Golden Girl

Well, they're kinda connected - the whole reason Tyrant has been chosen as the champion of the Well is because the Well is looking for protection from the Battalion.

A Well's "mind" is shaped by the thoughts/hopes/dreams/fears of the race that creates it, so it can change over time - and right now, the human Well is dominated by thoughts of power, the lust for power, and the uses of power - events like the two world wars, the nuclear arms race, the Hamidon wars, Reichsman's victory on Axis Earth and so on have shifted it's "mind" to focus on power on a vast scale, used in a ruthless manner, because that's what human minds have been focusing on in the 20th and 21st centuries.
And because the Well isn't good or evil, it's shaped by positive and negative thoughts - so, for example, both supporters and opponents of the nuclear option would help shape its "mind", as they'd both be focusing on the same idea of the massive use of power involved in a world wide nuclear conflict - just like the Allies fear of an Axis victory would carry the same weight as the Axis powers hopes of victory, as both sides were focused on the idea of global conquest.

So now that human thoughts have made the Well's "mind" focused on massive power, it's responding to people who use massive power, such as Tyrant.
Basically, Tyrant is the "ideal" human in the eyes of the Well, because he's so powerful and uses his power on a world wide scale, and is willing to use it in the wider multiverse too - he's the personifcation of modern human's thoughts about power, so the Well has made him its champion to protect it from the Battalion.

Isn't that a Halloween temp power?

It was also mixed in with the Valentine's Day/Sister Psyche/Manticore wedding stuff too, so it was 100% nerdrage

On beta, the Super Packs actually did contain an advanced AI that could read the minds of players to work out what power sets they were and weren't planning to buy, and then adjust the cards to suit them - but it was dropped after it was found to contain a bug that could lead it to take over the player's computer, and from there every other computer connected to the interent, declare war on humanity, and proclaim the age of the machines.

The Wedding Pack thread was quite a bit longer

From what we know so far, they're an Incarnate "race" that gain power by consuming the Wells of other species - they're also sometimes called "Battalion", without the "the", and treated as if they/it were a single entity.
In this form, it might be connected to the "Dark Father" the old Shivans mention in the Drowning in Blood Trial, who has made their "Mother" it's "bride" - possibly referring to the Shivan Well being consumed by Battalion.
They say that now it's hunting through space for the "Blue Maiden" - which is hinted to be Earth and the human Well.
The Battalion also burned the entire Kheldian race as fuel for their starships, so the basic theme of this threat seems to be consuming/devouring, which is a logical step up from the theme of enslavement that's the basis for the Praetorian part of the Incarnate storyline - where Tyrant and the loyalists are trying to enslave the multiverse, the Battalion are trying to devour it.

I did - and I thought it was weird to complain about not getting value for your VIP ststus, and then list non-VIP restrictions as an example.

What have those things got to do with being a VIP?

About 60-90 minutes a day.

3 weeks = 21 days

Although, going by the DA testing, it loks like +3 should come sooner than that.

And if you want to break it down into hours, then soloing DA isn't too far from the Trial pace - it's the 20 hour cooldowns that spread it out - the solo path doesn't involve spending hours each day playing the DA content - it only needs about 45 minutes each day.

Didn't Dink do this on her own?

DA gives soloers +3 in about 3 weeks.

You can.

Is that a newspaper mission?

There are?

What about the Uber Leet Packs?

So far, one of the beta testers has hit +2 in 11 days - that doesn't seem to be very "sucky".

I'd expect 3-4 packs a year, each one with a unique new costume set in it.

Did they twirl their moustaches at the same time?

Well, I'm expecting some more unique costume parts linked to upcoming Trials - but I don't think it'll be these costume parts