Lazarillo

Overall, the system functions well, I'd say. I definitely prefer the system we have to a more standard auction system, that's for sure, and I say that as both a seller and a buyer. Granted, I'm not in the "money is no object" club like some people are, though that's in part because I have so many alts, and I've generally been able to build all of those characters to a level that pleases me for an in-game cost that never leaves me broke.

I do, and I admit I may be alone on this, vastly prefer the old interface, but that's fairly minor.

I do have one big, big, giant most extreme gripe, though, and that's not being able to bid on ranges of IOs. This wouldn't be so bad if they didn't exist at every level. But whoever thought there should be level 36 Recipes was obviously not working in a cubicle near the person who thought that every single level should be bid on separately. Seriously.

I applaud the courts, if we let those darn dirty muties define themselves as human like we are, who knows what they'll try to take from us next! Give an inch, and they'll blast a mile with those crazy eye beams they can shoot! No more mutants! No more mutants!

Regarding a certain something that's a pretty big spoiler...
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I suspect Irene may not have died. Conveniently, she's off camera when it happens, and everything else is a flashback relayed by Moriarty who does not strike me as the most reliable of narrators. The whole thing seemed very conspicuous to me, though I'm known for this sort of crazy speculation. However, if there's a third movie, I suspect it may involve finding out what really happened to her.

The truth is that, as part of his recent massive propaganda campaign, Emperor Cole signed a contract with Comcast and Dish Network to get TPN broadcast in Paragon City anyway. There was some pushback, of course, in allowing a channel that promotes the obliteration of Primal Earth as one of its core values, but Cole managed to successfully argue that Jersey Shore already gets aired, despite being a far better reason to submit to the WarWalkers than any he could provide on his own anyway.

I thought it was very good, overall. It did start a little too...in the middle of things I thought, though. There was a distinct impression that I missed a movie somewhere between this and the first one. Definitely hoping for another, though, either way.

I'm...a little confused on this. Thugs' Arsonist can throw a Molotov Cocktail and set folks on fire. It doesn't create a Burn-style patch, but it sends enemies flying to the far corners of the map just as well as Burn used to. Heck, since there's no patch created, it keeps them running even longer! Is there any justification for this at all? It end up finishing missions faster without him, just because I don't have to worry about having runners constantly aggroing extra groups, or wait for stragglers to wander back. Especially when considering the fixes to Burn, and the fact that, say, Fireball, has never caused this, I don't see why the Arsonist should be any different.

There's no universal first step for me. Sometimes it's concept, sometimes it's powersets, sometimes, I think of one powerset I want to use, then a concept for that, and then the concept dictates the the second powerset. And then, in some cases, neither factors in, and I build a new character because I want another of a certain alignment, or to go with a costume I've designed a name I like (rarely on that last case, since I suck at names).

I have so many characters and I'm so varied in technique, that it'd be hard to say which is most frequent, but if I had to guess it's probably the 1st set -> concept -> 2nd set process that gets used the most.

Given that superheroes in Paragon are all licensed and registered with the city, nobody, as I understand it, has a secret identity, at least according to the game lore.

Well, I liked it. It was a fun little episode to provide a nice sweet ending to a good Christmas.

The enhancement gives you an aura for your pets, so it shouldn't matter what it's slotted in, as long as it's something that can take the enhancement.

My highest character is a Titan/Energy Scrapper, at level 27. Only major problem this far has, naturally, been some Endurance woes, but given that I start filling out with IOs right around this point on most of my characters, my little bit of experience thusfar is that that's mostly been solved already as long as I don't accidentally get the attention of several groups at once.

Actually, scratch that, my biggest annoyance has been that I tend to leave enemies with just slivers of health, and end up having to wait for Crushing Blow to recharge and re-animate without Momentum. This is actually probably helped my Endurance use overall, but if I make any more TW characters (right now in addition to the /EA, I have a /Regen as well), I think I'm going to go for a secondary with a damage aura.

I saw that picture on the updater, and my first response was