Golden Girl

Or what?

That's what they're doing

It's grading rewards by difficulty, just like the 1-50 game does - once you start fighting grays, you stop getting any form of progress, so you have to find tougher enemies to continue your progress - or do you still rage when you hit level 10 in Atlas Park, and the evil devs force you to move to another zone to fight tougher enemeis if you want to progress further by taking away all ther ewards from the Atlas Park enemies?

Carefully? Recruiting is usually done on a first come, first served basis

Anything that a PUG has a good chance of succeeding on = casual.

They're not - that's why we're getting such a steady flow of new Trials - they're devoting a lot of time and resources to them.

But if they go too big, that would remove the casual style of the Trials.

They haven't said that there won't be any new currencies in the future - the latest from Positron is this:

All VIPs think that Paragon Studios are good game developers

There's been a big swing back towards fantasy in more recent times, but back when science really exploded in like the 19th century, sci-fi was created to fit with what was seen as the new more moderna and logical way of thinking, while magic and the supernatural was thought of as primitive and illogical, and only suitable for children or uneducated country people.

Yes we are - a robot is just an object, like any other item we use and then replace when it gets worn out or a newer version is available.

Technically, that's before the MoM Trial as FW is 20-30

A good example is Praetoria - when you play the 1-20 content, the war hasn't started - the story builds up to the discovery of Tyrant's plans to invade Primal Earth.
Once you escape from Paretoria, you should next meet the loyalists AVs in the 45-50 range on Peregrine Island, only now, the invasion is about to happen, just s Statesman has disappeared, so you have to go find him and fight the Avs on the way.
Next comes the actual invasion at 50, with first the Apex TF, where Kings Row and Steel Canyon are attacked, then the Tin Mage TF, where we fight off the Praetorians in the Rogue Isles, the Vanguard base, and Peregrine Island, and then launch a counterattack to Neutropolis to knock out the invasion portals.
Mender Ramiel arrives from the future either just befoe the invaison, or as it starts, and Prometheus appears at the Ouroboros Citadel after we've taken out the invasion portals, but before we take the war to the loyalists on their own world. Around this time, Tyrant also empowers his henchpeople with some of his Incarnate power as he becomes more and more dependent on the Well.

That's where the Admiral Sutter TF messes things up a bit - it deals with the Paretorian invasion, but instead of being at 50, it's at 20-40, which means that players can learn about the invaison 1-20, fight the invasion 20-40, then learn the invasion is abotu to hapoen 45-50, then fight the invasion at 50

The Trials don't have any level related progress, as even the tougher ones don't require players to have a level shift to play them.
So while they can be played in any order, the correct sequence starts with the BAF, which isn't a major military target, but the discovery of Mother Mayhem's mindwashing plan to spread chaos in Praetoria and blame it on the Resistnce and Primal Earth means that it's something we have to deal with right away.

Once that's done we can turn our attention to a proper military target - Lambda Sector, where the newly empowered Marauder has been sent following events that happened in the 20-30 content in First Ward, when Dominatrix came up with a devious plan to make sure he'd be sent there by Tyrant, leaving her in complete charge of the Magisterium in Nova Praetoia.

After smashing this major loyalist supply depot, we then move onto the Keyes Island reactors, which not only power the invasion portals and the Warworks construction facilities, but also the sonic fences - and during the 20-30 First Ward content, we learnt that Tyrant and Anti-matter had used the sonic fences as a weapon to almost wipe out everything in First Ward, and with the war starting to turn against them, there's the danger they could try the same thing again in Praetoria City, or, as we find out durign the Trial, in his insane rage, Anti-matter sends the reactors into meltdown, which means that the sonic fences would lose their power and the city would be open to the Devouring Earth.

Once we defeat Anti-matter and secure the reactors, along with the security of the sonic fences and the ability to shut down any more invasion portals and slow down the construction of more Warworks, we then get a message from Vanessa DeVore, asking us for help, as she's learnt a big secret that could badly damage Tyrant's standing with the people of Praetoria.
Statesman sends along his new sidekick Desdemona, who in the lowerl level cotnent was still a rogue on the path to redmeption, to help us as we follow Vanessa's trail deep into the Underground, where we encounter an avatar of the Hamidon, which kills Vanessa.
Desdemona takes her mask, becoming the new leader of the Carnival of Light, and from the consciousness of Vanessa still attached to the mask, learns the secret that Vanessa had discovered - Tyrant had never defeated the Hamidon - instead, he'd made a deal with it, where it'd agree to stop attacking humans if Tyrant would make sure humans couldn't cause anymore damage to the world, which he did by creating his dictatorship to control them.

Now that we have this secret, we need to get it out to the people, so they can see how Tyrant has betrayed and lied to them, so we head for the TPN campus, where the loyalists are of course desperate to stop us broadcasting the truth.
Once we defeat them and let the people of Praetoria know what Tyrant's really like, we don't get the expected uprsinig - instead, the people stangely become even more loyal to Tyrant, and we soon find out why - Mother Mayhem has taken control of Penelope Yin, the daughter of Vanessa DeVore, and one of the msot powerful psychics in Praetoria, and using that psychic power along with her own, as well as an imporved version of the midnwashing plan from the BAF, has mindwashed the entire world, turning almost everyone into fanatical supporters of Tyrant.

We're unable to attack her asylum directly, because of the psychic protection wards all around it - but we manage to find an unguarded node that lets us into the Seer Network, where we can fight the mind of Mother Mayhem directly.
We eventually defeat her consciousness, freeing Penelope Yin, along with Aurora Borealis, whose body was being used by Mother Mayhem.
During the battle, we meet Metrononme, who has turned away from evil, and is now using the refitted body of Siege after we smashed it during the BAF raid, and we also discover that Calvin Scott was never married to Aurora Borealis as he'd claimed - it was part of his delusions as a mental patient at the asylum whre she ws treating him.
This revelation totally shatters Calvin, and he's left in no state to continue to lead the Resistance military struggle, with Penelope, Aurora and Desdemona coming together to take charge of the final stage of the war with Tyrant and the loyalists.

Like with the stampede to DA in I22?

What new shinies? All the new Trials give the same reward types as BAF and Lambda - and there haven't been any new slots to unlock since I20.

But everyone hates the Trials, so why would there be a stampede to do a new one?

I can see a number of things wrong with this post

That's not how the participation system works - there's no graded scale of particitpation - you either do enough to qualify as participating, or you don't.
If you fail to cross the line for participating, you get 10 Threads - if you cross the participation line, you get a random slavage roll at the end of the Trial - the amount of activity you do after you've crossed the participation line has no effect on the random salvage roll at the end.

And how many other people have you met or recognized who weren't part of the human species?

Any "atrocity" involving the disposal of a machine would be on the same level as disposing of any other unwanted object, like an old car, or pair of shoes.
Sentient robots are on the same scale of reality as elves and dwarfs and other fairytale creatures, which is what they replaced when science started playing a bigger role in stories than magic.

The answer is "they don't"

And welcome to the game and the forums, Kashelarlin

This is where all potentially serious threads end

I'm pretty sure it was an upgrade - the real-time shadows needed new code.

I want hair that detailed

While it's be posisble to make the object size matter - like being able to use a parking meter while still having a weapon drawn - I think they'd be more likely to go with the single anaimation attack route - no matter what size the object was, you'd always pick it up with 2 hands, and hold it above your head before you threw it - that'd mean that all the throwable objects would only need to have their bottoms sync with just one trowing stance and attack animation, with all non-toggle powers being grayed out, except for travel powers.

They're the same place