Paragon City is evil?

Dark Astoria.

Okay, add 'shamanistic dark god' to the list of sources.

I have generally waved a lot of it off as game mechanics forcing some odd situations to translate to real life. look at it this way, considering the average population of even a large city, would there be enough disaffected young males (remember, no female skulls or hellions) to support the density that they have in game? how about if the 5th column numbers are right about how many of a hundred or thousand candidates they accept into the raseri corps? at a certain level i plow through over a hundred of them, the idea that they would have an applicant density to make up for that jsut gets silly given the number of spawns an average player drops in a single night of play, let alone when teamed. heck, why does anyone even come to paragon or not leave with the possibility of being sacrificed to evil supernatural forces by the circle or chopped up by the vahzilok? and how does it support the population density with that much homicide? lets ignore the no kids thing for a second and realize that quite a lot makes no sense, but fulfills a mmo convention that the consumers apparently aren't comfortable deviating from. sometimes the game acts in a way that doesn't really support any in depth thought, it just is.

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

Well, it is effectively canon that pretty much all villain factions, even the simple gangs, have access to medical care of some sort. Whether hi-jacked medi-ports, homemade medi-ports, or Zig medi-ports, virtually all villain groups using living human recruits have some sort of contingency plan to survive death (at least on the blue-side. Not sure how all those Hellions and Skulls survive in the Rogue Isles).

Couple with that the likely possiblity that even after the Rikti invasions, the population of Paragon City is likely in the millions. Let's pull a random, and rather small number: Say about 5 million. Let's argue that 1 million of those are too old, and 2 million are too young to be part of any of the villain groups. Then let's say only 10% of the remaining pool have chosen to live their lives of crime. That's still 200,000 people. That's not including villains who immigrate (such as Malta personnel).

That was an awful lot of firsts . . .

The canonical value of the comics has been called in to question on numerous occasions. I'm not sure I'm remembering it correctly, but there was some sort of hierarchy of canon. Foremost: Anything in-game. Then anything the Devs say in an official capacity. Then the Web of Arachnos novel. Then the comics. Then anything the Devs say in an unofficial capacity. And finally, any other official merchandising or lore materials.
I kind of like to view the comics as having taken place in a dimensional shard which is inaccessible to players. It all happened, but in a version of "reality" which isn't necessary the "realities" in which we are currently playing.
As a contrary source, however, the City of Villains Beta suggests that the Freedom Phallanx invaded the Rogue Isles, largely unprovoked.

. . . welllllllllll, I mean, there was that whole thing about Arachnos assault the Zig prison and busting out a ton of meta-powered beings who had been incarcerated.

Are people forgetting the safeguard missions where Arachnos robs the banks?

Or the mayhem missions where villains (and thusly arachnos due to VEATS) go to Paragon to rob the banks and pretty much cause chaos and destruction?

Hero License gives one the law enforcement capacity of PPD. Nothing in that license from what I can see says that license extends past Paragon City, but nothing say one can't go fight crime else where without a license either.

Also, I'm pretty sure those Hellions (or whatever mobs that give xp) tend to just attack heroes who walk by. That's a crime. They get sent to jail

For CoV, your characters are KNOWN villains. So of course the Longbow attacks them. Sorry, but the longbow are evil doesn't fly so well. They're heroes trying to capture a known and wanted criminal.

Just because your bio says "I'm a normal civvie" doesn't make it so in the games eyes. Which makes me wonder, why people who use that sort of bio, just don't overlook the longbow attacking them.

It's kinda like those bio you see "Statesman killed my parents now Im evil and want revenge" when I then look at the game cannon and can only think "ummm...no he didn't"

Or the "im wholesale killing people and the people love me for it" ummm...cannon wise, that never happened. You arrested them.

Also mind you, it's an MMO...Azuria didn't lose the pendant 1million times. It was stolen once...okay maybe twice...but really, the game can't help but reuse the same storylines.

Something to think about. I mean, if you're going to have any sort of RP or Immersion, you have to look at the things like TFs/SFs, repeated story arcs differently than..."OMG AGAIN?"



As for Wyvern. They're a merc group.

As for time advancement and those shadows that move at like, 15 mph and creep me the **** out, I like to assume the planets in this game just move really fast, but the gravitational pull is such that people don't fly off the planet or anything (just keep punching science in the face until it works). It's probably perfectly reasonable in CoH World to be up for DAYS. In fact, that's likely how they measure actual time, by days, not hours.