Golden Girl

Originally Posted by Aneko

I can imagine Positron reading this thread, scratching his head and thinking "Wait, what? I'm petty and vindictive?"

Originally Posted by CactusBrawler

Have you seen what they did to the AE?

They took something unique to City of heroes, something no other MMO had done before.

And destroyed it because people weren't playing how Positron wanted.

Originally Posted by Ogi

That's Vanguard's turf and blueside needs at last one competent organization around that's not out to conquer the world.

Originally Posted by Zemblanity

Here's a list of surviving Eight members and their creators:

- Statesman - Jack Emmert -----------------> Dead
- Sister Psyche - Jack Emmert -------------> Dead

- Positron - Matt Miller
- Synapse - Phil Zeleski
- Manticore - Sean Fish
- Citadel - ???
- Numina - Belle
- Back Alley Brawler - Christopher Bruce

Others:

- Blue Steel - Blue Steel
- Castle - Floyd Grubb
- Mercedes Sheldon - John Hegner
- Sunstorm - Jonathan Courney
- Miss Liberty - Jack Emmert ---------------> Dead
- Malaise - Jack Emmert --------------------> Dead

Originally Posted by Rockshock

The team seem to lack a tank now.

Originally Posted by Thunder Knight

I suspect Psyche dying is a prelude to Manticore going from a Batman-style Hero to a Punisher-style Vigilante (with no place for such an individual in the Freedom Phalanx, shaking up its membership roster even more).

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

the "don't ask don't tell" approach of the iTrials.

Originally Posted by monkey0707

I would donate enough money just so they could work on getting stretching powers in to the game.

That way I can get my one friend to shut up and play since he says he wont play until "you can stretch"

Originally Posted by ThePill

My biggest beef with the game has really been, Where's the comic book/supervillain part of this plan? And Wade better get some sort of costume and name at the end of the whole shebang. That, for all power he scrounged up, he had to take up some of the trappings of the genre.

So, imagine my muffled glee to see him all Rularruu-ed up. I do wish he'd have chosen something else self-important and full of himself. As is, it felt more like Infernia was making a joke than a proper name. But, given the lack of it in most of the rest of the game, I was content with getting a shade over half of what I was looking for here.

Originally Posted by Zombieluvr

True enough, and yet another reason why Praetoria has been my preferred starting point ever since GR came out (I love the new Atlas, it might eventually overtake Praetoria if it only had more content than the two throughlines and Twinshot's arc; and I really, really, *reallllly* still hope- though it's unlikely- that the Resistance/Loyalist storylines get continued beyond level 20 one day, and that First Ward gets some more content, and... )

Originally Posted by GPBunny

EXALTED fast lost its player base after the new shiney wore off and lost a second wave after that other game came out.

Originally Posted by Aneko

It would also explain why Statesman wore a metal faceplate with spandex.

Originally Posted by Red_Raccoon

but in First Ward they weren't even really trying to give the arcs a logical angle for villains.

Originally Posted by SuperOz

Killing off the marketing face of the game is a pretty big move, if handled well.

Originally Posted by Void_Huntress

I felt like whoever was writing for Dillo was trying too hard. That character is more of a cutout than the rest, to me.

Originally Posted by Rufus T Fyrfly

So poor CK will have a new title: "King of The Friend Zone"

Originally Posted by Neuronia

Penny Yin is bad enough...cannot wait until we never see her again.

Originally Posted by Zombieluvr

The writing has been doing a lot of this thing over the past couple of issues, which I agree is nice to see. It really makes the CoHverse seem more like a living thing than previously where (as you note) it was pretty much "one and done" with the contacts, with a few notable exceptions here and there.

Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight

They were also a major problem from the PoV of hero players... you were always under the Freedom Phalanx. Even as you became an Incarnate, you were still less than all of the Freedom Phalanx. With them shattered, heroes don't have that glass ceiling on them that made no sense with the events of the last 10 issues.

Originally Posted by Draeth Darkstar

Was this in a UStream or something? I'm not seeing any recent dev posts.

Originally Posted by Dr_MechanoEU

Though to be fair if War Witch did announce 'the Death of Positron' as the next SSA, I would give a chuckle.

Originally Posted by Zemblanity

I actually have a couple of questions about SSA 2's time-line.

1) Assuming it takes place in the game-lore after SSA 1 ended, will it allow us to play at lvl 50 from arc #1, meaning, would it allow us to canonically play with the same character that beat Who Will Die?

2) If the former isn't true, and early missions force us to exemplar to a lower level, are these new missions meant to be played by a freshly created PC or will they come with an explanation as to why the character that saved the world in Who Will Die would suddenly find himself / herself depowered?

Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim

We couldn't even get the dignity of admitting to doing the greater good to a hero.