Venture

They are not ghosts. Almost only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and nuclear war.

Those spirits are found in the magical afterlife world in which they belong. Were they to cross over into the world of the living they would be undead magical beings.

The game treats them all as Magic origin. They have powers associated with Magic in the canon (netherworld related), they drop Magic salvage and enhancements, they're vulnerable to magic items (divining rod, ghost slayer axe)...magic, magic, magic, magic. There is nothing about any of them that suggests they are anything but Magical creatures. If the only thing that is going to satisfy you is a red name telling you they're Magic origin say so now so I can stop taking you seriously.

Then you can completely erase the Magic origin, because if everything is "natural" then magic is really science.

Only if you're willing to stretch a point to a ridiculous level. Of course, as we can see here, lots of people are perfectly willing to do so.

This is the crux of the problem. I would have avoided it by declaring non-magical alien beings to be of Mutant origin for game purposes, even if their abilities are common to their species. Of course I wouldn't have had a "Natural" origin either; I would have used something like "Spiritual" for highly-trained types. (Back in my old tabletop game a "natural" super was one whose powers developed without outside stimulus, what most settings call a "mutant". I did things like that deliberately to break preconceived notions.)

If no one can be wrong then no one can be right either, which makes choice of origin little more than "what ranged innate power do you want?"

False. There are natural laws, even in a world like City's. City's world allows things to happen in defiance of those laws; those things are unnatural or supernatural.

Because not even Batman can train himself to come back from the dead.

I have already demonstrated that a being with such an origin is considered Magic in the canon. If that is not sufficient to carry the day then I can't help you; if you're hell-bent on being wrong it's your problem.

Until we get a level of virtual reality that lets you do very naughty things, there is no other way to do it. Not even then either, really. Listening to people talk is slower than reading for most people (excrutiatingly so for people like me; I read about ten times faster than the typical speed of speech). Likewise for watching scenes play out as a spectator.

And frankly, if you can't be bothered to read the miniscule amounts of text allowed by the editor, I'd feel perfectly justified in considering your aesthetic judgements to be beneath contempt. Reading is one of the fundamental abilities that makes humans a superior species; if you can't be bothered to do it please devolve immediately into something that doesn't talk so much.

Except he didn't. He had Cryptic working on a new superhero title, yes, but he didn't slash the live team budget for City. NCSoft did that. Then they did a 180 when everything else they had in the pipes *coughtabularasacough* suddenly went pear-shaped and they put all their eggs in the Paragon Studios basket.

Judging from the seat-of-the-pants writing we're getting, probably not.

MMO players are like children and starship captains. You can't give them what they want. You have to give them only what they really need.

I know this is a superhero MMO but really, some things are just too improbable to ever happen....

And constant as the northern star.

The real problem with the first 1.5 seasons on TNG was that every episode was an obvious remake of a TOS episode. (An old acquaintance who allegedly had connections said this was due to Executive Meddling.) There were no dynamics between the characters because the characters were being played by actors who were actually playing other characters. If that makes sense. Which it doesn't. I'll stop now.

First off, thanks to an overheating CPU I am reduced to using my mom's desktop with Intel G41 graphics, meaning I can barely see what I'm doing and with a sucky mouse and keyboard can barely do it in the first place. Not the best environment for feedback. Second, it is way too late to expect any story changes of substance to be made. Finally, until the MA filter is fixed I'm Just Here For Godzilla anyway.

This is an example of Silverman's point in action. I didn't "throw out insults", but because any criticism is seen as "unnecessarily harsh" it's taken as such.

Yes, but think of what we could do for the gene pool if we just told people that volunteers would unlock an achievement and get access to the closed beta on the next hot product!

Take your hands off the keyboard and back away slowly.

It's the part where it says "we pump stuff directly into your brain" that anyone who has one should say "you first" and stick their heads in the damn thing.

It's not an exact match, but close enough: never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

At worst he'd be about as dangerous as any random Freakshow leader. And he has no power base to speak of, since....

...as of the Magisterium trial Praetoria is a dead, abandoned world. It's not even a nice place to visit.

By not getting involved in the first place.