BBQ_Pork

Heh. I love it.

I once did a newspaper mission to steal $Itemname from $CoTmage. I did it, walked outside, opened the newspaper and saw that $CoTmage was talking trash about me, so I decided to pound him for it.
And the door was the one I'd just came from.
And when I got to the end of the map, he acted surprised to see me.

Geez, start talking trash while the target of your ire has barely cleared the exit? Yeah, he's gonna kick your behind again.

G for "Go"?

I use R for "Run", and move the auto-run to Alt+R instead. (It's safer there.)

Also:
It's not a good idea to refer to Lord Recluse as "Cobra Commander".

While on duty, it is not acceptible to yell "Cobraaaaaa!!!" as a battle cry.
Nor while off duty, and in uniform.

I agree.
There are a number of badges, such as the Anniversary badges, that I really believe should be account based. Heck, I've gotten AE badges on some characters who have never set foot in the place.
(And there are a few more badges that probably would never become account-wide, but I would really like them to be, particularly some of the weapon-skin unlocks based on high-level or grindy foes)

The name thing? I don't think there is a name-protection thing in place. If you delete a character, remake him immediately to reduce the risk that someone else will snag it. I think if the name was borderline petitionable (not completely against the EULA, but close) it may not be available once deleted, under some kind of "We'll let him get away with this one for now, but won't let anyone else." thing. I could be wrong.

I must politely disagree with your negative assessment of the Development team. They have implemented some of the ideas that players have come up with, so they don't squash things out of spite.

Now there have been some ideas that I thought were pretty good that haven't yet gotten off the ground, but I doubt that spite is the reason.

Of course I would like for ANY expense in my life to decrease!

I just have two little questions.
1) What would you think they would cut in expenditures in order to maintain profitability (If they are posting losses, there's no reason to continue) in the wake of losing a third of thier per-customer income, or do you think that they would get at least 50% more customers?

2) Do you think that the lowered cost would be enough of an incentive to gain that many new customers, despite the fact that to many people it would signal "Hey, this game must be failing, they are taking to a desperation manuever"?

I've used the MA for Magic Robes (Robe#5, I think, was a good one) and for a tunic for a Buck Rogers style Tech MM. But more costume options are a good thing.
Yes. I would like back-mounted scabbards and various backpacks. It's been suggested before, and I like it. Having them chance from empty to full and back might be asking too much, but I'd still like them, if they were implemented.
One sticking point may be the number of attachment points on the skeleton and I'm pretty sure that clipping would be a problem. Look at the GvE jumppack. It's one thing on a small-medium character, but on a size Huge, it's buried partially into thier back. Ouch!

The term "Hammer Space" describes where the weapons come from. Think of Bugs Bunny just reaching back and having a giant mallet to wallop someone with. Or Transformers cartoons where Optimus Prime's trailer would just appear out of nowhere when he turned back into a truck.

Okay. Most of the ranged attacks I've seen have come from the hands, so doing the Magic Ring thing would be easy. Just have a good costume piece: "Hand with large ring".

Staff-fighting for a melee set? Been suggested, and I have no further comment other than the ones in those threads.

Held Item (Staff, Book, Scroll, etc.) for ranged attack sets?
A few thoughts:
A) I'm assuming that the attack would have to come from the hand *not* holding the book, otherwise, I think it would look silly. So sets with attacks that use two hands (Flares from Fire Blast?)....not so much.
B) I think this would work better with Controller sets than with a Blaster set, as Mages in fantasy usually seem to have more tricks up thier sleeve than straight damage. Edit: Some of the Blaster sets have some controll-ish elements as secondary effects, such as Ice Blast's Slow and Holdeffects.
C) I think that this would be best done with a whole new powerset, rather than re-do an old one. (see reasons A&B)
D) The argument will come up that you shouldn't have a set primarily geared towards just the Magic origin. (Nevermind the Assault Rifle, Devices, Trap and Robots powersets) My solution? Have one (or more) of the possible focus objects choosable as weapon skins be an alien gadget or other tech-looking device. (edit: or a Crystal. It could be an alien crystal or a magic crystal or an irradiated crystal....it's all in the player's imagination.)

Some of your ideas would be best served in thier own, seperate thread, where the details could be hashed out.

I never realized that the act of "being Canadian at people" was an offensive manuever.

As an aside, I think he should be turned into a full-fledged contact. I could have sworn that he had a contact ring at his feet.
I'll have to look in the AE and see if anyone has written him an arc yet.

Add Rest onto that list of bare essentials that were fixed. It used to have at least double the recharge time.

My characters used to have a full set of stuff bound to keys by L10 because I had a lot of time on my hands waiting for End (and to a lesser extent HP) to recover between fights when Rest wasn't recharged.
And they would have the chatbox completely reorganized.
Now I can't stand the default.

There's a limit to how many people a player can gignore, but no limit to how many people can gignore a player.
Eventually, "OMG, the server is dead! Must merge servers to get people to play with ME! Meeeeee!!".

I thought it was a combination of not having as many freshly-gignored spammers to push folks off of the ignorelist and use of the player notes system.
Based on what I've seen so far.

Well, you've heard the expression "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar"?
On the internet, it's a little different.

The OP makes a suggestion that has a number of flaws, and perhaps is based on a false assumption.
Responders point out the flaws.
OP gets unhappy and hurls insults (or something that looks like it was intended to be. The counting to 100 thing is meaningless gibberish.), refusing to see the errors in his theory.
Responders try to show the OP what he refuses to see. "You can lead a horse to water...."

I think that online, "You can catch more flies with manure, than with honey or vinegar."

Geez. Upon seeing that phrase "Critical Failure", I just had flashbacks to certain pen-n-paper games and of DM's who used tables that didn't always make sense.
Players tend to hate critical failures. Heck, they aren't too keen on regular failures. Remember the "OMG ACC wus nerfed!" cries that used to pop up much more often? (Usually when someone hit L50 and switched to a new alt that wasn't slotted out with 1-2 SO's worth of Acc in every power. Or they popped a yellow in a mission and didn't get an automatic hit on thier snipe, or against a debuffing foe. But I digress.)

But if you want to do both a Critical Success and a Critical Failure in crafting tables, then perhaps I have an idea.
The Farnsworth Advanced Crafting Table. (just grabbing a name out of nowhere )
This special crafting table allows a skilled user to have a chance to craft a special enhancement when crafting Generic IO's.
When using this table, you will have a X% chance to craft a generic recipe into a special enhancement.
Unfortunately, the table is a bit finicky and will sometimes ruin a recipe and the salvage used into it.
X% chance to eat the recipe, salvage and $Inf used in the crafting.
Feel lucky?
Would you use it?

(Taking the phrase out of context)
But why would a dried frog need pills?

Re: Difficulty finding teams:
*Have you tried joining a Global channel or two? (Just curious)
*Are you flagged as LFT or just spamming Broadcast in the zone you're currently in? (No offense intended, but some folks just don't fully utilize the LFt function.)

Anyway, a part of the resistance against merging servers will be:
*Folks don't want to lose thier character names, or get some stupid-looking number added to the end of it.
*Some folks want to be on a low-pop server. Remember, some folks love NYC, some folks like Billings, MT.
*Some folks like bustling zones, others like lag-free performance.




Other reasons are likely to come up as well, but in short?
I must politely disagree with your proposal for the reasons listed above.

They're like little pixellated pinatas.
Smash them open and you'll never know what kind of candy will fall out!