Schismatrix

Oddly enough they tend to find me. Of course i'm almost never in Atlas Park on any server, but on the rare occasions i'm playing one of my Freedom alts i almost always get tells asking me if i'm interested in joining a team before i finish my first mission. And this is without being on any of Freedom's global channels. The last time i played an alt on Freedom it was my then 18 PB. Within a short time i got a tell asking if i wanted to team. A few seconds later i was meeting up with the team in Founders Falls where they were running mid-30s radio missions. Several missions later i hit 20 and was close to 21. i probably would have made it to 22 with the team, but i logged out to eat dinner.

So it's not hard to find non-AE farming teams, even on Freedom, but it helps a whole hell of a lot to go somewhere besides AP.

Hippo birdy two ewes, Positron.

So, two years until your birthday is the ultimate answer. Get cracking, junior.

What L L said.

i laughed out loud. Thank you.

How nitpicky of you. *heh* Tips use a different standard in that anything level 20 or higher can give them.

Which is how it's been since launch.
Although technically it was you couldn't get to 40 without taking pool powers before Issue 1. (Which didn't matter to me since i didn't hit 50 the first time until about Issue 4. Chronic altitus and all that.)
And i still don't know what non EAT ATs would fill those last power picks with after taking all 18 primary and secondary powers anyway.

He finally figured out how to put his underwear on under his tights.
Then again, he is super-intelligent.
(Honestly, i don't have any problems with them finally discarding that 1930s-circus-strongman red trunks over blue tights look. At least then the fights will be less embarrassing for Man Bull. "So awkward. Can't. Stop. Glancing. At. Red. Groin.")

Okay, yeah, that i agree with.
Not to mention that a fair number of steampunk makers work in well polished metal and lacquered wood, not corroded old junk. The backpack and wings would be at least as steampunk with bright, shiny colors.

Right, because guns require no training or martial skill at all. That sniper that shot his target from two miles away? The only difference between him and the guy that opened fire at a storefront where a guy he hated was standing and only managed to hit a mother and two kids is the guns they're using. All that training that prize winning shooters do before competing is just morale building; it has no actual effect on performance.

Yeah, you don't have to have all the Ultra mode settings enabled, or set them to full, but i'm not sure offhand which setting and level is required to see the glows. It wouldn't hurt to ask in the Technical Issues and Bugs forums since the people there are far more intimately familiar with the specifics of hardware and software settings.

Everyone knows the world was in black and white until the 1950s. And all those old Greek buildings and statues were shining white marble. The buildings certainly weren't riots of color and murals everywhere, and the statues weren't painted to look like living people. That would be just silly since there wasn't any color back then. The same applies to the Victorian age; it was before the 1950s, right? Everything was all sepia-toned.

Yeah, people tend to buy into popularly propagated stereotypes a little too unquestioningly even when the subject is something they have a special affection for.

Organic Armor face.
Note that if your computer can't handle ultra mode settings you won't see the glow even if other players do.

This is pretty much my take on the matter, thus the confusion expressed in my first post. (Also, i've been drinking, but that started long after my initial post in this thread.)

Yeah, i know. i should have phrased it to make it more clear that i was agreeing with you.

Basically Magneto is an Incarnate Plus.
A polymath with the ability to manipulate fundamental forces on macroscopic and subatomic levels at energy levels that suggest he can tap into a power supply that is greater than the power grids of entire countries.
On a good day i could see him taking on Batman and Superman at the same time and winning. Interesting.

Well that's probably because steampunk just raids Victorian fashion for some aesthetic details and isolated elements rather than accurately emulating it.

Anyone who wants accurate versions of Victorian fashion should ask for a Victorian pack because you're not going to find it in actual steampunk fashions. (Of course it's possible that people will show up at steampunk themed events in accurate Victorian, Edwardian, or even Medieval clothing. It's still not typical of the subculture.)

So, wait, you're trying to close the barn door after all the horses except a couple ponies have left?
Your argument against making the power pools customizable is absurd. Hasten only affects the user, and is difficult to make perma. Whyinahell you would feel that you need to keep track of how often a teammate activates Hasten? Hasten (and Superspeed) aside most of the other pool powers have effects that are subtle enough that it's hard to mark them at a glance anyway. Since almost all primary and secondary powerset effects can already be tinted or hidden i can only assume your position against the far less essential and powerful pool powers being made customizable is some sort of petty dog in the manger vindictive attempt to preserve some last shred of the former status quo. "Well, i didn't get what i wanted with everything else, but i demand this last bit be left as it already is because i can't roll back the rest of the game."

Edit: Incidentally, you do realize that players using tinted buffs mean it's easier to tell which player has recently applied a buff when more than one teammate has the same powerset, yes?

D'awwwww... The mommy cat looks almost exactly like my kitteh. Although all my cat's kittens were black and white.