rian_frostdrake

and worthy of you posting, apparently.

edit: silver, was that cute little neg-rep for you? i thought you were better than that. at least sign it like a man.

heh, understood, but really try to avoid this mindset, it will drive you nuts, and its origins are really fairly petty. people pled to 50 after issue 3and we had as many knuckleheads with khelds then as we do now with the change. someone is going to be a good player or not, no prerequisite is going to ensure a quality player, they can all be circumvented, just play well and your skills will prove you earned your eat, as opposed to the dead kheld over there with all the MA badges.

EDIT for clarification. not saying you are petty, just the feeling is petty.

with our marketing, i'd still only give that 50/50 odds, literally.

eh, different strokes and all, but I liked the idea that they minimized the level treadmill stupidity. you could focus on setting up good skill decks and complimentary weapons instead of hopping in a gerbil wheel for 2-3 months at a pop. frankly i wish more games would get rid of the arbitrary and silly leveling system and make character progression more fluid.

as for the anime pack, while i think people with spa's reaction are bing narrow minded and silly and possibly bigoted, anime is not a single genre. it encompasses Japanese historic settings, ultratech future settings, modern settings, and pretty much everything in between, there is no "anime" or "manga" per se, there is a stylization that may or may not look out of place put in coh's existing art style, but i think looking at the stylization that you find in various animes, I wouldnt mind if they went for that, things like the insanely decorated armors of langrisser, the elobarate robotic looking sets of ghost in the shell, or the miko and onimyoji robes from historical and supernatural anime, or especially the very elaborate gothic looks from several vampire and supernatural anime, then yeah, but i'm not sure you could really distill anime into a "Style" anymore than you could have a hollywood movie pack.

nor are there supermarkets, fire stations, busses, malls, children...you get my drift. they do avoid stepping on any landmines, though in one mission, you fight the praetorain woodsman by using holy water to consecrate the bones of the dead that has been blessed"by one of paragon's many clergy" so they are somewhere.

still, even a batman level incompetant court system wouldnt be releasing the guys back on the streets as fast as we could clean them up, and after being pounded by an 8 foot tall robot who launched your butt into orbit with a ko blow, or some psycho woman in a leotard who set you on fire, would you really be inclined to go back an risk that again to spraypaint some walls and do petty purse thefts? I suspect some fellows may retire after the first beating based on simple self preservation.

it is? not calling you out but could you point me to some links? outside of arachnos guys like arbiter sands and the blood widow, who else mentions teleporting? usually when there is text, ti indicates we have arrested the named enemies, and it seems unlikely that the fodder have escape teleporters versus the guys in charge, so i had always assumed it was presented that you arrested all the enemies in the mission(blueside at least).

as for your number of people consider how many enemies you drop in a single mission if you are running with a full group. with a few hous every day, you and your friends could totally clean out 200,000 enemies, in a few weeks and you arent the only hero on the street. Also, on a good night you could drop a good percentage of them, including bosses and lieutenants , I don't see street gangs having the internal structure to redistribute jobs within the gamgs that fast to make up for that kind of attrition, unless gangers in paragon are a lot brighter than gangers in real life are, usually internal fighting happens when gangs lose key organizational figures. often leading to splintering and inter factional warring for old territory.

like i said, it is a game mechanic, hellions and skulls are effectively giant rats and spiders, that is why i avoid looking too deeply at the gameworld, because it has to conform to the gameplay, and that leads to some very odd situations.

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was debating giving you a negative rep for this as a joke, but figured it might actually cause green light damage and would have felt bad about that.

to green, don't take it too hard, i have tried to pop your rep up a few times, but one thing jumps out. please don't do blocks of text like you did in the first post here. People red rep for neatness(guess how i know that) so that may be an issue, give your posts a once over after finishing them and that may help a little, some of your posts are kind of sloppy, and some will red you for that. Beyond that, this is the internet, and even better communities attract some people who exist to be nasty, roll it off man, they are not worth the time it takes to consider.