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Originally Posted by DLancer

oh, yeah, I forgot about those.....So let me amend my statement, *most* movie sequels to movies from 15 or more years ago are terrible.

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

"We think that a franchise such as Star Wars has the potential to attract 30 million or more monthly active users (MAUs), suggesting that the free-to-play version of the game has the potential to generate $120 —150 million in annual revenues. …"

You know, for anyone not familiar with 'the biz', this would sound like the most moronic statement ever made, often satirized by the 'dumb salesman' who says that they'll give their product away for free and they'll make their profit through 'volume.'

And anyone writing articles in 'the biz' and doesn't use the term 'microtransactions' maybe *is* that proverbial dumb salesman.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Any developer that now launches a sub-only MMO is insane.

Originally Posted by Zaloopa

I like the idea mentioned earlier of adding synergy to tough/weave from taking boxing or kick. Another way that could work would be to have tough and weave buff the melee attacks. For example, you take boxing to start, then when you take tough it adds a buff to boxing that adds some s/l resist when the hit lands, and then when you take weave it also adds a melee def buff to boxing. I don't know about the numbers needed to make it useful but not OP, but it would be a good way to make boxing/kick into good powers to use even if they don't compare in damage to your primary/secondary attacks.

Originally Posted by Zaloopa

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this upthread, but they actually did this in beta once, I think it was back when freedom was in closed beta. They saw that EVERYONE in beta was just taking tough (also aid self) and ignoring the rest of the power pool. They were worried it was going to be the next "must have" power like stamina used to be, just because it was an easy pick, which is why they changed it back. I have a lot of characters that I don't take tough/weave on, but if I could get tough right off the bat that would probably change.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

Oh I thought that costume creator was a huge slap in the face. I almost cancelled my pre-order when I saw it.

I had no problem with them wanting to use a humanoid skeleton to make synching with the voice acting easier, but they could have given us something like STO costume creator so we could customize up some decent alien heads.

Originally Posted by Siolfir

I'm amused by you blocking blocks of blocks.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

So I would like to float an idea past the thread to see if I'm in sync with everyone else here, or just crazy.

It seems to me that we don't want to mess with boxing and kick, because there's now synergy effects in Boxing and Kick that escalate up to the tier 5 attack, and there are people that like Boxing and Kick for various reasons. But it also seems to me that we don't have to mess with boxing and kick, because there's no reason we can't provide an alternate path to tough and weave by simply adding another power to Fighting that unlocks at 35 and acts as a prereq. This way we don't eliminate the prereq, but we don't require people to take an attack they don't need.

The question is what can we add to Fighting that is conceptually consistent, interesting enough to be useful, but not so powerful that it will be perceived as necessary? That's the idea I want to float. Assuming we add one more power to fighting to allow an alternate way to get to tough and weave, what do you all think about this power:

Tempered Focus:

Passive: 50% Res(Hold, Sleep, Stun, Terrorize, Confuse), 15% Res(Defense), +50% runspeed (enhanceable), -50% runspeed (unenhanceable)
Fighting Synergy: Increases stun duration on Boxing, Increases Knockdown chance on Kick, and Cross Punch debuffs foe Strength(Hold, Stun, Sleep, Terrorize, Confuse, Immobilize, Endurance) by 30% for 6 seconds and has a 50% chance to debuff KB strength by 100% for 6 seconds.

Power also grants:

Click: Mag+1(Confuse, Terrorize) for 15 seconds. 120s recharge.


The idea is to create a power that would appeal to players likely to be taking Fighting anyway, appealing enough to be interesting for players that were not thinking about it, but not so powerful that it would be a must take and force people into Fighting. So:

1. If you are a squishy without mez protection, 50% mez resistance is interesting, but not mandatory.

2. If you are taking Fighting to get Weave, DDR is probably interesting to you.

3. Unless you're SR, in which case being able to periodically break Confuse and Terrorize is interesting to you.

4. Tempered Focus has its own interesting synergy with Cross Punch: it causes Cross Punch to weaken the mez ability of anything it hits and has a chance to shut off the ability for the target to generate knockback. Which is not as interesting for melee with mez protection, but *very* interesting for a squishy wanting to mix it up in melee range. For the melee archetypes, I slipped in Endurance: the effect will also reduce the drain effects on targets it hits.

5. The +50%run/-50%run is there to ensure the power is actually slottable for something. By default these two effects cancel each other out. But you could slot run in there and get increased run speed, since the negative buff is not enhanceable. Or you could ignore the power's slot if you don't want to run faster. And I'm inclined to allow it to be slottable with universal travel.


So is this too powerful? Too weak? Totally ridiculous? I've tried to find the line between "overpowered" and "worthless" and I hope I landed on "interesting for those that don't want Boxing or Kick." Did I get close?

Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood

Part of the problem with Boxing and Kick is that so many melee sets are either built around a gimmick or use a weapon. This means that for most sets making Boxing or Kick a part of your attack chain ends up hurting you since you either have redraw or are wasting the opportunity to make full use of your set's ability.

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

Marvel is getting sued over the case it comes in.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

I just remembered one that bugged the hell out of me. Two student were secretly in love and you were sent to spy on them. You had the choice of turning them in or keeping their secret, but if you chose to keep quiet the voice acting automatically turned you into a blackmailer demanding payment to keep silent.

Originally Posted by Forevermore

Thats the plan for me, except I don't know when I'm getting my severance pay. It's sure to be after the deadline though. And I saw no mention of my favorite Cyberforce character, Heatwave. He was the inspiration for my cybernetically enhanced mutant Fm/Inv brute, Solarstreak.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Here's something else that just occurred to me:

A while ago it was suggested that this is no different from the Healing pool not opening up Aid Self immediately, and how if it did, everyone would have it. Fair enough, fair enough. But the pool still isn't gating it behind two copies of the same thing. It's not like it was before, where your choices were "help another player" or "help another player differently" between Aid Other and Stimulant. Right now, we have Aid Other and Injection, which IS an ally buff, but also works as an enemy debuff, as well. I am, in fact, given an option. If I want to take options that benefit me and I want Aid Self, I'm no longer forced to take a team-only power.

To my eyes, Aid Other and Stimulant were no different from Kick and Boxing - the same power twice over. Yes, their effects were different, but their mechanics were the same - stuff I do to help other people which doesn't help me. Since I don't want powers that don't help me in any way, that pool was more or less closed to me. This has changed, because now I have the choice between "a power which helps others" and "a power which helps others sometimes and me all the time." Now, I have a choice and now, I AM going to take those powers.