Eva Destruction

Knee-deep in Romans.

It wasn't until i17 that we started getting all the missions where you had to wade through an empty map and have three multi-page conversations before you could fight something. The ITF has about as much story as a string of four paper missions. It's totally weak, but it's also pretty much irrelevant. However, that was also the issue they put in the Origin of Power nonsense, which is when, iirc, much of the complaining started.

I wouldn't get my hopes up, they usually wait a bit before adding new in-game maps to the AE.

Speaking of waiting a bit, isn't it about time for Time Manipulation (hehe, time) and Beam Rifle, maybe even Street Justice, to go in?

Nope, just inane one-liners carefully placed to draw the unsuspecting into rehashing the same arguments over and over.

Anyway, if it weren't for forumrage I wouldn't have conceptually fitting and/or cool Lore pets, the rumored medieval costume pack would probably have armor for males and low-cut princess dresses for females, and there wouldn't be solo/small team Incarnate content on beta right now, among other things. These were all things that players felt very strongly about, and complained about until the devs gave us what we wanted. So, I'm going to keep complaining about stuff I don't like, thank you very much.

I found it a very apt name, so I borrowed it.

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Yeah, and the irony is he's the one who does something unbelievably stupid.



















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In Dark Astoria both sides come across as incredibly flat. It does a really poor job convincing me the world is actually going to come to an end.

So is completely changing another writer's story because you like yours better, and you think their should be twisted to fit into yours.

Actually, getting chomped to death by spiky eyeballs was the best part of the arc for me.

Also, seeing Ruladak the Ravager. It just strengthens my suspicion that whoever writes this stuff isn't deliberately contradicting earlier lore, they just don't care enough to go on ParagonWiki and look stuff up.

Well to be fair, calling a Rikti human is kinda like calling a human a neanderthal. They consider themselves more evolved.

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He is Nemesis. This has been stated.

The letter writer shouldn't be trusted with the fate of the world either. That's all I'm going to say to avoid spoilers.

The difference is that whoever wrote Spanky's story either knew what his deal was, or intended it to be deliberately vague. The common cause has to be decided up front, even if it's not revealed to the audience. You can add in unforeseen results later, but you can't do it the other way around; that is, you can't just show the results, and come up with a common cause later.

I think the real problem is that they frankly suck at writing epic. We tell them we want to feel powerful, they bring NPCs down to our level, so rather than making us look powerful it makes the NPC look weak. We want to punch out Cthulhu, but they don't have the resources to let us actually do it, so Cthulhu puts on a human suit and we get to punch him out in the mission text.

The Well, Rularuu, they're both powered by the crazy.

No, the writers want him to kill Statesman and get his powers, is how it's written. He isn't a genius, he just has access to behind-the-scenes information that nobody else in the game is given access to. Furthermore, villains aren't allowed to interfere with his plans at any point, even though at the end of his arc he tells you he wants to free Rularuu.

Thank you for this, I shall think of Wade as Wile E. Coyote from now on.

Two insane minds, one body. It's like that comic where Deadpool got the Power Cosmic.*

Oh and seriously, Ruladak the Ravager? How hard is it to look up the ONE TF he appears in and get his name right? Sloppy. But then again, I fully expect sloppy these days.

*This comic might not actually exist.

No, it isn't. It is driven by a lead developer who just doesn't seem to care about a consistent narrative. It's driven by conflicting priorities. The end-game team's priority is clearly the mechanics, the story is just slapped on as an afterthought. In most other places the enemies manage to level up with you, to present a credible threat. A level 5 enemy has a handgun he bought from some guy in a back alley. A level 20 enemy has a machine gun he bought from a weapon-smuggling cartel. A level 50 enemy has a super-advanced high-tech high-powered rifle with armor piercing rounds that was specifically designed by the world's top weapon designers to take down people with super powers. This is how enemy progression works within the level system. If a Malta guy pulled out a handgun he bought in a back alley, I would consider it inconsistent.

The people of Praetoria are idiots, and people seem to keep forgetting that it's a co-op trial.

You could out-heal it, therefore it's not a one-shot kill. I don't consider the pulse particularly cheap. It was predictable and consistent, and again, you could out-heal it.


Then what is it that he has that people were complaining about being ganked by as they were leaving the hospital?
Simple. Switch them to IDF, add non-combat civilians. The civilians are brainwashed into seeing our attacks on the IDF as atrocious war crimes. Therefore, we have to avoid attacking the IDF until we can take out the telepaths so the civilians can see that we're just acting in self-defense.

Nope, my other option is to complain about it on the forums until the people arguing in favor of it are forced to resort to "if you don't like it don't play, I'm done with this thread."

And after he taught them magic Ermeeth went back to watching TV. If they wanted more power, they could figure out how to do it themselves, they didn't have to jump up and down shouting "Hey, Ermeeth! Look how cool I am! Can I have more power? Please?" like a bunch of four-year-olds begging for a cookie. They made themselves more powerful. Then they got invaded and started turning to outside sources, and that didn't really end well.

Sorry, bad wording there. I meant it's too easy to slip into one or the other. They've gone into both. In the same mission even, in DA.

And then Ermeeth taught them to do it themselves. Lughebu wasn't even there.

The problem with a more realistic look, with creases and seams, is that it would not play well with some patterns. Straight lines would look silly if they intersected a crease in the texturing of the tights. As for seams, they would likely fall in an unrealistic place on some of the blockier patterns, where the seams should logically be at the demarcation between the two colors, in many cases replacing the "default" side and shoulder seams. It would make the pattern look like it's painted onto the suit, and would not look realistic.

Edit: Actually, that Moonstone image is exactly what I'm talking about. There is a clear seam between the white and gold parts of her costume. Also, the princess seams further accentuate the design. If those weren't there, and the costume just had the side seams, or even worse a seam down the center, it wouldn't look right.

Yeah, if that bothers you then don't play DA. An enemy group that did actually have a backstory, even if it wasn't really gone into in any depth, has been reduced to redshirt status there.

I'd rather they leave it that way, honestly. The Incarnate content, and yes, that includes DA, has convinced me that our current dev team just can't do epic properly. There's a fine line between underwhelming and contrived, and everything we've gotten lately has fallen way to one side or the other. I also don't think they have the resources to make models like Ruladak and the totally alien-looking Rularuu minions, at least not in the quantity we'd need, and completely new custom maps for just about every mission. If they did, Dark Astoria wouldn't be full of AE custom critters and reskinned offices.

They're not paying me to write their content for them; in fact, they're actively discouraging me from writing content for them for free. Most of the people who have stated that they dislike the writing in the game have given plenty of reasons why, and we're not going to repeat them every single time someone new enters the discussion.

No. They would be usable as unitards or catsuits but then they wouldn't be actual tights anymore. I realize the painted-on look is only used in comics because it's easier to draw, but the look has become iconic to the genre.

Don't care about the first one, do want the second.

I would like these as an option, but I wouldn't like them to replace the ones we currently have. Any kind of texturing makes the pieces less versatile.

I like this style, so I'm all for more of it.

Skirts should have a sleek option too, and I think any new tights textures should be ported to skirts as well, as an option for the mini/flared/pencil/long skirts, and not as a whole new skirt. And Tops and Bottoms with skin, if possible.

The current tights look like paint, as they cling to the character's sternum. Real skintight outfits don't separate the breasts like that.

We also need to do something about the neck line. Seriously. The textures of the neck and chest really should be made to match before we start getting into fancy tights. I can't count the number of characters I have who wear the heavy neck chain or spiked collar just to hide that demarcation.

It's a result and function of them creating "challenging content" without giving a crap whether or not it makes sense from a story perspective. If they did give a crap, the TPN as it currently exists wouldn't be in the game, because from a story perspective villains and probably most vigilantes would kill those civilians, PR be damned.
One-hit kills aren't a challenge. They are annoying. Period. They remove all control from the player.
Disintegration isn't a one-hit kill. I have no idea about Maelstrom, nobody runs TPN on my server when I'm on.

I can't accept it, because of what the devs are not trying to do. They're not even trying to keep the mechanics consistent with the narrative. Instead, they're juicing up their pet NPC and assuming we still give a crap about the citizens of Praetoria.

Except we haven't taken over the world, have we? To expand on your Doctor Doom example, we've gotten rid of RICHARDS!!! but it's not like the Avengers and the X-Men are going to stand aside and let us take over the world. I don't think a lot of player characters have "defeat Statesman" as their main goal in life. It's more like something to do when you get burnt out on working on that death ray.

If you can't see the difference between losing half your health to a nuclear reactor repurposed as a superweapon and losing half your health to a civilian with a rock, then I really don't know what to say to you.

One-hit kills are never necessary.

Nemesis. Martin Henri. Giovanna Scaldi. The entire freaking Mu and Oranbegan civilizations. Possibly Lady Grey.

Pandora's Box is, in itself, an excuse to not rewrite the entire history of the world to account for super powers. It added nothing to the game world, really.

Combined Hami-Os have been untradeable on the market for as long as there was a market.

Yes, and if you go to Ouroboros you can buy Astral and Empyrean merits for 1 inf. It's Beta, they want you to test Incarnate content, so they automatically unlock your Alpha slot for you.

Read it again. The PPD's power is handwaved. The Tsoo use the Well. The CoT haven't shown up in the heroside arcs except to have Oranbegan backstory messed up some more, Arachnos's boost is temporary, and the KoA get theirs from the Furies. So that leaves the Banished Pantheon, who get theirs from an evil death god.

Yes, it is, but it's all yours. It all comes from you. Calling it anything else cheapens the concept.

The goal of Rikti War I and II was to stop the Rikti from invading us. We stopped the Rikti from invading us. Ergo, we won the war. Saying we didn't because we never went to their homeworld and they had us outnumbered is like saying the Americans didn't win their revolutionary war because they didn't actually go to England and punch the king in the face. If you get what you're fighting for, you've won, and a diplomatic victory is still a victory.

The thing is, Statesman isn't really an antagonist. He's a figurehead. He doesn't actually do anything. My villains have more of a beef with Ms. Liberty and Manticore for sending their mercenaries after me at every turn, with Infernal and Back Alley Brawler for thinking they can just waltz into Nerva like they own the place, with Citadel and Luminary for trying to take back what I have rightfully kidnapped. Recluse is the one who has issues with Statesman, and while he's trying to project those issues onto player villains, a lot of players have already expressed their dissatisfaction at being Arachnos lackeys.

To me, this feels like a cheap publicity stunt, and that's exactly how I'm treating it. Statesman's death will not be moving, even though the mission text will likely tell us we are moved. It will probably not be heroic, judging by the SSAs so far. And it won't be surprising since they already spoiled it.

It doesn't matter how many villains are strong enough to do it, all that matters is which one actually did do it.

And you're damn right, it's arrogant. So is referring to yourself in the third person and demanding people build a giant statue of you and call you Supreme Overlord. What's your point?