AzureSkyCiel

I understand your pain, Jaz. I mean I understand the Devs want build up to our fight with Tyrant, but this is feeling a little stretched out, about the only plotline that was more stretched out was the "Return of the 5th Column", foreshadowed by issues 11, 12, and finally fully realized in 15 (with issues 13 and 14 being sort of a skip, given how they were mostly mechanics advancements), of course, in the case of 11, this return wasn't the entirety of the issue.

Thus far, we've had 3 issues dedicated to the Praetoria thing, and it seems more are planned in the chute, so sadly, even if it doesn't feel like the best thing, it's how it is and how it will be.

Edit: and I just remembered that issue 17 also alluded to the coming of Praetoria.

Admittedly, Arachnos kind of got 3 issues dedicated to them, counting City of Villains launch.

A lot of the examples you just gave are really really bad things to put into a PAID EXPANSION.

In video games, expansions are generally NOT supposed to involve altered core game play and are, generally, optional.

I don't think we're see any new paid expansions anytime soon, it's possible that the next one won't be an expansion so much as City of 2, but either way, it's all very doubtful.

Since chicks dig giant robots, I think I'll contribute my own suggestions...

Longbow Arbalest Exo-Battle Armor: In light of the recent Praetorian invasions and the cost effectiveness of the Cataphract, Longbow has set out to create their own, mass produced war machine. Ultimately what the ended up with was an extremely large powered armor, but still packing quite a punch and able to topple even the biggest threats.

Malta Hyperion Class Titan: (Actually someone else's idea but it was a good one) Salvaged from stolen pieces of War Walkers and HVAS, it's smaller than a Kronos, but bigger than a Zeus, it's far more cost effective than both and devastatingly lethal.

Clockwork King (Special): By gaining a measure of his sanity back, the Clockwork king has created this massive new body, salvaged from anything and everything he could find to protect his Clockwork Princess from the Praetorian threat.

Mu Golem: Using ancient manuscripts, the Mu have constructed this massive golem, propelled by advanced mechanical knowledge of the gods and moved by their hatred of Oranbega, this techno-magical monstrosity will let nothing move it from its path of carnage.

Paragon Protector Powerhouse: These specially designated Paragon protectors operate the unstoppable Crey Powerhouse "Hazmat" armor, designed to protect its wearer from any potential hazard in the lab. like flying bullets or high powered explosives.

There seem to be good points on both sides and I feel this conversation/debate would best be continued, even if nothing ultimately comes of it.

Personally, I have little to no stake in this and can't form a real opinion. My ice/dark corr is teamed nine out of ten times with vicious scrap-dom, and since tar patch and ice storm are both big parts of the combo, the end result is that by the time I fire off blizzard, it's to mop up what's not dead, and what's not dead is going to take take about 3200+ points of damage between scourge and a painful res debuff. BEAT THAT JUDGEMENT!
The only other one of my toons that uses a crashing nuke is my emp/energy defender, so hitting nova on her is more of a cheap joke to gank a kill from the actual damage dealers that we all tend to laugh about, double points if she fails to kill them anyway, even after swallowing a bunch of reds (And despite this, she still has landed the finishing blow on more AVs than nearly all of my damage dealer toons combined) or if she's able to keep going anyway because her RA +Recovery is just that stupidly crazy.

Otherwise the rest of my toons with nukes generally use the crashless sort.

I doubt it, GG. Namely because Numina might be a spirit and her husband might be an oracular skull, but they are both still married to my understanding.

Sam seems to have hit the nail on the head pretty well. I think the closest thing to an insult about us being human I've ever heard from the Rikti is the comment on our sentence causality, and that's it.
On the otherhand, we don't get as much a chance to interact with Traditionalists as I'd like, I still hope for when the game story progresses far enough that the traditionalists and restructurists division becomes common knowledge, and then we can see traditionalists coming by in our world, or hanging out at places like Pocket D, I mean just imagine it...

Rikti Raver: "A little dance: Doing
A little love: Making
Tonight: GETTING DOWN!"

Randomly, one I just remembered I had actually brainstormed in my head for awhile went like this: A first person shooter with role playing game elements along the lines of Bioshock 2 crossed with Deus Ex themes, and it would be...

Going Rogue: The Praetorian Revolution

You play a fairly standard PPD beat cop in the beginning, but as you delve deeper into Praetoria's underbelly, you realize that the only one you really can trust is yourself... But even that's a leap of faith...