Fleeting Whisper

3G of hard drive space isn't that much. I can go out and buy a 1T hard drive for under $100 (that's 1024G)

The issue isn't the amount of space it takes up, but the amount of your RAM and CPU it uses. According to the system requirements, you should expect 1G RAM (2G is basic nowadays, with 4G being the upper limit for 32-bit operating systems, pushing higher for 64-bit), and 2GHz processor (my 5 year old laptop has 2GHz each on 2 cores).

That's the client. The server requirements to manage hundreds or thousands of users would be large, of course. However, I doubt the needs for a small number of players (single or double digits) would be anywhere near the needs for the current servers.

The gray box is the exact same size for everyone.

pssst... Champions is a PnP game, and has been for years

Like, oh... the Quaterfield TF? >,<

The same damn mission 4 times, in the Shard, no less. Really? Really?!

At least it's not something like Scheme. Scheme doesn't even have = for equality. You're forced to use an explicit function to test for equality, I mean, what's that?! And if you want to set a value to a variable, do you get to use =? NO! You get to use the "set!" function. Not the "set" function, the "set!" function.

Now, Mathematica... that's got some beauts. = or Set[] for setting a value to a variable, == or Equal[] for testing equality, and ===, ≡, or Congruent[] to test for identicalness. Also, symbolic calculations have been wondrously helpful in my calculus and linear algebra classes over the years.

I wonder if Ascendant had to sign anything when they put him in the civilian chatter or the CoH comic

It does

Yeah, I love AVs that go untouchable when the temp power that's supposed to counteract it is broken >.>

You're right, it's an abbreviation. If it were an acronym, we'd be saying something silly like "Vanguard Dee-Poh" instead of "Vanguard Dee-Pee-Oh"

Are you sure that's Shield Charge you're seeing? Shield Charge has self teleport, just like Lightning Rod.

Three missions in the tunnels, to be specific. One after the other. Each takes minutes to complete, too =/

Hell, I've been neg repped for being a member of the Forum Cartel

And Iron Man fixation?

Meg Mason: When you first talk to her, she says: "all my assignments are on a strict deadline."

Marcus Valerius doesn't have similar text, but both Marcus Valerius and Meg Mason are essentially newspaper/radio mission givers for a zone which doesn't have newspaper/radios available.

Borea in the RWZ is the same way, and the first mission you get from her, she tells you: "Oh, and rule number 4 - we work on a tight schedule, so everything but the hunting tasks is going to be timed."

Flash Arrow doesn't notify mobs, but it does come with a debuff. If Flash Arrow is the only debuff applied and they see you (you walk too close, they have +per, whatever), they'll still attack, and since you're the only one to have affected them, they'll attack you.

Of course, it's difficult to get killed on a MM in general PvE, anway.

OP, translated & condensed:

Neither of these are true (well, the first is sort of true).

If you somehow had 9000% resistance as a Tanker (cap: 90%), and get hit with a 9000% resistance debuff, you would resist 90% of the debuff (since the game treats you as having 90%, despite having 9000%), meaning the -9000% resistance is cut down to -900% (9000 * 0.1). Your total resistance would then be 9000 - 900 = 8100%, which is still above 90%, so still capped at 90% (which is why your statement was partially true; the character would remain at 90% effective resistance)

A better example would be having exactly 90% res, vs. having 100% res, and getting hit by a -100% debuff. The character with 90% would reduce he debuff to -10%, and end up at 80% total. The character with 100% would also reduce the debuff to -10% since the game still treats them as having 90%, but 100 - 10 = 90, so they would still be at 90%.

In your second example, 1000% defense hit by a 300% debuff is wrong in two ways. First, 1000 - 300 = 700, still far above the 45% softcap (also above the 175-225.05% hard cap depending on AT). Second, defense can go negative, so even if you were right about how the debuff worked, the character would be at -100% defense (the minimum), not 0%.

They took field trips to Recluse's Victory

Well, an apparently new player wouldn't have access to VEATs nor HEATs, now would they

This is a good question to answer. If it's in Central/South America, I believe there is an official 3rd party online retailer for those regions. I know there are a couple forumites from that region who could fill in more details.