Dante

You're right, it is a last resort and not one I like doing. I don't enjoy ignoring any character, player, plot or supergroup if I can avoid it as it's effectively dismissing their creativity as being beneath my notice. Which is kinda rude really.

I listed my options on the other page and if I choose not to completely ignore it then I only have two avenues open to me: a) find a viable reason why all of my characters choose to turn their backs on such an atrocity or b) allow myself to be dragged into a plot I have no interest in. Like Zortel, I don't fare well in big plots like this one and tend to keep my RP smaller scale. However, I still acknowledge what RP events go on around me, even if I don't participate. Most of the time, the activities can be dealt with by whoever is addressing/causing the threat at the time. That's cool and adds to the vibrant, immersive RP environment we have on Union.

But this event is so large that it demands attention. And to simply turn IC backs on it is character breaking.

It just doesn't fly. Now Pious' suggestion for the FSBA involvement is a reasonable temporary measure. But as has been noted, this would be the biggest attack on American soil since the Rikti invasion. There's simply no way that the Freedom Phalanx, Longbow, hell, even Arachnos wouldn't get involved to try and avert an international incident and bring the perpetrator to justice. You might manage to keep the hordes at bay for a few days while the FSBA investigate but after that, we're talking an all out manhunt.

So, for now, I'm forced to hold off on reacting to it IC in the hope that some sort of clarity, compromise or retcon can be decided upon by the plot's GMs. If nothing like that is forthcoming, then I simply have to exclude it otherwise I'll have been effectively god-modded into action. And that would make me exceedingly grumpy.

Might be missing a few vital ingredients there too pal.

Although I can easily bring the rough trousers and pagan T-shirt of Karnac, I doubt I'd be able to grow three foot taller and the same again wide no matter how many bench presses I manage...

Just spent the last five minutes laughing over this. Kudos to its creator.

Stealing this.

Yes, yes it does. So much so, I state it in my sig.

I've got a better deal: we merge them into one list then you get all ours and we get yours. Everybody wins!

Nice to see the servers so active but I'll be reserving judgement for a few months to see whether this is just a spike.

I agree with this. As willing as I am to part with my cash for costume pieces and the occasional nice buff power, I've never really thought emotes should be part of booster packs. The ones in the GR pack (they are NOT stances, they're just fancy emotes) are questionable at best.

If these emotes are part of some Soul Train Disco Booster in the future, I sincerely doubt I would bother buying them.

Ditto. I still love reading mine sometimes, you learn all kinds of things.

But then the EU doesn't need anything like that apparently. Because we're too 'internet savvy' and all that. :P

Would be nice if they could be available for digital download though.

I think this is precisely the reason it will never be instituted. Not only does it raise questions about the developers' role (writer? programmer? reviewer?) the lines of ownership are kinda blurry. Technically, we don't 'own' anything in the game but it would seem to be a bit of a legal minefield when it came to using player generated content as part of the official content by putting it on the same playing field. I reckon that is why AE exists as a building: so that the player generated content can be all safely stored in there with no question over what bits the developers were responsible for.

That said, if they could iron out the legalities, I would love, love, love to see something like this come in.

Uh huh, yep, keep them coming. Don't panic, I'll find some new and inventive way to embarrass myself while I'm there.

Oh the pain... and missing my arms...!

Still, it's good to see the EU servers so active. But I'll wait a few months before passing judgement on the success of the expansion.

To be honest, I can't tell the difference. It gets lost in a sea of +Dam from everything else I'm packing. I've used it as a Build Up on a few spawns and it seems to do some fine buffing. After that, I can't tell.