Sailboat

The short form forces a condensation which IMHO greatly helps people stay on-message and not wander through an expository wasteland.

A short form actually favors writing skill, while at the same time limiting the damage poor writing can do.

Also, it's a comic-book game -- comic-books are the ultimate short, easy-to-digest, direct medium. If it was War and Peace, the MMO, I'd back a much longer bio space in a heartbeat.

BUT, that said,

I don't think there's anything wrong with more bio space if there were some means of keeping the short bio space more accessible and relevant. So if we KEPT the short bio space but had a LINK to more pages that people could fill out, but you'd only see them by drilling down another level deliberately, that wouldn't bother me too much.

Yeah, I soloed a few battles and saw no significant change, so for a few days I won 5-6 battles each night, but I never did convert SC to my faction's control, or even come close. I know I was only one character, but I was IOed-out at least. When it's that hard, it's pretty discouraging.

I had a friend who built a Lord of the Jungle-type character around Jump Kick.

He slotted up and used Jump Kick as much as possible, on a barechested toon with a kilt for a loincloth. JK actually looked pretty good in that context. He'd mix in a little bit of howling and chest-beating too. If we'd had vine-swinging as a travel power, he might still be playing that toon. :P

Every once in a while I retcon rp reasons for the names of the sets I choose.

For example, my retro blaxploitation Scrapper uses platform go-go boots for her Martial Arts kicks. These are her trademark lead-filled platforms and they're (in my imagination) as famous as Thor's hammer or Captain America's shield. When IOs became available, I slotted multiple Mako's Bite sets for the large damage bonus they give, and retconned that they were sharkskin boots. She also uses Touch of Death (complete with the negative energy proc) in her Boxing to have a literal Fist of Death strike. Although this has no effect on the game at all, it amused me once in particular, when a Nemesis soldier who was already wounded mouthed off about how Nemesis was invincible and my Scrapper was doomed. The Scrapper then went through the animation for Practiced Brawler, held her right hand cocked for a second, then Boxing animated and she struck underhand, doing damage, a critical, and the negative energy proc, killing him.

Similarly, I decided a Steadfast Protection +3% defense IO was an amulet of protection one character got from her father.

Obviously this only has limited applications. It's pretty silly for everyone on a random PUG to discover they each have an amulet their dads gave them.

It's certainly the case that the market forum, like all the other forums, occasionally features posts that seem to have no basis whatsoever in the reality of the game as I play it, or what I read elsewhere. I mean completely bizarre assertions, like they're playing a different game or something.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around

Was there a drop in purple prices this week? I was only monitoring Ragnaroks, but I'd under-bid on a spread of them and been sitting there, not quite getting them, for weeks. Prior to the 2xp weekend, I re-bid to just under the going rate. Right after the weekend I snapped up two of the pieces, but was surprised to see that the going rate had dropped 50 million on each (and filled up the "last 5" sales at that new low price, so it's wasn't a single low sale). I got a third set piece two days later, although the price on it didn't drop significantly.

Wasn't expecting them to drop in price. I guess I'm technically no worse off then if the price had stayed roughly steady and I'd bid what I did, but I do hate to feel like I overpaid by 50 million apiece AFTER waiting for weeks (the worst of both worlds!) :P

Well, Tankers get Shield Charge before 30. How about a Shield/Fire Tanker? You'd be able to have SC and Fire Sword Circle and Combustion slotted up, right? And the sturdier Tanker values for standing in big crowds might help since you won't have the slots from 50 to beef up a Scrapper.

My level 17 Stone/SS (using yellowed DOs) found himself on a Peregrine Island team, SSKed to 49 and facing...+5 Mu.

Yeah, we went up against 54s for a bit.

I actually lasted a while since I didn't strip the aggro off the other Tankers. But that came to an end, along with our desire to fight +5s, so we reset the diff and ran a few radios.

'Twas fun, looking forward to the Guardianside version next week!

Does Chain Induction still not give exp for the damage it does? I totally forget whether that's been addressed, but I see it used in a lot of posted builds now.

Once I get serious about a character, I frankenslot, which results in giving every attack as much end eduction as possible without compromising on the key attributes (and in some powers where end cost is huge, it is a key attribute itself, for example, Dark Regeneration).

So I generally find that I don't have to worry about which attacks to put end red into since they're all crammed full of it.

I'm close to on the fence on this one. I understand being tired of hearing the reflexive cries of "SB plz!" and I can see how that could make it hard to want to use the power at all. And I hate to tell people how to play.

Superheroes in the comic books are a little like nation-states -- there's a strong tradition of sovereignty; they expect not to have their internal affairs meddled in. I've seen team-ups where a bossy hero like Reed Richards, Captain America, or Batman tells other superheroes how to use their powers and the heroes getting the lecture almost always express frustration or defiance, even when they go along.

If it were me, I'd have tried to emphasize "we need any help we can get" and "we're going to have to pull out all the stops for this" when asking for the speed boost. Maybe she would respond to a need better than a suggestion (which could be perceived as an order). I wouldn't have exactly begged, but just tried to play up the "tone" of being in a desperate fight and everybody needing to dig deep.

I hate to kick a player, and it's even worse at the end of a TF. I feel like I have to have a good reason or it borders on griefing.

That said, I can't find it in myself to fault you for this kick. Apparently numerous other players (maybe all? can't tell) had already asked you to kick her; at some point the feelings of those players have to be given some weight, too. When she threatened to quit, that meant that pretty much everyone but you had suggested it. That left you as the only vote for keeping her, so to speak. It's not inarguable grounds for a kick but it's not weak grounds either.

Bump Looks like it's Tuesday, March 9 -- that means Justice if I am reading this correctly?