Tripp Hazzard

"Trust your feelings, Luke."

You are the boss. Do what feels right to you. If the players don't like it, they'll let you know.

If a player you kicked comes back with a reasonable explanation, then bring 'em back on. There's no harm in changing your mind.

I'm a solo, casual player. I solo as much or more than I team. And the only planning I do on my builds is to know what powers I want when. I've never had a purple (that I know of), and the sets I slot are more of a "Yeah, that bonus sounds good, I'll go for that".

I enjoy both of my 50s just as much as the rest of my characters.

Since I'm the "target" of this idea, tell me again why they need to be more powerful?

88 frickin' degrees in the frickin' middle of frickin' December. Send us some of your snow!

Yes, you snowbound types have my sympathy. I was born in Nebraska, and spent a year in Salt Lake City.

But this is San Diego. 88 degrees in December is just ugly.

Because you don't have enough imagination or flexibility to enjoy your 50s, you want to punish the rest of us?

No.

Applause!

And take a look as the bases section of the forum before you claim nobody uses them any more.

You may not, but many people get a great deal of enjoyment and utility out of them.

Coming in late, pardon the length:

* Batman because he has no specific vulnerabilities. Everybody and their brother has kryptonite in their pockets, it seems. And the only viable physical partner for Superman is his cousin Kara. Ewwwww. (He lives in a "cardboard world"...that applies to any lovers, too! Find a copy of Larry Niven's "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex".) And all the cool toys that Batman and Bruce Wayne have.

* Bees. I'm not particularly sensitive to either, but bee stings pass a lot faster than mosquito bites. And 50 is way worse than 3!

* Prison. A 10-year coma leaves you completely debilitated, and you've lost 10 years of your life. Any crime that put me in jail would only put me in a regular lock-up. It'd suck, but I think I'd be okay.

* Shorter. Both would be massively challenging, but there's a lot more support available for being 2' 10" than for being 8' 10".

* Forget everyone else. We are the sum of our memories. Losing myself just seems too horrible.

14 characters total, half-dozen or so that get played frequently, the others occasionally (when there's a reason to log them in).

All but three are blasters.

Both my 50s are blasters.

Blasters are Best.

And people claim "Champion is dead." I see other servers carefully scheduling one single Hami Raid, and we're talking about having two weekly ones.

I'll be there tonight. I'd probably show up periodically for a weeknight one, just like I do for the Sunday one.



(Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, deponent sayeth not.)

Absolutely awesome!

2 cents: the stars are distant enough that starfields look flat to our eyes (Star Trek notwithstanding). Are you putting the lights all on the far wall to produce the same effect?

I see some mention of 'adding depth', but if we can see depth by moving around, that would ruin the effect, I'd think?

(Taking notes for my own eventual rebuild.)

I used to play an online space trading and combat game called BMT (I can't remember what it stands for now -- something something Traders, I think), and I settled on the name "Trip Hazzard" for my game handle.

I started using it elsewhere, and eventually added the second "p" to make it more individual.

It has a nice sound to it, and it fits because there's no telling where you'll trip over one of my posts.

I've tried to develop an in-game character, but nothing's really clicked so far.

I see two major problems:

1) Clean-up:

The Steel Canyon Fire Alarms have an end point (the final explosion), even if they're ignored.

The Rikti "Assualts" always fail.

So how would these events reset themselves?

Otherwise, they'll run all but completely unopposed all week long, and the entire zone will already be lost come the weekend.

Anything actually significant must have a way of cleaning itself up, and leaving the zone the way it was found.

2) Scale:

If you design them so they require a significant number of players, they'll be okay on the popular servers, but on the others, after the initial surge of interest, it'll be all but impossible to find enough people to do it.

If you design it so just a few characters (or even one character) can have a significant impact, then it becomes trivial and uninteresting.


I like the idea's basics, but don't see a way around those.

Heh.

I logged on last night, got a very nice looking shiny new badge, and spend a short time wondering what I'd done to get it. Looked it over, no info available, saw a squirrel and forgot all about it.

NOW I know what it's for! Thank you for making a game I enjoy so much I prepaid, and never even had to think about keeping my account active!

Purples are your friend . . . .

I skipped part of the thread, so please forgive me if I duplicate anyone:

Jetpacks/Flightbelts as costume items.

Combat Aura that utilizes any available aura.

Choose a default Flypose/Costume Change emote.