M_I_Abrahms

Well, non-submission arcs are always a bit more difficult because we don't get spoiler permission. We can't really say WHY we thought the arc was good or bad, so that puts it more in the realm of Filler. It can't be the main focus of the show, because we CAN'T focus on those arcs as much as we wanted.

As for the show itself, it's entirely possible for someone to pick up where I left off. Even if they're not a current KJSR.net DJ they could sign up to restart the show. However, if it is brought back, for my own reasons, I'd be taking a much smaller role, if I'm involved at all.

I would love to see a Regen from their hayday face Recluse and the towers, just to see how they'd do.

Yeah, I'm not seeing it, even from these pictures I can see a build difference between the two. Burke has a visibly larger physique than Mongoose.

Anyway, back on topic, I think Incarnate levels sound a lot like a mechanic I first saw in Dark Age of Camelot (not saying they came up with it, it's just where I saw it first). When they hit level cap, they have ten levels of...stuff (never looked that closely) in which they earn more powers and abilities, but their base stats stay the same. I just wish I could remember what they called it.

Wiki to the rescue it seems. They call them "Master Levels". Obvious, really.

That mean you're calling the mechanic that measures your progress along the Incarnate Levels iP?

I think it's mostly a mix of a holdover from before the Alpha change, and an opportunity for those that enjoy RP to explain their powers. Before the change, Origin DID have an effect on the game, to the point where only certain powers could be selected by certain origins. That was decided to be too restrictive, so it was altered to the current state, where one origin could do anything.

This was also brought up back when the origin aligned temp powers were introduced. There was a concern that if there was too much power it would mean people would want to lean characters of a certain AT to a certain origin or be gimp. For ecample, Controllers should be Tech because of the hold in the Tazer.

The problem with making the origin mean something mechanics-wise is that it has to be balanced enough not to slant peoples power selections. I'm sure folks would love to have something decent attached to the origin, we just have no idea what it could be yet.

Technically what was advertised as base raiding NEVER fully came online. People had the ability to engage in 'practice raids' up until I13, which essentially were PvP on player generated maps (the defending Super Group base).

The original design for base raids, something that was originally slated to go live with CoV, was that of taking Items of Power from other Super Groups. There was a raid style event called the Cathedral of Pain in which up to three teams were to attack the Shadow Shard to get these Items, which would grant bonuses to anyone in Super Group mode. Having one of these Items would make the Super Group leader set a window or time, two hours each week, where other Super Groups could enter the base and attempt to take the Item for their own.

Unfortunately, either the Trial or the Items themselves have never worked right. Exploits and bugs have plagued the entire system. What may have been the killing blow was when the devs tested, that's when they found out about PvP's imbalance, and thus the PvP changes.

Sadly, no. There just weren't enough submissions to justify a third season.

Personally, I'm going to take the less popular road and ask why she's being kept in the Hero biz, and if she really needs to be a Hero, why keep with the lethal implements? I get that she needs to be trained to protect herself in case this prophecy comes to pass, but it's clear she's not the killing type, and keeping her on this path is trying to make her become one. There's a dozen different Naturally aligned ways for her to non-lethally continue as a hero, and that's not even getting into the different effects she could potentially produce with her magic. And she can still train with the knives in her off time, she'd just be training without, y'know, killing people.

I have one such character at the moment. I rolled him when they added the bonus damage to Sniper Rifle when Targeting Drone was on. He was, and is, a Wolf Spider Huntsman, who decided that while the ideals of Arachnos are still a good thing, it's current leadership is decidedly not. Once Going Rogue hits, he's going to take a quick trip back to get all of his real Spider Gear, rather than the cheap knock-offs he's been working with all this time.