Scythus

Originally Posted by InfamousBrad

And I've admitted that part of my reaction does boil down to the fact that I think that Skyway City is so ugly that, frankly, I think what Durray did to it qualifies as an improvement. Even after the Atlas Park revamp, Paragon City's architecture and urban planning remind me of everything I hate about late 20th, early 21st century American cities, with the added aesthetic offenses of all that Albert Speer-esque cyclopean statuary and immense policed concrete neighborhood walls. As Leslie Fish sings, "Down, down, tear it all down!"

In the personal story after this arc, Marcus Cole puts his finger right on what really went wrong: he placed too much trust in Shalice Tillman, and she turned out to be (like just about every powerful psychic in canon) completely insane. Strip the Seer Network out of Praetoria City and I would move there from the real world in a heartbeat. And even with the Seer Network, I'd probably move there from Paragon City or the Rogue Isles.

Because Hamidon is right, you know. Even without mad scientists, we're running an unsustainable civilization right now on real Earth; to provide everybody on real Earth with a 21st century lifestyle would require 5 Earths' worth of resources. Throw into that the damage being done by superhero on supervillain battles, and the resources being used to rebuild after each one, and it really is a short sharp run downhill to the "Agony Hall" future that everybody who completes the Project Destiny story arcs sees: the ecosystem wrecked, the cities destroyed, no survivors but demons and robots and a handful of mutants. Whatever Praetoria's other flaws, it solved that problem.

Seriously, would you rather live in Skyway City than in Imperial City?

*shrug*

Originally Posted by Funwrecker

But we better build that republic quickly, what with the planet being evacuated and all...

Or is that the new Republic of Hami?

Originally Posted by Zombie Man

There's no need to lure. You're nigh indestructible. Wade into the foes and tab-follow-S.T.Attack, repeat. It's still tedious, but a little faster when you're not pulling one by one.

Originally Posted by Rajani Isa

Please note - Penny was doing deliveries for her dad in Overbrook before the FIRST rikiti war.

How old do you think she was that dad let her zip about town in this kind of city?

Originally Posted by terrible_deli

More than likely not worth the time since the Princess Hat has been done and sitting in builds since 21.

It's like the firefighter's helmet and tri-corner: toss away test items to see if the fanbase was interested in purchasing very specific, inexpensive costume items.

Originally Posted by Shubbie

BZZZT wrong, people are already starting to do the 10 minute farm run, just blitz the start then abort and restart, they arent learning the trial and wont run it.

Originally Posted by TonyV

I've seen this complaint about almost everything that's not trivially easy in the game. Hamidon trial, every iTrial, STF and LRTF, etc.

And within a couple of weeks, people eventually figure it out and they pretty much never fail.

So yeah, color me not worried.

Originally Posted by BigBlackAfrica

Seconded.

Both characters look much cooler in the one we didn't get.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

The orginal 2 options both had ManBearPig and the Tummynator to the sides of the forum - but player feedback pointed out that both designs didn't work well on smaller monitors, so they had to scrap the whole idea of chaarcter pictures down the side, and make a 3rd option, which was similar to the existing Statesman banner - that meant they had to use cut down versions of the more dynamic poses, as cut down versions of the standing poses would have looked weird because they were designed only to work with as side images, unlike the fighting poses which were designed to be used in several ways, just like the Statesman and BCU fighting poses.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Reread the thread - this isn't option 1 or 2

Originally Posted by Venture

I used to enjoy the lore, and the gameplay and AE. Nowadays the gameplay is pretty much all that's left, and the Current Opposition is eating away at that.

Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel

YOU'RE an evil person, a complete monster, and there's nothing in your posts that have ever rehabilitated you in anyway.

(because, seriously, no offense but with some of your statements, I do wonder why you play this game when it only upsets you or under performs to your expectations everytime?)