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This wins.

/grapple/web anyone?

I can honestly say that I will not goto the Phantom Meanace 3d in the cinema. Or 'go to' either.

I do not hate the movie. By far not. Although I'm not a fan of Jake, as he's a horrible horrible actor, the rest of the movie was, in fact, quite fine, and Star Wars-y.

I
Hate
3D.

Avatar was THE ONLY 3D movie I saw that was worth a damn. I saw Tron in the 3D in the theatre...

I had to wait until it was on DVD to actually enjoy the visuals. The 3D SUCKED A TON.

Most of them do. And that is why I won't be seeing SW:TPM3D.

So your logic/reasoning/test is flawed, unfortunately, friend.

Still, have a good one, enjoy the show when you go!

This. I liked them all. And I will NOT mind seeing a fourth in any way.

Then again, I still like Speed Racer, the second and third Matrix sequels, Wing Commander the movie, and Star Trek V. Even Star Wars: Episode 1. Because I can see the beauty in them regardless of the pablum derived story.

/I'm weird, but y'all knew that right?
//I will say this: Try as I might, I CANNOT enjoy The Last Airbender. M. Night, you owe me, you bastidge.

zOMG, if they nerf brawl, he'll NEVER get to 50... oh, and he's officially a 30 now.

She makes awesome Co* videos, and promotes Co* unselfishly with them. And so wants to be part of the game (I know, not in this way, but still.)

She should be in the Phalanx. At least, I think so.

All you other posts out there are pretty good, and I'mma let you finish, but this post had the best Positron response letter of all time! OF ALL TIME!

/Kanye

AH! Yes. Now it all comes together.

FIRST we get the Station. Gotta take the baby steps, yeah?

THEN the Moon Base.

Awesome. Makes sense, GG!

I'm guessing you never did programming with that statement... There is no change that is considered 'minor'. I can tell you this because, indeed, I am a programmer, albiet on the sidelines these days. And I had to work on <1M of memory and 640x480x16 colors, AND make all the mouse/keyboard interfacing.

And we ran plants with it. We made systems that monitored and made changes as needed to operational plants. Systems that, if used incorrectly, quite literally could kill someone. Or a lot of someones. Heady stuff, really. And with that background told, I say this with some experience and knowledge of the matter:

NOTHING in programming something this huge is *minor*. It has NOTHING to do with being cobbled together, as you put it, but being *freaking complex*.

*Whatever* is done to the game now, or is done to MAKE a game as awesome as Co* is now, has to be created, tested, tweaked, tested, revised, tested, ad nausem, ad infinitum.

It doesn't matter if it's making a sound different, someone has to create the sound, and then get it to work. All while NOT breaking or changing other aspects of the game.

Adding a simple swinging sign is an exercise in "Where would this be affected? How will other players see this? Will it interfere with x or y?" and dealing with those answers. Repeating until it's acceptable. Maybe not even 'right', just acceptable.

Now... add to that, you want the players to *make* the sign swing, not just random number generation that leads to a 'breeze' making it swing... which was hard enough, and is already in there.

What does that affect? How will that work with the breeze effect? Do we can the breeze to make this actionable by a player?

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You quite literally do not understand, and most people don't. These things aren't going to change simply because they start over. By far not.

The magic of this game is this: It works at all. Much like any current operating system, or heck, any networking part of any of this. You think Co* is cobbled together? Take a look at any OS... it's horrid most times.

That Co* works, on the OS that works, on the computer that works with it's firmware that works on a network card that works on a router that works on a modem that works on a telecommunications system that works... then reverse it on the other end...

It's astounding.

Moreover, it's rather magical. 'Piece of crap'? **HARDLY**. I would rather demand you retract that statement, it's horrid and doesn't reflect what an amazing engine this is... it has *so much going on* and it works. Yes, hiccups, interesting artifacts, but man... it actually works. Amazing, really.

But that's what makes it look 'easy' to do... it just works, for the most part, so changing stuff should be 'easy', right?

It's way not. It took a lot of testing and tweaking to get it to work.

And neither is starting over easy, and I daresay, it would be worse. Better to keep and improve what is here, by far, and I vote that.

/I should probably go to sleep.
//More importantly, I should probably exit this thread, never to return, 'cause it just makes me irritated now.

1) I will be doing an MFing Warshade next, after I get done with the brawl only Brute. That sounds completely fun and having fun with a character that's epic in some way is why I do this game in the first place.

2) Camera shake *can be turned off*. It's an option in the menu. I myself don't care either way, and understand that otherwise it might be nice to have on, so there ya go.

3) Indeed, as long as you have offense and defense in abundant enough quantities to deal with whatever you're battling, anything can solo. Quickly becomes a test of Damage per Second.

In that case, it is my firm belief that Claws/(most anything) brute or scrapper. Claws are quick, don't cost a lot of endurance, and recover quickly. A 5 power chain can be had very fast, and you are, quite literally, without pause, provided you have enough end to support all that clawing about and the secondary/pool toggles...

As far as the secondary, it all depends... I'm a fan of Willpower, but others are fans of Dark, EA, Shields... Look at what they cover. The reason I like WP is because of the heals, defense, damage resist, to hit debuffs, protection... it's a really good set.

Doesn't mean you can't use anything else, I'm just a big fan of it.

Use pools that'll help. Combat Jumping, Weave, Tough... whatever, defense helps to keep you goin'. And keep an eye on your end. And have a TON of acc/to hit. Doesn't work if you whiff.

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Having said that, part of the story is to *pick easy targets*. If your point is to get to 50, perhaps you need to play around with what you can take down easily, and not accept a challenge.

For a great example, my brawl only brawler, with Build Up, Hasten, and WP... he can't fight anything Psionic yet. He can't fight anything with a TON of accuracy which defeats his -to hit. He also doesn't fly. Things like that. So while he *can* take on Tsoo, it's hard, 'cause they fly away, and they have hella accuracy. He beats the snot outta Family, so he goes off to get them.

But the Family bosses are tough, lots of HP/defense, so he just does the LTs. Also, he has to take out the gunners because if they follow him, they stay out of -to hit range. This causes the defense to go down, and he gets hurt faster.

For Bosses, he's found that Croatoa and the Streng are *sweetness defined*. Just about everything a Streng does is interruptable, so they don't hit back much. Brawl is recharging at <1 second *before* Hasten, and takes about 1.25 seconds to complete. The Streng fire off about 5 shots total before they're humiliated by the awesome punch of the Brawl. It's like a thousand paper cuts.

Doing that to a Consigliore is considerably different and takes **WAY** too much time, so I just avoid those dudes. And Sorcerers... don't. Just don't.

That sort of thing you'll find out on your own, and as you define the character. Hope it helps you on your journey.

/Mobs, LTs, Bosses, EBs fear Homeslicer. He just about devastates anything around him. Claws/WP scrapper. If it's not an AV, it's done. DONE.
//Even some AVs tremble...
///Hugely soloable.
////Oh, must mention... the Brawl only Brawler took on **18** Family minions that were all +1... and took them all out. Not real sure why they all decided to stay... the Rise to the Challenge taunt shoulda only had 10 or so... maybe it rotated. Whatever, it happened. That's what proper strategy will get you on this solo only project. Ok, I'm done with the soap box.