DarkGob

I was thinking about this recently. I wonder if it would be possible to have a contact (or a separate crystal, whatever) in Ouro that would just exemplar you down to the specified level. Then just have the radio/paper to work off combat level versus experience level. Then you can just go back to Steel Canyon/Cap au Diable, run the necessary number of repeatable missions, and get your lower-level Safeguard/Mayhem.

I'm sure there's probably some greater reason why this wouldn't work and I'm definitely not suggesting "just code it up, it's easy!", but I really do wonder why it's not that easy.

Some of them are ostracized, Spider-Man being the biggest example. Most of the others aren't ostracized because the general public knows they're not mutants but rather got their powers in some sort of accident. (Which is part of why the public fears Spider-Man, because most people think he is a mutant. That, and JJJ's decades-long smear campaign.) That's the difference. The point of X-Men is that h0m0 (seriously, forum software??) sapiens feels threatened by the rise of h0m0 superior, not just because they're different.

And on the flip side, you have the Civil war storyline, where the entire point was a movement that desired the registration of not just mutants but all super-powered beings, which is as logical an extension of anti-mutant paranoia as you're gonna get.

Because an older person was raised in a time when cursing was considered a lot more rude than it is today, so they're more likely to find it offensive. It's not ageist unless you suggest that an arbitrary old person who has not expressed their opinion on cursing would be offended, because you're drawing a conclusion based on their age. In this case, we already know that the older woman in the article was offended, so it's not unreasonable to assume that her age is the reason why. And this really only applies to the current generation of old people, it wouldn't be applicable 20, 30, 40 years down the line. So, not ageist. Generationist if anything, but again, not even that in this case since we already know what the woman believes. Nice try though, A for effort.

re: monkeyslap's hilarious backpedaling: lol

That's some awesome sexist anecdotal "evidence" there. You don't suppose that maybe had more to do with her age than it did her gender, do you?

They tried that, it ended up getting retconned.

I had to do a really difficult project in school once so seeing your handle all over the forum offends me. I demand recompense!!

The truth about Calvin Scott was revealed a couple issues ago in the Underground Trial. From the writer's perspective, it happens before the events in First Ward. But from your character's perspective, it hasn't happened yet.

TL;DR sloppy writing and a somewhat ill-conceived notion of enforcing a chronological storyline on a game where each character experiences the story separately

This. My Bots/Dark had been shelved until I respecced him quite recently, then ran him through Dark Astoria and the other mission arc badge content he was missing. Didn't get that bug once.

Of course, now that I've said that, it'll hit me nonstop from here on out. I still have days where I expect that infernal chat buffer bug to strike from nowhere.

Guess I'm the old folk with a bad memory. And I'm not even 30!

16 months to go though...

Positron and War Witch, yeah. I'm not saying it's a brand new crowd, but the game is definitely not moving forward with the same vision that it had when, say, I first joined the game in Issue 4/5. If it were, I can't imagine I would have stayed with it for so long. The game was honestly a little dull before Issue 6/7/8 came along (never mind City of Villains), so in that respect it has clearly improved substantially. The fact is that we've gotten a lot of stuff that we've asked for over the years (power customization, player-created content such as it is, multitudes of power sets, the ability to redo previously-played content, tons of costume sets....).

You really can't blame them too much for new stuff breaking old stuff. I know it sounds like a pass but it's really true. The legacy game code is a tangled spaghetti mess of undocumented code produced mostly by people who moved on years ago, it's gonna be near impossible to introduce new code into that without creating all sorts of weird errors (which is going to happen under the best conditions anyway).

There are certainly criticisms that can be made though regarding the dev team's propensity for pushing patches/Issues to Live despite the fact that there are known game-breaking bugs present (the philosophy of it being better to push out a product that doesn't work right for some people and fix it later, versus delaying it for everybody). But it's still not black and white, and you'll be a lot happier once you realize that.

The devs could do everything right for an arbitrary person and that person would still complain because they no longer have anything to complain about.

The following devs are no longer with the game (too lazy to get real names for the ones I don't know):

Statesman/Jack Emmert
Back Alley Brawler
Castle
Lord Recluse (both of them)
Sexy Jay

Just to name a few of the big names. Probably also a bunch of these folks went with Cryptic to "the competition".

You seem to be very unhappy with the game lately. Perhaps it's time for you to take a break instead of sniping at other forumites and actively driving new players away from the game.

Yeah, good luck with that. The game still has typos/spelling errors outstanding after 8 years.