Grouchybeast

Not once the random packs go live, no.

Just checking, but you do realise that five out of seven of the Roman weapons not included in the pack aren't actually unlocked by the ITF, right?

This is pretty much how I've felt about the arc so far.

The only people so far I feel genuinely have had the dumb in a way that felt implausible are the Midnighters. If Darrin Wade showed up in the middle of any mysterious invasion of the Club, I would think their first instinct would be to shoot first and chat later -- probably a chat involving some very searching questions. Because unlike the Phalanx, they *do* know him.

I feel like we're all about to vanish in a puff of logic. Does anyone have a Babelfish handy?

I always do the Midnighter arc early enough that I can keep the Cure Lost temp for the early Faultline arcs. I find it one of the most useful temps in the game, really -- even the squishiest of non-mez-protected squishies can breeze through Faultline solo when all the cured Rectors are being shot at uselessly by their friends.

So...just out of curiosity, what effect do you imagine that allowing people to pour vast volumes of additional inf into the economy might have on prices in the AH?

That's pretty much what it looks like now, only tinted red. I have to admit, I was hoping for something cooler that what we got. The cemetery area itself is nice, but honestly I think they'd be better off putting the fog back in the rest of the zone (if maybe a bit less dense) if they aren't going to do anything more interesting with it.

Sadly, he apparently has nothing left to thrust with. Poor States. :-(

(Okay, I guess he looks much the same in the current screen, but at least in that picture his lack of assets doesn't have that attention-grabbing "Hey, viewer, look at my TOTALLY FLAT CROTCH!" thing going on right in the center of the composition that the new one does. Maybe it's just because it happens to be directly in my eyeline on my monitor, but it makes me sporfle every time I see it. Underwear of STEEL.)

However, if you're playing with a regular group, then you can make sure that everyone starts the arc at the same time, and then everyone can read their own story text as you go along. There's an option somewhere to allow completing other's missions to count as completing an identical active mission of your own, and I can't remember if that if on or off by default.

OP: There's a list on the Paragonwiki of all the Villain arcs and Strike Forces that reward Merits, which basically means that they're the arcs with plots, rather than the one-off missions your contact will offer you as well:

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Villain_Merit_Rewards

If you run short of contacts, then remember that you can do a variable number of paper missions for the contact you're given the first time you enter a zone, and they will then offer you a Mayhem Mission, after while you'll be given a choice of new contacts.

And welcome to the game! If you ever venture over to Defiant (the other English language server from the former EU server list), then make sure you join the Defiant Events EU channel.

Premium players have 2 slots (that's 2 total, not per server), plus any that have been given out as vet or other awards or bought. Also, any extra slots already allocated to a server will become server slots, not global slots, and can only be assigned to slots on that specific server.

If you have actually *bought* enough extra slots to give you 36 (that's *extra*, not the 12 per server given under the pre-Freedom system) and you only have 26, then you need to put in a support ticket.

Don't think about it. Really. Otherwise, you might start to wonder what was the point of destroying the weapons caches in the base in the first place, when the Praetorians can teleport a seeming unlimited number of them into the courtyard from...somewhere else that we forgot to destroy, I guess.

Just kill things and take their stuff, which is the real point after all.

I thought he would've been cute enough in another context, but for me he rather spoiled the up-until-then nicely creepy First Ward atmosphere. He really should join forces with Von Grun, and they could have fun being silly parodies together.

Aww! I think Arbiter Death is an adorable name. I can't think of a name that more clearly says 'I'm so happy I'm now old enough to play T-for-Teen games', except maybe Arbiter Dark.

So the first thing a player will see is a constantly scrolling list of people trying to get them to buy inf, burying all their tells, global channels, team chat etc.

Even people who wanted to buy inf still wouldn't want to see that. So at that point, players will either 1) leave the game, or 2) take the AD channel off their chat panel. This means that RMT traders would, exactly as now, go to broadcast, local and help to peddle their wares, and get banned exactly as they do now.

So all your suggestion would actually do is create a metric ton of ill-will for Paragon and work for the NCSoft CS as people lose their accounts and have their card details stolen and sold, because NCSoft have absolutely no way at all of telling in advance which seller is going to do that (other than 'a lot of them'). Only now, instead of NCSoft saying 'RMT is not allowed, and we will ban you for doing it', they're pushing their customers towards the rip-off merchants, so they will be blamed.

This is just a really bad idea, from top to bottom. There have been some truly terrible ideas posted in the Suggestions forum over the years I've been playing, but this is definitely one of the most unworkable and illogical. Dual Wield Bows would make more sense.

C.S. Lewis does not agree with you, and I'm on his side.

This is bad speed-running. For good speed running, the squishies will be covered in lovely Ice armour or similar buffs, or know to bring along a suitable stack of purple candy. If peoples' speed runs are littered with dead squishies, then they definitely are Doing It Wrong. (Said as someone who speed runs ITFs on a zero-def Fire blaster.)

I think they're outsourcing them to Portal Corp, who are in turn subcontracting to another dimension. There's probably a parallel earth where those are the pinnacle of UI design.

(There are an infinite number of parallel Earths, right?)