The_Demon_Hunter

Okay I just got around to crafting and placing 15 Slow Fields in the sewers surrounding Web-Spinner's Amazing Friends base to help give the sewage some semblance of fluidity. I've used these before in bases to help give a water look to pools, as have most of us, I think.

In the recent upgrades/changes of i17m we saw that Slow Fields were messed up. Tonight when I placed the Slow Fields though, the fields showed as being nearly transparent with not much of a water effect to it, at least not compared to how they used to be from my memory. Is anyone else noticing the same thing?

I've noticed for a couple months now that you can't add a pattern to Armor Plate legs anymore. I tried on Male, Female, and Huge bodies. No idea when this problem came up, to be honest, as I don't often edit costumes that have Armor Plate legs.

There's no option to do so at all, and the Armor Plates default to having the previous two-tone Armor Plate coloring with no selection available otherwise. The pattern selection menu bar is greyed-out with the only text being "Not Available" (I think that's the text there).

As an example, one my toons uses the armor plate legs in white with a gold magic pattern on them. I can no longer create additional versions of her with this look, nor can I make any changes to her costume otherwise without losing that look. I've had Skjor with that look for two years now, with the only change being a swap from tech wings to the armored Valkyrie wings when the Mac edition came out last year.

Hopefully this can be fixed again soon.

I've got opinions on a few of the topics raised in this thread.

Brand, as you probably know, I have a RP SG that is very much about classic style heroes. And you've seen and worked with my main, DH, both IC and OOC.

DH is now a reserve member of the House of Heroes. His willingness to take the life of a villain or criminal goes in direct conflict with the ideals of the group, particularly the SG's leader and some of the officers. It's why he isn't considered part of the active roster. He's mostly brought in grudgingly when his talents and abilities are needed.

We had a situation quite a while back, where one of the officers of House of Heroes (then an officer in another SG in your coalition actually) confronted DH about reports of a rampage through Skyway, where he was taking out Lost by the dozen. It didn't end well as they got into a big fight there in the street. That led to a bunch of characters viewing DH in a very different light for a while there, when the end result was that DH actually cut her up in that fight with his katana.

Those were all IC interactions, and there were IC repercussions for DH. His relationship with that other character is a tremendous source of tension in the SG. He's since taken a step back from his darkest times because of other RP elements in his life, but he's still viewed with suspicion and distrust by at least some members of the SG. These are the consequences of his actions, no matter what regrets he may have of how that night ended. It stays with him to this day, and he will never be a full-fledged member of the roster because of it.

Now all of this involves a certain amount of trust between the players involved. In this case, I had been RP'ing with the other player for a while and the end result of that encounter was actually her idea. If this was someone new to the SG and this was the first time they RP'd with us, we'd pull them aside in an OOC manner and remind them that this wasn't what we look for in our SG and that it wasn't welcome.

Hypocritical? Some might say so, but I view it as part of a larger whole.

That storyline was acceptable for us because it was part of a much larger picture and so we chose to see where it would take us. If a new player to the group chooses to make that one of their first RP storylines, then it makes up a much larger percentage of the SG's interactions with the player and character, IC and OOC. As a result I'd be far more hesitant to allow that to go on as part of our group than if one of our established members, because we simply haven't seen that they have more depth in mind than that. And in either case, the players must also be willing to accept the consequences for their characters' actions.

If IC, DH had been tossed from the SG for what he did, it would have been justified and I would have removed him. That's the consequences for his actions and that's something every player needs to look at when they do things in RP.

As far as death goes, I believe that most of us in my SG(s) view a defeat not as a death but incapacitation. Basically they've been beaten into unconsciousness and require medical attention or the situation could worsen and potentially lead to death. Death is death. You don't come back from that without serious intervention and it's not something to be taken lightly. We've only had one character actually die in our SG.

When it comes to Godmoding, I view that as any attempt to force another player to accept that your character has some kind of major ability that is simply above and beyond anything involved in their in-game powers. The term probably comes from games like Doom, where you could have a Godmode that made you invincible and all-powerful.

An example would be a fire control character that ignores psychic defenses of any kind to manipulate people telepathically as though they're Professor X's more powerful uncle or something, to the point of telling you what your character is really feeling and what they are going to do. That's not only godmoding but poor RP, as that person is not leaving any room for another player's actions, choices, or background as to what will or won't affect their own character.

If that same player created an alt version of the fire control character that had both fire and psychic powers, then you have room to start moving in that direction a little, but you still can't just claim you're an all powerful psychic being with other players having no say in what their own characters do.

That's an example of godmoding that I've actually seen in this game in RP.

I still blame Red, as has been done since the dawn of time (or at least as long as I've known him, which would be like.... two and a half years or something... close enough though, right?). Such a blaming is considered SOP for my SG and our allies and friends.

Was in an all troller/dom ITF, hitting the initial ambush in the third mish when it crashed.

And in the middle of a rockin' all troller/dom ITF too....

I believe there is only one way to resolve this. There needs to be a beating.

Summon forth a Bryan! (or Brian if available. Our cult is not picky in this manner)

I blame Red.

As far as I know, there are only 9 beacons to place for a red zone base. I have all but Pocket D in my base, and that takes up 4 telepads.

You're set up just fine.

Very nicely done indeed. I look forward to seeing more from you as you continue your base building.

Very nicely done indeed.

At any rate, it likely requires more work to give us new functional items that can be placed in bases than simply giving us visual objects that have no new function. The thread is looking for basic stuff that should be easy for them to give us with little or no development time. I'd think that rules out adding NPCs or objects that act as access to WW, Icon, etc for the purposes of this thread.

Beating a dead horse, I know, but I'd like to at least see existing in-game items added to the base editor. It doesn't have to be over the top elaborate. But looking around the game, there are objects like pinball machines, the crates and stuff in the back room at WW, or the stuff in Mr. Yin's store that can and should be recycled for base placement whenever possible.

That's by no means a comprehensive list of items by the way. Just what came off the top of my head.

I had it slotted in SC for my SD/EM tanker, and in two weeks of play never saw it go off in or out of AE so I replaced it when I respec'd him. *shrugs* You seem to have had better luck with it than I did.

The FF +Rech proc works just fine in AE in Dragon's Tail, Footstomp, and Thunder Strike, just from my personal observation. I wouldn't slot that proc in SC or LR simply because the power doesn't come up often enough to make it worthwhile in my opinion, even if it did work there.



*Edited for typo

I'm just glad my TF ended before the crash. Beyond annoying at this point though.

I'll definitely be stealing some of these subway station ideas as an addition to the underground area so there's more than just sewers outside Web-Spinner's Amazing Friends' base.

Must... farm... for... Prestige...!

If I recall, the Vet posters still have no image on the back side, so they're see-through from the back. If you use cubicles to float them out to make your wall area, it should be able to be done.