Dark Ether

I do that with annoying frequency while watching tv or a vid on the 'net.

Nope, only schadenpants.

Happy Birthday, Posi! Hope you're enjoying it!!

Hey, you took 5 months to post! The least you could do it allow us 4 months to comment on it!


Actually, nice line work. Looking forward to the colors!

These TFs are getting interesting.

Nope. Broadsword!

Yes, I was suitably impressed.

I reconcile this by knowing that this is a buff we're talking about, and not a part of the combat that is one central point to the game. In fact, it was not a part of the game for a significant amount of time, and therefore should not be considered as anything that needs to be balanced, other than internally to the power itself.

However, my point is not to ignore the affects per se - I want to be able to get rid of the prompt. I realize there are a number of people that want to be able to reject all buffs, but that was not really the basis of my disagreeance with this issue.

Furthermore, it's an optional power that not all players have, with an effect (prompt box) that a number of players consider to be unwanted, and undesirable in some instances.

Here was one of them...I think there was another, but I can't recall which thread it may have been in.

Might it be that you have closefx suppressed? I know I do that on some of my characters with powers that obscure things too much for me, and it suppresses everything unless I zoom out far enough.

If it's made non-optional, there would be no need for the prompt either, which would be fine with me. I can, however, see that some might disagree that it should be non-optional since one of the "buffs" does damage, which could be dangerous in the wrong circumstance. Apparently someone with enough stroke thought that the non-optional buff was not the answer either, since here we are again with a prompt popping up in the middle of the screen.

For that reason, I'd rather not have something that's forced on a character if there is another way to be equitable to everyone. That's the crux of the matter to me, and I think the option solves that issue equitably.

And yet, with this buff, any player can, at any time, drop an option box right over the middle of my screen while I'm engaged with a foe, which hampers my view of the combat.



I'm not asking for anything that in any way impacts another persons enjoyment of the game, nor anything that unfairly affects any one character over another. I'm asking for an option to not have a window pop up in the middle of my screen any time another player decides I need some playing cards hurled at me.




One major difference here is that if I ignore the TP prompt for a bit, it goes away. However, I am forced to deal with the MF prompt when it pops up, or try to ignore it and hope my view of anything I think important is not obstructed, or take time during combat to drag it to the side of the screen and out of the way until I take the time to decide if I want the buff or not, or develop some bind which would help but still takes a keystroke to dismiss the window instead of a keystroke to make an attack on a foe.


The fact that this "buff" can have a negative effect during combat (such as a not insignificant loss of hit points) is all the more reason, to me, to make accepting this an option for the players to be able to choose to accept or not in an ongoing basis. This is why I think the option setting would be beneficial, or at least acceptable, to nearly everyone.


On the Dark Ether scale of annoyance, having a window pop up during combat is much closer to 100 for me than your 6/100 for the need to do anything.

Why not just make it an option you can set, like several of us suggested, and make both sides happy?