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I have some characters that are approaching having 100 unused costume change tokens so I'm relatively well aware of how the game has been delivering these tokens up until now.

Again all I'm saying is that since the Devs made the fairly large effort to give us this new fancy system for getting character/account awards via in-game mail that it was at least a REASONABLE suspicion that the delivery of freebie costume tokens may now also use this same system REGARDLESS of the pre-existing method.

Once again I'll make the point (based on simple engineering maintenance principles) that it'd be pretty silly for anything to be left outside the umbrella of the email method. What advantage would the Devs have by maintaining two or more legacy methods to deliver these kinds of rewards? Why bother with the email system if they didn't plan to use it for everything?

That doesn't answer whether or not the Devs have decided to use their new method to deliver rewards (via in-game email) for these freebie tokens. Since the OP is unsure whether they were rewarded or not I think it's reasonable to at least -suspect- that the freebie tokens are now being delivered to us in the same way most everything else is now coming to us.

Frankly is seems silly to me that the Devs would not use the new email system for -everything- like this now.
Why develop a new reward delivery system and not use it for everything?

I know they at least -used- to just give them to us like you said. All I'm suggesting, because I don't know for sure, is that now that we have the email-based system for getting awards they could have switched it so that the freebie ones we're talking about come via that method now too.

These SSA's are only "Task Forces" in the same way the original Ouroboros TFs were technically Task Forces.
Basically that means they were more or less designed as closed arcs for either team or solo play.

I honestly didn't really pay attention to them this time around because most of my characters are sitting on dozens of unused tokens but it's possible that the "free non-Vet" ones are now being given to us via the new email system just like the Paragon Reward ones are. Would make sense for them to use the same system for all of them now. *shrugs*

Definitely puts a different twist on the whole Hulk-like "you wouldn't like me when I'm angry..." transformation.

Yeah the "scale" of the overall operation did seem a little strange to me too. One would think that long before "civilian families" would be sent to colonize Terra Nova the government behind the 2149 portal would have established a huge vanguard of military leadership there. The idea that it's apparently just Commander Taylor and a few dozen soldiers running the whole show seems weird. If we are to believe that Terra Nova represents Earth's last chance for survival the Powers That Be would not risk the operation to a single dude and a squad of soldiers. *shrugs*

Like I said before if I really wanted to I could probably totally shred the show with a series of reasonable criticisms like this. I've already decided I'll give it a few more episodes (because I think the story behind Commander Taylor may actually turn out to be cool) but it's definitely skating on thin ice for me.

I think Stephen Lang is another example of Hollywood's trend towards "mature action stars" that's pretty appealing to the aging baby-boomer generation. As time goes on it's great to see these older guys still able to do the ruggedly charismatic manly-man stuff that you usually only see younger guys do. As I said before he's pretty much the only thing keeping me interested in this show for multiple reasons.

That's an awesome story. Almost makes me wish I was standing there to see that go down. It'd be funny to take that character of yours to Virtue's Pocket D to have fun with some of people RPing there, but ironically that'd probably be considered griefing on -your- part.

Well there's the simpler point that it's highly questionable whether we could create anything that could survive intact for 85 million years, even with hypothetically advanced "magical" technology from 2149. About the best chance for something like this is if the "probe" was actually just a solid blob of some kind of highly unique radioactive isotope that could be detected from extreme distances. There's pretty much no chance it could survive in the form of a functional recording device in the traditional sense.

Turns out just about every Sci-Fi story has at least some elements that don't "work" in reality if you over-analyze them too much. This is one of those problems for this show.

Of course the super-simple explanation for the probe might be that the whole story about them being 85 million years in the past is a complete lie and that in reality all the Terra Novans are just plugged into the 2149 version of the Matrix as an ultimate means of population control.

I never claimed that this show wasn't going to ultimately use some kind of rehashed plot device did I?

In the words of the great Marcel Marceau: "No!"

And it was fairly funny too.

If I had to guess that's exactly why they -didn't- tell anyone.

There was a real life warrior/pirate named Pier Gerlofs Donia who supposedly was beefy enough to be able to wield a 7 foot long greatsword that weighed almost 15 pounds. As the story goes he could decapitate multiple people with a single swing.

Obviously that's probably close to the limit of what a real life Titan Weapon could do. Anything more than that is squarely in the realm of comic books and anime.

It would have been really funny if they named one of the characters of this new show Rebecca Jorden.

I know the costume save/load feature is not perfect but why couldn't you use the specific reset buttons to "undo" any scale or face changes that happen when you try to load a new costume over an existing one? I've moved/copied many costumes to different slots and I found I can do almost anything like what you're talking about without having to resort to manually editing the .costume files.

I'm not saying your suggestions are bad. I'm just saying there may be easier ways to work around the limitations of the system.

There was a huge amount of whining and moaning about the cost of those costume slots over the last few weeks. It's really not -that- surprising that they would lower the price on those things this quick. On the other hand I'm sure there are plenty of people who will still consider them to be too expensive even with this reduction.