[SPOILERS] Issue 23-New iTrial!

I noticed that too, especially when he got up to go shoo the kid away...I'm like, "wow, is he really that tall or is he sitting on the floor and the PC/monitor on a cardboard box?"

"Not (very) professional looking" in the least I would say. Nothing against the guy himself, he seemed nice.


Oh, well...hmm...missed the chat for the most part...so...*shrugs*

STOP BREAKING ME DOWN WITH FACTS!

The timeline of City of Heroes is a bit wibbly-wobbly. Every character has their own personal timeline. You can start a character in Praetoria, and the city won't be destroyed until that character escapes, gets to level 50, and goes on the new Trial.

In other words, just RP your praetorian with the concept that you escaped before the city blew up.

That's more the issue of "no individual story."
"level as story" refers to how your character's level progression is reflected in the timeline.

A timeline tied to the real world would, for example, tie the in-game event with the first moment they appeared in-game. No matter when you took the "outbreak" tutoral, it happened almost 8 years ago. The first rikti invasion... even before that. Faultline was almost 6 years ago, even if you played through it for the first time just last week. Barring temporal warps, if you had a character that was a teenage counterpart to penny yin, under strict ties to the timeline rule, you're likely close to graduating from college now.

Tying the timeline to level, on the other hand, makes things more fluid. To your level 5, the events of the hollows happened right now. To my level 50, they're far in my past. The story advances as you personally encounter it, not through some rigidly defined timeline. No matter how fast you powerlevel, your Praetorian leaves Praetoria at level 20 and comes back during incarnate-ville to fight Cole. Afterward, you roll another Praetorian, who's back to that same pre-cole moment in time and progressing along the same path. No conflict because time is relative to the level.

Level-based story advancement is more flexible for individuals, but can create inter-character conflicts. During the events of the Second Rikti Invasion, my character's pregnant sister barely escaped and later succumbed to her injuries after giving birth. The events that day made my natural hero... more a civilian-that-took-action than a fully-fledged-hero at that time decide to go full hero. By my level 50's perception, that happened several years in the past, with my adopted daughter finally in presechool, giving me time to again battle baddies. By your level 15 hero's perception, it was last week and made an equally valid impact on your life. We encounter each other and, during the interactive storytelling (roleplaying) this difference comes up and conflicts with how we see each character if we're too inflexible to work around it.

What if their first twenty levels are roleplayed as being in the past, and then as they pass through the portal to Primal Earth instead of ending up in the Primal Past, a portal malfunction somehow yanks them instead to the Primal Present, and they have to deal with the disorientation of knowing that the Praetoria they knew was destroyed during the war with Primal Earth. That would seem to be fertile roleplaying ground.

True, but they're related because of how they're presented. Its a combination of "hey, you're the one that achieved this" and "hey, you just figured out a new piece of the lore". Its a story about the specific character you're driving, and it so happens that your character is also piecing together the backstory of the game in a level-dependent way as they go through the content. Those two combine to create a sort of reality bubble around your character - it's a story just for them, including the "sense" of elapsed time as you level.

FFS, they need to get folks that actually PLAY THE GAME to do these.

LMAO!

Oh how I wish we could have heard the other end of that. I can just imagine several of the devs snickering while off vent after hearing him ask that question.

/Scene
Positron: Listen to this noob!
War Witch: *sighs* Well what do you expect when we outsource this s%$#!
Positron: FFS! Stay with the rest of the trial group noob for brains!
War Wtich: *reaches for her handbag nearby and pulls out a flask* That's it, everytime this guy does something dumb I'm taking a drink.
Positron: O.o That could be a VERY dangerous drinking game.
*cell phone rings*
Positron: Hello? Yes, Andy, we know the guy playing is a noob.
War Witch: *suddenly slams fist on the desk* Good grief this guy works for a publication that covers mmos?! *takes a looooong sip from her flask*
Positron: *into cell phone* Gotta go, I think Melissa's about to get alcohol poisoning. BYE!
/END SCENE

That's what happens when you do really crappy on trials, your only choices are threads or super inspirations. That's why it's funny.

No, I think what happened is that the reporter didn't meet the participation requirement to get anything but the 10 threads.

thiiiissssssssssssss! :d

Hey bro. enjoying the movie?

Originally Posted by Murdok Your mom's real name is Castle.

I even pointed out in the chat that he got the crappy table. Meh, I still hold a grudge against that site because of the Fight Crime in Style contest any way.

Tomorrow.

fparn

Thank you for this direct information.

Yay! So weekend of i23 here we come!

Thanks for the swift response too!