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That's exactly why we're having fun trying to figure it out, despite the bulk of our evidence coming from teasers and personal interests, with just a dash of "why it would make sense if".

So basically, the existing veteran rewards are converted to the new system. You can spend the new system's Reward Tokens on what you had before, but there's also leeway to choose a slightly different progression of rewards because some months' of content is now in the same tier - like, if you're at (making these up - the real numbers can be found elsewhere) 36 months, and tier 3 is months 33 to 42, then you can choose to spend your 33 and 36 month tokens on the 39 and 42 month rewards instead of the 33 and 36 month rewards you currently have. I'm pretty sure there was a thread somewhere dedicated to going over different scenarios, but the site was the fastest way to find an official link.

Ghost Widow and Scirocco forever!

Giving him a presence in a character's early experiences introduces him, and makes him meaningful to kill off; removing his (seemingly few) appearances in the later levels is for continuity (for those who have seen him die). After all, you can't kill someone off if they're not alive to begin with. If Character A kills NPC X, then for Character A, NPC X is dead. But if the same player makes Character B, NPC X is "still" alive - actually, NPC X "never" died (as far as Character B's experiences go). In Praetoria you can even have two players standing in sight of an NPC's marker - one might be able to see the NPC, the other might not, depending on whether or not the NPC has died during the character's missions.

We've seen the same teaser image without the bow, instead with BAB's gloves emitting sparks, or a scratch through Statesman's mask. We've also seen the teaser with all three damaged items together.

I'm not sure how that meshes with the ability for Premium members to buy Signature Story Arc access for 400 points. I could see it being $5 for access to a specific month's arc (especially if VIPs only unlock arcs for the months their billing cycle started on). It'd be weird if you can spend $5 and get access to all seven "Who Will Die?" arcs as they come out, as that would make the VIP subscription seem like a bit less of an awesome deal. It would also make more sense to keep each part of the story on the market, available to be purchased. At 400 points, the minimum bundle of points, it'd be a good taste for new players looking to spend money to become Premium members - but only if they can start at the beginning.

It'd also do nothing but frustrate players and make them question returning to (or since they can return for free, paying for) the game if they can't play the previous part(s), especially if they have to take a break from the game due to school, work, family, or other Real Life problems. It would make a subscriber feel like a VIP if they paid for a few months, have a Real Life situation to deal with, and get to come back to find that even though their subscription expired their account unlocked the Signature Story Arcs for the months their billing cycle started in, waiting to be played. If they pay for 3 months and were gone 4, they even have some points saved up to buy the 4th arc they missed. That's the way it should work. (Or if Paragon's feeling generous and innovative, have "Playable" and "Unlocked" states - Unlocked is bought or VIP-billing-started-during-the-month-of, while Playable is only while actively a VIP and applies to arcs released during months a player wasn't VIP. Incentive to remain a VIP is that they're permanently unlocked or otherwise available to go back and play.)

In short: they should be doing everything possible to make this something people want to spend their money on. Signature Story Arcs won't be a selling point of VIP status if we're on part 3 of 7 and parts 1 and 2 are gone forever.

My first thought was "those powers sound cool!"

But my second thought was "my main is a warshade..."

Will the inability for Kheldians to access to Fly and Teleport pools be addressed? Or, at the very least, will Peacebringers get an equivalent to Afterburner (for example, choosing that locks out Group Energy Flight) and Warshades an equivalent to Zone Teleport (maybe locking out Nebulous Form)?

That's been a part of the Known Issues thread for at least a week (time of the last edit of the thread):

Current advertising says it's included with the $15/mo. (VIP) subscription. So unless you were planning to stop paying, you don't have to pay for it separately from the rest of the game.

Are there any cases of "this is something new players should learn early on (or learn easily) but currently don't/might not encounter at all"? I think it would help to point out examples of the problem; if a dev sees this, and if they're able to address it, then they need a place to start.

Are there any particular questions that come to mind?

Opposite end of the Smilies group, GG!

"It's almost as if several storylines are..."
"Converging."

♪ YEEEEEEAAAAAAHHH! ♪

"To get around these difficulties, the scientists developed and demonstrated a method where human gelatin genes are inserted into a strain of yeast, which can produce gelatin with controllable features." It looks like they're just genetically modifying microbes to have the gelatin qualities derived from our proteins. More like, "Soylent Green is Hamidon!"

Anyways... we could hold a contest for an Enriche mascot. I can pitch in a couple hundred mil, maybe more, and I'd be willing to help judge.

If I can make a scrapper or a brute using the same sets then I usually go with scrapper because the orange icon is prettier.

I'm so shallow.

I wonder if Ouroboros would call this "Mending"?