Tenzhi

The way I was understanding it, they meant that Leadership powers would no longer self-target (like Grant Cover from Shield Defense), which I would call a fairly significant difference.

Maybe they'll put all the bonuses (jump/run/fly/regen/recover) into one "Fitness" power that you get at level 2.

Wouldn't æ work better there, or else why didn't you name the character AlAEstor?

Given that the buffs are effectively permanent for an entire team right out of the box, as it were, any increase to their duration is essentially a QoL improvement rather than a performance boost. It would be daft to balance such a QoL improvement with a performance decrease.

That said, as single target click buffs go, I think the duration on the various "bubbles" is fine. For me they are currently riding a fine line between being short enough on duration that the re-application annoys me and being so long in duration that I forget to reapply them.

Methinks the joke referencing your mis-spelling the word "beetle" may have flown right over your head.

Indeed. I tend to avoid Exemplaring, myself.

He at least needs to star in a series with Michael Jackson-lite... they could call it "Weird Tales" and feature appearances by characters such as Conan the Librarian and Howard the Duck.

No, what he needs is to run around without his helmet for a good while and pound the bejeezus out of a series of some incredibly tough non-psychic opponents so that the numerous idiots out there who think his power/physical invulnerability comes from his helmet might learn something.

When Positron says 'for the entire future of the product' he is speaking in a purely temporal fashion. He's talking about maintaining and improving PvP for as long as the game exists, rather than, as he says, just Issue 13. Whereas the thread title lacks the context and thus seems to imply that the future of the game depends upon PVP. It is that implication of dependance which, I believe, Memphis_Bill is saying is laughable, and it is an implication unsupported by the Positron quote.

Ah, very interesting, and thankee.

Isn't there a turning speed option? I play with a dual-analog gamepad, and thus am basically turning just as if I were using a keyboard to do so and I don't find that it turns particularly slow. And I've never had much problem with my superspeed characters (but then, I also play numerous racing games wherein the speed is higher and the turning a good deal less responsive).

If he *did* do that, it would turn out that no one believed him but Jor-El, and thus Superman would merely end up being responsible for saving himself. In other words, it ultimately wouldn't change anything.

Levels 1-20 are like an uphill trudge. They are the proverbial watched pot from which you cannot look away until it comes to a boil. Getting Stamina early will help, but it will still be a bt of an annoying trudge to climb 20 levels to reach a level of power that seems more fitting for a level 1 superhero. Perception is a key ingredient of grind.

Indeed, I would think added features/improvements would go towards maintaining the existing player subscriptions (and perhaps reclaiming lapsed subs) more than gaining new ones.

While I've always enjoyed musicals, I don't know if I count as an "average musical fan." But since I don't typically go to theatres of the non-movie kind, I don't get exposed to a number of musicals unless I happen across them on TV, an actual movie version gets made, or someone happens to mention one I haven't seen which I can easily access.

"Into the Woods" has been added to my Netflix instant queue.

It's true, to an extent. It's hard to pull away from the precedents you set at launch. For instance, if your game starts out with a well-paced, twenty level tutorial that leads into a sluggish, directionless and bland grind, it can be hard to shed that image, by Krom. Or, say, you were to launch your game with an immediate and massive nerfing, even if you're starting to find some balance a year later you might find yourself short on champions for your cause due to your rocky start.

Do what, now? Did I miss an announcement somewhere?

EDIT: Ah, I see, it was in a tweet...