Zombie Man

All Praetorians are equal, but some are more equal than others.

Perfect_Pain is Dev Trolling again. Thanks for making your motives so explicit.

Look for a new thread every week. It's like looking for Waldo or Hidden Mickeys.

So that lowbies can co-op MA arcs.

You're letting the secret out!

Actually... that person is correct about the RP.

However, they're wrong for using the Rep button. They should have used the Report to Mod button. Apparently they don't know how to follow the rules they want enforced.

Oh. In that case, I want to give positive rep to the Mod that actually used the MERGE function.

Hope whoever that is is just as assiduous in merging all the future 'when is GR coming' threads.

She was at HeroCon. She was said to be in the Resistance and she was shown at one of the panels.

Let me get this straight: You're saying that when we get an underwater zone in the next Issue, you're not going to provide SCUBA suits for our ponies?

Tyrant was not originally a pejorative term.

Compared to some truly incompetent rulers who inherited their kingdoms, a tyrant who was adept enough to seize power to himself was a welcome change. A tyrant is the poster boy for a meritocracy.

It was the Athenians leaning toward democracy and the Romans with their Republican Senate which demonized the tyrant. And boy did those bookish types trash the idea of a tyrant. And while the Athenians and the Roman Senate are precursors of modern Representative Democracy; they weren't boy scouts. The both wanted rule by 'the people', meaning a few wealthy, male slave owners.

By the Middle Ages, Aquinas was using the term 'tyrant' as a neutral word for any ultimate leader, whether they be king, or chieftain, or war lord, or emperor. And since the overwhelming majority of human existence lived under the rule of a single powerful leader; this was simply considered the norm.

The Renaissance and Age of Enlightenment started to bring in critical thinking about the role of a tyrant and from whence the mandate to rule is based. And in order to make the point that all the people should have a say, they engaged in tyrant-bashing.

But tyrants aren't always that bad. If a populace is in chaos or lacks the resources to be self-governing (ignorance, lack of education, under an epidemic, break down of local government, under gang rule, being attacked by a foreign army), then in those cases, a tyrant is a very good idea.

We've seen in recent history that removing a tyrant doesn't automatically allow democracy to spring up overnight. Both in Hungary and Iraq, the removal of a bad tyrant without replacing him with a benevolent tyrant simply allowed generations-old racial hatreds to become civil wars.

The assumption that a tyrant is always worse then the people governing themselves is naive position born of ideology. Sometime the people are incapable of self governance and instead of letting them kill each other in anarchy, you need a tyrant to govern until you can teach the people to govern themselves. Although, the problem with that is that sometimes tyrants get rather used to their power and are reluctant to give it up even when the people are ready for self-governance.

The concept art for the whips shows them to be fire whips, which is probably to hide the fact that they need to work at ranges an ordinary whip couldn't. Fire effects can hide the fact that the whip is hitting nowhere near the target.

Doing a realistic bullwhip like the unfortunately named Dominatrix would use might never be in the works.

Defense determines *if* you get hit. If an attack is 'typed' by several components, e.g., Fire/Lethal/Melee; then the highest is used. E.g., your Defense numbers are 25% Fire Def/30% Lethal Defense/7.5% Melee Defense; so an attack that is Fire/Lethal/Melee would be Defended against at 30%.

Resistance reduces damage inflicted *when* you get hit. So, in the example above, if your foe got past your 30% Lethal defense and the Damage is 100 points Fire and 100 point Lethal and you have 10% Fire Resistance and 0% Lethal Resistance, then you will take 90 points of Fire Damage and 100 points of Lethal Damage.

You're saying what seems to be the opposite of what Lightfoot reported.

Lightfoot said Brian said there is no definite plan for an Issue 17 and there will only be an Issue 17 *if* they can scrape up some non-GR stuff ready-to-go before GR hits.

You're saying Brian said there is a likely plan for Issue 17.

I guess the two reports can be reconciled if they would like to do an Issue 17 and have some stuff they know they can put into it and hope to have more to make it a full issue but that's not a sure thing at this point.

Well, I was kinda hoping the Mods left it on so that after the novelty wore off they would start enforcing its purpose in not only going after abusive comments (which they said they would do from the beginning) but also to turn back to zero the rep of obvious farmers so it would have actual meaning.

The admission that it's just a game tells me that they're not going to do that, therefore, it has no worth. And if something has no worth and can create ill will and be a source of Forum PvP by those who know how to get the goat of another poster without crossing the line of being abusive, well, then, it's incredible that it's allowed to even exist. It is *less* than useful, even as a game. It's like the old PWNZ 'threads to watch' without the wit or accountability.

I guess I was naive about the Mods intentions with this. I gave them the benefit of the doubt. I retract that.

Speaking of Valkyrie, riddle me this, Manticore:

Primal Earth Valerie Kellum became Valkyrie when she received the Spear which came from War World dimension.

Battle Maiden is supposed to be Valkyrie's Praetorian counterpart, but Battle Maiden isn't from Praetoria, she's from War World.

So, my question is... wha?

Does this mean there is also a Valerie Kellum actually from Praetoria? And how did all this communication and transportation happen between War World and Praetoria if Portal Tech is brand new on Praetoria?

Next question is similar to the first about but Black Swan: Her in-game description says:

Born with a connection to Shadow Earth in the Netherworld, Black Swan can channel energy from that dimension into attacks and defenses. She is served by minions that some say she draws from Shadow Earth and others say are created by stealing pieces from the shadows of her victims.

However, in Maria Jenkins' arc, A Hero's Hero, she is constantly being referred to as coming from a Nether World...

The Praetorian Black Swan gains her powers from her dimension of origin, some sort of Shadow World. No one at Portal Corporation has yet been able to determine which dimension Black Swan comes from, but we know that that's where she finds her shadow soldiers. If you could shut down Black Swan's portal to Shadow World, you could prevent her army from growing any larger. Maybe you could even cut off her own power supply!

So, is she from a Nether Dimension and if yes, how did she become a Praetorian and is there another Lena Eliot running around Praetoria who is not the Black Swan or Swan?

And same follow up question about Black Swan using portal tech to contact Nether Worlds: That implies the Praetorians developed Portal technology as early as Earth Prime rather than just recently, so, which is it?