Zemblanity

Are you aware that Dominators have a higher melee damage modifier than Blasters? Are you aware that several melee combos can outdamage even the best blaster combos?

Blasters are supposed to be all about damage. It just so happens that alot of other ATs happen to be better at it than them.

Assuming I was on the jury stand? On the grounds that I can't link a single piece of evidence directly to him, which fails to meet the requirement of guilt beyond reasonable doubt. I have doubt. Not saying he's innocent, I'm pretty sure he's evil and rotten to the core, but unless I can prove it, there's nothing I can do about it. Go talk to a vigilante if you want more.

What I can do is join a league to disarm Praetoria as retaliation for their attempt to invade Primal Earth (Lambda), ensure the freedom of their press (TNP), prevent their population from being mind-controlled (MoM) and force their leader to surrender (Mag). I'll leave the issue of Cole's trial to the courts, but if I'm asked to join the jury bench, I don't see how they'll manage to convict him at a fair trial.

We need more proof, we need an excerpt from Cole's diary saying "I did it, I forged the election!", we need a videotape of him holding a smoking gun over Recluse's corpse, we need an eye-witness testifying that he saw him grinning as Hamidon burned Rome to the ground. We don't have any of that, all we have is a biased assumption that Cole had to know about the oppression happening in Praetoria and that he chose to do nothing about it. I challenge both claims.

Was Dominatrix found guilty of any "irredeemable" crime that crossed your alledged moral event-horizon? What exactly are you accusing her off, selling fixadine? Making her mommy look bad in front of grampa? Wearing skimpy clothes?

Venture, at some point you've got to start judging the praetorian antagonists for crimes we can actually prove they committed, which means listening to their defense before reaching a veredict. And no using your revisionist tendencies like you did regarding who struck first.

And yes, only utterly defeated armies who oppress powerful people ever get to see their officers tried for crimes against humanity. That's why we're still waiting for Pakistan to be held accountable for the atrocities committed in Bangladesh in 1971 (with Nixon's backing, btw, he must be a tyrant as well) or why no one ever bothered to press Japan about comfort women - cold-war western nations just didn't care about chinese or hindu women, not when they were mere pawns of the evil soviets.

You say none of the Praetors would walk if it were up to you, and that no reasonable jury would see past their guilt - I say that upon reviewing the evidence presented, I'd be forced to release Cole, Duncan and Keyes (regrettably, this one, but I can't prove he murdered Rusty). The ones I'd lock up for good would be Berry (for kidnapping innocents and turning them into ghouls), White (for the systematic murder of refugees in the 70's), Duray (for his actions against civilains in Skyway city, though Cole dealt with him before me), Sinclair (for murdering Miss Liberty and BV's parents), Maelstrom (for killing "Melee" Ironsides, assuming he's actually dead and not simply injured), Diabolique (for being really, really evil everytime she shows up) and Tilman (for feeding on the Seers, assuming she can be proven to be sane and in control of her actions).

The terms Praetor and Praetorian Guard are roman, not greek, so the modern connotation is probably correct - sic semper tyrannis. Plus, he was known as Emperor Cole in Praetoria, not Tyrant, only Primals and Resistance members call him that. Unlike Tyrant, Statesman was inspired by Greece rather than Rome, which is why he formed a Freedom Phalanx instead of a Praetorian Guard.

Oh, they're real - and they're spectacular

Aurora-psyche claims that Tilman pushed her out of her mind moments before getting skewered by Manticore. We all take it as a last heroic gesture on her part, but it might have been part of a plan - maybe she planted a mind-seed inside Tyrka's body or that Paragon Protector Aurora was possessing.

This makes sense, but at some point they need to start worrying about the chronology again. Maybe they have a plan to actually retcon States out or something and this is only the first step.

Plus they show up in the intro comic when you create a new toon - unless that's been redrawn to show Positron and Penny instead.

I believe they were looting random neighbouring dimensions for technology, like the original Maelstrom device. That's the first impression Praetoria had of Primal Earth - government-sanctioned thieves.

Everyone should be held accountable for their own actions, nothing more, nothing less. That said, I doubt we'll ever see any mission to track down Ultimatum's leadership in Primal Earth, or arrest the Longbow grunts who used flamethrowers on civilian targets - this will either have to happen in AE or it's up to each player's imagination.

We don't know what happened. The murder could have simply been Keyes upholding the law and warning Mother Mayhem that Rusty was psychic - which was awfully convenient given the patent issues regarding the Clockwork, but again, that's speculation. Most of what we know about Rusty comes from Praetorian Penelope Yin, and she's been recently retconned in Maria Jenkins arc as Mother Mayhem, so it's not like we can trust what she says

I don't think so, the things Marauder and his biker gang did before Cole leashed him suggest otherwise.

IMO, Marauder's much worse than Mother Mayhem. At least she was driven by the need to feed, White's the type of monster that makes Cole's rule seem like a preferable alternative.

Oh, we do, everytime we're forced to work with the likes of Longbow and their flamethrowers "for the greater good"; by bringing the Red Widow back to life for no reason whatsoever; by empowering schizophrenic terrorists and their imaginary wives because democracy is at stake; by jeopardizing a hostage's life to avoid creating an international incident; by allowing Manticore to go free after attacking the Shining Stars' headquarters...

I'm sorry, but blue-side players have as much right to complain about getting recicled villain content as villains do about ITF or LGTF.

Reasons for unsigning a suggestion:

1) The player believes this suggestion will have a negative impact on his own personal playstyle;
2) The player believes this suggestion will have a negative impact on a friend's playstyle;
3) The player is a benevolent tyrant, even if this suggestion would have next to no impact on his own playstyle, he still genuinely believes it will have a negative impact on other players' playstyle;
4) The player is a petty tyrant, even if this suggestion would have next to no impact on his own playstyle, he still doesn't want other players to draw benefit from it;
5) The player doesn't want the dev-team to waste resources on something he doesn't want;
6) The player couldn't care less about this suggestion, but is so used to hearing the word "no" in real life that he can't help but seek a little payback every chance he gets;
7) The "player" is an alias of someone on the dev-team who is trying to direct the playerbase away from a suggestion they don't want implemented.

Btw, the suggestion is still /signed. That said, rather than increasing the level cap of radio/newspaper missions, this could also be done by auto-exemplaring those missions. "Hey, if you're going in there, I don't want you to start tossing nukes and Judgements on those hellions! Keep your powers in check, hero!"

It was also scripted tragedy, completely discarding the possibility of us getting there on time, or using our healing abilities, or instantly teleporting her to an ER, or a million other things that we could have tried but for the sake of the plot weren't allowed to. Murder mysteries are fine, but there's no mystery here, just cheap drama and a five minute quest for vengeance. I just can't stop saying it, it completely kills the buzz of returning the stolen urn from the Tsoo if we can't even prevent one hostage from being gunned down in front of us. That only one person dies makes little difference, there were only two people introduced, and one just happens to be the villain - which you yourself admitted to have killed as well. Laura Lockhart's arc is precisely the type of mission that makes me want to play another game - the type that ends with the victim in a bodybag and a condescending pat in the back...

Thankfully, the writing of Dark Astoria, Nightward and Pandora's Box appears to be heading in a different direction.

I guess people's brains really are wired differently. I'm a guardian, not an avenger, my motivation for being a hero stops when I botch an attempt to save someone's life. Old fashion payback does nothing for me, and unless the villain is planning on going after someone *else* dear to me, I could care less about what he does in the future. Let the police handle it or something.

This would be awesome, but I'd prefer specific, non-generic NPCs you've interacted with in the past, like Twinshot, Katie Douglas or Dean MacArthur. After completing a set of story arcs or taskforces you'd be able to "recruit" an NPC into your base to serve some function or just stand there looking pretty. Of course, that means badge if you recruit all NPCs available to your current morality alignment

Agreed. We don't want another uncle Ben.

Well, if you ever shape this idea into an AE arc or fanfic, please share. I'm kinda interested in seeing where you'd take it.

My thoughts exactly

More, like, it fits until Sam and Venture start poking holes in it ^_^

Awesome, i24 keeps getting better and better

Nice, any change to Time Bomb's current implementation would be appreciated. Overall, these changes look great on paper, Arbiter Hawke, great job

I do have a question: are you planning to extend the range of the Blaster secondaries' Tier 1 attacks, like Web Grenade and Electric Fences, or is this limitation by design? They're currently at 50ft range whereas many others (like Mental's Tier 1 Subdual) are 80ft.

True, just tested it now, to hit a pure 22% on TD slotted with a lvl 50 Gaussian, I had to place 6 enhancement boosters in it (5 on the To Hit, which got me to 21,99%, and 1 on the To Hit/Rech). Regardless, it's possible to get TD to 22%, which by itself is an awesome and well deserved buff to Devices.

This buff to Blasters just keeps getting better and better

How about Quick Metabolism, reflecting both the regeneration and recovery bonus of the power?

Btw, /signed