srmalloy

The guy in a robotic suit could be Natural or Technology; the implication of being Technology (from Positron's comments in the Origins of Power arc) are that you built the suit yourself, while for Natural it's gear you acquired. You could equally argue that someone in a magic suit of armor was Natural.

When Montague Castaneda sends you to Cimerora, he mentions that they got the Pillar of Ice and Fire from a 'different' source, implying that they already know about Cimerora.

The problem with making the south part an air/space port is that if you look at the city map, there's an east/west waterway between the north end of Steel and the south end of Boomtown... and you can't just pave that over, because that leads to the big lock at the northeast corner of IP, being how the ships get into the harbor. Pave it over and IP dies.

Confusing Sky Raider Engineers is always good for some extra Defense... at least until the Engineer goes down, at which point the FFG they dropped appears to go autistic and doesn't buff anyone but itself.

Not at the end of the mission, but at the point where the Federation achieved its goal of an ordered society. At that point, there would be no more need for people like him, and they would be eliminated. Sort of a pro-active version of Moses getting to see but not enter the Promised Land.

If it has awareness, it's 'alive' under an operative definition of the term, whether or not it's organic, so 'killing' would still be appropriate.

No, no, no... The primary purpose of cleavage is to store your ammo for quick reloading, as this video compilation clearly shows.

Obviously the technology that the Rikti used to draw him into our dimension damaged him in a way that he has so far been unable to recover from.

I think 'aka' ('scarlet', 'red', 'bloody') would work better, giving you 'akakaze', although 'bloody wind' might give you a different connotation than 'wind of blood'...

After having blown half my inspiration tray taking out James Noble -- being able to use Domination to keep him held long enough to take him down -- I wasn't interested in starting over again. After cruising around the whole map a couple times with the custom targeting macro pinging, I just said 'swive this' and exited to autocomplete it.

That's a great deal more stylized than is useful. And remember that the caves in CoX are _abandoned mines, which look more like this:

or this:

Or this mine (too big to include here)
Or this (Lulu tunnel of the Lone Jack mine near Mount Baker):

Or this (the entrance to a mine tunnel of the Clifton Iron Mine in the Adirondacks):

From what I have gathered from talking to the devs at cons, the tool that they use to assemble tiles into a map isn't ready for the late, late, late timeslot when everyone else is sleeping, much less prime time; they can stick the tiles together, but then have to do a gruntload of editing at the 3D editor level to make sure that all the edges line up right. If you've ever been on a mission map and run into the 'black wall' bug between sections of the map, that's where they didn't get adjacent tiles lined up just right. And if the devs can't do it reliably with all the tools they have, what kind of utter fewmets do you think that the average CoX player will produce with some cobbled-together map tool?

There's no reason why there can't be alternate dimensions 'close' enough to the Rikti that they are for all intents and purposes identical to 'our' Rikti, or a demonic dimension almost indistinguishable from our Infernal's home dimension, where he escaped to Praetoria instead of Primal Earth.

I never understood why MA missions awarded inf. From the way it was described, inf represented your ability to get others to supply you with things, either from fear (infamy), appreciation (influence), or in exchange for data (information). I can understand MA missions awarding experience; you're in an apparently-real VR simulation, and defeating opponents, even electronic ones, teaches you how to use your powers more effectively. Tickets are the MA's internal reward system. But I fail to see how electronically crawling up your navel is going to do anything to change your reputation outside the MA.

Last city, perhaps, but as for the ships and planes having anywhere to go, besides doing exploration, you're missing a fundamental issue with Praetoria -- where does the food come from? There has to be a significant acreage devoted to food production even with carniculture and hydroponics, and we don't see that in Praetoria; it has to be somewhere else.

Hit them with Speed Boost and Increase Density, and the pet disappears entirely inside an eye-searing glow...

Not to mention that Deceive is life itself for a low-level Illusion controller.

And back again; the elevator there is hero-only both ways. If you get ported down, the only way to get back on your own is to use one of the teleport special powers -- Pocket D Gold Card, Ouroboros Portal, base teleporter, or mission teleporter. I haven't tried the last one yet, but the other three blow away your accumulated tips. Which seems to me to be broken, at least for going to Pocket D. Leaving Pocket D to either side I can see blowing away your tips for the other side, but not going there, nor exiting to the same side you earned the tips on.

Only if you can get the 'diaper pin' cloak mounts for it.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

The way that the Rikti language translates suggests that it is agglutinative, like the Native American languages Nahuatl, Quechua, Tz'utujil, Kaqchikel, Cha'palaachi and K'iche, where one word can contain enough morphemes to convey the meaning of what would be a complex sentence in other languages. I can readily see where a term-to-term translator could break up otherwise coherent speech into disjoint units -- for example, the Finnish word epäjärjestelmällisyys, which can be broken up morphologically to negative-"logos"-causative-frequentative-nominalizer-adessive-"related to"-"property", meaning "the property of being unsystematic", could be translated by a mechanism that did not properly convert to English sentence structure as "property: unsystematic".

Even purely human languages can have their oddities. If you wanted to tell someone "I spent the afternoon with a neighbor" in German or French, you would be forced to specify whether the neighbor was male or female, even if it wasn't relevant, because those languages do not have a gender-neutral word for 'neighbor'. When giving directions, you can say "Go straight ahead four blocks, turn left, go six blocks, turn right, and go two more blocks" or you can say "Go north four blocks, then west for blocks, then north two blocks". But in a remote Australian aboriginal tongue, Guugu Yimithirr, from north Queensland, there are no 'relative' or 'egocentric' (i.e., based around your perception) directions; they're all absolute by compass direction -- you would ask someone to move over on a bench by asking them to "shift a bit to the east", or refer to having left something in your house "on the western edge of the southern table in the eastmost room". The Matses language in Peru requires the speaker to specify precisely how they know any fact they report -- from personal experience, inference, conjecture, hearsay, etc., and if a statement is reported with the incorrect 'evidentiality', it is considered to be a lie. If you asked a Matses man how many wives he had, and he couldn't see them, he would tell you "I had two the last time I checked", because either or both might have run off or died since he last saw them, even if it was only a few minutes ago.

Or the first syllable getting elided more, producing 'Tsar' ('Царь') in Russian.

Probably the same reason why I keep pronouncing the position as 'PRAY-uh-tor' -- its improper use on TV or in movies.

If you don't want to drag it into a tray, just type '/powexec_name Ghoul Costume' to turn it on or off.

Unfortunately, the way that the leg animations are handled in CoH pretty much force this; monstrous legs still only have a knee joint; none of the animations flex the 'ankle at all' -- the lower leg is treated like a rigid 'L'-shaped limb section. And, unfortunately, fixing it properly would require a complete second set of animations for characters with Monstrous legs (unless, as has been suggested by others, it proves possible to separate upper-body and lower-body animations.