Tenzhi

I wouldn't be shocked at all. If someone gives you a car without any gas in it, it won't be going anywhere until you get some gas... but the fact remains that they still gave you a free car.

Exactly as acceptable as it is for you to rip open that other cereal box without paying for it.

EDIT: Also, updates happen before you log in, so you can technically get the free update without the subscription.

Even Looney Toons have a basis in real life. Belief is incumbent upon the believer. If it is broken by a slightly absurd bit of costuming amidst people flying, shooting laser beams from their eyes, and withstanding massive gunfire with hardly any ill effects, the problem isn't the costume.

That's just the subscription to play the game. It doesn't necessitate them releasing any updates/expansions at all. Which is to say that if they didn't release any of the Issues the game would still be $15 a month, and thus any Issues that have been released sans extra charge can be said to be "free content".

Not at all. It doesn't have to live up to Real Life expectations, it only has to fit the paradigm of its own reality. If there were a dimension where Nerf was deadly, it would be feared there despite being squishy and relatively harmless in Real Life.

In Comic Book World, nothing necessarily obeys the same universal laws that govern Real Life, and thus what is impractical in Real Life isn't necessarily so in Comic Book World.

I only play on Virtue, but I've run out of space there so many times that I've probably deleted three or four times as many characters as I currently have (two pages and four slots, one slot of which is currently free).

Wouldn't you know it? As soon as I got home this morning I was struck with inspiration, but I'm fuzzy on background and don't have a good name yet. I'm also waffling between Tanker and Scrapper. But it's better than where I was.

Of course, in the case of a Tanker-type set most of them couldn't be weapon systems. But it would still be very interesting. A defensive/armor set that's all or mostly clicks...

Maybe throw in at least one Lock-On targetted toggle (say, 40' range?) that fires a minor damage small AoE (8-10' radius?) attack at the target every 5-10 seconds, possibly in place of a more standard taunt aura.

Any way you go with it, the concept is very intriguing to me.

I was thinking that the whole pet idea would be a neat tier 9 power, then you mentioned a Mech Armor Mastermind and my brain did a flip.

Each of the pets could be a weapon system, attacking enemies automatically, and the Bodyguard mode simulates the armored aspect well enough on its own. The best part is, is that you'd be the only Mastermind not worried about your pets getting in everyone else's way, or having to position them. That almost deserves its own thread!

I have run into this problem once, at work, where AVG could not remove a particularly troublesome virus (and it was proving resistant to direct manual deletion and Killbox deletion as well). To that end, I keep Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware around. It's seemed to get the removal job done when other avenues fail.

I also use Spybot's immunization. Just 'cause.

A version of it is in Invulnerability and I think a couple of other sets as well. It is a click power that heals you some and gives you a bonus to max HP. I think it's more likely they would go this route than add some sort of phantom HP bar if they were going for the effect you describe.

The "Dull Pain" type click power would be an addition to whatever other defenses are in the set. Taking the described ablative armor effect across the rest of the set as I proposed, your resistance to damage would be higher when your HPs were higher, but when that chipped away you wouldn't be getting *weaker* but rather you would be trading resistance for defence. So while your HP were high you'd take less damage, but as they went down you might take more damage but you'd get hit less often.

You wouldn't need a timer or any other strange mechanics if it were simply based on HPs in a similar fashion to Super Reflexes' resistance bonus.

A lot of black cloth dye is actually green (some of it is red or indigo, too, in my experience). This becomes easier to see when you try to stretch it to dye too much cloth, or don't get it to set properly. In comics, black objects are often given coloured highlights. Indeed, a number of things which are "black" technically aren't.

You are a very bad person.

That's just it - even as "large" as Rock Armor is, it clips severely when you increase your sliders such that you can end up obscuring much of the graphic. Were it smaller it would be completely obscured.

The first and second can potentially be done already to some extent. The third is too ambiguous to support or dispute.

The ablative armor is an interesting idea, but the implementation would probably end up more like a Dull Pain power. Perhaps it could be such a power with the addition of a Smash/Lethal Resist that goes down as your health decreases (kinda the opposite of Super Reflexes' Resistance bonus).

The "Edit" addendum is interesting as well, and similar to how I thought Shield Defense should work a toggle power with various Auto and Click powers that augment it.

Actually, if you ran with the ablative armor idea throughout the set you could create a pretty unique set. Say the armor is ablative with underlying deflective properties, you could have a set that has high resists at the upper end of the HP scale, but which relies on an increasing defense bonus as the resistance is worn away. I still think the graphics would end up having to be pretty bulky to work, though.

Really? 30 FPS is my happy point. Anything above that is largely unnoticeable to me in this game. And I've yet to see a game where there's a noticeable difference above 60 FPS. A friend of mine was bragging about how he got Arkham Asylum running with max settings at something like 200 FPS. It's a novel thing, but ultimately pointless. Kinda like getting a riding mower to go 100 MPH.

Good call. It would make it sort of like Repurposeing except for Recipes. Perhaps with cheaper costs for creating another recipe from the same set.

And I would definitely leave Purples (and probably the PvP Recipes) out of the picture.