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QOL issue:
* Can we please have a way to choose which "look" we want for each thug? Having each thugs appearance being random makes nameing them a bit frustrating.

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Second'd.

Bothers me about as much as the fact that my ancient medieval knight, without any training with such weaponry, is able to run, gun, shoot, and frag better than most military professionals who spent all their life practicing.

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Question...how is leftover damage handled?

For example...and I am simplifying it quite a bit

you have 1 minion out. That minion has 100hp

As I understand it if you take 150damage, you get 1 share (50) and the minion take 2 (100), killing the minion. What happons if you take 200 damage? The minion can not absorb his 2 shares. Is the damage left on the MM or is it lost?

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Masterminds take two shares. Minions take one.

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This sounds cool and all, but am I the only one who thinks it is a bit useless?

From my personal experience, if I am taking a large amount of damage, it is because my pets are dying. Having them take more damage is no benefit to me at all. Even when I am taking damage, it is usually not too much for me to absorb, and I get poison trap down before the next wave.

I guess in PVP it may have more of a benefit, or if I really wanted to tank with my MM...but is there really that much benefit for standard PVE play?

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Nope. Positron referred to it as a PvP buff, anyway.

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Suggestion:

Automatically add a Bodyguard Macro to MMs powerbar, similar to the ones already added.

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Change the Follow command from "follow Aggressive" to "follow Defensive".
I hated the "Aggressive" feature of Follow.

Or type in /macro BG petcom_all Follow Defensive

Unless you want the devs to do it because you're lazy. :P

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Or unless I want the option to be easily useable by players who don't understand the macro system? i.e. the reason the prebuilt macros are automatically there in the first place?

This is a thread about feedback todo with Bodyguard, no need to get snippy about a perfectly reasonable suggestion.

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No need to get snippy about a lighthearted response. I put the :P face at the end for a reason.

Geesh, what's with everyone snapping at my [censored] as of late? Have I really been turning into that much of a tosser?

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Suggestion:

Automatically add a Bodyguard Macro to MMs powerbar, similar to the ones already added.

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Change the Follow command from "follow Aggressive" to "follow Defensive".
I hated the "Aggressive" feature of Follow.

Or type in /macro BG petcom_all Follow Defensive

Unless you want the devs to do it because you're lazy. :P

I remember Phantasy Star Online did something like this in the higher-level lobbies.

People were amused incessantly for months. Soccer games were everywhere.

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No one with a rational mind will take seriously any attempts at restraint put forth by a poster named after the most disgustingly self-indulgent U.S. President since Nixon.

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I'm not named after any President.

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Clinton wasn't a unique, special name made just for Bill, people.

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What Cryptic/NC is concerned with are generally:
1) Image of character -- if you build it in the character generator. I'm not trying to say "we" own blue half capes, and I'm not trying to say we don't. If you build a character in the generator, and then have it drawn, if it's 100% the same character and you are profitting from it, then you might have a problem.
2) Character name & history - technically the character names/history that you create for CoH/CoV are owned by Cryptic/NCsoft. You can use them in fanfiction, etc., but you cannot profit from them.
3) History of Paragon City and all her associated characters (this is the obvious one, of course, and causes least confusion).

Obviously there are many characters with the same names in comic book history. And many that look similar. But if you take a character who exists on one of the servers, and use the same name and same look, and try to use it in a commercial enterprise, you're entering dangerous waters. I'm not going to say if this is right or wrong -- but if you can avoid all potential legal entanglements, why wouldn't you?

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So, theoretically speaking, I could make an alternate version of Sir Morgant who looks different, acts different, different history, and never came to Paragon in the first place, but rather came to the unique and original world in which the novel/comicbook/TV series/anime/whatever takes place?
And...get away with it?

It'd still be a gunslinging knight from medieval times who speaks in olde english, which only the skeleton of CoH/V's Sir Morgant.
If I took that skeleton and made it into a completely different char for original use, would that still be stepping on CoH/V toes?

Also, if we deleted our char from your servers, would you still hold rights to them, since they were still made on your servers? Or would you hold them temporarily, or would your rights to them be gone, or what?

Another twist. I'm a novelist. I'm a writer. I write novels for a living.
What if I want to write a novel of my character, or are in the middle of writing a novel and decide to port a char into CoH/V for my playtime pleasure?

Personally, I couldn't give any less of a damn about all this drama. We'll just have to wait and see.

If a patron gives my Corruptor the ability to slug people, be it with a weapon or with fists, I am SO there.
Hey, I need to compete with Blasters.

I at first assumed it would be Black Scorpion or Captain Mako, but then I learned that Patron Powers would be different for each AT.
Damn.
Maybe I'll head for Scirocco, then, since he's got a sword even though he's a Corruptor.

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/agree, so much for "You don't have to join Arachnos any more! You can pick Burke and be independent!" Apparently once we hit 40, we'll stop being Super-Powered Mercenaries and become Super-Powered Flunkies.

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That's...pretty much the entire point of the game, as evidenced by several conversations and entering-mission-bubbles. I certainly don't like it, but, hey, it's apparently what the devs want.

As for post-40-power-pooling and side-switching, I would assume that your post-40 powers get deleted, and you have to pick new powers in tune with your alliance.

I want to fight cops, damn it, not spandex-clad retards.

What's with all the cop hate? Cops are awesome, and they make perfect mooks.

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Hmm, so Thugs are something like a cross between a biker gang and old west outlaws? I can dig. Still, I wonder what they'll do to explain how a bunch of thugs could possibly be as effective as a group of trained mercenaries?

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How can the Warriors be as powerful as some of the Council? How can the Hellions duke it out against the Circle of Thorns?
Answer? They're really, really trained-damn-well thugs.

Were those Thug MMs I saw near the end of the video?

http://xs70.xs.to/pics/06094/BestBioEver.JPG

My bio kicks your bio's [censored].

This is not an NPC change. ONLY PLAYERS WILL BE AFFECTED. In fact, this works in FAVOR of Stalkers, since now THEY won't be one-shotted by enemy NPCs anymore.
Plus, it also works in favor because now people won't be [censored] and moaning about how AS knocks them down in one hit. PvP fights will be fair.

Well, uh, seeing as how you never indicated what type of organization we work for, and I wouldn't willingly work for an evil organization, I guess I'd spare the guy.

"Oh, the drama! It kills me. Again." -- Xiu Juan.

Also, while I'm at it, if someone could tell me the Assault Rifle's Buckshot and Sniper Rifle sound, I would love them forever and ever and ever.

Any idea what the MM Merc Rifle's sounds are?
I'm rather sick of the piddly-sounding "puhpuhpuh" of burst, and the "pssst" of slug. I want to replace them with something more MANLY.

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Y'know, if I had three heroines sitting on the porch of my room like that, my mind would suddenly shift to very, very impure very, very quickly.

THREAD NECROMANCY ALERT.

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Teleportation--if he's a shadow, well, he can fade in and out of areas, aye?

Tranen: Nope, never heard of you.

Alcaeus: Didn't even know you existed until now.

Xiu Juan: Who are you, again?

Kairaishi: Am I supposed to be scared?

Drave: Nug? Isn't that a type of food?