Fleeting Whisper

We had a Nemesis Automaton SG for a while, where all of the characters were an existing NPC, with Nemesis Automaton bios and a question mark at the end of the name.

"War Witch?" did get genericed, but as far as I know "Woodsman?" never got touched, nor "Aurora Borealis?", "Back Alley Brawler?", "DJ Zero?", "Fusionette?", "Manticore?", "Mynx?", "Sister Psyche?", "Spark Blade?", "Valkyrie?" and more. I've still got "Luminary?" in my character roster. Hey, our version of Statesman had to add a space before his question mark, because "Statesman?" was already taken.

Do you actually know the forum history as to why it's in this section?

The law of averages means the average should happen, not the extreme

DEATH PONY!

GL with that.

Your view is somewhat skewed. A game's forum is filled with the players who are most emotionally invested in the game -- positively or negatively, though the people who are negatively invested tend to be the people who quit soon (or, depending on their demeanor, are banned).

If you go by the Bartle Test, there are four parts of an MMO gamer's psychology (though this is by far not limited to MMOs, Richard Bartle designed the test for multiplayer online games): Achiever, Explorer, Socializer, and Killer.

The Explorer enjoys finding new things, whether they are places to things to do. The Socializer enjoys... well... socializing. Reading the game lore, etc. Killers enjoy PvP, or more specifically, competition with other players. In a game containing items to make our avatar better, this includes obtaining those items, so that your avatar can be better than theirs. This overlaps with the Achievers, who want to get the best version of everything they can: best items, highest level, most badges, etc.

The Killers and Achievers in all of us will generate the most discussion on the forum that is related to the actual game mechanics (rather than discussion about story or setting). And both of these psychologies want to have the best available. Best of what? Everything. Some players aren't much of the Achiever or Killer mentality, but many others are. And it's those people who are the plurality or majority of posters, so that's what you so often see.

You don't get upset about not getting a trophy, because you didn't enter a tournament. I don't get upset that' it's hard to get PvP Arena badges, because I don't use the Arena.

However, few people would enjoy going bowling and scoring a 16 while their opponent scores a perfect 300. Unlike CoH, bowling is inherently a competition (we return to the Killer gamer psychology: people like to win, or at least put up a good fight).

You're comparing apples to bread. City of Heroes and bowling are both games. As I examined above (and others explained), CoH and bowling aren't so different. Games are interactive, and/or you can win or lose. Solitaire is all by yourself, but many types of Solitaire are easy to lose.

Television and movies are not interactive activities; they are pure entertainment. Playing catch, at best, is practice for a game rather than the game itself. Depending on the situation, catch might be a means to help train a child's hand-eye coordination, or maybe it's simply an excuse to strengthen the social bonds between two people.Hanging out with your friends is not a form of entertainment, it's a form of socialization.

Your argument conflates entertainment derived from interactive activity (games) with inactive entertainment (television, movies, plays*) and socialization. They are not the same thing.




* Some plays have interaction between the actors and the audience, but unless they're pulling you into a part of the play, it's still essentially inactive entertainment. When you do get pulled in, it's closer to the feeling you get as if you were the original performer. (Or, maybe you just get embarrassed.)

It does need a target. Not only that, but it needs a target in range at the 10-second interval. The 10-second interval keeps counting continuously, but if you don't have a target in range at the right time, it still won't proc, and the next cycle will start. So, you could have 19.99 seconds between attempts at the proc.

The fact that Repel will push its targets out of range doesn't help, either.

And for ***** and giggles, you can replace one of the endmods with Performance Shifter: Endmod. It won't change the performance of the power, and you'll get a slight increase in speed from PS.

While certainly good advice, it's not a very large absolute difference. (Remember, it's a percentage of the power's base rating.) For a high-level character, it's not so hard to make the money to get the lv45 IOs, and so it's a worthwhile upgrade to your character. But it won't move you from dying each spawn to an unkillable god-character.

Aegis Status Resistance will reduce the duration of a 6s mez by 1s. You're still mezzed, and the duration doesn't change by a very large amount.

The reason Aegis Psi/Mez Res is an expensive IO is because of the Psionic resistance, no the Status resistance. If you want status resistance, you really have to consider whether it's worth the price and the slot in your build.

According to his user page on Paragonwiki/Ouroportal, he plays on both Infinity and Virtue.

No. There's no specific association between global channel and alignment, and nothing prevents you from adding non-global channels to your tabs, even if the channel was meant for the other side. (Specifically, the event notification channels.)

There is a maximum number of global channels you may join -- I want to say 10, but I'm not certain. But there is no limit to the number of channels you're allowed in a single tab.

There is no such existing power in the game, nor does Thaw do that.

What does Thaw do? At level 50 on a Corruptor, it subtracts mag 10.38 from your stun/held/etc. status. What does, say, Char do to you? It adds mag 3 to your held status.

Thaw doesn't remove anything, it merely modifies a value, exactly the same way defense buffs and debuffs do.

Why are you using Inertial Reduction in combat? It's your travel power, and it can help people on the ski slope runs.

As for Fortitude/Clear Mind/Clarity/etc., why would you ever bother to maintain that on all of your teammates? That's beyond silly, if you ask me. Sure, stick it on the squishies when you run into a pack of Mentalists or something, but non-squishies don't need it, and many encounters don't warrant it at all, even for squishy characters. On the other hand, it's just as useful to use after your teammate has been mezzed, to get them back into the fight.

This is the key chord that should suggest that something's wrong with the temporary power recipes. People are just deleting them without even giving them to a vendor, much less putting them on the market.

At least the next 10 Doom-chickens you kill will have feet in our game. Try the same quest in any other game-- only 10% of the Doom-chickens have feet for you to collect.

Masculine is the default gender in many languages, English included. Just because some women get offended that the writer/speaker does not have full information (or the phrase is set in the abstract), does not make the use of 'he' any less correct.

Of course, if the speaker knows the correct gender, or is corrected on the gender, he should use the correct gender pronoun. (See what I did there?)




Slight tangent (...of a tangent): My second lv50 character (used in my avatar) is described as an 'it'. The character was mutated in the Terra Volta reactor and its gender is unknowable now. Of course, we don't have a 'genderless' model in this game, so it uses the female model with the scales set as close to "androgynous" as I could get it.

Asking it what gender it is doesn't help either. The super hero registrar asked for its name, and it replied with a noise. The registrar wrote down the closest approximation it could: Anscillect.

This would be my guess.

And the people who don't want Speed Boost have to stay away from the buffer, rather than simply ask politely.

As a game designed towards teaming, the developers have a history of allowing things accomplished with teammates that they would never design for solo play. The fact that two Force Field characters can buff one another is Working As Designed™. A Force Field character buffing himself in the same fashion is not. Why? Because the first case requires interacting with another human being (or paying NCSoft an extra $15/mo to dual-box).

Well, to be honest the trouble would generally be the other way around in such a situation. Games where a player can hand out very strong, very long buffs (on the order of an hour) often end up with buff players hanging out in a hub area, charging people for buffs.