Eiko-chan

Fixed that for you.

Factually incorrect. I have over 3 Gigs of RAM - the most 32-bit OSes can address - and I still have this problem. This is not an issue I can fix by installing more RAM.

Some vet costumes - the wings, the boxing set, the samurai set - mean that certain concepts that require a certain look are only available to veterans.

The craftable wings, for the record, do not substitute for the angel and demon wings. Just to cut that off here.

It's not like I'm proposing only newbies get the extra time. Everyone gets it. Every account simply will flag in the system as having been active from Apr 04 to Nov 06, regardless of when they were created or whether they actually were active. The only people that gain nothing from this are the small subset that actually were active from the very beginning of the game. Everyone else will gain some amount of veteran's time. Thus we completely eliminate the "everyone else had to wait" effect.

And thus we also reward players that have kept their account active since the Veteran's Rewards program was started just as much as we reward people that were playing before the program. Everyone that came in at the ground floor of the program - November of 2006 - will receive the same rewards for the same amount of time. No more preferential treatment for folks that managed to meet invisible criteria before they were made public.

Except that Invulnerability is a resistance set with a bit of defence, while Electric Armour is a resistance set with a bit of utility. The defence makes a significant difference with regards to shrugging off damage.

The Invulnerability version will probably feel "tougher".

The point is that no one "earned" the first 30 months of rewards. Either you were playing and had an active account when they announced the system and implemented the first 30 months of rewards, or you were not. Before those first 30 months of rewards were added, no one had them because they weren't in the game. They were no more earned for the 30 months there were no rewards than anything else was "earned" that has been added to the game since launch.

Those 30 months of rewards are "earned" in the same sense that the 16 issues that have been released have been "earned". But those issues aren't locked away until you reach a certain arbitrary milestone, and neither should those 30 months of rewards.

Those that have been loyal customers since November 2006 still have another 36 months (nearly) of reward time earned, and thus 12 more badges and 12 more bonuses they earned since the system was in place on top of new players. That's still a nice hefty "thank you" for playing.

So yes, everyone would start with 30 months of rewards. And it's "fair", because it makes every one start "earning" rewards at the same point. The system being retroactive is what makes it unfair in the first place.

"Shark Repellent" is perhaps one of the longest-lived geek memes of all time. That speaks volumes of how great it is.

Interestingly, Jack Nicholson's Joker is my least favourite depiction of the Joker ever, while Heath Ledger's is my favourite.

Frank Miller Batman is lame. All boring angst and looming and brooding and contrived martial arts nonsense.

Adam West is where it's at. Just the right amount of fun and serious, with quirky but amusing gadgets to save the day. Including convenient shark repellent!

Batman: The Brave and the Bold is exactly where superheroes should be going - including Aquaman.

Traps is new to blueside, and redside works differently. There's a lot more damage, a lot more ranged AoE, and a lot more mitigation spread out redside, rather than being clumped together like with blueside ATs, so herders and "holding" foes isn't a concern for redside players, who will be the ones with the most experience using Traps and Caltrops.

But Caltrops is a slow field, so it shouldn't be "scattering" foes at a particularly quick pace. Using it for damage (unless proc'd to the gills) isn't particularly effective, but it's a fairly good way to hold foes in other scatter effects - burns, Rain of Fire, etc. - for longer. And in some cases, it's also a -recharge (with Pace of the Turtle's proc), making it a nice bonus when fighting hard targets.

You might not get merits, but you can still bring a non-35 to the RWZ now.

Yeah, but even AV and GM soloing builds would probably have a problem with eight EBs.

Really? With Going Rogue about to be released?

I'm still playing because I enjoy this game. But the Veteran's Rewards, which shall be forever stacked against me, make me think other games might be a better investment, because they don't deny me things simply because I started playing them later.

Hon, I'm old. I was that audience in that day. He was lame. He was a joke. They had to come up with ridiculous contrivances to give him something to do. Even my little brother knew he sucked.

Super Friends Aquaman is the one everyone calls lame. Because he is.

Even if it cost 0, I'd still turn Sprint off because of reasons stated above. I'm old and clumsy.

Another tip: Pay no attention to EverStryke. That's what we do.