Prodiguy

You bought Going Rogue, so you have access to all things DIRECTLY RELATED to Going Rogue itself- Allignment, Praetoria, the power sets, the zones. Incarnates are not related to Going Rogue in that way, the closest you could have had was a sneak peak at FUTURE content, which the Alpha Slot was intended to be. That was also removed before the launch of the game and was never stated as 100% going to happen. Alpha Slot is not part of Going Rogue.

And on the same coin, it never should be. There'd be no point to being a VIP if you could have everything VIPs do on a Premium account. Premium is not intended for you to drop from VIP and have the same gameplay. It's intended for you to be able to play, at a loss, without needing to pay. You will never get the same level of gameplay and ALL the functions that VIPs do. The Incarnate system is VIP only. That is a benefit of paying the fee.

Apart from using a Crowbar or Gravity? ;P

Well, I'd say avoid the Twinshot and Dr. Graves arcs like the plague, but I know you already planned to do that for at least one of them. Essentially, if the dialogue options matter that much to you that you want to avoid the ones that can't be handwaved as simple hand motions like yes, no, I don't know, where to, that sort of thing, you just need to avoid Praetorian content and the first couple of new arcs introduced with i21.

Most of the content before Going Rogue gives a fairly good vague response from your side that could easily be achieved by a nod, a wave, a point, that sort of thing. The Tip and Morality missions, at least the ones put in first, are fairly good about that too. I haven't had a chance to do them recently.

It's a shame you're not going villain, or else I'd say Stardiver and the Radio would get along nicely- One side of the conversation can't say a word, and the other side doesn't shut up.

I'm a big fan of the new tutorial, but it really doesn't teach more than the old one. It teaches far less. I played through it a few times in beta and I could just tell, compared to Outbreak and Breakout, it was lacking a lot of fairly important functions.

Compared to Outbreak though, this tutorial is so much more entertaining for me. No needless wandering around, no hopping back and forth to old contacts, no wandering a long street for a randomly picked door which could be a needlessly long distance from Coyote, etc. Breakout on the other hand somewhat remedied those issues while still keeping the informative state of things, and I ran Breakout on almost every character, and not just for the badge. Outbreak, I ran once every few months, and usually only by accident.

I'm hoping it's consistently used, even if it's only in specific cases such as this- According to the article, they solved this problem in 10 days when 'scientists' hadn't been able to figure it out in years. Thinking that way, if they put all their current problems out there to the world then checked or double checked the 'highest scored' solutions, they could conceivably make a big leap forward in understanding of scientific facts and medicines.

What downsides are there to putting more of these problems out there?

The Hero of Paragon, the man they call Jaaaaaaaay.

That was terrible, I apologize.

There's nothing to not accept. They can't do the majority of the stuff they say in the EULA, it's just there so nobody can try and sue them over any outlandish claims they make just because the EULA doesn't bring it up.

Not really- If it didn't cover every single possible base, they could get sued through a loophole. So they say completely over the top and completely overarching things to cover themselves in every possible situation in which they might ban an individual. It's really not unusual.

I'd hazard a guess at 'Because none of the EULA is intended to actually enforce anything but rather to protect the company from being sued because of butthurt former customers who got banned for 'wrongful' reasons.'

Heh. Zwill needs a 'Cuppa joe' for his super hero persona. ;P

We should send them a cuppa joe.

I'd actually be okay with having a 'powered down' version of Energy, to be honest- At the cost of doing less damage, you lose the knock effects of your powers. It helps keep everyone where you want them, but at the cost of not having such powerful attacks.

The thing I like more than anything about this game is that you can have a character that looks completely plain in a t-shirt and jeans that can handle the same enemies that a huge sword wielding glowing guy in full armour can take down. Adding any form of buff to auras makes it so to be as effective as everyone else, you have to glow or emit flames even if it makes no sense to do so on your costume.

A ton of the Responsibility Loyalist arcs were pretty much awesome, especially if you were going through them with the intention of being a good guy. In the back of your mind, you know you're technically a bad guy, but it's still fairly shocking when you have to do somewhat evil things because there's no other choice. You take down the Resistance because they kill people and cause absolute chaos wherever they go, and from the point of view you see them, they are without doubt the bad guys... Most of the time. Then you get an arc or two early on that have them doing something you might condone if they did it in another way.

Essentially, at the beginning, you're doing the right thing. You're stopping hospital bombings, you're saving civilians from the evil Resistance, and protecting the people you're sworn to protect. Then, by the end, you're actually hurting the citizens more than the Resistance are by considering hiding the truth from them. You want to be the good guy, but there are no 'good guys' in Praetoria, and I like how the story makes that clearer the more toward the end you come to.

I still think being torn in half and crossing a mountain to get your other half to merge back with you is a bit much. Especially when the Hulk did it.

Wolverine has recovered from being torn in half, having both halves of him separated over a mountain, then crawling his upper torso across said mountain and rearranging his body so he heals back together.

Bullet to the head = Nothing.