Socorro

As always, so many suggestions that KB is good but only if used 'properly'. Problem is, most of the playerbase does not use KB properly and never will use KB properly. These suggestions mostly fall on deaf ears. To keep preaching it hoping that the majority of KBers will someday 'get the message' is wishful thinking at its finest.

On my PB, I do try to use KB properly when teaming, meaning I spend time not killing so I can position myself to better KB mobs into acceptable areas (walls, corners) and insure that, by staying at a Mob's edge, my Solar Flare only hits less than half of the foes it could hit just so I don't scatter them 360 and upset my teammates.

So, an alternative really is needed. Make KB more desireable (perhaps extra smashing damage, like a proc, everytime a foe is KBed). Make it toggleable (perhaps via a setting from the Null the Gull). Make a unique IO that gives -KB to all your powers (like Blessing of the Zephyr but applied to your effects). Something... Anything...

Totally agree. And we still have those good ol' Cysts. These precious crystals that the Nictus use to travel and to sit in when they don't have a host so they won't die of premature old age - I've seen one of them on a Pererine Island streetcorner with Carnie Streetwalkers.

With the recent PB changes, I can solo at +8 now, so I encounter Cysts quite often while soloing these days, and it still blows my mind that this 'feature' still exists after all this time.

Of course, it is pretty cool that I can take out a Cysts solo these days while being in the middle of a +8 spawn

Ahhhh...good ol' Time Travel Quandaries.

If the futurites believe that killing me can change the future, that means they believe the particular future they fear is, well, changeable. If it's changeable, then certainly it could be changed in ways that maybe involve something less drastic than my death, such as, I dunno, maybe me just deciding not do the drastic thing that future history says I did to cause the apocalypse.

So, no, I would not die. If the future can't be changed, it can't be changed. If it can, then there's more than one way to change it - and my premature departure is off the list.

As a dedicated Human-only even prior to I21, of course I love what they've done for the human form. I agree, though, that as a shape-changing AT, the alternate forms have to bring something to the table that the Human cannot approach, because it is true that if Human can get close to what another form can do, there's really no reason to take the form outside of 'kewlness'.

Likely a rumor - but if anyone hears any sort of hint about this being true, my PB is all ears

Yeah, this has been suggested, but you'd have to go back a couple years to necro those threads. Great idea then - great idea now.

/signed

Dividing the playerbase further was just a bad idea.

I really wish I could get the points I spent on Rocketboard back - t'aint gonna happen

With Hasten and Lightform both at their ED-capped recharge limits, I got Lightform perma with around 82% extra global recharge. That just barely covers it though - the Icon is blinking when it finally comes available again. If any foes hit you with Slows or you forget to hit Hasten soon as it recharges, you will have some no Lightform exposure time. I'm looking to get a bit more global recharge to make the overlap a little longer.

Yeah, handwave it away. In my head, I RP away most of the game's factions, politics, and history. I have my own superhero world that overlays this one - even the warwalls don't exist in mine.

Hmmm... depends on my Superhero power level.

If I were Superman's powerlevel, forget a normal life. I'd pick a small Island to be my home, and convert it to a paradise above ground, and an impenetable fortress below ground. I'd allow people (incl friends and family) to live there, but each and every one would get a background check from me. On this island, I am the State. And every other nation would be given due notice and the promise of massive retaliation if they considered mucking around with my little world.

Like Superman did, I'd likely renounce my citizenship to any one country and consider myself a citizen of the world. For my relationship to the rest of the world, yes, I'd want to help out, even be a hero but I'd want to ensure that I wasn't overstepping any nations' sovereignty (which even trying seems like it happen even when trying to help)...

So, I'd probabably make an arrangement with the United Nations; that anything major the world wanted me to do must be voted on and approved by that body. They'd have to change their voting to be more equatable, though - those 5 permanent security council members would have to go if they want me to consider them legitimate. Otherwise, I'd try my best not to get too involved, as I can't see it working out in the long run unless I literally take over the world, which I would not want to do.

I'd pretty sure I'd make secret excursions to other countries here and there, pretending to be normal person and doing all kinds of exploring and touristy things, but I'd try hard not to get involved unless it was UN-sanctioned, as detailed above

If my power level were less, say in the Spiderman range, I'd probably still continue to live the a somewhat normal life (meaning I'd try to keep a secret civilian identity, regular job), but I'd certainly try to find ways to use my powers to benefit myself, my family and friends, and others in need (although I likely wouldn't go too far out of my way for the latter - no patrolling like batman does)