the power being all that bad IMO, but still i can't recall the last time i saw someone who took it and used it.

A tourney would be interesting.
Not that i'd expect to compete since it's been quite a while since i did much more than bounce around a PvP zone being a moving target.
i suppose what i will do sometime soon is try doing a bit more PvP. One difficulty is that very few of the people i frequently see in game care for PvP.

That reminds me, i should see about setting up a Bane squad sometime. My Huntsman build VEAT (Bane secondary, mostly rifle primary) will probably be going heroside when GR comes out.

Depends on what you mean by effort. SF/TF merit rewards are determined solely by average completion time. The TF's that reward lots and lots of merits also take several hours to complete. The major advantage TF's have is that there are more to choose from, and they generally take longer to finish than SF's, so you have more TF's you can theoretically do in a day, and each gives more rewards. Although the longer time required makes having more TF's to do somewhat irrelevant, except that you have a wider variety to choose from when deciding to do a TF. However, unless you have an unusual definition of the word 'effort', TF's and SF's generally require the same amount of effort for the reward.

You can do 2 SF's in 3 hours and get approximately the same rewards as doing 1 TF in 3 hours. Now if you're doing both with PuGs, then i can see the SF's as requiring more effort since you have to form a team twice. If you set up a team for doing the 2 SF's back to back in advance, then it's about the same amount of effort.

Personally, i prefer running SF's on weekdays since i have less time to play during the week. On weekends i can usually set aside at least half a day to play when i do play, so some TF's are more appealing then.

It's either a very large mouse, a very small apple or a very disturbing sight.

i like seven question marks, it's a good number. My fondness for heptagons has nothing to do with this opinion. Or does it???????

Still waiting on a formal announcement of the start date. Anyone know offhand when the last couple of winter events started?

An SO-only event would have to be run on the honor system since Frankenslotting and HO use is impossible to easily detect without statistical analysis.

i suppose you could run a 'no set bonuses' event, but that's far from being an SO-only event.

The 'Suggestions and Ideas' section of the forums is a good place to make suggestions. (Stroke Victim Smiley agrees with me.)

Luckily i'm always in SG mode. Honestly, i see no reason to ever leave SG mode. The slightly increased inf gain at higher levels is inconsequential compared to what i can make in 2 miutes by dumping unneeded salvage on the market.

Also, second that it is indeed a mystery gift when you don't know exactly what you'll get... 'This box contains one of six items randomly selected. So it's either a gold watch, a candy cane, a piece of lint, a new car, a sippy cup or a rabid weasel. No mystery at all, i'll bet my entire life savings that i know exactly which item it is! *opens box* ... Damn you, sippy cup!'

Okay, maybe there's a little mystery in the box.

This seems the most workable to me.
No giing required, and i've seen an increasing number of authors releasing books in a print on demand format. Sometimes with a free pdf version on their own site.

i'm like this with a few names. All the versions on different servers tend to have a unifying theme, or even very similar costumes, but none duplicate the others exactly. They're more like alternate takes on the same basic character concept.