Shard_Warrior

You can already finance all your lower-level alts with a 50 without the in-game emailing of items/inf. This just makes it more efficient and not having to rely on a friend or second account to do the trading.

Gah... can you post what was said there? I can't download the podcast

Same here.

This sounds like a playstyle/build issue - nothing to do with the underlying design of the Blaster AT. Try a better build, find some teammates, make better use of inspirations etc. There are many, many options open to you in this regard.

No change needed here.

NO!

-Rep for yous!

I know what you're saying and you are correct (TV ads are expensive), but commercials are shown/played all over the internet too. A little more advertising/marketing in the appropriate places (outside the launch of GR) wouldn't hurt.

Not entirely sure about that. Not trying to compare CoX with WoW, but just citing this as an example.

WoW Battlegrounds granted Battleground Merits which could be turned in for gear. In my experience there, this led to many players simply showing up and then hiding inside caves or stealthed somewhere out of the way and didn't bother engaging in objectives or any kind of PvP activity. They just sat there and collected the merits once the time ran out. It was essentially a decent reward for doing nothing and minimal risk. Whether this is a "success" is debateable.

Can't say I personally see this happening. Even if it did, the XP would be so low it would probably not even be worth the effort. It is too easily farmed.

I wouldn't mind seeing the power descriptions/text completely redone to get rid of the "Very Fast/Fast/Moderate/Long/Very Long" descriptors. These terms really don't tell the player anything useful. Showing a power recharges in 10 seconds is more informative than a player scratching their head trying to figure out how long "Fast" is.

Given the design choice between zoning vs. not zoning and and using the "bubble" method, I'll take zoning every time, thanks. I like being able to see NPCs far off in the distance.

5+ years playing this game and I have never once landed in a mob I didn't see with SJ, nor do I know of anyone who ever has.

The only thing preventing Flight speed from being brought in line with other travel powers is Dev refusal to do so. As was mentioned earlier, players don't just choose the travel power from a set... they take other powers within the pool for their various reasons. To believe "everyone" would take flight and no other travel is just plain silly.

StatesMini and Back Alley Mini would be a total riot.

I bring my Rikti Monkey everywhere, so IMO this is a fun idea. Would these be similar to the non-combat, non-buffing Vet pets or the buffing Vet pets? Reason I ask is two fold;

1. The buffing pets are (IMO) kind of annoying in that they die. If given a choice, I'd go for the non-buffing kind.
2. However, if they do provide some miniscule buff, I had a thought that perhaps their buff would not work unless combined with the other "action figures". For example, a team could summon 1 of each (ie. Positron, Synapse, Sister Psyche, Citadel, Manticore, Numina) of the Freedom Phalanx TF "action figures", and in their presence the whole team receives various small buffs. Each "action figure" provides a different team buff. This is sort of like "completing the collectable toy set". Not sure if this is a good or bad idea, just something different I came up with.

I like this idea, although not as a booster pack. I'd rather see these unlocked by running the TFs associated with them.

That's interesting... I notice the defense numbers dropping the 20% (in the Combat Attributes window) when Rage crashes on mine. I've got it stacking for ~30 seconds and when it wears off, my total positional defense drops 20%.

INV can be more Defense based or more Resistance based, depending on your build preference. Bear in mind, with the resistances built into INV, it makes surviving the Rage crash much more feasable than with pure DEF based sets.