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But Superman can reshape planets, travel in time, move beyond the speed of light, etc. He's also invulnerable to just about anything but cosmic-level cataclysms.

Not invulnerable the way CoH heroes are invulnerable. With resistance, they still take damage and can die from enough. With defense, they an avoid most damage, but can still die from lucky shot syndrome.

Superman has sufficient strength to completely annihilate most common foes instantly. And only his upbringing prevents him from unloading on higher-level foes all the time (as he could still easily kill them).

Player strength/power is barely sufficient to knock out minions, and with some augmentation, the occasional weak lieutenant. It's pretty much impossible to one-shot bosses in the game and forget about EB, GM, and AV class characters.

Hero's in CoH already have a massive disadvantage/weakness.

GAME BALANCE.

It is the universal kryptonite of each and every PC in the game.

In short, if you're serious about RP, you should have exactly ZERO gripes about inherent Fitness. Because you should already have explanations in place for the effects it will give to your PCs.

RP is about telling yourself and others a story. BE MORE CREATIVE.

'nuff said.

Because Test isn't a stable, dependable server. When it gets locked down for closed testing, all "regular" activities get the flush and swirly.

And as I said, even if that's not what he meant. And that's not what was intended if it were implemented, that's how it would be perceived.

Pre-ZACTLY!

There's only one appropriate response to this.

Do a cold boot (Shut down, sing the Jeopardy Song, and fire it up again). then try CoH Helper again. Also, check to make sure your .NET stuff is up to date on Windows Updates.

Is this a laptop?

And are you connecting wired or wirelessly?

Statesman the toon? Probably not.

Statesman the meatspace guy? I've only met him once or twice. I'll just say I'm somewhat put off by his...people skills.

Feel free to go back and edit them.

What last paragraph? You opened with a single sentence.

Again, you can continue to deny it. Great, fine and wonderful! Unfortunately, were Paragon to follow up with your suggestions, they'd be seen as espousing the sort of malice we're talking about.

For a very long-running comic book where the main doesn't die every few years (or has never died)? Sure. Especially if you have bi-weekly or monthly circulation across multiple titles.

However much this GAME espouses comic book convention, it's NOT a comic book. It's a GAME. Updates come fewer and further between. And there's only one title. City of Heroes. It would be nearly impossible to explore the situation in the same way comic books are able to, simply due to the differences in sheer volume of content and delivery medium.

Sorry, but your view of the community is skewed by your own biases. The problem is, you're so biased, you wouldn't recognize moderation if someone shot you with it and caused you to land in another pile of it.

The one with the "limited" vision here is you, sir. The whole "let's kill him" thing has been done several times in the last decade in mediums better suited to it than CoH is. Yet you wanna rehash this same concept, AGAIN. In whether the medium of CoH is suitable for it or not.

Tell me again, who has the blinders on here? We're not the ones proposing Paragon rip off Superman/Batman/Captain America here.

That's a personal value judgement. Not a fact. Please supply facts.

So IS Statesman overused or isn't he?

Oh wait, talking out of both sides of your mouth... Ah you crafty devil!

Well, YEAH? States and most of the FP are some of the most powerful superhumans on the planet. While we aren't QUITE at their level, we're fairly butt-kicking on our own. Since the game doesn't have the ability to present a venue of cosmic-level power ("If I burp too hard, this planet will be blasted to space dust", "I went skinny-dipping in that black hole last weekend and BOY are my arms tired!", "Yeah, the universe ended and I restored it from a backup tape THE SIZE OF JUPITER!"), and being able to simply shrug off EVERYTHING would make the game...COMPLETELY BORING...they have to have some rationale for why we're super, but not TOO super (in the name of game balance). But they still need to give us iconic heroes and villains to give us something to aspire to and something to fight.

Have you NEVER played the Maria Jenkins arc? EVER?

Never mind that the thread title is "How about killing "of" Statesman.."

Here's a clue, and I won't even charge you a merit for it. DISAGREEING WITH YOU IS NOT JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS, NOR IT IS MORONIC.

But then, you didn't want a discussion of this. Not really. Otherwise you wouldn't have stooped to name-calling and trollery.

Yep. We're all frigging idiots. Because we let you bait us under your bridge.

Yeah. Let us know when that's going to happen.
No.
Seriously.
We're QUITE patient!
But you'll have to forgive us if we don't wait around for you to do so, let alone hold our breath.

*File with "tabletop fusion" and "moon landing hoax".*

So because he's the iconic character of the game he's overused.

Is Superman overused because he's on the cover of a Superman comic?

Hello? *KLONK*KLONK*KLONK* McFLY!

Wow! You recognized the fact all by yourself! How OBSERVANT of you!

Again, the game is the wrong medium for something like this, because the dev staff cannot maintain the pace for the type of event you're talking about.

Well, when you have some self-riteous container for feminine hygiene products adamantly certain that B comes BEFORE A...

Sorry, but your responses here indicate quite clearly your statement is a lie. A BIG one.

Maybe if you'd actually listen or, heaven forefend, attempt to understand what was being told to you, they'd stop.

Yes, it WOULD matter. Look at the hate-on people have for Marvel (Retcons and Lousy Plot Twists R Us) in the last couple years. People simply will NOT abide by sloppy, slapdash, haphazard storytelling that isn't at least MARGINALLY sensible and internally consistent.

As you've never done any actual statistical work with either community, I'll ignore this unsupported opinion as the bovine fecal matter it is.

Are you talking about THEM? Or YOU?

I choose what's behind DOOR NUMBER TWO!

You're not sorry. This is simply you way of trying to take the mickey out of your own childish insult before getting slapped for it.

Nah, your post was already chock-full of them.

Again, I take comfort in the fact that you haven't the foggiest notion what you're talking about.

Part of what I do for a living involves content generation for a pen and paper game system (several of them in fact). My actual, real-world experience with storylines and content generation holds a lot more weight than your unsupported (and unsupportable) personal opinion.

Wow! Complete off-topic segue! Please get back on-subject. We need more material to laugh at!

Wow, some people brought up very obvious cosiderations. Ones that'd be seized upon by others reporting on the incident almost immediately. Yes, horrific response!

Sure didn't stay that way long though.

So because someone brought up an obvious consideration, you crawled out from under your bridge. Bravo!

Okay! Now I know where this is! A funhouse!

Maybe once you take your own advice.

Sorry, but you aren't the absolute arbiter of right and wrong in this situation. So forgive us for not taking your word for it.

Now, if you seriously want to discuss this, please tuck your e-peen back and get that chip off your shoulder.

Until then, I have no more time for petty little drama queens like you.

IBTD.

Unfortunately, my experience on more populated servers when getting picked up at random is "everyone runs in separately and either wins or dies". There is no "team" in such a mass of *I*. It's just a bunch of Leeroys who expect you to be another one with a defense-capped, IO'ed-to-the-gills toon.

Even when hit over the nose with the problem (like an errant puppy), they continue with the "zerg and keep up or just lay there" approach.


Now not EVERY team I've been on has been this way. I've run into some HELLACIOUSLY fine PUGs, and most of those people are on my global friends list now.