AzureSkyCiel

you know, that is a good point. Outside of the word of someone from the animation department, I'm not sure it's ever been enforced that villains are medi-ported.
On a lighter note, I remembered reading an amusing city of Fanfic where, while villains do get medi-ported, the best medical treatment really does go only to the heroes (like the medipads) and the villains? Well... Read for yourself.

And thus we have the ultimate wallbanger of the entire city of universe...

AAAAAAAAAAARGH!
Thank you, I just lost all my incarnate abilities and 49 levels from that pun.

Sam, I know it's a bad thing, and I agree with you that the arc could be even better, the most painful part is that it wouldn't even need a coding fix, just a few text rewrites and that would be it.
Also, just to get this off my chest: I HATED FIGHTING CAPTAIN CASTILLO. He felt very inappropriate to the tense mood of the final mission, the fact that he kept pausing the fight bugged me, and it was even worse that he was allowed to become blue targeted while he made the battlefield EXCLUSIVELY more lethal to my toon (I never noticed any enemies take damage from the fires). I didn't run it on my vigilante, but I think even my wind(kin)/sr scrapper would have just sent Castillo flying off the rig while he was babbling instead of go "oh gee, the villain is talking when i'm in a situation that leaves me pressed for time, I better let him finish his long winded speech."

I'll go get my assassin's robes.

Actually, there's a big exception with Battle Maiden, who is a native of Battle Earth but found herself in Praetoria. Battle Maiden's identity may be exactly that.
On the flipside, Valkyrie is native to Primal earth, and her spear is actually from Battle Earth too, otherwise, the two women share no known connection.

This is partly because Praetoria's no longer 'opposite land'. This is also a case of 'Characterization marches on' and the Devs refusing to retcon out all the things that, left in, are wall bangers.

I don't know why... but this thread now reminds me of the song "I Can't Decide" by the Scissor Sisters.

I can't decide
Where you should live or die
Though you'd probably go to heaven
Please don't have your head and cry
My hearts feels dead inside
It's cold, and hard, and petrified
So lock the doors
And close the blinds
We're goin' for a ride

Oh right, it was because of that one flash animation...

Well, it's always kind of been implied since it's mentioned in his and Anti-matter's original bio that Emperor Cole's shown more favor towards neuron's 'innovations'. Though anti-matter himself appears to have become a bit more mentally stable with GR whereas, to my understanding, before he was more classical mad scientist.

Well, given Statesman's age, it's kind of unavoidable unless he sought out something like a demi-deity or another immortal life-form.
And those relationships get... complicated.

hmmm..

In that respect, perhaps something like *bleep* *Bleep* *Bleep*: *bleep*-hood's kill streak system could be used...

Basically, the current system in city of feels like it practically punishes a stalker for one-shot-ing a foe in the middle of as crowd.
but what if there was a way to detect something being defeated by a formal Assassin's strike from full HP, resulting in a large damage buff to the stalker as well as guaranteed criticals for a small time frame, only renewable either by starting the process over with a new assassin's strike from hide and build up, or by taking down another opponent in this state.

Coding would be a nightmare, but it could theoretically gives Stalkers a way to deal with mobs.

And that's why under Statesman's character sheet entry on tropes wiki I included Iron Woobie.

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Exactly, that it relies on you NOT ONE HIT KILLING SOMETHING. When you consider that Stalkers are supposed to be assassin types, this doesn't seem right, that one of your best tricks relies on your target surviving your Sunday best and bread and butter opening attack.
Besides, wouldn't it be MORE demoralizing to see someone DIE from such an attack then just be badly wounded but still apparently alive enough to fight with no performance difference? (Aside from a ToHit Debuff and possibly being subject to fear)

Now another problem is that Stalkers tend to occupy a bit of an odd niche. They're melee damage dealers who deal less damage than a scrapper, can only make as much use of build up as a tank or brute, has armor values tied with scrapper (which are actually the second worse modifiers only to blasters), and is tied with blasters for HP. Their niche is burst damage that requires specific circumstances to use, and the circumstance is easily broken, and they tend to suffer from loss of AoEs (with Electrical melee being the exception) and some other powers (like quick recovery), resulting in further lowered survivability and a weakened attack chain in the name of being able to perform in this niche...

It's not an easy hole to dig Stalkers out of...

So... Stalkers should be mezzers/debuffers?

yes. she's supposed to be a college freshman.

Dammit, you're not helping my shipper's-syndrome, blue!

Like I've been saying, I think Sister Psyche probably felt States was too idealistic/running away from reality. The way I see it, being nearly as old as Statesman, but having seen the horrors of the sentient mind, she's seen it on a much more intimate level, she's peered into the heads of pedophiles, the souls of sociopaths, and minds of rapists over the decades... And whenever she pops out, there's Statesman, trying to 'set them back on the right path'.
On the flipside, there's Manticore who sees those people and says 'shoot them'.

I believe this is the general idea of the thread. but rather than recycle Praetoria (IN PRIMAL EARTH) David's looking for specific suggestions for the various zones and their architecture styles.
A big suggestion for this is to remember that while every zone can sort of have its own style, there's an underlying style to each faction.
Redside uses lots of dark, French Gothic (part of why I don't play redside much, because I HATE Gothic) and while it might be hard to tell, Paragon is supposed to be Art Deco to fit the 'golden age of heroes' thing. I think Praetoria actually uses a mix of industrial and American Imperial.