Samuel_Tow

I do wish they'd make that a regular pack at some point, to be honest. I'd pay money for it... Even if I weren't already paying money for it, but that's besides the point.

That's part of what gets me about the whole Praetorian storyline. Incarnates feel less like the power of the gods and more like the power of the Praetorians, which is what's throwing me off, narratively speaking. I'd have thought that Incarnate status would have made us strong enough to take on a whole variety of threats, but so far the only threat we're able to take on is Marcus Cole. And maybe it's my distaste for Jack's "baby," but a Marcus Cole that is to other Marcus Coles what other Marcus Coles are to ordinary people is really straining my tolerance for Mary Sue.

Why must everything come down to that one guy and his doubles?

"TFs is the equivalent of paper missions" is probably the most direct way of putting my feelings into words, so thank you for that. Repeating the same handful of tasks over and over again is... Pretty much paper missions, and is also the reason I usually don't do those.

Oi! Thanks for brightening my day! Yeah, there's that, I completely forgot. Yeah, definitely looking forward to the Vanguad pack.

For me, it has become a case of obstinance. I was willing to discuss WITH people, see their side, consider their arguments, evaluate their opinion and generally cooperate. Despite my reputation, I always prefer to cooperate with people, rather than compete with them. Ideally, I'd like a forum where I can say "I disagree" without this being considered a blood insult.

However, it was made abundantly clear to me that I was not allowed to hold or express an unpopular opinion, and that people only barely tolerated my doing so. When I decided to state my opinion more than once in more than one place, this tolerance was shattered, and I become the de-facto go-to pariah that fans of the Incarnate system can rally behind hating. That's not exactly what I was going for, but I'll take it. At least now I don't have to post an opinion again, as apparently everybody knows what I want to say better than I do, and will argue with me about what I REALLY think, which is actually kind funny when you stop to think about it.

I try to be careful in my wording. When I talk about "bad for the game," I try to phrase it as "I don't think it's good for the game." To me, this seems like a statement of opinion, but people will nevertheless take turns to tell me how I'm wrong, all the while doing nothing to convince me to think otherwise, beyond just telling me I should. I'm starting to think that if the forum bullies are going to be presenting their own opinions as fact, then I might as well skirt the line, myself.

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What's most funny for me, though, is that no concession I make is never enough. "Wait until Issue 20!" they said, and so I waited. This didn't stop people from insulting me about being impatient despite waiting for the Issue. They told me to be patient for I21 and beyond, and I said I would be. I out-and-out said I'd give the game another couple of years. But even that doesn't seem to be enough. Oh, no, I have to LIKE the new content, or I'm a big stupid doo-doo head, because if I don't like what the developers have apparently spent so much time and effort on creating, then this makes me into a really bad man. Never you mind that they spent all their time working on things I never asked for, all the while not doing all the things I asked for, but apparently I'm not allowed to be unhappy.

I don't intend to stop being unhappy until something happens to make me happy, and I don't intend to stop talking about it as long as I'm being provoked

I do, however, intend to stop bringing it up out of context.

"Solo a few arcs" and "get some shards" do not go together, unless you're talking of the specifically GIANT arcs like World Wide Red or To Save a Thousand Worlds, which take quite a few hours to run through. I've tried to gather Shards that way, and it's far from "log in for an hour, get a Shard."

Besides, within the context of the Incarnate system, that's only relevant for the Common Alpha, and at most the Uncommon Alpha. Everything up from that is team-only content. And, no, an intentionally prohibitive option does not count.

And in this we disagree. When I design my characters, I try to reference as little of the established canon as I possibly can, because I most often bring characters in from external stories I've written beforehand in completely unrelated universes. One of my standard tropes is making characters from other planets, other dimensions, other plains of existence, other time periods or otherwise out of this world.

To my eyes, it is not very interesting to bring yet another character from this world when we have a world that's already full of them.

Please understand that I say this with no ill will or malice:

Put me on ignore. Put me on ignore, then look at who people are quoting when you read their posts, and if they're quoting me, then don't read said quote and don't read what they've replied. Simply avoid having any contact with me, and you will have a much easier time, if I indeed bother you so much. It's what I do for people I don't like, and it's worked wonders. In fact, I end up skipping over about half of this thread doing just that.

Again, I have nothing against you putting me on ignore, if it makes your life easier.

While I wouldn't call it lackluster - the heads alone are worth their weight in gold - I'd call it "unfinished." The mere fact that someone, in his infinite wisdom, decided to put the lower leg fur pattern on Smooth boots (aka boots with a high heel) and NOT on Flat boots has no other explanation.

Seriously, guys, please finish this! That's one of my biggest gripes with booster packs - once they're released, the bugs they launched with are never, ever fixed.

I've been calling those daily quests ever since they came out.

More to point, the way Praetoria is geared, I wouldn't be surprised if we did in fact get reputation bars with either the Loyalists or the Resistance. That might open up more options for, say, being allied to the Syndicate.

Or, more specifically, you already have a reputation bar for being a hero, villain, rogue or vigilante

Postulating that all villains should be doing is taking over the world is extremely shortsighted. Off the top of my head, I can think of:

*Destroying the world (obviously)
*Bending reality
*Rewriting the timeline
*Controlling people's minds
*Tricking people into accepting them as their leader
*Defeating other villains, but causing collateral damage in the process
*Inventing new technologies which stand to threaten humanity
*Trying to evolve/replace all humans
*Trying to get very rich at the cost of other people
*Becoming gods
*Founding their own religions and sects
*Building a tower to the stars.

There are possibilities. The "strong bad guy wants to come and break things" as a glorified Mayhem mission would be is merely the default easiest to write, not the only possibility.

No, "we people" don't, nor do "we people" want to. "We people" came to play a game about meta-humans that just happens to be comic-book-inspired.

It's not a question of not making the cooperation not tenuous enough, so much as a question of not making the cooperation. Period. Heroes and villains SHOULD NOT COOPERATE. Ever. I can accept them having to band together to fight a common goal. ONCE. Not a few times, not every so often, not even twice. Once. One, single, notable exception that proves the rule.

But that's not the case, is it? We band together to stop the Rikti, we band together to stop Romulus Augustulus, we band together to stop Emperor Cole, and how much do you want to bet we'll band together to fight the Coming Storm? "Villains" have been rendered inert, lacking any ambition or drive beyond aping heroes and looking for more stuff to save.

One would think that a sufficiently powerful villain might want to do one of the things I mentioned above - namely destroy the world and kill everybody in it like the Devouring Earth seem to want, but our villains are always "too smart" (by which I mean their hands are tied) to let that happen, so we have to play second-fiddle to the heroes.

Bollocks to that! You know how you play a good villain in a time of crisis? Do what Kain did in Tiberian Wars - be nothing but a nuisance to the good guys and present still one more obstacle for them to overcome, don't just hug and make up. Developing a Tiberium-powered nuclear ballistic missile wouldn't hurt, either.

You know what's worn me out? Your inability to let one-posts be, so the people who made them have no reason to keep defending their right to have an opinion. Just a thought.

Nice straw man there. "You people" keep twisting my words. I've never complained about the developers creating team content. I understand the need, I understand the desire. I'm not complaining that there are Trials and TFs in I20. That's natural. I'm complaining that there isn't anything else.

If you actually bothered to make an argument on the topic at hand, instead of complaining about how "we people" shouldn't be posting and should suck it up and drive on when you continuously throw malicious arguments in "our people's" faces, then maybe I would not be as upset, but you seem keen on denying the disillusioned people the right to post, instead.

And I'm done with it. Old laurels can only go so far, and I don't need this. You make the forums unfun for me and, thinking back, I can't remember the last time you made them fun. You clearly don't like me, so do the reasonable thing and put me on ignore. Because I never want to see anything you have to say ever again, and I'm giving you fair warning right now - I will never see anything you have to say ever again.

To avoid "having the last word," as it were, I do intend to see what you have to respond, if you choose to do so, but this is the last we'll ever say to each other. I'm done arguing with you for good.

That's kind of what I mean. If this were JUST the TFs and Trials, then I could have thought it was, you know, just the TFs and Trials. But throwing in the esoteric additions of respec badges and Black Helicopters makes it feel like a complete list. If it weren't a complete list, then those two items don't belong.

I don't know, I still hope there's something they haven't announced.

We will, that much is for certain, but we've had a lot of Issues without costume additions. Far too many in my opinion, in fact, but I20 is far from unprecedented.

On the flip side, costumes could go a long way towards making me quite a bit less disappointed with the features list. Let's hope they were left out.

Though, one wonders why costumes and story arcs would have been left out but respec badges left in.

Quick off-topic question: Would something like MineCraft qualify as a pure sandbox?

Zombie, I appreciate what you've done for the community, but you are not a forum mod. Please stop trying to act like one. You do nothing but make the forums that little bit more hostile.

Let people post what they will, and exercise your right to not read it if you don't like it. If you feel it's breaking any rules, feel free to call the real mods and let them handle it. Really, I wouldn't mind.

Energy Melee, Energy Aura, Ice Melee, Ice Armour, Battle Axe, War Mace, Super Strength for Scrappers.

Ice Melee, Ice Armour, Battle Axe, War Mace, Super Strength, Invulnerability for Stalkers.

Katana, Broadsword, Martial Arts, Spines, Regeneration for Brutes.

Off the top of my head.