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Originally Posted by Mephe

Any time invested in MMs from now until the end of COH should be spent making all the pets be player configurable, as if each one was a seperate toon that needs a costume. Once they do that they never need to make a new MM set ever again, and each time they add new costume part or animiation rig MMs would be able to use them on thier pets costumes.

Originally Posted by Captain-Electric

All of the City of Heroes comic makers have my allegiance as a fan. It takes months and months of work and dedication for them to create each comic. People who use their imaginations to make things are my favorite people.

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

I concur with Jibikao on this one.

I for one would like to see Ninjitsu remain stalker exclusive.

I'd much rather see Ice Armor ported to scrappers. Spines/Ice FTW.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

It's not a question of her physical appearance. No, she doesn't look that young. No-one in this game looks particularly young, because our costume editor, for all its strengths, is incredibly abstract when it comes to the finer points of a person's physique.

What this is about is a question of Penny's mannerisms, attitude and behaviour. She sounds and acts like a kid. If the Penelope Yin of Faultline is supposed to be an 18-year-old woman, then she's an incredibly juvenilie one. I get that she's acting cute and friendly and all that, but there are certain mannerisms inherent to children that even young adults don't often keep.

The real tragedy here is that Penny's 14-year-old kid writing is some of the best in the game from a technical standpoint. She sounds spot on as a little kid, and she's probably the only character in the game who manages to act youthful without acting like an idiot.

Originally Posted by McCharraigin

I have quite given up on soloists being given a fair shake....but I still plan on enjoying Dark Astoria with my 50s despite it.

Lisa.

Originally Posted by SuperOz

Bringing back Coyote in any form would be fantastic and the transformation power was one I hadn't considered, even though it's totally obvious. And considering Coyote was originally a player character, you'd then potentially have two player characters in the Phalanx, thereby fulfilling the desire of the Devs to have us surpass the Phalanx.


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Originally Posted by Anti_Proton

Let's be honest, between trying to be a walking Swiss Army Knife. Batman is very lucky. Tactics and skill will only take you so far, but Batman is at thepoint where he is a little too nonchalant about going against being that could kill him with a glance. No I personally like the Punisher's attitude toward super beings, in that they change the entire narrative of the battlefield. The Punisher verses the Sentry involved the Punisher running for his life. This should be every encounter Batman has with any villain that can stand up to Superman.

Originally Posted by Melancton

Nah, one arrow is all it takes with her:



ftp://ftp.coh.com/comics/topcow/comic_11.pdf

Of course, the fact that Manti keeps doing it suggests something seriously wrong with that relationship...

Originally Posted by Tyger42

What exactly would it take for you to consider it a "fair shake"? Being able to advance as fast as trials? For cripes' sake, it IS still an MMO even if you choose to solo. Of course there are going to be better rewards faster from teaming...

...and note this is coming from an avid soloer.

Originally Posted by Captain-Electric

She also makes totally awesome CoH-based comics and the heroes in them are the most interesting heroes in any comic ever made in the last 75 years.

Originally Posted by Kurrent

+1.

Let's not stop with Stun Arrow. How about Cryonic Arrow? EMP Arrow? Surely Manti didn't burn all his inspirations getting through Oranbega; I'd hope he'd be carrying at least one wakie. Maybe a temp power Rez Other, like what comes in the Super Packs? Or how about taking an NPC with one of the many powersets capable of rezzing others? Or maybe even one of the players with a rez power!

Really, I've enjoyed most of the SSA missions until 5 and 6. However, now the forced actions we have to play along with and the utter incompetence of many of the signature heroes are wearing far too thin. This is stretching suspension of belief too far at this point, even for experienced and open-minded players. A snippet of conversation in teamspeak while running the final leg of SSA mission 6 last night, with names redacted for anonymity:

Player1: another ritual?
Player2: yeah
Player1: i'm sure it will go smoothly with no complications whatsoever
Player2: LOL
Player3: lol
Player2: I'm sure
Player1: because we all know these things never have disastrous, unexpected consequences
Player3: right

This is about where I stand now. Looking back at the SSA missions and our new Valentine's day mission arc...

Mission 1--Mysterious villain's magic ritual using big obelisk drains Synapse's powers and nearly kills him, empowers a Lost Boss and nearly empowers Echidna.
Mission 2--no magic ritual. Yay.
Mission 3--Magic ritual set up to "kill" Alexis Duncan-Cole. Not really needed, but it's establishing a pattern.
Mission 4--Magic ritual using the Dirge of Chaos sets up Malaise's attack on Sister Psyche, nearly killing her and allowing him to force himself into her mind.
Mission 5--Magic ritual drains Statesman's powers, allowing Wade to kill him.
Mission 6--Magic ritual to supposedly help Sister Psyche take control of her mind again goes horribly wrong, leading to Manticore killing her and inadvertently sending her powers to Darrin Wade.
Widow Maker arc--Magic ritual goes horribly wrong, nearly killing the player character protagonist.

Well. At this point, even Flambeaux can figure that when someone says, "Hey, let's try out this magic ritual to try and accomplish _______," the proper response is, "NO." So why are these supposedly best-of-the-best NPCs doing something incredibly stupid without preparation, without backup, without assistance, against a master villain who has proven smarter and more cunning than anyone has ever given him credit for... and doing the same dumb things over and over again? Logically speaking, there is no reason, and at this point, "to move the story along" just isn't good enough for me. I'm at the point that as much as I want to see the end of the story and the final outcome, I just can't justify my main character--with nearly eight years real-time experience as a Hero--being either so incredibly stupid or so astonishingly naive as to go along with plans like these.

However, reading Redlynne's post on page 11 explicating the theory that Sister Psyche and possibly Manticore himself are setting up Wade gives me some hope. Maybe, just maybe, we're seeing one of the Heroes start to out-think Darrin Wade, and that would give me some positive feelings for this arc again. I really hope this is the case, and the little bit about the speech balloons really does imply something like this. Red, I hope you're right, because otherwise this arc is going to go down as a case study in Supergroup incompetence.

Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion

Same.


However, I'd be fine with pushing it out another month (edit: or however long it took them to do so) so they can get the sound effects of Staff Fighting worked out along with a real power to replace DS.

Originally Posted by Dr_MechanoEU

It is possible, keep in mind that NPCs have been used to show off a powerset before it was made available to the players in the past.

NPCs are testbeds for these things just to see if they work usually.

Shield set first appeared and was NPC only and a couple of months later it was available to players, the wolves in the Haunted House event were a test of the 4 legged skeleton and now we're getting beast mastery for Masterminds.

I wouldn't be surprised if Yins unique powers were opened up to the playerbase in six months to a years time.

If they're considered 'over the top' then perhaps they might be Incarnate abilities, her PBAoE Psi damage knock up could be a Psi damage judgement for example.

Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker

Wait... who's mary gonna sue?

Originally Posted by Doc_Reverend

Don't really see it as "We're killing off Jack's characters!" so much as doing some much needed house-cleaning. From a storytelling point of view, a sundered Phalanx gives a lot more options than us all being a bunch of B-listers while they are apparently Earth's greatest heroes... who do very little.

Also, I want Penny's powers.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

It's not - otherwise, we wouldn't be sent to hunt down and arrest vigilantes in some of the missions

Originally Posted by SlickRiptide

Fine, then you've shown that Manticore has about the same amount of background as anyone else without showing any pressing need for a "reset". Let's face it, if you hadn't been around for the wedding and no player had told you about it then you'd be hard pressed to even demonstrate in the game that Justin and Shalice are married. You sure can't show that Justin has somehow gone soft and that he needs some hardening up.

It's basically just "What if Manticore had to kill his wife to save the world? What a horrible choice to have to make! Let's do that!" It has nothing to do with expanding Manticore's character. Jack's legacy, such that it is, gets laid to rest and everyone's favorite teen grows up and moves into the vacated spot on the team.

Frankly, I want to know why Manticore is free to participate in chapter six instead of sitting in jail on charges of attempted murder.

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

Unless we CAN bring Psyche back later on when we 'arrest' Wade..?
I honestly wouldn't mind that. I liked Psyche, and she deserved way more screen time than she got.
She also needed a new look from Serge, but that's neither here not there...

Originally Posted by houtex

I learned well how to run around without travel powers in the Hollows. Where everyone else was asking for Taxibots or "TP meh!" was shouted everywhere, I, with my lowly level 5 (or better yet, a 1!) was intentionally running across the deepest parts of the Hollows, for practice. Because it helped in the rest of the game to know how to avoid everything else... especially in Perez, at the time, dang those groups..

It also helped in my 'dexterity' at knowing how and when to jump over obsticles, how to map out where to run to... My fav is going from Cherry Hills to the transmission tower, right through the lowest part and back up again... all without dyin', or even gettin' hit.

I still go there an intentionally and visit. Just to see what's happening... which isn't all that much, true.