Mystic Fortune Annoyance

I really liked the no prompt on it ):

As did I, but whatever, my panties aint bunchin' over this. I can play the game just as well with or without the prompt, even at my age.

Hmm...yup, this thread is deemed worthy.
And this is aimed at the bringing back the prompt (which I disliked)

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

The lame is strong in this one.

New idea: Mystic Fortune is a self-buff now. This self-buff yourself for 20 minutes (very fire and forget it) and there will be no more people whining "nooooo that guy buffed me and i'm a robot and i can't roleplay a robot if i have a magic tarot card buff!"

Removing the prompt was the best thing ever with mystic fortune. It got so annoying having to click it whenever someone threw it at you I had gotten to the point of not throwing it at anyone (because I figure other people are as annoyed by a random pop-up box as I am. it's like browsing the internet without having noscript/adblock to filter out all the trash advertisements webmasters pollute their pages with)

Here's my constructive suggestion, and it has actually been suggested before in relation to other powers:

1) Buffs/debuffs should have a "cancelable" flag that is an indicator of whether or not the affect can be canceled by a player. Stuff like the lab map explosion should not be cancelable. Neither should a player mired in caltrops, or who has had speed siphoned by a Tsoo, etc. Stuff like the Mystic Fortune should be cancelable, and should speed boost, inertial reduction, clear mind, recovery aura, that funky ice encasement armor power, etc.

2) Hopefully obvious from the stated description above, players should be able to right-click on a buff and cancel it if they want.

3) A new "affect" is created. This affect is completely invisible and doesn't affect gameplay. I'll call it "Mystic Timer," it lasts 20 minutes, and it is not cancelable.

4) When Mystic Fortune is cast on someone, it checks to see if the character is under the influence of the Mystic Timer affect. If so, Mystic Fortune is immediately canceled.

5) When Mystic Fortune is successfully cast on someone (i.e. they're not under the influence of Mystic Timer), it takes affect and triggers the Mystic Timer affect.

This will keep people from simply getting a Mystic Fortune, canceling it, getting another, etc. until they get the one they want. If they cancel it, they can't get another until the Mystic Timer 20-minute timer runs out.

The deal with Teleport that makes it have to have an acceptance prompt is that it can be used for griefing. And I don't mean, "I don't like being buffed!" griefing, I mean the really bad type. Old-timers like me probably remember this, but when the game first came out, there was no teleport prompt. What happened is that griefers would convince people to let them on their team for whatever reason, or teammates would get pissed off, and teleport others off of buildings or into high-level enemies to get faceplanted. There were even some places where you could only get to by teleporting, like the little tower huts in The Hollows, and players would get irrevocably stuck there. I'm just pointing it out because I don't want people to conflate being buffed by the griefing that led to the teleport prompt.

My personal opinion is that there is one situation under which buffs aren't welcome, when people are doing activities like costume contests or stone tank races, where buffs interfere with the activities going on. I've never complained about being speed boosted, I've never complained about getting a Mystic Fortune, and when they removed the prompt, it was perfectly fine by me. I can understand some contrived circumstances under which it might be irritating, but none of them, in my opinion, rise to the level of having the auto-accept revoked.

Personally, I now want to make a character named Drive-By Buffer.

Anyone know what AT/Power Set Combo has the most buffs?

To do this right you need more then one buffer. One for kinetics one for ice and one for fir buffs.

The fire has to be a god awful color as well.

As I understand it, isn't the problem that buffs and debuffs are treated exactly the same by the software and they don't have a way to separate them out? Is canceling a single buff or debuff even possible without reworking the whole system?

And just for the record, teleport is neither a buff nor debuff that I know of, so it doesn't apply (unless I'm wrong, and then freely willing to be corrected).

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If they ever give us the ability to cancel buffs I say set MF like teleport is (option to auto accept prompt) and if use choose to have it (either by default yes or yes in dialog) it is non removable.