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Champions. Hell maybe it was just my perception. The framerate on that game is like a bad rollercoaster.

Maybe it's just me... I barely noticed small drops of rain all around my screen. All I thought was "Christ, this is lowering my FPS."

I know, it was a complete cluster-eff when they made Conserve Power into Energize.

But I'm being harsh right now. Sure, the OPTION to change it to a whip would be nice, but I'd also suggest modifying melee range to close-ranged (yes, technically making it a ranged-damage power.) Not to mention a sweet, new icon for a whip attack.

Again, just my personal preference.

Did Requiem drop off the face of the earth, or was he banished in Cimerora permanently?

Maybe I'm just sorta not following the storyline here.

I don't know about that. Usually when people say 'used' as in 'past tense', it drives me to think 'what caused them to no longer use this system?' My answer is usually found in either flaws in the old mechanic or greater efficiency in the new.

As back to CO? The game itself looks like someone went onto the Suggestion forums, gave a single glance and said "Screw it, I can make ALL these people happy and make my OWN game!" And so they got Dual Pistols which really aren't dual pistols, but part of a lots-of-guns-and-stuff set, they got color customization where you're free to make your powers any shade of OMGSATURATED you want, they got weather which does absolute dick, they got underwater zones which makes characters look like autistic dolphins swimming about, they got their open zones where there are a whopping 5 of them, and they got an Archetype-less system, where people can take min/maxing to a whole new level, and show them just how important the PvP crowd is.

Any reason why?

I'm not adamant about the total conversion, but I think it would be nice to have a power replace. Yeah, I could see it not working too well with concepts, true, but any other reason?

It's a figure of speech, gramps (see, just like that.) Anyone that's willing to say 'If you don't like it quit the SG' should be met with more than a dash of criticism because that's an attitude that neither the community, nor the devs want to persue. There are plenty of great options in this game that you can bypass without batting an eyelash (Like Paragon City and the Rogue Isles, if you happened to fall in love with AE) but when it comes to vulgarity, things change drastically.

1. Who's going to be moderating these images? GMs? If so, that's less people you have to deal with customer support and more people you have to PAY for an idea that could easily be skipped. In fact, at this very moment you can change graphics around in the game. Look at Vanden's Power Icon Fix! You can also do this with retextures to SG bases and thensome.

2. Second Life is a VERY poor example. For one, it's been featured on multiple news sites for explicit, pornographic and borderline-illegal, user-made content, and secondly, the idea of the game is it's open-source nature; it's one of the game's biggest selling points, in fact. City of Heroes doesn't function that way (despite what some AE-lovers scream.) We rely on the foundation we've already laid out for the Superhero MMO world, rather than the ability to give players freedom over graphic nudity, explicit content, and thensome.

*dons monocle and top hat*
Good day, chap!

I seriously beg to differ. This is like saying 'The best way to deal with a child with ADD is to give him AS MUCH stuff as he'll ever need to play with'. If you ever look at the CO population, you might just see how close and accurate that is. :P

I have that exact power on one of my characters and I can assure you, it hits out of melee distance. Not only this, but it does, as it mentions 'Sphere' radius of damage.

Melee-ranged...? You realize that that's a contradiction, right? I can have my blaster use his attacks at melee distance, but it doesn't make 'em melee attacks.

There you are, again with 'melee ranged attacks'. They don't exist.

Yeah, and I had to make a lot of compromises myself until I realized... Guess what? I could play CoX and NOT compromise. The system? Yeah, a bit limited, but with every dose of Power Proliferation it's getting closer and closer to filling the niches. I started out with just Single Blade/Fire... Soon enough, I had to skip into sorcery, gadgets, and more, just to fill the gaps that I couldn't otherwise because so many powers were crap.

Too much temptation? I have yet to find a way to NOT min/max in that game and do decent damage.

Nope. No Melee attacks for Fire, Ice, Electric, Force (We call it Energy), or Darkness. It bugged the HELL out of me.

Actually, I care about the damage type. It's not a BIG issue, but it's something that bothered me greatly. There are no elemental weapon attacks, no elemental melee, not a single one. There were so very many gaps in so very many frameworks that I found myself breaking concepts just so I could avoid redundant powers.

But what if I don't want to stop by there? You see, in the game we play, we don't need to rely on these things because our builds dictate most of our playstyle, and how well we can fair. We're given the appropriate powers to survive that are balanced between the different powers in the sets. Those sets, in turn, are balanced against one another, as are entire Archetypes.

Yeah? Well, when you're toting that you're revolutionizing the Superhero/MMO world, it helps to feel LIKE A HERO. In fact, that's why many people play these games over fantasy games.

That's not how it works, junior. This game is rated T for Teen. You upgrade this game to allow user-created images throughout bases? It immediately gets hyped up to M, or RP.

Surprise surprise, children and young teens DO play this game, and it is illegal to subject them to such things. NCSoft would have a clusterf*ck day if they had to deal with all of the complaints, suits, etc.

There are actually a good deal of builds that can flourish without Stamina. And this, combined with a VERY loose definition of Fitness is, makes it much easier... After all, I can say that I'm fit, when I'm not. I can say "Compared to this guy, I'm pretty swift... Compared to that guy, I've got Stamina... So she tells me. >_>"

Is that the case? Well, half of it. I'm not the most swift guy out there, but if I were to make a character based off myself? Yeah, I'm swift compared to a few guys.

This other system, however, involves needing to launch small mines, summoning healing drones, etc. Don't even get me started on how limited the frameworks are; there's no melee for any elemental powers! D:<

Again, I've yet to see this. I like CoX's scheme of things; powers all rely on their recharge, so you can have multiple melee attacks, unlike the others, where a single melee attack is all you need, unless you want to add in a cone, or PBAoE.