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Now, if PL'ers are indeed skewing the data as you claim, why would the developers make it even easier to level? Shouldn't they be taking the opposite steps to try to slow down the progression speed? It would seem that what the developers are doing is the direct opposite of what you're suggesting they should do.

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Perhaps they are making it easier to level in a somewhat misguided attempt to deter people from PLing... aka, they wouldn't feel the need to, because they can play the game "as intended" and get to whatever level they want in a fairly pain-free way.

...or this.

Or do this.

It's a bit nostalgic. It reminds me of the time before I first posted, and was only lurking. I saw that avatar everywhere.

Also, it is really easy to up your post count... just put anything you want in the Suggestions Forum and defend it... regardless of how stupid your defense of it may be.

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Fixed punctuation issues in Mastermind Pet Response text strings.

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Nice! It is such a minor thing, but I was annoyed that the Arsonist kept using his semi-colon as an apostrophe. I bugged this shortly after I played red for the first time.

Current roster:
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Original Forever Phalanx AT Powersets Forum Name (Global)
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Statesman Highborn Tank Invuln/SS MegaMarvel (@Centurion)
Sister Psyche Brother Onyx WS Warshade Thirty_Seven (@Thirty7)
Citadel Break Away Scrp MA/Invuln Mistah_H (@HSZMV)
Synapse Axonic Defn Kin/Elec Senith (@Senith)
B.A. Brawler Meanstreet Tank Fire/Dark KingSnake (@KingSnake)
Ms. Liberty Ms. Autonomy Scrp Kat/Regen Reserve (@ReserveD08)
Woodsman Green Fellow Cont Plant/Storm DArtagnan (@DArtagnan)
Infernal Ascendent D'Shall Scrp BS/Shield -- (@Vincent Marcone)

Manticore Grifin's Claw Scrp Claws/WP CheshireKatt (@RavenHeart)
Positron Plasmatron DRS Cont Fire/Rad Shojo (@HikariKenzaki)
&amp; Spectron DRS Defn Kin/Rad " "
Numina Transcend Blst Energy/MM MagentaBolt (@Magenta Bolt)
Malaise Collective Mind Cont Mind/Kin Fushicho (@Fushicho)
Valkyrie Sigun Tank WP/Mace Arakhna (@Arakhna)
Mynx Mixeta Scrp Claws/Regen -- (@Truka)
Swan Dark Duckling Defn Kin/Dark -- (@Justinia)

[Open Characters: Aurora Borealis and Luminary]
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Yep, I do use Trillain.

I was thinking something like this. SFW...but a shirtless rugby player.

*goes off to a happy place*

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Holy goodness is he hot!!

Just be thankful that you have a fam— err, that you like family reunions.

I lost the charger to my cellphone.

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I will never understand why some people are so obsessed with how fast *other* people are leveling. How fast I PL my alt has nothing to do with anybody else. The world would be a far better place if people would just direct all that misguided energy to more worthy... causes.

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If only you were right. If that were the case, I wouldn't give 2 squirts what you did in game.

If you think I am full of it, ask yourself how the Devs determine when a bump should be made to the XP Curve, or how they figure out when an enemy group isn't giving quite enough XP?
They datamine... and all your PLing messes with the results of those calculations, which thereby impacts the potential for a smoother game experience for me.

So, how is it again that your gameplay doesn't impact mine?

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Waaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh
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So... you don't dismiss the point of the post, but instead relegate it to little more than whining?

I guess that means there isn't anything there that you can refute on any actual basis?

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Actually, I do believe you're full of it. You're basing your arguement on a completely hypothetical assumption that may or may not reflect the actual methods that the devs use to make adjustments to their game.

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True, but we have to know that they do use some sort of number crunching method to ascertain what changes need/should be made.
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Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. An individual (in this case me) PLing my alts is not nearly significant enough to actually skew the results collected from a sample size of hundred of thousands of characters, if not millions.

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I guess I should have made it clear that while I did direct my post at you specifically... I was speaking rather more generally. Lots of people have the same attitude that you do: that PLing their own characters doesn't impact anything. None of us have numbers on that. However, I think we can all agree that is the case. Likewise, there are a whole lot of people using the AE to PL. I think it is clear that all of them put together ARE impacting the numbers the Devs use to make adjustments to the game.
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Your assumption might be true if the majority of the CoX subscribers have multiple accounts and they all use the PL method to level their alts. However, since there is no concrete evidence to support such a drastic claim, your guesswork does not qualify as a fact thus your argument falls apart.

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If one takes that narrow of a focus on the discussion of PLing, then yes, my argument would lack substance. But, I think that you and I both know that there are a large number of folks out there PLing frequently.

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Also keep in mind that when I used "your" and "you" I was using it in the general sense of "people's" and "they."

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Sounds like somebody got brawled to death.

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I don't see what the fuss is, personally. With one exception ( Flight's Air Superiority for Peacebringers ), the pool power attacks are available to everybody...

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Technically, it's two exceptions: Warshades can't take that power either.

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The funny thing is the original DBZ quote is "Over 8000", but poor translation of the American anime has warped it into 9000 &gt;.&gt;

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Ya learn something new everyday.
And people prolly thought this thread was pointless!

For some reason I came into this thread half expecting a link to the new Harry Potter movie...

However, the entertainment that is here is pretty decent.

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I talked to a friend, @truka, and he'll be making Mynx. name and sets to be announced tomorrow because I'm going to bed and hes making her in a few minutes.

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Nice. That means we only have 3 spots left on the Vindicators (Luminary, Swan and Aurora Borealis)! I think we may have to start looking at opening up another option in the near future.

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I will never understand why some people are so obsessed with how fast *other* people are leveling. How fast I PL my alt has nothing to do with anybody else. The world would be a far better place if people would just direct all that misguided energy to more worthy... causes.

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If only you were right. If that were the case, I wouldn't give 2 squirts what you did in game.

If you think I am full of it, ask yourself how the Devs determine when a bump should be made to the XP Curve, or how they figure out when an enemy group isn't giving quite enough XP?
They datamine... and all your PLing messes with the results of those calculations, which thereby impacts the potential for a smoother game experience for me.

So, how is it again that your gameplay doesn't impact mine?

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I was also thinking a Preatorian Arachnos.

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Now that could be cool. Or simply Arachnos characters from realities in which they are heroes.

I decided to give him a helmet with some personality and mess around with the colors Red, Grey, Black, Blue and Bone.

Front 1 | Back 1 | Side 1

Front 2 | Side 2

Front 3 | Back 3 | Side 3

WOW!! We have the Phalanx filled, and almost all of the Vindicators filled up as well!

Our most current roster with contact info for everyone is as follows:
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Original Forever Phalanx AT Powersets Forum Name (Global)
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Statesman Highborn Tank Invuln/SS MegaMarvel (@Centurion)
Sister Psyche Brother Onyx WS Warshade Thirty_Seven (@Thirty7)
Citadel Break Away Scrp MA/Invuln Mistah_H (@HSZMV)
Synapse Axonic Defn Kin/Elec Senith (@Senith)
B.A. Brawler Meanstreet Tank Fire/Dark KingSnake (@KingSnake)
Ms. Liberty Ms. Autonomy Scrp Kat/Regen Reserve (@ReserveD08)
Woodsman Green Fellow Cont Plant/Storm DArtagnan (@DArtagnan)
Infernal Ascendent D'Shall Scrp BS/Shield -- (@Vincent Marcone)

Manticore Grifin's Claw Scrp Claws/WP CheshireKatt (@RavenHeart)
Positron Plasmatron DRS Cont Fire/Rad Shojo (@HikariKenzaki)
&amp; Spectron DRS Defn Kin/Rad " "
Numina Transcend Blst Energy/MM MagentaBolt (@Magenta Bolt)
Malaise Collective Mind Cont Mind/Kin Fushicho (@Fushicho)
Valkyrie Sigun Tank WP/Mace Arakhna (@Arakhna)

[Open Characters: Luminary, Aurora Borealis, Mynx &amp; Swan]
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It is awesome that this thing has gotten off the ground as well as it has so far. If you plan to play with the main group on Thursday evenings, we are all in the Level 7-8ish range. If you are not going to be available at 8PM (Eastern) on Thursday, talk to @Fushicho and @RavenHeart to see when they will be available and you can team with them!

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And for those who want the tl;dr version: So what if it's a comic? it can be a good, realistic comic.

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Here here!!

I always think of reality or realistic within the confines of the universe that I am speaking. In a movie about modern day normal folks, no one should be able to fly. But in a comic book, certain things are expected, and within that realm certain suspensions of disbelief make the genre. However, that does not mean that EVERYTHING that could happen should, and is believable. Characters who can't warp time should still take a realistic amount of time to travel from one place to another, for example.

I get annoyed when people dismiss realism in comics out of hand just because people in comics do unrealistic things. One always has to look at realism with the rules of that "reality" in mind.

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ATs that don't have status protection were designed to not have status protection. The devs have stated that the game was designed so that any AT could solo on Heroic. They never said that any AT should be able to solo on Invincible.

Higher level enemies are only a threat because they can mez you. If you remove that ability everything becomes a cakewalk.

And in my opinion, cakewalk = boring.

I like having to think about what I'm doing whan I play squishies. If I could be immune to status effects I would just be sitting at the keyboard pressing buttons, with no thought or planning involved. Sorry, but that would bore me into a coma and I'd want to do something else before too long.

This game is already REALLY easy, why do people keep asking for things to make it easier?

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This, lots of this.

*Gets the popcorn*
Am I too late??

Also, it looks like MagentaBolt and Fushicho will be playing on a different schedule than us. But, they both seem keen on the idea, and are happy to team together (if there are others who can be on when they are, I'm sure they would love the extras!).

Also, do NOT forget to be playing in SG Mode, we can use all the prestige we can get at this point.

One last thing (this goes to MegaMarvel mostly)... Magenta has offered to coalition one of her SGs with us. It has a pretty decked out base, however, we will have to wait to coalition with them until Mega gets back... he is the only one with coalition privileges at the moment.

For the Phalanx!!

That's no biggie. We missed ya, but understood that something like that had prolly come up. Better luck next time... I hope!

Well, we had our first official play night. We met up and got invites to those who made it and pacted up. We started a bit later than we had originally planned and Break Away had some connectivity issues ... But, we managed to stop our first bank robbery and get some levels under our collective belts.

This particular session was all OOC, but we hope to be able to change that in the future once all of the "business" of the SG is under wraps.

If you missed this time, hook up with us next week! I will be happy to send SG invites to any of those who want them.

Here's a pic of us (minus Break Away because he DC-ed ).

The current roster:
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Original Forever Phalanx AT Powersets Forum Name (Global)
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Statesman Highborn Tank Invuln/SS MegaMarvel (@Centurion)
Sister Psyche Brother Onyx WS Warshade Thirty_Seven (@Thirty7)
Citadel Break Away Scrp MA/Invuln Mistah_H (@HSZMV)
Synapse Axonic Defn Kin/Elec Senith (@Senith)
B.A. Brawler Meanstreet Tank Fire/Dark KingSnake (@KingSnake)
Ms. Liberty Ms. Autonomy Scrp Kat/Regen Reserve (@ReserveD08)
Woodsman Green Fellow Cont Plant/Storm DArtagnan (@DArtagnan)
Infernal Ascendent D'Shall Scrp BS/Shield -- (@Vincent Marcone)

Manticore Grifin's Claw Scrp Claws/WP CheshireKatt (@ )
Positron Plasmatron DRS Cont Fire/Rad Shojo (@HikariKenzaki)
&amp; Spectron DRS Defn Kin/Rad " "
Numina Transcend Blst Energy/MM MagentaBolt (@Magenta Bolt)
Malaise Collective Mind Cont Mind/Kin Fushicho (@Fushicho)

[Open Character: Luminary, Aurora Borealis, Mynx, Swan &amp; Valkyrie]
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That's an awful large leap to get that he must be soft capped. The far simpler solution is exactly what the quoted poster implies: the tank was dumb.