CactusBrawler

Surely the solo version should at maximum take eight times the team version?

So a notice should only take eight hours or so to get.

Since I'm far too ill this fine Saturday to use the day for anything constructive that requires more than ten minutes of concentration, here are two more questions for you all.


"Why do you play a god?"

and

"Why do you play a demon/devil?"

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Now the first question isn't why do you play a god like character, but why to those which do so, Do you RP as an actual deity/half deity etc?

Some one told me that they get like two shards a week. The game will be dead before they get that many shards, let alone the inf.

Oh, still sixty new pieces, is this the biggest costume pack yet?

O_O

Sixty new heads?

O_O

You see playing through the arcs as a warden I noticed something. Slowly choice by choice you get corrupted, you become less an idealist with each choice and more a realist.

Take the Katie choice.

Yes Ideally everyone should be free, but Realistically people will die if you free the seers.

It outright says that innocent people, the people you are doing this for, the people as a Warden you want to free and protect, will die if you free them.

It even tells you about the children that Seers rescue from being killed in the cross fire between Syndicate gun fights.

And then in the final arc, you find out Cole's terrible plan.

But it's not really that terrible is it, he wants to stop Primal Earth from invading Praetoria, it could just be lies... but well at that point you've already seen that Primal Earth has begun its invasion. Arachnos and Longbow terrorists already shooting people just for being normal citizens of Preatoria, Malta agents causing increasing levels of gang violence.

And then you are asked to blow up a water plant, your contact tells you that it'll be six to eight months before the people you've been working to free will have clean water. That's six to eight months in which people will get sick, the vulnerable such as the old and very young are likely to die from the diseases spread and caused by drinking impure water.

It's at that point you should realize that you are just as bad as Cole, that you take away peoples choices just as much as he does. Here comes the new boss, same as the old boss.

Interesting ideas everyone.

Though Superman using his wealth to provide clean water, couldn't he just dig them himself? super hearing and X-ray vision to find clean water sources then use his other powers to make a well.

Lazy fellow.

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Next question for discussion.

"Where do you draw the line between game play mechanic and game lore?"

As an example

I consider a characters level to be an actual IC thing, a rating of competence/threat by the F.B.S.A, I do so because with in the game world they refer to it as an actual IC thing.

Note I don't believe that it is a rating of 'power' though of course raw power could earn some one a higher rating, more one of demonstrated competence and knowledge when it comes to the type of situations a hero would find themselves in. Likewise a villain wouldn't have to be a rampaging monster to have a high threat rating, doomsday devices, forbidden spells and danmgerous allies would also score a villain a high rating.

Archetypes as well, though not in the sense that you are born into a role, just that the F.B.S.A or Arachnos or whoever, came up with classifications for the way different people fight and that they tag peoples records with these files.

I don't accept the Dr Brainstorm stuff though, I thought it was silly.


Edit to add:

I believe the level rating applies to enemy groups as well. Yes a gun shot wound from a hellion, should be as dangerous as one from a Malta operative. But at the 'level' you are dealing with Malta and their cloak and dagger stuff, snipers and custom anti-you ammunition, you should be able to deal with a hellion without him getting a shot off.

After all their is a massive difference in competence between a street thug and a black ops veteran no?

In your case Fans it seems the money, adds to the characters.

That is to say, the characters have used their 'powers' to become rich.

Rather than having the money be an 'also' aspect.

My character is the last son of a doomed world, sent to Earth to bring about a better world. He has super strength, laser eyes, freezing breath, he can fly, he's invulnerable... also he's a millionaire.


What does the money actually add to the character?

To start off discussion on why people do things, I’d like to ask.


“Why do you RP as a millionaire?”


Obviously for some characters it fits the trope, you’ve got your reclusive billionaire who dresses up as an animal and kicks crime in the face all night long, let’s call that type the Wruce Bayne archetype.


For others it is needed to explain their powers, you know the type, incredibly expensive gear, perhaps even a robot suit that allows them to kick even bigger crime in the face, we’ll call these the Sony Ttark archetype.


But for those who aren’t playing a archetype, why do you play a millionaire?


Particularly those who play characters who wouldn’t actually need the money to do things, who needs a private jet when you can fly fast enough to break orbit should you wish it?


Essentially why do people RP as Billionaire Superman?

"You see these" figure holds out guns in a patch of moonlight "Give me the power of death."

The guns are pulled out of the light, rejoining their owner in the shadows.

"Anyone can own a gun, but me..." the figures hands glow with power "I've got the power of life as well."

"So life and death right, that more or less makes me a god right? So why should I pay attention to the laws of man? I've got the power to take what I want, so I will."

"It doesn't make me a bad person, I've never killed anyone. Yeah I've put bullets into security guards, but I always heal them just enough that they won't die, course I'm not dumb enough to heal them enough so they can get any smart ideas about tackling me."

"So I get my money and everything is golden. Sure a couple of guards might have to retire from their injuries, some of the staff and customers might need counseling but hey... that's what insurance is for! I mean it's not like any one died right?"

Given how they say that everything is all baked together... wouldn't a change to the pets power coding wise (assuming that was the cause of the bug) require that the entire pet power, including graphics be re-baked and thus give us the 100mb hot fix size?

It's like a month isn't it for getting an ultra rare right?

Don't you need both rares in a tree to craft the ultra rare? So that's two weeks right there, then for the ultra rare you need something crafted from a notice of the well, and another notice of the well. So that's another two weeks right there.

It's the type of lame time gating that I'd frankly thought the MMO genre had evolved beyond, but maybe I20 will fix that.

Don't get me wrong, I'd like the half issue system if it wasn't so clearly a panic move from some one at Paragon's part "Oh no we've got to get something out! One of our rivals has gone free to play, and another rival just launched!"

It's more the line that is drawn for 'adult' stuff.

Anything more than a kiss seems to cross the line, meanwhile it seems its okay to graphically describe the act of ramming somes face repeatedly into a brick wall.

:-/

I'm finding the rating rather problamatic.

One the one hand it was 'invented' in the UK for Spiderman. Which gives a sort of clearish area to aim for.

On the other hand, Taken is also a PG 13, which pours tar all over the area while going "lololololol!"