Eva Destruction

Accursed chibis! Why must you make evil so cute?

Yes, I know she's in Atlas Park. She's just that good.

And in one case, a whole lot of times.

At least one person has documented their journey from 1-50 playing arcs that aren't farms. My 1-50 in AE toon is level 44, and would be higher if I wasn't easily distracted by shiny objects and determined to roll ALL the tickets and get maximum inf out of the results.

It is a viable means of levelling. Certainly not the fastest if you're not farming, and a bit slower than standard content, but having new content to level with is a draw for some people. From level 1-5 for me it's either AE or street sweeping, and has been since AE was introduced. Lowbie content gets very repetitive even for someone like me who doesn't alt nearly as much as some people, and considering how many posts we've seen over the years in the AE forums asking for arcs that are appropriate for lowbies, I don't think I'm the only person using it to bypass standard lowbie content.

It doesn't. It causes collateral damage to non-exploitative, non-farm arcs that is never addressed or even acknowledged by the dev team. The one time it was addressed the fix came in six months after the fact, hidden under a whole pile of new shinies. Most people didn't even know it was there.

While this would be very cool, it would require a lot of redside to be rewritten. Namely, anything with Longbow in it, and a lot of the missions where you go invade Paragon City. Of course, as a villain you can just ignore any agreements they come to and rob Paragon City banks anyway, but some of the missions have you invading Paragon at Arachnos's behest. And they'd have to either kick out Longbow or make them officially a rogue army, at which point they would have to redo any heroic missions that involve them.

If by "cute" you mean "gives her the opportunity to totally take advantage of him," then yes. She's evil.

She also appears in Deadalus's arc in Cimerora. You fight her.

Um, yes.

Frankly, Recluse hasn't been "the Ultimate Evil" for many issues now. We were the ones who discovered the truth about the Rikti and stopped the second war, not Statesman. We are the ones going into Praetoria, not Statesman. Even when Recluse was up to his evil schemes, who stopped him, and who stood around on a boat?

Hamidon will suddenly acquire a Scottish accent and tell Cole to get in his belly. Any Primal Earther who tries to stop Cole from getting eaten can go get eaten too, because they are too dumb to live. Anyone who lets him into Primal Earth can also go get eaten by Hamidon.

Dude, face it, you made the Freedom Phalanx look like a bunch of noobs. City's premiere superteam indeed. They didn't even think to pack breakfrees.

Azuria lost them. Duh.

If you're a Ghost Widow fan I'd also suggest playing through Scirocco's patron arcs, since he sends you to talk to her a few times and he has a thing for her.

The problem with a system like AE, is that you can't just throw it in game and call it done. Especially since it wasn't done when it launched. A new feature will always be wildly popular at first but then will start bleeding users as people get bored or move on to the next new thing, and with AE the lack of users bleeds more users. It requires constant investment to slow the bleed, or to keep people coming back. It certainly isn't fire and forget and move on to the new shiny, and with the current shiny-chasing mentality around here, I'd imagine it is considered a bad investment for that reason, even if farmers were taken completely out of the equation.

I'm hoping they'll regret the design of those arcs once they realize people are playing them through once and then going back to the Hollows with subsequent alts (those that aren't farming the crap out of DFB, that is) but I doubt it.

It's not fanfiction. I have kicked Recluse and Statesman's butts. Granted, I had to have the Jade Spider help me with States, stupid Unstoppable. That said, I don't expect you or anyone else to care about my characters. If I wanted you to care I'd put them into an AE arc and let you decide for yourself whether or not you care, assuming that the default answer is "no" and I have to work really hard to make you care.

The Rulu-Shin.

It takes place in Cimerora, so it's likely Deadalus and Sister Airlia.

I think Statesman's powers will go back to the puddle. Giving them to the player would be unbalanced, there is nothing to suggest Incarnate power can be passed on to your descendants or Riktified buddies, and if an NPC steals his powers it'll really tick off villains....although lately the SSAs have been moving right back into the same "I don't see what's in it for me" territory most villainous content resides in.

Admittedly, it is also selective reading on the part of the Statesman haters. It is a knee-jerk reaction to being told "this person is better than everyone else. You will respect and love him. You know he is awesome because everyone else loves him, except his enemies, and they don't count because they're evil and they only hate him because he's so awesome." The thing is, people have that same knee-jerk reaction every time they are told something like that. Then they start flinging around the term Mary Sue and wishing the character would undergo total existence failure. The harder you try to get people to like the character, the more they resist. Good writers realize that.

Yes, but my writer sometimes drinks and has been known to play under the influence. Which leads to such out-of-character moments as "Eva Destruction tried to solo Nemesis? on an AR Blaster back in i5."

But if you killed it all the Praetorians would be downgraded to My First Solo AV status again and you wouldn't need a swarm of your friends to beat them up so you can go on TV and tell them Cole is a jerk....which I think my Brute already tried to do when I ran the Warden path.

That sounds eerily like what another Marcus Cole did....
Nah, he's too busy doing co-op content like the rest of us villains. And if he's not, why the hell am I saving Nerva from Gunslinger Incarnate and his Invisible Friends for him, when I could be running around being naughty while the heroes aren't looking?

Unless you're a Rogue and can run away to Paragon City.

Or you've done Barracuda's train wreck and are an Arbiter yourself.

Yeah, you'd think so, wouldn't you?

That would be the beauty of it; you could play the arcs year-round also, instead of trying to cram as many plays as possible into a few weeks right before the holidays.

Anywho, congratulations to the winners.

So do we. I guess that's why he resonated with people.

Undoubtedly. But just because they will do it doesn't mean they should.

I know how to not be a self-righteous jerk. I also know not to drop alien motherships onto populated areas. Me: 2, Statesman: 0.

If a significant number of players don't want to emulate the values he represents, then that also says something about those values, doesn't it? You can't dictate morality to your playerbase. We saw how well that turned out with Going Rogue.

This is the tactic that will be used to "force" us to react the way they want us to react to Statesman's death. Despite all the "I'm glad he's gone" and "I don't care" on the forums, our characters will be shocked and saddened. Even the ones who, in-character, would be either glad he's gone or wouldn't care.

No me.

If some of my villains had their way the entire TPN trial wouldn't have happened either, since Primal Earth's PR would be so horrible by now that even Praetorian Television can't convince the people of Praetoria that we're not all out to brutally and messily slaughter every single one of them for being so stupid.

The Vanguard also help out and negotiate with Rikti who are willing to work with them rather than bomb the crap out of us.

I don't have any faith in the storytelling team at all, so I'm not concerned. The entire "Who Will Die" thing was a cheap publicity gimmick to begin with, are you really surprised they have to resort to more publicity gimmicks to keep people's interest? At this point actually paying attention to new lore developments is like reading a Twilight parody, realizing you're actually reading Twilight, and deciding to treat it as a parody anyway.

And Scirocco will be spending a lot of time wondering where his Joy Division records went.

We won't do it because it makes no sense....all dimensions share one puddle but different races have their own? So why do squids have to get their powers from the crazy human one, why not get powers from the maybe less crazy squid one? And, you know, what about non-human characters? Is there a robot well? A catgirl well? Do the Rikti still count as [SPOILER] or do they get their own well? It's stupid.

No. She gets Longbow to do her dirty work for her, then denies that it is actually dirty.

Wow, that's pretty stupid.

Trying to kill him is Recluse's way of showing he cares. Sending a bunch of other villains to do it is his way of trying to hide just how much he cares.

We've already met her. She has problems figuring out pants.
And start World War III within a week.

Besides, who else would? Scirocco is locked in his room listening to Disintegration on repeat, and the other two are idiots.

No, because the whole no capes thing was Statesman's idea and he won't be around to make the suggestion this time.

My prediction for part 6: The funeral. Recluse cries. Ms. Liberty commits war crimes. Captain Hotpants is recruited into the Freedom Phalanx. Everyone is sad. Even if you're not sad, your dialogue says you are.

Part 7: Statesman is resurrected.