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I was really hoping you were going to suggest he was playing a forum troller... oh well.

I would argue that a large part of the meta "conceit" of Ouro is that a single character can't possibly do all the arcs before out leveling a few of them, so you can go back and do the ones that you've missed.

I recognize your avatar image... what is it from?

Only a week? I've seen PU linked or bannered in sigs for WAY longer than that, in a great many people.

edit: waaaiiittt.... I should pay attention to the actual post date, not the last post in the thread date.

So.... I was basically just going to post this, but then I saw it was already posted... So I quoted it instead. Although I would have said to change the diff settings, *then* log out. Either way works, right?

I love your name, Oedipus Tex!

Ohmygoodness it is the hugest deal!

By the way, I just have to say, that the suggestion a few people have thrown about, the one to have an option for ALL buffs to be declined in the options menu, is probably the worst solution ever. Seeing as, the way I interpret it, all buffs would include any type of armor, or heal, or Leadership power, or what have you that helps you at all.

(It may have been suggested in another thread; either way, poor choice.)

Well, I have to say that I kind of thought that they had been a "group" before fleeing, but their actual "nation" was only founded once they got to North America and started the whole Oranbega thing.



Regarding the Rogue Isles: not sure who this gives the argument to, but at the info (http://www.cityofheroes.com/game_inf...arly_year.html) you can see this: "The main cluster of the group, home to Spider City, is at the 50 mile marker, outside U.S. jurisdiction. From there the smaller islands string toward the US coast."

Sooo.... that's pretty close to the U.S. I suppose you could also calculate the range given a short submarine trip of, say 30 minutes to 2 hours, and use current real world small sub speeds + CoX tech advancements...

I have never seen that before, but I believe that you have. Minus one notch on my "people are smart"-o-meter.

It could also go like this:

game said x <-T1 canon.
Dev said Y <- T1 canon.

Someone said "uh oh! One of the tier 1 sources of canon info is wrong! We'd better change it to get in line with the other!" Then the game changed.


OR it could go something like:

First writer says x.

Second writer says Y.They notice it is incongruent, and change it, because hey, everybody's human.


Heh.

I like Skittle Witch... but only if it's a reference to the game of Skittles, and not the candy.

The only info that states has that's "different" is his publication history... everything else is the same. The info boxes and even the table of contents are nearly identical. Although the "Quotes" section for Statesman has no info in it, so that's... not good.

Well, there are all those ley lines... plus the fact that after the Rikti War, Statesman called for heroes to come to Paragon and help rebuild (never mind the fact that the entire world had been hit by the Rikti - but we all knew that Statesman was a jerk already ).

Joking aside, you have some good points, but there's just so much real world logic to them! I guess it's a matter of taste whether or not you like a "White Event" or something like one guy being exposed to the public via media gradually changing things...


p.s. I guess I typed this then forgot to hit submit for... an hour or so.

Yeah, except that Mu was a guy who lived in Oranbega and incited a rebellion, thus starting his civilization...

I left out some stuff of your post, because it was long. Anyways, there is the fact that the Oranbegans DID attempt to contact Ermeeth - the Mu got wind of it, and blew their contact tower to pieces. THEN they were approached by demons, and seeing it as a final resort, they took thorn blades in the first deal, and when that didn't work, then they went with the whole "kill them all" tactic.

Good point about Ermeeth being gone - what happened to him? Also, Tielekku did appear in one of the CoH comics, I don't remember what happened there, but it also involved the BP and the CoT. There's probably some sort of important information in it.

Speaking of the CoT, according to Akarist, the "Circle of Thorns" was the name of their ruling council, even before they were contacted by Demons. I sense some sort of shoddy writing there.


As for the third paragraph I've quoted of yours, I have to note that Coralax are not human at all - only the hybrids we have now are humanoid. Coralax themselves are just coral (or something). I also have no reference points as to what you mean by "generations" of humans. Maybe I haven't heard these other myths you referred to. What myths mention 7 generations? I am genuinely curious.

You could make him yourself!


Did you use any parameters, or were they random?

I've seen this sentiment a lot. I don't get it.

Aaaaanyways....

Well, if one assumes, for a moment, that there is some sort of element of truth to the Greek myths as we know them in the game, then Pandora opened her box at some point relatively close to Cimeroran times. Relatively being, potentially, a millennium or so. From Recluse's bio: "Upon opening the box, which stored all of the creativity of humankind for the last millennium, its power was released unto the world, effectively starting another Golden Age of super-powered heroes." Not knowing anything about how the box works, we could surely posit that one opening of the box releases enough super energy for a thousand years... so as long as Pandora opened her box around 500 B.C., people in 475 A.D. could have superpowers.

As a disclaimer, I don't know much about the box, I'm just sort of playing devil's advocate here. Although I must admit it's as good an explanation for the huge surge in supers after Statesman as anything else.

edit: p.s. Azuria says the SHORT VERSION is that gods are evolved spirits. In Percy's origins mission, War Witch says the first two powers were "divine" and "spirit," although they seem related somehow, and she makes a mention of Gaia, and then suddenly starts talking about gods.

But it does help explain the explosion of superheroes around the time of WWII.

I've noticed NPCs firing Hurl having issues way before I17 (I don't think I have a single character that has that power so I wouldn't know about what you're talking about).

Did you paint Positron pink in your signature photo?

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/calendar.php

You just have to look for them. Happy birthday!

Yes, but how less exciting would the post have been if he just said "a key finder that makes the glowie sound!"

That said, I might also want one.

There may have been some minor change in Cole's past that allowed for him to become a bit less good than we know him. Whether it happened in childhood or adulthood is anyone's guess, but regardless, he's a minor player in WWI, and anything could have happened there. Maybe his buddy stood a few inches too far to the left in Axis world, got his brains blown out all over Cole, making him depressed for a while, changing his life enough that he becamse Reichman.

I'm going to say that in Reichsman's universe, the mustard gas came from his own side (which happened sometimes) and he grew bitter towards his country because of it. His poverty stricken childhood, his penchant for exploring the world, and the bitterness he felt at the whole mustard gas thing leads him once again to the Well of the Furies, but not to America afterwards.

I do like Johnny Butane's idea, but I think Stefan Richter plays an important role: he is the son of an Austrian immigrant who takes Cole in, and the two of them become best buds before heading off to war. Heck, maybe Richter is the guy who stood a wee bit too far left, and Cole ended up going to Austria to pay his respects and some point, and got caught up in the whole Nazi thing there.