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1. One.
2. Seven, though most got one or two commons and then I gave up.
3. Zero. The key word here is "intention", though. I don't make characters with the endgame in mind, given that endgame is too bare-boned. I make characters to enjoy the main part of the game, and if I haven't gotten sick of 'em by 50 yet, I do some raids, too.
4. Only one that I specifically don't intend to, for in character reasons a this moment: a hardline Loyalist Villain. If a reasonable alternative path comes up, though, I might reconsider that one.


When there's enough that the amount of content that can be done is at least equal to the amount that's actually needed to earn progression. It's the way levels 1-50 work, it should be the way 51-53 work as well. No less amount will ever be acceptable, and given how widely varied the 1-50 opportunities are (it's entirely possible to play two characters up and never see the same stuff), even evening it out is pretty pathetically low.

Damn. Guess I'm going to need to run the Summer Event more some then after all.

Aye, same thing. Config file e-mailed to ya.

You'll need leather. Lots of leather.

IIRC, Synapse stated somewhere in the massive amounts of back-n-forthing that there is no Defense Debuff resistance in Bio-Armor, by design, as it's supposed to be a baked-in weakness, more or less, just like it is with VEATs.

Isn't Twitch.TV essentially already a "channel"?

Conjecture? I barely know 'er!

Water you saying? That you were just trying to neap the joke in the bud before ebb-eryone else decided to ride the same wave?

It just means the hand of fate moves at a slightly different pace in different settings. It doesn't change the fact that they are "parallels". This game's pretty well-established that certain "figures" just exist, no matter what. It's not just Praetoria, it's Cimerora: we've got a Cimeroran Statesman, Positron, Synapse, Sister Psyche (and a Citadel, too, IIRC). So yeah, it's basically fate, or the Well, or the Almighty Writer, y'know, some cosmic force going "this person exists", but not really being too concerned with the circumstances.

Back before they allowed players to actually do stuff while queued, this wasn't really desirable, since no one would want to enter the queue if a large number of people weren't already queued up. Now that that's been "fixed", however, I think it's something that might be worth re-examining.

Because what's the point of a mirror universe without goatee people?

Given the absurd differences between the Ridolfo Uzzanos, and the fact that he immediately follows the statement with "don't think about this so hard", I think the point he was trying to make is that it wouldn't matter if he was someone we "already" knew, but from another dimension, and that it wasn't worth our time considering such things, because they could be so far removed from what we know, there's no point in thinking of them that way.

I want to just go into hibernation for two weeks so it can be Batman time now. Soooooo muuuuuch.

I would echo this.

Different strokes, I guess. I rather enjoyed his arcs. It established who he was, his attitude, what his goals were (even if the "how" wasn't). I'd always looked forward to getting to work with him again, since back when he was introduced, he even gave the "Let's talk again when you're a higher level" spiel once his arc was over. He comes out of nowhere for heroes, certainly. He's supposed to. But for the sake of the players, the arc's a good way to establish him, to my mind.

Though I said before and will say again: I agree he should get phased. He just shouldn't get completely removed the way States and Psyche were.

States and Psyche are still a part of the game's overall lore. Their profiles are included as part of background information on the game's setting on the official website. References to their presence remain in the game itself as well. Ms. Liberty's still States' grand-daughter (hilarious copy/paste typoes notwithstanding); history plaques still reference their deeds; other characters have stories that coexist with theirs. They're front and center in tie-in materials as well like the novel or the comics.

They don't get any in-game development, but they never did, so in that regard, there's no less reason to care about them now, either.

Wade, on the other hand, is a random guy with a penchant for hammy dialogue and a fine appreciation for the color purple. And without his arc, that's about it. Interacting with him villainside is the only thing that fits him into a role as anything other than a deus ex machina.

Consideration: Dimensional portals do not necessarily allow travel to the same point in time in the two connected dimensions. This explains why Sutter happens before the war breaks out, even though the war has apparently already broken out. It also explains how you can travel to Praetoria through Pocket D after the Magisterium trial and everything's doing fine. And how we end up killing Mother Mayhem multiple times.

Heck, it even explains the Maria Jenkins retcon! The original Hero's Hero arc was Praetoria's distant future, where the Praetors ruled unopposed, eventually destroying Hamidon, but at the cost of turning their own world into a post-apocalyptic nightmare! But due to interaction with Primal Earth, their past was altered! Even the accusation that both sides "shot first" is explained this way.

...that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

More like Team Pitstop and Team Domi.