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Quote:They also provide the possibility of no future revenue.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
How is not jacking the names of inactive players being treated "better" than me? It seems we both enjoy the same protections, which is as it should be.
Why are you pretending an account being inactive is a permanent state?
It's not.
Inactive players provide the possibility of future revenue, which while not as arousing as current revenue is still several rungs up the ladder from "nothing". -
Quote:More defense set options period need to come outOriginally Posted by RevolverMike
This needs to come out already.
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Time to generic her!
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Quote:More options for everyone playing. How does that not benefit everyone still playing? o.OOriginally Posted by Hyperstrike
Okay, now I KNOW you're not serious about this. -
Sexy!
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Quote:Power customization would not benefit those who dont customize. Im sure there's a small population of them.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Power customization would benefit *all* players.
Stripping names from others would do one of two things:
- Benefit a small group of people who're too lazy to come up with their own name.
- Benefit nobody because the names taken aren't the ones desired.
Name purge would benefit everyone who is currently playing! -
It's like 5th best blast set damage wise...combine that with MM. So I wouldn't say it's terrible. You may feel the ENDDrain is suckie however, which is likely where the complaints for the set come from. Feeling the secondary effects are a waste for less damage.
You've done Elec Control 3 to 4 times, try something new. -
I dont see how being in tights doesnt make an action movie. That said, I cant wait to see action movie with big guns either!
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Quote:They don't think to seem it's worth the resources and efforts for power pool customization and furth customization of primary/secondary powers.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Well technically it doesn't cost the company anything to do either. The cost of the storage space for the characters in question was paid off long ago, and the cost to develop the script to free up the names was also paid off long ago.
What it boils down to is whether or not the devs think it's worth the effort to run the script again, and from their responses to us they don't, and they don't plan on running it at any time in the forseeable future.
Should we stop requesting it? -
Nice, reminds me a bit of one of my newest ideas of a character! So that means it's even more awesome! Also, I'm one of those players that actually LIKE the witchtop.
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Quote:Well Death did follow death, just as the alien said.Originally Posted by starphoenix
Have a theoretical question about the movie. The weird autistic alien says Death follows Death or something like that. So *** is injured by the evil alien. If K didn't kill evil alien, would *** be still alive?
But as to the question...hmmm...don't know! If K didn't kill the evil alien or didnt apprehend it there, then *** would likely be dead now. -
Quote:This becomes a bit less of a factor with AOEs and Taunt Auras.Originally Posted by Lycanus
Tanks and Brutes do not have the same aggro. A Brute hits someone, they aggro THAT target, a Tank hits someone they aggro that target and as many as FOUR other targets around the original target. They have the same aggro cap and can somewhat appear to have the same aggro management, but things already peel off brutes that wouldn't peel off of a tank.
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Quote:Also consider by many to be a terrible comic. And a worse movie.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
Like, fer instance....
a silly name two-fer!
I pointed out the large % of words of French derivation some while back, so that at least can't surprise our language purist. =P -
Quote:And what do people say about those names you listed? LameOriginally Posted by Forbin_Project
Do you really want to go there Brand?
Super Hero Comics have a long tradition of creating heroes with odd, satirical, or down right silly names. Some of them have their own comics and others are destined to be supporting characters.
DC names
Bat-Mite
Bad Samaritan
Big Barda
Bizarro
Blok
Boodikka
Bork
Bozo the Iron Man
Captain Carrot
Ch'p
Chunk
Clock
Color Kid
Dan the Dyna-Mite
Darwin Jones
Detective Chimp
Dingbats of Danger Street
Flodo Span
G'nort
Genius Jones
Gnarrk
Jack in the Box
Lagoon Boy
Little Cheese
Major Bummer
Mister Mxyzptlk
Off-Ramp
Pinkt the Whiz Kid
Peter Porkchops
Rubberduck
Scarlet Skier
Streaky the Supercat
Stuff the Chinatown Kid
Marvel Names
Abraham Brown
Answer
Brass
Bling
Blink
Box
Box IV
Briquette
Brother Nature
Brother Tode
Bug
Burner
Butterball
Charcoal
Dirtnap
Dittomaster
Doorman
Doop
Doughboy
Dum Dum Dugan
Elsie-Dee
Fan Boy
Flubber
Hairbag
Honey Lemon
Kangaroo
Left Hand
Nanny
Needle
Poundcakes
Squirrel Girl
Stilt-Man
Sugar Man
U-Go Girl
Widget
Wink
First off I have to ask if you are aware that 80% of the English language has it's origins in foreign languages.
Oh and I'm sure you are aware that there are many people that speak more than one language who play this game. And I'm not just referring to the people that play on our French and German servers. Those people have super hero comics in their own countries and in their own languages.
And I've had quite a few tells over the years from people that recognized the names I was using and had great times teaming with them, all because I chose to be unique and use a name that wasn't trditionally English.
Though of that list, my eyes went straight to Wink, and thought not bad.
And how many of those are joke characters? Squirrel Girl was made as a joke character from the start.
And I know not all the player base speaks english. Doesn't mean the bigger population of the game, who do speak english don't prefere it.
Not to mention, maybe they don't want to find an excuse for every character to be using a name that in America would have people going "huh" and let's remember, Paragon is in America
If Paragon was in France, I'm sure I'd be using french names/words.
And for the record, I have used forgeign language names. I have used real names. But generally I do prefere to go with the traditional superhero style names.
Now whether or not people are willing to go that route will depend on the person.
However, I still see no reason for unused accounts to keep the names they have. I say that with the thought that I still wouldn't get the couple of names I do want and check to see if they're available every now and again, but by just checking, and sending tells.
This is just me agreeing that after so many years it's time to make names available. Want more than 3 years, go 4. Lets do the tour of duty route and do "six years of account showing no sign of activity". Keep it up to date on that, and there you go.
The fact that I suggest 3 is just me thinking that's long enough to say "Okay, they're gone" and with Freedom, even more so, since you can log in without paying a cent. -
Saw it. It wasn't bad.
I will say though, if you haven't seen Avengers yet, see Avengers, it was the better movie.
If you're deciding between Avengers for the multiple times and MiB3, and you want to pick the better movie, even if you've seen it before, pick Avengers.
If you're the type who doesn't care to do repeat viewings of a movie, have seen Avengers, and looking for a fun movie, see MiB3!
If you're looking for more action...see Battleship. -
Quote:By well built Scrapper, you mean...a Shielder?Originally Posted by Tyger42
I'm not. Try again?
A brute can do that just fine. Hell, a well-built scrapper can do it.
Absorb alphas for sure, but actual aggro control? Not for most scrapper builds. -
Quote:With how defense works and set bonuses/grabbing all defense powers, people are always going to think (like JB does) that one doesn't need a tank.Originally Posted by Lycanus
Still not referring to the portion of the post which addresses the topic at hand, namely the survivability of a brute compared to a tanker.
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Quote:I don't believe so as it suppresses the toggle when hidden, buuut it could be different for Placate hidden, but now a days, you're less likely to actually want to Placate > AS in the middle of a fight.Originally Posted by JusticeZero
I think the question is, and I need the answer to this also now, do we have to worry about the following:
Fight enemy. Placate. AS. In the middle of AS, CoF ticks and reveals us, removing hidden status and fouling up AS. <-- is this a problem? -
If I can't find a Lore pet that fits my characters concept (and a lot of them don't fit any of my concept, including my main/namesake) I just pick WarWorks because Vicki looks awesome
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Quote:Before Freedom, and this suggestion has been asked for way before Freedom, people where paying to play. Therefore, once they stop paying to play and lost access, they were no longer paying to keep the names.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
No actually it doesn't. Why you may ask? Simple.
1. Names are not a unique blend of coffee, or rare olives that spoil and have to be continually replaced so they are always available when and if the long absent customer returns. And that's something that could cost a lot of money over time.
2. This is an ever changing and expanding game and the space they use to store the names is inconsequential and has been paid for long ago so it now costs nothing for the company to store them.
3. There is no danger of running out of names. The company doesn't go to Big Lots and buy packages of names for players to choose from and then has to buy more when those get used. The only limits to naming are our imaginations.
Now this ^ is a simple hard to refute argument, because so many of us are attached to our character names we can appreciate the argument.
Now I'm not going to scream an hollar if the devs run the script again. Neither I nor anyone else will notice a difference unless the devs publish a list of the names that get freed up and we watch the conflagration of ensuing nerdrage complaints on the forums. (Just look at the complaints people are making about the name "Freebie Fridays" being inaccurate because it starts 12am Friday British time and not 12am Friday in the time zone they live in as an example of how silly the people can get.)
And you know, plenty of people want to use names like "Testament" "Ruin Girl" "Forsaken" "Nuclear Girl" over names like "Komomichi Yuri" "Dark Shadow Black Jackal" "INeedHealer" "Killer Elite Robot Guy" "Helen Fitzgerald"
You know, names that fit more inline with comic book superheroes and having names that fit the GENRE.
Are there exception in the genre for real names? Yes (but in Jean Grey's case, she also had a name, that felt like it go taken out more due to "She's a full adult woman, and being PC means never calling an adult woman a girl" and even now she goes by Phoenix) but they're small in numbers.
If you want to continue to name you characters "Dead Man with Smile" no one is stopping you and others, and you can continue to think how it's truely unique, or using forgein languages that leave people wondering what the hell does that name even mean, and continue to think that's special and unique.
Truth is, it's not unique, people were doing that before typical superhero names were taken and now left unused by many
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Theme groups in general are hard to pull off in my experience, and that theme seems less popular.
You may have to try and form it yourself and see if you can get it off the ground. -
Quote:And that's what it really comes down to. No matter what those against think of the suggestion. It's something that could make a current subcribers day and keep them coming back.Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
I am glad profit is not the only reason the devs choose to do things for the game.....otherwise I doubt we will ever see AE changes, anything with bases, etc etc.
I would love to see your proof that if a name purge; with a 3 year cut off were to happen, it would adversely affect the game financially... oh wait..there is no way to prove either side when it comes to financial gain/loss....
So in essence the arguments all boil down to he said/she said...since NEITHER side can definitively prove anything regarding this suggestion and monetary gain/loss for Paragon. As a matter of fact EVERY argument has been conjecture and supposition...for both sides...but you still have a select few who will swear by their claims...irregardless that they cannot PROVE any of it.... just saying
That said... I still stand behind the idea...even though it would have absolutely zero gain for me. The idea of rewarding someone who hasn't played/paid for years...seems a bit silly to me.
I actually discussed this with a friend of mine who runs his own store ...asked him if he had a customer who came in every day for 3-4-5 years and got the same kind of coffee...that he special ordered for them... what he would do if they stopped coming in. His reply was quite simple: Stop ordering the coffee since after awhile it is easy to come to the conclusion that they:
1. Moved
2. Died
3. No longer like his store/products
4. Found a new store/product they like better
When I asked him "but..what if they come back after 3-4 years and said "hey where is that coffee you always ordered for me??" He said he would just stare at them and wonder why the heck they thought they were that important for him to keep ordering something for years when they never bothered to come to his store. LOL
(He runs his own lil coffee/convenience store - his Canela coffee is YUM btw...and he orders it for me LOL... so then he asked me if I was moving or something LOL!)
Now Im not saying, go the route of "once your inactive the names are made available" but if they've been gone after a certain point of time, free them up. -
Quote:They don't need a DC Films branch. They just need to hire writers that understand the material, love the material, and take it seriously.Originally Posted by ThrowDown_Kid
What I'm really eager to see, is what impact Avengers will have on DC's future plans. The market is there, as Marvel Films just demonstrated, but how can DC really up their game to compete in the film sector? I'd say creating a DC Films branch that focuses solely on taking their character seriously would be a great first step. If they could put the kind of energy into films as they do the animated universe, DC could make some truly great movies with some truly great characters.
Oh, and never let people like Keven Smith talked about in that clip near an established IP. -
Quote:You know, I often wonder if the devs even bother to check the Suggestion Forum at all.Originally Posted by Dr_MechanoEU
Lets be brutally honest.
When was the last time a Dev or even an OCR even responded to something in the Suggestions forum?
As mentioned above, the move from Development to For Fun shows that it is now the place where people put out ideas for people to daydream about, nobody takes the Suggestion section seriously anymore, not even the Dev team, so what is the point of posting in there? -
Quote:^This.Originally Posted by DarkGob
I don't understand why nobody seems to realize this is based on a stylized comic.
Mind you, I don't care for the art style, but I'm sill going to watch it.