Kelenar

Everybody knows that they gave you the ability to rename chat tabs so that you can have Broadcast and Request in the 'Morons' tab.

Or they don't want to lose [insert awesome power here] or [insert awesome set bonuses here] by exemping. Which, in my experience, is what lower-level people want you to do 90% of the time that they invite you. "My level or higher" or "no exemping" are a bit broader than needed for that purpose, but trying to express everything would lead to search notes along the lines of "No exemping below 27, no exemping below 39 if you want me to tank, no teams with crazy blasters who knockback everything at random, no teams that feel that they absolutely must herd to survive four even-level minions, no Healing Aura set to auto, no farms or AE missions with stupid custom groups of Extreme Rad Emission/Fire Blast bosses, no farms, no teams with people who have binds set up to shout in local every time they attack, no Empathy/ defenders who don't use Fort/Adrenaline Boost, warranty void if prohibited, some restrictions apply, offer not valid in Hawaii. PST. Amen."

Um, dude, hate to break this to you, but...

I have seen the true incarnation of glory.

I'm going to be the one person to defend Smoke Bomb. People harsh all over it because it doesn't put you in hide by itself and the animation is too long to save your butt if you get in way over your head. I've found it pretty useful for pulling off Assassin Strikes in the middle of big groups of enemies when solo--Smoke Flash, Placate, AS a deserving target. Even if you miss a few enemies, you have a much lower chance of getting interrupted than you did when you had ten guys on you.

Heck, just throw it out when you're surrounded and enjoy 16 seconds of most enemies ignoring you. If you need to, you can use the time as a breather for Kuji-In Sha. Skippable? Yeah, especially if you plan to soft-cap. But it's not the giant turd that people make it out to be, in my experience.

I think I personally complain less now, since I have enough experience to avoid the content and ATs that I just don't like. Besides, some vet whining isn't all that justified, but just as much of it is because they're in the best position to see what's wrong with the game.

Several people expressed this opinion right after the Herocon video came out.

Finally, I can be at home with my brothers and sisters who truly appreciate pastel drawings of upside-down clowns covered in bagels in the Boer War-era Transvaal Republic!!

Fix'd!

Yeeeeep. Flagged people get first priority by far when I form teams, especially for TFs and the like. There's the occasional person who forgot to unset it and is getting ready to log/market for an hour/sit in the D, but for the most part, it's a good source of members.

This is actually my personal biggest problem at the moment. Not specifically 'i13 chased people away,' but the portion of my global friends list that's actually active has steadily dwindled since a few months after CoV launch. I'd say a good 90% haven't logged in at all in months (if not, in several cases, years), and most of the remainder logs on once or twice a month or uses the game as a glorified chat program. It's probably not a representative sample at all (a lot of it is linked to half the people I know graduating from college over the past year or two), but it's still a major bummer for me.

My #2 problem is something... specific to my server and out of the devs' control, so I'll save the discussion.

Barring that, though, a complete heroside revamp certainly couldn't hurt! I'm so sick of running everywhere for kill-alls that it isn't even funny.

I think I originally described the Champions tails as 'it looks like there's some sort of giant alien parasite on your butt.'

Super Reflexes could work, the character dilating their personal perception of time to easily dodge things.

Or Grav/Mind Control, representing them outright stopping their enemies in time and such (some powers would have obvious problems).

Getting less strict, you could go comic book science and just call your Energy Melee/Energy Blast/Energy Assault/Whatever 'chronal energy' or something. Those punches totally don't hurt people, they just hurl them forward through time a few days so they pass out from dehydration and a sudden lack of sleep or something! I guess! It's comic science, man, don't ask me.

Superspeed and Hasten would just be givens, of course.

Oh, awesome. Now I can mail myself -KB IOs and such. Always annoys me when one of those drops on a character who has knockback protection, but I have a /fire scrapper who could really use it if I could only get it to them...

More than I'd dared hope for, probably still less than it'll take to get me to log in on a daily-ish basis again (that's what Going Rogue is for).

Pff, giant bone clubs are way cooler than puny little spikes.

Fixed.

I've seen a few contests where they had in-game currency as the reward, so I imagine it'd be useful for those. It'll also make transactions above the inf cap easier, since people can more easily spread the money across multiple characters. Even for straight-up transfers to friends who are online at the same time, it saves some annoyance of having to trek across the game world to hand them the money.

The 'send to other people' bit isn't hugely useful, but it's something I would've used a few times if it had been around from day one.

I have to see this.