Schismatrix

Not necessarily. He was distinguishing between sentience and direction. Someone or something can be directed by internal drives without necessarily being sentient. Army ant colonies can be viewed as being directed in their hunt for food, but they're not sentient.

For whatever reason the Well has become more active in our region of the universe. Something has stirred it up.

If you're a soldier that's exactly what you're supposed to do. Preferably in large quantities. In my mind that is not always a damning thing.
It's certainly preferable to having soldiers always run around in a frothing rage.

In my case that's quite literally true.
Invisible!

*whew* And here i was afraid that a J_B post would contain tired rhetoric and hyperbole.

Promise?

i kid, i kid. i've seen some of your posts spark some genuinely interesting discussions. Like compost feeding a rose garden.

i suppose i should point out that there was no redside (Issue 6, 31 October 2005) for Warshades (Issue 3, 4 January 2005) to belong to when the Kheldians were created. While they could have shelved Warshades and added them as Nictus some time after City of Villains went live, it certainly looks as if the whole point was to offer two different playstyles with the new ATs, and to emphasize the concept of redemption and to reinforce the theme that dark is not evil.

Also, keep in mind that City of Villains was treated as a separate game for years after it went live and the only direct interaction with City of Heroes characters was in PvP zones.

Not to mention that VEATS and the coding that allowed branching powersets was added much later anyway. Suggesting that they should have introduced the EATS with blueside having Longbow and Peacebringers, and redside having SOAs and Nictus is completely ignoring the timeline of when the various ATs and factions were added to the game.

My Night Widow has been a hero since a few days after Going Rogue went live.

Yup.

Then again this is a supervillain contest, so it's a reasonable thing for NBC to do in context.

Not exactly. Unlike wings it would require changing the power animations for Fly and Hover, so it would be a bit more complicated, but it should be entirely doable, and i think it could be implemented as a costume piece.

Conceivable!

D'oh! Forgot about that.

But yeah, even on the lower population servers i don't have issues finding teams if i want them. Also, leveling up alts on new servers is easy, especially if it's one of the more populous.

Quite true. i tend to get more tells asking if i'm looking for a team on the lower population servers. Of course i also tend to play in the PM for the US and don't normally use /hide.

Triumph is definitely not desolate, but playing in the weekday morning by US time on US servers tends to result in fewer teammates being available even on the most populous servers. The average player has school or a job to go to at that time.

That might work if they sharpen some sort of generic dagger, but imagine the headaches of having to code a separate animation for each weapon model in each powerset that has the edge of the weapon in a different location.

George Lucas?

Well, it is one of the slower servers.
Just did a quick search of the three sections of Triumph and got these results for unhidden totals:
Blue: 50 not hiding from searches.
Red: 50 not hiding from searches.
Gold: 33 not hiding from searches.

On the other hand, if that's not populous enough for someone they can always create an alt on a more crowded server. When i actually focus on a new alt it takes maybe a month to get them to 50 and mostly kitted out. Of course if an alt on a different server has something i think would be more useful on the new alt i just email it to myself. Same thing with starting funds since i'm lazy. After that it's just a matter of placing bids for stuff i want and selling stuff i don't until i get the current alt set up. The half a billion or so left over by the time i'm done getting to 50 and slotting generally gets reinvested in the market or used to get goodies for other alts. Usually both.

As i recall hitting printscreen while in screens like the enhancement screen and the tailor copy to the clipboard instead of saving in the screenshot folder. From there you can paste it into a graphic file using a program like GIMP or Photoshop.

We are talking about a George Lucas owned property, right?

Nope. No more than an engineer deleting the CAD files off his work computer means he can recreate it at home to resell it. Once you've submitted a character for playing NCsoft owns all relevant aspects of the character even if you delete your copy.

Hey, you left out Jack Emmert departing from the Dev team, all but 15 of the other Devs departing the Dev team, Cryptic selling off CoH, Cuppajo going, NCsoft neglecting the game by more than quadrupling the size of the Dev team, and Koschej departing among others.

Also, you could at least put a d--m! in the post to make it official?

And yet i always have played and continue to play the way we were apparently punished for playing. Tanking on the STF usually works better in the end fights against GW and LR by being mobile. (Does this mean that the STF new content now? i thought it was added at least a couple issues ago.) Most of my melee types maneuver during AV fights either to keep the AV's cone attacks pointed away from as many teammates as possible or are the ones trying to avoid the cone arc. Even against the AVs with only PBAoE have attacks that can usually be anticipated well enough to hop back out of melee right before they use them.

Unless you're particularly enamored of a plodding, largely stationary playstyle it's always been possible to play CoX like an action MMO. There may not be any particular advantage to playing like an action MMO in AV fights (though if you have any sort of AoE at all it can be very advantageous for most other fights), but it doesn't really hurt anything to play that way either. i mean obviously you feel punished for moving during battles. Somehow it doesn't affect me very much.

Uh, sure, it's the game's fault for not allowing you to play the exact same you always have (and it "forced" you to play like that by "punishing" you for doing otherwise), and now you're mad because some of the content actually does require you to change your playstyle to be more effective and you're proud to have been conditioned into fighting like stationary object.

Left this in so that the point of his post wouldn't be missed.

Once aggroed he spawns a bifurcation every 30 seconds whether you're there or not. Each one gives a hefty regen buff to Trapdoor, so usually the easiest thing to do if you have to go to the hospital is to reset the mission.

Hunting down any bifurcations spawned while returning to the mission can take a while if your DPS isn't especially high.

Oi vey. Can i get a facepalm here?

On further reflection i can see how this might actually help with the movie's adaptation since it would help with transitions between events and shortening the movie by allowing some of the book's scenes to be compressed into a voiceover instead of showing every incident or simply removing events completely.

To be fair, in my case i did frame it in an insulting manner after reading the thread and eventually losing all patience and inclination to indulge someone who is willfully and aggressively obtuse. A number of other posts also expressed similar exasperation in a less than tactful manner.

For what it's worth i have reached the point where i'm not even going to bother responding directly to the OP's assertions in the future. It's like trying to teach a tank full of hamsters calculus, only less rewarding. (For one thing there's less chance your students will eliminate themselves through violence and cannibalism.) On the other hand i may respond to some of the more interesting and informative replies.

They could have originally gone with Ms. Libertine instead of Dominatrix. Which admittedly would've been a bit less "Star Trek goatee universe/thematic opposite" than the way the other Praetorians were originally depicted. And if anything it would've supported the incest interpretation of the original bio even more, so there is that downside.

Although i find evil alternates more plausible when their negative aspects are the result of taking existing character themes/traits and amplifying them until they become negative qualities over making the evil characters the same except the evil version has certain personality traits reversed.