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Quote:I wouldn't be ticked. I'd realize I hadn't been on in over 3 years.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
And were you to come back after an extended absence to find your character names generic'ed, you'd be ticked.
What you're trying to argue is an arbitrary number that "sounds fair" to you. You can't actually justify the number you pick.
Because it's arbitrary, I can counter-argue 5 minutes or 50 years. But I'm not going to. I'm just going to give a blanket "no" to it. Because it's not Paragon's fault, or the fault of the people who got your "chosen name" first that you're suffering a crisis of creativity and are ticked that you can't get XxWolverinexX
And I say again. No. Because it's completely arbitrary. And it doesn't address the real problem (lack of creativity and flexibility). Indeed, as flexible as the character creation is, its worst failures are at Layer 8.
It's already been stated that Paragon has NO plans to run a name-clearing script on their names database again. Eight years dormant or 8 minutes dormant, every account that's not banned represents a potential returned customer for Paragon. They're NOT going to waste time and effort on it because little Johnny can't create a toon called Batdude because LapsedGuy 2005 did it way the heck back..
I picked a number based purely on "sounds reasonable" I'd be okay with it if they marked them as available after 1 year of inactivity. -
Quote:Well Im for the general increase in Epics. But I don't think there's any problem with there not being a defense shield. But if Ice Epic was made, Im sure it would be a S/L Defense shield.Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
Which has never been my point.. my point was something needs to be made available that is a defense shield hero side..to make things equal
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Quote:Im still unsigned about patrons being made available for heroes though.Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
Which is what I said before your first reply to me
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Quote:Spend 1 day as a villain...Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
The pain is this:
All my friends play hero side
My SG is hero side
I have no interest in redside
For two days I cannot team with friends because I am a villain.
For Four days I cannot access my base because I am seen as a villain
20 missions of trying to find strangers to play with on a side which I already hate playing on.
So I consider it boring basically....and I do not sign into the game to be bored and resentful of an unequal system.
(FYI this has nothing to do with RP...I do not RP at all - I just truly have no interest in redside content.)
Get up to Vigilante 10 tips done.
Wait a day.
Do the morality to go villain. Run arc and 5 tips.
Next day run 5 tips and morality for rogue alignment.
During that one day of time team with your friends in co-op zones!
Three days out of your base.
Can't bother to find a team redside? Alt to a character that's blueside. You just sadi you had more than one character. -
Quote:Corrs that start out blueside have the same issue. There really isnt HERO/VILLAIN ATs anymore. What? You think most corrs dont start out blueside anymore?Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
Uhmm you do see where I said HERO right???
I do not play Villain side - EXCEPT to get the PPP - plain and simple. I am actually working on a TA Defender atm...and taking it redside. I NEVER said it was hard....
It is inconvenient since the DEFENDER is the only HERO AT which can have APP/PPP & has NO choice of a Def shield UNLESS they go Redside.
If you are going to reply to me...please make sure you are replying to the whole gist of what I said and do not nitpick the parts that suit your argument...or put words in my mouth.
Now.. reread what I said.... ahhh there you go: HERO ..Defender... Defense shield..
What is the justification for denying defenders a Defense shield in the APP like trollers? Irregardless of alignment changes..get ready for this... Defenders are the ONLY AT which cannot get a Defense shield from their "natural" alignment. (discounting HEATS since they get none whatsoever).
I could give a rat's behind about switching to redside doing the patron arc..switching back.. I do it A LOT. I just think it's kind of crappy I have to since there is nothing offered in the way of defense shield for defenders hero side.
I didn't have to do this with my Hero Dom...because it already has a choice hero side: Ice.
I consider switching..tedious..not hard. Why?? I LOATHE redside. LOATHE. I never had a villain toon (outside of CoV beta) until Praetoria was introduced. Yet if I want that frickin Defense shield on a defender (Which I play a lot of)....here I go redside.. YAY!
I am not asking for anything to be handed out...I am asking for equality in shield sets.
Oh well hey, Im all for giving Defenders a Cold Epic, and Corrs too! I think we need more elemental epics to match up with the elemental sets!
That would mean giving them the S/L Defense shield, and then you wouldnt have to go redside for it
So yes, /signed for Cold Epic for Defenders/Corrs!
Still unsigned for making it so patron epics can be handed out blueside. They're a themetic option, don't like the theme, don't take it.
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Quote:So you prefere the real Michael Bay movies? That you know, don't bomb?Originally Posted by Lothic
When you consider that there are other big blockbusters coming up in the next few weeks this opening weekend for Battleship was likely going to be its only serious chance in the theaters. Hopefully this'll put an end to the "Michel Bay-esque" type movie for the foreseeable future - we can only hope...
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I would like it fixed, yes!
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Quote:You either missed the point or didnt read the whole discussion. She said the minimum slider wasn't realistic in that women weren't normally that endowed.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
So it's realistic to have the average as the absolute minimum? That sounds odd to me. If the waist slider started at the American average and only went up from there we'd have City of Waddlers and Walruses or maybe City of the Blob. (The latter possibly getting Marvel's boxers in a bunch again.)
Totally agreed, but it was an interesting digression even if it is admittedly mostly off topic, as was the digression into base woes.
On the current topic/focus i don't see the female armored top versions as being especially bad or odd looking. To me they mostly look like what i would expect heavy armor to look like on a female.
As far as art assets go the monstrous/digitigrade legs could really use some love. As in adding some tech/robotic feet that are adapted from any of the sets that came out since the category was added to the game. Basically anything that doesn't look like the current horribly clunky robotic feet. A monstrous version of the Clockwork or Cyborg legs would also be good. i was so hoping the Mecha set would have something for the digitigrades, but it was not to be.
Now. It still gets brought up, what is the minimum slider, B or C? If you think it's C and the slider goes up from there, that's still 1) realistic as over half (at least in America) the female population is C or bigger.
Now, if you say the minimum is B (and in discussing this slider, I find many think the minimum is a large B) then really what the slider doesn't show is A and less.
So either way, it's REALISTIC.
But you also missed the part where I said, I want the option to go smaller. So I was never against the idea. But using the term realistic to try to get something, when it is realistic were it's at, is meh in use.
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Quote:But, they're not a pain. How iexactly are people seeing this as a pain? Go out grab tips like you would of done before, run them. I never found it any harder to get redside tips than blueside tips.Originally Posted by Kirsten
It's really more like 40% to 60%.
I mean, it is a real pain in the butt to spend 4 days getting a group of pools when villains can get them in less than an hour.
It's not prohibitively annoying, but it's still a pain in the neck. -
Quote:Actually. You're wrong.Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
You mean how a dom can now have an ice shield (Def) instead of having to do the arcs..automatically?
Who cares if it is about min/maxing...I PREFER Defense over resistance on my squishy toons. I prefer to make my toon focus on defense...you act like min/maxing is a bad thing...we all min/max to a degree just by pure power selection. The FACT is Defenders are the only Hero AT (aside from HEATS who are not privy to APP or PPP) who do not have a choice of a defense shield...without spending AT LEAST 4 days going redside and coming back. I don't even care if they just port Ice to Defenders...I just want a defense shield.
Defenders are privy to a PPP with S/L Defense with a choice not to spend four days switching alignments. Also, you're wrong in that only Defenders are in that boat you think they're in.
Corruptors have the same APPs and PPPs.
Also, Defenders can always start redside.
In fact, unless you have some ancient Defender you still havent taken redside since it became an option, all your defenders have that option. Start redside, never have to switch alignment, and oh hey, look Villain Merits!
Yes you spend 4 days going over. What are you doing in that time? Gaining xp! Just like you would of been doing before. Or granding tips, like you would have been doing before o reaffirm your alignment.
As someone who has gone full circle multiple times, not once did I think "this is hard."
As for min/maxing, I think nothing is wrong with min/maxing a build, however, I don't think changes should be put into place just so you can do it easier. -
Quote:I will say in spornse:Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
I have this to say.
NO
Actually, howsabout:
HELL *BLEEP!* NO!
"All the good names" are NOT taken. You're just griping because low-hanging fruit has already been picked and you're demanding a share of the pickings, even though you came in MUCH later.
No. Try being more original.
PERIOD.
HELL *BLEEP!* YEAH!
If people can't bother to log into the game in a 3+ years, then mark the names as available. I've sent out tells consistently over the years to a few of those names, and I've yet to get a response.
So that means they're still away after 3 years or they're ignoring me. And generally I'd get back some sort of response.
So if I can /getglobalname /getlocalname /tell /friend these people consistently for 3 years and never get a response or see them online, free up the name, someone else can use them. -
Go the FA/SS/Soul Route. Hit the damage cap, then surpass it with Fiery Embrace! IO for Defense, go go go!
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Truthfully, Id be more impressed if you didnt require Incarnate abilities.
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Quote:I could swear I said something to the effect of "the majority"Originally Posted by Tenzhi
It doesn't matter if there's only just one, it still invalidates the statement that people are only asking for it to min/max.
Regardless of how "big" it may or not not be viewed as, it is still objectively uneven. It's disingenuous to acknowledge the *fact* that redsiders don't have to go through a process that bluesiders do have to go through to get PPPs and claim otherwise.
Okay, I'll give it to you. It's uneven. Yup. As uneven as 49% versus 51% can be!
It's not nearly a uneven as you make it out to be. -
I don't know...with how the devs seem to think all new sets must have a gimmick, maybe it's time for things like Dual Pistols for Melee ATs...the gimmick? THEY GET RANGE!
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Quote:How many have been saying "I need access to the patrons for sharks?" Really? Has it been THAT may. Looking at builds posted and in game, I see very few who go "Oh! Yes! Went this pool just for the Sharks."Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Are the shark attacks and tornado really all that powerful? I'm afraid I wasn't aware.
In any case, if it *is* a min/max option and there's no equivalent APP option then what we really keep coming back to is villains and heroes having unequal access to it.
Im not saying it doesnt happen, hell, I did it for my Corr, and with Water Blast coming, maaaaybe people will want it for concept (doubt full imo as people will also want the S/L Defense shield).
Also, wasn't Sharks good in PvP?
And I say the access is equal. The fact that redsiders dont have to go through tips to get to it and then back, is not this big uneven thing anyone makes it out to be. -
Quote:Spend em before you switch, or go vigilante and collect reward merits untill you go full hero.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
And you're maintaining your alignment merits, too, right? You don't lose those when you switch or anything.
You've lost nothing. -
The problem I see with this set is you're giving them free what Dual Pistols and Staff (sans Stalkers version) has to pick up as a power choice.
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Quote:Been wanting the same thing! Sleek tights gives off a less "painted on" feeling than the regular tights. To bad it just doesn't have a bikini bottom that matches up with it :/Originally Posted by Lothic
The one little desire I've had for roughly 8 years now is to have a version of the female "Bikini 2" item textured in the "shiny" style.
I've always wanted to make a unitard outfit with the existing "tights shiny" top matching with a shiny version of the "Bikini 2" bottoms.
Surely something like that would be trivial for the great Dink to accomplish. -
Quote:Since all you're doing is content, and you can set it up to get changed over in alignment before lvl 35, do the arc, unlock it, and then go back to blueside.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
If you have to spend several days to get there (hero to villain,) run the arc, and do several days to get back, it is not "equal access."
Personal preference - heroic versions and associated arcs.
It is equal. It is easy. You haven't lost anything as you're getting xp and drops just as you were with blueside content. -
Quote:Notice how it keeps coming back to that bolded statement?Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast
I loathe having to go redside on my corrs/defenders just to get a frickin defense shield. I always thought the patron pools were a stupid idea being tied behind missions and hero ones were just there for you...and now there for everyone regardless of alignment.
It's a suggetion being asked for, so people can min/max their options without having to take some time to do some tip missions. -
Quote:The story behind the patron pools is still being granted abilities through the patrons! Doesn't matter if shooting red lightning isn't villain specific.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Don't like eating cake? That's OK, eat it anyway and pretend it's very sweet bread. Yeah, that doesn't work. Not for people who actually care about what it is that their characters are engaged in doing.
No, it's not. There's nothing Arachnos-specific about getting a red ball lightning like what I'd get if I tinted my Electric Blast red. And even if you could make that argument, it's a mistake to tie powers this closely to specific in-game storylines for non-Epic ATs.
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Really, when a person asks for an alternate means of obtaining something, telling that person to just go do the current means of obtaining it is the Internet equivalent of dead air. It's saying nothing and accomplishing nothing because it's sidestepping the point. The point here is finding a way to give heroes access to Patron pool powers without turning into villains. Saying that this can be done while turning into villains is simply dead air.
So going with the keep to the theme of hero route, you're still getting PATRON Powers. If you can go with the idea of "it's not being granted Mu Powers by Sciricco" then there's no reason one can't go with the idea of "not really turning villain".
Look at the name again...PATRON. You're taking on a villain patron to gain access to those powers (in game story wise anyways, obviously people come up with other explanations to the patron power pools).
And I was just saying /unsigned and giving a reason. My reason isn't any less valid than any other.
Especially when this suggestion pops up more so people can get the yummy min/max power their wanting more than anything else, and that's almost usually why this suggestion gets brought up, as saying I want Soul Mastery for concept, when all Soul Mastery is, is Dark Mastery. -
Quote:No time is lost, you're gaining xp the whole time. Effort is the same as any other mission. Homogeneity of alignment again falls back into "If you're a hero why are you taking powers from villains?"Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Time, effort, and homogeneity of alignment.
Either make villains have to go blueside for APPs or give the Patron powers to heroes without all the hullabaloo, I say. I'll even take the compromise of paying a small point price to universally unlock them, a la capes and auras.
The problem I see with this suggestion is it always basically comes around to "I want a different +Defense shield (one that doesn't cover my costume), I want Shadowmeld, or I want Gloom."
And if blueside patron powers did come about, why would they look like the patron powers? If the patron powers universally sucked (you know, like Weapon Mastery is regarded as), people wouldn't be asking to have Patron Powers made easier to get, cuz they wouldn't care to go after them in the first place. -
Quote:Saw it. Had fun! Avengers is the better movie, but still enjoyed it. Fun visuals. And most of the movie does indeed take place at sea. There's little on the ground action (but there is a bit, but it doesn't deal with ground forces really).Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Again according to the Wiki article about the movie, there is a part where one alien ship is hiding out of visual range and do to plot devices both radar and sonar is ineffective so there is something like blind firing in the movie.
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Quote:Ummm...Blaster get Frozen Armor, so only Corrs/Defenders lack this option you seek.Originally Posted by BrainBrillo
Issue is, despite this distinct mechanical advantage to being redside, blueside is still vastly more popular. Combined with Paragon turning this into a revenue stream with side-changing tokens, there is essentially a zero percent chance of them simply making patron powers available without a switch.
Heroic patron powers that would give villains a reason to switch...maybe, a nonzero chance of that. But I would purchase a hat solely for culinary purposes if Corruptors/Defenders/Blasters heroside somehow acquire an epic power pool that provides defense - Paragon has provided an answer to this problem, and it costs 1600 points round trip.
And that reasoning isn't worried about concept or theme (I want Defense Shield!) so just go redside and get it.