Schismatrix

The recent proliferation of powersets... wait, no, not powersets...
The recent proliferation of "open letter" threads does raise a question:
How is an "open letter" thread any different than any other thread soliciting commentary and responses?

i mean, unless you're a moderator, it's pretty darned difficult to create a closed letter thread...[i]

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I would join in the shouting to take Arcanaville out to coffee, but it just wouldn't work out. She's too popular for me.

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Eh, i wouldn't mind meeting her for coffee, and romance isn't the point. i'd just like to meet the person that posts under the name Arcanaville, regardless of gender or hawtness. (Not that i'd complain if she was hawt.)

However, i'm in New England, running a shoggoth cannery (or something), and she's apparently in Hawaii. Meeting for coffee is not terribly likely.

My biggest geek/gamer plan for the summer is to attend Connecticon since it's in my general area and i'll be able to take some time off by then. Hawaii? Not so much.

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You know, you people could just take this over to CoHFaces. 'Cause, ya know, it's kind of what the site is for...

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If i thought for a second that this thread was ever intended to be serious i would agree with you.

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...Are we still talking about dice?

And I'm not sure "coffee party" doesn't have some new meaning either. My imagination is a scary place.

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No hot coffee for you!

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not rue, this is my highest level toon, i just want to know where it is all heading.

f it is true that there is no real end-game, ill just RP a little bit until my account runs out...

i need an epic battle with real consequences..

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So form up a group of players who agree that when they ding level 50, they go to a PvP zone and fight until they're defeated. When they are, delete the character, since that character is now either dead, arrested, or captured and thus will never do anything again.

Pretty epic, and it hardly gets more real than that!

As others have mentioned, this game isn't something to "win." It really is about the journey. If that's a problem, then I hate to say it, but every MMORPG out there has some kind of level cap, and it sounds like your problem isn't so much with City of Heroes as it is with the genre.

Good luck, and I'm not being facetious, in finding a game you like better.

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Very nicely said. i agree completely. Single player and non-massively multiplayer/locally hosted non-persistent games allow the sort of world-changing effects of actions that are not viable in MMO's. It's a limitation of the genre.

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I suspect you know from other threads that I've already said MM damage (personal damage, not overall or pet damage) is too low, and you're baiting me. That would be trolling, so don't do that.

(Actually, I know you know it, since you posted in the thread I made that ended up discussing it)

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That's kind of like complaining that Cobra Strike damage is too low. Not exactly like it, but close. Masterminds get their damage from their pets, it's the core of that AT's design. i suspect their personal attack damage is so low because the attacks were intended to give MM's a way to supplement their pet's damage and something to do when everything is going smoothly. And to look cool. Perhaps mostly the latter. Masterminds would be excessively overpowered if their personal attacks came near to what their pets already do.

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oh ok...I thought it came with the architect edition....thanks for the info

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Out of curiosity, where did you see anything linking the rocket pack and Architect Edition?

Did a friend tell you this, or another website?

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Group flight and team teleport were ideal for shadow shard visits with team members with out flight. Now you can hang onto jet pack sooo......

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Team teleport has always been awful in the Shard. By the second jump you're already losing teammates to lag and every place you can't easily run or jump to is at least eight jumps away. Well, i guess if you go slowly and carefully while also running Group Flight it would work. Getting anywhere would take forever compared to just teleporting yourself there and using Recall Friend.

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I'm pretty sure when your account runs out of paid time you've reached the end game.

[/ QUOTE ]Of course you can choose to continue, but it's not mandatory. So, what MMO's allow each player to reshape the game world?

i know some actually have kingdoms that can rise and fall while controlled by players, but that's something that only the few players who have the charisma and/or obsessiveness to rise to the position of King/Queen can aspire to become, and 99.999% of the playerbase still has no significant effect on the entire world. See also Eve Online corporations.

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issue 15: butt capes for everyone!

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"What happened to your loincloth, oh mighty barbarian?" (Never tease a mauve dragon.)

Issue 15: Revenge of the Filth.

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Heh.

"Ever have one of those days?"

"Yep."

"I've just had 9,136 of them in the last hour."

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*snerk*

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I hope you've already taken Combat Jumping before you start thinking about Stealth. Not only does it give a decent defense bonus, but can also be slotted with Blessing of the Zephyr (and of course LotG).

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This. Combat Jumping with a stealth IO and whatever else you want to slot it with is far superior to Stealth in my opinion.

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k then...

*sadly shuffles his feet and kicks a rock*

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Fine! *sends Spazz the link*

That was me after bleaching it orange with 3 boxes of bleach, dying it red, then intentionally letting it grow out for 5 months so when I cut it I'd have my natural color back. =-P

-Rachel-

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Eh? This i'd like to see.
My hair's light enough that with aggressive bleaching i make a convincing blonde. It just doesn't look good on me. (No, i have no photos of it, but a couple of my friends do. Mostly as blackmail material, i think.)

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This thread is like road kill. I don't want to watch it, but it has a yucky factor and I just can't stop watching.

[/ QUOTE ]Time lapse techniques reduce the boredom of watching road kill.

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What content is there in cox that is considered end-game and what purpose does it serve?

[/ QUOTE ]i guess the TF/SF where you save the world/conquer the world? At that point you can declare victory and go home.

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Meanwhile, I always envisioned the girl in this Demotivational as my personal Arcana fantasy.

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Those look more like my D20s. Though her hair is way too short and... *sniffles* Blonde streaks....

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-Rachel-

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Oh for... i don't really see what's so much better about blonde, but that of course is just my own personal preference. Brunette and ginger are just as fine or even finer in my book. The fact that many of my friends tend to have hair colors not found in nature is beside the point. (Dark blue and blue black seem predominant at the moment.)

A lot of people think redheads are hotter than blondes. Get some red streaks and scandalize the neighbors.

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seriously, can we stop with the labeling and at least try to be civil?
Even with my disquiet about the past couple of weeks, I am looking forewards to both the new tf's and going rogue.

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Why, so you can find new exploits to exploit, Mr. Exploiter!?

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and we know all rpers are just looking for hot cat girl erp. I dont exploit get that through your thick head. It is easy to label people that we absolutely no knowledge of. Everytime you accuse some one of being a exploiter, you help the terrorists win.

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Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice... *gets look on face like a chimp with a concussion*
Uh, won't get fooled again!
(Alternate ending: We'll get those terrorists!)

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Anniversary doesn't need to mean CoH Anniversary. It also applies to the Anniversary of burying Hero1's time Caspule, which is a plot point of the new TF/SF.

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go away

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Yeah, stupid reasonable people not participating in either the humor or drama parts of the thread. How dare they?!

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Yeah I tried redtomax but it didn't show the defense numbers for stealth or maneuvers. It had some error. Any idea what the defense value drops down to on stealth if you attack?

Thanks for the numbers though!

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If you attack or get hit by an attack Stealth's defense suppresses to half its normal value. Really not worth slotting for defense in my opinion.

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Doing a Google search for Nexus Argos came up with full bio page with photo.
https://www.virtueverse.com/index.ph...;printable=yes
The character is almost an exact clone of Captain Mar'vell, even the bio. The kicker? at the bottom of the page it reads "Character influenced by Captain Mar-vell from Marvel Comics "

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INFLUENCED BY, not a direct rip off, doesnt even look anything like captain marvel. and i love how people hide behind the EULA these days for any decision that the GM/Mod/Devs make, they are just happy to give up 15+ dollars a month per account to let these people do what ever they want all in the name of some bullshyte EULA that just gets changed without notice to what ever they want it to say at the time.

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*headdesk*
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If the GMs wanted a toon deleted they'd hit the button themselves. No "threats" would be necessary. I call shenanigans on this story.

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Wow, the standards for "best" have gotten really low.

For the rest of my thoughts on this suggestion see ArcticFahx's post. It sums them up rather nicely.

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This thread looks more like a failed troll than anything else.

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This entire thread makes me feel all warm and squishy inside. No, wait, that's blood.

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Deeming somone ignorant because they don't want to describe what the entire AT does in a request is in of itself shortsighted.

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Does using support really take more letters or thought than healer when it's certainly more accurate?

Is changing terminology when changing games that taxing of your flexibility?

Do you ask people to send a whisper when broadcasting for teammates?

Am i amused by all this, especially your dogmatic and insulting responses to others while simultaneously insisting that you have no emotional investment in this discussion?

i suspect the answer to many of these questions is yes.

i also suspect myself of wasting time here instead of eating breakfast.

The latter i can remedy.

Chow!

Door #2, please.

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Three out of five senses (Sight, Smell, Sound) need to be appeased in order to ensure that maximum comfort is retained while being in extended presence with said person. Not in any particular order, but they do need to at least be in 'Tolerable' range before any further relationship can hope to develop, at least insofar as romance goes. I can put up with a lot when it comes to just being friends, but if my heart is to be wooed, a C-grade is required in the three S's, though for obvious reasons a higher grade is always good.

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