Decorum

Other than it being a standard "building block" building at a similar angle to the old Cryptic logo, not really. Am I missing something?

As far as I know, they still get them, but the sender gets told they're on hide or not online. I have friends I have /tell conversations with all the time while they're on hide.

A neighboring county to me is famous for its pig farms. You could go there next time you're missing that odor.

Because you dared to actually make friends with people and be part of a community instead of consistently depending on teaming with random strangers?

I'm iffy on Calvin Scott, myself. I think the major call for it is merely because of its absence (that's not to say the same doesn't apply to CoP). I never got to play it, but I can imagine it's probably even moldier and dustier than the signature series TFs. The rose-colored glasses and "never got to play it" build-up would likely lead to expectations not being met.

Yes. We know.

Jack Emmert = Statesman, the "creator" of both CoH and Champions.

This is aimed at me, for posting in this thread when I knew better.

You are aware that Emmert originally wanted a Nemesis system here, too, and typically didn't find a way to make it work, aren't you?

Yes, but that only matters if you're going out of your way to be as efficient as possible with your money. You'll still get a boatload of inf in a game where inf isn't at all hard to come by.

I think it's a matter of determining the playstyle of the team. There's a rather large faction in the game that thinks anything not done at the fastest speed possible is a waste of their time. There's a smaller, but still large faction that doesn't care how fast you go and even some that prefer slower to faster. It's only a personal observation, but the second group seems to be a lot better at communicating and adapting with each other while the first group seems to just assume that their playstyle is everyone's (always exceptions, of course). When you mix the two types together, it takes a lot of communication to get everyone on the same page, and often it just turns out they shouldn't be playing with each other.

So, as others have mentioned, it's pretty much the team leader's job to say "stick together" or "hurry hurry hurry" and up to the players do decide if they want to be on that team under those conditions (or, if they won't, and still stay on the team, risk getting kicked). I've quit a lot of teams after one mission (politely, of course) just because the rushrushrush method is quite often less fun for me.

I'd say there are a lot of players like you, Frosty, but there's also a lot of us for whom what character we're playing is as important as what we're doing. It's a slightly different experience for me dependent on the character doing anything in this game, and not strictly because of powersets. There's lots of both of "us" in the game. One of the things I like about the game...the population is so diverse in their playstyles because they can be.

We want you to be able to. We really do.

I'm sure that's no consolation, though.

I assumed it was supposed to come off "sneakily creeping along", but, yeah, it definitely doesn't.

While true, this just had me cracking up...

I've seen David mention that he's looking into leaving legacy parts whenever possible (wildly paraphrased) when I asked him about a possible deshiny version of Metallic. So the mindset's there.

**raises eyebrow**

[sarcasm]Nice ending to the article, too.[/sarcasm]

"And here's a video to remind you that we're talking about geeks so they're more to be laughed at."

Sheesh. I know this isn't a big issue to the world at large, but that was a touch over the top.

Oooo, nice connection!