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I guess... I’m.... done with my new Hero app? Oof, I don’t know if this is too overpowered, or if his weakness balances everything out.

Haedros 92712 wrote:I guess... I’m.... done with my new Hero app? Oof, I don’t know if this is too overpowered, or if his weakness balances everything out.

Lemme take a quick look.

Yeahhhh....H, I love ya, but as far as Collin goes, yeah, no. Like you figured, the main problem being that he's overpowered. WAY overpowered. Whenever I read a character app and it says something like my guy can sink a navy destroyer, that might be a clue that maybe he's a tad overpowered, just a tad. Even if he can only sustain that level for a second, it's too much. And I still think the whole idea of a percentage scale is just too complicated. There's no real way to easily translate, for instance, operating at 50 percent above your limiter, into a concrete, real-world measurement that a player can understand. Does that mean he can lift a truck? A jumbo jet? And on top of all of that, he also has a bulletproof, shock-absorbing suit and possesses a genius-level intellect. Too much.

And the backstory about his dad's experiments is just too vague. Essentially it sounds like what Ajax did to Wade in Deadpool except Wade already had a mutant gene that was just waiting to be triggered. I know your whole point is that you don't need to be a mutant or a meta, that anyone can exceed their limiter with the right training. But that's also the problem. It makes it seem like that all a person has to do is find themselves in an extreme enough situation and wish hard enough and they get superpowers. Sorta like that old story of the mother being able to lift a car off their child. But by that logic, if Harvey Bullock was in a beatdown with Bane, he could get superpowers and I think we all agree that no one wants to see a superpowered Harvey.

I really don't see how you can make this work, Haedros, without a complete overhaul of your character's powers and I don't know if you want to do that. Sorry.

Hey Main, just wanted to let ya know, Great Post! I'll have a reply for ya more then likely tomorrow.

United States of Brainy wrote:Hey Main, just wanted to let ya know, Great Post! I'll have a reply for ya more then likely tomorrow.

Alright, sounds good.

United States of Brainy wrote:Yeahhhh....H, I love ya, but as far as Collin goes, yeah, no. Like you figured, the main problem being that he's overpowered. WAY overpowered. Whenever I read a character app and it says something like my guy can sink a navy destroyer, that might be a clue that maybe he's a tad overpowered, just a tad. Even if he can only sustain that level for a second, it's too much. And I still think the whole idea of a percentage scale is just too complicated. There's no real way to easily translate, for instance, operating at 50 percent above your limiter, into a concrete, real-world measurement that a player can understand. Does that mean he can lift a truck? A jumbo jet? And on top of all of that, he also has a bulletproof, shock-absorbing suit and possesses a genius-level intellect. Too much.

And the backstory about his dad's experiments is just too vague. Essentially it sounds like what Ajax did to Wade in Deadpool except Wade already had a mutant gene that was just waiting to be triggered. I know your whole point is that you don't need to be a mutant or a meta, that anyone can exceed their limiter with the right training. But that's also the problem. It makes it seem like that all a person has to do is find themselves in an extreme enough situation and wish hard enough and they get superpowers. Sorta like that old story of the mother being able to lift a car off their child. But by that logic, if Harvey Bullock was in a beatdown with Bane, he could get superpowers and I think we all agree that no one wants to see a superpowered Harvey.

I really don't see how you can make this work, Haedros, without a complete overhaul of your character's powers and I don't know if you want to do that. Sorry.

I think I will do that, actually. Instead of super powerful melee Hero, I kinda sorta structured his character to be a bit more like a techie/inventor type hero, what with the high level intellect, computer based job and skills. I’m just gonna overhaul his powers and such to make him more like a young tony stark type character, inventing his own tech and such. Nowhere near as advanced though.

Halfway through a post, will probably be done tomorrow.

Yaana Noore wrote:Halfway through a post, will probably be done tomorrow.

Neato

Haedros, you gonna post for bane?

Skarten wrote:Haedros, you gonna post for bane?

Yeah, I’m switching gears back to IC mode again now that I’ve temporarily stopped writing up apps.

Haedros 92712 wrote:

I think I will do that, actually. Instead of super powerful melee Hero, I kinda sorta structured his character to be a bit more like a techie/inventor type hero, what with the high level intellect, computer based job and skills. I’m just gonna overhaul his powers and such to make him more like a young tony stark type character, inventing his own tech and such. Nowhere near as advanced though.

He could be an alcoholic!

I'm sorry guys... just busy. I want to continue and will try and post tomorrow, but at the same time...

Personal Freedom wrote:I'm sorry guys... just busy. I want to continue and will try and post tomorrow, but at the same time...

Hey, no pressure, PF. I don't want you stressing over this so take your time and write whenever you get a chance.

The Electrician has buzzed by the Penny Arcade.

I saw that, Pax! Really great posts, everyone! And Calendar Man makes his first appearance in the story, yay! Okay, posted for the Scooby gang.

United States of Brainy wrote:I saw that, Pax! Really great posts, everyone! And Calendar Man makes his first appearance in the story, yay! Okay, posted for the Scooby gang.

Prepare yourself for awful electricity puns.

United States of Brainy wrote:I saw that, Pax! Really great posts, everyone! And Calendar Man makes his first appearance in the story, yay! Okay, posted for the Scooby gang.

Yeah, I hope it was an okay post, I wasn't sure what to write about, hopefully someone can bring me into the story

Posted for Talia.

Awesome posts! I'll have a Babs post up tonight and maybe one for the kids too. I'll hold off on a Pengy post until at least tomorrow and give Freedom a chance for another Hatter post.

Posted for jules

Great post, Skarten! Had to google lamellar armor and Chui hammers. I love learning new things!

United States of Brainy wrote:Great post, Skarten! Had to google lamellar armor and Chui hammers. I love learning new things!

Then you know it's not very easy to get those through the florest (or whatever you call the patch of land with lots of tree n stuff) like that

Skarten wrote:

United States of Brainy wrote:Great post, Skarten! Had to google lamellar armor and Chui hammers. I love learning new things!

Then you know it's not very easy to get those through the florest (or whatever you call the patch of land with lots of tree n stuff) like that

Hahaha, yeah, I'd imagine a machete or a giant pair of garden shears might have been more handy.

And posted for Babs! (I don't know whether I'll be able to get a post done for the scooby gang tonight, we'll see.)

United States of Brainy wrote:

Skarten wrote:Then you know it's not very easy to get those through the florest (or whatever you call the patch of land with lots of tree n stuff) like that

Hahaha, yeah, I'd imagine a machete or a giant pair of garden shears might have been more handy.

And posted for Babs! (I don't know whether I'll be able to get a post done for the scooby gang tonight, we'll see.)

Lmao good post.
I'll try to respond when i can.
Expect the historian to dump the fault to all the museum stuff with daimian on babs

Skarten wrote:Lmao good post.
I'll try to respond when i can.
Expect the historian to dump the fault to all the museum stuff with daimian on babs

Thanks! And poor Babs, everyone's blaming her for everything!

Okay, gotta eat now, be back later!