Zombie Man

Manticore:

1. Change Kill-Alls to just the mission objective.

2. Change the Hopkins fight to include EB ambushes by all the named Crey lieutenants. You know, so that it's not like we're fighting a puny boss at the end.

3. fixt

If you want to talk plot holes:

When Bruce was bedding (fireplacing?) Talia, he felt the raised V-shaped scar... and the audience was shown it.

And nothing came of that. Nothing.

I thought, "Aha, Bruce now knows that she's of the League of Shadows!" But... nope.

Then when Bruce was in prison, I thought, "Aha, Bruce will learn here what that symbol meant!" But... nope.

Nothing came of it except to clue the audience in that she's not who she says she is. Which would have been fine if Bruce wasn't fondling it and discovering... nothing.

World's Greatest Detective! Ummmm... no.

Praetorian Hamidon Raid.

Hey, it's not a Trial.

I liked the ending.

Quick quiz time: In what movie does a character named Bruce tell the character played by Morgan Freeman, "Now you're just showing off."?

I'll give you two guesses. So you'll be right.

And the inexplicable range limitations to be extended, especially for the low level ones that are just 10 or 15 levels in range.

And for the levels to go to multiples of 5 like the S/D/TOs so that the market doesn't have all those entries that only vary from their neighbor by less than one percent. That level of fine detail isn't needed. (And change the -3 Levels for bonuses to work to -5.)

Oh, it's beginning to look a lot like movies
Everywhere you go.
Take a look at the marquee sign, glistening once again
With candy sales and popcorn carts aglow.
It's beginning to look a lot like movies
Sex and lots of gore
But the prettiest sight to see is the grenade that will be
through a villain's door.

Short story: Remove or reduce the prerequisites for Group Fly and Team TP so that they can be taken together and thus 'fix' each other's bugs.

The Problem: Both Group Fly and Team TP lose their passengers when used individually. Even after attempts for fix Team TP years ago (which didn't work) and the attempt two years ago to make Group Fly work by speeding up the fly speed of the passengers (which didn't work because of pathing issues); both powers still are buggy to the point of uselessness for travel powers. (I'll admit they have some usefulness in a mission... but that's very limited, and their original intent was supposed to be travel powers, not combat.)

The Fix: Use them together! When Group Fly is running and you use Team TP, the passengers don't drop like rocks precisely because of Group Fly preventing that. And since you're not flying, then pathing isn't an issue causing passengers to lag out of the flight bubble.

The Difficulty of The Fix: Right now, to use both Group Fly and Team Teleport, a player has to take six powers because both have prerequisites of two powers from their pools. Also, with Group Fly, having either Hover or Fly is a bit redundant. That's a huge burden to bear just to get around bugged powers which can probably never be truly fixed.

Fixing the Difficulty of the The Fix: The probable cause for not removing their prerequisites is the longstanding tradition of prerequisites being... well, just *being.* Actually, the game-design decision to make power pools have tiers that you have to climb -- just like the Primary and Secondary power sets -- is a decision whose worth is debatable... and increasingly disposable now that Fly and Teleport have been shedding their prerequisites and those and other powers have had their level prerequisites lowered. This is a step in the right direction and should be applied to Group Fly and Team TP in the same way it was applied to Fly and TP.

The other perceived reluctance to loosen the prerequisites is the fear of giving away powerful Tier 4 powers! And to that, I show you Exhibit A: Whirlwind. Many Tier 4 Pool Powers are as underwhelming as some are overwhelming. It's not very balanced... which is an indictment of bad power design. Besides, Group Fly and Team Teleport have been nearly pre-gimped because of the supposed benefit of "everyone on the team can fly/tp!!!!!1!1". First, the powers aren't that beneficial when your teammates scream for you to shut it off and Null the Gull has to be introduced so that people can avoid such *Great Power!* And second, the powers are gimped because they use up much, much more Endurance than Fly and TP. And they're also slower/shorter-ranged. So, they're already self-gimped.

In Summary: And so, to fix two powers that can't be fixed Dev-side and are needlessly burdensome to fix Player-side with all those prerequisites, the solution is to do away with the prerequisites so that players can easily fix the issue by taking both powers together. Since this is the Fix All the Bugs Issue and the Power Pools Issue... now's the time to make it happen!

Please!