Eva Destruction

Yes, she should have, and that bugged me too.

And yes, her death is a fridging. It was clearly set up to upset Statesman and discredit Manticore. If they had killed her for her "magic blood" or because she knew something they didn't want her to talk about, it wouldn't have been, but they didn't.

Incidentally, that page the OP linked to isn't really a good representation of the Stuffed in the Fridge trope, as it simply lists all the examples of female characters in comics having bad things done to them. The trope is more specific than that. It applies only to women having bad things done to them for the sole purpose of motivating another character. In other words, if the victim hadn't been important to that other character, they would have been left alone. Ms Liberty's "death" in the RSF is another in-game example; we beat her up for the sole purpose of getting Statesman to fight us, and he only does this because she's personally important to him. If we'd beaten her up to get Longbow off our backs and someone with no personal relationship to her had decided that we were too dangerous for anyone else to handle, send in the Freedom Phalanx, the trope wouldn't apply.

It's considered even more of an ethical violation to muck around with someone's mind to make them behave, and that didn't stop her.

Unless you've already been in there, and won.

There are some things in this game that can only be defeated with a stolen SMG and a vial of bees. I'm not sure what those things are, but if I ever do find out I will shoot them and throw bees at them and win while you will be screwed.

On the very first page of the creator is a blatant grammatical error. I find this even more inexcusable than all the UI problems (and yeah, I've forgotten to pick my secondary too.)

Edit: None of my GMs allow Kender in their games. Kender are either annoying or out-of-character. Don't forget, they used to have taunt as a racial ability.

Does not. He got them started and has probably set something up to keep them financed in case of his death, but he doesn't need to be around to keep them going.

Although his role in Twinshot's arc makes it unlikely to be him.

This. If they had announced, for instance, around i15 that the Incarnate system would be all trials, people would have yelled and they wouldn't have the "well we didn't think you'd want that and we already have the next few issues all planned out" excuse.

Maelstrom being the AV in an Incarnate trial is like Stilt-Man getting the Power Cosmic.

....who then started another forum thread about how all the good names are taken.

Whether or not it's good enough depends on when it comes out and what it is. If Posi's idea of solo incarnate content is anything like Posi's idea of giving people who missed the Isolator badge the opportunity to earn it, then no, it's not good enough. And since I get the impression that he really really really doesn't want to pull people away from his precious trials, I have no reason to believe it will be good enough until they actually tell us what it is and that we'll have it sometime before i25.

Actually scratch that. Anytime after i22 is not good enough. They've had plenty of time to process the fact that people want a viable alternative to multi-team raids.

If you turn your difficulty up high enough your "helpers" tend to get themselves dead pretty quickly, although not until after they aggro half the map (Serpent Drummer is the worst for that; who decided to give a brainless NPC "helper" +perception again?) States is the only one I couldn't get killed, probably because he appears in the Battlemaiden missions. He's also the most annoying one, what with his hand-clap spam. What you are doing Statesman, it is the opposite of help. L2play, kthxbai, /kick Statesman.

All the redside SFs except the RSF only require four people to start, and the RSF actually makes sense to require eight, since you go up against eight heroes at the end. Why the minimum team size requirements for the heroside TFs haven't also been lowered, I have no idea.

They already do.

I think the word you're looking for is "explicitly," and I really wish they'd just do it, or actually do something to curb it. As it stands, nobody benefits from this wishy washy "we want you to farm what we want you to farm and we don't want you to farm that other thing but we're not going to really stop you even though we could."

If he really knows so much about Malta, then he'd be stupid to make that bet.

First off, it isn't a decent arc. Second, we absolutely need to stop divorcing level from story. Lower level heroes save the city, higher level heroes deal with the global conspiracy. So, what is Roy Cooling's arc? Is it a save the city arc? Then why are Malta so visible? Why expose themselves to people who don't know they exist? Or is it ultimately a Malta plot arc? In that case, you shouldn't be sending lowbies, because they would get themselves disappeared if they didn't have PC immunity.

AND, they weren't part of any organization that is influenced by Malta when they became aware of them. They didn't suddenly forget about Malta when they were shoehorned into Longbow for lack of any other heroic group to join so villains could beat them up.

Fine then, how do you suggest people treat design flaws of this nature, if said people are hoping the flaws are fixed rather than repeated?

It's still a design flaw. If we're supposed to get a visual indicator so we can avoid an effect, anything that prevents us from seeing said visual indicator is a flaw and should be fixed.

So if he's at the top of the FBSA and has a lot of influence with the hero community (most of whom had never heard of him until very recently), and he knows a little about Malta, why the hell is he sending relative newbies after them? These are the guys who eat inexperienced heroes for breakfast. Why, I remember back in the day, big tough level 50 tanks would wet their pants at the sight of a Sapper.

Crimson and Indigo weren't part of any known organization until i6.

Their troops in the streets are a metagame kludge, as is their presence in the Grandville papers.

No, it isn't the multi-year vets, it's the new players who will think there are no alternatives. Look how many people once ran the Hollows on one character after another, because that was where the game steered them and they didn't realize they didn't have to do it. Redside the paper was your only option, and that's where you were steered.

You know what else I don't like about the new way of handling content? The contact sequence. You don't get a new contact until you finish the previous contact's arc. This means you have to run the first arc in the chain on every character to run that chain, then the second, and by the time you get to the third or fourth contact you might have joined a team or run a TF and you've outlevelled them....then the next character has to do content you've already done even though there's still "new" content there for you, but you'll never see it unless you only solo or turn off XP. This is what I hate about Praetoria. Yes, the Hollows, Striga, Croatoa, etc did that too, but usually it was pretty easy to finish the arcs before outlevelling them.

At one point villains could run out of content in the 30s. I came very close with my Brute, and I was running on Unyielding. A soloist on base difficulty would have easily run out. Now that we have XP smoothing and so much more content, I agree, they're pointless to require.

If your character's a former Malta Gunslinger nothing needs to change. You don't go around telling people "hey, look at me, I'm a former Malta Gunslinger!" You change your name, get plastic surgery, and hope Malta doesn't find you, and when someone says, "psst, there's this top-secret international paramilitary organization called the Malta Group," you act surprised.

Well there was that giant robot rampaging through Founders Falls...then again giant robots are a dime a dozen in a comic-book world.
The Reichsmann TFs should have been treated as the Highlander 2 of CoH. Unfortunately, whoever wrote some of the tip missions decided to have a bunch of 5th running in screaming "For the Reichsmann!" thereby officially recognizing the existence of those trainwrecks.

There is no good reason for Montague's arc to go that low. Villains don't get to access the Midnight Club until level 30, after all.

Villains get to find out that Crey is corrupt because they don't care. Heroes know Crey isn't entirely on the up and up as soon as they encounter them, they just can't prove it until the 40s. As soon as you agree to start Manticore's task force he flat out tells you "Crey is corrupt but I can't prove it." Your contacts in the early 30s are pretty up-front about it too.

No argument here.

In that case Ouroboros would need to be seriously reworked to make the older content actually accessible, rather than being treated simply as a means to run content you've outlevelled with that obnoxious task force mechanic in place. Its entire reason for being would have to change. And there would have to be enough new content to level up from 1-50 in "real time," for both heroes and villains.

Yes, it is the default at the difficulty changer, but the missions are designed around the assumption that bosses are on. That is what I mean by "default." And if you are not solo you can't avoid them at all. A Scrapper should never be required to turn bosses off due to difficulty, ever, unless you playing some kind of weird concept build.

World Wide Red contains the best ambush ever. Protean just wishes he could top it.

Exposition, yes. But when that exposition is one line out of line after line of jokes or "characterization" (said characterization lately consisting mostly of gimmicks or characters who speak very much alike), the actual story-relevant information is, again, lost to most people.

Tried.

I agree with everything you said here.

World Wide Red is not an example of "The Princess is in another castle" because every mission actually contains plot-relevant information. If World Wide Red was more like Maria's arc (the epitome of "Your Princess is in another castle") it would be just as long and in the last mission you'd find the Chinese ambassador.