The bar is mostly empty except for the bartender and three heroes taking a break. Hero #1 is a Fire/Fire Tank, Hero #2 is a Gravity/Mind Controller, Hero #3 is a Spines/Super Reflexes Scrapper. They're sitting, sipping drinks and laughing it up.
Hero #4 walks into the bar, dripping with sweat, beat up pretty bad, and looking exhausted. A Broadsword/Dark Armor scrapper.
All the heroes look at him and smile.
<Hero #2>"You look pretty messed up. Something up?"
<Hero #4>"Yeah, was testing out issue #7."
<Heroes #3>"So how's it looking?"
<Hero #4>"Oh man it's brutal, I can barely keep up."
<Hero #1>"Really? Shame you don't have the defense tanks do, we burn right through whole armies."
<Hero #4>"Yep, but I think it's going to take more than just fire to burn through that mess..." taking a hard shot of wiskey.
<Hero #1>"Pfft, We'll see...nothing stands in my way." finishes his drink and stomps out into the street.
<Hero #2>"What an idiot. Risking fighting enemies on the streets or missions when we get the same experience in the arena without the risk."
<Hero #4>"Yep, I've never done well in the arena. Though from what I've seen, no one is going to be doing well in arena."
<Hero #2>"There's no reason for me to fail in the arena. I'll prove it." finishes his drink and steps outside.
<Hero #3>"Wow, that's two for two. You're good, I never expected those two to fall for that."
<Hero #4>"Fall for what?"
<Hero #3>"That things are so tough no one stands a chance. I imagine you're posting a lot on the boards about the results. Not that it matters, I'm racking up kills versus villians and bases for my sg. We've got six items of power. We're the only sg where all of our members have HO's."
<Hero #4>"Well the difficulty is just from my perspective. I post on the boards, but as dark armor we don't talk about it."
<Hero #3>"You should join our sg, we're the best on the server."
<Hero #4>"Nah that's ok. I'm busy enough these days. It's almost a full time job."
<Hero #3>"Yeah, right. Well it looks like my sg needs me, time to defend our base. See you later." finishes his drink and walks out.
<Hero #4>sips his drink quietly recovering health and energy.
<Bartender>"Hmmm, so mind telling me why things are so difficult?"
<Hero #4>"Eh, sure. I wanted to tell everyone, but nobody listens to dark armor."
<Bartender>"Not exactly the most popular set."
<Hero #4>"Nope. Anyway, seems they increased the damage of all enemies and changed the types. Seems that people were complaining that there were too many different types of damage to defend against. So now there's one type of damage all npc and villian attacks have now."
<Bartender>"Which is?"
<Hero #4>"Psychic damage."
<Bartender>"Well then at least the arena people will stand a chance."
<Hero #4>"Not likely. Seems now all arena matches will contain a random amount of enemies."
<Bartender>"Owww, not good."
<Hero #4>"Nope."
<Bartender>"Well then we'll all just wait in our superbases, hopefully things will change in time."
<Hero #4>"Doubt even superbases will be safe. Villians will now be staging random attacks."
<Bartender>"Wow, and I thought my life was interesting."
<Hero #4>"Yep, and things are probably going to get worse."
<Bartender>"So what will you do now?"
<Hero #4>finishing drink, standing up and walking towards the door."Well I'll probably have to go rescue all three of those people from babbage waiting at the end of the block. And then move back to training the rest of my sg to be dark armor scrappers. We'll need all the help we can get."
<Bartender>"You be safe out there."
<Hero #4>"Oh I'm not worried about me. We dark armor scrappers evolve, and adapt. It's everyone else that keeps me busy." smiles, waves, and walks outside.
A few moments later psychic babbage's screams are heard before smashing into the bar head first.
<Bartender>"I knew I should have asked them to pay their tabs before leaving."sigh
The point of the story? Never think you're the worst set, you could always be made weaker. A developers creativity in sadism is endless. Almost as endless as debt from such creative developments. Never laugh at another set, they may be the ones to save your life. Always look for ways to improve each other, it may save your life. No one should be weakned to make another stronger. And lastly take a lesson from Dark Armor scrappers, never say how wonderful your set is. Even if you love it, let others discover the joys, bragging leads to nerfing.
[Somewhere in a bar in Paragon City]
The bar is mostly empty except for the bartender and three heroes taking a break. Hero #1 is a Fire/Fire Tank, Hero #2 is a Gravity/Mind Controller, Hero #3 is a Spines/Super Reflexes Scrapper. They're sitting, sipping drinks and laughing it up.
Hero #4 walks into the bar, dripping with sweat, beat up pretty bad, and looking exhausted. A Broadsword/Dark Armor scrapper.
All the heroes look at him and smile.
<Hero #2>"You look pretty messed up. Something up?"
<Hero #4>"Yeah, was testing out issue #7."
<Heroes #3>"So how's it looking?"
<Hero #4>"Oh man it's brutal, I can barely keep up."
<Hero #1>"Really? Shame you don't have the defense tanks do, we burn right through whole armies."
<Hero #4>"Yep, but I think it's going to take more than just fire to burn through that mess..." taking a hard shot of wiskey.
<Hero #1>"Pfft, We'll see...nothing stands in my way." finishes his drink and stomps out into the street.
<Hero #2>"What an idiot. Risking fighting enemies on the streets or missions when we get the same experience in the arena without the risk."
<Hero #4>"Yep, I've never done well in the arena. Though from what I've seen, no one is going to be doing well in arena."
<Hero #2>"There's no reason for me to fail in the arena. I'll prove it." finishes his drink and steps outside.
<Hero #3>"Wow, that's two for two. You're good, I never expected those two to fall for that."
<Hero #4>"Fall for what?"
<Hero #3>"That things are so tough no one stands a chance. I imagine you're posting a lot on the boards about the results. Not that it matters, I'm racking up kills versus villians and bases for my sg. We've got six items of power. We're the only sg where all of our members have HO's."
<Hero #4>"Well the difficulty is just from my perspective. I post on the boards, but as dark armor we don't talk about it."
<Hero #3>"You should join our sg, we're the best on the server."
<Hero #4>"Nah that's ok. I'm busy enough these days. It's almost a full time job."
<Hero #3>"Yeah, right. Well it looks like my sg needs me, time to defend our base. See you later." finishes his drink and walks out.
<Hero #4>sips his drink quietly recovering health and energy.
<Bartender>"Hmmm, so mind telling me why things are so difficult?"
<Hero #4>"Eh, sure. I wanted to tell everyone, but nobody listens to dark armor."
<Bartender>"Not exactly the most popular set."
<Hero #4>"Nope. Anyway, seems they increased the damage of all enemies and changed the types. Seems that people were complaining that there were too many different types of damage to defend against. So now there's one type of damage all npc and villian attacks have now."
<Bartender>"Which is?"
<Hero #4>"Psychic damage."
<Bartender>"Well then at least the arena people will stand a chance."
<Hero #4>"Not likely. Seems now all arena matches will contain a random amount of enemies."
<Bartender>"Owww, not good."
<Hero #4>"Nope."
<Bartender>"Well then we'll all just wait in our superbases, hopefully things will change in time."
<Hero #4>"Doubt even superbases will be safe. Villians will now be staging random attacks."
<Bartender>"Wow, and I thought my life was interesting."
<Hero #4>"Yep, and things are probably going to get worse."
<Bartender>"So what will you do now?"
<Hero #4>finishing drink, standing up and walking towards the door."Well I'll probably have to go rescue all three of those people from babbage waiting at the end of the block. And then move back to training the rest of my sg to be dark armor scrappers. We'll need all the help we can get."
<Bartender>"You be safe out there."
<Hero #4>"Oh I'm not worried about me. We dark armor scrappers evolve, and adapt. It's everyone else that keeps me busy." smiles, waves, and walks outside.
A few moments later psychic babbage's screams are heard before smashing into the bar head first.
<Bartender>"I knew I should have asked them to pay their tabs before leaving."sigh
The point of the story? Never think you're the worst set, you could always be made weaker. A developers creativity in sadism is endless. Almost as endless as debt from such creative developments. Never laugh at another set, they may be the ones to save your life. Always look for ways to improve each other, it may save your life. No one should be weakned to make another stronger. And lastly take a lesson from Dark Armor scrappers, never say how wonderful your set is. Even if you love it, let others discover the joys, bragging leads to nerfing.