ClawsandEffect

Absolutely ridiculous argument.

Your desire to repeat something has nothing whatsoever to do with your ability to repeat it. I said it was repeatable, nowhere did I mention whether or not you wanted to repeat it, because there is no correlation between the two.

I could say: "I don't want to go to work today, so therefore I am unable to", and it would make just as much sense.

There is nothing physically wrong with me, my vehicle is in perfect working order, and I have nothing I need to do today that is more important than earning a living, therefore my ABILITY to go to work is unaffected. The fact that I don't WANT to has no bearing on it at all.

STOP THAT THOUGHT PROCESS RIGHT THERE!!!

NO, I SAID STOP IT!!!

Now that I've got your attention, and maybe frightened you a little in the process. (if so I didn't mean to, honest)

DO NOT skip Slash, it is the second best single target attack you have available to you, and the only attack of any kind that you can slot the Achille's Heel -Res proc in. Pretty much every single target attack chain I've ever seen a Claws scrapper use included Slash.

The Achille's Heel proc will help out your damage in any long fight versus a single target more than any other single IO you could possibly slot. I

I'll explain why: It reduces your targets damage resistance every time it fires, which means ALL of your attacks for the next ten seconds will do more damage, as opposed to a damage proc, which will deal extra damage only when it fires from the one attack it's slotted in.

Furthermore, if you happen to be on a team at the time, all THEIR attacks against that target will do more damage too. It's a 20% resistance debuff, which is resisted by their damage resistance. (I know, it's kinda contradictory, but that's how it works. Works the same way for you, if you have damage resistance it will resist debuffs) If they have no damage resistance to begin with, it is a flat 20% damage increase. It gets more complicated when you factor in resistances, but it will ALWAYS be a positive damage gain when it fires. (meaning no matter how much resistance they have, it will always do SOMETHING)

The ability to slot that proc is reason enough in my book to take Slash. The fact that it is one of your better attacks is nice as well. Combine the ability to slot the AH proc with the fact that it is one of your better attacks, and the idea of skipping it starts to look kinda foolish.

Sorry if I seem like I'm being hard on you, but I will NEVER agree that skipping Slash is a good idea, in any circumstances.

I second this (except the getting one to 50 part, haven't done that yet) it is indeed fun.

You have to click on the mission you want to set first, and THEN the select task button will appear at the bottom of the window. It's not just sitting there all the time.

Then you would have the problem of missions taking up space that were logged out of 5 years ago. The computer has no way of knowing that the player that had that mission quit playing 4 1/2 years ago. As far as it's aware, that player could log back in any minute to finish their mission. That would be a HUGE amount of storage space that would be delegated to missions that will never be completed. There's no way it could be selective about it and only keep missions that were just logged out of, it would have to either save it forever, or not at all. At least no easy way I am aware of.

It deletes the instance as soon as there is no one ONLINE that is connected to it, meaning it is their active mission at the time. If you set it up so that when no one is actively running the mission it keeps the status of it, you would probably have the side effect of not being able to reset or switch a mission if it's too difficult or has a bug that prevents you from completing it. Since it would save your mission progress, that mission would ALWAYS be considered the active mission.

Say you run across a bug in a mission that prevents you from completing it, and it's an undroppable mission (missions that grant badges can't be dropped). Currently, you can just log out and back in to reset the mission, and go do something else. If it saved your mission at it's current point...you'd be completely screwed and be stuck there until a GM got around to your problem (which can be anywhere from a few minutes to several hours).

The investment < return point mentioned earlier means, basically, that the devs would spend more time and money on this than they would get any return out of. It doesn't make much sense to spend $100 on making something and then sell it for $15, you'd go out of business in a hurry if you did that. The amount of money they would spend on the technology and programming to make this possible (with all of the probable negative side effects associated with it) would FAR outweight the money they would make by having done it. It's not an issue for the overwhelming majority of the playerbase, so the devs are very unlikely to spend the huge some of money it woulod take to make just a few people happy.

And a Thaumator is what exactly? It sounds like a device to regulate a furnace, or monitor the temperature of a turkey.

You think MY names suck. I looked at your signature, and most of the names I saw in there I thought were unoriginal, and well....sucked.

But, they are all names that were not taken when we tried them. And all 3 of the names I mentioned were my first attempt at naming the characters in question. And no matter what we may think of each others names...we are the only person known as that on whatever server they are on.

The problem arises when 600 people ALL want to be Firedude.

I absolutely despise the idea of being Firedude@Claws and Effect, because it's clunky and looks like crap. Also, the name on the screen is what people verbally address you as. Every time I saw that I would think: "Oh yay! Firedude at Claws and Effect is here to save us! Whatever would we do without Firedude at Claws and Effect?!"

There are a limited number of heroes in comics that share a name with another hero. The various members of the Green Lantern Corps comes to mind immediately. The thing there is, it is understood that the Green Lantern Corps is made up of representatives of different worlds across the galaxy, and they are all tied together through that. They aren't a completely random bunch of people that coincidentally all decided to call themselves Green Lantern.

Other characters are iconic because they are the ONLY one there is.

Which of these sounds like it would have more impact if you heard someone say it:

Oh, no! It's Batman!

-or-

Look out! It's one of the Batmen!

Criminals are afraid of Batman because of the mystery surrounding him. If there were guys named Batman on every street corner, there would be nothing special about him, so they wouldn't be any more afriad of him than your average police officer. It would have the effect of "Oh, another Batman? Anybody can be a Batman, no big deal, just shoot him and let's get outta here."

Unique names are what prevent you from being just another guy in tights and a cape. If I were committing a crime and was confronted by Mystic Lord, I might be a little apprehensive about it, wondering what this guy can do. If I were confronted by 9 guys ALL calling themselves Mystic Lord...I'd probably laugh at them and escape while they were arguing about who had the name first.

Copyright is the term used for a body of work, such as a book or a song.

They are similar in that they are both meant to protect intellectual properties, but they differ in what exactly they are applied to.

It is a LOT easier to win a trademark suit than a copyright sut most of the time, as it is more clear cut as to when a trademark has been violated.

They wouldn't have to turn it in....it'd be forcibly removed until they prove that they have earned the right to be called "scrapper".

Kinda missed my point there.

He's not showing you HOW to do it. He's simply making sure that YOU know how to do it competently.

I look at it as like going to get a drivers license. The person riding in the car with you isn't teaching you how to drive, they're just making sure that you know how to do so wthin a certain criteria of safety. You can't just say "Hi, I know how to drive, can I have my license now?" and expect them to just hand you one.

Think about it. This is a city where people are given a license to be a hero. Do you REALLY think they're just going to take your word for it that you know what you're doing? No, they are going to make you pass some kind of test so they have documented proof that you can summon a being from the netherworld without innocent bystanders getting killed/eaten/sucked into the abyss because you did it wrong.

It is safe to assume that all the trainers are qualified to judge whether you are competent enough to use a power you developed on your own without endangering the public. A driving instructor doesn't necessarily have to know how to drive a manual transmission to be able to tell if you can or not, do they?

THAT'S way you go to a trainer to level up. It's not learning how to do stuff, it's to gain clearance to use your new abilities while you're out among the general public.

Your problem, my answer to it.

The trainers aren't teaching you how to throw a fireball, they're teaching you how to use it effectively. Just because you know how to do something doesn't mean you automatically have the knowledge to apply that skill to a situation where people's lives depend on you doing it correctly.

Just because I know how to shoot a gun does NOT make me a soldier. As far as a trainer is concerned, a gun and a fireball are the same: They are both weapons which can kill innocent people if used recklessly. Their job is to make sure you have a proper understanding of tactics before they send you out with a deadly weapon.

It is perfectly logical that any city that has people running around with these kinds of abilities would want to ensure that they know what the hell they're doing with them.

You say training someone to do something you've never done is a stretch.

So, you're saying back Alley Brawler has never FOUGHT before? Now THAT'S a stretch.

This speaks VOLUMES about how bad of an idea this is: Even POWER thinks it's a bad idea.

For those that don't know, Power has a reputation for spewing out bad ideas incessantly. It's gotten to the point that it's almost more endearing than annoying (almost). The fact that HE thinks this is a bad idea says a lot.

Well, I don't think this is the first thread on the subject of Invention Origin enhancements that you've posted in fairly extensively. I could be wrong, but I remember you discussing this before this particular thread. Especially since when I first saw the thread I was expecting to see a reply from you on the first page.

On the cavalier way of learning things. I never studied or read up on IOs, I just looked at them when they dropped for my various characters. Took me all of 15-20 seconds per IO, and over time I gradually learned more or less what they all do. I never said "Ok, today I'm going to learn about IOs"

Actually, it is perfectly repeatable. If I put IOs in a character, and you then put exactly the same enhancements in a character with the same powersets, they will perform identically.

Similarly, if many people all equip exactly the same enhancements on exactly the same powersets, it can be said to have uniformity, as many people attained the exact same performance using the exact same things.

What seems to be tripping you up is the variety of things you can do with Inventions, and the fact that you can achieve the same goal in several different ways.

No, that wasn't my stance.

I was responding more to Scythus on this one than you. I don't have any real problem with your viewpoint.

My point was: there are many ways you could create a character in the Rogue Isles that is technically a hero. Undercover agent trying to take down Arachnos from the inside. Vigilante who thinks heroes are too soft on criminals, using lethal force where another character would not. Android with a programming glitch, or who was reprogrammed by a villain. Someone who is out to take down a particular character who resides in the Rogue Isles.

My issue is with a blanket statement saying "You are in the Rogue Isles, therefore, being anything but a villain doesn't make sense", because it just flat out isn't true. I have experienced the storyline, and I saw places for different character types to fit within it.

Batman has been considered a villain by law enforcement at various points in his career. The Punisher is considered a villain even by other heroes most of the time. Deadpool is whatever he wants to be whenever he wants to be it. There are many character types that the goody two shoes Paragon City hero setting just doesn't fit. If you want to play an anti-hero the Rogue Isles is just a better fit for it.

And as far as the trainer debate goes: Just because you learned how to throw a fireball doesn't mean you know how to effectively use it in combat. I know how to fire a gun, but that doesn't mean I would be an effective member of a special forces team, because I have never been trained to use a gun in a combat situation. The trainers aren't teaching you how to throw a fireball, they're teaching you how to throw a fireball in combat. As far as they're concerned, a fireball is no different than a gun. Their job is to teach you how to use the tools at your disposal in a combat scenario.