BeyondReach

Actually, this idea may not be so speculative. For those who haven't seen the Hero-Con conferences, questionaires, panels whatever you want to call them, the peeps with the big red stamps on their heads were asked whether they would introduce MM customisation. They looked at each other for a moment before one leaned forward into the mic and said:

"No comment."

Therefore I'm seeing such customisation in Issue 19. Although that may be some time after GR.

I'm tempted to try and submit something after another great issue, but just one apprehension. The thing I would write would be relatively serious, but I'm not sure if that's the kind of thing you're looking for in the magazine?

Alright, I was not able to run it with a team, but fortunately something along those lines ended up playing my arc. A character who I assumed was exemplared from 50 with all the bells and whistles, had their difficulty affected so they were the equivalent of eight people completed the arc. As I understand it, that individual only had difficulty defeating the Archvillain (that was it's true form because of the difficulty equivalent of the character) and had to get assistance from another player in order to complete it.

So, as I understand it, a single Level 50 can complete my arc representing an 8-man team up to the AV at the end, where they need one other player to finish it off. So, although it may have been unbalanced for a large team before...it certainly isn't now. I will be marking it Final and submitting it tonight, in the meantime I'm still looking for any final feedback.

I highly recommend Signal:Noise by @The Cheshire Cat. I am home alone now in the dark, and I still can't get the terrifying image of the impossibly tall man out of my mind. Thus I challenge you, Dr. Thaddeus Aeon, to turn of all the lights and play this game when you're home alone. Then, when you're done, just go for a walk around the house. Doesn't sound hard does it? So you go and do that, and then give Mr. Cat his well-deserved Dev's Choice.

K, I started reading this thread, and I was like "cool, Airhead's made an entry, it's time to get revenge" but I was also like "revenge is a dish best served cold, I have a Level 36 Villain who the only contacts he wants to speak with have blanked him because he isn't high level enough, I'll do this later". But then I saw the one word that makes me have a blind desire to play the arc that contains it. Coralax. Airhead, considered your arc played.

Congratulations to the winners! Although I didn't get around to playing...well...any of the arcs, I will endeavour to play the winners

In regards to heroes helping Tyrant. My Loyalist, if he were on Primal Earth he would be one of the most morally un-gray heroes in the world, of Freedom Phalanx integrity, unshakeable devotion to helping mankind.

And yet in Praetoria he is a Loyalist. Why? Well, growing up in Praetoria he saw the paradise that the world was in comparison the horror and destruction it had gone through for the past untold millenia. He looked at Primal Earth and all he saw another age of the suffering of man.

He knows what Tyrant does to keep his people safe, he knows the work of the Psychic Friends Network and the Powers Department, but he sees a world-encompassing utopia where people are murdered in the dark as far superior to a world where 1/3 of the world live in quiet comfort while 2/3 of the world live in squalor, being murdered in plain sight.

Does it make him evil to side with Emperor Cole?

P.S. Please, no "Yes. /endpost" answers to this question.

In Issue 17? I doubt it. I think we're most likely going to face off against our Praetorian counterpart in some shape or form (Dark Mirror). They could do both, but somehow with GR coming up I don't think they have the time.

Omega Team was Hero1's. It's just an assumption that you should automatically make, the Brits get the cooler name for their team.

And yes, this is rampant speculation, but it could of course suggest that we ware getting the costumes for the Alpha and Omega team members. But that would be pushing it a bit. Regardless, I seriously doubt these are going to be booster-oriented.

As for the stances..........I desire so much for them to have given us some less ridiculous stances to actually fight in. I'm tired of my Mastermind having to shake his hands about like a moron as he sways from side to side just because he spat poison in someone's face. And, I desire so much for one of the stances being a walk that you can fight in. Oh, and the ability to make that walk faster.

I was unable to complete this arc as a Level 5 Scrapper because the ambushes on the final boss just made it virtually impossible. Other than that it was relatively alright, I was still pretty sure I'd need to have another stab at him (after being killed) even if there were no ambushes, but with them, I was just....:|

Wait, so no one pointed out to that guy that we aren't getting Dual Pistols with the Double XP Weekend?

Okiedokie, I ran through the arc checking all the text. I found a few errors, and places where I just thought something would sound better and changed those. But I don't know what you're taking about long bits of text without paragraph breaks, unless you're talking about the descriptions on the Custom Enemies. They are the only ones that come close to something like that.

I also edited the custom enemies. I removed one from the group (partly to make space for my edits) and edited the powersets of the others. In summary: I've removed all heals from the Minions and cut down the control powers as much as I could, but Lieutenants are given far too many powers for their position so sometimes I just couldn't do much. And when I say I removed all heals, they aren't custom, I just chose powersets that didn't have any heals in them. I still think that if you're fighting multiple lieutenants in a mob of Minions you may have a tough time, but there was only one enemy that did a low-resistance damage type. 5 Clicks of Toxic. That was all I found.

In conclusion, I'm sorry you guys got wiped. I've made changes that will hopefully make that less likely; but as airhead says, if you're in that convoluted scenario I won't help you. That may sound harsh, but the reason I won't help you is because if I were to do so, I would probably damage the experience for the other more common scenarios in which people will play my arc. Regardless, I have made some changes that should help you.

P.S. A friend told me people who were following the story of the arc might like to know what happened to Solomon. If you would, I direct you this thread: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=207568.