Golden Girl

Players will be "sent overseas" to play other NCSoft games, but we'll never hear from them again?

I'm pretty sure Primal Earth would refuse your "help" if it was the same kind of "help" that Tyrant gives ot the people he rules

There are people in RL who are attracted to that kind of person and organization

If they had forum avatars, they might be cel-shaded

That's no problem - we've already taken down the Big Dog quite a few times

Really?

He doesn't sound very open to the idea of freee will:

Really?

From the GR website:

From the main CoH website:

From the devs:



And there's more where that came from too

And kill anyone who opposes him, then have the entire surviving population of Primal Earth mind scanned by thre Seers to identify potential "troublemakers", who will then be slaughtered - after that, he'll move onto the next world, and then the next, and then the next, until the whole multiveverse is enslaved by the loyalists.

Liberating Europe from the Nazis isn't quite the same thing as trying to impose a modern version of the Nazis onto the entire multiverse.

How very 1930s Germany that all sounds

Lady Grey must be a monster then, as she has a lot of troops under her command.

It's world wide - the Resistance is found wherever Tyrant has trapped the survivors of the Hamidon Wars.
And like all his problems, the Resistance are Tyrant's own fault - by crushing humanity under his evil dictatorship, he's losing the chance to face the Hamidon with a united front, and driving people to take up arms to regain their freedom - if Tyrant wasn't a monster, the Resistance wouldn't exist.

Or like the Devouring Earth that Tyrant asked Maelstrom to summon to attack Resistance sympathizs in the Magisterium, to both get rid of them and set up another chance for Tyrant to prove to his slaves how only he can "protect" them - those DE really are useful for him - again

Even a broken clock is right twice a day
He keeps them safe only if they obey him - and kills or imprisons anyone who opposes him -

Brainwashing, torture, slavery and mass murder are a little beyond the "questionable" stage of actions - they're pure evil.

I'm surprised there's no resistance movement on Primal Earth to try and stop Statesman and the heroes

And according to canon, the loyalists are Villains, the Resistance are Heroes, Tyrant's thugs are the biggest threat to Praetoria, and Tyrant is Praetorian Earth's greatest villain

Enslaving all of existence and exterminating anyone who opposes you or even thinks of opposing you isn't a "necessary evil" - it's the actions of supervillain on a cosmic scale

I'm surprised he's so keen to take on the bruden or ruling the entire mutliverse

Enslave them?

The sonic fences keep the Hamidon out - the mass-murder, "disappearances", brain-washing, torture, thought police, drugged water supply and propaganda are there to keep Tyrant in power - they'e not connected to each other - just like the war walls were built in Paragon City without turning it into a fascist dictatorship.
The heroes of Paragon City are heroes because they protect the people wothout enslaving them.

Dictatorships usually are stable - they have more ways of keeping stability

Of destroying humanity, yes

You obviously haven't read the invasion plans - or even the out-of-game announcements for each new Issue

They moved the Euro servers over to Texas shortly before they combined the server lists.

Actually, we won't - the updated NCSoft launcher will automatically change our desktop backgrounds into various messages from the community team.

The Freedom sale didn't start until August 22nd - the details of the new hybrid payment model were relased on June 21st

You posted in a PvP thread the other day - that's risky

Wouldn't buying a box also give a month or forum rage at a much more competitive price?

Has it been approved by Mother?

I don't really know who he is, but going by his registration date, I assume this is some kind of ritual thing he does every so often?

For thought-crime against the Emepror, citizen.

That's why it's "best" to post them at the weekend

They do

So in the list of evil plans, where would you rank trying to enslave all of exisitence, and exterminate any sentient being that opposed you, as well as any that even thought about resisiting you?

It's evil and unnecessary - that's why he's the bad guy the Heores have to fight

Independent thinkers are kept independent because they have Vanessa DeVore's psychic protection to shield them from the enslaved thought police on every corner.

The drugs int eh water supply make people more likely to accept what the dictatorship says, which means that they think they're safe under Tyrant's "protection" when they're not really safe at all - Enriche makes people not want to ask questions, so they don''t wonder what the Seers actually are, or why people disappear, or where the Ghouls come from, or why the "popular" emperor has such a massive armed uprising going on in his "perfect" empire.

Tyrant and his loyalists stormtroopers certainly are

And strangely, Statesman and the Freedom Phalanx haven't deciced to set up a dictatroship to make Primal Earth "safer", and no one in any of the blue side content even seems to consider it for a moment - which is why they're heroes and not villains

And while it was an awesome addition to the Cohverse, it might also have put some people off.
As we've seen in other threads, the majority of players prefer to play heroes, not just in CoH, but in other superhero games too - and a lot of players will have certain expectations about what a comicbook game world should be like, which would also be one of the reasons that they'd pick up the game in the first place - and which is why they could quite easily find Praetoria to be a confusing turn-off - especially as they had to make their first avatar there, and it wasn't clearly explained that they could just log in then log out and then make a normal Hero or Villain as their next avatar.

Praetoria as first glance seems to ofer all the classic comicbook world requirements - it's a city, with parks, skyscrapers, backstreets, factories and even some slum areas - it has a police force, government departments and officals to interact with, civilians going about their business on the streets, and criminal gangs lurking in the shadows - the basic facade is identical to Paragon City, because that's the classic comicbook setting - but past the facade, the problems start for people looking for a normal comicbook environment.
In superhero comics, which are set in the real world, usually in America, there's a natural feeling that laws are mostly fair, that cops are mostly good people, and that the government is mostly working in the best interests of the people who elected it - so the heroes don't really have to worry about helping any of them in their work - when heroes arrest people, they're genuine criminals who'll be dealt with fairly by the authorities.
That clasisc comicbook set-up is reflected perfectly in the blue side content - we arrest criminals, assist the police and government agencies, and even work with the UN for some of the major threats - we sometimes run into rogue elements like Longbow agents who have become vigilantes, or corrupt PPD officers - but these are always presented as special cases, which is why we're called in to take them down.
At no point are Heroes ever given any kind of suggestion that helping the authorities might be a bad thing to do.

But Praetoria takes that classic comicbook set-up and twists it right round into something very dark and creepy - it has the classic superhero city setting to patrol and protect, but right from the tutorial, players are shown that there's something very, very wrong with the authorities that a comicbook hero would normally assist without a second thought - players who arrest people in Paragon City know that they're criminals they're arersting, and that they'll be put on trial, and sent to prison if they're found guilty - but players in Praetoria find out that the people that they arrest will be brainwashed, tortured or executed - and that unlike Paragon City and other normal comicbook settings, the people they're arresting mightn't even be guilty of any real crimes.

You can fight for truth, justice and the American way in Paragon City, but not in Praetoria - and that's one of the main reasons that Praetoria has a problem with attracting players to level up in it.