Eiko-chan

As a redside player: bite me. Villains have always had to work for their epic pools while Heroes got them for free. Now Heroes have to work to get Villain epics, just like Villains do, while both Heroes and Villains get the Hero epics for free. It's about time bluesiders had to do a little work for a change.

The costumes are the core of my objection. If they released the veteran costumes for everyone in some way other than veteran rewards, I'd probably stop complaining about veteran rewards (barring some other unforeseen change in policy for future rewards).

I throw City Traveller in there just because it's so much of a game changer - both in freeing up a power pick for many characters (a lot more of my characters would have Flight if they didn't have to get Hover or Air Superiority first) and for making the early parts of the game less tedious by allowing quicker travel sooner; however, the devs have taken steps to alleviate its effects, first with the Natural Pack (and Ninja Run,) then with Issue 18/Going Rogue and the flight speed boost, and coming soon with Issue 19 and Inherent Fitness. All those do a lot to make City Traveller less extreme of a bonus, but when I started this campaign none of these steps had been taken yet, and it's still a principle I disagree with.

I play mostly villains. Villains rarely become villains without a) being horribly broken in the first place or b) having something horrible happen to them. Neither case ends well for a responsible creator.

Spoilsport.

Silver Mantis makes Eiko feel dirty. And she's a homicidal psychopath.

Cool. I think your rules are kind of stupid and short-sighted.

I don't use that as a personal assessment of anyone employed by Paragon Studios or NCSoft, however.

Keep in mind that not only does the Freak resist lethal, but the Carnie is susceptible to lethal. I think it might be as much as -20% lethal resistance on Carnies.

A lady never tells, but I will verify that I am younger than Al Gore. He had to be old enough to be a Senator to create the internet, after all.

You'd be wrong. I'm older than the internet. You have a vastly overinflated sense of yourself.

I think this game is explicitly a waste of time. However, I have a lot of time on my hands and it's a pleasurable way to waste it, so I'm glad to pay for the privilege.

There's a reason we use "F2P" to mean Free To Play in these conversations, and it's not because we're lazy, trying to be cute, or like textspeak. It's because "FTP" already means something in computer parlance, and has for over forty years. Please don't confuse things by making up your own acronyms.

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My objection to veteran rewards is based on a simple principle: I am utterly against veterans getting abilities other players cannot replicate. Exclusive costumes, City Traveller, and this proposal would all qualify. (The permanent Temporary Powers do not qualify, however, as each one is available from some story arc that can be repeated in Ouroboros, so these bonuses are available to other players.)

I can see the value of Veteran Rewards in the form of "nice little bonuses so you don't have to do as much work now that you've been playing so long". "Nice little bonuses that give you abilities/options completely new", on the other hand, are divisive and destructive; especially at this late date, new players aren't going to see a 6+ year reward as something "great to look forward to", but something they will never get, thus making veterans "better" than them. You do not want new players feeling like they will never catch up and never get the good stuff if you keep adding bonuses like this to the end of the rewards cycle, and thus rewards need to be those that give a bonus, but not an insurmountable advantage.

Ah, right, sorry, my confusion. MacArthur's not really any better in that quality than McCarthy, though.