William_Valence

Following the laws is a prerequisite of being a hero not a character requirement that chooses what your character is, for you.

As for Villain side, there's always been the ability to write off Arachnos as some big orginization that doesn't really matter, and just happens to give you work through faceless mooks every so often. However, that becomes fairly impossible once the great sand emo pops in and threaten's you for your compliance.


Cowardly

Stupid

Well, every interaction involving Dollface.

And the fact Dollface really should have won while the player was playing hero but didn't get credit.

Henchmen
Not to mention the ***** that occurs if you're not playing a Human or someone terribly weak to psionics.

That doesn't make it an example of something good. And neither is a good example for what should be done with the mission writing.

There are no conditions for new characters. Well, that's not true. The conditions for new characters are selecting origin, AT, primary powerset and first power, secondary powerset and power, costume, Power customization, and name.

There is no requirement for your character to be dumb, there is no requirement for this to be your character's first rodeo, and there is no requirement that you have to tremble whenever Recluse walks by.

You can play it however you wan't but your way isn't the only way, and other ways of playing are Viable as well.

One of the first things I do when I get to Sharkhead, is Leeroy the first strike I see.

And like I said before. It all boils down to the fact that while not everyone will treat my characters like big shots, my characters would still act like they're big shots.

Except for in graves, then my characters act like cowardly, stupid henchmen.

If a story is going to provide a voice for the character, it should use the Branching Dialogue tech available and provide options for different types of responses. Or they should stick to accept/Go do whatever contact said type responses.


Well, we know what kind of villain you are. -Sigh- you don't get it, he wasn't messing with you while fixing things. He was messing with you because there's no such thing as a mind bomb and you fell for Dollface's trick.

The secret password is "Hater's gotta hate"? It's insulting, who's stupid enough to fall for that?

Oh...right

Your right, but then again the games explanation of:

---OK player, your character will store all accumulated experience. Once your current experience point value breaks a predetermined threashold, you can go to a trainer. A trainer is a special NPC that will generate the power selection UI for or the Enhancement placement UI depending on which level you are. Oh, and the rules are you get one power every other level to 35 then one every three levels except from 47 to 49. Enhancement slots are two per level until level 29 and three per level after that. Level 50 is the cap and you will no longer gain experience, but you will gain double Inf. If you die you will get debt, but only after level 10. Debt takes half of your experience gain to pay off. Oh, and if you log off you get patrol xp which will pay off debt or increase your experience gain.---

Doesn't really work for any of my characters backstories. Curses devs and your Shoehorning ways /e shakes fist!

Good thing I'm not that worried about your opinion when it comes to what makes a good/viable story.

Level represents current power. Does a level 50 with the "Saved the world" badge become an inexperienced rookie if they Exemp down to do a Synapse, or helping a lower level character with a mission? How about a level 10 being SSKed up to 49? Are they all of a sudden Top tier experienced crime fighters, ignoring the fact that they lose it all the moment they aren't with their mentor anymore?

Security level is a what, specifically what your current power level is. It isn't, however, a why. Explain security levels however you want. Some of my heroes explain it as the ammount of force they're authorized to use against a specific threat. Being given more authority as they gain reputation with officials. Others explain it as the more bland evolution of power as they use abilities and practice. Necromicus' explination is, that he's performing tests on himself and others that require him to limit how much power he uses at a given time. And as I said before, Nagoh Shan's level represents how much equipment he's taken, how many connections he's made, and how much he's integrated himself into Arachnos. Not how experienced he is.

Stupid, cowardly, bubbling idiot is not a descriptor for any of my characters. And while, at level 1, Necromicus wouldn't use the power needed to defeat Recluse. That doesn't mean he wouldn't laugh after having his Zombie chuck up all over Recluse's shoes.

They don't have to treat my characters like big shots, but that doesn't mean my characters won't still act like they are.

Everyone might start at level 1, but that doesn't mean anything other than where they stand gameplay-wise.

Nagoh Shan is the codename of a mercenary well know in the right circles for making groups able to do things their numbers and resources shouldn't allow. After working for a Drug cartel in Mexico for a period of time, the group thought they would be able to handle things on their own. While he directed them in a way that allowed them to ursurp rival cartel's they had no bussiness going up against, when they stopped using his services they found themselves on the wrong side of quite a few angry rivals and their bonesaws. Not under contract anymore, he was contacted by Arachnos. They offered him a job doing the same thing for them, and he accepted. Starting out he took as much as he felt he could without causing too much attention from people who could cause him trouble. (Some armor and a rifle) as he does work for Arachnos his resources grow and he finds himself capable of dealing with larger threats so he swipes more gear and embeds himself more in the group (He levels up and either takes weapons powers or leadership powers)

Necromicus allowed himself to be arrested, so he could test how death affects people in the Prison. When he decided to leave, he started his second experiment. Testing how the acquisiton of power affects the process of death. And with any of his experiments he always runs the tests himself to see if running the tests has any effect of the process. Limiting himself in what kind of abilities he'd use when killing, defending himself, or running his tests wouldn't prevent him from mentioning his praetorian version's Black medicine and how he'd cut out the little control grave's seems to have over himself, and how his bodyparts would make for a beautiful sign that his Cimmeroran counterpart could place in the front of his mausoleum, or how his Axis american counterpart would love to test her essence ripper on him.

"Your screams would be so beautiful, your pain so exquisite, I think I could enjoy them even through these dimentional walls. Do be sure to tell her if you enjoy yourself, she may be willing to piece your essence back together and let you experience it again."

-Necromicus

It was originally going to launch alongside GR, but it wasn't part of GR. The incarnate system at launch was more a CoH/CoV system than a GR system. It was tied to existing content (CoH/V TFs and SFs) and was not part of the 1-20 content that GR. Don't care if you wanted that 1-20 content, but that's what GR was. That they gated access to the content behind owning GR is no different than gating access to the 20+ alignment system. That system requires GR, but is not part of GR. The praetorian alignment system is part of GR, and you can access it if you bought GR, but that doesn't give you access to the other system automagically.

They didn't pay for access to Incarnates, they paid for access to the Going Rogue expansion.

The incarnate system is something that requires GR, but you don't pay for it.

Much like how I bought City of heroes, city of Villains, and the CoH GvE yet they are coming out with SSAs for heroes and villains that I would have to pay for should I drop to premium.

As someone who payed for this game on three seperate occasions, I demand access to all content released in the future without paying, and all systems tied to those games.

/sarcasm

The idea of allowing crashing nukes and not the non-crashing variety is that the non-crashing type are available more often. The crash itself is unimportant, it's the frequency of use that's the concern.

But how would the heroes get it then?

What disgusts me is people that fill out a gym membership and appologize that they can't remember their SSN and ask "Is it ok if I bring it next time?", but get angry and indignant when they reach the box asking for their E-mail.

Or people who will give up their credit card info and their name, street address, and e-mail getting all puffed up about how they cant trust the company they gave that information, when it comes to accessing information on their computer.

My advice (not legal advice, just general everyday friendly advice) If you don't trust them, don't give them your information, don't download programs made by them, and don't agree to their terms of use.

That comes with the cost of not using their product, but it's a small cost if you can't trust them.

Garbage, the bank doesn't need an agreement because armed robbery is an actual crime. Moddifying a game is not a crime. If it were a crime, modded xboxs and tenth prestige lobbies would be more than a bannable offense and bubba would be a lot happier. Because it's not a crime, the owner of the software has to take certain legal mesures to protect themselves. You have the right to privacy, you don't have the right to play a game. The owner of the game may require you waive some of you're rights, before they allow you access, so that they may protect their assets.

There's a reason apple spends so much money making the iPhone hard to crack

There's a reason companies spend as much money as they do on legal departments instead of getting a random person from the forums who thinks they understand international law

There's a reason why most of my generation thinks people have no real expectation of privacy on the internet

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