AzureSkyCiel

He hasn't seemed like the best of husbands, really.

Yes, I would have preferreda bit of a revamp to Statesman, and here's what I would have done.
Cole, being the Well's champion, convinces the Well to withdraw all of it's support from Statesman (actually, to make to make it better, have the SSA up to part five go on as normal but Statesman is stripped of his powers JUST BEFORE Wade activates his trap, causing it to have no effect on the completely human marcus cole) leaving him a normal human once more. He feels weak and inquietude, but watching BaB, Bluesteel, Manticore, our own characters, and countless others continue to battle inspires him and all this helps give him a new lease on life.

He's no longer immortal so he becomes bolder in dealing with Arachnos because he doesn't have all the time in the world now to make it a better place, at the same time he begins to reconnect with everyone.

Starting by becoming a low level contact who would, from all plotlines forth, be contactable in new or revamped content like Keith Nance was at the end of the Roy Cooling arc or the countless villain contacts in the Vincent Ross arc.
Basically, you can always count on being able to call on Marcus Cole for some form of help with your tasks.

BOOM!
Stripped of his powers and forced to retake his stock on life, you can do a lot with his character, making him mortal and stripped of the Well's power after having it for so long justifies him sending others out, and by having him be a low level contact who has a reoccurring function, it helps better establish his new personality and gives him value to the players.

I already made a thread on why her leading the carnival of light alone is a bad idea.

Not to mention I recall these being meant for Chinese New Year which was nearly two months ago.

Actually, doing a bit of head math, The Clockwork King could have been as young as fourteen when Bluesteel MURDERED HIM.

And so did I, but when I found out she was an adult, I was able to accept it and not desperately cling to the idea of her being a child or accuse the devs that this was inconsistent writing.

The devs have shown lots of poor writing consistency in the past, but this wasn't one of them.

Edit: You want inconsistent writing on Penelope Yin? Here's one from Agent G
And now they're saying "no one knows who trained her"? Yeesh.

I don't really have an OP comment, but on this I'd like to say that I would prefer/hope to see instead: Arachnos remains obviously evil but become much more affably evil.
Lord Recluse will lend a hand to lesser villains, even assist heroes to stop world ending disasters and provide information.
But in truth they'll still put a bullet or knife in your back if you cross them wrong or are closer to taking over the world than they are.

And the wait for dual Pistols to become available to players was about a two years when thugs MMs got them and then another four before they got their own powerset?

I disagree, Steel Canyon is supposed to be the Financial District of Paragon, so perhaps it should be treated as such.

Now if you want a science City somewhere on Primal Earth, Aeon City in Cap Au would make a prime candidate, especially if we expanded on the Luddite village we could have something like this:

no, they have NPC costume pieces ported onto player models.

Also, i think the Ninjas oni uses a PC rig but has the NPC skirt.

Carnival of Light.

Mistress Nadia

Cerulean

Not really on the latter part, they've already been doing that for some time.

What i'm surprised at is that they didn't use Arbiter Hawk to show case some of the male Clubwear, maybe with a few Arachnos things on him to remind you "Yes, this is an Arbiter"