MowDownJoe

Bait him over to the fryer with bacon, and ignored the anguished cries of pain.

Actually, it does, since making him a balllista makes him a walking MacGuffin in the instances that you fail the mission, since I can't be sure in those scenerios that you actually found the bits of data that says that Moment was funneling information about Longbow's Ballista armor. Similarly, the clue-case that Crimson hands you at the beginning of mission 1 does the same thing in case time runs out (though I won't spoil the moment of badassery you pull in that instance).
As for Moment being Nicti... that came about from a vague memory of a post on the old boards that might not be accurate. Something along the lines of a poster asking when we're getting a real shapeshifting AT (this was after Issue 3), when Khelds were introduced), and ol' Jack Emmert just pointed to Kheldians and said "There's your shapeshifting AT." Anyway, Khelds and Nicti retain memories of any forms they once possessed, so I figured it couldn't be that much of a stretch to have him assume that form outside of a body, even if in actuality, he couldn't survive very long without a body anyway.
Also, there were technical limitations that forced me to keep Moment's true form a Black Dwarf... mainly, the fact that Unbound Nictus can NEVER be selected in MA. Hell, at one point, Moment was supposed to summon a Nicti ambush at certain health levels. However, choosing "Nictus" as your ambush group really only gives you an ambush full of Void Hunters. Not wanting my ambush to be ignorable by 12 ATs and brutal to 2, I dropped the ambush altogether.

Oh, c'mon! Take all three on both. There's no kill like overkill!

Here's the thing: in theory, in mayhem missions, we're supposed to hit the bank last. In theory. In practice, that's not how it works out.

Safeguard missions force you to work in reverse to how the devs thought players would work in mayhem missions. You go for the bank first, and take out the smaller heists later.

They should've used "melonfarming" in the censored-for-TV version of Snakes on a Plane.

There's an easy way to do that: put the level slider in the TF Challenge screen alongside no defeats, time limits, and all that other stuff. Obviously, you'll want to leave out the -1 option. Unfortunately, I don't see an easy way to do this with spawn sizes, but allowing people to run the Statesman TF at +4 should be challenge enough.

...Goddamnit...

I thought we went over this: it's because they have to actually hit buttons, rather than sit at the door and act as a XP sponge. Yes, with SSKing, it's possible for one person to do nothing but Sewer Teams, but then they're locked out of the majority of their powers for the majority of the game, and they'll HATE that.