Draeth Darkstar
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Quote:Let us take up the chant:Originally Posted by JKPhage
I, for one, welcome our new eldritch overlords.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn... -
If multiple items from any poll get made, I wish it would be A and B from this one.
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Make sure to pack a lot of green and purple insps. in your lunchbox, to keep yourself at the iCap and heal up all that iDamage that you'll be autohit with.
Destiny can help you cover your bases when you get it, if you don't need to use it on Ageless to keep your blue bar afloat. -
Quote:So...Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker
Earth Control/Fire Blast
lock 'em down and fry the bastids!
An Earth/Fire/Fire Dominator? -
Quote:This is my problem with these kinds of items too, as well as the Magic Carpet for 600, which is just the Rocket Board reskinned.Originally Posted by Lycantropus
Next on the market, a White Wolf for 600 points. Next month, we'll feature a Grey Wolf for 600 points! Too specific for too much. That's my take on it anyway.
I don't mind paying a few bucks for a from-the-ground new power when the time is invested into making it, but I do mind when you sell the exact-same-power with a different model or animation, or especially just a different texture, at the same price-point as the original, and don't even offer any sort of discount for people who already bought the original.
I have learned my lesson and won't be buying anything like this that's 'kinda good' for my characters until I see one come out that's exactly what I wanted, because I know if they're going to keep rehashing the same thing over and over again eventually they'll hit my desired mark (in the case of all the dog stuff, I'll be waiting for the white wolf transformation power). -
Quote:Emulating a caster from D&D doesn't require a focus on range. D&D casters have tons of touch range spells.Originally Posted by Biospark
I am going to say Controller.
The Blaster and Dominator (unless you stay away from the melee attacks) can feel less range-focused in nature. -
Robotics/Cold Domination Mastermind with Supremacy and the Corr/Defender version of Mace Mastery.
Fire Blast/Shield Scrapper with Assassination and the Defender/Corruptor version of Dark Mastery.
Om nom nom. -
Traps and Shield are both sets that I have an unhealthy relationship with. I have also made several Robotics, Dark Miasma, Fire Blast, and Sonic Attacks characters. Ninjitsu should probably be on this list too as I've never been able to bring myself to make a Stalker that wasn't /Nin.
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It's been... probably over a year since I've seen an Ice Armor tank.
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My two cents:
Earth/Fire/Ice Dominator with Ion Judgment and Storm Elemental Lore pets. It's not only a powerful combination (especially perma-dommed), it gives you great powers for all four of the classic High Fantasy elements (I actually have exactly this build as a Wizard, and it's fantastically fun and fitting). -
Probably my Bot/Force Mastermind, the Crimson Alpha. I made him back when CoV came out and had no idea it would be one of the better Mastermind combos. He's entertaining to play, doesn't require me to think if I feel like playing on +2 or lower, and I have a lot of fiction and head-canon around him (and my alt-filled villain group, which he leads).
Story-wise, he is a grown-up child prodigy, who was badly beaten and mugged growing up in the Rogue Isles (shocking, right?), and built himself a robotic arm during his early teenage years to replace a resulting ruined limb. His interest in robotics went full-blown into AI-driven weaponry as an adult, which he made a fortune developing and selling illegally overseas. He now runs a very successful front as an electronics company, behind the scenes which is essentially an organized crime syndicate.
Second would be my Ice/Storm/Ice Controller, Spirit of the Storm (Formerly Spirit of Frost, lost the name in a server transfer), who dates back to... issue 2 or 3, I think. Ice Control has never been fantastic, but I make it work well enough for me with a very expensive and finely tuned build, though her gameplay does lean more on the secondary than the primary.
She, story-wise, is an adaptation of a D&D character (Wizard/Frost Mage) who died during the campaign she existed in, and was summoned to Paragon City as an elemental spirit by another character from the same game who got here via some accidental dimensional hopping.
Edit: Moar details. Derped out on the reading comprehension. -
Good God, man, you haven't seen Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory? That was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the book it was based off, is a great read, as is most everything else by Roald Dahl.
Edit: It's a bit before your timeframe (1971 for the movie and 1964 for the book), but seriously... write it into your schedule. -
Quote:As someone who both grew up with video games and spent the last 3.5 years studying how to design them, I have to counter your point with another: It's very satisfying to play a video game as an end user and realize after you're done that, hey, not only was that a lot of fun, but you took something away from it too!Originally Posted by SwellGuy
I don't think they understand that people playing games are usually doing so to escape real life. We (again usually) aren't interested in being educated just entertained.
Video games (especially RPGs) are excellent teachers of reading comprehension, vocabulary, math, critical thinking, typing ability, hand-eye coordination, manual dexterity, and other skills. -
It has long been one of my biggest grievances with the IO system that pet based powers don't benefit from set bonuses. The only ways that Pets benefit from IOs at all are by raw enhancement value and the 5 Aura IOs specifically designed to benefit pets and only pets.
This is annoying on a Controller/Dominator, sure. It's just ridiculous that Mastermind pets don't either.
I personally think that pets should at least inherit damage and accuracy set bonuses. Defense would be nice, but I won't be holding my breath. Recharge wouldn't do anything for them, and most pets don't need +Recovery. -
I currently only have one as I'm a little busy... hopefully it's early enough in the timeline (1994) for you to consider, because I am of the humble opinion that everyone should see it.
Pulp Fiction? -
The definition you're referring to is practically obsolete in modern English. Words evolve over time.
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Quote:qft.Originally Posted by eu_damz
getting the christmas pack and finally getting the halos on all my characters.
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Finally, Duke Destruction (Titan/Fire/Body Brute) , the evil, Praetorian counterpart to Captain Collateral (WP/SS/Pyre Tanker), is born, with an appropriately ludicrous weapon to go along with my campy theme.
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Quote:I don't see the problem.Originally Posted by Positron
The simple solution sounds like "let us keep them" but we'd like to avoid the future argument of "why do non-VIPs get to use VIP costumes?"
Premiums that were T9 VIPs keep their Celestial sets right? The precedent is there and it certainly doesn't bother me any.
Edit: Alternatively, what she *points up* said. ><; -
Quote:This is exactly why I was so against the Super Packs from the start. Thank you, Zombie Man, for clearly articulating the nature of the problem with this style of marketing from a consumer perspective.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
I do feel like I should point out for the sake of the discussion that the demonstration is a mathematical model that assumes each pack will contain at least one piece out of 20, as you mentioned once. If that is not true, and we don't know the probability of getting a costume piece in each pack, those dollar values will increase with inverse proportion to the rarity of the costume pieces.
That means that Zombie Man's model predicts a best-case average cost per customer.
If the costume pieces are rare, expect the average cost per customer to increase significantly. If there are more than 20 pieces, expect the cost to increase significantly. If both of those possibilities turn out to be true, the actual experienced cost per customer will be astronomical.
The other thing that needs to be mentioned is that, if there is not a guaranteed chance to get a costume piece in each pack bought, there will be a chance, albeit an increasingly small one per pack bought, that a given user will never get the full costume set. There is no such thing as a sure bet with random chance. Yes, as the number of packs bought by a user approaches infinity, the chance of not getting the last piece they don't have approaches zero, but it never reaches zero.
In a player base with hundreds of thousands of participants, it will take someone thousands of trials to collect every piece of the set if they aren't guaranteed drops. I don't want to be that guy. -
Quote:A guitar case strapped over the shoulder would be AMAZING to go with a guitar weapon customization option.Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex
I love the idea of musical instrument weapons.
Would it be possible to do musical instruments-backpacks too? (Eg guitar strapped to back). I'm not sure how realistic that would look.
Random request: old style red and green 3-D glasses. You could use the standard square-ish glasses model and just recolor the lenses. -
Yeeeeessssss... my campaign for the Guitar-As-A-Weapon appears to be succeeding... bwahahahahaha...
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To iterate and expand upon my top request in a less wall-of-texty way:
Needs more super-rockers. -
Quote:I'm not referring to battle damage. Most of the antagonists in the series have large circular holes in their chests to represent them having no hearts.Originally Posted by Jagged
I had to google that. Never seen it before.
I was thinking more weird magic/jigsaw disease than battle damage.
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For Scrappers, I have an unhealthy fixation on Shield Defense lately. It's just so... delicious.
For Brutes, I'm pretty much all Dark/Fire/Electric secondaries. I think it's pretty obvious at this point that for my non-tank meleers, I prefer secondaries that help me HURTZ STUF MOAR.
Almost all of my (successful) Blasters have been /EM, /ELM, or /MM. I loathe Devices and never could get the feel right for /Ice or /Fire.
I have 3 Bots/(FF, Traps, Time) and 2 /Traps (Bots, Thugs) Masterminds. This could be related more to my casual obsession with Masterminds in general, though.
I also seem to find myself playing Dark Miasma and Storm Summoning fairly frequently on non-MM supports, and Sonic is basically the only blast set that will get me to play a Defender anymore.