Tenzhi

I'd like it to change so that regular enhancements never expire, personally. Getting relatively weaker when you level up is a facet of the game that's never made sense. The existence of basic IOs doesn't make it any more sensible - rather, it highlights the nonsense.

There's been many times I wished we could lower it to -2 or -3. Or that when we shut off bosses in the difficulty, that it would keep us from facing Elite Bosses as well.

Those are my thoughts on difficulty.

Love the nuke changes.

And I love the Presence changes. I often find myself running out of powers I want to take, what with Fitness being inherent and the fact that I hate the Fighting pool. This leaves me throwing in crazy things like Concealment or Presence just to fill space.

I disagree with the thread title - if they're going to "Fix Everything", then they should absolutely fix nerfs while they're at it. Nerfs have long been in need of repair.

I presume that the people who make such decisions are in a better position than most (or all) of us to make an informed decision about whether CoH can or should be on Steam. I don't think there's any information we can give them that they don't already have access to on such matters. Steam isn't exactly a secret internet novelty these days. Thus, when it starts sounding to me like some grandiose Pros-n-Cons pitch to the devs I feel compelled to point out that it has already crossed their minds (and, for whatever reasons, was ultimately rejected).

I don't have an axe to grind here (if there were a suggestion that CoH be *solely* available through Steam then I would), or an argument to win.

How "cool" it would be to have CoH on Steam is entirely subjective and relies on a lot of supposition. *If* it brought in some decent players, that could be cool; but if there was more chaff than wheat it might be more of a detriment. If it brought in more money which allowed the devs to make even more new items, that could be cool; but if many of those items were Steam exclusives it would absolutely suck. It's hard to have an opinion on shaky ground like that. I can give reasons why I currently don't use Steam, many of which boil down to the fact that it's basically useless to me, but they may be moot in the bigger picture. ::shrug::

I make googlets (a diminutive hyperbolic googol) of characters inspired by any number of things - dreams, myths, chemical names, songs, etc. But, alas, my most recent song-inspired creation was a failure due to me relying entirely on my memory.

There I was, staring at the character creation screen, unable to create the character I made in Beta for Water Blast for various reasons and pondering options...

When it occurred to me that the set might aesthetically play well with Poison. So I chose a Corruptor with Water and Poison and went to the powers tab to green up the water, and with some fiddling I found it to be rather delightfully slimy.

"Slime," said I, "why, I could make a slime creature... from outer space!"

And then I made the mistake of going from memory of a song I hadn't heard in ages. I gave it a space suit with exposed hands and a bubble helmet. For the head and hands I chose the Bio-Organic look with blue veins (which, I reasoned, could represent fungus) and gave him Insect Eyes.

I was amused! But later, while at work, I found myself puzzling over the half-remembered lyrics and looked up the song. To my dismay I found that it was their *hands* rather than their *heads* that were covered with fungus, and they had *reptilian* skin (and an evil-looking grin). And worse, their powers would probably be best represented by something like a Rad/Psi Blaster. And the FAIL crashed down upon me. I will have to delete it and try something else. Bah.

One of those cheesy activity books based on a comic book property with colouring pages, puzzles, connect-the-dots, etc.

I could go for Armor/Assault (or Armor+Support/Assault), Armor/Ranged, or Armor/Control. Especially Armor/Control - I think I'd make the APPs for the AT Assault-esque.