Schismatrix

Yeah, you sure showed him!

Thank you for fixing the server status page, people in charge of that sort of thing, it's nice to be able to check it again to see current status.

10 months, eh? Actually there's been a number of changes, but that's nothing compared to what's coming in the next few months.

Welcome back.

That's actually two questions.
First half answer: Probably just for Nibbles, but that's no reason to not treat it as an open invitation.
Second half answer: Yes.

No. /loc's only function is to tell you your exact position on a map. It's mostly useful for bug reports and telling others where something is.

About 5 years i used a command that continually displayed a character's current coordinates in the corner. Now i don't remember what the command was.
Anyway, AFAIK there's no way to set a waypoint by inputting the coordinates.

That was the original design concept, but Brutes are actually better at gathering and holding aggro for teammates in most actual play, which is where the role of tank is meaningful. Masterminds who dip into the presence pool can come close, but don't have the inherent taunt effects that Brutes do.

The defense from all powers that grant defense will stack. Which is a moot point for most stealth powers since they can't be running at the same time.

i'd completely forgotten that, though now that you posted it it sounds really familiar. Marvel didn't help their position when they had employees create attempts at clones of Marvel characters in the game IIRC. (Which i probably don't recall correctly at all since i'd already forgotten the prior bit.)

D'oh! Sorry about that. Fixed in the original.

You Ma'am are correct.
That's what i get for being imprecise. (Which is why i gave no hard numbers at all.)

Some of the powersets do have a kick as the Brawl animation. If you go with Archery you will use a kick for brawling whenever your bow is out.

The game's engine does not consider relative facing or position when fighting, so there's no way to tell it to use a kick animation just because you're above an enemy. If you're in range of an enemy your attack fires using the standard animation regardless of where you or the enemy are located relative to each other.

Brawl itself doesn't mean punch, just unrefined melee, so the Devs could've used a kick or a headbutt or even a puff of flatulence as the attack animation, but they used a simple punch instead. In the end your complaint is purely about the look of the power, but there's a good chance they might allow the kicking animation as an alternate animation in the future since issue 16 will be adding the capability to use alternate animations for powers.

A Tanker is tougher than a Brute unless both use set bonuses or teammate buffs to cap defenses. Tankers and Brutes have the same hit points and defense caps, but Brutes start at Scrapper defense levels and can't match a Tanker's durability using the same powersets without outside buffs or set bonuses.

Brutes start out doing about the same damage as Tankers, but then it gets boosted by Fury so that overall they do more damage than Tankers. Brutes have no more endurance problems than Tankers and actually do more damage per endurance using Fury. Brutes tend to run out of endurance faster because they spend less time taunting and more time attacking. Brute damage drops whenever they aren't attacking so they have a very good reason to not stop or slow down unless forced to do so.

The Devs have stated that they don't like farming in their game and have changed many missions and game mechanics over the years to discourage it. i am unaware of them taking the same stance in regard to stupidity or i would have reported myself multiple times years ago.
You could also start reporting colour combinations that you don't like. In fact i fully support this as long as you understand that it's more likely to get you in trouble than anyone else.

Only in the comic, which is minor and probably set in an alternate Paragon City, and nothing compared to what's in game. Hell, the instanced maps of Atlas Park when villains and heroes take on missions set in the present are missing WW and AE.

Paragon Studios ruling the world seems win-win to me, but then i'm easily amused.
Don't talk while eating the fondant!
*looks at my current avatar*

Hmmmm.

Ignoring for the moment that the word is "copyright" (it's really not a hard word to spell), i know you've been here long enough to recall when Marvel sued Cryptic and NCsoft alleging that the game was a copyright and trademark infringement tool. This was (obviously) an expensive thing for Cryptic and NCsoft. (Win or lose, lawyers are not cheap.) In the end it was settled out of court with the agreement that Cryptic and NCsoft would take steps to prevent infringement of other companies' copyrights and trademarks. There were probably other stipulations in the settlement, but i haven't read it myself.

The alternative is to have the game shut down/bankrupted as it is quite possible to face severe penalties for allowing copyright infringement. Hell, Disney even took action against a day care center for having pictures of their characters on the wall without permission, and forced them to paint over the mural. It does happen in the real world, and Marvel's business model is based on marketing their characters and other IP in various media, of which comics has become more of a minor sideline of their merchandising. They will sue for use of what they consider their property without compensation.

Asking the playerbase to report obviously infringing characters for review by the game's staff is much less expensive than hiring a full time crew to do nothing but review characters for possible infringement or giving up and shutting the game down. You do understand this, right?

That said, i rarely report a character unless it's an incredibly blatant ripoff of some other company's character as i've got better things to do usually. If you're running around as a huge green brute with Das Hulkster as your name and a bio cut and pasted from the Incredible Hulk wikipedia page i will most likely report you if i'm not otherwise busy.
And i won't be sorry.

Guilty as well.

i tend to be a TF/Trial badge completist on all my alts.

They're level 10 Scrappers. How much more bugged can they get?

They did not say one thing and do another.
From the announcement: Apparently they used the early release option. Which isn't all that bad considering how unstable the servers have been recently. While the community reps do occasionally tell us why, especially for unannounced downtimes, this one was announced well in advance. In this case i'd think the why would be pretty obvious to anyone who has been playing the game recently anyway.

Most capitalist models and ideologies are not based on selling stuff cheap because you can't use the money anyway. If the average farmer is capped on inf (avoidable by converting the inf into bids/items through the market), then they have no reason to take the time to sell salvage.

i doubt that this will make supply outstrip demand. i think that the majority of people farming AE will continue to ignore salvage rolls, and i suspect that's the source of the current salvage scarcity. People could be getting and marketing salvage now, but they just don't. I-16's added difficulty settings won't change that. Sure, those who are inclined to make the effort to market salvage will make a killing, but that's already true. Despite the popular wisdom that people and markets are completely rational (which, incidentally, is working so well in real life), it's often simply not the case.

Philanthropic gestures (such as selling salvage cheap just because you can) are rarely anonymous in real life. Selling salvage cheap is an anonymous act. inf-capped farmers unloading dirt cheap salvage out of the goodness of their hearts is a nice concept, but i have my doubts.