Decorum

"Some sorts"? It's totally a QoL issue and has no bearing on the game getting "easier" at all.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

I don't know that people would stop doing the radios per se, though. A lot of people simply like those because they don't make you leave the zone, and they don't care about the story arcs (or just find them long and tedious). A lot of those players, in fact, skip the Safeguards. I think a significant drop-off probably would occur, though, so they'd probably have to include the radios, and that's where the code garbling starts.

"Behind the times" would be it (I never even noticed...but then, about a year ago was when my computer died and I was six months getting a new one).

I wouldn't have noticed on mine as I don't play him much and I don't pay attention to such things. To me, the difference would probably only be that before I'd have to hit something four times instead of three and that would just make me sure to carry blues. I picked my mace tank to make The Mighty Thunor as a concept so it's performance meant nothing to me personally.

I can't even imagine the logistical nightmare that would be. It'd be prohibitively costly enough to just have to sort through the thousands and thousands of entries that you'd get for something like that, let alone judge them all (because they're sure as hell not adding someone to the canon at random).

Why? Because I must!

I'm a life-long super-hero geek. Read my first comics in 1965 when I was four and was hooked. Around 2005, I was having some personal and financial problems that I solved by getting away from my old "scene" and becoming somewhat of a recluse, using my money to help get caught up instead of blowing it self-indulgently. The biggest drawback was that I could no longer afford comics (although, I must say, the Big Two were turning in directions I wasn't fond of, so I think the timing was right).

This was right around the beginning of 2006. I'd heard about the game years before, of course, but we were on a crappy dial-up and had weak computers, so I never bothered, despite wanting to check it out badly. But, my new reclusiveness had left me without much to occupy my fun time, so I bit the bullet and tried it. I loved it, but it was a nightmare at first. 256 RAM on an awful dial-up with a computer that had a sound-card masquerading as a modem was almost unplayable. Eventually, I bought a better USB modem (still bad, but doable...and I was very happy a year later when we finally got high-speed in our area) and some extra RAM, and then I could actually play after several months of frustration.

The game itself was probably good enough to keep me here, but on a recommendation from an online buddy I hooked up with the Legion of Valor and that pretty much cemented the deal. Great bunch of like-minded folks that my gaming experience would be poorer without. Friendly, helpful, adult, with "no drama" rules in place. Perfect for "pretendy funtime game", if you ask me.

So, is it the people? Yup! Is it the game? You bet! Is it the convenience, ease and flexibility? Yup! I'm just happy to play with friends, and set up my own little version of "Astro City" like I always wanted to, even back in my old PnP super-hero gaming well before Astro City even existed.

See, that's what I actually like about him. That's his whole purpose for existing! It's very Silver-Age "comic booky".

I still chuckle every time I get "It's all a Nemesis plot!" or "Not everything is a Nemesis plot" for a Mission Tip.

The annoyance is the players that don't know how to use KB "properly" (word subject to varying definitions; offer void in South Carolina and Iowa ), not the KB itself.

Oooooo!

**makes note for later**

Same same here only from the Energy Blaster perspective. I don't want them to be on their back here, I want them on their back over there. If I want them on their back here, I'll just get above them first and smash them to the floor.

I usually just yell "Let's beat these up while we wait." and find out the other people waiting are as bored as I am.

Oy, seems like every time I did a speed Katie back in the day, I'd end up with yet another useless Pet recipe.

I was thinking much the same as I was reading. We're not on a "working for Statesman until we get too tough for even him" rail blueside (I hate rails). Cole's pretty innocuous on the hero's side, more of a figurehead and lore monkey .

Tech issue and philosophy issue. From War Witch's wording on it, it sounded like they still wanted to keep them separate, worked on that, and found out it was going to be a bigger cluster**** than would be worth it and backed down. But I am "reading between the lines" there a bit.

While it's not my call, I think that one's the best one so far.