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  1. starphoenix
    How would they distinguish between who gets the Notice of the Well and who doesn't. Does a person that started the raid 10 minutes before the raid ends gets the Notice and the merits? Also they could have Hamidon as a WST since it is basically the same as far as being an outdoor event that grants shards.

    I doubt Hamidon and Mothership Raids will ever be a WST. There are far more TFs/SFs to do.
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    It is not necessarily griefing. Real life aggro is very nasty to TFs. Some people are more considerate in saying "Sorry, RL Aggro. Have to leave." While others just leave. The worst part is when they go afk just before you finish the mission.
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    The devs open up the WST on Tuesday for a particular TF/SF and close it next Tuesday while opening up the next WST. Therefore, assuming I haven't done the STF/LRSF yet and did it today, then I could get the Notice of the Well today and tomorrow when the next WST goes up.
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    How many people are not going for the very rare alpha? Personally, the 2/3 ignore ED and the other bonuses don't interest me enough to waste components on building another rare. If Rare gets 1/2 ignore ED and the level shift, then it is sufficient for my needs. The investment for a very rare alpha slot compared to a rare alpha slot is not worth it IMO since I am not a minmaxer that requires to get the maximum benefit out of everything. Of course, I am using a Cardiac in a Mastermind so my endurance requirements are being met with just the rare. I am definite that there will be other incarnate slots that would warrant getting a very rare, but not the alpha.
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    Have another one. Is slightly morbid.
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    Just had to share.
  7. starphoenix
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Oldeb View Post
    So you agree with me that those problems I brought up all make the idea infeasible, i.e not possible or practical.
    Not infeasible just limited. I would say it is possible, but not practical. However, if people wanted to play a mech or a hovercar, then they will adapt to those problems. Hoverbikes imply a futuristic motorcycle with the pilot visible. Limitations don't make an idea infeasible. Besides we are limited by comic book physics not reality physics so having a vehicle that is bigger on the inside and can appear out of thin air are not good enough reasons to dismiss the idea since those two concepts have been around for years in comics. Just look at Dr. Pym. He could hide a car in his pockets and shrink to fit the size of the car if he wanted to. The only real limitations my idea has is lack of customization and does vehicles fit in City of Heroes. If the devs wanted to put in vehicles, then they probably could, but there are more important things to put in and they are more trouble than its worth since we have 7 different forms of travel (4 travel powers, sprint, walk, and ninja run) as well as numerous methods to get around the world in a quick manner. This is the main reason why I don't see vehicles ingame not because of lack of tech or immersion.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Shadow Ravenwolf View Post
    At a MSRP of $140,000 per unit, they can keep it until I make my second million.
    Gave up on your first million?
  9. starphoenix
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Oldeb View Post
    So you are going to go with the hoverbike solution. Please explain how this addresses the following issues, many of which are already mentioned in this thread (and every other vehicle thread):
    1. Appearance - It's going to have to be a Longbow Chaser or some other entirely enclosed vehicle, not a sky raider skiff. You can't have any vehicle where the character is a visible pilot since everyone will have to look exactly the same when using "vehicle mode." Also, go take a look at the size of a Longbow Chaser. Now go take a look at how large you can make a character. How exactly did the pilot even fit in there? And while you can tell people to suck it up and deal with everyone looking identical that's probably not the best solution in a game that devotes so much to individual appearance. People complain about Khelds all looking the same now or how they never get to see their costume because they're always shapeshifted.
    2. Getting inside the vehicle - How, exactly, do you see this happening? Go activate Nova on a Kheld. See how it works? There is an obscuring burst of energy and Character Model A is replaced by the Nova Model. Is your new vehicle going to be the same? It's not going to show you climbing into it. So you just sort of, "Wonder Twins Powers Activate!" your way into vehicle mode? (*sings* Jon can give you cancer and turn into a car!)
    3. Overpowered/Underpowered - How does this compare to existing travel powers and how does it interact with other powers in the game? Remember that Khelds have their own powers and so only need to be balance against other ATs as a whole. A vehicle shapeshift power pool is going to have to be balanced against the entire game - all powerset combinations, all ATs, and all existing travel powers. Is it faster than Fly? Slower? If it's slower why use it? If it's too fast does it render Fly obsolete? How does it compare to Superspeed or Super Jump? If I can have Superspeed travel rate along with full x-y-z travel why ever use Superspeed? What powers can you use with it? Defense/Resistance toggles? Attacks? What does this vehicle do? Sure you can grey out all of the normal powers and give it it's own powers to use. Can they be slotted? How do they compare with other power pool selections? Power pool attacks and defenses are going to be weaker than normal powers, so why don't I just take Fly and use all of my regular powers? Making the vehicle pool powers stronger to compensate for the lack of regular powers is not the answer unless you would like to see everyone take it and ignore the regular powersets in favor of the new vehicles. What is stopping every single character in the game from taking this at level 14 (or 6 with the right vet rewards) and never leaving vehicle mode?
    4. Potential to look really stupid - Ever heard anyone make jokes about just how do sky raider skiffs get into the reactor room? Ever laughed at finding out the boss in a newspaper mission is a longbow chaser hanging out in the back of a cave or office building? Now you too can look just as out of place. Are people going to be able to fly their plane through the tunnels of Orenbaga with their wings clipping through the walls the whole way?
    5. Random annoyances for other players - How big is the target box on this vehicle? Can I block an entire hallway by myself? Will people be walking through the vehicle?
    My suggestion was merely to show how to get vehicles into the game using tech that has already been proven and feasible not based on some future tech that might come into the game. I agree that lack of customization, hammerspace, and magically entering/exiting vehicle would be limitations due to this method. The other suggestions are a matter of balancing and adding certain limitations. Doesn't make sense to have a vehicle in an office building? Then add a restriction so vehicles can't enter an office building, City Hall, Wentworths, etc. Vehicles being an annoyance by blocking another person can be prevented by making them have no collision boundary. I don't want vehicles in the game since it doesn't make sense with all the present travel powers and it doesn't take 20 minutes to get from Atlas Park to Peregrine Island unlike other MMOs. Although I do think it would be cool to have a temp power that lets you control a mech. The size will be about the same size as the Vanguard Heavy.
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    Thanks alot. Now you got me wanting a Chickencow burger. Spliced is a nice nonsensical cartoon and is proof why we need mad scientists to create freaks of nature.
  11. starphoenix
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Oldeb View Post
    This is completely wrong. For examples of all the many problems this does not address please read this thread. Or the dozens of other threads in which this elegant in its sheer simplicity "solution" has been brought up.

    And to stop your next "fix", hoverbike is not the solution either.
    And how is it wrong? Kheldian Forms already do what we want which is to replace our hero form with another form. Without knowing the actual engine involved, then any other suggestion is pure speculation. My suggestion would work while others might work. Also I said vehicle not car, truck, or any other form of wheeled transportation. It could be a mech or a jet. After all we have mechs (War Hulk, Titans) and jets (Longbow Chaser, Sky Raider Skiff). Give everyone the same look for the vehicle or add it as a permanent temp power for doing future content where you can decide the style would stop people asking for vehicles. We can just lump them together with the people asking for henchmen customization. Personally, I could care less if vehicles are added or not. There are plenty of MMOs with vehicles and some even completely replace your character with no indication of what your character looks like and is able to reach any point in the game. Operating under what a vehicle is "supposed" to do is not possible with this game.
  12. starphoenix
    Very simple method is to make it like the Kheldian form powers. The first two powers are available in normal mode and vehicle mode. Can be attacks, defenses, or whatever. The third power is the vehicle form and the fourth power is a power only activated during vehicle mode. While in vehicle mode, all powers not associated with vehicle mode are inactive. It is not necessary to have vehicles anymore complex than this.
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    Originally Posted by BigMoneyHustla View Post
    Now, can anyone tell me if the WST rewards are time based ? IE its 7 days until you can get the rewards again? or is it once per WST ? IE I could do a WST on Monday, then get the rewards again on Tuesday ?
    That is correct. If you do a WST on Monday, then you will get the reward for the new WST on Tuesday.
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    The only Master of Abandoned Sewer Trial I would ever want to see is one in the new style of Master of badges. Just no to requiring 0 defeats and no temp powers for the badge. I would like to see all badges with Master of badges to be modified to the new system. Do these tasks to get badges and finally Master of badge. It would require modifying the TFs to be more interesting.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Furio View Post
    Yeah...having any of the major heroes (or villains, for that matter) retire permanently in regular continuity would go over about as well as them dying permanently.
    And this is the reason why I prefer some manga over comics. They are written by one author, usually have a logical progression instead of the same villain fighting the same hero over and over again, and it has an ending. Mangas don't have to go through the atrocities that are retcons to fix everything unless the Manga author is a complete idiot.
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    I wish that comics would learn to evolve and end. Having Spiderman stay 15 to 30 for 40 years is ridiculous. Having the comics age with the fans would be nice to see. All it would require would have an arc where Spiderman, Batman, etc. to pass on the torch to the next generation. Of course, it doesn't apply to Superman since he can't age or ages very slowly, but having Lois Lane and his friends age would make for some interesting stories.
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    I liked Spidergirl's interpretation of Venom where the symbiote was the victim to its host's desires. Unfortunately, Spidergirl is just an alternate future.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MentalMaden View Post
    They opened it up to 10 last year (if memory serves me right they originally did larger numbers but it was pared down in recent decades) to allow more nominations for independents, genre flicks and animated movies.

    Edit- It looks like they started doing the 5 picture nominations in 1944 up until last year; before that there didn't seem to be a set number(1934 had 11 and '35 had 12) .
    It started with Dark Knight not getting a nomination for Best Picture.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ice_Wall View Post
    Here's the thing. I have never watched more than about 5 minutes of the cartoon, I went into the Last Airbender Movie because the previews made it look pretty epic. I knew next to nothing of the source material.

    And that movie was crap. It was just garbage. The writing, the pacing, the acting, just every part of it was garbage. If it's better than Syfy movies, it's not much better. It deserves several razzies.
    The problem with TLA is that it is the first season of Avatar compressed into 2 hours. It amounts to having 7 hours of a season with no opening and ending credits compressed to just 2 hours. Of course, it is going to suck. The only reason why I would recommend the movie over the TV series is if a person wants to know what Avatar is about, but doesn't have the time to watch the series. I personally enjoyed the series.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironik View Post
    Who's that?
    Forget name, but it is a character from Cowboy Bebop.

    Edit: Jet Black from Cowboy Bebop
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mr. DJ View Post
    hey, I'm all for buying it, I'm just saiyan
    I didn't know that. Guess I better figure out a way to blow up the moon so you are less likely to destroy the planet.
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    I have a problem with judging movies based on previous content. Which is why I won't judge this based on any previous superhero movies or comics. I also consider every superhero movie to exist in a parallel dimension from the original comic. It also applies to within the same comic book series. There was a Batman from a parallel dimension that used guns and lived in the 30s and there is a Batman that lives in another parallel dimension that doesn't use guns and makes his life miserable because the criminals he puts away always break out and never learn.
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    Infinite Comedy needs both. Haven't tried the new Posi so should be interesting.
  24. starphoenix
    I am a fan of the Multiuniverse philosophy to comics. If somethings is extremely off with the comic, then we are actually reading about more than one universe in a comic. It is only implied that all results are in the same universe. From a RL standpoint, it makes the comics very confusing when they change the direction of the comic every few years because there is a new lead writer. Would be nice if comics operated like manga where there is only one lead writer and when the creator gets tired of it or certain circumstances get in their way, ends it.

    As far as crossovers go, either all the characters exist in one reality and are only mentioned now, classic case of dimensional travel, or the crossover deals with the regular dimension and the comic forgets to mention that we are now in a parallel dimension where the crossover is now possible. After all, the comics are called Batman, Superman, X-men, the Flash, etc. and not Batman of Dimension 34X251, Superman of Dimension 5629E1, and X-men of Dimension 154K2 so having an issue dealing with Batman of Dimension 34X251 and the next issue deals with Batman of Dimension 25D35 is entirely possible. They just have to be parallel dimensions where the important matters aren't changed. Batman of Dimension 25D35 can't be a cyborg while Batman of Dimension 25D35 is human if they are in the same comic. Would certainly make things easier for comic book writers if they acknowledge that fact to the fans. Would be interesting to see a series based on Spiderman knocking out his first criminal before Uncle Ben is killed or Superman being raised by the Luthors while Lex is adopted by the Kents.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Veritech View Post
    so no hope for joining a team with three other adventurous pilots and going on an outer space adventure and being hit by cosmic rays? *sigh* right, back to trying to get bit radioactive insects.

    SCIENCE!
    There is also nuclear bombs that might help. Just because it didn't work on the thousands of people that were exposed to extreme radiation doesn't necessarily mean it won't work on you.

    If I recall correctly, that is what the villian in Action Man tried to do. Expose cities to radiation, chemicals, and other dangerous material so the next stage of evolution would appear.