Golden Girl

And that's fine - but for the thousands and thousands of other players, removing Recluse and the Freedom Phalanx from the game could be a problem

You're welcome for...whatever it was

So there is honor among theives?

But that's not really going to work in an MMO - players have to be equal, so making villains be one rank below the main villain keeps things even.

And leading your own faction is also kinda hard to do in MMO terms
As a villain, you're powerful wnpugh to work on your own, but there has to be a limit to how high and how far you go, as every other players will be doing the same thing - there has to be a limit to how independant you can be, otherwise, the game simply wouldn't work.

MMOs are continuous game worlds, signle player games aren't - in a single player game, you could overthrow Recluse, take charge of Arachnos, invade Paragon City and kill the Freedom Phalanx on your way to taking over the world - in an MMO, you can't - Recluse and the Freedom Phalanx will always be there, no matter what you do to them, or how often you defeat them, because other players will always need them to be there too, to help or defeat them.
People can choose to play MMOs in their own little solo bubble, which is totally ok, but they can't really expect the game to be built around that style of gameplay.

If only you were stronger, you'd be able to overthrown him

But you're not a faction - you're just one villain among thousands - factions can take losses, solo villains can't

As weird as the villain way of life is is, it'd still be very weird to have the bosses reporting to their workers

I think that's just called "being a jerk"

So do all villains - but there can be only one at the top of the pile

I'd like to see the mission mechanics for letting a full team of 8 doublecross each other

Welcome to a life of villainy - you'll always be serving those who are stronger than you - it's the way evil works

But Recluse and his oganization are too strong for the combined powers of the heroes of Paragon City to take down, so it's not really possible to have a single villain do it - just do what the propaganda posters say - obey and live

But if you're not strong enough, you will be stepped on by those villains whoe are strogner than you, and if you were the strongest, then you'd be ruling the Rogue Isles.

You already have a base and the phone numbers of your contacts

With the his looks, and the general look of Arachnos, I don't really think he needs a moustahce, or had much room to be enigmatic

I don't see them actually controlling any large areas of the city

I know that that is in part due to game mechanics, and the Jackanist way the game was built (I love that turn of phrase) but even so.[/QUOTE]

I think it's the most reasonable way to explain why you can't go visit the other side - if there's no open world PvP, then there has to be some reason for heroes and villains to be kept apart - and Arachnos works just fine for explaining why we can go over to the Rogue Isles and force the villains underground.

I don't think there are many players who only play to collect badges - it's just another part of the game, like WW, or PvP, or the AE, that some people focus on more than others.
I love collecting badges, but I'm not going to cry myself to sleep at night becuase I wasn't around when the first anniversary badge was available, or that I'd have to go rogue to collect all the red side badges

I've been brought up to admit mistakes when I make them, and to apologize if they're serious ones, and to avoid telling lies, even little white ones, because they can still lead to big black ones

But while crime's still a problem in Paragon City, the villains there are very much on the back foot - like apart from a few areas, the presence and efforts of heroes mean that villains are limited in what they can do, so having the opposite in the Rogue Isles is logical, from an in-game point of view, and from a game mechanics point of view.

I thought the overall storyarc of CoV lead to yuo defeating Recluse? So I think it makes sense that as you progress, you get deeper into the heart of Arachnos.

But then heroes would have just gone in there and cleaned the place up - Arachnos has to be there as a plausible reason why the Rogue Isles are off limits for heroes, otherwise, it'd be just like Paragon City.

I might do that when GR goes live, to help fund the new players

From what I've heard about his missions, I'm pretty sure that the majority of the victims of your work together don't live happily ever after - or even just live ever after.

I was running Team Baby Balrog in the RWZ on Test server to help low level MMs level fast to test their new powers, and even super sidekicked level 5s could still cause level 50 Rikti a few problems

Unfortunately, there wasn't a level bump like there was for DP, because I wanted to try an ITF with 7 DS - I did a 7 DP ITF on Test once they got their level bump, and it was...challenging - I wanted to see if DS would be more effective

My second build is filled with travel powers and anything that increases speed and movement - it's what got me the gold medal badge for the advanced ski run
Apart from that, I can't really think of anything to do with a second build - I think my first build is fine for the stuff I do the most

I've watched that video more than a few times

I was meaning more for you to show us concept art or screenshots of AntiMatter, Battle Maiden, Black Swan, Bobcat, Chimera, Diabolique, Dominatrix, Infernal, Malaise, Nightstar, Shadowhunter and Siege - plus any new ones

But you don't need to be mean to them - if you disagree with them, either don't reply, or reply in a non-hostile way.

Steampunk booster

Maybe you could unlock them as a reward for going back in time to try stopping Dr. Aeon from stealing your mojo?

No, it is a right - everyone's entitled to an opinion - but what isn't a right is to have your opinion taken seriously

It was held on April 28ths on the Euro Test server, then on the American Test server - and there was quite a bit about it on the forums in the lead-up to it, as well as in game on the 26th and 27th during the GM/AV throwdown.

The meet and greet was awesome fun, with the devs answering as many questions as they could, and ignoring as many ones as Black Pebble told them to
But there was also plenty of silliness, with War Witch starting a discussion on who whould be cast for a CoH movie, and BAB turning into Rularuu and going skiing
There were also a few Jade Spider spawns, including one by mistake from Castle, who wasn't totally familiar with the events keybinds on his keyboard, and one by BAB while most of us were inside Positron's power suppression radius

The Television and Dr. Aeon also had a couple of confrontations on both Test servers - on the American one, the Television switched his avatar to one of Dr. Aeon's clones, and then started turning player avatars into TV ones, and on the Euro Test, the TV gave out titles, either "True Freinds of the TV" or "An Enemy of Aeon, a Friend of Reason" to the players who gathered around him with the /e sit emote, or "A Freind of Aeon, an Enemy of Reason" to anyone who didn't join him
He gave me the "An Enemy of Aeon, a Friend of Reason" title, even though I was dissing him, but he evnetually changed it to the "A Freind of Aeon, an Enemy of Reason" one, and even my threats to kick in his screen couldn't get him to change it to something showing no support for either of them
He finally changed it to "Secret Admirer of the Televison" just before he logged off, but to save me being stuck with that, Positron changed it to "Everybody Loves", which was very sweet of him

The whole anniversary thing, the meet and greet and the 2 days of GM/AV bashing before it was totally awesome, and Mod08 and Avatea did a wonderful job, along with the other GMs to keep the flow of enemies going - I'm looking forward to next year already