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And how small have they kept it, Capt. Conspiracy? Oh, wait, that's right...you have absolutely no idea.
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Hey, Sam refers to himself as humorless, so you're not that far off.
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Quote:It's not an "informal word" it's a wrong word, that under that construction would actually mean the opposite of what you want it to.
Peacemoon doesn't know English:
I'm only repeating myself if you only read the final line of my post. Also, "irregardless" is a word. It may not be a formal word but then, I'm writing on a forum not writing an essay. So is it ok with you if I use informal words here?
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I've been lucky. I know what risk I'm taking and won't complain if I get hit.
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I was getting the basics working first. I never bother aiming it at a certain chat channel, but I knew someone would be along with it.
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Yeah, now you're just complaining because they don't EXACTLY duplicate those heroes in power levels, and that's just silly. Game balance is important, too.
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/bind f1 "e Your life is forfeit!" $$inspexec_name respite
That doesn't look like you're trying to bind an emote, but binding saying something. That would be...
/bind f1 "say Your life is forfeit!$$inspexec_name respite
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Quote:Good choice, although GL's another "can do anything" type that just about anything would fall short.
The_Demon_Hunter offers:
Ill/FF/Primal Troller, with lots of temp powers, would probably be closest -
Quote:Ha! No doubt. Nice comparison.
Father Xmas wonders why the damn door won't close:
Well it's a common mistake that everyone has done at least once after the introduction of IO sets. It's the IO set version of trying to use the exit area to board a train.
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Quote:'kay, but it's pretty obvious that that one is very much intended to be Supes.
Johnny_Butane has his views:
There's room for debate on Tankers, so lets leave it at that. For this thread anyways.
My Batman homage, The Knight-Watchman, has a "utility belt" tray full of temp powers.Quote:Except for all those gadgets he has. Where can we get those wonderful toys?
A bit. Not terribly. They decided to make super-speed a pool power rather than making a whole round of them. Basically Flash runs fast and hits people. He could as easily work as an MA/something with the Speed pool. Heck, most of his "tricks" like vibrating through walls and running up them can't even be done.Quote:So in other words, it's a stretch. Again I say: five different flavours of blades.
To an extent yes, to an extent no. I mean, there's only so many ways to punch people. And the rope is a prop. It's used as a weapon infrequently (it's used more often as a lie detector). Might as well ask where her Invisible Plane is.Quote:Whip? I would also say that while she does haver super strength, her fighting style would be as different from Superman or Batman's as Broadsword is from Katana, be we only get one flavour of SS, animations aside.
All that? Yeah, way too much.Quote:Yeah, Telekinesis would be so OP. A pink Repel would be so broken on a Tank. /sarcasm
Point. He's also a low level telepath and telekinetic depending on who's writing him.Quote:Pets ala Spirit Sharks, etc. We'll get back to this after red side Tanker epics are announced.
Agreed, but then the idea wasn't to be able to exactly duplicate existing heroes out there, but to make your own. "kind-of-not-really" is the point (and keeps lawyer happyQuote:There's a lot more 'kind-of-not-really's when you look at the Avengers, and the most popular super heroes in general. ).
Eh, a handful, then you start wandering into the really obscure or just stuff that can't really be done. I see your point on the bladed weapons, although I don't agree with the degree.Quote:Far too many that needed to be addressed before we required more sword and gun variations.
Yes, lets. Manga stuff is as popular if not more popular around the world, and even in the States. It can't be about just what you want.Quote:Let's not.
I think we're at the point where I think your definition of super-hero is way too narrow and you think mine is way too broad.Quote:There are dozens of Eastern MMOs that are made to cover that ground, just as there are HUNDREDS of fantasy MMOs with all kinds of swords. Just because someone likes kaiju and Lord of the Rings, and you can find some overlap between them and the JLA and other super hero comics, doesn't mean a game about comic book super heroes needs to feature lots of elements from those other genres extensively.
IMHO, the fact that the super-hero genre is so diverse and "grab bag" is a strength, not a weakness. YMMV.Quote:If the devs want to make a grab bag game of whatever they genres they feel like, they shouldn't be touting CoH as a comic book super hero MMO and drawing comparasons to the Superfreinds. -
Y'know, I had several friends tell me anecdotal evidence is perfectly acceptable.
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Because it only goes in powers with Hold. You must not have any.
EDIT: Terminal Velocity lives up to his name.
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Eh, I'm mostly looking at their backs and don't see the machine anyway.
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Psychic Blast/Mental Manipulation blaster with the Medicine Pool, maybe?
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There's another current thread about the info terminals somewhere around here, but I guess it stopped a year or so ago. I can't remember, but they're basically broken and nothing's ever been done with them.
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True. It could mean "something that genetically deviates from its parents without breeding true" as well.
Hmmm...JLA Big Seven?
Supes is obviously an Inv/SS tank.
Bats is an MA/SR scrapper.
Flash is...doable. My Impulse homage is a DM/WP scrapper with the Speed Pool (including the hated Whirlwind). Sands of Mu replicates speed for me, but I do have to do a whole bunch of rationalizing for many of the powers.
Wonder Woman? I would think probably think either Inv/SS tank or MA/Inv scrapper, depending on how you look at her.
Martian Manhunter? Ugh, J'onn's a power proliferation on his own. Strength, Invulnerability, Telepathy, Telekinesis, Shape-shifting (both disguise and stretching)...J'onn's a tankmage of the highest quality. I don't think it would be good if we could do him.
Aquaman's some kind of SS tank, but the water breathing has to be ignored.
Green Lantern, I'd have to totally fail on. Some kind of FF defender, sort of, kind of but not really.
So, yeah, three no-shows, one of which probably shouldn't be and one that's almost there.
Thing is, you're still stuck on "American Super-heroes" and even there, plenty of guns and swords (heck, when dual pistols came out, my first thought was The Shadow and he's a proto-super-hero like all the pulp guys). It's not like NFL Superpro where there's maybe one or two examples, they're all over the place.
And when we turn to manga, equally viable and should be represented even if it's not my gig, it expands even more. -
BTW, isn't one of the new costume sets we haven't seen called Sport (I have no idea where I saw that)?
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Well copying directly is against the rules.
And the parts aren't there...especially back in I8 when I made Super-Star there. I only "homage" anyway. -
Quote:Ah, I see your point now. I fail to see how it's anything at all relevant to what's going on, which is probably why I didn't get it in the first place. Who's shoving inappropriate things into a genre that encompasses almost anything?
Johnny_Butane goes further afield:
Yes, you can ignore them and no, you don't have to find a balance.
If you're working on Red Dead Redemption Online and a bunch of players show up demanding robots (because sci fi is more popular than Westerns nowadays), you don't freaking give them robots no matter how many of them ask. And you don't 'find a balance' by shoving in steampunk mechanical spiders either.
And then you don't put out a ViDoc saying how much you loved spaghetti westerns growing up and say that your mechanical spider-filled MMO is a tribute to them.
Yeeeeeeah, now you're just being a conspiracy theorist again.Quote:Except when they pick brown-nosers who are adept at pushing their own desires and agendas and keeping it hidden. Everyone has an agenda they're pushing, other people are at least upfront about it and don't suck up to the devs to get what they want.
The game, and the genre, is very flexible.Quote:You won't find it so funny when it becomes prophetic. Unless of course you really like NASCAR, in which case you wont mind at all. Personally, I'm hoping they add a NFL-themed power set. Because I really loved the Superpro comic from Marvel, not because I secretly want to be playing a Madden MMO instead. The fact there was a football comic book breifly once proves that it belongs in a comic super hero MMO, you see.
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Quote:To be honest, I was kind of agreeing with you. Sometimes it's tough for me to word those little quips well on the fly.
Master-Blade thinks this is easy? :
I like your cute little phrases like this, but I wasn't necessarily saying it was minor, just that it isn't as huge a problem as it used to be now that we don't have the graphic at our feet anymore.
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I'd say only 7 posts counts you as "new" if you want, no matter what your start date is.
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Oh, I have no idea. I was just making the obvious wise-crack.
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Quote:Speaking only for myself, I mentioned above that I had problems with the old WW interface, but I didn't have many problems in battle. A little jerky sometimes, but it didn't boot me out of the game. As noted above, this has gotten a lot better with the new interface. Someone firing off powers while I'm opening the interface now only makes my machine freeze for a couple of seconds. Still a little annoying, but not "critical" like it was before. It's a lag zone with its own personality.
Emberly wonders about the machines:
No, I actually don't leave them running. I both do and do not understand the whole "powers off at the market" thing. Yeah, it's pointless to be running it, but if your computer can't handle someone running a stealth toggle at the market, how can you possibly handle, y'know, a fight in an actual mission?
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Hey, if they can't keep ahead of the devs, they don't deserve their exploit rewards.
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Heh, I wasn't sure if "swamp donkey" was a moose nickname or another animal, so I looked it up (it's moose, just for the peanut gallery). Came upon some interesting definitions at Urban Dictionary.