Stormbird

They're released after the patch/maintenance.

So instead of taking the criticism and information for what it is, you turn it into a lame personal attack. Or do you have the "ample programming experience," experience with the engine and actual counterarguments to the points that were brought up?

Apparently you don't if that's the best you can do.
But of course you feel free to attack one of the longstanding developers who DOES have a clue as to the work it would take to make things not be lame.

Legitimate problems have been brought up, but instead of "using a little grey matter," you just attack instead. Hypocrite much? Especially when some potential workarounds HAVE been mentioned?

I came into the thread with an idea on a story progression - inside the 'city' and out in the water - that could work, but given the attitude shown here, I'm dropping any support for the idea.

Hmm. Sounds like "I care about the team composition" to me. You're too focused on powersets as opposed to players.

A team of competent players will get through missions far easier regardless of what they're on. I have to agree it sounds like you've been on a long string of utterly incompetent teams given a lot of what you've said here and other places.

I'm also thinking you're calling every support class a "healer," given how you use the term, which itself is exceptionally off the mark.

They aren't dead. Everyone just has you on ignore.

*goes back to my team on my "dead" server*

Bingo.

If Champion (one of the servers I'm on) suddenly got a bunch of new players on it? Hey, cool. If Champion got it by getting merged with Guardian? I'd be severely unhappy, since I know I, personally, would have name conflicts (for starters.) Quite possibly irritating me enough to leave the game, depending on the extent and magnitude of the problems that would crop up.

Er...

Personally, I read this and I say "That isn't a respec. That's stripping a character. Why would they want to make that easier?" Which feeds into the "Lucky we can keep 10" comment, too.

If you're doing an RP versus "normal" build, use dual builds, not a respec. My opinion, of course.

(points up a few posts)

Remember that bit about replacing powers? Yeah. I use it. It does knockback as opposed to repel (two totally different effects - mobs can and do resist one but not the other) and comes 10-14 levels earlier. Hardly "right around the corner." Your suggestion, to me, would be completely and utterly useless.

His post makes sense. Yours didn't. I think the description designed for troll attempts like this is "Phail."

Gratz MB!

Female straps top, as well.

Aesthetically dull, IMO, but w/e. I can see people now buying the wrong origin more often, especially on higher res monitors where that ring is harder to see. The origin specific icons help out there, as well. I know exactly when I've scrolled too far, because I'm now seeing dragons and fists or atoms or w/e. Unless the stores that carry all the origins get a filter or organized into tabs or something like a couple people suggested earlier. (I think that's part of the "system" mentioned earlier.)

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I do have to say: SCR. (Standard Code Rant.) I'll go with "it really is this easy" once you talk to Vanden (I think that's who did it) who replaces power icons and you put them in a format that directly replaces those in game. The process is different from just making a bunch of pics for the forum. You could just be a few steps from solving your problem yourself, or it could be a lot harder than you think.

No, I haven't bothered doing it either. I have nothing that bugs me enough to do something like this for.

Personally I have no problem with the system as it is now. I can find what I need quickly. Yes, I had to learn, but you have to learn everything you do in life unless you're God, so the "shouldn't have to learn" argument is silly and lazy-sounding to me. The only reason I prefer IOs isn't a simpler system but that they don't expire.

How is "They're always in the same order" hard? Especially when you see Trainings for so long that tell you what they are before getting into the RP names or whatever you want to call them?

I might not be able to rattle them off the top of my head, but if I'm at the store, yeah, I can zip right to what I need.