Talen Lee

The best part is when this friend reads this thread he's going to be pissed at me.

If the devs were RP-minded, the bio bug would be getting addressed before something silly like powergamers screaming to 50 in who-the-[censored]-cares amounts of time.

So, I have this friend, and he posts on these forums, and he's just kinda curious.

Are you hot?

Just as a vague question, which of you people would be comfortable having say, me speaking for you?

Right?

Right?

Okay, now consider the difficulty involved.

Some power pools benefit some builds more than they benefit others.

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My SP3

[/ QUOTE ]*shakes head*

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I think that we should put a Judicial System in the game! Where you can if you chose to take the villain that you arrest to Court and act as a witness to the crimes that they committed! Then afterwards if their guilty or not they are either set sent to jail or set free! On top of that you could get a badge or something like that! I know this isit the best idea i the world but it would make more realistic! So plz think about it! So wut do you guys think about this idea?

[/ QUOTE ]Since my DS just died JUST AS PHOENIX WAS SAYING TO MAYA 'there is one thing I want to tell you' while bikini and pearl were BESIDES THEMSELVES, I have nothing but sadness for this suggesiton, shedding a lone tear, a tear of blood.

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The design failure I'm talking about is the power incentivizing behavior no one likes. Even if you're one of the people that's comfortable ignoring players who spam chat with things you don't like, you can't really make the argument that needing to do that is a good thing.

[/ QUOTE ]That's not a design failure, that is, even if it is a problem, an unintended consequence. And it's a byproduct of bad players, and teaming with bad players, or being a bad player. Fortunately, difficulty curves generally stop those problems from persisting.

Become a better player and you shouldn't wind up with the problem.

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And talen, I tried addressing you in good faith once; if you're not actually interested in a conversation, take your dumb trolling somewhere else.

[/ QUOTE ]No, you didn't. You said, in essence, 'I am not addressing X, but did I mention X X X X X X X X X X?'

I am pointing out that you simply saying that something is a design failure doesn't actually make it a design failure, especially since you don't seem to understand what, exactly a design failure is. This is one of the vices of terminology, when people who don't understand it use it, it puts a veneer of intellectualism on the same old tired nonsense.

To dismantle your posts point by point and indicate every place you are wrong would take a great deal of time and effort, time and effort you would disregard because you have stepped into this discussion with the prior assumption that you are right and that people who know better than you are 'dumb trolls.' So I make do by pointing out large and obvious ways in which you are wrong and find to my surprise and delight that you can't even answer those, instead choosing to throw out accusations.

You have proven everything I thought of you when I read your opening post.

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At some point it's a design failure, though.

[/ QUOTE ]Keep saying it. I'm sure it'll become true eventually.

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Doesn't Dominate cause redraw?

[/ QUOTE ]Redraw does affect DPS now? Gah.

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Plants/Fire has great damage (for a Dom), but little damage mitigation. It will be easier to level than Psi, and it has Consume, which will be easy to use with Seeds of Confusion to keep you at full endurance.

[/ QUOTE ]... The same can be said for Psi, which has Drain Psyche, at the same level you get Consume, and is a better power. And Plants has plenty of damage mitigation - psi offers more than fire, but plant needs no help at all. I don't disagree with your final assessment, but I do think your opening statement needs work.

Since you can't define Fun and don't seem to have the faintest idea how I play, after an evening of playing my plant/kin, I don't think I can provide you with a suggestion that will fit your predefined notion of fun. On the other hand, I can note that I don't like any of your ideas because they're fixing problems that only exist when you deal with bad players, including the player of the kin.

So... you're saying tankers need more damage.

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*shrugs* They did the wrong thing, you left, reported, moved on.

I don't think Playskool's position is quite fair because I'm reasonably sure no people get murdered because they like Orange Soda.

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Pfft. Someone has hope in humanity. People get killed for all sorts of reasons. Orange soda would not surprise me.

[/ QUOTE ]A fair comment, but I don't think there are roaming gangs of people attacking orange-soda drinkers all across first-world countries.

On the other hand, I wonder how they'd have reacted if it'd been a pair of girls talking flirty with one another.

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you're lying

[/ QUOTE ]Ultimo lying to reinforce his point is pretty much the only way he operates.

Then he threatens to attack people who dare to notice this.

I would be very very curious as to how Energy would be made better than Electric.

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I'll PM you.

[/ QUOTE ]Do me a favour too?

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Energy has better side effects than electric IMO, not to mention powerboosted vengeance!

[/ QUOTE ]Powerboosted vengeance < actually killing things

*shrugs* They did the wrong thing, you left, reported, moved on.

I don't think Playskool's position is quite fair because I'm reasonably sure no people get murdered because they like Orange Soda.

You don't see a lot of posts on gravity because the world is divided into these three camps: The people who levelled a gravity character and now assiduously demand that they are fine and fun and balanced because otherwise they'd feel like idiots for wasting their time, the people who can see how gravity has failings and know that if they actually say as much the first mob will bawl at them and call them 'pl'd crybabies' while they're trying to discuss game balance issues, and the other 99.9999% of the planet.

Gravity has some problems. You can ignore them. Gravity has some idiot proponents. I'd advocate ignoring them too.

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Or just give Tankers thier Tankiness back

[/ QUOTE ]It has been what, four years, man, get over it.

I hate time travel. I hate badly handled time travel.

Faultline is good enough that I run it anyway, but it's not like the zone gets MOAR AWESOME the ninetieth time you run it.

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What I'm after isn't necessarily a buff, it's a more level playing field.

[/ QUOTE ]You don't consider that the advantages different types of characters have is actually part of what makes the playing field equal, do you?

As far as Stars/Billz' discussion goes, it seems really weird that there's this discussion about tanker survivability, as if tanker survivability isn't designed to be overkill for solo play.

Good thing too, since fire/rad and fire/kin are the only controllers out there. And they're both so overpowered when you extract them from farming situations.