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"1. (Objective) A female character is killed/maimed/tortured/r*ped etc. for the main purpose of eliciting a desired reaction from a male character."

Ms. Liberty is as (or more) likely the target of the provocation as States.

"2. (Subjective) I do not believe that the same death/maiming/torture/r*pe would have occurred had the female character been a male."

Offing Mister (not Mr.) Liberty would be likely to provoke hot-headed loose canon daughter Ms. Liberty as well. Mister Liberty wouldn't have had the Liberty Belt and have been just as vulnerable.

"If I don’t think both parts are met, then I think it is just typical bad writing, not having to do with gender issues, specifically."

Neither part are met, so just it's just bad writing and not W[I|i]R.

Ya, after a brutal third mission (Cheaty McCheatface cheats) this SSA is a downer for blueside. I don't even like States.

I like the Alpha Slot.

I liked the other slots when incarnate powers beyond Alpha were rumored to only work in incarnate content.

Since they do work in non-incarnate content, I still like the Alpha slot, the rest however can go die in an orgy of Judgement spam (Ion being the judgement of choice so no fire was available).

Like the "Earth for Humans" billboards we need "Content for Non-incarnates";

Well that just put interest in both Tip missions (which had been non-existent lately anyways) and SSA on ice.

Well, I'll probably run the new SSAs once on my rogue spider for the story.

Hero merits are nice, the tip system *was* on the verge of being annoying enough not to bother with for them, the SSAs were a nice way to get the one merit wonders on lowbies without having to futz with the market.

I have a post in the mac boards about one I found to work: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...00&postcount=4

The Logitech Dual Action gamepad that has a mode button and LED in the middle below the "start" and "select" buttons and has a cross on the D-Pad works.

The Logitech F310 did not work for me (I use a Mac, so ymmv).

Someone beat me to the Naga, but as it is his right hand I'd give a ps2 style controller a try (logitech makes some for around $20 though not all of them play nice with CoH). That's what I use when my right arm decides not to work though for me it is motor control problem with only some loss of touch (so far) so ymmv.

You'll need to avoid targeted location powers as you can't macro the left click and combinations that are clicky heavy can be a pain (I use goto_tray macros to change the bottom tray and have the buttons aside from start and select assigned there, warshades are surprisingly friendly to this setup). The four face buttons on the right are big and there's only two shoulder buttons on each side (used by different fingers) and anyone who has skyped me while playing can attest to the rather positive click sound feedback of the pad.

Watching my global chat channels it would seem kicking puppies, pushing little old ladies, and stealing candy from babies would all be a step up from playing on Exalted.

It really seemed like everyone that wasn't on Exalted was busy poisoning the well there.

Knowing when and where she'll spawn and having a pile of trip mines waiting for her seems to work well. Ya, it'd be faster to just wait out the god mode but when you want to make a point only four minutes of trip mines will do.

On my Inv/EnM tanker I'd get her close to the point where she activates it, wait for all my attacks to be recharged, eat a bunch of reds, hit Stun and hope one of the random chance stuns work. If I didn't get her stunned but she hasn't gone god mode wait for things to recharge and try again.

If you like GO GO GO! style play (and your primary isn't enough to support that habit) devices probably isn't for you. If you like to be like Batman who can take down anything given enough preparation, devices is right down your poorly lit thug infested alley.

Smoke grenade and cloaking device gives you full invisibility (that the bulk of it(SG's -perception) doesn't suppress while clicking on glowies). Caltrops and a hallway is a thing of beauty, only outdone by caltrops, a hallway, and four minutes worth of (Hastened) trip mines. A mine field where you know an ambush will spawn counts as well.

Teams can be tricky, especially if you don't know the others or they don't know devices. Smoke grenade looks just like an attack. You know it doesn't notify mobs but they may not. You may be sneaking off to plant a few trip mines to level the next pull instantly while the rest of the team finishes up the current pull and they may follow to "help"/"save" you.

One last thing, if you hate to-hit debuffs, and I most certainly do, you will love targeting drone. It also has a better to-hit buff than defender tactics. Snag the +6 to-hit IO, give targeting drone a to-hit buff enhancement or two and for normal play one accuracy (or even partial accuracy if you're frankenslotting and have an inherent acc mod on your primary) will keep you at 95%. The to-hit buff is worth a lot less once you get into set IOs as you'll have more accuracy then you know what to do with but even then the to-hit debuff resistance will make it near impossible to drop your hit chance below 95% (through debuffs).

I think Devices is a love it or hate it set (I love it). If it meshes with your play style you'll wonder why the other secondaries even bother to exist. If it doesn't, you'll wonder why Devices even bothers to exist.

Just this week I got burned by the very same arc. Well, I got my claws, but my two friends, that I waited to complete the arc to catch them both online, to get them their weapons, got nothing. That was quite the bummer.

Of course mistakenly thinking that the badge mission that Technician Naylor has unlocks the claws and waiting to catch said friends online at the same time was a downer as well.

For anyone that actually wants these penalties they're already in-game.

Permadeath: Log out, hit delete, type dead character's name, hit the button.
Limited Lives: Only resurrect if you have a respec to spend. Don't reslot any enhancements if you want to corpse run.
Full Body Looting: After death replace some or all enhancements with TOs, delete all or some salvage.
Death Debuff Penalty: Replace some enhancements with TOs after death, if all enhancements are TOs replace those with the least useful enhancement they'll take.

If you *really* want the penalties they are there, thankfully they are entirely optional so everyone that got tired of them in every other mmo can continue to play without those annoyances.

I'll second the unique play style of devices. My DP/Dev blaster has been the only blaster I've ever enjoyed (let alone tolerated) soloing on.

With smoke grenade and cloaking device (and someone's advice to play /dev as a primary) the mayhem that can be caused with caltrops and trip mine is a blast. I'm considering time bomb just be able to plant it in the middle (well, just behind) of a spawn to blow it into to my nice mine field. I already do this with a trip mine but it detonates right away so I can't move to somewhere with a better view before it goes off.

You'd need a team that accepts you as basically a ranged stalker who can scurry off and prep the next pull for instant demolition as the current one is being finished off. Steamrollers would basically shutdown /dev. Non-conventional teams could be very entertaining though.