rian_frostdrake

looks like safety pins to me. as or the decreased dexterity of the claw hands, lets just say i have wondered how certain hygenic necessities were handled by the guys with two claw hands, maybe "swipers" has a origin that we dont want to know about

as for makeup, a lot of the npc's need to be put on serious eyeshadow detox. there is looking goth, and there is becoming visually indistinguishable from a panda, mind the gap please! also saw some skull girlfriends who had apparently applied makeup with a classic sized broadsword, the dark knight joker was more understated.

glad you are enjoying yourself, the only server we share is protector, but i havent been there for a while, but if you are ever on liberty and need a hand, the global is the same as the forum handle, gimmie a buzz.

well, eis, honestly, its easy to say that all options should remain viable, but in practice it never works out that way, and i doubt you could show me a single mmo(or fighting game, or fps, im going to exclude rts' because i simply have too small a frame of reference for it.) where they achieved it. before you know who, the last open system that i played was star wars galaxies, and there were huge problems with the system there as well.also, its rare that players choices cant mitigate the situations where their powers are less effective and wind up not worrying about situational powers. Honestly, i like open powers in theory, and am somewhat enjoying them in practice, but there is a way that power sets can make a natural synergy with each other that makes characters seem to flow on a better power progression curve.

much like the instanced vurses outdoor argument, the benefit of seeing the alternate choices taken is that we can see both the good and bad of if those choices had been taken. and if you have the time/budget, you can experience both wolds for their respective good points.

likely because that wouldnt be proliferation so much as a new powerset, but electricity control, as well as dark control, dark domination and dark assault would be fun. also maybe a few more blaster secondaries. again, the secondaries and assaults are kind of odd ducks because they arent just direct ports from other sets, they would take parts of sets but would have to work with other powers that they arent paired with on other powersets.

they are back again? oy vey.

to be fair, the drop rates actually were bugged, acc's "nerf" is entirely one of perception, unless im forgetting a bug some time ago. but I agree that it may well become a similar post issue meme if a player just has an unlucky night.

84.83 percent, man there were a lot of typos in that one.

I'll be praying for you and your wife as well.

another request for more flavor text, this event has major promise, but id like to know what these pillars are, and why im fighting them, and what the heck the monster is.

beyond that i noticed no issues with badge3s, temps, or general gameplay.

nothing official, but like bill, my guess is that there wasn't any money in them. most of the content was an odd mix, athletics shoes and skateboard themed texting devices..to an mmo crowd? and i really haven't seen an mmo make money from ads, but hey at least they tried something new.

well, we know nothing at all yet, so speculative threads really dont help much other than giving a place for people with positive and negative outlooks to fight. lets check back in a few weeks, apparently hero-con is when the details get filled in.

while i got archmage on one hero, i got it through illusionist farming that made me hate the universe, the fact that its easier now is a cause for joy, both conceptually and realistically.

well, im 34 but feel far older. just 6 years till my relationship with my doctor becomes far less cordial and far more penitential. :P

i dont recall you as a negative poster, its probably because you like to argue with people who have ideas of debatable quality and they go for the cheap hit afterward. and yes, i have gotten a neg and pos rep on the same post too, just means that the topic has active supporters and detractors i'm guessing.

well, i am a good gardener, and i sign up for overtime whenever i can, which, since it is increased rewards for additiona repeating of behavior that usually nets me (annoyingly inadequate) rewards.

i dunno, i dont see anything in his post that is true. There is a difference between a half hearted implementation and working within the limitations of the game engine. I'd love to pull people out of a burning building but how would you accomplish the game of it, we cant carry things, so it would have to be a hostage lead out, what rewards are for it, if some, can it be farmed for disproportionate rewards, if none, why would people play it? these are not trivial questions.

as for street sweeping being improved, on im all ears for a meaningful improvement, but again we have to go throught he questions of how to make it challenging and rewarding, as has bubbled up from the champions thread, open world stuff tends to lead to camping, objective stealing and overall nasty behavior, how do you correct that? The quality of radio missions is subjective, i tend to find them fun and succinct. they wont win any emmys for writing but they provide fast non-zone hopping entertainment when grouped with friends without a lot of filler. You have the option of storyline content, or you have the option of doing radios, both are optional.

The problem is that you keep mentioning these great suggestions that the devs are ignoring, I have to ask, where are these great ideas. There are good ideas on the suggestion forums, there are impractical ideas, and there are ideas that look great, but once you try to break them, they tned to fall apart and would either be farmed to oblivion or ignored. Heres the thing, maybe the ideas really were good, but there are precious few people on here who really know how to make or balance a video game, our ideas have to be filtered through the filter of reality, and thats where a lot of great sounding ideas die on the vine. Without you gettign more specific and showing soem of these great undiscovered, i really have no way of knowing, link me some if you are so kind. also,this nicely dovetails into your comments about the superstrength animations and, here again,we are dealing with subjective valuations, the animations werent bad, but im not seeing how they are greatly superior, and looking at how fast they flow, im thinking timing may be an issue, but it really becomes a question of, are you pointing out flaws in the dev's "half-hearted" implementations, or just upset they didnt do things your way? Id have gone for a far more chinese martial arts look for new ma animations, but they didnt ask me, while this may be a personal disappointment, i cant say it was a worse decision, just a different valuation, and the good news is, now with the tech in place, perhaps later they will add the animations that i want.
as for the pool powers, we have had it confirmed quite early that the realistic time frame for getting the issue out the door precluded working on the pools and the extra stuff, but they are being worked on. harping on about it now sounds just a bit childish. the work takes time, so much work can be done in so much time, and we got the primaries done in time, the rest has been confirmed as coming, so i really am drawing a blank at what your complaint is, unless it is that you wanted them to delay the issue a few months for the pools to get done, is that your complaint?

So as for your disappointment, well, i dunno, it really seems that some of your expectations are a little unreasonable, perhaps if you toned down your expectations to be in line with what game companies actually are able to put out in their issues, not just this one, you might be less likely to be disappointed. I could hold out hope that the next legend of zelda game will have 50 unique dungeons, all with amazingly innovative gameplay hooks, multiple sword styles with easy, intuitive input systems, and npc's that use an advanced A.I. to understand and interact with me using a voice input system, but i bet id be disappointed once the game actually comes out.