[SPOILERS] Issue 23-New iTrial!

It's a good thing he wasn't surrounded by those Telepathists whose debuff lets rocks thrown by unpowered humans kill incarnates. Imagine Telepathists + Nuke given what a pebble can do under that debuff.

I'm watching the leak right now, and this is just... Painful. >.> You would think they would at least tell this guy how to turn his toggles on before the trial started.

I've watched five minutes of this after skipping ten, just watching this guy try and set up Ventrilo...when he should've worked out any technical issues before the start of the recording session....and then it's further compounded by his complete unfamiliarity with the game and apparent inability to stay with a raid group.

I'm really stunned that this is a video for a press event where the developer team can't be heard so they can sell this (being kind of the point) and that they have someone who isn't familiar with the game enough not to look foolish during the recording.

mmorpg needs to get their act together with this sort of thing...along with PS's marketing department. Looking this amateurish does not a sellable presentation make.



S.

Uh... the folks complaining about story DO realize the 'time passes as you level' conceit implicit in the plot, right? Some events are considered to be 'at all levels', yes, which complicates things - Dark Astoria is now Mot-infested, Galaxy City destroyed, etc - but in general the pattern holds. The levels you're in Praetoria are not the levels you are going to be doing this trial. Your background has not been invalidated. The Going Rogue expansion is not being retconned.

This is basically on the same level as meeting Penny Yin as a teenager at level 20, and then meeting her grown up in the later Who Will Die arcs.

His reward table at the end... "Should I take the Incarnate Threads or the Super Inspirations?" lol'd

The problem the Unionverse has with "destroying Praetoria" is fairly simple and straightforward. At some point the events of the Magisterium trial will be considered part of Union's "history". They will have happened in the past. So from that moment on, Praetoria is considered "destroyed". Maybe rebuilding, maybe lightly scratched, maybe everyone dies. We don't actually know. Which causes problems for roleplayers, because hypothetically there will be no "new" Praetorian characters to RP with, because there's nobody left alive to be one. (Ignoring hand waving like surviving the blast and crawling from the rubble, that is.) No new character can work for Praetor Sinclair, or IvY, or anyone else you'd care to mention.

My personal preference is for Union to simply decide that the Magisterium trial "hasn't happened yet" until details of the post-Tyrant Praetoria become available. Once that is known, we can figure out a more reasonable way to handle things.

No one else was concerned that he was apparently broadcasting from the empty basement of an abandoned house?

Face it, level as story has never been compatible with multiple characters. I have a ton of characters who personally uncovererd out the Sky Raiders were related to Nemesis, who defeated the Envoy of Shadows, who exposed and arrested Baroness Crey, who all were the one hero who rescued Statesman from Tyrant in the old days.

Apparently, some people look that that inability to reconcile the existence of multiple characters with how those plots unfold as told with the mission/arc owner as the main character only, and discard the whole thing as crap. I don't. I accept that we can't reasonably have characters in an MMO who achieve things without a decent dose of that sort of handwaving, and I move on.