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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

I think this was in reference to Bane Spider Ruben, which is pretty much perfect, and Brother Hammond, which is about so-so. And while I appreciate those, they're really just small, unrelated episodes that really don't advance the villain-side story by much. As far as I'm concerned, villains need at least one more extra zone, and one that's not property of Arachnos and doesn't have Arachnos soldiers patrolling the streets or the black Combine architecture. They also need a more major storyline told about villains in villain lands that isn't just a retread of a hero storyline with a few lines changed.

If I were in charge of the story, though, I'd kick Arachnos out of all existing zones but Mercy Island and Grandville, and leave the rest of the islands in the hands of their local governors. If need be, have that happen as some kind of rebellion. Port Oaks goes to Emil Marcone, with Guido Verandi serving as rival, and the Arachnos buildings swap over to Marcone banners. Cap Au Diablo is left with Doc Aeon, with Leon Brass swapping uniform and remaining to work for the good doctor since Arachnos want his head for his failure. Sharkhead goes to Kirk Cage, with Arachnos banners being replaced with Cage Consortium emblems and Cage Consortium Guards getting a technological upgrade as a reskin of the PPD, with spec-ops, soldiers, ghosts and so forth. Maybe as a special faction of Cage Spec-Ops to replace Arachnos troops in the zone. Nerva Archipelago goes to "the people," with Crey Industries contracted as a private security force in exchange for permission to hold land facilities. Longbow's fort is still contested, but their forces' presence is tolerated. St. Martial Island goes to Johnny Sonata, with the Family replacing Arachnos spawns, now equipped with Arachnos Wolf Spider gear as new critters.

All of the Arachnos black Impervium Combine buildings are left behind since there's no point in tearing them down, but they're now manned by other factions. Missions from Arachnos agents in zones that are no longer under Arachnos control are ret-conned to be missions from agents of the local government. References to the Arbiters may be a bit tough, specifically Leo Vargass referring to Arbiter Leery, but it's not undoable. Either that, or these agents are move to secret or out-of-the-way locations such as Primeva.

That ought to make City of Villains that much less monochrome and boring.

Originally Posted by StratoNexus

That is new like thawed bread from the freezer is fresh.

Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion

I mean, heroes haven't received any "hero only" content in a long time too! (again beyond the story arcs that each side got).

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Honestly, giving the Warriors some depth could be as simple as giving all of the named ones real names, with the Greek name in quotes, exactly like Alexander "The Great" Pavlidis. It suggests that these are real people with real lives and real backstories who simply took on the identities of ancient Greek heroes, but whose "real person" personalities still exist behind the name. That's pretty much the definition of depth - a person who is more than he first appears. Giving these guys more to their faction and more to their individual stories than JUST a Greek myth name would be a good first step.

Originally Posted by Biowraith

I'm inclined to include intellect and craftiness when considering how powerful a character is though

Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood

Not really but something to keep in mind is that the 40/60 split is based solely on the number of characters of each faction it doesn't necessarily follow that population splits are also 40/60.

And considering that the total inf value was off by at least three orders of magnitude (and possibly a lot more) I'm not sure ow much faith I'd put in that chart.

Originally Posted by gameboy1234

The problem is I think that less than 30% of the customer base plays on Red side

Originally Posted by Electric-Knight

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I'm too excited to go find an appropriate image!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim

Yeah, to you.

Originally Posted by Ultimus

I remember when they were first announced that it had required IO's to fight the Battalion. This was back in like Issue 6 or 7 when the Invention system was in its infancy and Battalion had a few screenshots.

Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven

To answer your actual question, no matter what a person's motivation for the post, stating that you aren't pleased with the selections this week (especially if specific comments are made about what -should- be on the market) it comes off sounding like: -I- didn't get -exactly- what I wanted, why does Paragon Studios suck at doing what -I- want them to!?

Originally Posted by Fista

Even more to the point. If the Rikti beat the Batallion and we, prior to being incarnates, beat the Rikti twice why do we need the well?

Originally Posted by Coin

You don't need a Twitter account. Just got to their page here and keep refreshing it!

https://twitter.com/cityofheroes

Originally Posted by BurningChick

Edit: an anecdote. A long-time player and frequent poster once came into a KB thread and spoke, glowingly, of one of his favourite powers in the game, Repulsion Bomb. He went on, at some length, about the joy he received in sending groups of mobs across a room, the kudos for saving squishies from evil melee damage, how we, really, just had to L2P. The problem? Repulsion Bomb had had its KB mag lowered into knockdown range some six months earlier. I suspect that many of the vocal proponents of KB are like this poster; they simply like taking contrarian stances.