Dammit. I read about half of this thread, and my mind is fried. You people boggle my mind. I'm sure nobody will actually read this, but if you do, try to understand what States' means here.
I saw mention of the fact that the same 3 minions at level 10 are the same at level 40. I know others have addressed this. But I feel that nobody is getting it. Jesus.
Look, out of one side of your mouth, you talk about being a Superhero, and wanting the game to be like comics, then out of the other, you talk like a powergaming MMOkiddie, saying that just because the powers and art is different, white minons are the same.
Look, in a comic book a superpowered bank robbing thug does not have "Thug, level 40 <Thug Crew>" in white above his head. You just get to see him rip a chunk of rock out of the ground, or shoot fire from his hands. You KNOW he's powerful. You *SHOULD* be more concerned with the fact that a white conning level 50 circle of thorns magical adept sorcerer is inherently more threatening than a level 10 outcast bat-weilding thug.
Are you thinking? Are you using any parts of your brain? Really now. State is saying that the security level is the diffrence, NOT THE COLOR OF THE CON. The color con is there so that you can easily identify the challenge the mob will present to you, as the player. The idea is for white to *ALWAYS MEAN* "At your level" not: "At level 10, challenging, at level 30 trash." Remember that enemies are scaling with heroes in HP, Damage, Powers, Abilities, Regeneration rates, etc throughout the security levels. It's not like States is saying you're going to be having a rough tussle with a white conning cutpurse at level 50. He's saying you're going to have a rough tussle with a white conning hired hero-hunting geared out super soldier. Or a mechanical monster, or a powerful magician.
Try to stay on one side of the arguement, folks. If you want the game to reflect comics: It does. A level 50 hero CAN tear through 400 gangers. Because there are no dang level 50 gangers. There are level 50 high threat response Hero hunters, power suit wearing crey responders, deamons, beasts, monsters, magical entities.
Yes, some punk hero named "Thunder Weinie" is going to have a rough time fighting 3 stocking masked convience store robbers. Will Superman? No.
But will superman have a reaonsable fight against 3 super soldiers with weapons specficially designed to bring him down?
Yeah. That's reasonable, I think.
