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Quote:And then there are characters like Jack Stonecrack here that you'd be hard-pressed to justify a second costume for.
Nonsense. Some characters don't even have a costume design that they stick with and alternate from. There are more costumes I could give to Succubus Kali for example but can't, so I have to resort to swapping different outfits around. -
Quote:Actually, Wonder Woman just got a huge makeover.
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I've been complimented on my costume designs more times than I could count, but even I have a hard time coming up with five different designs per character. A lot of them don't even need more than one.
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IIRC, the "flash forward" in Ramiel's arc shows powers like a PToD-style status protection, a PBAE damage aura and a "radial freedom" effect that gave range to melee abilities.
Of course, I try not to remember that arc so I could be wrong. -
If it is "necessarily simple" then "all that stuff" does not exist and the world is not complex.
And it isn't. People are just blowing the ethical issues, such as they are, out of all sense of proportion. -
Quote:No, it was and is a simple place to begin with.
So in answer to your question - Praetoria doesn't suddenly become a simple place just because that's not the story they're telling right now - all that stuff still exists and the world is still complex - we're just at war with them.
People insisted on reading into it. That can't be helped, but it doesn't mean there was any meat on the bone in the first place. -
Quote:I said the same thing, but I love to say I TOLD YOU SO.
They called me a conspiracy theorist when I predicted this situation (that Booster Packs would lead to a dearth of quality free costumes) back when the wedding pack was released. I don't like to say I told you (you in the general sense) so, but... 
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Quote:No, people just insisted on seeing it that way despite being told repeatedly that the story was actually just another generic evil empire.
Despite your dogged insistence otherwise, the Praetoria presented in Going Rogue had more variety and depth to it than a simple goatee-universe ruled by a power-hungry Tyrant bent on ruling the multiverse. -
Quote:My characters have been shouting "DON'T RUN. WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS!" on Apex TFs too.
True, but it made me think of this scene when the Warworks started broadcasting about their good intentions. -
Quote:The best thing you can say about Praetoria is that they did an adequate job harvesting low-hanging fruit.
A few people have been talking about the writing quality going down. I can't help but wonder from when are they talking about. -
Quote:People did all of those things. However:
You know, just maybe the Lost wouldn't be so lost if they had people who were there for them, provided meals, helped them find work, etc. etc.
- You don't need superpowers to volunteer at a soup kitchen. You do need them to punch a Hellion in the face and survive. Three guesses which job the MA/Regen Scrapper should sign up for.
- The city was devastated in the first Rikty War. Relief workers were overwhelmed.
Having the supers beat their swords into plowshares wouldn't have helped and might even have been counterproductive, leaving the city open to opportunistic attacks by other factions. - Many of the people who end up in groups like the Lost or Freakshow don't care that there might be help available. They want a faster and easier way to power, or to lash out, or have psychological problems that keep them from seeking aid, etc. Even in the real world one of the biggest obstacles faced by charitable groups is getting people to put aside their pride (etc.) and actually ask for help.
There are evils in the world that can't be vanquished by punching out the right long-haired pretty boy or throwing a ring into a volcano. Our characters fight the ones that can. -
If you're trying to hammer the square peg of repetitive gameplay into the round hole of personal RP, then yes, you're doing it wrong.
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Quote:You don't. The story is only read once.
But how else do you justify doing a LGTF with the Alpha slot? By the game time-line (i.e. most recent content) they now know its Hero 1, and are trying to cure him. -
Quote:Completely irrelevant. We're not engaged in an in-character discussion over what your character believes. Your character can believe any fool thing he likes (Duhem-Quine thesis FTW!)
Do Loyalists who aren't Praetors know this happened?
Meaning you keep repeating your mistake. The evidence you actually have against Cleo is not even remotely conclusive. Did you, for instance, stop and check whether Cleo's computer was bugged? Oops. Because if I'd written it that's totally what would have happened. After killing her there'd be another cutscene with Washington finding a bug on her computer...and crushing it, and then telling you to go tell Marauder that you greased his girlfriend because Washington had evidence yadda yadda yadda. (The Resistance version of the story would reveal, after Washington's death, that Cleo bugged her own computer and was about to stage an "assassination attempt" on herself to throw off suspicion, but Washington moved too fast.) This is why we waste so much time on those silly "investigations" and "trials".Quote:Yes it had and I've pointed this out to you twice. Washington found evidence that Cleopatra had been working with the Resistance in the form of the body of one Sergeant Chance.
You would essentially have to go lie to Marauder's face knowing that you might have just killed the wrong person. That is the price for trying to "work within the system" in a corrupt government.
It doesn't matter what he would have done because you can't even prove she's guilty. All you have is an implication at best.Quote:Her acts were those of a terrorist, and unless something was done, Praetor White would have flexed his muscles and gotten her off the hook. HE EVEN ADMITS IT.
Actually he's extremely irrational, and paranoid and a coward and a bully. What he'd do is entirely up for grabs. The people who write him get to decide, and you have to deal with it. If your character conception is at odds with the game world then your character conception is wrong. Throw it out and think of something else.Quote:You answer that one yourself. If Cole is struggling to keep control of his domain and some bright young thing pops its head up and does exactly what told - Cole may be an evil despot but he's neither stupid or irrational. He'd take that. -
I've been following the story through the night on Twitter and the web. I keep expecting Godzilla to show up.
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Quote:At best you can only go to that well once, otherwise you subject the PCs to a very bad weakening.
Just because meta-game limitations will not allow us to do certain actions, it doesn't mean that the game shouldn't let us at least ATTEMPT them, even if we all know they'll never succeed.
"I'll get you next time, Gadget!"...no, thank you. -
Quote:In a future chain of events you've probably prevented by the end of the mission. I.e. not something you actually get to do.
Genocide is implied to be a villain's first act upon becoming God of the Universe in the "Multiple Selves" villain morality mission. -
Westin Phipps is a petty little man. You might want to, in the words of an ex-guildmate, "feed him to Mako's sharks" after doing his arcs but he's nowhere near being in the same continuum of evil as Tyrant.
And no, half this game isn't villains. It's way less than half at this point. Let's try to remember that the most common use of side-switching is to get desired ATs out of redside. Also, the devs have made it pretty clear just how "evil" villain PCs get to be and attempting genocide is not on the list. -
I get it, it's just wrong. Or perhaps more accurately, irrelevant.
As for the OP, the simple fact is that Tyrant is a complete monster and so is anyone who sides with him, and you're just not going to get that choice in this or any other MMO. -
Quote:No, not at all.Originally Posted by Scythus
Wow, the point just flew over your head, didn't it?
Yeah, got that.Quote:Villains don't encounter Maria Jenkins. At all. There is no Praetorian content villainside.
No, it isn't, because people can (and should) play more than one character.Quote:Powers Loyalists that went with the likely Rogue Isles option and stayed there are not going to know about the friggin' Olympian Guard and its ridiculous to expect them to.
This is not even remotely an in-character forum, or even an in-character discussion.Quote:Yes, we the players know about it, but that's metagame knowledge. A character isn't going to know it.
Because he's not done with them yet.Quote:And if Cole's plan is to really replace all superbeings with clones of himself, why the hell is he keeping the Praetors around, eh? -
There are two sides to this game and if you're not playing both, you're missing out and probably shouldn't be taking strong positions in arguments about canon.
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Yes, we read it, and if you were at all up on the current developments you'd know the cloning project eventually went ahead anyway. You fight one in the new version of Maria Jenkins' arc and (going from what I've read of it) the clones are in the Lambda Sector trial as well.
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Primal Earth won't let Preatoria be, they've already begun their invasion. You've got Malta and the hotheaded (if not outright terrorist) forces of Longbow, and Arachnos all meddling in Preatoria, all getting people killed. 
Praetoria fired first. The old arcs are still canon. The original Tina Macintyre arc established that Praetoria had bases on Primal Earth before Primal even knew Praetoria existed. -
Quote:Must be why Primal Earth has several times the population of Praetorian Earth, and why while people are literally dying to get out of Praetoria Paragon City is expanding.
Primal Earth is a MESS! -
