Redlynne

Adding a cracked ground effect for powers such as Lift/Levitate that are simple "what goes up, flops back down" style knockup powers would probably be a good idea ... so as to "sell" the Hits The Ground part of the power.

I just want a character planner that does the job of Mids' in an iOS app I can run on my iPad.

Please let *ME* kill Statesman.

Please let *ME* kill Statesman.

Please let *ME* kill Statesman.

Please let *ME* kill Statesman.

Please let *ME* kill Statesman.

Please let *ME* kill Statesman.

I so want to kill Statesman ...

Please let *ME* kill Statesman.

Please let *ME* kill Statesman.



"Pony up, Torchy."

That sort of thing would strike a little too close to home ...

Statesman dies ... so that the amassed power of the Primal Players can be unleashed against The Coming Storm. Without Statesman to "hold us back" ... we can win!

By the way, Serge at ICON already has a voice ...

Again ... Doctor Vivian ... you're "stuck in a rut" of trying to see the Base Editor in isolation, and therefore trying to justify it in isolation, without trying to break out of that assumption to search for possible synergies and draws which could dramatically widen the appeal of Base Editing itself.

Right now, we have "global" settings for who can edit Bases. If you can edit one thing, you can edit everything. There's no "security settings" on base editing priviledges ... so consenquently, only the "inner circle" of an SG can be trusted to not go on a destructive rampage, or rob the SG blind or engage in other griefing behaviors. If you can't secure it, it can't be a widely used feature. But if it were possible to assign Edit Priviledges on a room-by-room basis ... you could have designated "sandbox" rooms in any base which low level SG members would be able to "mess around with" while not risking any of the painstaking work that has gone into building up the rest of the base.

When more players can use a feature without risking the hard work of others, that feature will gain in popularity and use ... which in turn will prompt demand for any expansions of functionality and building blocks that go into that feature.

I for one would love to see the Base Editor updated, expanded and extended so as to make it compatible with Architect Entertainment so that players could create User Generated Locations in additon to Custom Mobs and Custom Story Arcs. Merging an environment editor with AE would offer INCREDIBLE creative potential! I'd love to be able to "define spaces" in my Base and then export all of the database instructions that make it all possible to a text file, like what we can do with Custom Mobs in AE, so as to have a backdoor method to "version" our bases. That way, players can store "backup files" of their bases in the event of loss, damage, or creative impulses gone awry that would take far too much effort to "undo" and revert to original state via file upload/download.



But absolutely NONE of that can even be considered so long as people (such as yourself) lack the vision for WHAT MIGHT BE and remain locked into their (preferred?) vision of WHAT CAN NEVER BE. You spend an awful lot of time, text and energy trying to make sure that you (and everyone else) is completely justified in believing that nothing ever CAN get done, nothing ever WILL get done, and so there's absolutely no point in even discussing how to GROW beyond what we've already got into having something that everyone is going to WANT (and will therefore want to BUY).

We keep trying to make the pie bigger and/or better.
You keep trying to say the pie will always be small, and never have enough slices to justify baking another one.

Guess which attitude is "more helpful" for bringing about changes that we can all benefit from?

Still convinced that Paragon Studios blew it by not hiring on Samuraiko Productions to make a trailer for them.

Statesman dying would be soooooo Epic ... and bring some much needed catharsis to Long Time Players like myself. Besides, he deserves to die ... even if only as a warning/wake up call to Emperor Cole and Reichsman.



"Pony up, Torchy."



Extra special bonus points to the Devs if they let US kill Statesman. >)

As spiffy as this trailer is ... I'm still sure that Samuraiko Productions could knock its socks off without breaking a sweat. I've seen Michelle's videos. Michelle does better work than just a bunch of fast cuts.

So I still stand by my contention that NOT giving Michelle a Beta Invite to make a totally kick ads trailer for 21 (yet) is a mistake on Paragon Studios part.



Although now I want to SEE even more of Time Manipulation getting animated!

And somebody's been watching Nausicaa before getting inspired to do all those floating spores in the Underground Trial!

That Statesman Mask is smoking, because I'm the one who killed him.



Back off Manticore ... take a number and get in line. There are LOTS of people who want to KILL STATESMAN ....

In Issue 2, when I signed up, I wanted the name Redline ... as in, where the tachometer goes. This was on Virtue, so of course it was taken.

So I wound up settling for a wild misspelling, which if you're artistic enough can be pronounced "Redline" if you want it to. I want it to ... and in my own mind (and in conversations) I always say "Red Line" even though the spelling for the name of my main and my global handle are Redlynne.

Redlynne, my MA/SR Scrapper has a costume thematic that involves (what else?) ... red lines on black. Mainly this takes the form of the incredibly ancient Stripe 1 pattern, which actually looks clean and elegant. Had to wait for Issue 4 though to get my Sneakers and Tight Pants though. It's been fun to taunt other scrappers on TFs, with lines like, "My sneakers do more damage than your sword!" to the Katana scrappers I'd be teamed up with.



The rest of my characters tend to follow the "find a pun" convention for their names.



Ms Terry - Tri-form Warshade
Seen in print, most people don't give Ms Terry's name a second thought. It's only when people pay attention and actually speak the name out loud that the pun tends to hit them square between the eyes. So far, I've only had one teammate on a TF ask me about it ... and true to form, I played ... mysterious ... in my reply (which was better than fine with the RPer teammate).

Shirayukihime - Ice/Ice/Arctic Tanker
Shira = white (in japanese)
Yuki = snow (in japanese)
Hime = princess (in japanese)
So for those who "know" when looking at my tanker, they know they're teaming up with Princess Snow White. So naturally my color scheme for "Yuki" is an icy arctic blue (go figure). Character concept inspired by the Fairy Musketeers anime, which figures heavily in the character bio.

Ms Givings - Mind/Kin Controller
Not only was the name pun too good to pass up ... especially for a Mind Controller ... but the battlecry was beyond obvious once I'd secured the name. Pretty much always gets a laugh when first used in a PuG TF.
Battlecry: "Trust your Ms Givings!"

Topheavy Gs - Gravity/TA Controller
My first character where I deliberately went for a Max Chest Slider female, and couldn't resist making a joke about it in the character's name, her appearance, and best of all ... her bio. To this day, I get random tells from passers by in which I can practically *hear* the peals of laughter in the message text after they've read my bio. Needless to say, I get plenty of compliments from strangers when playing Topheavy Gs.

Autumn Turning - Quad-form Peacebringer
Autumn Turning was first the name of a Dryad character I played in a tabletop PnP fantasy game, who was actually a Changeling that was swapped in for a human child shortly after the human baby's birth ... and was "bound" to a bonsai tree in a pot, which, being "portable" allowed her to "go places" with other people. Most dryads couldn't "pick up their trees" and travel around the world, while Autumn Turning could. Lacking any better ideas, I recycled the name for my Peacebringer ... made her a redhead (boo yeah!) ... and settled on a rainbow color scheme thematic for her costuming that wasn't "in your face" about the color transitions from red through green to blue and purple (the latter being her shoes). Over the years, I've gotten lots of compliments from people on the poetic "cleverness" of the name Autumn Turning, which in addition to its combined pun aspects has the feeling of being something which an ordinary person could actually be named ... since neither Autumn, nor Turning, in isolation, are in any way "peculiar" for personal or family names.

Flight of Stars - Empathy/Archery Defender
The notion here was simple enough, if a little bit off the beaten path. Anyone who knows even a smidgen about (real) archery will be familiar with the term "flight of arrows" and I wanted to evoke that. But I was also going for a "starshot" pattern theme in the costume, and settled on Flight of Stars. And being a tremendous anime geek, I couldn't resist referencing Urusei Yatsura with my battlecry.
Battlecry: "Many stars will hit you!"

Soapland Shinobi - Ninja/Force Field Mastermind
Anyone who knows what the words "soapland" and "shinobi" mean, will get the joke instantly ... especially when paired with a color scheme of dark(est) purple and bubblegum pink. All of my ninjas are named after styles of japanese baths ... an inside joke that I'd expect only japanese speakers to get.

Ku no Ichi - Ninja/Trick Arrow/Soul Mastery Mastermind
Ku = 9 (in japanese)
Ichi = 1 (in japanese)
Ku no Ichi literally means "1 of 9" in japanese ... but "kunoichi" (with no spaces between the syllables) is the japanese word for "female ninja" derived from the radical strokes that form the kanji for the word "woman" (so I've got WAY TOO MANY contextual self references going on here!). My ninjas are all named as numbers ... 3 through 8, in japanese (of course), because they're all just faceless minions who DIE way too often ... with the extra added multilevel pun that I've named my boss pet "San" which is the japanese word for the number 3. This of course makes him Oni San ... which of course is not far at all in japanese from Onii-san ... the word for "brother."

Leggs - Huntswoman Soldier of Arachnos
Named after L'eggs brand pantyhose (for those old enough to remember them), this former fashion model of women's undergarments turned (involuntary) Soldier of Arachnos was originally conceptualized as being a Crab Soldier. But after perusing the SoA Forum here on the boards for a few weeks, I became curious about the possibilities/potential of the Huntsman build. Since I hadn't reached Level 24 yet at the time, it was easy to alter my future build plans to switch from Crab to Bane powers, while retaining all of the original Soldier Gun attacks. The fruits of my experience in building and playing Leggs can be found here. Even after swtiching from a Crab based build to a Bane based one for my Huntswoman build, I very deliberately worked up a 2nd Build which included Crab Powers in it so as to "enforce" the Crab Backpack costume part ... which was simply "necessary" to complete the character's Look, and I've never regretted the decision. In some circles on Virtue, Leggs has gained something of a ... reputation ... making her highly desired on any team with players I've teamed with before when playing her. And just in case it wasn't obvious from the name ... this girl is all about the legs! I've even got my aura set as Leaves, Combat with a pink color so they look more like Sakura Petals falling when I've drawn my rifle.


Golden Blond - Kinetic Melee/Willpower Scrapper
I decided I wanted an "all gold" themed character who would not only have all gold colored primary/secondary powers, but who would also have an all gold costuming scheme. The combination of mirrored shades, business suit jacket with sleeves and cufflinks, bridal mini skirt and strappy sandals looks really awesome in "daylight" in game, where the cloth texture of the jacket reflects the metallic gold color of the threading. Golden Blond looks totally like a Power Executive for some mega-corporation who would use $100 bills to light somebody else's cigarette without batting an eyelash.

Kinetic Kunoichi - Kinetic Melee/Ninjitsu Stalker
I've never played a Stalker before, and wanted to know "what it was like" playing the other side of the fence from Scrapper. And if you're playing an "assassin-like" Stalker, the first and most important thing in any transaction with a client is ... NO NAMES. So I chose a name that was purely descriptive without being even slightly "personal" in its aspect. Needless to say, it's been a lot of fun reading the stuff my Contacts say to me, where they're essentially addressing me "by title" rather than by "name" whenever I talk to them.

Can't wait for the "whiny cheerleader" voice of Fusionette ...

I personally use Glimpse of the Abyss in Terrify on my Min/Kin ... Ms Givings.

Why?

Because it gives me plenty of overlap between duration and recharge so that I can use Terrify at convenience, rather than at need, to refresh the Fear. And although it is perfectly possible to slot Terrify with Positron's Blast instead ... the damage gain really isn't that great, and Positron's doesn't offer all that much in the way of Recharge. Because Terrify has somewhat weak base damage, you're not getting all that much return on investment with Positron's in absolute terms.

Another point is that when soloing, sustaining Fear is more valuable than dealing damage with your one and only AoE attack ... which is then regenerated before you can dispatch all the hostiles in the Cone, because you're limited to single target attacks while waiting for Terrify to recharge (ie. you can't chain attack with Terrify, no matter much how +Recharge you've got).

Given all that ... I've found that enhancing the Control aspect of Terrify's Fear tends to be more useful, in more situations (solo and group) than Terrify's Damage, even with Containment boosting the damage.