CapnGeist

Toxa, there are few, if any, people who will seriously claim that Cole is the good guy here and that the Loyalists are straight up heroes. However, what the big argument seems to be is whether the Praetors' crimes warrant the Resistance's actions. That's the real heart of this debate. I, personally, believe that even with the government being corrupt, the Resistance's actions are not such as to make them Heroes, but instead make them an entirely different type of threat. The game pushes you to pick a side, yes, but in the long run you learn that ALL sides are evil, and Power is the side that's the most /fun./

Or else Orbital Laser. What else?

I think the issue with Seers and Syndicate Psychics is one that we're lacking a lot of information on here. Let's think about the following...

-The syndicate is made entirely of people with "psychic potential"
-The syndicate includes the remnants of the Tsoo.
-The syndicate includes telekinetics and pyrokinetics in addition to telepaths
-The seers are all telepaths
-Arachnos seems to have no shortage of psychics.
-Fortunatas are considered to be of NATURAL origin
-Tub Ci says that Mr. Yin "unlocked within me my true potential."
-The syndicate seems to outnumber the seers significantly

I propose the following: psionic power is something that normal people can just have, and certain psions, such as Mr. Yin, are capable of making someone more psychic than they would have been naturally. On top of this, the syndicate is happy to recruit people of a much wider variety than Mother Mayhem is.

I may not be entirely right here, but it seems to me that even if the Syndicate is in part a group of psychics trying to not get their brains eaten, it also includes a great number of people who were not actually in any danger of being taken.


Now, lets add to this another note. While Mother Mayhem certainly crosses the line of what she does to psychics, think about what Psychics can do. Think about what the Syndicate can do with its psychics. Is it really in question that telepaths, more than pyromancers, martial arts masters, bioelectric eel-men, and a cowboy with a pair or revolvers need to be regulated by the government and kept under precise control?

Slavery is certainly bad, no denying that, but I can say, for one, that I would not feel very safe in a world where psychics of power could roam free uninhibited. I'd be wearing a tin-foil cap daily. Just think to yourself, if telepaths were real, wouldn't you want them carefully regulated by the government?




On a completely unrelated note, people keep talking about Enriche and drugging the population, and all that badness. Well, on the one hand, drugs are bad, sure, but... Enriche makes the world taste better. I don't know the /specific/ effect it has, but as far as I can tell, it's like drinking rainbows and hugs, making all the pain go away and letting you relax despite knowing that the sewers are full of dangerous terrorists.

But how strong is this drugging? We know that Enriche is the ONLY source of clean water, which means we need to assume that people like Luke Larson and Cleopatra are consuming it, and they seem to function against the Emperor. I propose thus that Enriche doesn't force anyone to be a loyalist, and it doesn't drastically change the functions of the brain, it just helps people relax and care a little less about the crazy that's happening in the world. Really, it seems to me that even if there WERE other forms of clean water, Enriche would still be the beverage of choice. Gods know I loves me some alcohol.




And finally, I just have to agree that the biggest problem with the Resistance is a lack of an endgame. From what I've seen in the arcs, their endgame plan seems to be
a) World in ruin
b) Syndicate Wins!
c) Martial Law under Longbow or Vanguard
d) "New Rogue Isles"

If someone can come up with another idea, I'd love to hear it, but remember that the U.S.A. had our Declaration of Independence before we won the war. I propose that if Calvin Scott really wants a new world, he and his circle of elites need to put together a New Declaration and post it around town. And it needs to include a method of keeping the Hamidon from eating everyone.

/signed

I'm in favor of buying tips, but you should seriously raise the price to buy them. 100 inf is trivial. Up it to something like 50,000. That'll make people think twice, while still being low enough to be a non-issue at the highest levels.

Why do they even delete on alignment switch? It's not like you can use them if you're not a Hero anyway.

So very Signed.

It could be the power in the Tech 2 Super Booster, if we are indeed getting a second Origin cycle.

I'd like some seriously purchasable temp powers. I like how all the new temp power recipes are out and about, but I'd like to be able to just BUY them instead of having to hope they drop or use the market. I say make all temp powers, with a few exceptions like TF rewards and Vanguard temps, available as purchasable items. Especially because there's no way to get the Chain Gun back once you've used it all up.

Ah, right, 500,000,000 is the same as "1/2 billion"

How about 555,555,555 then?

Stop slacking, PVP farmers!

I'll guess an even 500,000,000

I have 1.8 billion, but I can't afford Gladiator's Armor +3... Can I blame evil marketeers for that?

While I DO approve of Niche packs and even all-emote packs, I find this pack lacking intensely. I would happily buy a pack with all emotes... If there were more emotes than this and the emotes were more useful. The dances are very cool, but other than that... I'm a die-hard roleplayer and while I like the dances, I can't see them being worth eight dollars for the pack. The thing is, I do want the dance emotes, but while others are comparing them to snacks, I compare them to my /other/ addiction: Magic the Gathering cards, things that will last for years and potentially increase in value. I also collect plush tigers. And I totally just got a plush tiger the other day for four bucks that is probably about as lovable as this pack.

Cut the price in half, or double the emotes, and I'll buy it. And I've bought all five origin packs and the valk pack, so yeah, if you go back to the standard formula, I'll buy those, too.

Well, that was a fun party, and seeing the party pack emotes in action, I can safely say... They're cool, but not worth even close to eight dollars.

But thank you for a wonderful time, Avatea. You were a very pleasant host and a lot of fun to talk to.

~Yaphet Tariq

They refer to destroyers as "Raspberries"

She is all kinds of fun.

Gotta say, my favorite updated NPC is Shock Treatment, though. Anyone with a battlecry of "FOR MY TOOTHBRUSH" is okay in my book.