Wolfram

Frankly, I agree. I'd love a crossover like this. It's just a matter of getting the balance right, in all respects. Big enough that there's a role for every hero, not so big that everyone feels compelled to join in (we can't and shouldn't force people to take part). Memorable enough to keep people talking about it for years to come, not so momentous that everyone who wasn't involved ends up looking bad. Compelling enough to draw people in, but sticking to content that everyone's comfortable with. A lot of the boundaries are hazy and thus it's usually best to err on the side of caution.

This is how I've always seen it too. I also don't regard hit points as a measure of how injured you are; it's a combination of factors best summed up as "ablative plot armour." Most of the damage you take represents near misses, glancing hits, flesh wounds, blows you managed to roll with, until you're overwhelmed.

Wolfram may have a power called "Resurrect" in-game, but RP-wise I would never attribute to him the power to actually raise the dead.

This is a tricky one for me. My oldest RP character is the Portent, whose defining "power" is probably his vast array of sensors and scanner devices. In-game, this is reflected in the fact that he has Targeting Drone, Tactics and a +perception IO; combined, these raise his perception to the in-game cap. The question is, how much IC detection ability is therefore reasonable? Obviously I would never "auto-detect" something or someone without first checking with the player concerned.

While I mostly agree with you, I feel I should point out that Scrapyard wasn't always a ghost. It was Captain Mako who made distinctly messy example of him.

Personally, I think Recluse cultivates a balance of power within the Isles. He allows many different groups with different agendas to thrive, counting on them to be too busy fighting one another to try taking him on. Being too heavy-handed and quashing any resistance to his rule would only end up uniting his enemies against him.

Sorry, but this doesn't make sense to me. Am I allowed to create a character and say that he's the ruler of the Rogue Isles, because Lord Recluse was put in place by the devs and thus doesn't count?

I'm a complete outsider here, so this may be a stupid suggestion, but why don't the GG heroes just arrest Tomb? Yes, it's a free game world, but in-character actions are supposed to carry in-character consequences, aren't they?

Add to that the fact that Rhode Island is the site of Oranbega. It's entirely possible that a wizard did it.

If the problem is competition, maybe the solution is to make it a competition?

Set up charity kiosks in Atlas Park and Galaxy City. Set up five holographic statue plinths in each. Heroes can donate inf at the kiosks, maybe getting "good" points in return if you have GR. The game tracks who has given how much inf this month, and the top five philanthropists are represented in statue form. Perhaps set up a minimum "bid" to enter the running, if you want to make sure lots of inf gets spent. If your statue is up, you can interact with the statue base to set it to wear your current costume and choose from a list of poses.

For villains, I'm not sure. A reward for providing funds to the Greater Good of Arachnos, maybe?

Believe me, neither do I, but I'd prefer it to coming up against this attitude.

Fully agreed. Knockback is great fun and adds a lot to my sense of being a hero. Over the time I've been playing I've seen it taken away from several powers because of complaints and I'd hate to see it stripped away from more. This is just an alternative that occured to me and seemed to require minimal changes to the way the game works. I for one would never toggle it on when solo.

If that is true, then it's not worth the cost, but I don't think it should be necessary. There's at least one set bonus (Air Burst) that buffs knockback and nothing else, so a debuff should be possible.

Yep, because killing a comic book character is a sure-fire way to ensure they won't be back.

Batman doesn't decide what to do with the various villains once they're arrested. He turns them over to the authorities and the authorities send them to Arkham/Blackgate/wherever, according to due process. This is part of a point that was made earlier - there's a major difference between just arresting a criminal and taking upon yourself to punish them. Heroes in CoH seem to be similarly limited to the investigation and arrest side of things. Declaring yourself judge and jury (and possibly executioner) is a big step over the line.

You're not alone in that; most of my heroes would also refuse to kill Rikti, for various reasons.

To me, a vigilante is anyone who exceeds their legal authority to fight crime and bring criminals to justice. In Paragon City, that presumably means either fighting crime without a hero license, or exceeding the rights granted by that license. To my knowledge we've never been told exactly what those rights are, but they're almost certainly no greater than those afforded to a police officer, probably somewhat less. To me, a hero can use lethal force as a last resort in defense of their own life or that of another citizen, but the requirements to justify it would be very stringent - heroes are expected to have the powers and/or skills to do things, and survive things, that other people can't.

I only have one character (so far) who I think would be called a vigilante, namely the Portent. He doesn't recognise the authority of the law and follows it only as far as he needs to to avoid bringing suspicion or disrepute on his allies in the Militia. He would also lay down his life rather than kill someone or allow them to die if he could prevent it, regardless of circumstances. If this gets him killed one day, then he'll die with his principles intact, and be content with that. I'd consider him to be at the far end of the spectrum from the Punisher-style vigilante in moral terms, but no less a vigilante.