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Sorry to see you go, Beastyle, you'll be missed, but happy trails wherever you end up.

I still remember you dropping in on the roleplaying crowd at Galaxy Girl on Union just before she (and the rest of Galaxy City) got blown to kingdom come. See you around.

One thing that some people might be forgetting is that the design philosophy that Zwill explained earlier is really only going to be true for the Retro Sci Fi pack and any subsequent ones - everything that comes out before then will have had at least SOME of the choices made under the "old" philosophy of giving phenotype-specific pieces any which way - including the gender-specific Carnie pack.

I would caution some restraint on expressing extremes of concern until the first few packs under the new philosophy have released, since we won't really see the impact until then.

Some people's math seems to be slightly off when talking about "development time" on future cossie options.

What has happened in the past is M/H get A and F get B. Total development time of A+B.

What is happening now is M/H/F get C and F get D, where C+D = A+B.

Now, C>A (in terms of time), which means that D<B, meaning that M/H are getting more development time on their costumes, and F are getting less time spent on the unique female pieces.

I fail to see a problem with more development time being spent on costume pieces that everyone can use.

Oh, and Dink? You're awesome. Thank you for finding the time to do this.

CB, we haven't agreed on much over the years, but in this, I am merrily holding your coat.

I'm afraid you've failed on a number of levels.

One, actually the TOS merely allow PS to use my characters without express permission, even if my characters are used in other copyrighted works.

Two, of COURSE this is all my own opinion, based on upwards of twenty-five years of roleplaying. That, by the way, is called "experience". I've seen pretty much every kind of RP there is to see, and you know what? Playing someone else's creations bore the majority of roleplayers. Anecdotal, sure. But no more than you claiming that almost everyone you've roleplayed with is fine with you dictating their characters to them.

Absolutely NOBODY here is saying anything about you adapting lore "first". The problem people have is you claiming that your version of the lore is canon.

And thus we differ. I have no interest in roleplaying as Positron, or Statesman, or Bentley Berkeley, or Crimson, or General Aarons. Why would I, since they're not my characters to take in whatever direction I wish?

You have utterly missed one of the fundamental aspects that most roleplayers enjoy: the ability to create a character and play that role. Most roleplayers have no interest in playing someone else's character. It actually cheapens the experience. Because they do not have creative control when someone else can say "that's not how the character would behave".

You want to play in your group that allow you to take control of dev created characters, and that's fine by me. I have ZERO problem with that. I have a problem when you expect the entire rest of the roleplaying community to agree that you and you alone have final canonical say in that character's thoughts and actions for everyone else on the server.

Because you don't. Sorry.

A few random thoughts, and since this discussion has now spread across multiple threads, I'm just going to put them all here.

Some people have defended the OP by comparing his adjustment of canon (and it is adjustment, have no doubt of that, since canon is what the devs tell us it is and nothing more) with the work of Dark Respite (a writer for whom I have great respect, for a number of reasons that aren't relevant here). The simple difference is that at no point has DR tried to convince anyone that TCoSR (and sequels) is canonical. It's at worst like an alternate reality version of events, things that could have happened, and we can take it or leave it. The OP is stating as fact that his versions of characters are true (even when in flat contradiction to canon).

I make characters who exist in the world of City of Heroes. My main has been suggested to have some sort of hate/hate relationship with Ms. Liberty, for example. But I have not once claimed that any of my characters are somehow "more canonical" than any others. I have never taken a canon character and claimed it as my own. Why? Because, even fitting in with canon, I have more creative freedom to write my own characters than to borrow someone else's.

Roleplaying as Marcus Cole, or Dr Vahzilok, or Bentley Berkeley, or a made-up demon lord who is somehow master of all demons and the effective creator of the Circle of Thorns is simply lazy. Can't come up with a character concept of my own, so I'll borrow a character that already exists and "expand" on them. A thousand and one Drizzt Do'urden clones all sniggered at the very thought.

It's weak, poor writing, and poor roleplaying, where the greatest kudos one person can give another is to say "I really like your character". Except it's not yours.

And that is the point of the "hatred". Make your own character that fits within the canon material we have been provided. Don't believe that you have the right to say "history happened this way, actually", and expect everyone else to agree.

Got to agree with Floaty, here.

I read this latest description of "Lore-based RP", and the first thought in my mind was "so, your idea of fun is to take someone else's character and roleplay as that character? Whatever happened to creating your own character and having fun with that, creating your own story, personality, goals, history, adventures and so forth? This isn't roleplaying being described, it's acting, which is a bit like roleplaying. In the same way that having a driving license is like rally driving: kind of similar, but nothing alike."

Ze wabbit, he mis-spell "tool". Zat iz so funny!

Who are you, and what have you done with the real Venture? You keep talking sense that I simply agree with.

So, for question 3, the fact that they are all unique to Doms isn't relevant? It's certainly something they all have in common. I suspect the answer you're looking for is "Assault", though.

I still maintain that question five is entirely subjective, unless it's a pun question and "Derp" is actually an acronym. If it is a pun question, your audience have completely failed to recognise it, which makes it a poor pun question. For a serious answer, due to the simple existence of the Repel power, which I consider to be next to useless, and therefore causing the powerset to contain more "Derp" than I am willing to accept, I'm choosing Kinetics. (See what I mean about it being subjective?)

As for question 7... Red is a colour traditionally associated with heat. The phrase "seeing red" is associated with anger (or "Rage", if you will). Since the maximisation of Rage is a goal for Brutes, the AT as a whole is trying to "maximise their heat". Quod Erat Demonstradum.

Also, we're you running earlier with Patrol XP? Running out of that is the most likely reason your XP per mob dropped.

Or, in other terms, what colour was the "unfilled" bit of your XP bar before and after the reduction?

To continue with the humorous intention of the thread: does this mean I'd be disqualified on my main, because I have an SO slotted?

In Rest.

I've spent roughly 1.5 billion Inf on his current build. Everything else is IOd to the nines. But because I don't have him completely stuffed with IOs, I'd not be able to join!

That bit's silly. Everything else he asks for is pretty much okay, though specific powersets seems a little OTT.