Nalrok_AthZim

Most folks on my friends list. I could PM you a list of the names, as well as additions of people I know left with the AE. I still talk to several of them.

Just because you didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen. I'm sure Virtue's population is grand, but people DID leave.

Except, they kind of do have a gun to every villain's head when it comes to the lore. That gun takes the form of:

• The Rikti winning.
• The Fifth Column winning.
• The Praetorians winning.
• Snaptooth winning.
• Lady Winter winning.

In all five of those situations, heroes and villains are forced to lose unless they team up and fight. Heroes can say "I'll save the day!" or "How could they do that? We'll stop them with some help from our friends!" or "Sure, I'll fight next to Villains but they're being watched!" Villains can say "They're taking over the world? Good, let them do it and I'll pull the rug out fr-- I can't? I have to stop them NOW? Fine." or "Nobody takes over the world but ME! ... this'll help the heroes though. Fine, I guess." or "No. Screw you, the Heroes can eat it. ... what? If I don't the world ends? Fine."

Until the SSA, Villains could help the Heroes (directly or inadvertently) or not run the content (which is BS no matter how you look at it).

The true villainous path would be to let that someone else finish the job, then crack them over the skull with a cinder block and take over the sweet, sweet operation they unwittingly set up for you.

You don't know what my characters' best interests are.

Considering Imperious is Roman-Statesman, he's not about to do any favors for my villains.

Those villains are yours. Not mine, nor anyone elses. The problem remains: Villains have been shoehorned into doing the right thing three times now (five if you include Snaptooth/Lady Winter) with the omnipresent excuse of "it's for the good of the world" or "well you'll be saving your OWN butt so do it anyway." Screw that. It's about damn time redside does some real villainy instead of "I guess I have to if I want to keep going" villainy.

This is also the first SSA. I'm pretty surprised no one has realized that Blueside will almost assuredly get their place in the spotlight returned to them (major emphasis on that) when the next SSA is released.

I never said it wasn't. The loss of a great many players still happened, regardless of what's going on today.

None of that has to do with lore, which is what I was referring to. Yes, we've gotten some fantastic in-game additions over the past years, but as far as lore we're still crapped on. Even going to the RWZ, Cimerora, Pocket D, and Trials we're FORCED to do heroic acts as part of the storyline.

For once we're getting to be VILLAINS, not off-side lackeys or this whole "do the right thing for the good of everyone ever or else" crap that's been in the game since the RWZ went co-op.


A real villain would do as Wade did with the heroes; hit the mad god where it hurts when he isn't looking, strong-arm him to his knees, and take full advantage of his pain and confusion to gain the upper hand.

Funny how people react when they have the floor dropped out from under them.

The mystery architect (remaining nameless for spoiler purposes) has done one hell of a job hitting the heroes where it hurts. Yes, you're running around like chickens with their heads cut off; this is because the mystery architect has already chopped off said head. From here on out it's just a matter of waiting for the body to stop running. Then the job will be finished.

I couldn't care less about the min-max kiddies and AE babies that exploited the AE system. It's the people they drove away that were the big issue for me. The AE was wildly exploitable, and we ended up with Tankers who took almost NOTHING in their Primary, Controllers with a Boxing>Kick>Ranged Blast>Jump Kick attack chain, Blasters using the APP Bonfire EVERY spawn, Scrappers with almost no attacks, Defenders with ONLY attacks, Masterminds who relied on their ranged blasts, and the list goes on and on.

It was THAT gigantic cloud of idiocy that drove a lot of really good players and RPers off of Virtue for good.

Yeah, I did enough of that to last me a month...

"Time Bullet"

lol.

I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner.

"Trust me, the worst thing you can yell at a movie theatre isn't 'Fire!', it's 'Bruce Willis is dead!'" —Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt, King of the Hill