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It's not so much for the farms but for the legitimate story arcs. For example, you normally need a perfect five star rating in order to be eligible for Hall of Fame. But all it'd take is one one-star review to cause your score to plummet. You'd need several five-stars just to recover from that, making score griefing incredibly easy. Even if your goal wasn't to be Hall of Fame but just to have your arc noticed, any griefer can come along, one-star you, and force your arc to the bottom of the list.

Nice to know they were actually considering it, though. I would've loved to see that happen.

Both of you.

Calm down.

This I can give an answer to. In an old school Issue 0 arc you save a skilled surgeon from the Rikti. From all the fighting and being stranded on Earth, the Rikti suffered some serious injuries. Apparently, they could actually kidnap humans and harvest their organs to save their own comrades from dying. Since the humans and Rikti can swap organs successfully, they can't be too much different from us in that department.

I also heard from another player awhile back that the Rikti survive on a mostly algae and plant-based diet, and that they consume food very similarly to an algae-eater. Mind you, I heard this from a player and I can't provide any actual proof supporting it at the moment, but if anyone else out there knows this is a fact and can provide evidence (or debunk this as just a rumor), I'd appreciate that.

Reminds me of when people get ahold of a good name just for the sake of owning good names.

So is your question actually "What plans were Crey using that unknown pollutant for, and why?" Because what you asked was "What caused all the pollution in Crey's Folly?" which are two totally different questions.

Unless you're looking for the name of the chemical itself, there's not much more they can say about what caused the pollution. Crey facility is destroyed, its contents destroy the environment. That's all.

Scrap metal can be forged into giant, rusted claw hands, blades, and armor, which is what the Freakshow are. The Freakshow just use debris and weapons/power sources they steal from anyone like the Council, Crey, Longbow, etc. and fuse it to themselves.

The surgery comes from either folks in their number that don't have giant weapon hands or former Vhazilok doctors like Doc Buzzsaw. There really isn't more to it than that.

Nove Praetoria, Imperial City, and Neutropolis would not be destroyed. You could still go there, and still roll up a Praetorian as the events of those arcs precedes Praetoria's destruction.

You got it. It wasn't meant to be canon you were forgotten about, since Incarnate arcs would actually reference the things you've done and Preatorians would remember you if you were a native. It was just a coding issue as you shifted alignments to fit into Primal Earth.

I think you mean Boomtown. And I, personally, don't think anything more was gonna come from Faultline since it would invalidate all the arcs there if the entire zone was fixed. But like I said, that's just my personal opinion.

Old rough draft versions of the enemy groups we have today. That's all.

They were the most famous and prominent heroes to have survived. A team the media can focus on, pretty much.

The original uses a generic 2004 low res model. They updated it for the GR arcs and, because of that, he looks younger and cleaner.

Blame that on two things: graphic designers that didn't want to spend too much time designing cars instead of more important things, and world designers that don't know what a city actually looks like. We're also missing buses, fire stations, genuine-looking hospitals, and a wide variety of other things you'd actually see in a city.

Obviously didn't fit with the kind of style they had in mind for Paragon City, then.

Chemicals Crey was working with when the Rikti destroyed a hidden facility of their's during the first war. It's in the 2004 story bible.

They steal their cybernetics and use a special drug to get them through the pain of chopping their limbs off and turning themselves into monstrous cyborgs.

Hope that helps a bit.

This was already revealed by Manticore when he did his lore thread.

It was basically because City of Villains was originally going to let us be among the existing villain groups, like the Freakshow or Carnival of Shadows. The devs thought it would be a bad idea to let players be Nazis, though, so they designed they replaced the 5th Column with the Council, who were simply sinister fascists. But then that idea for CoV was scrapped, and it was too late to pull the plug on the replacement as it already happened. So they just worked it all into lore and had the Column simply biding their time, waiting for a good opportunity to return.

And that was because Castle was testing something involving giant enemies and their hitboxes. He super enlarged a generic Mech Man to use and it ended up leaking into the actual Beta, where players played with it in Mission Architect arcs until it was removed.

Pretty sure they did that on purpose, with the intent to retcon him out since he made no sense to begin with. I think you can find his ax in the forest mission for the I24 Incarnate story arc, too. Which, as far as easter eggs go, implies he isn't going to be featured or fleshed out (especially with the story line almost completely wrapped up), but is a nod to his former existence.

That was Maelstrom and his government cell of black-ops agents.

Yeah, this made no sense to me, either. And there's even lore that alludes to the fact that wherever Hero Corp goes crime seems to follow. That hints at the fact they hire out villains to commit crimes and give their heroes a reason to be there. Perfect for Rogues. While Wyrvern are a Vigilante organization. 'Nuff said there. This just seemed like a writer wanted to tell their story without actually researching the groups in hand. But whateves.

My own question is why was Crey so underutilized?

They're supposed to be this seemingly normal corporation responsible for all sorts of genetic, technological, and medical discoveries. They hold so many patents on various types of medicine and are among the 3 largest corporations in the entire world. They hire out their security forces to other companies and use their Paragon Protectors to help defend businesses and key locations throughout the city. So why didn't we actually see any of that?

Why were Crey instead always shown to be just as obviously evil as Arachnos or the Freakshow on the streets of Brickstown? Why did we never see them actually protecting the city with their security forces? Why didn't they have a fancy HQ within the city like the Police Station in Kings Row, Portal Corp in Peregrine, or the Freedom Corps building in Galaxy? Why did we only ever get maybe three arcs in Issue 0 and one Grandville arc dealing with them, only for them to be completely forgotten about?

Can't say. I got locked out of Beta when my account lapsed. But I do know that part 5 had to be unlocked by a dev or mod. So I don't think anyone who doesn't already have it unlocked can play through it :\

This has already been answered a few times by players. Both final chapters to the second SSA are up on beta. I actually answered it on the first page of this thread, if you're interested in checking that out.

And that can be answered by talking to the Shivans you rescue during Drowning in Blood. The first wave that struck Bloody Bay have since become disconnected with the rest of their race, which were absorbed into the Battalion. The Neo Shivans see them as an enemy just as much as they do us because of this.

Run that trial, talk to the Shivan, and you'll learn lots of interesting bits about the Shivans and Battalion.

Yeah, I was actually the one to really make that push for a stronger, better written Crey presence. I was really pumped to see it go live, too :\