Golden Girl

If you're a guy, then you probably haven't noticed that parts of society is still balanced in your favor - but once we've broken those down, you'll wonder how you could ever have missed spotting them

For example, just look at women in the workplace and having their own careers - a hundred years ago, our job and career options were so limited, but now, we can do anything, and if someone form a hundred years ago saw us today, they'd be totally shocked at how far we've come, and how society has changed and improved for both genders.

Happy Holidays to everyone invovled with CoH - devs and players.

CoH was nothing but a mechanic to generate income for Cryptic and NCSoft.

The Coming Storm

They might actually make him an Incarnate.

It's a neat little inside joke - players who are only vaguely aware of him as the trainer at the ploice HQ in Kings Row will probably just assume that he's with more of the PPD, but players who are aware of the Chuck Norris version of Blue Steel will assume that he's fighting off the invasion on his own

One "probelm" with the game is that it's a permanent crossover event - all the content is designed to be played by all the players - it's not like the various comicbook series for separate heroes, where the stories and enemies are written around them and their powers - so while Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Spider-Man, the Hulk and so on will have their comics made to fit each of them personally, that doesn't happen in CoH - cosmic level heroes fight street gangs, and street level heroes fight cosmic threats, so the enemies have to be pretty even in their challenge level, because the game doesn't know what kind of hero is going to be playing through the missions, and it'd be unfair to make certain ATs and origins more powerful than others.
Instead, the game gives out missions and enemies than anyone can fight, and gives a sense of power progression by increasing the importance of the enemies - so we go from street gangs, to Nazis, to aliens to cosmically powered villains from another dimesion - but that method still has problems for both ends of the hero scale - like the cosmic level hero still has challenging fights with street gangs, and the street level hero is forced to leave the street behind as they progress to a cosmic level.

An alternative would be to have multiple paths 1-50 based on various classic comicbook hero types, with players being asked to choose one at the avatar creation process, like alien, mythological, cosmic, street fighter, super scientist, magaician and so on, and then being given contacts and content to fit their choice - that way, at level 1, a street fighter would be battling street gangs, and a cosmic would be dealing with a giant robot attack - they'd both still only have their basic starting powers, and the enemies would be at the same difficulty level, but the content would make them feel different.
It'd also mean that at, say 40, the street hero wouldn't need to fight alien invaders, time travel or dimension hop - they'd still be getting "lesser" enemies to suit their theme - like they'd be breaking up a multi-gang alliance before it could cause chaos in the city, while at 40, the cosmic hero would be investigating a distress signal from a distant planet - both would still be at the same level of power, with enemies at the same difficulty level, but with a totally different feel to the two paths.
But that would still hit the problem of the permanent crossover event that is the default setting for an MMO - like if that level 40 cosmic who was investigating the alien distress signal teamed up with the street hero for their gang busting mission, they'd find themselves suddenly being challenged by street thugs, when a few minutes earlier they'd been fighting poweful extraterrestrials - or the reverse, if the street level hero joined the cosmic hero on their mission, they'd suddenly find they were able to hold their own against dangerous aliens on another world when a few moment earlier they'd been finding street gangs to be a challenge.

There's really no way to a have superhero MMO that won't cause the various power levels of heroes to appear to be either massively increased, or massively decreased when they team up with each other.

All they've said is that Blue Steel is going to be invovled someplace in DA - they've not said anything yet about how we'll get there.

And some big hints that DA will reveal who the Mysterious Letter Writer is.