Dev Chat Highlights, September 22: Flipping the Bird with Positron during the Downtime

Wow. That's both wrong and...

It was either message Zwil and tell him the name was available where he wouldn't get the message from me till many hours later and the name might have been snagged by another person to use for griefing (like the previous owner did) or snag the name to be sure that it got in the right hands.

Gee, I always thougth that male widows were called widowers. And also in Z's defense, I've been here since release and never assumed that Widow VEATs could be male since there are no NPC male widows that I have ever seen in game.

Oh wow. I've been playing the game since the day it launched, and I didn't know that. Never even thought to try it.

There have, historically, been a number of threads that have argued the whole widow/widower thing. Also, does no one remember the promotional photos for I12? It was only 2008...

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Read what Posi wrote: you can combine two enhancements that are already IN a power slotted. I didn't know that. I figured once they are in the power they are there for good.

You are confusing that with just combining enhancements regularly like we've all done for years.

Two different things.

Or they could be re-evaluating like they did with base salvage storage (edit: you know when they changed it from 2,500 items to 30) in Issue 13. You can't honestly say that after 3 years changing one value in a database is that <censored> hard.

Re-evaluating is Paragon Studios-speak for "we won't do anything about it."

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No I'm not. I've always done that, and it's always been there. You can do that today. It was always helpful when you had a good SO drop. Bam, you could make room inside a power for the new SO, and get a new +1 in your DOs out of it.

My point stands: if I didn't know about that, it could be considered information that might not be on the top of every Paragon Studios employees to-do list to learn.

I demand this designer be publicly flogged, on Ustream, while Zwill goes on a tangent about Corduroy shorts no longer being in fashion.

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What ZM said here. I'm sorry, but if that wasn't a poorly transmitted joke, I think that any blocking of power/patron/epic pool customization by PvP concerns pretty deeply ignorant.

Besides which, we know you can control the two independently.

You could always just say, "We're not going to do this, ever, because it's not worth our time." That, at least, is an answer.

And it's honestly preferable to stringing people along when it's clear they have no intention of doing it.

I have a male Widow... errr HAD. Also, buttcapes are STILL gender-locked to females.

I'll agree that changing a single value in a database isn't hard if it doesn't affect any other items in the database.

Re-evaluating also doesn't mean that they aren't happy with how something is.

They may have re-evaluated the change to base storage and determined that it was where they wanted to keep it. They may have re-evaluated it and decided it should be changed but couldn't agree on what to change it to.

That doesn't mean that all of the players agree with the decisions they make when they re-evaluate things. But it also doesn't mean that it is code for "we won't do anything about it" as you put it.

Of course, we've had this discussion before about what they said and what was meant by what they said and what they really meant by what they said.

You still haven't admitted you were wrong about the Praetorians choices as they level having no effect on the choice they get to make at level 20 as to whether they go hero or villain.

I'm still done with you unless you start trying to twist my words again.

I'm the same - things like power sets are mostly a mystery to me - even MA/Regen

It was a joke

In case you didn't know, the regen power set has an option to hide all effects except in PvP

Cool! I didn't know that either.

I didn't know that until now either

Whoah. Me and ZM agree on something.

In case you didn't know, exempting the hiding of GFX in PvP indicates that at least some Devs do indeed think that hiding GFX in PvP is somehow unbalancing. Which is pretty absurd considering:

1. No one can change their build or toons on the fly based on what powers they see their foes using;

2. The ability to re-color powers, even in PvP, means that you can't rely on color to identify powers anymore;

3. The current set-up of all powers using GFX creates a blinding and garish white-wash of overlapping GFX making the identification of powers nearly impossible; and,

4. There are some pretty powerful buffs from IO Sets (e.g., making someone with no Defensive primary or secondary powers soft capped) that have no GFX at all. That invisible advantage doesn't seem to bother the Devs in 'balancing PvP.'

So, you pretty much gave the very reason why it should not be taken as a joke. Because, even *if* Positron meant it as a joke, in practice, he's stating their actual policy, which is inherently ridiculous.

SO THAT's what fparn means, D'oh!

I still think losing that cap so we could store invention salvage was a great trade off.