Praetorian narrative

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

Good point on the spoiler warning.

Eco.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow [The Incarnate System is] Jack Emmert all over again, only this time it's not "1 hero = 3 white minions" it's "1 hero = 3 white rocks."

Yeah, I had this same problem. I switched sides a time or three, but when I reached Penny, I'd never run into Metronome before. I had a few problems like this--it seems like some big reveals (like the truth of who's funding the Destroyers) can also happen at different level ranges, so I'd find X out on a level 10 Loyalist arc and reveal it to the world, then go to a level 15 Resistance contact and have them go 'WE MUST LEARN ABOUT X.'

I rambled about this for some time to probably both Nuclear Toast and the Vulpish One when it happened, because it really threw me for a loop. "You see an image of Metronome." Who the **** is Metronome? "Oh, he's a villain that does this and that." Dixie's married? To a guy named Surge? When?

Seriously, Metronome comes out of nowhere and he receives ZERO introduction. He's introduced at length in the Loyalist arcs, but a Warden may not have done, and indeed most probably didn't do, any Loyalist arcs, so this villain's introduction is BAAAD. At least phrase it as "You see an image of a Clockwork acting strangely." and then have someone else fill me in on who Metronome is. Even the old City of Heroes stories weren't so reliant on having done prior content, always going "I don't know if you knew about this, but we think the Nemesis is dead. Maybe you killed him?"

In fact, on that note, the Faultline storyline is completely broken for Praetorians. We come into Primal Earth at level 20, which is past the point where Temblor and Penny will stop giving us missions, and within a levels' worth of taking missions from Doc Delilah and Agent 6. However, Delilah and 6's stories are written to reference previous things you did... That you didn't do, because you couldn't have done, because you couldn't have left Praetoria before level 20. Either the Faultline arcs need to be retuned, or all four arcs need to be opened up to the entire 15-25 range. Or AT THE VERY LEAST Jim and Penny's arcs need to be extended to the end of the zone's level range.

And the new Maria Jenkins arc is similarly dependent. I had a level 47 Scrapper I haven't played in a couple of years that I logged into a few days ago to try the Maria arc, and then I kept running into people going "You won't beat me again!" The **** are you? I ain't never met you before in my life! To her credit, Maria herself does a decent infodump on Tina McIntyre's Praetorian War right at the start of her arc which, though it could have been written better, seems to assume that I may not exactly have done Tina's new arc. But even though Maria assumes I haven't, that doesn't stop Neuron from acting like I have.

Seriously, if we're going to reference past events that my character did, can we please ensure that this character has, in fact, done those events?

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

This'd be nice. Not being able to do all of Faultline on my Praetorians annoys me.