What did you add?

I like to think the post I made a while back at least influenced the recategorization of badges that happened back in the day.

I also made the avatar Jranger used in MSPaint.



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Thank you all for your contributions

I don't remember how closely it resembled Staff Fighting, but a couple years ago I posted a pretty detailed description of a Bo Staff powerset.

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Well, I guess now's a good time.

Let's see. Excluding small numbers changes and bug fixes and such:

- I suggested the Defense set procs be changed from unique to normal rule of five bonuses. Thus did LotG become one of the most sought after procs.

- I suggested that tohit buff bonuses in the invention system be changed to accuracy buffs, and I suggested to Castle to investigate the existence of player accuracy buffs in the first place.

- I suggested some of the power changes in the latest Martial Arts. Particularly, the "Eagle's Claw boosts your crit chance" effect was a suggestion I made a couple times over the years.

- I'm responsible for some of the features in Real Numbers, in particular the tohit roll channel and the fact that combat attributes shows accuracy and tohit bonuses. I'm also partially responsible for encouraging pohsyb to "follow" pseudopet effects. I also specifically suggested adding a DPA field for attacks: real numbers was originally only going to show DPS.

- I'm significantly responsible for AE custom critters, at least in terms of capabilities. Even now I'm not sure what I should say here, but I now feel comfortable in saying that they exist in the first place because I championed them and even got the devs to delay the AE so that they could be added. I'm also primarily responsible for the way custom critters are currently valued.

- I long championed the critter accuracy changes that were eventually introduced in Issue 7.

- The "base brain" AI of standard critters uses an algorithm I created to address issues with critters failing to use all of their attacks consistently in many cases.

- I played a role in getting BaB thinking about DPA, and the net result of that was the various attack speedups that were added to things like weapon sets. As soon as he was comfortable understanding just how important cast time was, he began reducing it in cases he felt comfortable.

- The fact that the reward message that shows on your screen when you get a salvage or recipe drop has a color identical to the type of drop was based on a suggestion I made in Issue 9 beta.

- When Castle was expressed concern that the scaling passives Widows got might be too strong for a tier 1 power I suggested splitting them into Combat Training: Defensive and Foresight. Voila.

- I strongly encouraged Castle to look at cast time adjusted formulas for attacks, and the result of that is Claws and Widows. Claws in fact uses a formula that is essentially identical to the one I proposed to Castle, but it makes an error when its translated to AoEs. The net result is Claws became an AoE monster. Oops.

- I suggested some of the changes made to the control side of the Hybrid tree. In particular the fear+immobilize idea was an idea of mine to act as a way to synergize two effects into a pseudo hold.

- Elusivity is almost entirely an invention of mine that pohsyb slipped into the game engine probably when no one was looking.

- /ghide is the direct result of a suggestion I made to pohsyb when I learned about some of the global chat changes that were coming.


I also think I helped a little push the devs to look at Blasters. I think the devs were leaning in that direction, but I think I helped the cause by drumming up interest in looking at them again. Also, the snipe-buffs-range effect was a suggestion I made to Arbiter Hawk. To bad we'll never know fully how those changes would have all come together on live.

Also, Blasters, Arbiter Hawk said he liked the "nuke while mezzed" idea, but he thought someone would smack him upside the head if he allowed us to get away with that. I think we would have gotten it eventually though.


I also invented the term DPA (damage per activation-second) along with a term DPC (damage per cycle-second) that no one uses (everyone just calls that "DPS"), and the term "immortality line" which was probably a mistake.

I did *not* invent the term "arcanatime" - that was Werner.


One other thing: when BaB posted a message saying he thought it was unlikely the code would easily allow power customization, I posted a reply that said it was possible, and outlined a precise way it could work based on my knowledge of the system that BaB helped to inform in the first place. Although I was not to my knowledge responsible for the actual work done in any way, its fair to say I did at least predict precisely how it could work, because it does work in exactly the way I described then.


Oh, and I was the one that prompted Shonuff to make that signature icon. One of my cooler contributions.

I don't think any of my suggestions made it into the game (likely a good thing ), although I did do the original documentation for the Cyborg Super Booster. I got a couple PMs from red names from that thread, including one that implied my screen shots were horrible (aaaannndddd... he was right, so I redid them all without a puke-worthy color scheme ). Some of the videos I posted highlighting various power customization changes were used as part of an Massively (I think that's the one?) overview video... you can even see my EM/Nin Stalker running around with recolored pompoms!

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Well, I guess now's a good time. Let's see. Excluding small numbers changes and bug fixes and such: [...]

Did... did you just repost the patch notes for the last 5 years?

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

Two more things:

This is in the "woops" side:

According to Arcanaville, it was my fault that Willpower ended up being as strong as it is. Castle used a survivabillity model I built to benchmark the set at one specific moment in time (45 seconds likely.)

That on itself was not an issue, but comparing to other sets that had click heals, it would saturate the full power of the heal within the 45s mark and not average it over time. This made willpower look actually ok when compared to it's peers, using that metric.

I never intended it to be used that way, though, my goal was to draw a zig-zagging survivability over time chart with it by entering multiple time points in increments of 5 seconds.


The other bit is Brute damage. In city of Villains beta, I brought up an issue, brute base damage at the time, buffed to it's damage cap, was lower than scrappers. I brought this up with the hopes the damage cap for brutes was increased... instead the developer increased brute base damage resulting in the insanely powerful brute we know today. Woops...

I think my dev chat summaries and my coverage of the first Player Summit helped refine the streaming/scheduling format that was used for the second.

Though they might've been due to parallel design and influence, I've found parts of my Hellfire Elementalist EAT design in Bio Armor and what had been released regarding Radiation Armor.

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Originally Posted by reiella Until I see something that states to the contrary, going to assume VK is right .

Not much. I may have been responsible for the naughty halo (I asked for a Hellboy-style crown of fire). I found an infinite-influence bug. I found (by accident) something where Behemoths weren't using Invincibility most of the time. I made sure Electric Melee stalkers could build an attack chain without pool powers.

I wasn't the only person to invent Frankenslotting, but I wrote one of the first guides on it; I like to think I generally eased a lot of people into the invention system.

It is to my deep regret that I didn't get Spine Stalkers' signature power renamed to Assassin's Hug. But I tried.

Sadly, I can't point at any little thing in particular that I might have gotten added (though I'd like to think that my "List of Support Suggestions" had an influence on Poison's buffing). There were lots of things I talked about that got changed (Longbow's unresistable sonic grenade, the original typed vs positional defense set bonuses), and I was active in a lot of the Beta discussions on new powersets, so I'm more just generally part of the gestalt of the TheoryCrafters.

But, hey, Mids, you know?

A very long time ago, still in single-digit Issues, I brought up that all the civilian NPCs milling about didn't seem to be doing much of anything. I suggested that there be some actual activity with them; people carrying groceries, workers carrying their equipment, stuff like that. A couple updates later, I started seeing NPCs walking around doing stuff. I don't know if anyone even saw my suggestion back then, but I've always given myself a bit of credit for it.

I added absolutely nothing...

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I think Arcanaville is the only player acknowledged in the GR credits.

Math geniuses, ain't it always the way.

A few months before Issue 16 hit beta, I wrote Castle a PM getting rid of Electric Armor's Conserve Power and replacing it with a heal, "and while I'm at it, I'll suggest a name, 'Energize.'"

I'm sure such a thing was already in the pipeline, but what can I say.

Also, "Kill Skuls" was kind of my fault. Sorry, folks.

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I was in closed beta testing for issue 11, which contained the dual blades powerset. I remember some of the players complaining that the standard run animation needed tweaking, as it resulted in the characters stabbing themselves in the face while running with weapons drawn. So after reading that, I went into Poser and did a quick render of a female figure holding two swords- I did several run poses for her- one was pretty tame, with the blades angled out slightly to avoid poking her. But another was much more dramatic, with her arms out straight, pointed backwards a bit, and both swords held out that way. Well, the retooled DB run animation ended up being pretty tame. But some time later, Ninja Run was released, and it looked amazing, with the arms positioned very similar to my rendering, albeit with a more exaggerated body posture.
So I dunno- was it pure coincidence, or did one of the devs file away my little render during I11 beta, thinking "Hmm, we might use this later?"
Either way, it was pretty cool to see something so close to my little Poser render end up in game.

The biggest thing I can take credit for is the Lore rebalancing and the nerf to Cimerorans, all of which is now never going to actually see the light of day. So, yeah, there's that.

I like to think had something to do with the nemesis staff going to vet rewards. I bugged the **** out of them forever.

I was also a huge supporter of the fanart section and did my best to encourage artists to create. Getting the artists and commissioners together.

Also, though I am uncredited mostly, I helped a bit on City Scoop, doing interviews and representing the fanart section.

I suggested Dink paint the tip of the Retro Scifi rocket pack the secondary color and it happened shortly afterwards >.>

A bigger achievement that I was actually really looking forward to involved I24's Crey spawns in Brickstown being changed. When they revamped the spawns in Bricks, they actually let Crey do PR stunts with the people and be more like a legit business and less like Arachnos or the Council. But they still conned red and would attack you on sight. So I brought this up, told 'em the problem, and brought up the point that Crey aren't evil when seen in the public eye. Only behind the scenes and when they can make a profit. So Crey spawns got switched almost immediately after to con neutral to players.

I thought it was such a cool breakthrough to better represent a group I love and felt was always poorly handled. I was really hoping we'd see more stuff like this with Crey in the future, but I guess we won't :\

While I've never been directly responsible for anything, I was involved in the CoH beta, the CoV beta, and every closed/VIP beta with the exception of the Mission Architect beta. So, barring MA, I'd like to think that I've done my little part in helping to polish a sizable chunk of the game's content over the years.

I can't say I've ever added anything, but I like to think that, given the time, I would have.