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I would never, ever, use alignment merits to buy KB protection. You can get a defense sets -KB recipe for one or two million if you're a little patient, put it in combat jumping, and you're golden.

I haven't tried bots/dark, I play bots/traps which works pretty well.

Biggest thing is: Yeah, some enemies will be easier or tougher. Learn the enemy groups. Also, look into teaming. One of the best things I've done is get into a couple of circles-of-friends that provide me with a handful of options for joining a team and Doing Stuff. This is nearly always fun. Turns out not to matter a whole lot what specifically I'm doing; any group of people that aren't jerks will be fun to play with, whether we're steamrolling or having a really hard time of it.

Well, /storm would certainly be thematically appropriate. I tend to find kin frustrating, I think almost entirely because transfusion can fail if something dies. I got used to dark miasma's lovely accurate-heal. I just made a mind/emp controller, so /emp is sorta overused in my list now. Hmm. /storm really does appeal thematically, even though it's sometimes unpopular. But I also already have two, I think. I like trollers a lot.

I don't have a definition handy for "in cold blood".

Anyway, any jurisdiction with the death penalty has at least one clearly defined instance of "killing a human being in cold blood when they are no possible danger to you, with unambiguous evidence of premeditation, planning, scheduling, and so on, in order to collect a paycheck", which is not considered "murder".

As a general rule, the term "murder" in practice means "killing which we thought was morally wrong", but since there are kinds of killing that society doesn't judge as wrong, that can create exceptions.

Consider, if you will, a sniper. People have been given missions which consisted of finding someone who was engaged in a war in the general case, but was at that time not fighting, quite possibly unarmed, and killing that person, ideally without any open firefight occurring at all. This is usually not regarded as "first degree murder", even though it's clearly premeditated killing "in cold blood" (meaning, not in a rage or in a combat situation).

Life's complicated. So's death.

I'd noticed the animation, but not the upgrade. But yes, it upgrades.

Idle question, then, does this work if you've lost ALL the pets, or do you have to have at least one surviving upgraded pet?

I have an elec/rad that is sort of stalled out, I think because she never quite got my interest. I was thinking about rerolling, but I haven't got a good idea in mind yet.

I took it because it fit the theme of my character, and looked cool. I still enjoy playing that way, so I'm happy.

Here's the thing.

The point of "ebil marketeers" is that people get mad at you for being rich and say it's your fault that prices are high even though it obviously isn't.

If you have lots of money, no matter how you got it, people will be saying that it's your fault that prices are high.

So go for it! Make sure you have a costume slot for your monocle. (English Monocle, Detail 1.)

Dual Pistols certainly LOOKS awesome. Uhm. There is a possibility that it may not live up to hopes in terms of actual performance, though.

Still, in CoH, there's basically no bad sets, there's just a few sets that aren't quite as good as the others. Everything's good enough.

Scrappers with shield defense, invulvnerability, or willpower get buffs per-enemy-in-melee, encouraging you to go do epic-looking things.

Off topic, but yes, you can do that. I have a mind/psi dominator whose character background points out that, yes, the background really IS telling you how you feel. Duh. MIND/PSI DOMINATOR.

I think the question was, were you bidding 28M each on a single, or on a stack of 10? So did you actually spend 282M? I'm guessing not.

Aunt Millie exists entirely because of the phrase "Putting the aunt back in taunt aura". I built a little old lady, plaid skirt, polkadot bowtie, argyle sweater. I used invuln because if you set it to "FX in PvP Only" there's simply no indication that there's any particular reason for which this ordinary little old lady is not being significantly damaged. Then I went with dual blades because watching the little old lady do the jumping spinning animation made me laugh.

I sort of modeled her response on what I've seen from a few old folks who are otherwise quite conservative, who clearly had to deal with a friend transitioning. Ultimately, the immediate reality of their friend won over their preconceptions, and they're pretty cool about the whole thing.

Next up, Donnah Matrix ("Donna Matrix" was taken), a mind/emp troller whose background may or may not to be altered to state that, while she was employed in a very respectable profession*, she was bitten by just about everything, giving her all sorts of super powers.
[*] It's the oldest profession, therefore respectable by definition.

Re-reading that, it makes no sense. There was one hoverblaster doing a pixie with a shredded martial arts robe so you could see her underpants, and ANOTHER who turned into a girl to continue looking up the first one's skirt.

Aunt Millie's intolerance of change is funny directed at NPCs, but would be less fun directed at player characters I didn't know well enough to know how they'd take it.

Yes, the half-orc got to talk to the mayor. I think they even sort of accomplished something; narrative necessity won.

So, I have Yet Another New Toon. "Aunt Millie", who is "putting the aunt back in taunt aura". She spends missions complaining. "When I was a little girl, the insane people in giant robot exoskeletons had decent haircuts. This is a disgrace!" "When I was a little girl, the Malta Group had to content itself with sending Zeus class donkey carts after people who could run pretty fast." Etcetera. So at one point, we had someone in a shredded martial arts robe hoverblasting.

Aunt Millie: YOUNG MAN! Are you looking up her skirt? That is ENTIRELY inappropriate. You should be ashamed.
Hoverblaster: Oh! You're so right. Let me solve that "young man" problem.
[hoverblaster changes to a female costume]
Aunt Millie: ... Well, as long as you're comfortable with who you are.

How about the plain meaning form? A dance emote that lets two people dance together.

That looks nothing at all like Python. It looks vaguely like pseudo-C++ or pseudo-Java. Given the context and the MMO background, I'd guess C++.

Yeah, I found that a minute or ten after I posted. And it works -- I can log in on the netbook, and I can do WW and such even though it's not otherwise particularly playable.

MORE MONEY FOR ME!

I made an invuln/db tanker, just because I happened to be looking for a tanker. It's working well so far, and Aunt Millie is putting the "aunt" back in "taunt aura".

Once I created a character (just went straight to registration screen), it seemed to magically be fine. I can go to the tailor and I can create new characters normally now.

Huh?

It's a netbook. It's not really designed to run both CPU and video full throttle without getting, well, loud. It doesn't break or anything, it just runs its fan full speed, which annoys me. ++showfps says it's running around 55 fps at the lowest graphics settings. Setting it to 20fps makes it run quietly enough that I can't hear the fan.

I have no idea where you got this "sitting still and doing nothing" thing. Running a 3D renderer at full speed with both CPU and GPU pegged is not "doing nothing".