Spectral_Ent

Apparently Posi's got another "Fun announcement" to make. Should go down well.

There's really been this little rampant speculation and DOOM!? I'm surprised!

Certainly sounds interesting. I've got one toon that could slot in, the only real problem would be fitting it in.

A few days ago, I did the "Defeat Requiem" mission you get from Sunstorm for his last arc, and was surprised to find that the Cysts that spawn there are inactive. I thought Cysts spawning in normal missions was an accident? If so, how come those ones get amazing summon abilities, but the ones I get sent to smash don't?

Interested here, here every evening this week except tuesday, here for the weekend, then away all the week, then here all week the week after that. Wow, that sounds a lot less confusing in my head.

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a hero with dark powers......and when are we gonna ask for light basts for domminators?

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Light is not good and dark is not evil. Light can blind people, and can even burn in high amounts. Dark can be cool, concealing, and subtle, which a lot of heroes would like to use.

Oh, and there's no such set as "Light blast"

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Of course, there's absolutely no reason that Ellie is: superstrong,

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Sorry, slightly OT here, but... Kheldians aren't superstrong? I assumed Peacebringers and Warshades were rather strong and tough, at least towards the upper limits of the human scale, if not more, due to being Kheldians. I've always played Luna like that... Is this not so?

Due to a conversation held in PD last night, I've been left wondering exactly how Arachnos manages it. They're quite obviously running a military, if not a totalitarian dictatorship, and have instigated countless acts of agression at the US (Paragon City in particular), yet they're never directly questioned or threatened with even some sort of sanction. I'm well aware that bad things can happen when people just aren't interested in dealing with the horrible stuff that goes on, but there's evidently a will to do something as evidenced by the fact that one of the US's top spy duos* is sent in to try and break down operations .

So, why doesn't anything happen? What's the rationale behind it? Is it because the Rikti war's on, so there's just not the resources to try and take action? Is it that Arachnos is just too good and even the UN would have trouble fighting them? Or is it just that this is a comic book world and we need a nice lot of morally unambigous fellows to bash around?

Indigo and Crimson

Character taking part: Paragon Protector CR
Level: 37 (Could be 38 by the time it's on)
Time available: Any evening after monday from about 5 onwards.

I'm most worried about
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The most challenging and time consuming tasks grant the most reward tokens

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I play this game because I DON'T have to spend hours to get good stuff.

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that is not how this trial is ment to be completed. it's not as the devs forseen it

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One of the brilliant things about this game is that the other way of doing things is usually as valid as the "right" way. Now, doing it in 10 minutes wouldn't personally be my cup of tea, but equally I wouldn't want to run a melee controller, or an all-powerpool scrapper, or the like (unless I had a good concept...). And to adress the second part of this quote...

We had "teh vision" for quite a while. I'm personally glad it's gone.

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Metaphyte narrowly dodged a streak of vines that shot out of the ground.
"So you're not a friend, then." she said, seemingly satisfied with the conclusion.
"Your loss." she grinned, extending her hand, as the vines that made up her outfit, and thusly, her doubles, suddenly grew and formed into long tendrils, entangling her opponent.
"Stick around" she grinned, then turned to the meteor.
"That needs to go."

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Indeed. RV has the heavies to try and level the playing field for those without PvP builds. What do PvPers do? They moan about them and ask for them to be removed.

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Aren't heavies there to try and let someone get near the turrents without dieing horribly? I seem to remember someone saying that.

Metaphyte walked closer into the smog, wary of someone attacking her from the obscuring mist. She blew another cloud of spores out around her, hoping that the clarity spore might be able to counter some of the thick, cloying mist around her. No success. Looking ahead, she could see an odd light, and attached to it, vaguely humanoid beings, looming out of the smoke. She reached into her belt pouch and pulled out two strangler seeds.
"Don't be Shivans..." she said, her voice strained.

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TO ATTRACT NONPVPERS INTO PVP ZONES YOU NEED TO APPEAL TO THEM. NOT TO PEOPLE ALLREADY PVPING.

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This isn't as good an idea as you may think. We already have rewards in PvP zones, and this only creates ill will between PvPers and PvEers.
"We want Shivans so we can do a hard TF!"
"Lol, it's a PvP zone so I can fight you if I like"
"But there's no other way to get Shivans!"
and so forth.

If there were PvP rewards, they need to be for PVP, not for PvEing in PvP zones, and they need to have a negligble effect on PvE. (Like the Guildwars lion emote)

Metaphyte flinched as the bolt hit, and was surprised at a lack of impact.
"That was... Odd... I can bet it's not good, though. Maybe that's a sort of scan?" she pondered aloud, stroking her chin.

She turned to the other heroes "Any ideas?"

Metaphyte jumped over the fence near the train station and ran down the street. Meteors, regardless of source, weren't good...

She stopped, flexed her vine-covered fingers, and watched as a small cloud of spores wafted off. Glancing down the street, she could just make out the impact site. She adjusted her mask, and headed down.
"Hey, anyone know what's happened?"

It should, perhaps, be possible to "buy" a random recipe with reputation. That way, you'd still need to earn it like you need to with a TF. Ish...

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It's not a faceguard, its a mask. It's just styled on a greeco-roman helmet.

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I don't see why we can't have a similar mask, then.

Curses! Nevermind, then. :P
Yet another glorious costume option I will never use... *sigh*

Is it possible to get the Roman Cheekguard 2 option without using the helm head tab? It's a really cool faceplate, but I'd rather not have the half helms. Seeing as most of them suck and I don't want a Roman helm.

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Even my squishies can handle easy on Heroic.

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Isn't that the point of Heroic?

SPOILER

Actually, that's a Restructurist who wants to ally with Recluse to TAKE OVER THE WORLD! muahahhha...

Theres not enough smashing and lethal resistance in the game. I were fighting Council roobots and they onlty took abot half damages from mi attacks, but dey should teek less bcause theyre robots and dont have blood and things... this is an oversite i am sure will be corrected

To my mind, the whole rating thing just seems... Unnecessary. Sure, it might filter a little bit of the dross, but griefing and the sheer amount of missions that'll be made will make it pretty pointless. And "Awards unlockables based on rating"? Eesh... No thanks. This is A: Easy to abuse
"Hey dudes! I just made a mish called (Whatever), go play it and rate it high so I can get unlockables!"
B: Leads to the escalation effect already mentioned (People who get rewards early (probably the above people...) will get unlocks and their missions will be better)
C: Is kinda pointless. Why not keep the "You can play with stuff you've seen" idea? Why do I have to go and make something that happy bob and the chestnut crew will enjoy just so I can put (Say) Manticore in my mission? Can't I just do (Say) Manticore's TF for that?

Mission creator and nigh everything in it is a great thing, so PLEASE don't spoil it with this fairly stupid idea...