Tenzhi

I guess remaking Being Human was better than dubbing it in english... :P

It looks even worse like that. Perhaps a blurred version would be better. The only redeeming thing about it is the blue and yellow costumes.

Ah, yes, back when you joined the Super Soldier program and became an iconic superhero. I remember it well...

It might be "realistic" for Cap to be sporting a huge 50 lb. backpack as well, but if he were I'd say it was a bit too G.I. Joe rather than "realistic".

Dora is an abomination that should not be spread around. It should be quarantined and perhaps burned as a plague-bearing corpse.

I don't have a problem with outlevelling things. I solo in Praetoria not to avoid outlevelling things, but to have time to appreciate all the messages, dialogues, and clues. Teams don't tend to allow one to 'stop and smell the roses' as it were. Praetoria has some quality work in it, but the quality compels me to solo which makes for tedious progression. Thus I can't play my Praetorians for very long. And thus I can sympathise with the OP's sentiment.

As for what I want: to be able to use all ATs blue-side without having to suffer through 20+ tortuous levels of yellow- or red-.

Given that my expectations are easily achievable, they're hardly unrealistic, just improbable under the current regime. The problem lies with accepted MMORPG conventions of levelling speed. Thankfully, this game has at least pushed the boundaries of such conventions a bit. Other MMORPGs lose me the moment levelling becomes an outright chore.

Walking around a hole in your floor doesn't fix the hole in your floor. Problem avoided, but not solved.

Mind you, I typically prefer to be on a full team blazing through missions at breakneck speed to avoid the problem, but in Praetoria I find myself more interested in the missions and thus compelled to solo. Which in turn means that I can only stand to play my Praetoians in very small bursts.

Double XP on an efficient 8-man team is what I call a decent pace. Not even fast, mind you - just decent.

Indeed. And the costume isn't as overpouched as the military pic, but rather closer to the Liefeld "aesthetic".

I find soloing to be a tedious jog. Granted, it used to be an unbearably tedious slow-motion crawl. Of course, even back then you could end up outlevelling contacts, which makes doing so a poor measuring stick for pace.

Could be. I don't like the gloves or boots in that pic, either. The straps in it are less intrusive to the design, though, even if the armpit pouch looks ridiculous. I love that style of jacket, though - is it a classic flak jacket?

Mind you, I don't think the movie costume is overall movie-ruining terrible (like, say, the Spider-man Green Goblin costume was). As movie superhero costumes go, it's not bad.

And trust *me* when I say: Knowing how slow the "slow way" was before doesn't make the current "slow way" any less tedious.

It's even easier to just use "he" which can also properly be used as a gender neutral pronoun without adding pointless words that look german or hungarian to the mix.

Oh no, their license and Sony's bottomless pockets might allow them to linger irrelevantly?

Success like that is the opposite of DOOM.

I have nearly always found CoH to be rather mediocre. People familiar with my posts about the game around here would hardly be inclined to accuse me of blind fanboyism; indeed, some of them have openly wondered why I haven't left the game because they are under the mistaken impression that I hate it.

I have cancelled my CoH subscription for the beta and/or launch of other major MMOs in the superhero genre. Both times, I ended up returning to his game due to major flaws in those games that eclipsed the mediocrity of this game by far. I've tried them, and they both do (or did) a few things better than CoH, but they did other things far worse to the extent that the balance left them worse than mediocre. And so, here I am.

Unless you want a Dominator without having to suffer ~22 levels of being in the Rogue Isles. In which case you choose between yellow hell or red hell.

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I still haven't gotten a character through Praetoria. The missions have been fairly interesting story-wise with a couple of interesting gameplay twists, but I largely feel compelled to solo them. The soloing becomes tedious for me faster at lower levels and progress feels unnaturally slow, so I can only play my Praetorians in short bursts. I think my highest level Praetorian is 12 right now.