1: Visible weapons choices/"new" AT´s. For example, the claws power can be tunred into dual swords with just a few name changes and graphics changes. (And being the AR blaster my main is, a new gun or five. 
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2: Personal vehicles. Say at lvl 25-30 you can do a quest to get the right to call a vehicle/travle assist device. It will still use a power slot, but the drawback being that you can not fight from these vehicles, but have to exit it before you can respnd to attacks. Say Motorcykels that gives you excellent groundspeed, but not as much as superspeed. It would be real nice to those that want to play "ordinary" people without flying, porting, huge leaps or running around at Mach 5.
1) Capes with collars
2) Capes with collars
3) A fly type attack called comet strike (or something). Where the hero flies up into the air and flies down to hit the villian causing damage to him and anyone/anything standing around him. The attack power would leave the hero disorientated for a while. The time spent disorientated and the damage of the attack would depend on the distance from the hero and the target when he activates the power.
4) Oh and capes with collars
I would like an option to forfit missions that I cant stand anymore. There are times when I need missions cleard out so I can do missions I would rather take. But I can't. I am forced to go compleat the mission. Even if its massive and its filled with a mob type that I hate fighting, (DE for example) I hate thoughs tree boggers.
So in short. I am asking for an option to forfit a mission. It dosn't have to make the contact happy. It can auto fail the mission. But having an option would be a good thing.
Other then that, I can't think of anything that I need. This game rocks! Well, unless you wanna kill off all them DE boggers.
Gilfred, you are a unique individual, 1 star from all of my accounts. It is hard to imagine one person picking out 20 ideas and finding fault with all of them without some ulterior motive. I don't know what your beef with me is, if one at all, or if your just a troll looking for some much needed attention, but something is obviously going on here, though exactly what I am unsure. As I am catching this after 2 posts from you I will try and get it all in at once.
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1) More distinction between Controller and Defender shared powers. Give defenders a reason to be.
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I believe there is enough distinction in their shared powers. Controllers secondary's are the same as most of the defenders primaries. We know that primaries are stronger than secondaries and that is enough distinction for me. Included would be the powers that they do not share would make enough difference.
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1.) How much of a difference between the defenders and controllers do we need and how would you do that?
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Response 1) Part 1. You believe there is enough of a distinction already. Since you are obviously an expert with both the controller and defender sets, tell me exactly what that distinction is at this moment and how it is enough. I have both a controller and a defender bubbler, and I don't see this distinction that your describing. I look forward to your detailed analysis on this.
Response 1) Part 2. Were not here to draw the line nor are we required to too make the point a valid one. Dev's are the only one who have the hard numbers thus are the only ones qualified to make that determination.
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3) Power specialization. Give character the ability to explore/research their powers, choose one, and develop that power and become the best at what he/she does in that aspect. I am an AR/Dev Blaster. Let me become a Sniper expert. Let me become a munitions expert with my time bomb and trip mines. Let me become a Rambo type with my Full Auto.
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You can be a sniper expert right now. All you have to do is to slot your six slotted powers with three range and three damage. Yes you would loss damage but would increase range and make a sniper expert.
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3.)Power specialization at what expense? You said that you would be for being a specialist in one power at the expense of the other skills. Would say 50% reduction in accuracy and damage?
What about blasters that use the combo of perma hasten+stamina+stealth+alpha strike? I have read posts that have said that is the only power combo that some are using during their missions. They sneak into alpha strike range using stealth, then fire their alpha strike. They then use the perma hasten and stamina to recover quicker to be ready to do the same combo again.
I am afraid that this suggestion would cause players to specialize so heavily on one or a few skills that players would take advantage of this and only use a few powers clicking on the same buttons all of the time. Also if there are any enemies that would require a hero to change his use of powers would mean that now he has to use powers that are much weaker, powers that he himself nerfed. Good idea?
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Response 3) Part 1. I guess you don't understand the word expert. Expert implies by its very meaning the ability to do something better than the other guy. Right now, all snipers of their AT have exactly the same ability. Though enhancement choices they can tweak this but each and every one has the exact same parameters to work with.
Response 3) Part 2. I Don't see a need for a cost to this ability as it stands on its own. AS for this perma combo thing. Yes, it would appear that you have read a lot of things, but actually experienced very little. Even if one were to exist in this way, it is the slowest, most monotonous, boring form of leveling to be had. I have a 50 AR/Dev blaster. From time to time I do this but it gets old fast. That aside, players are allowed to develop whatever play style they choose. There is no "wrong" or "Bad" or "unethical" choice here. People pay to be here and as such are free to hunt as they choose, who are you to tell them otherwise?
As to the last paragraph of this response. Like your entire flawed argument, you take the absolute worst extreme, and use that as a basis of your argument. As with everything else in this game a balance needs to be struck, why you would assume this would be the exception is beyond me. Allowing players to be the best at one aspect of their current abilities gives players to make a hero that is truly a unique creation of theirs and takes players out of the cookie cutter design we currently have, why would you possibly be opposed to this?
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4) Missions to acquire additional enhancement slots.
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How many total slots would you add? Right now we have a total of 94 slots (67 to spend and 27 that come with the powers).
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Again I am not required to draw the line to make this a valid request/idea. Those with the hard numbers can make that determination. Personally I would be happy with just a few more slots to round out my powers that I choose at the end of my career.
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5) How about missions/research to get unique costume parts, where one could quest to get an entire set.
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I think that would be unfair to everyone. I like things as far as costumes go now that all pieces are available to all at level one.
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New costume pieces he suggested was based on a task force mission. There are many players (myself included) that do not have the time to do a task force mission. Now I know that capes were added and you must do a mission to get them which I do not mind. If he was talking about adding new pieces that have never been there like capes then that would be okay to tie them to a mission similiar to the cape mission. Now if he was talking about new boots, gloves or anything else that is already there then no because it would be unfair.
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Will combine this one. In your first response you claim that this is unfair, yet you didn't say how. In your second response you make a grand leap and say that I suggested that it was for task forces. Re-re-re read what I said. I said missions, like we get from contacts. Something that we can take on solo at our leaser. So, if you can stop making things up to justify your reasoning, I look forward to hearing other ways you think this is unfair for players to have more options and ways to earn getting them rather than having them handed to them for free and no effort.
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9) Alternate character abilities. Something to allow anyone, no matter what their level, to continue to develop their characters.
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We already have that it is called getting experience and leveling your character by chosing slots or powers.
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I Obviously didn't explain this in a way that you were able to understand. The word alternate refers to something other than what we already have. Thus Alternate abilities would be abilities that we don't already have, abilities that heroes can work on to further their characters development.
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10) Raise the cap on travel power speed. Make a map wide teleport power as the final travel power in the teleport power set.
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6.) How much faster do you have to be moving? Do all travel powers have to equal teleportation? You would be so fast that you could stand at the south end of Steel Canyon, blink your eyes and you are standing at the north end. Maybe you do not like to use the tram to travel.
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Part 1). Really? And why is that? I'm sure you have a reason and wouldn't dare post without having a good one so lets hear it. Enlighten us with your wisdom.
Part 2). Once again taking the worst case and making it the basis for a flawed argument. Faster means faster, more than what it is now. As with all things a balance needs to be struck, why you would think that this would be another exception is beyond me, do try to stop reading into things.
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11) Raise the roof. Let heroes adventure and fly/travel out into space. Missions to/on the moon or involving space/space ships.
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Bad idea to do this you would have to design space type map, as well as giving the heroes a new pool power to allow them to survive in space
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I don't begin to understand this response, and by this point in the post I am beginning to see you probably don't understand yourself. Why anyone would be against additional content is again beyond me. Why do you think that additional space content is bad? You assume that only a power pool would allow travel into space, tell us why you think this would be the only solution. Us hillbillies have this new fangled thing we like to use when we step out into void of space, we like to call it a space suit.
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13) More interaction with the world. I want to interact with my world, not just have it push me around.
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We already are, we speak to contacts to get missions, report to them when we complete them. The people we save thank us. The villians mention us by name.
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17) Random property damage. This a huge part of most any comic book is the random property damage that almost always occurs, possibly with an influence consequence for excessive damage to the city.
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Bad idea because after a period of time you would not have any buildings left to do a mission in. Yes, property damage does happen in the comics, but will never happen here. Because the property damage in the comics can and usually is fixed by the next issue when the artist redraw the city. Paragon City cannot fix damage that fast.
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Again word definition issues here. More means something in addition to what we have now. I would like to toss a car about, blast a hole in a wall, blow stuff up just for the sake of doing it. That aside if you have ethical issues as a hero, random property damage is a huge part of many major comic books. Ever read the Fantastic 4? Ever read Spider Man? I have more than 4000 comics in my private collection alone and random property damage due to battle with a villain is an often talked about issue in those magazines.
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16) A blaster toggle attack. A continuos attack that deals damage. I.E. a continuos beam of energy/electricity/fire/ice/laser(for the AR people)
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8.) Are you saying that all power sets must have a toggle? Did you forget that /dev has at least two toggles, cloaking device and targeting drone? And what about /electric has a toggle Lightning Field? When I said that would make it an endurance hog, does not mean I was saying that all toggle powers and high endurance powers must be removed. There are very few blasting powers in the comics that are continuous.
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Part 1) Who cares if its an endurance hog. First your assuming on its cost then using that as a basis of your argument. Second, it's what we in free society like to call a choice. If you don't like it you don't have to use it.
Part 2) Again forming a flawed argument to try to prove a point. This suggestion in no way implies that all sets must have a toggle, this is a very cheap way to try to prove a point and is aside from the point at hand. I have hundreds if not thousands of examples where a hero is using a continuous blast of whatever his/her power is at a powerful foe in an attempt to bring it down. The number of heroes who can do this is a lot more than what your suggesting but again like the rest of your post is aside the point. If there was one or two examples of heroes doing this then that is enough to set presidents and make it fitting for this style of game. This again gives a hero more options and I can't begin to understand why you would be against more things to do in a game.
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19) Additional body types. I want a Blob type character.
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I think this is the worst idea of the bunch. The Blob type body would suggest you want to create a Blob clone.
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As with the rest of your responses, you seem to think you have some twisted form of telepathy that can tell what all of our intentions are. They're are numerous heroes and villains alike in the comics in the reality that I live in that are not the perfect human specimen. Many have deformities or things that make them different. Many are over weight. I think it would only be fitting to have those options available to us. Why you would be against this additional content is beyond me but look forward to your reasoning behind it.
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Finally I guess that you like other players play games that allow you to do more than just fight the enemy. Those games allow you to destroy things as well. You feel that would be great to add in this game. Remember the reason why the heroes are not allowed to do this according to one poster. This poster had the best explaination why as far as I am concerned. He said it is because heroes have control over their powers. A suggestion like this is saying that you want heroes to appear as uncontrolled super heroes, instead of heroes with great control.
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I guess where I come from, and the comics that I read there is this little thing we call Free Will. Heroes are heroes because they "choose" to be heroes. They are not forced at gunpoint to go out and save the day. They choose to do so. A lot of the time they make the right choices, but sometimes they don't, why should this game be any different. If a hero chooses to act in a non heroic way, who are you to say they can't? I say let them, and let with that choice come with some consequences of that unheroic act. Maybe a cost of influence, maybe with enough acts, status being changed to that of fallen hero or villain taking into account the coming of CoV. Or haven't you ever heard of a hero gone bad? This is again additional content and why you would be against that is beyond me but look forward to hearing your reasoning.
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You know if what I did is wrong why make the same mistake and try to do the same thing I did. Why not instead of taking the time to rip me apart, show me why I am wrong and all of his ideas are the greatest thing that could happen to this game.
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Maybe to give you a taste of your own medicine.
Now all of this aside, I find it hard to believe that one person could find so many faults, flawed and baseless as they may be, about any one single poster. What's really going on here that is motivating this kind of negative reaction to the post? How about sending me a PM and filling me in on this little mystery.
P.S.1 Shouldn't this count as 2 or 3 posts?
P.S.2 Ack I sprained my pinky finger typing this all out.
P.S.3 Sorry for the post legnth. Takes a really wide shovel to move this much BS around.
P.S.4 If you read this entire thing in one sitting let me know, that alone deserves a 5 star.
Here's my list, FWIW:
1: more costume options and combos (this would include new logos and that they can be sized and placed where I want on my costume)
2: shape-changing power sets of some kind so I can mimic a werewolf, vampire, shape-shifter, whatevah.
3: The rest of the elemental powers! Light, Dark, Plasma, Chaos...whatevah! And, I'd like some bonus/penalties for opposing elemental attacks.
4: I want to customize my powers as I see fit. This would include a magickal devicer having magickal looking stuff as opposed to science gadgets, etc.
5: Skills the SSOCS, whatever ye call it. Bring it on.
6: New Archtypes of a non-epic nature. This may mean simply adding in more powersets (you know, like archery and such).
7: New Zones: anything from outerspace, underwater regions, other cities on Earth, the open countryside! Anything to get us out of PC for a bit.
8: Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry! 
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I did! I especially loved the part when the Hooded Elves of Gwendetheran charged to the aid of the Fae army, mounted bear-back on shining unicorns, thus single handedly driving back the fell hordes of Kaahathron and saving all the free people of the Netherverse.
Also, the bit when Aeris died... Genious!!!1!eleventyfirst!!
Whoopsie!
I will try to put everything said in this shorter post. You are telling me that I can only comment on things that I personally experience. Also, if everyone commenting on a certain subject are saying the same thing, based on their personal experience I cannot learn anything. Because I cannot learn anything from any player at all, whether in game or out of the game. I cannot even learn by reading the information the game provides me within the game, I must experience myself. It makes me feel that you are saying that I must read all post and say you might be right or wrong.
Look when I read a post I try to use logic and reasoning based on the knowledge that I have. Where do most players get this knowledge is from each other. Are you saying that you have not learned anything from anyone? Also when I read a post I can see the emotions and feelings of the poster.
The idea of customization is good only when used in moderation. Customization to the extreme will be impossible to balance. Tell me if I am wrong, some of the suggestions here are for weapon customization. If too much weapon customization (like costume and hero name) could cause more lawsuits than you could imagine. Customization you suggest would only be possible if there were no structure in the game. Without structure no balance. While I do not have as many comics as you do, I do realize that not everything in the comics can be put into this game and make it work. I have decided to leave this thread alone as far as posting. I will wait and see what happens in the future issues. If anything bad happens then I will say I never thought that could happen because I am to stupid to think about that and had to experience it for myself.
Ebony Fists: Level 50 DM/Regen Scrapper, Gloom Piston Robotics/Dark mastermind level 34, QueenFireMare: Level 34 Fire blaster (pure fire),
I am disappointed that you choose not to back up your statements. I was looking forward to hearing this logic to which you profess using.
I wonder if you even read the post to be honest. Several times I spoke about "striking a balance." So this moderation you speak of is only showing you agree with me.
I do hope you change your mind and decide to stand your ground and explain your reasonings based on my counter points to your post. Would hate to think I went to all that trouble to match you point for point to have you back down now.
I'd love to see some little things that let us be heroes outside of combat. Rush into a burning building to save a kid, get a cat out of a tree, save a family from a capsized sailboat, that sort of thing. Make them a bit difficult to do (take burn damage as long as you're in the building looking for the kid, have the cat fight back, have a time limit to get everybody to shore from the boat, etc.), and give us an influence bonus for getting it done and an influence penalty for trying to do it and failing.
Heres my list. Since you allowed scrappers to be better tankers than tanks, why not let tankers be better at scrapping? Or delete tanks altogether, since youre nerfing them out of existance
Musta missed that in the patch notes on test. From what I herd invul changes went to scrappers as well as tankers.
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Listen, Gilfred, I don't usually care for Nagical's posts usually, but I think the level of casual dimissiveness in your response to his list of suggestions was a bit heavy-handed. The guy made a good effort to make a thoughtful post. You disregarded everything with impunity. Several of his suggestions are actually in the design pipeline as it is.
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This is under consideration, but not in the pipeline.
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9) Alternate character abilities. Something to allow anyone, no matter what their level, to continue to develop their characters.
11) Raise the roof. Let heroes adventure and fly/travel out into space. Missions to/on the moon or involving space/space ships.
19) Additional body types. I want a Blob type character.
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SSOCS addresses #9 to an extent. More will come after CoV's release.
Undersea locales seems to be next in the pipeline, but Statesman said last summer that space locales and missions are something he wants to implement.
I believe more body types are coming in Issue 4 or 5. The dev's have responded in the affirmative to player requests for non-bodybuilder body types.
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My impression from the dev postings from the past few months is that they are working on that. From the CoV snippets, I believe the game will incorporate several new game mechanics with CoV's release beyond the flashier selling points that are being promoted. I've seen hints of a mission system overhaul in the works. We'll get a better idea when CoV goes into beta this Spring/Summer - AFTER the NDA is lifted, of course.
The rest of Nagical's points I disagree with or think they're not worth the effort to work on. However, I think this post of his is worthy of more consideration than it got from you.
Maybe you just had a bad day and Nagical wore down that last nerve. He's done it to me, but occasionally I find his posts interesting. This was one of them and you missed it.
Slotting meter/ instrumetntation panel
Can you give us some kind of instrumentation panel for slotting our powers, and keeping track of things, like damage resistance for tanks, scrappers, etc. Our bonuses as far to hit, damage, movement etc.
One really big weakness of the game is actually knowing what's going on, as far as how much good you are doing when you add certain enhancements and buffs. Plus I know its also possible to overslot powers that have caps.
Right now, it seems like only the experts that read all the forums and guides can keep track of all this stuff. Anyway this is a really basic intuitive feature that I actually would have expected to have from the game from the very beginning. But with some of the various nerfs and other game modications I think is especially necessary.
And as for a second request. Well another free respec I'm sure would be appreciated. Especially since I'm sure there are going to me more nerfs, and game/enemy changes in our future.
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Looking at my origional post I can't find anything that even resembles being grating in anyway. Spent 2 min brainstorming and posted my top 20 ideas. Can't imagine anything in there getting on anyones nerves, unless I am missing something
Starting with issue 4, there should be some kind of filter on the forum that just deletes tankers derailing threads with whiny posts about how horrible they are before they get posted.
Ok...maybe, if u really really liked the kheldons, someone might get upset with #18...baring that I don't see it
A group of Evil Scientists who are keeping H I T L E R ' S navel lint alive inside a Jar!
I think there was an interview with Statesman somewhere (people always lik to those) where he said he'd give a graphic representation of a power's influence. Kind of like chart for each power. No particular numbers, just so you can see that "this" power thusly slotted deals roughly double the magae of "that" power thusly slotted, but it takes around twice as long to recharge and costs nearly tripple the endurance. Just a rough idea of how good each power is. I think that was promised for the future, not a particular Issue.
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Which will be reaplaced by group of alien doppelgangers, who keep ET's glowing finger alive in bio container in another dimention.
Barring my sarcastic comments, THAT would rock. We need as many politically incorrect villains as we can cram into CoH, because the game's too politically correct for my liking, bordering on the "Hug-hug" channel Jonny Bravo's mother made him watch one time. And to my knowlege, we really don't have almost any mad scientists, let alone mad scientists with a grudge
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Don't know if someone mentioned this, but how about costume customizations that are unique to the AT and the Origin. I would have to also go with weapons and power customizations. I'd like to see more creatures from world mythologies, there are TONS of critters waiting to take a potshot at heroes. Also like to see a rift to hell open with an invasion from hell event, and missions in different lvls of hell.
I think there are plenty of AV options for the arc. Voice overs would be super cool for NPCs and villains
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I was not trying to tear him to shreds. I was simply expressing my feelings about his suggestions. Expressing your feelings about anyone's suggestions is what everyone else does. Are you saying that I cannot do that? Are you saying that everyone's ideas are golden, and I have no right to express my feelings on them. If so then you are just as guilty as you claim I am of trying to make him feel so bad that he will never post again. Are you trying to do that to me?
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What are you on? Where did you draw that conclusion from? You've made your own assumptions about what i meant there buddy and you've gone off on a tangent. Yes you can express your feelings about his ideas i never contested that, but theres a way to do it. A code of conduct if you like, to maintain a pleasent atmosphere on the boards. Quoting every idea like that and criticising it is not polite and if you dont understand that than theres no point in explaining it to you.