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Yeah, because frankly... the Zig's led to far too many "beats me up in the future" moments.

Somehow I don't think it matters where he finds "destined ones". I think these days Lord Recluse just keeps the whole project around to keep Longbow Intel confused.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

I expect Talos will one day.

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Hopefully, it dies in a fire. Failing that, it becomes far less of a driving force behind our villain characters, a mere side plot in an island chain of side plots, where the main plot is what I write in the Bio box.

You don't make an entire large zone for a tutorial, because the tutorial lasts from level 1 to level 2. You only need a small instance from that zone where contacts can tell you things, give you things and you can defeat half a dozen minions before moving on into the rest of the game. The Champions Online tutorial spanning six levels and being essentially all most new players see before they wise up is a mistake. The ACTUAL Galaxy City could be a high-level zone, with just that one small instance where the tutorial takes place serving as a safer zone among the chaos where heroes and villains get a trial by fire.

I sincerely hope we don't get an entire "tutorial zone."

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.

You've clearly never played on Union...

Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Precinct 5 is quite a large map for a tutorial - plus, the new Galaxy City tutorial is for potential Heroes and potential Villains, so they both need their space

Actually I've started two new toons there. I log into Praetoria, see three to five people on the first two maps (names forgotten) and then go play another toon elsewhere because I find low-level soloing to be really dull. The first toon I started right after the server opened up to American players and I found a fair number of people in Prae and thought "oh, I'll like playing here, there's life." A week or two later, nothing; I'm thinking I saw the initial wave of Americans playing their new alts there and then they left after playing more frequently than I do and out-leveling the place.

My play-time hours are partly the culprit here most likely, but even with people starting new alts, the low levels go by pretty quickly so most people are never in the low levels/zones. I think a lot of players do what they can to PL past at least 12 and continue to rushrushrush to get out their teens anyway. Add to that the "let's play 50s all the time" and it's something of a perfect storm for finding low level zones of any sort a ghost town.

My pieced-together (so therefore "could be wrong") understanding is that we're getting a new co-op Galaxy City tutorial, with all archetypes available at creation regardless of your heroic or villainous intentions. So at character creation, you get to choose either the Prime world or the Praetorian world, instead of our current Hero/Villain/Praetorian choice.

As with Praetoria, at the end of the new tutorial we choose to be a hero or villain, sending us to either Atlas or Mercy respectively. Heroside, Galaxy City will still exist, but it will be the new, destroyed map, while an echo of the undestroyed Galaxy will still be available in Oroboros (which Zwil mentioned will be available at level 14 characters).

On the UStream chat, it sounded as if Atlas got the full graphic overhaul, while Mercy gets not a full graphic overhaul so much as a revamp (rearranging things like starting points, contacts or whatnot -- they were more vague on this). But specifically, they did mention you will no longer start off at Fort Darwin but instead in the city itself (YES!), and will have to re-take the Fort from Longbow who have made inroads. Also, it sounds like all the missions in these three zones have been completely(?) updated, as well, utilizing the new tech introduced in the Praetorian missions.

As they spill more and more info, it's sounding like this is the big deal I expected Issue 20 to be.

Again, this is my pieced-together (so therefore "could be wrong") understanding. I couldn't cite where I read any of this, but much has been gleaned from the Ustream chats.

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Thanks for speaking for me and all, but I'd never say that or do that. I make new alts all the time and run through lowbie stuff, (even tired and dated GC).

Not to mention I plan to level lock at least one character for the lowbie sewer trial (each side) and a character to stay in the Tutorial.

Quite possibly. I do remember them mentioning something about Mercy getting an optimization pass, or something like that.

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I seem to recall there was going to be more content added as well.

He's clearly never even played this game.

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.

Why the sorrow?