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Re: Well, I have my Defeated Grond perk now Teliosaurus has never been soloable as far as I know. It's possible to build a char who can tank him, but he triggers regeneration when he gets to 2/3 health and heals faster than one tank-build character can damage him.

Re: Well, I have my Defeated Grond perk now Have a map of his jump destinations and 10+ people beating on him.

I think the only major I still haven't defeated is Teliosaurus.

Re: Disappointment Typically because RPG systems are dependent on GM interaction to actually work, and MMOs lack a GM. In the case of the Hero system, one of the essential roles of the GM is to weed out horribly broken builds.

Re: Is "ether" real?

Re: Is "ether" real? You could in principle decide to call 'dark matter' ether, but doing so has no useful function and is likely to confuse people. Having finally read the article, the first sentence tells me enough to know that JP has no idea what he's talking about: The major evidence for the special theory of relativity is the Michaelson-Morely (sic) experiment, which demonstrated that there was no "ether wind" due to the movement of the earth through it. This is simply not true. Michelson-Morley was one of the experiments that led up to SR (and was resolved, initially, via the Lorenz Contraction), but it's hardly either the only evidence, or the major evidence.

Re: I have faced, the Destroyer.... The Super Destroyer isn't actually harder than the Retribution Devices you get in stage 3 of the open mission; he has more powerful individual attacks, but being swarmed by twenty destroids will make you face-plant right quick too.

Re: 'Hero System' online The vast majority of NPCs in the game could be produced with the costume editor, and probably have exactly the same animations available as PCs. The exception is things like grondlings (4 arms) and various animals.

Re: 'Hero System' online Nah, shapechange is actually fairly easy as long as you're willing to ignore some graphics problems that occur even for player character models; you're limited to models with full animation, but that's not just PC models. It's tricky to make it do anything worthwhile (tweak aggro code?), but not hard to make it have a cosmetic effect. Generally true. You can still let it see through objects where an other side actually exists. Same applies to tunneling, desolid, teleport, though you'd be adding a lot of special-casing to your movement code for a pretty marginal benefit. So? It usually winds up as 'click to bypass plot point X', but that's not totally worthless. Again, though, requires a lot of special-casing, here in quest design. Hardly. You just use the standard lazy method of mind control -- you adjust the mob's internal faction definition and it uses its normal AI.

Re: Ultraviolet vision- What the heck would it do? Realistically, UV vision has very few applications that would be relevant in fantasy -- there's less natural UV light than there is visible light. However, there's a tradition in RPGs, dating back to D&D, of thinking that UV vision allows seeing by starlight.

Re: 'Hero System' online Have you ever actually attempted to work on an online game? I have (old-school MUD), and I assure you, creating balanced rules is exponentially harder without a GM. Certainly, the Hero System as written would not work, though you could certainly come closer than CO does.

Re: 'Hero System' online

Re: List Your CO Nemeses!

Re: Cool, possibly vapor-ware, new capacitor tech

Re: Cool, possibly vapor-ware, new capacitor tech Hey, I recognize that name! They've been making wild claims about ultracapacitors for a while.

Re: Anybody else having problems? Probably. It only started a few hours ago, so the server is likely a bit loaded down.

Re: Abilities Discussion Go to your combat log and look for the messages about gaining energy. The 'energy recovery mode for 15 seconds' means 'Your AM won't give you any energy until this mode terminates', which is why AM generally sucks (In most fights, it's basically going to go off once, for about as much energy as a single energy builder attack). If you have a point lying around and your build has energy issues it may be worth dropping it on a power you use regularly which has a high rate of fire, but certainly don't put it on multiple powers, or expect very much out of it.

Re: CHAMPIONS 6E -- What Do *You* Want To See? In any case, Mega-Crossovers have been a feature of the genre during a period that's clearly Iron Age, unless you think Crisis on Infinite Earths and Secret Wars don't count.

Re: Respecing Might based on Test Server notes Well, if you take invuln you're no longer a pure might built (as invuln is a PA power), but yes, it's a tier 1 power so you can take it as your 4th power. It's probably possible to design a build where defiance is really good, but you'll have trouble -- for most of the chaff fights you deal with in the game, you'll be able to get about two stacks of might before it ends, and since it takes 20 seconds for your resting heal to start ticking up, your defiance expires before the next fight. I'd consider it for the new Celestial builds, actually; you probably want a heal power if you're taking Defiance.

Re: Technical: Game Controller Unless you're using an Xbox360 controller, there's no vanilla way to do so, though there are various key binding systems that will let you emulate keyboard/mouse control with your controller.

Re: Abilities Discussion Nekrull is one of the weaker legendaries, but I'm not sure how practical he is to solo.

Re: LFG - Saturday Night 10-17-2009 Actually, it's a staged timed mission, which gives you 10 minutes per stage. I think only the last stage (which may not be doable before the end anyway) has serious time pressure.

Re: Abilities Discussion

Re: Abilities Discussion If the power doesn't act in a way that corresponds to the power text, it's a bug somewhere -- either the power is wrong, or the description is wrong. In this case, it's probably a bug with the power, though it may be an issue with power classification.

Re: List Your CO Heroes! See this sticky thread.