Golden Girl

Ooh, this could be useful for a little project I'm working on.

I was one of the people who suggested it could be the Praetorian Rogue Isles - there are a few interesing connection points

I think the most interesting bit of new info there is that the city is built on the site of Tyrant's defeat of the Hamidon - I wonder what secrets he's got in the basement of that tower of his?

Welcome to the forums, Seth Fist

Happy Birthday

They're not going to get rid of Recluse - rewriting the 1-50 red side content would be a rather big task

I don't think that second quote is actually mine

I like them both, for different reasons

Welcome to the game and the forums, Icwest

Another example of a visible out-of-game mechanic is the enhancements screen - along with the level up and power selection screen - a lot of the enhancments are abstract ideas rather than physical things, and while some power sets, like Martial Arts, would use set names to describe the attacks, other power sets wouldn't really have a standard set of names for each type of power, witht he same types of damage and effectiveness.
For example, I don't see the point in trying to RP why every single Hero or Villain who carries two guns only ever uses a small selection of identical attacks, which would be totally dumb in real life to stick to the same rigid moves all the time - or how exactly "Combat Sprinting" is some kind of physical thing you can buy or sell at an auction house.

Welcome to the forums, PlatinumD

Behave, people
If they've given an offical launch date now, that must mean that they're happy with the way the closed beta is going, and will have worked out when the open beta will start, along with anymore invite waves before then.

By the way, for those of you who RP, do you actually have to make a merged market "canon"? Like just because the game makes items available to both sides via the markets, you don't have to think of that as being an in-game thing - I assume most RPers don't try and work the floating damage and healing numbers or the player names above every avatar head into their "in-character" stuff, as they're just visible game mechanics to help make gameplay easier, so I don't see why it wouldn't be easy to look at the combined markets in the same way - an "out-of-character" game mechanic to make the game work better.

English, and a little bit of Swedish from my time there, as well as some German words and phrases - I'd like to have learnt some Finnish too, because it sounds like something the lovechild of Legolas and Gimli would speak - it looks and sounds very awesome and fantasy-ish

I think calling all of it "influence" would be quite a good idea, as that's a suitably neutral word - like your actions give you influence in whatever moral area you operate in, so while Statesman and Recluse are both very influential, only Recluse in infamous.