Venture

What?

It's no excuse. Tyrant could have been open about the situation, appealing to his subjects' better nature. Instead he chose to believe they didn't have one, and murdered people he was supposedly trying to save.

I haven't gotten to the First Ward stuff yet (I just started leveling a Praetorian character for the purpose), but this bit with Katie is pretty bleak and doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. By killing off DeVore (pretty much the Only Sane Woman in the Resistance) and forcing the player to throw Katie to the wolves it sounds like the devs chose to erase anything in the 1-20 material that could be considered a victory.

It could not possibly be worse than the current situation.

Really, this particular version of Trek had way bigger problems.

In any case I was told (not being over familiar with Abrams) that this is par for the course for him -- having protagonists who are impossibly too young and inexperienced for the positions they're given. I do recall (from the trailers) the guy in Cloverfield getting headhunted by a Japanese company to be flown out to Japan to work as their VP of Marketing right out of college...yeah, right.

...make a gorram new movieand forget about all the old stories. We still have them on DVD.

Antonio Banderas, but that doesn't mean that he should.

The whole time-travel aspect of it was unnecessary. James Bond didn't need a time warp to reboot his franchise, and he got to keep one of the old actors, too.

I agree with the sentiment upthread that iTrek (sic) was not Trek. But it's what we're stuck with. It would be for the best if Kurtzman and Orci were not involved with it (even better if they were instantaneously blasted into space) but unfortunately the garbage they laughingly call writing sells so we're stuck with them, too.

"Highway to Hell".

You were looking at her feet?

We agree, then.

I'm an Italian from New Jersey. If I was taking this personally they'd never find the [bleep]ing bodies.

If they had to make a change to block an exploit that in some way negative impacted the ability to tell a story I might not be happy with it but I'd accept it because yes, farming must be crushed.

And yet here you are. You obviously care enough to come into our house to tell us UR DOIN IT WRONG despite, evidently, having no idea what issues we actually face.

Case in point. We're more than a little past PMs.

I would rather have nothing than mere pro forma token support. The former is honest.

OK, you're a True Artist(TM). You don't make as much and aren't as well-known as the losers down the street that churn out crap but hey, it's all about the art.

Then the guys who run the local gallery come in, pull the hair out of your brushes, smash your easels, knife your canvases and spill your paint on the floor. The losers, they leave alone. Actually, they buy more of the losers' stuff.

What message would you take away from this?

Enjoy paying for the privilege of writing arcs for all twelve of the people who still play them.

You do that. Me, I see no reason to work within "limits" that only affect people who write stories as opposed to farm creators.

Day late and a dollar short -- extra slots aren't worth much now that the farmers have won.

No, I'm not, because if something isn't worth running in terms of rewards/time that's a) a dumb design decision that's b) easily rectified: increase the payout.

I'm not.

I didn't find the Keyes trial to be enjoyable; I think it's tedious, way too repetitive and annoying in that it makes you drag an AV all over hell's half acre without letting you just shoot it. I'd bet these are not uncommon sentiments.

If so, this is an even stupider reason for a new currency. If new trials are worth running people will run them without being forced to. If they're not, forcing people into doing so just to get new abilities isn't going to win the devs any popularity.

Guys: nothing is going to change his mind. He's not working with facts, he's reiterating a closed theorem based on axioms that have nothing to do with the real world. All his statements are tucked back into the Gordian morass, so there's just no way out. Or in.

No, that was Lambert's evil twin, Kristof Lambear.