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I can't find Arcanaville's lovely post on the "delete cookies" messages, but I've noticed a thing.

As we're all aware, the forums randomly instruct browsers to delete all cookies, such that if you are active on the forums for a few hours, you will likely be logged out several times.

Well, I've been less active, and I've noticed a thing:

1. All of my cookies have an expected duration of "until next year" or at least a few months out.
2. With perfect reliability so far, if I haven't used the forums for a day or two, and I come back, I'm logged out.

Hypothesis: Rather than telling vB to generate shorter login cookies, someone cleverly did something to attempt to implement session timeouts by flagging start times and deleting "old" sessions. It has a finite cache. If your session gets flushed from the cache, that also makes you get a delete-cookies request, because you're presumed to be "old".

In any event, I think the completely consistent logouts given longer time intervals probably mean something.

Boy, torn. I mean, yeah, would LOVE the Roman costume piece unlocks at level 1... But getting only some of them sort of undermines that.

Clown shoes, swimming flippers, stuff like that. Snorkel.

Guns which are Obviously Toy Guns. Giant nerf/super-soaker models for beam weapons, for instance.

On the Even More Ridiculous end, a giant tied/folded ribbon for archery sets. ("I went to the store, I asked for the biggest bow they had, they gave me this. Shut up.")

Pom-poms, like, intentional ones, not just Energy Melee.

A claws set which is a pair of kittens strapped to your hands.

Stripper tassels chest piece. M/F/H.

A set of "armor" that looks like high-end WoW raiding gear. Everyone there seems to think it looks funny, probably they're right.

Guitar for battle axe sets.

Beat-up old laptop shield.

Here's my thought. The blaster secondaries don't get much love, and I think that's partially because only one archetype uses them at all.

What if there were an archetype which used the blaster secondaries, but was either a melee or mixed-range build? Say, using the Assault sets from doms, or some melee sets. This would give the devs another way to sanity-check or evaluate balancing around classes without as many defense options.

Furthermore, I'm pretty sure that such characters would actually be weaker than blasters, giving blasters a chance to feel useful by comparison.

And who wouldn't want to play martial arts/devices?

I have seen players engage in outrage about how horrible it is to let people get mounts from level 1 in an MMO. OUTRAGE! How dare you let people do stuff without so much hassle?



I like CoH's travel model.

I make billions of inf off it, but I don't actually like it entirely -- I really like having the ability to advertise prices, I like the possibility of a range of offered prices, stuff like that.

Crashed to desktop during the pull.

I got the enhancement trays because, sure, expensive, but the QoL improvement is huge. Also some but not nearly all of the salvage and recipe storage.

And one costume slot, because having every character able to costume change right away makes life better.

Mastermind sets:
clowns
pirates

Blaster sets:
actually does more damage than other ATs by enough to matter blast
utility which makes a meaningful difference manipulation

Defender sets:
A set labeled "HEALING" which is actually useful.

More seriously:
Elemental sets which have the option of either always or never having a weapon. I don't use any elemental melee sets because I want a consistent combat style, and "some of my attacks use a sword, others don't" doesn't work for me.

I'd sort of like to see Radiation Melee.

Oh, and another mastermind set: Cats. You can't control them but they're adorable.

I have had pleasant experiences involving flight, a non-flying spawn, a snipe attack, and a good book to read during recharge.

Can go either way. Sometimes I have a concept in mind and I pick powers that fit it. Sometimes I want to play with a power set and the character is built for that. (Thus my Axe brute, "Let's Go Chopping")

Looks like the devs are on their way to a hiding, unless they can come up with something to placate Arcanaville.

I make money on the market. Went off and played another game for a bit, came back a couple billion inf richer.

To be fair, the specific reason I rarely team is a brain abnormality which is generally regarded as a "disorder". But it's not antisocial personality disorder. (I think the world as a whole is probably very, very, happy that I do not have antisocial personality disorder.)

I've seen no evidence that such a class exists. Everyone I know who avoids pugs does so because of a genuine personal preference against them, or just because they are genuinely busy, or are genuinely interested in doing something non-pug-friendly, such as playing while watching TV.

Just a clarification: "Antisocial personality disorder" is not "doesn't like to socialize". It's "seeks out opportunities to harm others". People who are refusing to socialize with strangers because they don't feel like it are not doing that.