Tenzhi

I always thought... Sharkhead? should have a Lusca-sized giant monster made out of junk.

Just turn it around on them. Clearly, it's the people who believe they're entitled to have things other people don't/can't that are the ones with a sense of entitlement. And an elitist one at that.

I'm not sure it was ever changed. It's been that way since CoV came out at the very least. My Dark/Dark Corruptor's three cones always worked as I described. As as every AR, Archery, Dual Pistols, Sonic, Psy/Mental, Electric, Cold, and Fire cone I've used. I assume Energy Torrent and Throw Spines work as usual, also, but I can't personally verify those. I have used the Temp Power Plasmatic Taser, though, which I believe is pretty much just like Energy Torrent and it worked as I described.

Even Melee cones I've used will hit enemies behind the one I target, though it's more difficult to do so with those.

That's not my experience at all. Every ranged cone I've used hits out to its proper range even if I'm targetting an enemy point blank.

A Mastermind named Gus Gorman has a program that siphons off the Prestige into his own villainous group's account. They're using the billions of Prestige gained in this fashion to build a super computer to defeat Statesman.

Indeed: Shadow Cloak.

My Warshade spends most of his time in Nova form, though. But I have a Stealh IO slotted in his Nova form to be an even more ghostly squid.

Indeed. One of my favourite things to do when I started playing this game was to join teams gathering to smite Giant Monsters. Now the Giant Monsters spawn and I rarely see any teams forming to kill them. At one time I joined a channel that was purportedly for Giant Monster slaying, but it availed me not.

I like the idea of adding badges for killing the GMs multiple times. And I like the idea of adding some sort of Accolade. More suitable rewards might be nice as well.

As for the zone events - I like the Deadly Apocalypse event in theory, though it rarely seems to pan out. The Rikti Invasions and Zombie Apocalypses would be alright if the game could properly keep up with power recharging and activation when the player gathering gets particularly large.

(The Zombie Apocalypse would be a lot more awesome if the zombies didn't spawn right around players like the Rikti Invasion, but rather spawned from several points in a zone and shuffled out attacking players, civilians, and NPCs alike, creating more zombies as they went (I'm envisioning an effect similar to the Lost Curing Wand wherein the zombie attacks an NPC and the NPC disappears and runs off while a new zombie is summoned in its place). As is it just feels like a smellier Rikti Invasion.)

That could work rather well. Although it would undoubtedly lead to the power detoggling on its own at times.

The only reason it shouldn't work is to "bring it in line with the other travel powers" as stated in the quoted post I was directly replying to.

And forgetting to toggle it off would cause more annoyance in an already moderately annoying power.

If that's the goal, they should also make sure the proposed toggle doesn't work with Rooted or Granite.

As I recall, FF spent a fair amount of that time at the crafting table crafting numerous recipes to sell the IOs on the market. IMO, that's far from "playing casually." As would be concentrated farming of AE for tickets to roll the recipes for said crafting. "Playing casually" is more than just a matter of time spent in the game.

"Right"?

Not in my experience.

I don't expect it to "feel fresh" any more. The game is a mild, comfortable amusement that I indulge in when the odd mood strikes (often accompanied by an inspiration for a new character) or when I simply have naught else to do.

Independent of difficulties brought on by level limitations, the content largely feels the same to me regardless of level. Hit bad guys; get reward.

In my experience, making a game more social/friendly would be making it less like an MMORPG.

Some people have different priorities of importance, thus it's inherently subjective which abilities are "important". And they may prove to be a competent enough player even if their priorities differ from yours.

"Better" does not necessarily mean "most efficient".

One perfectly valid reason could be "it's a better build because it doesn't have the power to make dancing purple shield icons swirl about".