Desi_Nova

Originally Posted by Schismatrix

The Almighty Tallest knows that the Irken Armada is not so easily stopped.
*thud*
Never mind, i guess they are.

Originally Posted by Father Xmas

And ... dun dun dun ... someone pops up looking for Grant.

And the "Blinded Me with Science" was great. Starting to wonder what the rest of the GD employees are thinking about Fargo's shift in personality.

I'm starting to feel really bad for Zoe since now SARAH, Carter and Zoe are now involved while she gets to stew over Zoe and Zane.

I hope Carter's first line to Stark is "Aren't you dead?".

Originally Posted by _Proj_

So when I go to launch CoH, it puts me into that loading bar that usually doesn't last long, and then pops me to the login screen. Well, in this case it just keeps me on that loading bar for..well, ever it seems. I let it sit there for about 15 minutes, but seeing as how it never took any longer than a 15 seconds before I was confused. I ran the task manager and the program was responding. Tried closing and reopening, same thing happened. Tried verifying the files, and the same result occurs. Little confused as to why this is happening.

Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan

Donna?

Originally Posted by Lord_Arkasas

And thus, a people went to defend themselves.

SO SAY WE ALL.

Originally Posted by Gearsinger

My project is incredibly unlikely. I imagine it couldn't even be done if they wanted to with the current engine. But we're dreaming here, right?

I would call this system Combat Customization. It would be level-locked (say, level 25) and completely optional, like dual builds. The idea is to not overwhelm new players.

At first, it would be a toggle to turn knockback into knockdown if you wanted to.

For instance, let's say I love my energy blaster, but I don't want to go through all the trouble of positioning my knockback to best effect when I'm on a team. So, I go to the trainer, pick my team build and open up the combat customization interface. From there, I can select my knockback powers and turn them into knockdown instead. Now I don't have the extra mitigation afforded by knockback, but I can blast as much as I want without scattering the enemies.

The biggest problem I see with that is that it would turn Hurricane into a ridiculously powerful mitigation tool. In theory, you could jump into a tightly-packed group with Hurricane toggled on and continuously knock them down and apply a huge to-hit debuff.

After the kinks were worked out of that system, I would open it up to include small tweaks to a great deal of powers, allowing you to scarifice something for something else.

This could be used for roleplaying:

I want my stalker to use poisoned blades, so I use combat customization to trade in the defense debuff on some of my dual blade attacks for a small toxic damage-over-time effect.

or for min-maxing:

I want my scrapper to get a bit more damage from his large attacks. Since I use Follow Up (claws) more for the buff than as a damaging attack, I decide to reduce the damage of Follow-Up by a small amount (say, 10%) in exchange for adding a short-duration resistance debuff effect. Now, every time I use Follow Up, the next attack does slightly more damage.

If that worked out well, I would explore options that might actually change the feel of a set. For example, trading in the three small imps in fire control for one larger, tougher fire pet. It could perhaps be an invisible humanoid with the Fire Armor particle effects.

Obviously all of this would be a complete nightmare from a developer perspective, but I think it would be pretty awesome.

Originally Posted by dbuter

It seems an obvious choice, but isn't allowed in game. Is there a numbers reason for this? Or just a holdover from the game beginning?