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Originally Posted by reiella

Out of curiosity, shouldn't it be impossible to be a Mutant, Science or Tech origin Demon Summoner?

Originally Posted by Lastjustice

That's varies from the current continuity at a given date. Some stories they couldn't, other ones they could. During the 90s post crisis reboot they were incapable which was part of the reason Maxima (prior to dying at the hands of imperiex protecting superman from his blast by jumping in front of him.) actually had a very small shot at dethroning Lois for the storyline when she was trying win him affections around the time Doomsday showed up which she helped fight. Her race was close enough kryptonians that it would have worked.

This one of those times I wouldn't have picked who the character picked to pair off with if I was in their shoes I'd taken maxima over Lois and Black cat over MJ, but I seem to always be drawn to the slightly crazy/wild ones. It's the Batman/Cat woman deal. (or Silverbolt/Black arachnia if you re a transformers fan.)

In anycase Lois usually always came across as too be-witchy for my tastes and thought she was too good for Clark 90% of the time. They rarely seemed to have much chemistry, so I never got why the pairing. (Which in the Timverse they had Bruce Wayne date her , which showed just how superfical she really is. Like unless you're a billionaire or super power Lois Lane doesn't have time for you.) She's easily my least favorite like female love interest in comics. I just don't get the attraction unless you re just a masochist, given all punishment Superman is known for taking that just might be the case.

Originally Posted by RemusShepherd

I feel the need to complain about the Weekly Strike Task (or whatever the acronym is; I only know that they refuse to use the obvious 'WTF'.)

I don't care that it's necessary in order to get the rarer incarnate boosts. I don't care that it was badly tested, and a zone-crashing bug got loose into the live game. I can overlook those poor decisions.

What I can't accept is how ill-conceived it was to tell the entire playerbase to do the same task force over and over again.

Last night on Virtue, Independence Port had tremendous lag and appeared to be about to crash at least twice that I saw. Getting onto Stateman's ship was a slideshow. Telling your players to gather in the same zone every single day was a bad decision.

But even that's minor compared to the mind-numbing tedium of doing the same task force several times, on one character or with several. And once you've completed it on one character, that character is too powerful to find challenge in any other content in the game -- not that you can play any other high-level content, because most everyone else is grinding away at the WST.

Issue 19 came with new, challenging task forces that reinvigorated the high level game. Issue 19.5 is a step backwards, instructing the playerbase to re-consume old content for even less reward. The WST is a recipe for boredom, and it will only be played for as long as people can stand doing repetitive tasks. Every player will have their limit; I hit mine in one day.

I just wanted to give the devs my opinion. They made a misstep with this design. Be sure that, in Issue 20, you give us something interesting to do. Please.

Originally Posted by EvilRyu

OMG no, no, no, please kill it with fire quickly. Another movie down the drain. Why do they not pick Tom Welling for Superman? He has done it longer than anyone else. Just make him a money offer so big he cant refuse it.

Originally Posted by Lastjustice

I forever blame Margot Kidder for my disdain for Lois Lane. She was my first impression of the character as a kid, and jaded me from ever liking her in anything else. I was always thinking why in the world would Superman want this woman...especially so many other hot super powered babes in his world like Wonder Woman or Maxima who can actually give him babies. Margot Kidder was so bleh. If there ever was a world to fly so fast you spin the world backwards to save...it wasn't her. One of the worst movie castings ever.

Originally Posted by Remaugen

I love Bullet Rain! Two or three DP toons pulling the Bullet Rain train on a mob end the fight all by themselves!

Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan

As a die hard spidey fan from way way back I feel obliged to correct this characterization of the... um character. (Yes, I own copies of ASM #42 and #50, featuring the first appearances of Mary Jane Watson and King Pin respectively. Not to mention far far too many books beyond that.)

The first three films barely touched on it, but for decades, one of Spiderman's MANY powers beyond his agility and wall walking was his signature "spider sense," a sort of vague precognition that would warn Peter Parker of imminent physical danger.

I realize this is a geeky nitpick entirely tangential to your points. This additional power makes Parker in no way a god, BUT as a decades long fan of the long running mythos I am saddened that this aspect of the character was for the most part written out of the mainstream films (aside from a few moments in the first film where it is hinted at via some time changes and audio cues played when we are sort of inside Parker's head just before an action sequence begins). Plus it gave the artists this great excuse to draw these wonderfully graphic halo of black wavy lines around Spidey's head.

Okay--back to the subject at hand.

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Originally Posted by CactusBrawler

A combination of Spiderman "Has the ability to sense attacks before they happen" and Wolverine "Can heal from anything" would be a god.

Originally Posted by Rintera

yeah...although I'm beginning to wonder if I made my character TOO strong.

like I don't...play him as godly, but he's telekinetic, and also has super strength.

a lot of people seem to thinnk tat's super overpowered. Although I constantly do get threats from non-supers saying "I will kill you" or "you can't kill me" which I find hilarious >o>

Originally Posted by RadDidIt

Our "powers," regardless of mutation or technology, were released when they opened Pandora's Rhomboidal Container of Happy Fun Stuff... after they drank from the Well.

Originally Posted by Zikar

Once again, I'm the only person who like Origins.

Originally Posted by PennyPA

My question is why?

People are already soloing S/TFs, including master runs. Incarnate stuff is not done yet, and look how powerful we are getting with just Alpha. I was even on an LRSF last night with no brute or tank (just scrapper, def, 2 corr, dom, contr, blaster, fort).

Choosing slots provides a challenge still on deciding builds. You want 6, others will eventually want more. And one time would be bad in a game that changes over time.

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Couple of other points.

First, will all players get this as easily? A merits or whatever may come easy to some but others take time. Plus what if it is something like A merits and players don't want run tip missions or have time to collect merits to convert?


And second is the content. Add more slots, things get easier since we can slot powers better or add more set bonuses, etc. The mobs will get easy and run the risk of becoming boring or upgraded to keep us challenged. I would not want to be fighting upgraded mobs on a toon without the extra slots.

Originally Posted by Dante

I think a few of us roleplayers had a small meltdown about the Well lord when the Incarnate system was first announced. Certainly a lot of us didn't like there suddenly being this 'ultimate source of all our powers' after several years of playing self made characters. It's annoying but minor enough for me to ignore. It's not like we were all suddenly told that the reason for our powers was because we were aliens exiled from our home planet.

Oh wait, that was Highlander 2.

Still, I see Sam's point. I don't think I could ever run an all natural character to 50 for the same reason. Not without falling back on advanced technology or some other source of power.

Originally Posted by Grouchybeast

I look at it this way:

The devs are going to rate-limit my acquisition of shiny stuff, because they want me to keep giving them my money. I have no problem with that.

They can limit the acquisition time by requiring me to play specific content for what (on average) takes a player a week. Or they can require me to play a couple of hours of content, and then leave the rest of my play week free to do whatever kind of content I want until the time limit expires. I personally find the latter a lot more fun, and also much friendlier for a game where people have a lot of alts.