Golden Girl

Those parts aren't graphics intensive - they're still just single costume parts with built-in-asymmetry - the graphics intensive part is giving player models all the extra textures to render that would come from having spearate left and right costume parts.
For example, right now the game only has to render one texture for your legs, because you can only have one type of leg part - but by letting players have separate left and right leg parts, the game then has to render twice as many textures for the legs.

They've said the zone is 50-54 - allowing +3s to street sweep 50s could lead to rewards coming too fast, with zero challenge.
Even with just the Aplha shift, that means that players will be taking on blues and whites - and even without the other 2 level shifts, full Incarnates are still going to be running around with their Lore pets and unleashing Judgement attacks on blue and white mobs.
Street sweeping drop rates will need to be attractive enough to be an option, but not enough to be the first choice for getting Incarnate rewards.

Actually, it was for practical reasons - it was way easier to set up the streaming in just one room, so they chose the big room, because that was where the opening panel and keynote speech were going to be held - that meant that the following panels that were going to be exclusive to the summit goers would have to be in the other room.

I don't think different sized body parts are what most players mean when they talk about asymmetry - they mean being able to have different costume parts for the right and left sides of their body - like choosing to have your left leg be armored, but your right leg have normal pants - or a single shoulder pad instead of always havign to have 2.

They won't be that rare, but they'll be quite a bit rarer than Thread drops on Trials

Also, I wonder if only the Alpha level shift will work outside the missions, but we can be +3 inside the missions, or if the entire zone will only allow us to be +3?
With mobs being 50-54, letting people be +3 might make the street sweeping too easy - if the mobs were 54-54+4, then there'd be no problem with letting people be +3.

I'm not sure if he just left it out or not, but there was no mention of IXP in the list of Incarnate rewards in DA - which might mean that's one of the ways they'll slow down the non-Trial progress, by getting players to convert their Threads into IXP, rather than converting them into components.

That's one of the SSA teasers - there was one for Manticore and BAB too.

Try this thread for level bump requests:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=276080

If they don't, then all those Banished Pantheon who wander out onto Talos Island at night will be level 50

Tyrant has it - he took it as well as the power of Zeus.

Will it give both kinds of IXP too, or is part of the slower solo route having to covert/break down drops into IXP?

I missed that, or I would have said "hi" back to him

There's a big clue right there

Well, Diabolique is now based in Dark Astoria

They're new VIP costume sets.

Whatever the drops are, they'll be calculated against how fast they can be farmed compared to how fast they drop on Trials

They're just giving an example of how the Incarnate zone will work in exactly the same way as a normal zone - only with Incarnate rewards.

It's an Incarnate Trial - it'll be 8 minimum

That might be the Diabolique Incrante Trial

I wonder if she's fled to Primal Earth now that she's freed from Tyrant's control? Also, her use of spirits and apparitions to boost her power in FW might mean that she'd be drawn to all the spirits left in DA as a new source of power.