Durakken

You are comparing temp powers to permanent powers connected to a thing called a level. If you want to not call it raising the level cap that's fine, delude yourself all you want.


Also, noone is "doom-posting" they read your post and followed the natural course of answering your question that you put forth. That's how people write, the first paragraph is an introduction unless you are listing things...

As far as the story line goes...I would hope it wouldn't have anything to do with the coming storm as that has to do with aliens, unless the aliens are somehow a advanced human culture that traveled back in time and across dimension to establish peace in a "wild world" which could have happened if the Preatorians lives a hundred or so years into their future.

Apparently you didn't read your own post...

However the Incarnate system works it is just a system for leveling beyond 50. It is raising the level cap. The only difference is they are using a different mechanic and linking it directly to story. Both of which has been done in other games for leveling systems. If you want to not call it raising the level the cap, good for you, but that doesn't change the fact of what it is which is levels beyond lvl 50 which by definition is a raise of the level cap.

Firstly, not as sticky as you might think. We already sign over a form of consent to use our intellectual property just from signing in and creating characters. Reimbursement would never need to be involved, but it would be another plus wouldn't it? Could be a way to scout new talent...after all they've already done that with MA.

Secondly, I don't think so, but I would assume in the kit would be a playable environment to test out the powers and a full list of the numbers (not that we don't already have most of them) to let the people creating these sets the ability to try to balance them themselves... Any powers that are extremely unbalanced in submission would be extremely obvious and all of the "acceptable" ones would have to go through balancing anyhow at some point. As long as they are close enough I don't see how this could take up more man hours... yeah more powers means more time spent balancing them across the board when they all need to be, but that happens anyways they would just be another extra number to juggle and I don't see that as a problem... It's more a willingness issue than anything imo...

Thirdly, this is 2 things... the talent out there is not poor. There is a lot and a lot of people like to try even if they aren't good and a lot of people have a false sense of their abilities. There are more greatly talented people out there in obscurity than there are in any industry and that has always been the case. The reason you think it's more so a bunch of schlock is as mentioned above there is a lot that are learning or throwing their hat in to see what they really can do, but there are a ton of people out there that ARE able to do it and to very high if not better standards than professional standards (not a slight on the dev team)...

And the second part... there are people that are paid to do data entry... you know how incredibly painful and mind numbing data entry is? I'd rather take a job as someone who has to sift through animations and numbers possibly seeing something cool and adding it to something i love than I would like to do any sort of data entry (which is btw why data entry is paid well >.>)

Not true. Different dev teams use different tools for different purposes. Depending on the various processes used I know quite a few people that would be willing and able to do this...

Actually I do, and that complexity is part of the natural deterrent I mentioned

yes posting "it aint going to happen" 3 times makes what you say fact.

I know what the devs have said and this isn't what the devs have said are not going to happen...

What the devs have said is not going to happen is the lvl cap being raised past 50, more power pools on top of the primary/secondary,and no full respecing, meaning that you aren't going to be able to get to lvl 50 with one set of powers and then change to another set which means you don't know how to use those powers. I am not suggesting ANY of those.

Pay attention to what was said. You didn't, until you do, don't respond.

and Alts as character growth are asinine and are bad game design overall.


Warkup, you wouldn't have to "kill" your character... kill and rebirth are just easy words. Batman didn't die, he simply got injured. Notice i said there'd be a selction as to what happens, you get injured or whatever...

No it's not. It's about developing the character and story more and doing what people should be doing in an MMO"RP"G. It adds to the dynamic. It adds content. It adds growth without going above lvl 50. It makes sense in terms of comics. There is no reason not to do something like this as it has been done in a number of comics and those are memorable moments in those characters' history.