Hopeling

Those currencies have been in the game files/chat-linkable for quite some time - since Astrals/Emps were introduced, I believe, if not earlier. That doesn't mean they will soon be used, and indeed, if more recent dev comments are to be believed, they won't be used.

In short: it's interesting that these exist, but not a cause for alarm.

OK, that seems to be the case - a character with an empty alpha slot doesn't have the dialog, nor a character with a t3 alpha power who's never done trials. The aforementioned character who's done a single BAF (and also has just a t3 alpha) does have the option.

A character who's never done any trials but a single BAF had that dialog option, so I'm not sure that's how.

What LFG chat? There's no LFG channel. That's why /help is often used to form teams.

Taking away local chat would be pretty absurd, though.

This is not an easy problem to fix, and there's often a direct tradeoff between how well you prevent gold spammers and how well you drive away new players. I mean, make no mistake, I am in principle all for the removal of gold spammers, but there's no good way I've ever seen to actually do it.

Yes, they can attack things and stay in bodyguard, as long as they react on their own instead of you giving an attack order.

Really. It's part of the "I have earned the right to know more about the Well" dialog chain. I'm not sure exactly what the criteria are before you can ask him that, though.

How very strange - it worked for me on the beta server, but not on test.

It should show up in your email, under Character Items.

Confusion, as far as I know, basically swaps friend and foe for purposes of targeting. Since the prisoners aren't attacking, confusing them will do nothing. At best, it might make their own confuse aura target each other instead of players.

A brute played badly sucks compared to other ATs played badly? Or compared to other ATs played well?

Brutes are BETTER than scrappers at low levels. It's not until 20+ that scrappers begin to catch up. That's not to say scrappers are bad, even at low levels. There's a reason I have more scrappers than anything else, after all.

The X-Men (or the treatment of mutants in general) doesn't really make sense when looking at the Marvel Universe as a whole. I sometimes think it would've been better if they could be in their own separate setting where mutants would be the only superhumans. The Eternals kinda have the same problem - they're interesting on their own, but in context they're just another group of super-people.

The "pretend not to be a mutant" thing has probably been explored somewhere, but I don't read X-Men much so I couldn't say. I do remember when it was explored in reverse: in the House of M reality, homosapiens were the second-class citizens, and being a mutant was desirable, so Spider-Man got powers in a lab accident and pretended that he WAS a mutant. Which worked, for a while.

Back on the topic of the court case, though, I like to imagine that, someday in the future, someone will genetically engineer some superhuman abilities, and this court case will be used as precedent to remove their human rights, and they will have no choice but to make war on baseline-human civilization for self-preservation.

Edit: The name of the human species is apparently censored if I put a space where there should be one. >.<

Yes, this is true. It's easy to test in Mids by toggling accolades on/off. You can also check in-game that your base recovery is the same 1.67%/sec on a character with and without accolades.