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Also bear in mind that each NPC pet a mastermind has out uses up the server resources as a whole player character, so each free player using a mastermind potentially eats up the space of 7 players rather than just one.
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Quote:Did that once. Baumton covers up Boston quite nicely. It's uncanny. There's a couple extra seaways, which is forgivable due to the massive nuclear bombing Independence Day death attack that was the Rikti, plus the city's presence for a couple hundred years.Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
If you feel curious enough, google up a map of Rhode Island and a map of Paragon City and put the one on top of the other. I'd be curious if the result fits your conception of "close but different". It fails mine, but maybe I'm too stringent. -
Epileptic tree: Rularuu is the secret hidden leader of the Battalion. Nemesis is his scout. The Shivans are their opening salvo.
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Yeah, I figured it worked just like it does in Paragons: your "superhero" identity is a full, separate legal identity from you. It is taxed like a wholly different person, has its own record, and has its own Social Security number. If you are wearing that outfit or prominently displaying your association with the mediporter, you are in your hero identity. If Mike NormalGuy shoplifts, they can't arrest HeroGuy, they have to arrest Mike NormalGuy. Mike NormalGuy can't testify against the gangers that HeroGuy arrested, he has to go in as HeroGuy. That appears to be how it worked in the official comics, anyway.
Has anyone ever really thought about how they'd go about keeping a secret identity in a world where literally everyone and every street corner has a camera, and anyone who really wants to know who you are under that mask can call a psychic or a wizard or something in addition to a private eye? -
We can already change the color of channel text. Is it possible that we can get the ability to change the colors of certain global names (not seeing their global names, just their local)? I'll often get lost in a storm of local chat or broadcast, and I'd like to set it up so that the names of the people I'm currently talking to are pink or summat. I know you can just invite them to team and all, but it would be a nice quality of life improvement, since the uses I could put it to are many (up to and including commonly-teamed-with globals in red or pink so I can see them even quicker than the stars).
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Quote:How about powers that reflect melee/AoE damage back at their caster with no resistance tags?Originally Posted by Adelie
How about powers that reflect control powers back at the caster?
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Controllers are what changed the game for me. They help break the holy trinity, and lack of that is what really keeps me playing. I don't need to get a healer, or a tank, or a whatever. I can hit just about all content in the game with any team I want. -
Let's see, dinosaurs... out of place... silver age comic book style world...
Didn't the X-men fight a green psychic Pterosaur man at one point? Wait, wasn't he mutated by the forces present in a giant valley in Antarctica teeming with dinosaurs and prehistoric mammals? Isn't that a regular part of Marvel lore?
Oh, yeah, it was also based on much earlier stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs! Now I remember! And there was the one comic series that had the girl with the naked psychic Deinonychus sidekick!
Let's not forget Xenozoic Tales, either.
Dinosaurs in a crazy pulp style lost world are like the one thing we don't have yet. -
It's a cheat, like pretty much everything they have to do with the game engine. It appears that the snow is a pet buff effect dropped on you, which is why you'll never see that effect on a whole zone.
It's really cool, though, and probably a preview of the sorts of weather effects we'll be getting. -
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So I just wanna know, where is the giant stereotypical Sioux war headdress at? I want me some huge garish Generokee powwow regalia.
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Quote:Wait, are you saying the Well is Nyarlathotep?Originally Posted by Biowraith
It'll probably give you tentacles or something.
That's just the way the Well rolls: Congratulations, you have eternal youth, but you'll now be known as Tentacleface.
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Quote:Um. I just said that. I was just trying to clarify that what we call "Zeus" may have well as just been some other schmuck who got to the well first. Like how, at least in America, we have "give me an aspirin" instead of "I want some headache pills" or how we used to say "go xerox this" instead of "I want a copy of this." Statesman might just have "gimme the Zeus," because Zeus got there first.Originally Posted by UberGuy
I understand, but there is a distinction in whether those powers originate with the Well (and how that then manifests for the character), and whether a character's manifestation of those Incarnate powers has a thematic link to another being, like Zeus. Statesman has some sort of thematic link to Zeus (real, imagined or projected). Most of my heroes have no such thematic link to any other entity. This is a distinct and separate notion from whether or not their Incarnate status is fueled by the Well of Furies.
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Quote:That's the funny thing. As far as I got from the story, I think the well, being a source of power, simply takes the form of a "well" in Cimerora because that's what the Cimerorans think gods got their power from. I think Statesman was given the "power of Zeus" because the last guy to get those sorts of powers called himself Zeus.Originally Posted by UberGuy
Agreed. However, I do have characters though who gained their powers through ties to other beings. For example, one of my characters who's existed since Issue 1 has a backstory saying her powers are due to her being a proxy of Horus. As such, it makes sense that her Incarnate progression is due to increasing ties to that entity. Many of my characters, though, have inherent abilities, or abilities due to equipment they own, and those characters are finding greater access to their inherent abilities, or more intense ties to their gear.
So, it makes sense for their to be novel combinations or novel powers in the well, which, again, from what I got from the story, takes the form of things you expect to find or see; a technology character, for example, doesn't find opalescent shards lying about, he or she finds ideas. Plans for bigger and better or more efficient circuits only he or she can utilize. A psionic character might find free-floating memes that only he or she can see, and so on. The shards take the form of what you need to find. That's why the well was gone, it's not that it moved, it's that it never really was, not for anyone other than those who got powers from drinking water. Unless you want it to be. The well story was very well crafted to leave those bits of information lying around.
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Quote:That's duct tape. There's no art and design team for the field. What's effective almost never looks good once it gets into the dirt. That is a pretty big rucksack, too.Originally Posted by Zikar
Wow... that gear looks really dumb. It looks like they are wearing striped knee high socks with MC Hammer level baggy trousers tucked into them, whilst wearing an oversized comedy rucksack.
Most people tend to. Humans can look pretty stumpy sometimes, and it's because the distance between the crotch and top of the head is exactly the same as it is from the crotch to the bottom of the feet. It looks really disconcerting and is thrown off when people crouch. In animation and in art design, you're sometimes told to make the person one ankle taller to make it look right. Other fun common proportions: the space between your eyes is the width of one of your eyes, the middle finger is the width of the palm, the distance between the tips of the middle fingers with arms and palms completely outstretched is a 1:1 ratio with height, and the forearm is the length of the foot.Quote:It also looks like he has a really long torso and really short legs. -
Quote:You get out of Cyssor! You get out right now! Do I have to hack someone's Mag Rider?Originally Posted by je_saist
Down with the Terran Cockroaches! Begone with the Conglomeration Anew!
Forever the Vanu will Reign!
...on that note about villains, there's been several recent studies that indicate given a choice of options without any outside influence, people tend to pick the more altruistic ones. These decisions then build and construct societies rather naturally. -
Quote:They'll still be releasing issues on the normal schedule, as well as the standard sorts of new content they would release normally, it's just that the store will be full of "extra mile" stuff. That doesn't mean they won't try raising the bar with issue releases, it just means that anything they do extra will be pay content. It's a good plan. It allows them to retain the stuff we've always gotten, but also allows some team members to work on those "pet projects" and powerset experiments that would normally never see the light of day by turning them into pay content.Originally Posted by TrueMetal
From what I've seen I have no doubt that TM will a great set either. I'm actually already designing costumes for the 2 characters I'll be creating with it.
It is the reasoning I'm dissapointed about. As it gives the impression that all things that truly raise the bar will be payed for extras. I'd like the have some bar raising included in my subscription every now and then too.
Or, to put it another way, would you rather not see staff fighting for another four years, or in another six months as a pay-for set that a subscriber can get for free by being frugal? -
Quote:Mako is Shane Hensley, also know as "the great white," who runs Great White Games... he wrote a lot of the story for City of Villains, and the Luddites smack of his style of design. Heck, I'm surprised there isn't an enemy group for villains to fight composed of zombie cowboys animated by demons trying to possess them, but the will of the hero inside proved to be too strong.Originally Posted by Jibikao
I like Lord Recluse the most and followed by the Sand Man.
I have to say, most patrons look good except for Mako. A "shark" man as patron just seems out of picture to me. Ghost Widow, Sand Man and Black Scorpian all tie to the arachno enemies really well but a "shark" enemy? I don't think any of the enemy is close to a type of "fish".
On the topic of NPC updates, I'll throw my hat in for Hamidon. It's certainly showing its age, especially with the new bio pieces floating around. The Devourers, for example, while really cool, have a very sluggish menace to them, and could stand to be looked at. Maybe with some vague remnant of humanity in them, to let us know that these truly are mutated humans with no ability to control their actions anymore, perhaps with the subtle outline of a face somewhere on them. But then, I have several characters who are connected to the Hamidon in some way, and may be a little biased.
I know this probably isn't the place for it, but the interior of the Eden trial is looking pretty bland, too, especially with the screenshots and video I've seen of the Underground Trial. -
Quote:I don't know if anyone's mentioned this yet, but she's in Faultline. She's the leveling trainer. The mirror, that is.Originally Posted by Kirsten
* A Task Force centered on finding and protecting Yata no Kagami, the Mirror used to lure the Sun goddess Amaterasu out of her cave after being harassed by her brother Susanō. This mirror is a powerful Incarnate Artifact, and its holder would be blessed with divine might. This TF would give either merits or threads upon completion, with common, uncommon, or even rare tables for very high challenge settings and getting the badges for MO.
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Quote:I don't wanna drag this subject too far off into another direction, but moving into the future would be the same thing as picking up and moving something across the table: it's now in a new location, and it certainly didn't cause any paradox on the way. The only difference would be that in this case, you can't exactly know where you're moving yourself to until you get there, though we can totally predict that with math, just like how we can predict generally when and where we're going to get neutrinos, who have this nasty habit of existing in one location, then suddenly ceasing to be just after existing in another location entirely as well.Originally Posted by Lazarillo
To be fair, if you use time manipulation to send yourself into the future then you weren't in the present to sending into the future and all sorts off bad things happen and I get a headache.
Actually, on that note, I totally want a power in this set now called "Paradox" which can be a single-target stun that deals Psionic damage. -
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Quote:It's true! I have both of the 4E books right next to me! I'm filling out a blank character sheet right now!Originally Posted by Kelenar
I'm partially convinced the game's existence isn't an elaborate hoax now...
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Quote:Oh, I understand it's a melange. I just don't think that the company that provides over half the armor and weapons for the NEG should be able to get away with being alien monsters that are detectable by every security checkpoint in the most fascist, paranoid government in history. I also have issue with the mantra "the migou are aliens" repeated over and over and there's no passages actually telling me how they're aliens. Nothing that tells me how they think different or act different other than that they don't see humans as sentient. To be honest, the human society presented in the main book is way more alien than the migou, whose description amounts to "bug Nazis." Which is kinda disappointing.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Remember, CT is a melange of more than just Lovecraftian horror. So it's been tweaked.
As for how black ops work. While the devs themselves are quite creative people, they wouldn't recognize a black op if they were the target of one. Nor would most people.
Additionally, RL black ops tend to not really be the kinds of things that make for exciting reading anyhow. Yeah, the basic CONCEPT and the whole rube-goldberg "how it's put together" are stimulating, but the actual execution, if done right, tends to be really "meh".
My group lives for the planning; we'll put together elaborate plans, do ridiculous amounts of legwork, set up our operations, and move on our ideas. Two or three sessions might just be information gathering, legwork, and planning, and the final execution will usually take five out-of-game minutes, if that. When you know every twist and turn the targets are going to make, when you've concocted an elaborate setup and watch as the pins fall exactly where your team wanted them to go because you planned it that way, that's a joyous elegance all on its own. The group I play with has an adage when it comes to playing games like Shadowrun and Cthulhutech. "If you had to roll initiative, you did something wrong." -
Currently Running:
Mutants and Masterminds 2e. It's raygun gothic/zeerust plus Native mythology plus dinosaurs. My players have made high school kids who include a kid who helps her dad forge axes and whose mother breeds Quetzalcoatluses for rich people riding purposes, a kid who ritualistically hunts animals in the name of his family spirit, another kid who creates spirit traps for engineering projects, and a kid who's part river and likes to explore mental architecture. It makes sense once you're actually playing it.
Currently Playing in:
Legend of the Five Rings 4e: Totally awesome. I swear to you that my character will create such a painting that it will kill you. Regularly producing Paintings +5 with an enchantment that makes 1d6 nearby Cranes turn green with jealousy.
Cthulhutech: Lazor beems and shoggoths, it's awesome. Even if the setting's mythology reads like the creators had never read a Lovecraft story in their lives. Or about how black ops works.
Mutants & Masterminds 2e: Medieval Arabic high fantasy. I half expect crusaders coming up the hell right now at any second.
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I'm not going to inventory my books and boxes. It'd take too long and only serve to depress me. -
Quote:And that's how it should go, I've just never been on a team doing the STF that's recognized that or bothered to coordinate anything. People pointing out that they've done it themselves doesn't do anything except make me feel even worse because there's apparently a magical team formula for the STF that I've never encountered.Originally Posted by Spear0
I ran one this afternoon with all 50s that completed in ~90 minutes. Gotta stop beating Val down twice and get a stealther that can TP past some of the groups. Not a speed run, but we recognized where it was important and where it wasn't important to beat the baddies down.