Golden Girl

You need to be less suspicious and more trusting

Well, they could combine the chocking emote we already have with that hovering and struggling emote that CoT sacrifice victims use, and then just add some knockback after a couple of seconds of being held in the air.

That's where they hold their super-secet Developer Hate Council meetings, where they plan new nerfs.

Retcons are wonderful things

Possibly - I don't think anyone would actually notice a difference if a mothership crashed there

Me thought you call StormSurvivor?

Yes - we'll be allowed to hurl them onto residential areas, which will pave the way for revamping the zones into a single city zone with newer building models.

Well, I think it'll probably invole a new /e faintinterror emote for any gray enemies when you turn your avatar to look at them.

It is nipple-poppingly exciting - even more than the I17 announcement

GR just sounds better and better all the time

If they're going with their overground/underground theme, then I'm expecting a lot of tunnels under the zone maps - so that even in Nova Praetroia, Resistance members could get to mission doors via the tunnel system without having to aggro the Praetorian Police mobs on every street corner above ground.

But some areas might seem to be freidnlier to one side rather than the other
Like if you're one of Tyrant's thugs then Nova Praetoria and Imperial City are probably less dangerous for you than the Underground

Those still aren't endgame zones though - in that old NCSoft marketing survey, the endgame system was mentioned as taking place on a mysterious alien space station orbiting Earth - a specially designed endgame zone, rather than a zone event taking place in a normal PvE zone.

Not that the location really matters - Incarnates are coming, and that's the main thing

Well, it'll have some other stuff for sure, but the bulk of the endgame content being in it means that that will be the focus of the Issue for

A little trimming here, a little filling there and they'd fit perfectly - it's not nearly as difficult as you're making it out to be

Well, we might have to travel to the Well of the Furies to start off the endgame process

I19 is basically GR: Part Two - you'll need to buy GR to access the Incarnate endgame content in I19 - so if you don't have GR, then I19 is gonna seem kinda content-lite

Ok, following up on that - the new zone events are the content that we do to unlock the Incarnate stuff - so it sounds like the endgame system will be played out in the current zones, rather than being part of any new endgame zone.

Two Loyalist zones, 1 neutral and one resistance zone, probably? Devs hate the Resistance, I guess

I wonder who they are, and how they'd fit into the GR storyline we know about so far?

I think those will all be unlockable only if you buy GR

I think the "new zone events" thing being tied to Incarnates is very interesting - does this mean that maybe they'd be a threat so dangerous that only incarnate level players would be able to take them on?

One possibility is that if it's connected to Pandora's Box being opened, which would explain how we'd suddenly get acces to the Incarnate levels, the new zone events might invovle fighting enemy or rogue Incarnates, who'd be created by the opening of the Box in the same way we'd get the new levels and powers - like we'd have to fight rampaging Incarnate Villains and their goons.

Praetorian Hamidon is more powerful than our version, so probably only Incarnates could take him on

That's what I was saying yesterday

That's almost sound slike they'd have to totally rewrite the current arcs, not just update the models and tweak the text.

Unlockable Vanguard-style glowing staffs = "City of xXD4r7h-m4u1Xx"

It'd be quite posisble to retcon the city map, and simply join the current zones together, and add any filler scenary if it was needed - and maybe shift the exact loactions of some zones a bit too.

For example, move Atlas and Skyway a little more to the north, so they'd fit better with Perez, Steel and Kings Row.

I think they'd be kept - it's make sens from an in-game point of view to have the most dangerous zones still being sealed off.

I think it'd be great - it'd also solve the empty zone problem with places like Boomtown - it'd just become a northern extension of Steel Canyon, with a new filler bit for the bridge over the river that separates them.

I very much doubt that - I think it's way more likely they're going to refocus bases as social and PvE things, rather than the customizable PvP maps with storage and TP extras that we have now.

They do - there have been two very recent fixes/nerfs to cut down the AE exploiting

I thought it was a totally valid point to say that I think they're pretty much only focused on GR right now and aren't so likely to come back with any answer until after it's released
It seems to be pretty tough to get marketing to say anything at any time, so when there's a major expansion coming up, I think it'd be just about impossible to get anything out of them

I only have a rack on my desk for CDs, and a couple of racks in my closet for clothes.

Aquaman is harmless - that's why he's so open to jokes