Kelenar

Somebody needs to give my FFG that memo. It likes hovering juuuuust far enough away that I don't get any buff from it for a good 10 seconds at a time. Just hanging out, not doing anything.

Why not? You have to do your mayhem missions somewhere!

Are you dissing Santaism?!

I keep linking these posts to Polaron for fun. It's like raving a red cape in front of a bull.

These are pretty much my thoughts, unless it's something that gets echoed around in pop culture so much that one would need to be blind and deaf to avoid knowing it (See: Vader is Luke's father.) Sometimes, people wait a few years before I bother to pick something up. Sometimes, people aren't even interested in something when it first comes out, only to become so later. Heck, if nothing else, some people are too young for things when they come out, or not even born--should a 20-something have the plot to a movie they haven't seen yet spoiled just because it was made in 1970?

Fortunately, at least in the big cases, the internet seems to have developed a defense mechanism of throwing out so many fake spoilers that the real ones can get lost. There's also trickery in leaving the twist of a movie open to interpretation (see the last twenty seconds of Inception.)

The way I remember it, for the first issue or three, death was a fixed 1/2 bubble of debt, with no alterations. And then over time, they added the half-debt-when-indoors bit, reduced debt gains overall at some point, and drastically lowered the debt cap. I know that at the very least, dying could destroy a good mission or two worth of progress. My first main was literally in debt for almost the entirety of the early 40s, helped along by getting seven bubbles of it in a Sewer Trial.

I can't find anything about this on ParagonWiki, but wasn't the debt cap also drastically lowered at some point? I remember having at least 5 bubbles of debt in the 40s before.

I know he did a little, because I remember getting super-annoyed at him over a post where he said that it made sense that enemies would run out of Freezing Rain, where elsewhere, he also said it made sense that they wouldn't run out of Burn. To paraphrase somebody's response to that, "Oh, this fire isn't so bad, I could stand here all d--OH NO! WATER! AND IT'S COOOOOLD!"

Ironically, I had a Fire/Kin that I rolled about two weeks after they added Containment, then got bored and deleted her at like level 20.

I remember back before we got an Enhancement tray. And the first Rularuu invasion! I had no idea what was going on and died a lot. And when pretty much every strategy started with 'let the tank herd the map first' and I found fighting boring as hell as a result. If a glitch would have deleted every Fire/ tank on the server, I wouldn't have shed a tear.

Dude, trade them to Germany instead in exchange for declaring war on Britain again. Let's see him get a space victory while trying to fight off an invasion at the same time.

This is what I usually go for when I'm only on SOs. On teams, there are almost always enough -def/+ToHit flying around that the extra Acc SO isn't a huge difference. Once I get IOs, I usually try for 40% accuracy per power, plus whatever I get from set bonuses.

I don't think you're qualified to deal with a problem of the hefty double-semicolon magnitude.

I did once have a foot race across the Shadow Shard, back before the maps showed all the gravity geysers. About 45 minutes later, the winner hopped to the finish line at the Storm Palace.

At the same time, a lot of the problems with MMOs, and a lot of the reasons they need so much content, are because of that first M--Massively. (Way back when I discussed this very topic with my friend, I jokingly suggested the name of Moderately Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games for smaller MMOs.) With fewer players in a given world, you can have more dynamic content and less big, empty plains full of wandering animals to kill.

If players are allowed to make substantial impacts on the world, that leads to a lot more replayability right there. There are groups here in CoH that pretty much do nothing but RP shared plots together and have been doing so for years, and that's with little except the game's chat client to work off of. Content doesn't necessarily have to be really time-consuming to hook players. Those kinds of people are probably a much smaller niche than some mainstream MMOs are going for... but with an emphasis on smaller playerbases, MMOs could afford to try to attract niches instead of trying to have something for everybody.

I'm hungry just reading this.

Duel of the Fates was pretty awesome fight music.

Call me a traditionalist, but I always loved the lobby fight scene from the Matrix and the Bride vs. the Crazy 88 in Kill Bill. The one to get the biggest reaction from me, though, wasn't really much of a fight at all--the elevator scene in the very last episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig. Think I replayed that in slow motion a dozen times...

I like to think this is the reason a lot of procs sell for more at higher levels.

This'd be great. Half the time I outlevel them, the other half, I do them on teams and we end up leaving before I grab the badge.

I'm very curious about this in general. I'd love to see a graph of what percentage of the players have at least one level 50... I suspect that percentage tripled around when AE came out.

I thought 54 was the highest anything could scale to?

I've been trying to coax teams into higher difficulties lately. Somehow, the same PUGs that always insisted Invincible was the only valid difficulty now stick to +0/x8 constantly. I've made +2/x8 my default setting when leading teams. The two levels seems to make for a pretty good bonus as far as XP.

I find that it works out pretty well. Drop Seekers and Acid Mortar, jump in to plant PGT, jump back out and Tentacle them to keep them all clumped up, then AoE until nothing's left standing. On teams, I do end up jumping around a bit more if I do things like toebomb or need to set up a Triage Beacon, but it's not particularly worse than most of my Defenders in that respect.

There was a Proctologist running around on Virtue for months, so hey.

This happens to me a ton, too. Doesn't help that the 40s can be such a grind solo at times.