Lord_Apollon
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Legacy zone revamp, knocked-down Warwalls using the new praetorean "smooth" zoning....
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Quote:It's interesting how it works, and I don't consider either one a logical nightmare. It reflects the unusual nature of this world.Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
I've been wondering this myself.
Also, consider that Infernal still goes by his Primal name, nevermind that he's a logical nightmare, as is saying that Battle Maiden is a counter part of Valkyrie. (Different women from different worlds).
And with the tern Praetor and such being thrown around, I think "The Praetorian" would have been his likely name. -
Quote:Praetorean version of The Center. He's a contact in Imperial City. (I quite enjoy his arcs and aim to run them every time I can now)Originally Posted by OPTICAL_ILLUSION
who is mr g?
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Only done it on my Kin/EA Brute so far. That was tough. Going to try it on my nin/nin stalker next.
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I run a Toshiba L645D-S4036, triple-core CPU w/ Radeon 4200 series GPU. Runs fine, even Ultra Mode (save water effects, it doesn't like those).
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Perhaps rather than Nihilists, we take it one step less. Instead of Nihilists, which want the dissolution of everything, they are the alien equivelent of Locusts. They find a world, and gobble it up before moving on.
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Well thought out, I like it.
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Quote:Standing: NewbOriginally Posted by ResidentBaka
ROFL: Scrub: Status: Pwned
Result: Mockery
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Then the whole "taking over the planet to strip it of resources" becomes a case of survival. They simply want to survive, and they survive through consuming. Yes, a polar opposite of Hamidon.
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Quote:Originally Posted by New_Age_Ronin
Ok, this I like. The only problem is why hasn't it happened yet? The Nictus have been on Earth for millennia. If this was their goal, then they kinda suck at it (unless the idea is that there wasn't advanced enough technology to bring them to the planet en masse until recently- which actually fits with a few of the arcs now that I think of it.)
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I don't think this is what would happen. Primals Aurora is happily married. Praetorean Calvin is not going to be woo'd by such a switcheroo. He wants Tilman gone, and nothing else will do. I suspect that Aurora is long gone, destroyed by Mother Mayhem, who herself is burning up the stolen body, which is why she wants DeVore so badly.
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Quote:And Greyson Creed in X-Men, one of the vehement anti-mutant Senators out there, was himself the son of two Mutants. In real life there were black people who were pro-slavery, pro-segregation, pro-jim-crow, etc. This is not a game stopper.Originally Posted by Lazarillo
...except the Center's a mutant.
This is also ok, but we do need something with the Council. That's the problem, they always appeared like Cobra in GI-Joe, but only the Cobra from the TV show, not the comics. The Comic book Cobra was a vicious organization, terrorists out to topple the world government. Cobra Commander was actually an intelligent, and dangerous leader, more Adolph Hitler than Groucho Marx.Quote:
Again, this sort of revamp would actually fit the 5th Column better. Of course Nazis hate mutants! They hate everybody! Who woulda thunk it? Though since Nazis kinda hate everybody, more or less, it might lose its flair. Still, while I'm not arguing against the concept, I'm once again unsure that the Council is really the best fit.
Perhaps instead, that angle needs to be pushed forward. But another "Oh, out for world domination" is just going to make eyes roll, the game has several of those. What is the Councils angle?
My thought, what if they are still Fascists? While the 5th are Nazi, there is a distinct difference in pure Facism as was found in Italy, Spain, Argentina, Brazil and Iraq. Their goal is the unification of government and the corporate, reinforced monopolys, dismantling of social services for replacement by private entities controlled by a select few. This angle requires the least amount of work. What it would need, primarily, is a serious push into ties with the "big evil corporations" in our world, such as Aeon Tech, Crey, and Cage Corp. Similar to how the Syndicate works in Praetoria. They funnel funds, troops, etc to their front groups, and are as a result much harder to stamp out. Play up the Council aspect, that they are like Al Qaeda, not a single organization, but instead an umbrella for other organizations to work with, coordinate, and conqueror.
Heck, I'd have the Council having taken over multiple countries from the inside, or attempt to with heros stopping their actions. I'm thinking the World Wide Red arc level here, and it could be a simple case of using the existing missions, with new text. -
Quote:Full of Win!Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Exclamation: Exhasperated sigh
Realisation: Humans never learn
Praetorian linked EAT: Flawed
Rikti EAT: Superior
Link to Going Rogue: Easy
Morality Status: Traditionalist: Alternative: Restructurist
Story potential: Vast
Playstyle potential: Fun
Superiority: Clear
World Domination Plans: Step Closer: Status: Completion
All Hail: Lineage of War!
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Quote:That works even betterOriginally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
Well, my own thing to point out here is that the Council use astrologically themed names with the exception of the Ascendants. My own recommendations for names of this new caste would include: Nadir, Crescent, Black Hole (though this may overlap with Vortex and Voids a bit much), Zodiac (Or any of the signs of the astrological zodiac), and... something else, I'm sure.
In the lore it is hinted at strongly that they began as the same org, but when Recluse killed the Weaver to take control of Arachnos, many pieces of it broke away, such as the 5th and Council. It makes sense, from both a story-plot as well as a comic-y angle. I'd like to play up that angle, makes the universe far more real. Then The Center would be a main rival for Lord Recluse, and both of them want to stomp out The Reichsman.Quote:I'm not sure if it's ever been confirmed if Arachnos and the Council/Column have links beyond both, I believe, starting as Facist groups in Italy, though the Column's part involved them migrating to Germany.
This is not actually a bad idea, but it's a bit weak. Hellions are the Satanic gang, the Skulls are the Necromantic gang. Not Anarchists, gangs, each one fighting for rival territory. Likely, they were normal gangs till one of them, the Hellions I'd wager, picked up magic as an edge against the other, at which point the other gang returned the favor. They exit in opposition to each other, not for some grand world view.Quote:As a funny note about Nihilists, I once tried to reimagine the The Skulls for an AE arc where they're revisted as a group of Nihilists to fit their "death" theme. So if any enemy group gets changed up to have nihilist philosophies, I'm going to say it should be the skulls, they need a real banner. The Hellions are Satanic Anarchists, why can't the Skulls be Necrophiliac Nihilists? -
Praetorean Epic:
Clockwork!
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I consistantly let her go. For my resistance guys, it's a ruse fight to keep the loyalists believing in him. For my loyalists, Tilman is appearing less than stable, and an unstable Praetor will eventually destroy the society to which they fight for.
Of course my egotist glory hound just wanted to rub it in Tilmans face. "You steal my thunder? You don't get your prize." -
Studying this thread, I like some of the ideas, not so much the others.
This is what I would like to see:
Council robots get a major makeover, make them Nictus powered, with Nictus style attacks. At their hearts, Nictus crystals, and every so often, when you defeat one it spits out a Nictus which attacks you.
Burkholder switches sides mid-story, so till lvl 35, he's with the Council, then in a dramatic story, TF/etc, he switches to the 5th. (have it a vil-side TF, they could use one)
Remove the Vampyr from the Council, have Nosferatu back with the 5th. Bring the Dark Vampyr to the council, along with a few Nictus. These guys will remain the experimental wing of the 5th Column, and they use stolen Nictus for it.
Have new arcs, or revamped arcs where you have Requiem trying to steal back the 5th, and getting hammered down by the Council in the process.
I love the anti-Mutant idea, it makes a lot of sence for a Fascist organization to reject such mutations and try and organize against it. It would also make a solid difference between them and the 5th.
I'd also ramp up the Galaxy and Ascendants, and get a half-way step in there. I'd like it so that by lvl 40, all Council have at least basic Nictus implants and are not using traditional weapons. Like how we now have "Nebula" "Prenumbra" and "Vortex" these new soldiers would be "Shadow". They start appearing at lvl 35, and become dominant at 40.
They do need a mission. The Nihilism is interesting, but it's just not comic-y enough. I'd reach a bit more, and instead play up the Ubermesch of Nietzche. Their goal is not world domination, it's world colonization. Their goal is to use humanity as hosts, to make more Nictus, and use up this planets resources before they migrate to the next. Disembodied Galactus, so to say. The 5th, to them, stand in their way. Arachnos, however, helps by weakening those who would stand against them. Play up the Council-Arachnos link, that they began as the same organization way back in the annals of time. -
I had a similar issue, turned out to be a control chipset driver issue.
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Quote:I like it on my Brute and Stalker, and want it for my Tank. Yes, it's plate armor over soft underside. That fits thematically for some bits. It also brings a different play style to the game.Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
For a casual player with just SO's, Energy Aura is nice.
If you want to min-max it, Energy Aura blows.
It's like having massive plates of armor covering tissue paper. If something gets through you're toast.
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I will go with Explosive Arrow against large low-level mobs, slotted with as much kb as I can.
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Quote:It was the "End of Time." The discussion was millions dying only to be reborn again to fight and die again and again. That Rassilon bestowed unlimited regenerations would be quite logical.Originally Posted by Innovator
I don't think its a rule placed by Rassilon. If it was just a law, the Master would have just kept regenerating as he doesn't really care about Time Lord laws anyway. Rassilon himself was immortal with unlimited regenerations, it was a secret the Master was trying to get back in the 5 Doctors. I'm still going with the theory, that during the Time War the Time Lords were all granted unlimited regenerations by Rassilon (who was woken) to fight the Daleks. How else can you go win a Time War with the Daleks who are easily manufactured/cloned at tremendous speeds. I remember accounts by the Tenant talking about the Time War seeing Time Lords die over and over again during the war (I think the episode was the Doctor's Daughter, I can't be sure).
I expect the glib line in Sarah Jane was just Russell T. Davies leaving something for Moffat to handle..a sorta playful FU. -
Just a simple thought for the little avatar on our forums here. I just thought it would be neat if we could take one of our toon ID photo and be able to tell the forum controls here "Use Lord Apollon for avatar". Likely be too much work, just a random thought.
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I have the model below that, with the 4200 series GPU and tri-core AMD CPU. I run Ultra mode w/o issue at 15fps. You should be fine.
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Quote:Mine is KM/EA, and is doing ok. A friend of mine runs an Elec/EA and jokes that between the two, he makes sappers look silly.Originally Posted by seebs
It seems that /EA is a brute-only set. What's it pair well with? I was sorta thinking I wanted to have a brute, but I haven't found a mix I like.
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One option for Kheldians is to restrict only the secondary color as selectable. Even if primary Warshade is purple, being able to tint that with red, green, black or white would be a dramatic improvement in my eyes.