BlackArachnia

I agree BBM. Those two would be a good couple.

It is hard Veritech. I mean, Spider-Girl and the M2 Universe was a fun read, and I am not even buying them anymore. It sucks having to make that stand that you won't support something. It's a guarantee that they will have something you want.

We gave up TV service, and I missed V, the new series, and I am going to miss the new series on ABC No Ordinary Family. There are times you need to man up and stand by a decision though.

Yeah, I saw the episode. One of my favorites actually. The Knight was cool as he tried to explain the situation and Eilings just did not get it.

I disagree ST.

The PvPers asked for arena's so they could challenge each other, and, said at the time they were not concered about rewards, they simply wanted to be able to play other against the other player for the challenge.

Arena's came out, and pvpers complained the arena's were to sterile, and they did not like the rules, and they wanted to be able to play on a map with NPCs to cause more challenge. They got that in the warzones.

To bribe the very vocal PvE players, they did the asinine thing and but badges and temp powers that were overly powerful in the warzones. It worked, for a time. Most of those PvE players never became PvPers so the population did not increase much.

PvPers wanted rewards, special PvP IO sets. They got them. It took 7 issues but they got them. Yet the very thing they asked for caused a nerf that pushed many of the PvPers away. (The last sentence is in part speculation about the nerf, I will admit.)

There is nothing wrong with PvP. Whatever floats your boat, I say. When a badge hunter logs in and whines about how evil the PvPers are in warzones, and they won't leave them alone, I have no sympathy. The moment you go into the PvP zone, you are PvPing. I know this, as a PvE player. The simple fact is that PvP was not what drew most of the players here, and it is not what keeps them here. This genre may sound like it's perfect for PvP, but it is not.

There are several rules that comic conventions follow, that PvPers and the gaming conventions do not follow. The two really do not mesh all that well.

But I thought all pre-Crisis stuff was gone, like the red/gold/blue/chartruese kryptonite, as well as the characters origins.

The problem is that alot of the other studios just do not have heroes that appeal to me. I was never interested in WILDCats or Savage Dragon. I do have the issue where they introduce Love Bunney and Mr. Hell.

I liked some of the DC heroes, and I liked the Marvel Universe. I could not stand the Ultimate Universe. I gave it a fair shot, mind. It just seems a waste of money to actually buy comics now.

Well I guess in the case of Marvel, and it's me standing by my decision that I will not start reading Marvel until they fix the OMD crap. That's not happening soon as we saw. For DC, I am sure there are good stories there, but unlike some people, I just can't through away the decades previous hsitory for the reboot. As someone was pointing out WOnder Womans post Crisis origin. I just thought that was wrong, and yet alot of posters here said they considered that canon. I just can't.

Can anyone tell me how Eiling's found the Shaggy Man as he was pre-Crisis and Eilings was post -Crisis?

I stopped buying DC comics with Crisis on Infinite Earths.

One blueside, Reduce the fluff missions, streamline the contacts, and give everyone a blasted story arc at early levels. Having Frostfire as the only choice sucks. I hate that mission. <Bleep> bloody well cheats.

Give each hazard zone a story arc. There is no reason to go into them, and really there never was.

Yes, Villains need more zones. Hands down. At minimum give them access to the Shadow Shard as a co-op zone, and I still think that Striga should be made co-op as well, or at least give villains access.

Oh I know Kai, wished I had picked up Bug City, as you put it. I liked the idea.

Then I also liked the idea of the insect spirits winning.

For an arachnophobe, I seem to have an obsession with them.

Prior to the GDN and a bit after wards I suspect. The day before I5 launched, I was ran a mission of CoT as 35 /sr. Between the earth thorns wiping through me, and having to fight 9 or so bosses from one portal, (No drops, and no xp, yet all the risk. Yay) I was out of inspirations and died 5 times in that map alone.

I rage quit, deleted the game from my hard drive, and did the same to my fiance's computer. It was not until I7 that I even bothered to come back, and that was after reading that they went back and fixed some of what they did to /sr.

That would explain why I had to focus on them or their spawn when I ran into them.

Oh I know, and it points out that the military solution is not always the best as well as that the way to defeat the enemy is not to become the enemy.

I got all the commentary in it, and was pretty disgusted by the character, though not surprised.

I was just avoiding all that and saying the truth. The schmuck deserved a beat down for nearly killing civilians and heroes alike.

Yeah, that schmuck was ab out as un-American as you can get while still being a US citizen. He needed a beatdown from Capt. Marvel AND Superman for his actions... at the same time.

Sweet. Looks like first or second edition. I never got into books like that, books based on pnp games. I don't know why, I guess I always felt I would rather be playing a story rather than reading about it. As I have gotten older, and have read sopme fo those novels, I found that trying to incorporate the games rules into a reasonable facsilmile of a story seems to fail, and seem silly as you read it.

Still, it has not stopped me yet.

I have not got to the cyber section of 4e. I am curious to see what they say about the hardwired versus the wireless stuff. I would think that, even if your smartlink needs an inductiuon pad, that the software in your gun could still be hacked wirelessly. After all, the software in your gun is still active. This new technomancer stuff will be interesting.

One of the things that disappointed me in rules was that insect/arachnid shamans were all evil. Spider totems are very common in many cultures, and were not considered bad.

I have been saying this to you for years, Sparky. Black Arachnia had issues until post 40, and that was why I took a hiatus prior to I5 and the GDN. I new what ever happened was going to hurt /SR badly. This is also why I loathe the Earth Casters and most CoT. They simply blew past my defense. Behemoths forced me to use alot of lucks and respites, as with one shot they took 1/2 to 2/3 my health. And they never seemed to miss lol.

It does get better as I have said before, it just took awhile. Most of the other posters here will give you a better idea of when and what though. I have never been a numbers player.

edit: I also noticed the slag golems hitting alot and doing some major damge with my Crab spider VEAT. I have alot of the defense and resist sets, but they still did a number on me. The group itself maybe particularly difficult for some AT's or power sets.

Kind of like Demolitionists versus MMs.

Or we could make a deal with Mephisto and get a whole new cast of supporting characters at the cost of our marriage.

I have been a Joker fan since I read him in his first appearance. Mark Hamil's performance in Batman:The Animated Adventures really skyrocketed my love of the Clown. Heath Ledger's performance did nothing for me.