Golden Girl

Galaxy City would be an obvious target for any zone-smashing antics, as it'd have the smallest impact on the rest of the game.

Merging Galaxy City with Atlas Park would be nice - the Galaxy Girl statue and park could be put behind City Hall instead of the car parking area, and the Freedom Corps building could be made into a new lower level under City Hall.

That's "equality" - "equity" is financial

Thank you - I get a huge amount of fun form the game, so I like to try and share it around

I'm also trying to make the comic into a more user-friendly pdf, but I can't seem to get it under 100 MB, which most file hosting sites seem to have as the max file size.

EDIT: I'm working on a cover for it too, to make it more complete - I didn't actually think of making one when I started the comic, or think of a title for it either

This doesn't seem to be available to download for the Test server - the Launcher is saying Test was last updated 15 days ago.

It stopped just as it was getting to the really good stuff

This is just a general post on gameplay vs story, and then I'll get down to answering individual posts

As I said in the opening post, I made the comic as an intro to the game world, rather than the gameplay - the two things obviously overlap a lot, but while gameplay must always come before story in the game, in a comic set in the game world, the story has to come first - things that seem logical and sensible in the game can have a strange impact on a story, even though they're all sharing the same game world.

Here are some of the things I didn't include in the comic:

Security levels/levelling up/XP - Not mentioned, but slightly implied by returning to Ms. Liberty after the final fight.

Enhancements - not mentioned, but slightly implied on page 5 by Ms. Liberty referencing upgrading and servicing for Flash-Man's wrist-blasters.
The major problem with enhancements is that they only really work story-wise for some origins, and not others - for example, a tech origin character could buy upgrades for their weapons/armor, and those are represented in the game by a lot of the tech enhancements - but things like natural or magic often have more symbolic enhancements - like "Dragon Strike/Leap/Defense" and so on.
If a tech character 6-slots an attack, that could be shown as them simply upgrading their weapon - like attaching a new scope and barrel to an assault rifle - but it's way harder to show a natural character 6-slotting an attack with martial art techniques.

Inspirations - not mentioned, or even implied. Flash-Man might have popped some yellows and reds for the knock-out shot in the last fight, or uses a wakie earlier on in the rave warehouse, but there was no colored glow around him at any time

Salvage/recipes/phat lewt - not mentioned, or even implied - although as a low level story, the probably weren't any drops anyway

Inf - not mentioned, or even implied.

Wentworths/crafting - not mentioned, or even implied.

Defeated enemies fading away - the devs have left that on purpose as something that's up to the players to interpret, so I went for the classic comicbook style of heroes catching criminals and then handing them over to the police.

Hospitals/mediporter - not mentioned, but slightly implied by me sending Flash-Man to the hospitla to get checked over.
The hospitals/mediporter thing is the single biggest example of the gameplay vs story problems I can think of - on a gameplay level, it's totally sensible and very welcome, and the game probably would have crashed and burned at launch without them.
But on a story level, it badly reduces the element of danger and risk, and undermines the concept of being a hero - if we're teleported to safety and healing anytime we're in trouble, then we're not really putting our lives on the line.
When playing the game, the hospitals/mediporters make us technically invincible - nothing that any enemy can do to us can stop us for more than a few moments - we can be stomped on by giant robots, shot in the face with rocket launchers, and struck by Incarnate lightning, and one click later we're fully healed and racing back to the mission door.
Story-wise, you'd need to keep coming up with various reaons why the mediporters weren't working to bring a proper level of danger to whatever threat was being fought, which would start to bog things down.

And the reason I avoided or only sligtly referenced all thse basic parts of gameplay was because I wanted to make a comic aboue the game world - the best gameplay comic would have been one telling the Outbreak story of the tutorial, because it's set up to be the gameplay intro.
But while it does a good job of showing players how the game functions, it doesn't really show much of the world they'll be functioning in - it's in a mini-zone that we can only ever access via Ouroboros, and we fight enemies we only ever see again in a level 40 PvP zone set in the future.
So as an intro to the game world, it doesn't really offer that much - while Atlas Park is the heart and soul of the game, and the perfect setting for that kind of intro - it's got Ms. Liberty, City Hall, the Atlas statue, the trumpet fanfare, heroes of all levels hanging out or zooming and flying around - it's the first real zone you see in the game, and the first real "wow" moment in the game, where you get an awesome superhero/comicbook vibe.

Adding free-for-all PvP for this week to the zones the hunt mobs are located in would solve these problems

I finally finished the comic I was making for new players as an introduction to the game world, which was intended to be done by the time GR came out - only I got distracted by various other things, including friends and family, college, my horse, and CoH slashpics

All 33 pages are here, and they can be flipped through with the "Next" button on the top left of the page, and expanded to full size by clicking on them - or use the gallery overview page.

The basic idea was to show a generic new hero arriving in Paragon City, so I used some of the low level Atlas Park missions as a base for it, with some tweaks to link them together - Praetoria and red side might be covered later