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I think they did an excellent job of providing something people will like, but without stepping on other powers toes. It's not my cup-o-tea because I find even superspeed too slow, but I think they nailed a good balance point for the power.

According to Castle, the PVP values are in error.

53 for Hami.

I would hate to see the game if it were impacted by the common complaints on the forum. You don't really want to go in that direction for this argument...........

That isn't that different than it is now ( a little more extreme, of course, but you get the idea).

Just tell them you're unslotted because you're saving up for purples.

They're not connected. At what level you took the power was not directly important in terms of set bonuses, only the level to which you exemplared and the level of the specific IO.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...0&postcount=72

Not everyone does it the same way you do.

It doesn't even remotely compare to either SS or SJ.

Superspeed is base 350%, with one 50 IO taking that to 471%. Ninja run is unslottable 140%.

Super Jump is base jumpspeed 249%, jump height 2780%.

Ninja run is a novelty power, and at best a slight improvement for folks who were already using something like hurdle+cj for non-combat travel.

Not necessarily anything stupid about it (you're basing that on the assumption they didn't know any better, which isn't necessarily true). We both know the content is trivial enough that only a few people are really necessary to accomplish it. It isn't a matter of what a Rad can do, but a matter of what that team wanted them for, and how that player is treated in the team.

It isn't necessarily a question of sensitivity. If someone is looking for a rad and you aren't one, you may feel less likely to reply. Some people will reply either way, offering up something else, but a lot of people won't. They may or may not get upset about it, but the message would have artificially limited your responses due to the qualifier.

Specification is a very generic word, and therefore would include AT, player type, powersets.......etcetera. Anything that qualifies a certain player would be deemed a specification.

I've never seen anyone ask for how many hit points a tanker had, either, although the fact many consider only stone tankers worthy of certain tasks kinda gets around that aspect by replacing the powerset specs with that of individual specs.

I have, however, seen people advertise their toon in such a manner.

Are you competing in the special olympics? Did I miss the start time to the "fastest without a travel power" event, again?

That could go both ways, and may just be mere coincidence. By the same token, you potentially alienate every person who saw that TF announcement who wasn't a Rad Defender. Your theory may also work both ways. It also occurs where a player feels less important, because they may have only wanted a singular power. In the case of Rad, they may be ignored the entire mission by the team because the team didn't care about anything but LR on the AV at the end.

At any event, this is one such example of a posting for a certain powerset. In your case, it sounds like you would have been very flexible if someone had asked if something else would work, but in other cases the person recruiting is extremely rigid, sometimes to the extent of explicitly wanting certain powers. The viewer of the announcement doesn't necessarily know, and can take a varied approach to that announcement.

I find it incredibly hard to believe that you've never seen such a thing, particularly when your own post cites the idea of recruiting certain powersets (buffers).

But for your own sanity, that doesn't mean every alt has to do everything. You simply don't have enough time to do all of that, and if they scaled it back so that you did, it would make any content pointless on the whole.

We have to keep things realistic here, in terms of expectations. If you want to have that many alts, then you have to keep things in the proper perspective. Many people have a ton of alts, but only a couple of those alts that really go out and get the badges. It just isn't manageable, otherwise.

It's been that way. You've never gotten a tell asking for your powersets before? In a game where nearly any combination can defeat nearly anything, there is a lot of "gear checking" already.......we just don't always do it by counting purples.

Ironically, if that just happened, we wouldn't have need for "the thread of the month".

Rather arbitrary, many tier selections are. A lot of people still think it has to do with how powerful something is, but that is very much not true across the board.

Explosive Blast and Explosive Arrow are another example. Same power, and the sets are set up the same, but Explosive Blast comes far later. Flash, in the Illusion set, comes earlier than other PBAOE holds, as another example.

I pick those two examples in part because perception of those powers by many people are based on when the power is acquired.

Personally (and I realize this will likely never happen), I'd redo the power order of many sets to make things more useful. Sleet is one such power, than while a great power, is more useful early than it is late, due to being decent control and providing a solid -def debuff.

Sure, why bother with a team anymore.

I know of many people that do nothing but speed TFs for merits and farm. Boring activities, if you ask me, but they're all about the phat lewtz!

Have you ever thought of just not trying with that many alts?

You guys can't expect the devs to try to balance content in this game if you're going to complain about not getting it done for a massive amount of toons in a little amount of time. When you try to scale that down to how long it takes just one toon, for one person, it becomes highly problematic.

A lot of the complaints with this event, in particular, are that way. People were constantly complaining that they couldn't get all of the Halloween badges in one shot! Nobody ever intended for an event that goes on for weeks and runs many times throughout the day to be ran exactly 1 time by everyone to get all of the badges. The trick or treat ratio isn't that bad, either, and with the mountain of easy XP it brings, it is very easy to get that done with a team, particularly if one doesn't start it at the last minute. Just make sure you're getting your knocks in, and if not, find or make another team where you will.

The Jack spawns are that way too. I don't know how many times I've invited people to a GM team (or seen it in broadcast) where they wouldn't participate if it wasn't Jack. I ran a lot of GMs this Halloween and you normally had 4 teams for every 1 team (for Eo) if it was Jack. Just imagine how fast you could have gone through those spawns if you always had 4 teams! I don't have to imagine, I've seen it......it doesn't matter if I have to go through 20 Eos to get a Jack if I have 4 teams hunting, broadcasting, and killing. But what we tended to see instead were too few teams, too many people who didn't want to put in the work, and teams that were paranoid that if they broadcasted the location that someone would steal all of their cookies.

Now imagine it if you were all named Steve........

And here I was thinking we were only letting those smart enough to already have realized this distinction on these boards, without the need for an exceedingly poorly structured feedback system.

The feedback system here is kinda like letting a blind man analyze your drawing ability. Sure, he can give you comments, but that doesn't mean they're worth anything.

As opposed to being pointless when there were comments........

We're arguing over what color to paint our imaginary friends.

I have a suggestion: We should put in a search function so that we wouldn't get so many stupid duplicate threads.

Don't fret with these replies. This board is full of Ostriches who will discredit anything that may suggest the game is losing population. The mere mention of a server merger is seen as a negative for them, and therefore they cannot discuss the idea rationally.