Golden Girl

Like Statesman and Recluse?

I think he'd be invovled with a lot of guys - he seems like that type.

Never - the slash needs to be free

Sure he does

Statesman got married, but he's still in love with Jim Temblor.

I prefer Wolverine/Nightcrawler - but I leave things like Wolverine/Beast to the ones who like their man-love to be Xtra-hairy

A deperately unsubtle attempt by him to hide his true feelings for Charles - although he might also be unwilling to make a move and disrupt the Charles/Magneto relationship, in case he finds himself in a love triangle.

I've always thought that Wolverine seemed like a man's man

The badges and plaques will still be available in the echo zone in Ouroboros.

Atlas is getting a couple of graphical tweaks - you mightn't be able to spot them right away

The even gender split among the heros of Paragon City means there's not the same amount of raging man-love that's seen in wrestling

Is Mars really that homoerotic?

He's over a hundred years old - he's allowed some Well-empowered moobs

Also, that picture of Mother Mayhem has been flipped - she wears her hair over the left side of her face, not the right.

People say bad things about CoH here on the official forums all the time - they're still here, and haven't been dragged off to the BAF

It's the actual zone, but I think all the mission doors have been disabled.

Some of them are going to have to be in the office from 4 in the morning just to get everything ready for the downtime and patching - any earlier, and they'd be working all night.

I've already made sure I'll have plenty of free time tomorrow, so I'll try and tune in to offer moral support

That seems to eba new picture of Sister Silicone, which is cool - although, similar to the new loading screen showing Statesman fighting a BCU Clockwork, the older Rogue Isles Villains seem to be getting pushed aside in favor of the newer loyalist villains.

And now, all subscribers get GR for free - another VIP perk

Only the Alpha slot was meant to be in GR - but because the first Incarnate content wasn't going to be released until I19, plus the feedback the devs got from the GR beta testers asking for more lore atatched to the slot, they decided to push it back to I19.

That's semi-correct - Going Rogue was officialy announced around the middle of May 2009, and near the end of October 2009 we got the first major info on the Praetorian content at Hero Con - that's where we first heard about the 1-20 content range, the Resisatnce vs loyalist dynamic, the Seers, the PPD and so on - and a few days after, Positron had thes clarifications about the info given out at Hero Con:

So that's basically what we got in August 2010 when GR went live - but the key bit there is the loyalist = Villain and Resistance = Hero - because in an interview in the run-up to the launch of GR, War Witch said that the devs had been overwhelmed by the enthusiastic player response to the loyalist vs Resistance set-up, and that they'd really worked hard to try and meet player expectations, and had even expanded the original Resistance vs loyalists dynamic - which does make it sound like the original idea was for Warden and Power, with Responsibility and Crusader added a bit later - which would expalin why in the early GR beta builds all Resistance missions had the Hero completion music, and all loyalist missions had the Villain mission completion music, and why loyalists could only choose Villain titles, and Resistance could only choose Hero titles.

And as they work on several Issues at once, they would already be working on I19 and planning I20 while still completing GR - as can be seen with places like the BAF, Lambda Sector and the Keyes' Island reactors already being built into the 1-20 zones - so while the original set-up and meta-story was still focused everyone helping the Resistance to defeat Tyrant in the standard CoH style of heroic co-op content, the "late arrival" content like the Responsibility path was more for flavor rather than any long-term content plan - everyone was still going to have to fight agaisnt Tyrant and the loyalists - which is possibly why the responsibilty path has so many big cues for players to turn agaisnt Tyrant - from Inetrrogator Kang and the Seer network, through Mother Mayhem, discovering the invaison plans and finally meeting Tyrant himself and getting to hear just how insane he is.

Also, as an intersting follow-up for all the development process detectives, the Incarnate Trials were originally called "zone events" - which makes it sound like the idea was to run them like the Mothership raid, with players triggering them by doing something in the actual Praetorian zones - for example, taking down the Lambda sector turrets might have been the way to trigger the Lambda event - with possibly something similar for the BAF and its turrets.
At some point though, the devs decided to make them instanced events - possibly because there were issues with rewards/participiation if there weren't any fixed barriers to the area of the event, or that 50+ content in zones inteneded for 1-20s could cause problems for lower levels caught up in the events, or that there were simply lag issues similar to the ones that used to hit the RWZ zone event.
By keeping the locations and the stories, but putting them on instanced zone maps instead of in the actual zones, the devs would be able to help the 50s stay in the right place, give them more story-telling and info options with cut-scenes and captions, and avoid disrupting the players doing the non-Incanrate cotnent in the actual zones.

Only the one for using the store, but you can also get that outside the tutorial.

A normal Earth, you mean, rather than Tyrant's Thrid Reich tribute act on Praetorian Earth?

In what way? Cleaner streets? Prettier parks?

We have the option to remove them after a few years if we're not happy with their performance - Tyrant's slaves don't have that option.

The execution rooms and torture chambers under the PPD precint buildings and the brainwashing facilites might alo have to go, along with the lack of democracy.

If I was in a place like Paretoria, I'd take up arms to free it.

The freedom to be normal human beings?

And speaking out against the dictatorship is a criminal act that can see you or your family imprisoned and murdered.

You forgot the bit right after after the "pursuit of happiness" bit:

Without being re-elected by the people, Tyrant doesn't have their consent to govern them, and the crime agaisnt humanity he and his loyalist thugs carry out 24/7 give the people the right to take up arms to change the way they're governed - which is why, while we're on the subject of the Founding Fathers, the Resistance have decided to to follow their advice:



Well, Tyrant used the sonic fences to kill almost everyone inside First Ward as a way of stopping the DE attack there - which is why it was important for us to seize control of the Keyes Island reactors to make sure the sonic fences were kept powered and running normally, and wouldn't be able to be used by Tyrant to harm the people of Praetoria.

And then they need the right to change their leader and protectors - once generation can't decide for all the following generation.

He's already gone too far- way too far - that's why there's a Resistance, and that's why we're helping them liberate Praetoria from the dictatorship.

They didn't elect him - most of the Resistance fighters aren't from the generation that were frightened into choosing Tyrant to rule them - they're a generation who've only know Tyrant and his oppression, and who ahven't been given any way to choose another form of government except through armed rebellion - because for some reason, the "protector" of Paretoria doesn't sem to think the people he's "protecting" should ever have a chance to choose a form of "protection" that didn't require mass-murder, torture, brain-washing and slavery.

The mass-murder, slavery, torture and brain-washing done by the loyalist s isn't really protecting anyone except themselves and their evil master.

By murdering, torturing, and enslaving them?

So the people who are murdered or who have their families murdered just for speaking out aganst his dictatorship deserved it?

The game sees him as the most evil force we've encountered so far - I trust the game

Like brain-washing, torturing and murdering anyone who opposes them?

Generally, when the in-game info and the devs say something is true, I believe it

Prometheus mentions it several times - he's a universal contact for the entire player base - Heores, Villains, Vigilantes, Rogues, Resistance, loyalists - everyone interacts with him, and he guides players through the Incarnate storyline.
He tells us about each Trial, and puts it into context regarding the attempts of Tyrant to enslave the multiverse , the actions of the Well, and the Coming Storm.

Mender Ramiel also talks about the conquets of the multiverse in the I20 trailer, and the Issue overview for I20 on the maine website also reveals that as beign Tyrant's grand plan.

In-game and out of game, Tyrant and the loyalists are presented as the biggest threat that players have so far faced in the 7+ years of CoH.

I won't actually be updating that one - timeline-wise, it was done before the Atlas Park revamp, or the destruction of Glaxy City, or the first Praetorian invasion - but my 2nd comic, which I also started before any of those events, and which should be finished pretty soon, does actually have a little bit of I21 content in it