Flarstux

Do you think they should be higher up on the list, or lower? This question comes from someone who's created and deleted several Doms over the years since the launch of CoV but currently has two in the mid-20s (both blueside!) in no danger of deletion. I like them a lot more now than I did then.

I wonder if the 2nd competitor's forum auto-logs people out spontaneously and without warning or mercy.

You mean like gathering the components needed to craft an enhancement which we then slot in order to boost our powers so that we can keep up with ever more deadly foes?

You mean as opposed to content in which you run to and fro and hit wwwwwww, 1, aaaaaaaaa, 2, ssssssssssss, spacebar, 3, dddddddddddd, 4 over and over until the target is dead?

I give up.

That would be most Tankers. Now, I'm sure someone will come along any minute now and tell us all about how THEIR tanker out-damages every other AT in the game with nothing but a few out-dated TOs and can solo Nosferatu using Brawl. (If anybody could do that it would be Ironblade.)

I've played enough Tankers to know better. I always take most of the attacks available to my Tankers, and I always slot for damage. I know some Tankers can do pretty well, all things considered, but it still takes them a lot more attacks to kill things like EBs than the more damage-oriented ATs.

My electric/ice guy stomped Trapdoor through the floor before that patch and ignored the bifurcations. How would he fare now? Probably not very well. My ice/mace guy - screenshots linked elsewhere in this thread - had a hell of a time with Trapdoor. He'd get in an attack or two, then he'd have to stop to go find and defeat a clone, then run back to Trapdoor, get in an attack or two, then go find and defeat a clone, and he had to do this over and over and over and over and over and over and over.

Peanut gallery: "Get help!"

Sigh. If my Tanker has to go running for help... I might as well play a Defender.

You want to know why I like playing Tankers? Because - and as much as I do agree with Johnny Butane on a lot of things concerning Tankers - until recently *we didn't freakin' need any help*. 'Cept maybe with Nosferatu.

I don't mind a tough fight. I don't mind a challenge. I'll say it again: I do not find this new stuff to be challenging or tough - and it's not that I *can't* do it, it's that, after having done it a few times on various characters, I'd just as soon beat my head against a concrete wall as do it again - because I find it to be obnoxious, annoying, and tedious to the extreme. All those stupid shafts to jump into...

And if this - along with the new TFs - is indeed indicative of what's to come in I20 and beyond...

Well, it certainly won't make me smile and be happy. So there.

Blueside makes me smile and be happy! I joined yet another complete PuG of people I had never met and had fun there. It's an awesome place and I can't wait for more fun blueside stuff!

Let's call it PVX!

Or maize.

Of that I have no doubt.

Just tried the Apex TF. I was going to take my WS, but nope, she didn't have anything equipped in her Alpha slot. So it was either my Widow or my Electric/Ice Tanker. Already had a tanker on the team, so I went with the Widow. We did well until the last mission. Yup. Melee-heavy team, couldn't get in enough damage while simultaneously dodging the blue crap. Inspirations proved useless - one wrong step and splat. My Widow died once while not even in a blue spot. Someone said it was in the air above her, that it spawned there because someone had been flying. So she was killed by a blue spot I couldn't even see. Joy.

Even more fun was stepping out of that door after a trip to the hospital and dying instantly. Especially the second time, after the team had regrouped on the roof and we all went down together - oh, we're gonna show that BM what for this time! - and two of us died as we exited the door. Eventually it became clear we were not going to get through this one. What started as a fun evening with friends getting together to play their favorite game wound up with everyone quitting the TF frustrated and unhappy.

So, yeah. Good one, Posi. Good one. Keep it coming.

There was a Conan comic back in the 70s in which Conan's girlfriend was carried off by a flying man. Conan gave chase and along the way passed through large area of tall grass in which a herd of huge but placid woolly mammoths were grazing.

Eventually he reached the flying man's domicile, which was a tall tower surrounded by a bed of white flowers. Now, as you well know, Conan, being a Cimmerian, could climb just about anything, but as he approached the bed of flowers the flying man stepped out onto his balcony and, to make a point, dropped some other poor fellow into the bed of flowers, which promptly attacked him and drained him of blood. And yes, the flowers were indeed red afterward.

Well. What to do? Our intrepid barbarian gave the matter some thought and sure enough, INSPIRATION struck. He went back to the herd of woolly mammoths and - Crom be praised! - the wind was just right. He lit a fire in the tall grass, and the herd stampeded in the direction of the tower and trampled all the deadly flowers into so much mulch! Up the tower he went and soon enough, his winged foe was no more.

The moral of the story: Conan did not, even once, consider popping a purple. That's not inspiration. That's Speedy!

Come to think of it, though, Conan's solution is not entirely unlike some hapless hero/villain making a Shivan run because his/her powers can't cut the dev-ilish mustard which he/she has been served.

And yes, this has about as much to do with Trapdoor as Texas law... but it was a really great comic book with Barry Smith art!

Now you're finding that new way of THINKING!

I begin to understand why you like Trapdoor so much.

- On Way Cool Earth, he becomes the lead guitarist of the Presley-Cline Band and their early 70s hit single, "Escalator to Valhalla" gets played so frequently on FM radio that a multidimensional entity known as Flalrgu notices and comes to Earth to investigate and accidentally eats the moon which, as you have surely guessed, really messes things up.

It's not challenging. It's obnoxious, annoying, and tedious to the extreme.

That's what I'm afraid of.

Who designed and implemented the PVP in this game? Elvis?

My electric/ice tanker breezed through the Trapdoor portion of the arc and never bothered with the bifurcations. Then came the patch. My next tanker went through this:

The Misadventures of Trapdoor in Time and Space

Hope I did that right. First time using an actual image hosting site. Also, this crappy forum software crapped out when I tried to post this reply and this is the second attempt. Thanks, whoever runs this thing.

Maybe he/she was doing important "SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH".

What about relative dimensions in space?

It could be that the Martians plan on taking control of movie stars via mind control or nanobots or whatever, forcing them to them battle each other in public areas, thus distracting the population while they (the Martians) attempt to achieve their true goal unhindered (that being learning the secret of combining peanut butter and chocolate before the Earthlings complete their peanut butter/chocolate experiments). True, picture personality pickings were slim in that era, so the Martians might first have to invest a little time and energy into building up the motion picture industry, adding a dramatic race against time element to all the covert action. Ooh, this is going to be a GREAT FLICK!

They should make it so that every time one player defeats another in a PVP zone, Trapdoor spawns and starts doing his bifurcating thing. Every time. Imagine a dozen Trapdoors all bifurcating. Twenty. Fifty. A hundred. Over nine thousand! It would be GLORIOUS! Trapdoor's thousands and thousands of fans would all flock to the PVP zones to witness the glorious event, providing more raw gankage material leading to the production of even more Trapdoors. Soon the PVP zones themselves would begin to bifurcate!

Bloody Bay
Bloody Bay 2
Bloody Bay 3
Bloody Bay 4, 5, 6, 7, etc. etc. ad infinitum and with the PVP zones so full and active the devs might, after four or five years of Holmesian data-mining, be motivated to do something semi-constructive with PVP/PVP zones, perhaps beginning the renovation/renaissance with the removal of any and all rewards usable in PVE (including badges that are not directly tied to engaging in PVP with other players) from the PVP zones so as to not tempt anyone not interested in actual PVP into entering them while subsequently making PVP so darn much fun that everyone will want to participate anyway.

Or just add pony rides. Whichever is easiest.