Techbot Alpha

Disa- What? No, seriously, What?! MMs are, as far as I know, NOT balanced around an 'annoyance'. Balancing by annoyance is the most cheap and un-fun shortcut that is available.

MMs are NOT ultimate, unstoppable killing machines like people keep harping on and on and ON about. MMs are balanced around a number of factors;

1) They need pets up and running to have meat/metal-shields for their otherwise pitiful HP
2) They need pets up to do any meaningful damage, due to poor personal attacks
3) They have lower buff/debuff numbers than things like Defenders or Corruptors (unsure about Controllers)
4) They usually have a higher focus on DoT, rather than the raw and usuaully higher burst damage of such ATs as Brutes, Scrappers and Stalkers
5) They suffer far more from AoEs than other ATs, due to the relatively low health of pets, shields and buffs not withstanding.

So, frankly, pets should be able to ALWAYS keep up with their summoner, because, frankly, they are the entire point of the AT and the only way it really survives.
It'd be like telling a Tank "Oh, you're going to be really good at withstanding damage, but everytime you move your defense powers will drop as mini-pets and have to catch up to you before you can use them." It's that patently stupid.

You say that like nearly every forum poster wouldn't already happily lay aside all differences for the duration of the Destruction of the Golden Monster TF/SF...

^ This

Why can my Robotics MM simply not make new robots that happen to look like the Lore pets, and have similar levels of power, all without an undying connection to the Puddle of Annoyance?

'Because the Devs say so!' I hear some scream.
Would they be saying that if the Devs made it public order for all Heroes to HAVE to wear red and white only, and all villains HAD to wear black and greys? And Brutes HAD to wear traffic cones on their heads because they said so, so it must be right!!

Being told 'The thing you know as the 'Well of Furies' is your Earths manifestation of the source of all power' I can deal with. Lots of comic book worlds have that, no big deal. It's just a catchall term for 'This Universe has superpowers'.

Being told 'You cannot do x, y or z without effectively selling your soul to something that is certifiablly batpoop insane and empowering some guy who, hey, WANTS TO CONQUER YOUR WORLD LOLS!' is something that makes me simply ignore such terribad writing and do things my own way.

Why do you keep quoting brainless inanity so that my ignore function isn't allowed to function?

That wouldn't explain Shock Treatment stun-crashing when I fought her, on a character with no stuns, though.

This may need more examining, I'd need game access for that however, heh.

There's frankly no need.

My Crab Spider, for one, is not an 'Incarnate'. Alpha slot? Better armour plating and cybernetic add-on's for her armour-interface. Lore? Arachnos minions (ignoring the stupid aura effect). Judgement? Not picked one yet, but likely Void, which will count as an over-charged, short ranged blast from the armour's generator. Interface? Arachnos toxins added to the longfang cannons to make sure all shots and cuts are tough enough to chew through armour and cause more damage (Reactive)

See? All in line with a character who is little more than a peak human, some cybernetic add ons and a big suit of badass armour.

No, no I really am not.

I can kind of sort of deal with the 'Source of all Powers in the City Of Universe' part of the Well/Furies/W/e you call it. But telling me the powers of my robotics and technology based MM HAVE to come from there? I'm sorry, take a hike.

Alpha builds things. He does not 'summon essences' or 'call on the Well' or any of that. As I said, he would either steal the robots and improve them, or simply build them himself. Telling me 'Your character cannot do that, and has to break character to access these powers' is railroading and going too far, and thus I refuse to accept that.

It's nothing of the sort, actually. Some of us are still rather miffed about having the Well retroactively shafted onto EVERYTHING in the City Of lore. So I think it's understandable and perfectly reasonable, actually, to have alternate options for things like the lore pets.

I mean, I'm not asking for the Warworks to actually look like unique cyber-megadeath robots that don't exist anywhere else in game. I'm only asking that the silly wispy aura be removed from them, so that they look solid. My Robotics Mastermind doesn't mess around with mystical BS stuff; he'd either steal a pair of Praetorian robots and upgrade them, or build his own. Telling him 'he can't do that because the Well says so' is so much rail-roading guff as to be unstomachable, frankly.

So? You don't get it, fine. But telling other people they specifically SHOULDN'T do something is bad form. Again, NO ONE is asking for rewards to be stripped. Those of us asking are merely asking for a 'no aura' version of Lore Pets. I do not see any way how that can be twisted into an 'unreasonable' request.

Thats...not an accurate example at all, actually. For one, Temp powers are just that. They are not the much touted end-game system which has had a lot of time and effort put into it, nor are they something players have to put quite an amount of effort into acquiring. Also, the Incarnate powers are ALREADY customisable, as seen in the Judgement powers. Why, then, is it so unrealistic to ask for a 'no aura' option for Lore pets?

Just like Red side is dead, and no one rolls villains any-

Oh, wait.
I know plenty of people who still use GC. It's one of the main RP hubs on Union. So, subjective and unfactual opinion is just that.

I'm pretty sure it was, actually. Something along the lines of 'everyone having a Mediporter would completely overload and blow the system'. That and, when it comes to the likes of the Praetorian War, getting meta-class fighters up and back into the fight ASAP to make sure tomorrow even happens is kind of a top priority.

I liked the Cooling arc. The mission with the three SWAT sergeants attached to you, I became incredibly protective of them. The first time me and a friend ran it, we slowly but surely lost all of them. What surprised us both was how we actually went 'NO!' over chat when they got ganked.
Second time I ran it I was very careful, letting them rest up between mobs. That, to me, is a sign of good writing; when even standard NPCs become important to me.