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That's almost like saying Masterminds are the only ones allowed to lead a SG or VG. As long as you can find people to follow you, you can be a leader. And in case of Arachnos that's actually easy to portray with just a few other Arachnos characters acting as your subordinates. In fact you could even consider the reinforcement skills to portray just that. In addition it's a hugh organization with alot of subdivisions, so even commanding one group isn't really something special. On top of that... you're rather powerful as an Arachnos Soldier/Widow (as the arcs show), so being just another lowlive in an organization that's all about "if you have the power to take it, you have a right to take it"...

What I do not agree with is people playing Arbiters (and Fateweavers) though, because even though everyone can get the badge for it, being an Arbiter means everyone attacking you is basically attacking Recluse, and that makes running around on RI with hostiles everywhere pretty...bizarre.

same here

Edit: Sorry, just realised I missed to add the most important part:

Personally I don't have a character who's related to any of the canon characters and I wouldn't encourage others to do that for reasons that have already been brought up here. The only characters I have, that have any connection to canon characters at all are my arachnos soldier an widow.

My guess is as emotional as the thread was in the beginning, it led the the release of some pent-up tension about certain aspects and maybe even between some people. Before CBs post though I would have said things will go back to normal within a short amount of time now that everyone had the chance to air their opinions.

Nice try Pious, but no one ever said we shared every bit of RP, that's not even possible and you very well know that. What we share is basically the canon and a history of player created stories, and considering the amount of players, that's alot.

For every plot there is, there will be people who won't join in for many different reasons. One such reason could be trouble in RL and because of that either not much time or interest, another one could be that they are running a plot at the same time themselves. And of course, one that has been named as a reason not to take part in the plot we were talking about here is people having different views on how strong player characters should be, what they are able to do and what's considered an atrocity and what daily routine aswell as some other things.

Now we can either all get into an argument over every plot there is (or just have very weird RP because of different views), or we simply don't join plots we don't want to take part in and agree on what we all can agree on.

And again you're allowed and even welcome to do so, but at the same time, players of the unionverse are allowed to use them or not, and as far as I can tell, the answers have been given to you a few times already now, which is the reason I asked.

And this is where alot of players from the unionverse will most likely disagree, and they are allowed to do so, remember? Also developer-level wide scale does not mean they will want to do it, but rather they are the only ones allowed(able) to do it. We are here for roleplay, messing with key elements of the canon is their job.

I too have a Huntsman, it's very viable believe me. For a while I've played with someone who never started a mission for his team below +4 x8.

That's actually something I agree on in general (exceptions possible if plausible). I see nothing wrong with a superstrength character throwing things as Omega mentioned, but a blaster being a tank is rather odd.

It's funny we were talking about MMs before though, as for most of them, these limits of yours strip them of the ability to be (personally) more powerful than Statesman and many others, because per definition a MM doesn't "solo" anything. They always have their "minions" do most of the work and without them, they are rather weak.

Don't get me wrong, you're welcome to share your opinion, but I'd really like to know why changing how things are handled in the unionverse is so important to you when you're not even part of it.

No, I've always been "Cats" for all my CoX career (since november 2007 to be exact, I just didn't bother to join the forums). I suspect that I'm the reason she used a "z" though, as I've already been around when Catz was still playing.

While I'm not, and I haven't been attacked here. Not a good theory.

I haven't seen you RP ig yet so please help me understand what this truely means. Do you mean by this that given the right situation (like having too many people fighting you after such a plot), you consider the possebility to let Liz die, or does that rather mean that theoretically she'll killable, but in truth no matter how many are after her, that will never happen?

So you're arguing that Liz is more powerful than the most powerful person in the lore because game mechanisms allow you to beat a brainless NPC?

Just a wild guess, but I think it's the reason why many don't want to get involed with certain people. At least I know of one more to whom this applies.

It might not help you, but you're not the only one in this situation. Although for me it's not exactly the same.

It was talked about the Court because that's who it was assumed to be OOC. In all honesty, as said before, every single hero would be after who did it and by ALL those "hackers", telepaths, magicians and so on... it's pretty safe to say that from a roleplaying point of few, it's very likely whoevery was responsible would be found. That's part of the problem here actually. This plot would cause a response so big that we don't even have the ability to appropriatly react to it, we would have to ask the devs to help us with that.

That's probably because most who would have never bothered to take part in the plot in the first place.

Sorry Pious, but with this statement you've made yourself look ridiculous.

Blue side, there's a tip mission about Westin Phipps you really should do some day.

I have to agree here. The only realistic result would be literally total destruction for the ones responsible.

I'd be careful with pulling such a large world-changing plot and inviting what might be a vast majority to "just ignore it" without a real reason. If that's the "court's lore" and most of the other people follow one where this never happened, it might lead to some simply ignoring the court on a long term.

So this is supposed to be a "we go down in flames" plot?

I think setting the number of casualties simply wouldn't work, just because it doesn't even have to be casualities. It would be just as ridiculous if half of Paragon fell into a coma and no one reacts. It's about how big is it. Also take into account that in this case it's a school. It's possible that there are certain events where even a thousand people are killed, but the public, and heroes are no excuse here, always reacts differently if it's children and there's also a difference between them being "collateral damage" or the actual target.

Also I'm no one who wants to forbid any plots. If you feel like trying to dominate the world, go ahead. All I ask is to "stay within reason", which even if it sounds stupid, in case of world domination means: fail. Once you cross a certain point, you'll have more enemies on you than you can deal with, no matter how invincible you think you are. So I'm ok with it for example even if a single group wants to go to war with all of Paragon's heroes, if they take into account that they will go down unless they come up with a very good way out.

I think the concern here is that things have to be within reason. What you basically suggest here is if someone decided to kill half the population of Paragon and for some reason none of the Roleplayers reacts to it, it did happend and he did get away with it because all heroes were "busy" at the moment. We play a game here where people are not online 24/7 to play their characters, so naturally we have to deal with our own and everyone else's time table and preference, but at a certain point the world becomes ridiculous from an roleplaying point of view and it would be a good idea to make sure that plots don't go that way.

That people don't care much for what happenes in other countries (or in that case planets) is nothing new. But the death of 1000 children in their own town is something they can hardly ignore. To be honest, it actually sounds a bit like suicide to me, because something like this would probably draw the attention of every single "hero group" including Freedom Phalanx and next to no one fighting side by side with you (loyalty isn't seen that often amongst villians, especially in such a case). So it pretty much sounds like "the people who did this" against all of Paragon City, which is ok I guess, if you are also willing to live with the consequences.

I read over that part, now it makes sense.

So what? If there's two with the same name, someone has to step back. It's an easy solution and we europeans are the ones asking for it and the ones who will benefit most from it, it's only fair if they hold the privilege of keeping their global names. And you can still stay "EU TrueMetal" if you want.