Do you feel bad for pedestrians being mugged?

I'd save everyone if it made a dent in the crime rate. However, every time I round a corner, there's another person being mugged. If I stopped to save every person, especially in zones too low for my level, I'd never get any actual gameplay done. My "roleplaying" ends where irritation, frustration and timesinks begin.

I want to want to save them, believe me. But I can't want to save them when the mugging just respawns immediately thereafter.

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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.

It is funny, sometimes I can barely get across town because I stop and clean up every petty crime on my way.

Other times I do not even look to see what inventive new way the citizens may be using to call for my aid.



The back story on one of my early villains specifically mentions that they watched a hero run by them in their moment of need as a CoT victim... that ultimately gave them their power, but made them grumpy and angry towards heroes for not saving them.

I still take thug-thumping detours on my way around Paragon City, particularly if it concerns an NPC group I especially despise, such as the Tsoo or the Vahzilok.

It's entirely possible I was conditioned like a Pavlovian subject during low levels when my heroes would receive frequent compliments, influence, and the occasional inspiration from grateful bystanders. Likewise, I'm hardly the only one who, once my characters out-level this kind of street crime, would still like a badge or possibly a variation on tip missions for saving NPC civilians.

I will stop all the muggings the day my level 50s can blow the muggers away with the mere proximity of their AWESOME.

--NT

You mean our indestructible, emotionless, super citizens? Save them??? Who dies more often them or me? Hell, they should save me!

I feel so pathetic now that this has been brought to my attention. I do the same thing and i feel bad for them.
BUT NO MORE MR. NICE SUPER POWERED SUPPOSED TO HELP PEOPLE IN DISTRESS AND NOT COMPLAIN OR ASK FOR ANYTHING IN RETURN GUY!!
I mean dang I'll just be on my way flying through the air when on some random really tall building will have circle mages having some random girl in the air(How the hell they got up there in the first place is a mystery since the building doesn't have a door on top or anything). then here come my hero doing the save the damsel in distress thing and when im done wat does she do? Say "I'm scared thanks" then suddenly get the crackhead shivers and shiver not walk shivers off the top of some ten story building in to a door.If she can survive that then she can survive some random circle mages or some gang member.
Now that i think of it i think they should make some improvements on that in the next issues and let villains mug or hit a random civilian too.

Furthermore when i punch the civillian especially the skull girlfriends in the face i want it(yes, it) to ask me "wat was that for?"So i can answer"For being a dumb selfish Ho who gets in the way and has no respect for us hard workers who try to create peace or destruction in the g***anmed city!" then turn to my partner and say man can you beleive this civilian

Nah,....after awhile, it falls on deaf ears. The ones I'd really like to kill and don't feel sorry for are these Civilians that appear in game mish'es that run around haphazard like, always getting in my way...lol!

Yes, actually. It lessens a bit in the high levels when I tend to be flying over everything. But in the low levels, if it's a reasonable mob I will stop the muggings, CoT rituals and the like.

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Originally Posted by Golden Girl Isn't that the standard villain intimidation emote?

Don't know if you know what he's talking about or not, but anyway...

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Originally Posted by Wiki According to the "Way of the Open Palm," the key to maintaining the universe is by being in harmony with nature, one's surroundings, and one's station in life. As an effect of being in nature with one's surroundings, one is expected to actively assist in lessening the chaos in the area, through the assistance of lessening burdens. While this seems "Peaceful", the Way of the Open Palm is strict in another form: one should not act outside their station and purpose in life.

good luck D.B.B.

Every now and again, I will help. At equal levels it is fine to occasionally street hunt, but I found that street hunting is often needless XP when you are trying to see content/get merit badges. At higher levels, some mobs will be attacked if that toon particularly dislikes them, or the civvies say something that amuses me. I know when I am killing for badges, i go out of my way to take certain mobs on.

Since they stand around and do nothing when I scare the mobs, I pretty much think the civvies get what they deserve at times, or when I am saving cops from mobs. I mean, if you are so low in level you can't deal with those mobs, why in Dog's Name are you stationed in the jurisdiction? For that matter, what wisehat allows civvies into hazard zones to work any how, when a low level toon was once blocked from that zone? I should not be rescuing office workers in the middle of the RWZ.

As for the civvies in the Mayhem missions.... I still think the devs played dirty pool with that one. Though, they are targets for the life drain powers.

This

http://www.pvponline.com/2004/06/13/june-13-2004/

I love standing in front of a bunch of Protesters in Praetoria with my Archery guy, then shot them with my AoE attack and watch them crumble with arrows sticking out of their chest.

Usually one or 2 gets missed and tries to run away, I shoot them in the back as they run and watch them slowly fall over.