TroyHickman

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I now hang my head in shame. Looking through my notes, I cut the requisite vague reference to something Hickman. No reference to a Jamaican Coffeehouse... no Community center... no disturbing grandma (thank GOD)...

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You're dead to me.

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Anothe example of Lazy Devs

"No Tux Pants"

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Hey, they're just catering to us.

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Troy Hickman has amazing influence over the Devs!

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It's my prized pair of ivory lovemounds...

Sounds great!

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This is a fabulous idea, and I would dearly love to participate.

However, it's fast moving out of my league.

Why don't you add some smaller items? T-shirts, bumper-stickers, that sort of thing, get 'em signed by devs. Items that are not likely to cross the 3 digit mark.Maybe get Troy Hickman to autograph the CoH comics he wrote.

Like I said, I'd love to participate... but this is too rich for my blood.

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Sure, always glad to help. Of course, my signature on anything usually depreciates it...

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I wonder why Troy hasn't showed up yet when we mentioned him by name. I wonder if the curse that immediately teleports him into any thread that talks about him has been lifted. Let me try something...

Troy Hickman Troy Hickman Troy Hickman!

Did it work?

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All apologies. I've been intently working on my Hickman's Zombie Survival Squad picks, and as such, I've been unable to answer the Hick-Signal.

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Sounds weird. I'm picturing an old pick-up truck, a hound dog and maybe some jug whiskey. Guess they could save the day if the emergency was an ornery possum or something.....

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The Hick-Signal? just what kind of perverse emergency would require a pantsless man to save the day?

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You think that's bad? I have to answer the Smoke Signal Signal.. you know how stupid it makes you feel to jump in a room and ask why Smoke Signal was signalled with the Smoke Signal Signal?

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Heh, heh. You goof.

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I wonder why Troy hasn't showed up yet when we mentioned him by name. I wonder if the curse that immediately teleports him into any thread that talks about him has been lifted. Let me try something...

Troy Hickman Troy Hickman Troy Hickman!

Did it work?

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All apologies. I've been intently working on my Hickman's Zombie Survival Squad picks, and as such, I've been unable to answer the Hick-Signal.

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What a relief. I feared you were part of the leaving the City deal.

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No, for that to happen, I would've had to actually have been a part of something...

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Only if you have pants, and are wearing them.

Sorry, it's Troy's fault about that rule.

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Wait a minute...Those are pants?
I thought he was just really furry.

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That's the thing - he is just really furry.

It's an extension of the No Shirt, etc, No service policy.

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OH!
I see...I thought you meant Troy MADE the rule....
..but the rule was made BECAUSE of...

...moving along.

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This is TMI, by the way, but I'm one of the least furry people (at least from the neck down) you're gonna meet...

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I wonder why Troy hasn't showed up yet when we mentioned him by name. I wonder if the curse that immediately teleports him into any thread that talks about him has been lifted. Let me try something...

Troy Hickman Troy Hickman Troy Hickman!

Did it work?

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All apologies. I've been intently working on my Hickman's Zombie Survival Squad picks, and as such, I've been unable to answer the Hick-Signal.

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Yup, its all from beta! (filmed and made the video today >&lt

And your right! Thats Cyrus Thompson from the comics! Thats why i put him in the video at the start... its about Temporal Scout at the start of her hero-ing (and the other video was about her end). Cyrus was a big inspiration for her!

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You realize, of course, that I love you...

And Cyrus does, too...beautiful video...

Indeed!

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Ok this appears to have been solved on that other thread
"TroyHickmanWroteDialogForSmokeAndMirrorsMissi ons" is what people are getting.

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That's just crazy talk...

Fantastic work on this edition of the Scoop, folks. Kudos all around!

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Troy, we demand that Patriette be retconned to this character in the Common Grounds reprints!! :P


I'm kidding. I think. No, wait... I'm semi-sorta-kinda-serious. A little. OK, a smidge. Uhmmm...

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It's ok by me, as long as this Patriette was around in WWII, as the scene in CG is a flashback.

God, I love continuity...

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hmm.. is it just me, or is a large chunk of this thread missing?

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It's the part where I put on a bra and said "Look at THESE dual blades!"

Very nice! I like the second one the most.

To save me time, can we combine this thread with the one about sexuality I'm posting on in Player Questions? We could call it "CoH Needs More Gay Blades..."

Very cool! And thanks for the color shot; some of us have trouble seeing in black and white!

I was drawn to the thread because I had a character of the same name in Common Grounds. Great minds, etc.!

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OH silly Mister Hickman!

Don't you know anything?

The devs would never let us have a ranged + defense AT! And they are right!

I mean, IT WOULD BE FREAKING INSANE! We all know what happens when you can use an attack from range! You gain, like, a BAZILLION DAMAGE by magic, and the devs can't code away magic damage!

And range is already such an amazing defense! Really, it's for pussies! If you REALLY want to play the game you have to do it as a tanker behind layers and layers of resistance and defense!

RANGED DAMAGE IS SO AWESOME! Adding more defense on top of range.. They might as well hand us two buttons.. labeled DETHSTRUCTION and MURDERDOOM.

It'd be insanely overpowered, see. SO THAT IS WHY WE MUST HAVE IT. I DEMAND AN I WIN BUTTON.

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So when will we be seeing you on "Intervention," Kitty?

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You're talking with the wrong guy, Troy. I don't like comic books to begin with

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If you don't like comics, Sam, YOU'RE talking to the wrong guy...

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Wrong about Taskmaster. I've seen him and he does NOT use a shield. I'm standing by my statement that the Shield Power would just rip off everything Captain America does with his shield.

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Believe what you want, and check your "research". Cause it's flawed. I'll see if I can find a nice screeny of some Perez drawn Taskmaster someplace okay?

Oh, if you don't know, Perez is a comic artist, not a hazard zone.





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No sorry, yours is flawed. I've seen Taskmaster recently. He does not use a shield and if he did it's not a exclusive weapon he uses, he would not have the "shield" power.

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Quoted from the Wiki:

"Taskmaster has had his scientists duplicate versions of a variety of weapons used by Marvel characters, which he can use with nearly as great facility as their respective owners . In the past, he carried duplicates of Daredevil's billy club, Hawkeye's trick arrows and bow, and Captain America's shield . He also carried a sword, a lasso, and a Colt .45 semi-automatic pistol. He has recently been seen throwing "crescent darts" during his bout with Moon Knight, in imitation of Moon Knight's fighting methods (However, Taskmaster has said he prefers not to use Moon Knight's style, since Moon Knight would rather take a punch than dodge it)."

I bolden some of the words so you can see them better.

Picture of an avenger comic book with "Taskmaster" on the cover:

Taskmaster

Wiki is your friend.

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Dude try actually using a CURRENT picture of him. God your such a idiot. An old [censored] avengers comic is your proof that he uses a shield? Your joking right? You even read the comics with him in them recently? NO SHIELD. Nuff said. So just stop. Its sad.

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The good Captn is not an idiot, and I think calling him one is a ridiculous overreaction, given the discussion here. The sad thing is when someone isn't willing to just say "Oh, maybe I'm wrong."

Taskmaster has used a shield for years. The fact that he hasn't within the last however many years (are we talking the length of time you've been reading comics?) doesn't change the fact that he has used a shield for much of his career. It would be like saying the Beast has never been a non-furry, human character just because he's not at the moment, or the Black Canary has no sonic cry right now simply because at certain times (including her Golden Age incarnation) she hasn't.

And speaking as both a fan of Avengers, and someone who's been blessed to work with George, I don't appreciate your comment about that "old [censored] Avengers comic."

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No, it'd be intrinsic to power armor, just the same as the archery sets. You can't really have them without the arrows, can ya? Now, how you want to define that becomes a bio issue (your arrows can be magical or technological or a construction of your psyche, or whatever), but it's still defined as an arrow. I'm talking about a set that's defined as being some sort of armor, and what you do with it beyond that is up to you.

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You misunderstood. It's not a question of weather this is natural to ANY suit of power armour. It's a matter of other things it's natural for. Such as... Just about anything else which can have those powers, you know. Energy Blast/Melee/Armour combination. Fire Blast/Melee/Armour combination. You've defined an AT, not a powerset.

Let me put it another way - Hack, Slash, Slice, Whirling Sword, Parry, Confront, Disembowel, Headsplitter is what defines Broadsword. But Broadsword is not what defines Scrappers, Scrappers are what defines Broadsword. Scrappers dictate that their powersets have a staple of melee attacks and a staple of defensive powers. What you've describe is an AT that dictates its powersets have ranged damage powers, melee damage powers and defence powers. That's not Power Armour, that's Assault/Defence. For ANY powerset balanced to its requirements.

Finally, Power Armour does not require this intrinsically. Some power armour concepts do, but "power armour" really only means armour that is powered. What that power armour actually does is a question for the character owner. I myself have no less than two characters who wear power armour. One's a Blaster and the other's a Brute. And while I'd like to give the Blaster some defence and the Brute some range, that's not because of power armour. I want to see all Blasters get SOME defence and all Brutes to get at least one ranged attack of the Hurl Boulder type.

Let's look at this from the widest possible perspective.

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Yes, I understand the difference between ATs and power sets. What I'm saying is that some AT (possibly blasters) should have a powerset that along with its blasting capabilities also involves some powers that can duplicate (A) armored defense, (B) super-strength, and (C) holding abilities, among others. Now you can define how those powers manifest themselves any way you want to, but they would serve the same functions.

See, part of the problem for me is that comic heroes, the source material for this game, are not always so clearly cut into ATs. I think eventually the system will probably be worked out to a point where, like the Freedom Force game before us, you can pick any powers you want, ala carte, as long as the point value for those powers adds up in such a way as not to imbalance the game.

We don't have that now, though, and we may not for quite some time. So in the meantime, I'd like at at one or two powersets under each AT that allow for a bit more diversity in a character's makeup.

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Wrong about Taskmaster. I've seen him and he does NOT use a shield. I'm standing by my statement that the Shield Power would just rip off everything Captain America does with his shield.

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Believe what you want, and check your "research". Cause it's flawed. I'll see if I can find a nice screeny of some Perez drawn Taskmaster someplace okay?

Oh, if you don't know, Perez is a comic artist, not a hazard zone.





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No sorry, yours is flawed. I've seen Taskmaster recently. He does not use a shield and if he did it's not a exclusive weapon he uses, he would not have the "shield" power.

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I haven't seen Taskmaster very recently, as I've become fed up with a lot of mainstream funnybooks (it's one of the things that pushed me into doing 'em myself), but trust me, for at least the first several years Taskmaster was around, he was using a shield, A LOT.

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If you want a jack of all trades Peace bringer fits the bill. No one ever said that you HAD to use the concept the devs gave us for them. You could easly build one and say it was a power armor toon. Still have to get to 50, but it's really not that hard unless you have bad altitis.

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And I do. And Peacebringers don't meet all the criteria I would have for the power armor set. I'm anxious to someday play one, though...

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Sort of a jack of all trades, master of none?

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Well, sort of. But he'd also be great for PUGs and such when there was an AT that could be useful (much like some ATs function as faux-tankers when there isn't one present).

I can create power armored characters now, but they usually turn out to be either pretty straightforward blasters or tankers, and the classic comic book power-armor type IS something of a jack-of-all-trades.

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power-armor set.

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Well problem with that is the fact that alot of the attacks in the game are very easily explained with a suit combined with the large armor selections... unless your talking about something more mechish like the titan robots... in which case...

.../signed under the fact we get choose the color of the mechsuit

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No, no, you're misunderstanding. Look at the various power-armored characters of the comics. They have far too wide a variety of powers to be covered under, say, a blaster set. If you look at your Iron Mans, your X-O Manowars, your Guardsmen, your War Machines, etc., they might have a separate power set that looks something like this:

Energy Blast
Power Punch (to simulate super-strength)
Hurl (ditto)
Hold (Energy Net)
Stealth Mode
Aim (to simulate computer sights)
Override (similar to what Iron Man uses to KO the Hulk)
Damage Resistance
Defense
Stun (sonic scrambler)
etc.

Now, you could combine some of the existing sets plus pools to get a number of these, but there's no way to get them all.

It wouldn't be for everyone, but I think it'd be of greater use to the player base than dual blades.

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...yeah but theres a problem with that... then there would be no need to deversify teams... then youd just have teams of 6-7 armors and 1 healer...

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No, because the key to the set would be diversity, not power. If you look at say, Iron Man, he has powers that could be considered tanker, controller, blaster, etc., but he's not anywhere near the tanker that the Hulk is. He's not anywhere near the controller that Iceman is. He's not anywhere near the blaster that Havok is. See my point? Heck, we already have sets in the game that bleed over into other ATs, but it doesn't stop folks from playing all the ATs.