Shagster

In addition to other factors I think this would result in some unfair market distortions, as it would discourage dumping some 'junk' on the market at low prices.

Personally, I know I often pause between missions and dump a bunch of common salvage on the market for 10 INF using /ah.

IF your suggestion succeeds in discouraging use of /ah , then it will unfairly impact the low end of the market.

Which leads to my next objection: IF this would work as you wish, and discourage use of /ah, why would the Devs put in something to discourage use of feature they took time to add?

And encouraging use of the market physical location may be counter to Dev goals in another way. The more player characters in one close location, the greater the server load. The devs would probably rather that if 100 people are using market, that they be spread out, so the servers don't have to send every person's costume info to every other player.


Since you are getting visceral negative reactions from a good sample of forum goers, and it might have unfair market distorting impact, and it's probably contrary to Dev goals... I think this is a lost cause. Good to think outside the box, but your energy probably better spent elsewhere, on other causes.

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Hm. Personally, I'm not fond of the change to PPM.

I loved taking a fast recharging low damage attack and filling it up with damage procs, sometimes even skimping on normal damage slotting.

I may never again have the joy of seeing all 5 of my damage procs going off at once in Jab from superstrength. It was rare before, but with PPM reducing the proc chance, it will be a lot longer.

I guess I can understand that PPM are more balanced for various attacks, and for high-recharge vs. low recharge builds. But I'll miss mulling over if I want a damage proc in an attack, and tending towards using procs on lower-damage attacks.

If it's best for the game balance, it's for the best in the long run. But I'll miss the old way.

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Sam,

Given how you've described your playstyle and preferences, for your first run through of the DA incarnate arcs, I'd advise being sure to have Bosses turned off. That 2-minute timer "do the right thing" choice is a lot easier if you do. And there's several other places where it might be a factor as well.

There are a few Elite Bosses in the later arcs. Have Inspirations / temp powers ready if you might need them. But overall, if Bosses are turned off, it's not a hardcore challenge or anything. I soloed a Blaster though all the DA arcs with only Alpha unlocked, so I'd think a decently built Stalker should have no issues.

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Because it was first suggested as a joke.

And it might have died there, but then Positron (the dev) had a very exaggerated "No Clowns!" reaction. Which led to people saying that Positron had a pathological fear of clowns, preventing us from having the set. Which led to people requesting it more, just to poke fun at Positron and have fun with the in-joke.

Then it got mentioned often enough that some people said "you know, I'd really like that, actually."

there's some kind of vicious cycle along the lines of:

joke --> in-joke --> localized meme --> taken seriously --> makes it a better joke --> repeat

going on sometimes.

Finished up the Astoria day job on FemFury last night, making it to 1357 (1355 on City Info Tracker).

Done once again. Now back to my "blaster doing incarnate stuff with non-Trial content" project.

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My Rogue Stalker is an honorable sort. He won't kill unless it's in the heat of combat, execution of a dishonorable opponent, or he's got an assassination contract.

He can't suggest an assassination contract he'd like to take, because that would make him a murderer, instead of a detached professional. So he waits and waits for that day that someone offers to hire him to kill Westin Phipps.

It would cost him all his connections with Arachnos and related allies, of course, and make his life very dangerous from that point on. So he's going to have to charge for the service.

He's thinking a fair price would be about one dollar.

For any of Phipps' actual victims, special discount, one penny.

For a blinded orphan child, he'd accept payment in pocket lint.

Joining the chorus here.

Spring fling done for a total of 1309.

Ready for Issue 22, time to give my main a brake and work on alts until then.

I kinda assumed that the ritual in question wouldn't work on everyone.

Like there might be dozens of theoretical magical rez rituals lying around on dusty shelves, mostly unused, as each one only works on 1% or less of the population, and some have drawbacks.

In my head, I was picturing Ms. Liberty reading some intel reports and remembering a mystic ritual that worked to return someone from the dead. Only, since the ritual invokes Charon, it only works on someone "tied to Tartarus or Hades". And the use of the Amber Widow means there has to be some resonance with the symbolism of that item representing a million year old "anchor" of "suspended life.". Ms. Liberty realizes that with Recluse's Incarnate ties, his love for the Widow counts as a tie to the Greek underworld, and the spider in amber called a widow is pretty good match for sympathetic magic on an arachnos agent with "widow" in her code name.

Or maybe it's more simple than that, and the ritual only works on female assassins. Which wouldn't create a long list of candidates that Ms. Liberty would want to drag out of the underworld.

I just wish Ms. Liberty at *least* had one line of dialogue with something like her shaking her head sadly, and wishing that this particular ritual would work on some people she could think of that would be more deserving of a second chance at life. Then she could put that regret aside and continue with the plan, "working with what she's got."

Don't mind the costumes one way or the other really.

But in terms of her physique and body structure, she seems to have lost a lot of sense of physical presence there. Not just talking about bust size either. Sometimes PG was drawn muscular. Sometimes not so muscular, but still broad-shouldered and impressive. Sometimes, yes, the bustline was the standout feature.

This pic... she's clearly fit and athletic. But the underlying body type just doesn't seem right to me. More suited to a gymnastic / acrobatic / martial arts superheroine maybe, not a powerhouse slugger like I picture PG being. And compared to the Alex Ross PowerWoman from Kingdom Come, she looks downright dainty.

It might be in trying to make the character less "sexist", DC has actually ended up reducing the diversity of female body types in their superheroines.

Edit: a particular problem I have with this cover is seeing her next to Huntress. If you had those two switch costumes and wear the right wigs, not sure you could tell them apart. Did the ladies bond as a superheroing duo over the fact that they were the same height and dress size and could share clothes?