Eva Destruction

If you are rezzed you will be back in the action faster. Not to mention, if someone does have Vengeance, using it will boost the rest of the team's performance.

Yes, there is such a thing as lying there too long, but there's also a comfortable middle ground. I tend to wait about 10 seconds, then hit the hospital. I figure that gives people enough time to notice I am dead, and use Vengeance or rez me if they can. I figure there is a good chance I would have spent that 10 seconds waiting for the door to unlock anyway.

They're also not that popular with people who aren't American. When you make the world's most powerful hero so much an American hero, you're making certain implications that some non-American players don't appreciate. It's ok if said hero is more Dr. Manhattan than Superman though, because Dr. Manhattan is not set up as someone to unquestioningly emulate and look up to...so can you blame the players for pointing out Statesman's Dr. Manhattanesque aspects, and resenting the devs for expecting us to treat him like Superman despite them?

I actually just had an idea to make it better. Since even the stupidest hero is capable of understanding how to operate complex machinery, we should be able to help him. However, doing so alerts the Sky Raiders/Freakshow/Rikti and causes them to step up their assault, using a similar mechanic to the MoM trial to take time off the timer. Voila, we have the "hurry up and send the next ambush" button that so many people want.

The big thing though, is that each signature hero has their specialty. They also have a reputation that, at lower levels, we haven't earned yet. They should be doing tasks that play to that, instead of "well he can't fight just because." In order for us not to be overshadowed, they have to actually need us. And most importantly, by the time we hit 50 we should be treated as their equals, not the B-listers we currently are.

I wouldn't so much want them involved in my storylines, which Statesman most definitely is. It's more like I'm Batman, States is Superman, and eventually there is a shared storyline in which we team up. As it stands in-game though, all of Batman's storylines are secondary to Superman's, and it feels like Batman only gets to do the stuff that Superman considers beneath him.

It's sad, but the Rogues Gallery characters, who are heroes and villains just like us, have more personality than the Freedom Phalanx. They really should have treated them like heroes just like us, only with more experience, rather than putting them up on this pedestal of "we're just plain better than you."

Or "helping" you defeat something they really should have been able to wipe the floor with, but can't because they're demoted to pet class so as not to overshadow you, which, if you're playing an IOd out character, results in you being far more powerful than the Freedom Phalanx.

Remember the old Posi TF, where the last mission was you creating a diversion so the Phalanx could deal with the real threat? They should have had missions where it was the other way around. Why not have States distract uber-buffed Recluse while we take out his towers and weaken him, then, because States is too beaten up, take him out? Or have Posi working to stabilize the Terra Volta reactor in the respec trial, and we have to protect him while he works? Have missions where we're working alongside them and they're doing something that gives a sense of their character, rather than "another unhelpful NPC helper with a braindead AI."

But as for how I would specifically have written Statesman? I wouldn't have made him into the hero, just our hero. I like the idea upthread of having him greet new heroes. I would have made him more personable; maybe it's all just a superficial show he puts on for young heroes and really all distant because all his friends keep dying, but it would leave players with a good first impression of the character, that could be built on later, rather than seeing him as an arrogant jerk who thinks he's better than you and that nobody cares to learn more about.

I wouldn't have made him the big all-powerful uber-hero of the world, and certainly not of the multi-verse. I would have kept Praetoria as a one-shot gag, the Reichsmann TFs never would have existed, and I would eliminate every single bit of lore around Cimerora, up to and including Imperious himself. I'd change the ITF to "click here to fight mobs" if need be, just to get rid of that mess. I would rewrite the RSF to have you do something so bad the Freedom Phalanx has to show up to stop you, rather than you helping Recluse settle a grudge with his ex. And I would have him respec out of Handclap.

Content is for levelling. If you don't get rewards from new content, you have to go back to grinding papers or tips to actually get your rewards. You see the problem?

It also says "I'm wearing this because there are only two long hairstyles for guys and the other one is all scraggly and clips with my black trenchcoat."

Actually, I've said this before, but I think they should be forced to use Architect to sketch out their arcs before they even start thinking about adding special mechanics and unique maps. This would force the writers to think of the story first and add mechanics to help tell it, rather than coming up with a cool new mechanic and shoehorning a story in around it.

Fusionette is an idiot. Her dialogue and story actions support this. When someone spouts lines like "quit looking down my dress or my boyfriend will beat you up" they will not be liked. Sefu Tendaji has annoying powers, and he gets captured twice in the RWZ storyline, and yet he manages to avoid being the butt of constant jokes.

And that is why my answer to questions like these is always "none of them." If they want to write garbage, they should stick to writing their own garbage, not taking someone else's perfectly good storyline or villain group and twisting them beyond recognition to fit the latest Shiny of the Month.

Villains get to launch one, so heroes don't even get their 0.5.

Why go to the effort of saving the world when you know some chump hero will do it for you? And while they're busy doing that, you can steal their stuff.


The same people who care about most of Praetoria, the Incarnate content, Roy Cooling....ok, nobody cares about Roy Cooling.

No, it isn't, not anymore. If it was, you wouldn't be able to experience a Rikti invasion until level 45. It's told in a confusing mish-mash of level-based chronology and real-time chronology that will only hurt your head if you try to make sense of it and therefore can only be a Nemesis plot.

Most people didn't even get to play with the stupid clunky interface, because the way the editor works giving everyone in the SG editing permission is just asking for disaster.

Players might have been more open to the idea of base PvP if it wasn't such a pain to set up an instant raid, and they hadn't hyped up a raid system where other people could destroy all your stuff.

I feel it's generally more appropriate to ignore, and not quote her so that people who do ignore her don't have to read her tripe, but that's just me.

Yes, that is why I said she's depraved by BDSM standards.

Yes, but if you state that people of a certain race like something that only stupid or drunk people would otherwise like, you are implying that the people of this race are on par with stupid and drunk people. Ergo, racist.

If you linked to a video of a real life crime it would also be deleted, even if we can commit the exact same crime in-game.

She is depraved by BDSM standards. The kind of BDSM practiced by fictional villains is generally only superficially similar to anything practiced by real people in real life.