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I was curious if it was powered beyond the chest light. I suspect it was just a really heavy cosmetic suit.

That I put under the category of BFD.

I am reasonably sure that if the military felt like re-opening those closed projects they could make it succeed owing to advances in computers and control techniques. The originals failed primarily owing to those issues.

However the guy cited in the article isn't even looking at those issues. He's strapped a couple of fans to an engine and somehow magically assumes it will be controllable. It won't. If he removes those straps that tie it to the ground it will not be in any way stable and it is very likely to hurt someone, especially if someone is dumb enough to try and ride it.

Materials don't mean squat here (I'm a materials guy by training, so I'm not selling them short). This is a matter of controls. He doesn't have any controls on it whatsoever. It's just an engine and some fans. That means just basic torque issues are likely to make the damn thing flip over.

Just read the article. As I mentioned he doesn't have basic gyro-stabilization yet. That's well short of the kind of actual computer control system you would need to really pilot such a beast. This is nothing of consequence yet, and without real money and someone with a clue, it never will be.

Didn't know it was out yet. I suppose I should look into picking it up.

Yeah, I bet Belgium has a higher population than all the large primates left on the planet. This is so far from a reasonable fight as to make it laughable. The trailer had a scene in it with chimps armed with spears. Was I supposed to be impressed or laugh?

I'll be skipping the movie.

I do admit this did seem rather fishy at the time. I fully expected Erik to try and smash him since he had a field day with everything else at hand. It did seem to be a bit of a weak point.

However I found the movie to be quite good overall. It wasn't perfect, but it was certainly one of the best in the X Men series of films.

You're crossing the streams here. Adamantium is a Marvel concept (as is Vibranium). DC has it's own analogs in Promethium, and later in LSH Inertron. I don't think Prometium has quite the ridiculous level of indestructibility of adamatium, but inertron does. In LSH inertron is frequently used to cage or secure Superman level captives.

So there's your DC armor material. You just need to wait 1000 years.

Oh as to Captain America's shield, what makes it particularly special is that it is an allow of adamantium and vibranium which nobody has been able to duplicate. This it combines the indestructibility of the former with the energy absorption properties of the latter.

Cosmo Knights are not actually powered by a suit of armor, the power is actually imbued in the individual by the Cosmic Forge. The Cosmo Knight thing is a fairly transparent ripoff of the Green Lantern Corps, but without their being a distinct item handed over to power the members. It's more akin to the wizard Shazam empowering Captain Marvel.

Oddly enough there are even more stupidly powerful classes available in Rifts if you try. Then again that's Rifts.

I'm pretty sure the accountants will.

OK, I'm done. Talking to a brick wall would be more productive. You just can't grasp that people take the path of least resistance, and part of game design is to avoid making that possible.

You don't even have the first clue of what a real strawman would be, so this is going to go nowhere. Anything you can't actually refute you label a strawman, which is hardly a means of debate.

Luckily for the game, the devs will have the sense to ignore nonsense such as you suggest.

Actually I probably wouldn't find a problem in that. Moving up the food chains with threads past uncommons takes a heck of a lot of threads, so gating again with the shard->conversion limitation was rather silly. I considered it an error to add another form of currency when it was convertible 1:1.

I guess there was some valid concern about people who had stockpiled immense quantities of shards, and they were dealing with that. However I should think it wouldn't be a problem to remove the restriction on conversion now.

What a truly bizarre distortion of my point.

My point was that people would be smart, and pick the easiest path. Doing extra work is not smart. Doing more difficult or tedious tasks when then is an alternative is not smart.

If you want to make attaining something an actual accomplishment, you can't make the easiest path just as efficient as a harder one. This isn't exactly rocket science, though I suspect managing to convince you of it may require such.

Yes, and you are suggesting making it so that people can tunnel themselves into their comfortable paths no matter how trivial and easy they may be and still get every shiny without seeing the whole breadth and depth of the game.

It is not a crime against gaming to make different paths have different rewards. If I want to collect purple IOs, my best path is to solo missions set at x8. If I want to collect merits, my best bet is speed runs of TFs or Oro arcs. Hami Os obviously call for Hami raids, STFs or LRSFs. If I want shards, I will do TFs on big teams. These activities all have their independent rewards. There is nothing wrong with that.

If the goal is to make something a challenge, that the notion of becoming incarnate is something more difficult than falling off a log, there has to be specific content for it. It should be hard content, not the trivially easy content that fills the rest of the game. The content which, as you add incarnate powers, becomes laughable easy.

I have no objection to there being solo incarnate content, or incarnate TFs (Tin Mage and Apex should give more incarnate rewards IMO). However something as stupidly easy as an ITF should not give out top tier rewards. That incarnate content will have to be specifically hard, and allow for a measured pace of acquiring the powers.

Your entitlement mentality does appeal to plenty of people, but that's just a sad state of affairs.

Gates to what? The only abilities gained in trials which could be looked upon as gating(level shifts) apply only in trials (as the level shift powers themselves say). So the trials are gates only to other trials. If you don't like the trials in the first place, how exactly does this hurt you? You are barred from stuff you don't like anyway? Boo hoo.

Yes and no. They do have a cooldown for the empyrian merits, which are looking to be pretty appealing.

It is no more farming than the Hami raid (or the ship raid for that matter).

Though there's a question for you, did you bother to get up in arms over the Mothership raid? It's the only realistic means of gathering Vanguard merits in quantity, and it's pretty clearly a farm. It doesn't even have a cooldown.

DAMN THOSE DEVS AND THEIR MOTHERSHIP RAID FARM!!!11!!.

In spite of you evidently not realizing it, it does. You explicitly state you want incarnate rewards handed out for all content at a reasonable pace. If the players get to pick the content, they will pick the easiest content and blaze through it. Whether or not you in particular will do that is irrelevant. It is how the majority will behave.

Nope. You just don't understand the dynamics of how people play MMOs and the inherent implications of your suggestions.

Electric has the highest resistances outside of granite. It actually has 2 holes (sorta) though. The toxic hole is a complete one unless you are in power surge. Then there's negative energy which sits appreciably under the rest of your resistances. With the tier 4 cardiac, my electric armor tanker has 60% resistance to F/C/Psi, and 85% resistance to L/S. I have used IOs to get my negative energy resistance up to 61% (odd how that's one of the very few resistances you can actually boost with IOs). Energy is capped of course.

The set also manages additional mitigation via endurance drain. That can work better than you would expect.

But to address the OP, granite is king. You pay a lot to do it (either with the unpleasant debuffs built in, or the massive pile of influence you spend on IOs to offet those debuffs).

Good point. The steady decline of Peanuts over the years was really a tragedy to watch. If you go back to the very early Peanuts strips, those were brilliant. Eventually, however, Schultz pretty much lost it and just kept shoveling out dross.

Sure, let's make incarnate advancement available through the easiest possible means, without even a modicum of difficulty.

Heck, why don't we just hand out the powers to anyone who logs in?

Since we're on that note, we should have everyone auto advance to 50 when they make a new alt as well. Why waste their time with all that 'work' of leveling up?

Why? Everyone loves bacon.

No doubt there's plenty in both camps. I have plenty in my SG which have extensive backgrounds for their mains and such. I really have no issue with the devs catering to such player since, as you say, it doesn't have any negative impact on me.

Yeah, I don't really have a problem with the RP concerns until they get unrealistic in their demands of dev time. For example, I don't have a beef with there being a solo path. It will just have to be hard and fairly time consuming. The problem is people can't seem willing to accept that resources are limited and some things have to be developed before others. At the moment some people are seeing every dev utterance in the context of "does this mean we get solo incarnate stuff NOW?" and that gets tiresome.

The current trials (and the next two) have been in the works for a while now. The trial plans are not going to be dropped to pursue the solo path. Companies don't work that way. The devs have said they will address the solo path issue, and you can believe them or not. While I understand people are quite concerned about the topic harping on it in the short term, when the message has been communicated it just gets to be nagging.

You may not be roleplaying in the idea of standing around pocket D hamming it up, but you are certainly roleplaying in that you play the character in a manner which suits their personality. You limit your play options (not build, but actual choice of what to play) based on their background and personality. That is roleplaying. I certainly don't mean to impugn it by any means (I've been pen and paper roleplaying for 30+ years).

I don't do that. I don't really know that I've ever done it in this game or any other MMO. I just play what is available to play without any concern about what that character might do, simply because I don't think out that angle.

I consider the MMO environment not conducive to roleplaying as I wish to do it, so I don't even try. As always YMMV.

I know it's just me, but the whole business of how an MMO works quickly sank any focus I had on roleplaying characters a long time ago. I play to play a game, not to roleplay a character. I do pen and paper games for actual roleplaying.

So the way I play there is no matter of a villain concept getting in the way of being a rogue. I do go with the 'path of least resistance' as you call it. I build characters I think would be neat to play based on power set combinations. I don't even bother to cook up origins or back stories anymore.

I can understand that other people approach things differently and it can cause a problem. However I have to wonder if there are more gamists (like me) or roleplayers out there. A preponderance of the former will certainly lead to path of least resistance issues with side switching.