BenRGamer

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  1. So, I'm up to level 27 now and I'm thinking of respeccing, as I need Active Defense, and probably Hasten.

    Here's what the plan looks like now.

    Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.803
    http://www.cohplanner.com/

    Click this DataLink to open the build!

    Level 27 Natural Brute
    Primary Power Set: War Mace
    Secondary Power Set: Shield Defense
    Power Pool: Fitness
    Power Pool: Speed

    Villain Profile:
    Level 1: Pulverize -- Acc(A), Dmg(7), RechRdx(15)
    Level 1: Deflection -- DefBuff(A), DefBuff(3), DefBuff(3), EndRdx(15)
    Level 2: Jawbreaker -- Acc(A), Dmg(7), RechRdx(11)
    Level 4: Battle Agility -- DefBuff(A), DefBuff(5), DefBuff(5), EndRdx(17)
    Level 6: Swift -- Run(A)
    Level 8: Clobber -- Acc(A), Dmg(9), RechRdx(9)
    Level 10: Active Defense -- RechRdx(A), RechRdx(11)
    Level 12: Hasten -- RechRdx(A), RechRdx(13), RechRdx(13)
    Level 14: Super Speed -- Run(A)
    Level 16: Against All Odds -- EndRdx(A), EndRdx(17)
    Level 18: Health -- Heal(A), Heal(19), Heal(19)
    Level 20: Stamina -- EndMod(A), EndMod(21), EndMod(21)
    Level 22: Whirling Mace -- Acc(A), Dmg(23), RechRdx(23)
    Level 24: Phalanx Fighting -- DefBuff(A), DefBuff(25), DefBuff(25)
    Level 26: Shatter -- Acc(A), Dmg(27), RechRdx(27)
    ------------
    Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
    Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
    Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
    Level 1: Fury
    Level 2: Ninja Run

    The end result in the next post.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Unfortunately not - I wanted to discuss free will with him via my fists
    She wanted to see her ex.
  3. That would require her to have two brain cells, though...
  4. Is it really surprising that she'd do this with Kang? She's said alot of executions is immoral yet is siding with a group that tries to bomb hospitals and nuke cities.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Where did I say I wanted to kill him?
    ...every single other time he was mentioned?
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Steampunkette View Post
    Jesus H Cripes, Golden Cole. PICK ONE!~ Either you hate and want to kill the man for what he did to his daughter or you want him to live. I can't kill him -and- let him live.

    -Rachel-
    Let me guess, the moment he switched sides it became not okay to kill him?
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Well, it's back up by neutral sources too - plus, things like Jessica Flores' arc wouldn't make any sense if she was free to report the truth to the people, rather than having to get your help to bypass the state control of the media.

    Also, there aren't any loyalists denials of their crimes - and the power path focuses on manipulating the truth, while the responsibility one ends with you having the choice to blow Interrogator Kang's brains out to stop him getting the truth out to the people.
    Oh, if only you'd have even bothered to read my posts other than just spout one liners. Oh, well.
  8. D-E-S-P-E-R-A-T-I-O-N!

    What's that spell? Golden Cole.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Steampunkette View Post
    Shhhhhhh... Don't bother to tell her that everything she just used as "Evidence" is things the Resistance members say... To prove that the Resistance doesn't Lie!
    Of course everything the Resistance claims is true--just like how half the people in our prisons claim to be innocent!
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Schismatrix View Post
    So anyone who disagrees with you about any aspect of Praetoria is a fascist?
    Interesting.

    ...

    Actually not all that interesting, and definitely not unexpected.
    Golden Cole is like... Godwin's Law personified.

    Reminds me of a sign I read on the Daily Show a while back 'I Disagree With What You Say, But I'm Pretty Sure You're Not Hitler!'
  11. I was gonna eventually try to IO it out, maybe some Force Feedback in the ones with KB and I was planning on putting LotG's on most of the defenses--Alignment merits make this much easier to do. But I wasn't gonna try to set it out til later. I'll probably pick up IOs at 27 but not really deal with sets until at least 37
  12. It's not that they're bad players--they're just new. Like, make an /SR character and don't pickup Stamina new.

    Edit: And make a /Regen char and don't pick up Quick Recovery new.
  13. Ah, desperation.

    All the 's in the world can't cover up that doubt in your head that you might not be 200% correct.
  14. Golden Girl? Morality System? She doesn't have one.
  15. Did you even read the post or are you illiterate and just smacking keys at random?
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    I never said there was

    Just mass-murder of "enemies of the state" - along with their familes.
    I'm still waiting for your counter-argument, or are you so desperate you'll blatantly ignore anything you can't give a stupid one-liner too?
  17. Eh, if all she can say is a one-liner and a it'll just prove how desperate she is.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    Fascists are never heroes - except to other fascists
    See? Desperate. She can't even try to argue the point.
  18. See? She hasn't even read my previous posts where I indicate that the regime's crimes are real--just that the Resistance is also guilty of equally heinous crimes (trying to nuke the city on multiple occasions, one of them would have brought down the reactor and the sonic shields keeping Hamidon out) and will only ultimately lead to the destruction of what's left of humanity if they succeed.

    That said, Cole should be brought down, but so should the Resistance--the Crusader faction especially, if the Resistance wins the Crusaders aren't going to just sit down and tweedle their thumbs. Chaos and anarchy is what they're best out, and when the main thing holding them back is gone, they'll run wild until they're all dead and everyone else, too.

    Arachnos has been trying to get the Resistance and Loyalists to flat out kill each other so they can move on in, and Longbow's stated goal is just killing Praetorians. Vanguard may try to help, but seeing as Longbow's even willing to work with Arachnos to take down Praetoria, and they already mostly hate Vanguard for it's membership, they'll likely fight Vanguard every step of the way, along with Arachnos in a three-way war.

    If salvation does come to Praetoria, it'll be from Primal Earth Heroes, and not the Resistance itself.

    Anyway, I've listed it before, but here is the closest approximation to sides and alignments that I could give.

    Responsible Loyalist PCs - Hero, there biggest concern is about the safety of the general populous, even going so far as to compromise their ideal of the law and disobeying the Emperor himself to save lives.

    Warden Resistance PCs - Vigilantes, these guys can be pretty heroic--but ultimately, they believe in their ideals more than human life, as shown when they destroy the only source of clean water in the city, dooming many for their ideals.

    Power Loyalist PCs - Rogues, through and through, the storyline does some good, taking out the Imperial City destroyers for one thing, but purely for selfish reasons and pretty much gaining power seems to be their only goal.

    And finally, Crusader Resistance PCs - Trying to nuke a city is evil, pretty much.
  19. Ah, the Ceasar thing makes the most sense, since it's 'Praetoria' after all.

    And, Golden Cole, the only one desperate here is you, and you've always been desperate.

    Desperate people ignore counter-arguments. Desperate people shout 'AMERICA!' again and again. Desperate people have to FORCE everyone to think and believe the same way as them, such as you with your 'Democracy is always right, dur-hur!'

    Et cetera, et cetera.
  20. Golden Cole, Golden Cole... please, hush, so the grownups can debate properly. If you want to go on and on babbling incoherently, go talk to a wall. It has about as many relevant things to say as you do.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by james_joyce View Post
    I'm talking less about the player's character, since they have script immunity - they need to be able to ignore orders for game play purposes, and they can't really have Cole's regime coming to arrest them for being a traitor.

    I'm talking about characters the player encounters while doing missions in Praetoria.
    Well, if you aren't talking about the PCs, what Resistance NPCs outright ignore orders?

    And, GG, shhh. The adults are debating.
  22. You get the option to ignore orders on the Loyalist side, too. Also, judging from some of the missions, some amount of free thought is allowed (Otherwise there wouldn't be enough people willing to hold public protests or even riots)

    You can agree or disagree with Cole, to his face at at least one point, too.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by james_joyce View Post
    Because their position is the default position - that of non-aggression and self defense. Think of it as the political null hypothesis. The state is making the positive claim, so to speak - they're taking aggressive actions against individuals, which requires justification, which they've failed to make.

    The demand the Resistance is making is for the cessation of aggression against them. This is as opposed to the the state, which demands compliance with their aggression. Whether or not the Crusaders' methods are just is something I'd consider open to debate -at the very least, they're highly dubious. But they have the more just position, and "allegiance" to that position entails a reduction of tyranny as opposed to its increase.

    To go back to my mafia analogy, if I were to demand, with threat of force, that the family of the mafia stop supporting their family's mafia activities, this is not morally the same as the mafia demanding protection money from local store owners. One is straightforwardly aggressive, the other is in the pursuit of self defense though the means are morally dubious.
    But they are aggressive. Very aggressive. How is a stance of 'if you don't join us we'll kill you' not aggressive?

    Their demands aren't for the government to leave them alone, they want the government to fall, plain and simple.

    There position isn't any more just than the governments. They aren't after justice, they're after vengeance, plain and simple--Calvin wants revenge for having his wife taken from him and he wants her back, Wardog wants revenge for his family, etc.

    Calvin has NO plans after the war to keep Hamidon out and the people safe, because he does not care, if taking the sonic sensors down and committing genocide would slightly help him to get his wife back, he'd do that, happily.

    The Resistance is no more just than the Loyalists. The 'Heroes,' and I use the term loosely to describe the Wardens and the Responsibility paths, are trying to make the best of a horrible situation by doing what they believe, the Loyalists believe in keeping the general populace safe (culminating in defying the emperor to save Neutropolis), the Wardens hold their ideals higher (ultimately culminating in dooming many people to take out the Enriche plant). And the villains are either focused on getting/keeping power, from the Power Loyalists, or revenge and bloodlust, from the Crusader Resistance.