IanTheM1

Maybe it's just an error, but Pither seems to think she's the governor of Cap. I always took that to mean that while your villain was busy stomping a path up the Arachnos food chain, so was Darque, starting off as Marshall Brass' assistant until finally putting herself above Aeon.

Olivia Darque is the governor of Cap, I'm pretty sure. And Ghost Widow oversees Mercy, though I'm not sure to what extent.

The furred shoulders are exclusive the Bolero; they're not a separate piece unfortunately.

We were talking sans any kind of shortcut, though like I was getting at, I'm not sure why that's an issue (or why the trams don't count).

PI -> Talos -> Steel Canyon/Skyway City -> Galaxy. Three hops. That's not egregiously more than villainside. The Chantry -> Boomtown example is questionable (I just don't know if that's a real example or not), though FBZ -> FF (Quaterfield) is only three as well.

Also: Why are shortcuts a bad thing?

You do realize that people run teams that don't necessarily have copious amounts of AoE damage, debuffs, controls, are fighting AVs/GMs, or have a Tanker trying to keep aggro? Not all teams are looking for utmost efficiency, I'd say most are just looking for fun and XP.

You also realize that knockback, thanks to ragdoll physics, is basically a free 3 second Hold that's far more common than actual Hold powers, right? Not to mention that Bosses can be knocked back in one shot, whereas they generally can't be Held without two applications.


Of course, in the end, the two most common sources of these complaints are from melee players who can't bear the thought of pressing the forward key, and people who are far too concerned with squeezing the maximum XP per second out of their team. Thankfully I'm not obligated to team with either.

How is protecting the city less heroic than raiding a villain base (which we do on a regular basis anyway)?

Because keeping both sides of the game happy is far more profitable. I take it you weren't here for the I7/I8 debacle. I7 was heavily delayed, and included nothing but villain content. Heroes complained, and so I8 came out with a deliberately heavy hero slant. Then villains started complaining. Historians now call this era "The Great Headache".

I'm not saying exact parity is a great idea, but I know where they're coming from. And to be fair, that parity has led to some interesting storytelling opportunities, like the Mender Silos TF, that crosses over between sides. Even so, I'm still holding out for a new villain-exclusive zone myself.

If they don't care about their badge count, why do you care about them "padding" their badge count?

Also: The latest badge changes were requested by badge hunters back in I16 beta.

I feel exactly the same way, actually. But costume pieces are a very special exception in my book.

If I need one of those costume pieces for my concept, I sure as heck am being forced to do something. Have you really never seen any other costume piece-related thread like this? The fact that costume pieces are purely aesthetic is precisely the reason why restricting them is dumb.

It's a matter of scope. Is it hard to find teammates? No, because everyone on the entire server is potentially one. Moreover, a huge amount of emphasis on the word "forced" in my original quote. Teaming has it benefits, but I still earn XP while solo, and far more of than 20% of the game is soloable.

Consider the process required for me to get my hands on a certain piece:

1) Someone has to like to craft.
2) Someone has to want to craft costume parts, and not just IOs.
3) Someone has to have one specific specialization out of five.
4) Someone has to craft those particular parts, probably extra ones, out of the kindness of their hearts or out of pure profit and then sell/trade them.

This is the equivalent of making an exclusive costume recipe on each side of the game, that is only usable on the opposite side, and requiring people to switch over in order to do anything with it. You're adding hoops to jump through for the sake of needless depth, which unfortunately shows that what your idea amounts to is "add more craftable costume parts, but make them more annoying".

Thanks for the ad hominem, though.

You have an impeccable skill for twisting two whole sentences into an absurd opinion that I never stated.

What I'm rather struck by is how similar this is to another idea I read about recently.

I think Justice pulls together nicely (but I've always thought it is a bit bulky), and Enforcer is workable (it mostly suffers from a lack of leg details). I can't entirely say on Vanguard since I've never actually looked at it too hard (what good is a costume set I can't get until over halfway through the game?).

But very true for Sinister, Valkyrie, and Ulterior I'll definitely agree. The pieces are just too overwhelmingly busy, or have overly ostentatious details.

Though like how you use ExoProto - color matters a lot too. Justice is probably far more garish if you use strong colors, but using a dark blue with desaturated blue highlights has served me well for one my characters.

Fixed.