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I've heard similar accounts. It's apparently A Challenge.

I am suspecting that as soon as I can find a level-adjusty-person, I will adjust level to -1/x1.

You do not need a special program. If a .dmg file isn't opening, that file is in some way corrupt or damaged. One problem I have had in the past is that web sites would end up sending a file, say, compressed in some way, but with a file name that didn't reflect this.

Okay, so, I've heard that stalkers are awesome, that stalkers suck, and so on.

I decided to roll a kin/nin stalker. Rationale:

* I haven't played Kin Melee before.
* I will take ANY set that has caltrops in it. You could have a set that had eight forms of self-suicide or instant crash with no benefits, but also had caltrops, and I'd probably pick it.

So, what should I be going for? I really like the basic concept of running around not being seen, setting up fights, picking targets... But I don't so much like the fact that three even-level minions are a genuine threat to me if I'm unlucky.

It does seem to be fixed.

Impressively fast results.

I'm really hoping this means that the purchased slot I asked it to redeem, which has not yet shown up, hasn't just been lost into the ether.

Was on a mayhem mission with a stalker. We never once had to deal with a PPD Equalizer. That was a pretty significant addition to our experience.

It didn't happen to me. Apparently YMMV.

If I ever reroll Timi (an old WoW warlock toon), I might well convert her to a DS "hero", simply because she was always played that way. Rather. She was always played as overtly over-the-top evil in such a harmless way that people consistently treated her as though she were actually nice, and patted her on the head a lot.

What they really need to do is fix slots so they work like booster packs -- once you've bought them, the information about them is stored in the GAME ACCOUNT, so the connection to the store doesn't matter.

This is not rocket science. It's a well-understood technology, so well-understood that in fact the same dev team has been able to make it work -- go into the costume creator, and you'll discover that you have the pieces from any booster packs you've gotten even while the store is down!

If someone did a nova-only peacebringer and claimed it was a Vorlon, I'd accept that without much fuss.

In that case, I will pass on that I pre-ordered three copies from Best Buy, at a price I was personally happy with, and we'll be popping over to grab them sometime tomorrow.

It's over in the Virtue server forum.

The sex example was a response to a poster arguing that you must accept ALL of the game mechanics and lore, untouched, unchanged, or you aren't roleplaying at all. Since the character creation stuff says a "Peacebringer" is a human merged with a Kheldian symbiont, then that is what all Peacebringers are, and to declare that a Peacebringer is something else is to disregard the game's lore entirely.

I am... unconvinced. I offered the lack of actual physical contact between players as an example of how this "game mechanics are the entire truth of the world" model falls down. (Well. Actually, it does explain why there's no kids.)

I'm really happy with bots/traps. It's not about healing -- at 24, you have two healers with you, and you can always take Aid Other. It's about not having anything able to damage you much, because your opponents have recharge, regen, defense, and damage debuffs.

I am sure to shop around for the new expansion pack in the hopes of getting the best possible buy on it. I normally check game stores first, but I've got a hunch that I should be sticking with the big box retailers this time. Of course, that could be a pre-order only thing. Coincidentally, I just placed exactly such a preorder, with any luck tomorrow the nice guys in the blue shirts will have our order ready for pickup.

I dunno, but since I happen to have handy access to a Mac installation that can break without hurting me (I have two other installations available), I'm about to find out.

I guess my question isn't so much "why do people follow that rule on this particular forum", but "what caused a lot of forums to acquire such a rule". It seems contrary to all the other advice and etiquette guidelines I can find for forums. I think it's just sort of a convention on vB forums at this point.

This grew out of a side thread in a "roleplaying pet peeves" discussion, but I think it's a viable topic in its own right.

How do you handle conflicts between story ideas or story lines and game mechanics or lore?

Examples:

* How would you feel about a character who wants to use the "Radiation" attack powers, but claim that they aren't radiation but actually some other kind of energy or force?
* If you really like the game mechanics for "Peacebringer", and none of the other ATs fit your character concept, is it reasonable or acceptable to declare that your "Peacebringer" is actually a non-Kheldian who just happens to use that power set?
* Similarly, can you have a character who uses the Night Widow rules, but is roleplayed as some other kind of martial artist, ninja, or whatever, and is not really a Soldier of Arachnos in character?

My general feeling has been: Insofar as I can make what I want to make while working within the rules and lore, I prefer to do so. However, I don't expect the rules to model everything, or describe everything, so if I have an idea that the rules don't support, I'll just say "yes, but this is actually..."

So, for instance, it is fine by me if someone says "this is a dragon who actually has claws which are part of her hands, not weapons strapped to her hands, even though they're drawn as being strapped on." Or if someone says "Jill and Ernest had sex" even though it's physically impossible to get within about six inches of another character, they just start being magically pushed away. I don't see it as a big deal, and if the game mechanics don't quite line up sometimes with the described character, well, so what? It's a video game, not a supercomputing particle simulator.

Not bothering, I figure worst case I'm out a bunch of enhancements worth, oh, maybe 20-30M inf, whatever.

I did not know there was an "Empty" option, silly me!

I may be trying to add more patrols and the like (because the real point of the arc is to see all the created critters and get funny dialogue for them), in which case, "Empty" might help a lot.