Techbot Alpha

Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper

This is not a fact, unless you've either just leveled and have not yet changed zones, or you're looking at the wrong tab in your contacts list. If a contact is in your Active Contacts list, they have something to say to you (which might just be introducing you to a new contact, but it's something).

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

"Must find more bodies. More bodies mean more fluffies. More fluffies mean more bodies. More bodies mean higher damage resistance. More damage resistance means more bodies. More bodies mean more fuel. More fuel means more bodies."

It is a vicious circle of madness.

Originally Posted by firespray

"Natural Control Powerset" - One that could be realistically used by a normal, non-enhanced human being, and doesn't include any extremely unrealistic technology.

Originally Posted by Hydrofoil_Zero

You run the Pratoren AV ark lately. Be leave me at least as far as the people of our home dimension are concerned they are evil. Or at lest tushy freaking crazy. And the faction called the rebels agree with me. Remember one of the points of the game is that were free to make our own opinion of what is good or evil. Frankly I don't necessarily think even Lord Recluse is totally evil. Regardless of what you think of him his lands are thriving.
At any rate this is a game just because they say something at a con doesn't mean that it's going to get into the game. I simply stated possibility. The alt version of lord recluse could still be around and they might just not want you to know about it yet. Like I sead "Unless you've see his dismembered decomposing corpse I wouldn't bank on him being dead." Could also be his son or daughter seeking revenge against Marcus Cole. Personal revenge could fit rouge status very easily. Isn't that the basis of the Punisher's background that was mentioned as an example of an anty-hero/rouge. You think I'm being black and white but you're thinking in so many absolutes there are no such thin in this or any other world.

As for the riki thing it seams I got them mixed up with the Nictus. But the theory still stands there is no realy moral alignment for planetary conquest since we don't know there motives and there not from ether detention. Though I sort of like the idea of the Pratorenes invading there dimension and the reason there attacking ours is because they mistook it for theirs. Riki lord "Whopsy wrong dimension must have forget to carry the 2." :P (And I know the ailed riki would have dis proven this. IT's A JOKE.) X(
Still the lack of war walls do suggest that if they are there there probably doing far better aginst them than we are.


Oh and as far as markets are concerned if the game can be played with out going to hero or villain side thin there will probably be a pratoren market. Any reason not to combine them is probably both story wise and that would double the back end complexity of the system.

Originally Posted by Lightfoot

The benefits are purely cosmetic. For years, people have asked for the ability to walk instead of running everywhere. Almost as long as people have been asking for animated hair, backpacks, or holsters / sheathes. Just think of the Walk power as another costume piece, and you'll have the proper frame of reference to understand it.

Originally Posted by Chill_NA

Ninja Run + Dual Pistols in GR? I want to cry?

Originally Posted by Dark_Respite

Lord Recluse is voiced by the late great Mike Kleinhenz, especially his performance as Lucifer in LADY DEATH.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

The man essentially owns his own dimension. How much more powerful do you need him to get? Should he juggle planets or something? The Statesman is invincible in Praetorian Earth because he's a Mary Sue, but even despite that, he's crucified over Tyrant's throne and going nowhere.

And I definitely do NOT want the arc pulled and turned into a TF. We have enough plot locked away in TFs where no-one ever gets the chance to read the narrative. We don't need more. And we definitely don't need more content that makes us feel like chumps. I very much agree that taking out other-dimension Statesman and the other-dimension Freedom Phalanx single-handedly works really well for a hero's shining moment.

I am not a wimp. I shouldn't have to beg and plead and band together with seven of my buddies to take out one of them. THEY should have to band together to take me on. That arc does just that, and I love it for it. By all means, update the Praetorians and clean up the zillions of text errors, but do NOT turn it into a TF.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

You don't need any in-character reason at all. Let me ask you this question: if the markets were merged tomorrow with no patch notes, would you be able to tell? And if you began to suspect, would you have an in-character way to verify that? As long as all the times are the same between sides, the only way to tell if the markets are merged or not is out-of-character.

Originally Posted by HomsikPanda

i dislike the fab =/ there is to many bosses for a lvl 9 to handle =/

Originally Posted by Dispari

As an RP addition, it probably won't see a whole lot of us in places like Atlas Park outside of the burst of interested people for the first couple weeks.

However, unlike fly poses, you move slow while using it and can use it in confined spaces and, shock, let other people see you using it. As such, the places where it'll see most use will probably be places like Pocket D, bases, costume contests, and any other sort of social gathering type place where people are just hanging out and talking rather than shooting badguys with flamethrowers.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

I would never remove KB protection from the game. I would, however, modify the KB mechanics to make a distinction between "knocked back" and "knocked over." Right now, its impossible to knock a melee (or any other) character back without also knocking over, so to prevent knock over (which is a form of incapacity) you have to be absolutely immune from KB.

This would allow the game designers to make, say, an AV that is capable of knocking the tank back five feet without the tank being incapacitated for the 3 seconds it takes to get back up. It also would allow certain powers (like say, hover) to provide knock over protection separate from knock back protection, which would give squishies a way to buy some protection from knock effects without having to sell immunity from knock effects.

Originally Posted by PennyPA

Oh come Techbot Alpha. Didn't you read the post from the future thread in City Life forum? It's fixed in I138.