Eva Destruction

Obviously your team needed more Scrappers.

It's weird...I've gotten several tells on a Scrapper on Freedom asking me to join an STF. Unfortunately they always come at a time when I can't, or I would, just to see what kind of team sends out tells to random Scrappers. It would either be a train wreck or totally awesome.

That's only IF you're trying to get all the components themselves. If you're crafting some of the components from shards, you'll probably only need to do each thing twice tops, probably only once if you're also earning shards through means outside TFs. Once i20 hits, there will really be no need to repeat any single TF.

I'm not entirely sure "speed" is necessarily a good thing. See, what happens when people who run the trials multiple times a night get all their shinies on all their characters within a few weeks? They get bored and want new shinies. The devs must deliver. New trials to unlock said new shinies take time to create. So we only get another two trials, which must be repeated over and over again for the new shinies, so they'd better make sure it doesn't take an overly long time. And the cycle repeats.

Yes, I'm aware that with any system some will progress much faster than others. But it seems with these new trials, and even the first two tiers of the Alpha slot to an extent, even the moderately active player is expected to progress very fast.
The "bite-sized chunks" nature of the trials is entirely a good thing in my book. Casual-friendliness aside, real life aside, it encourages people to join them on a whim and not have to plan them weeks in advance.

I think they do, although gladiators don't have progress bars so it's hard to be sure. Overdrive's Task Force definitely counts toward Hero Slayer.

Pretty much this. I still want to know why making up SAM was necessary when there are so many existing organizations floating around.

The problem is, it wouldn't be an expansion. It would be something new, tacked on to the old, and it would feel as tacked on as S.A.M. does. The only thing left there is the DE, and I certainly wouldn't want to fight nothing but them for 30 levels.

This last choice just renders everything you did in Praetoria meaningless and shallow. No matter how horrible you were, all is forgiven the moment you step through that portal.

This would be a valid complaint if players couldn't switch sides once they hit the Rogue Isles or Paragon.

How is it "whining" that you can't be heroic? Praetoria presents you with Villainous options, Rogue options, and Vigilante options, the one thing it lacks is a heroic option, and pointing that out isn't whining.

Did anyone say you weren't discerning or don't care? Cause it seems to me the complaint was that there is no way to tell how many people are happy vs how many people don't care. In other words, datamining can't tell the difference between you and xXxshardfarmerxXx.

Well yeah, the city's premier superteam should be held to some pretty high standards. That's why they're the premier superteam. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be flawed, or human, but it does mean they should be portrayed as clearly good people.

Do we ever really find out how any of them turned evil, besides Tyrant? Because it seems to me that most of the "they're evil now" explanations are ham-handed cludges to create an alternate universe where everyone is evil. How does Steven Berry, accountant become Steven Berry, mad scientist? Have we ever seen any indication that Positron is the least bit interested in Ms Liberty, or has ever behaved irrationally over a girl? Siege and Bobcat should never have existed since there is no Crey in Praetoria. Their Infernal is from....where exactly? All Praetorian Infernal does is make the CoH cosmology even more snarled. How did Cole recruit Battlemaiden from her dimension? It's implied that Praetorians stole dimensional travel from us. How did Vanessa find a mask in Italy in a world overrun by the DE? Belladonna Vetrano would be in her 40s by now but she doesn't look a day over 25. There's no Blue Steel to beat up Metronome and force him into a robotic body. And on and on.

It does not matter if everyone agrees with this or not. These signature heroes should have been people we could admire and respect, someone for new heroes to look up to and for veteran heroes to be proud to call peers. As long as even a significant minority think otherwise they have failed at being that, and are best relegated to window dressing.

It does make them look like shallow set pieces, doesn't it? It also begs the question, how can their primal earth counterparts expect us to trust them, when apparently all it takes is for Statesman to turn evil, and considering we have yet to meet another good Statesman we really should be keeping a very very close eye on our Statesman.

It's a flaw in the system as implemented, and could be solved by giving it more developer attention. Allowing authors to make approved changes to existing DCs is even more important than regularly selecting new DCs in keeping the DC list from looking like a stale, abandoned wasteland. You arc isn't that bad since it was DCd after most of the major sweeping adjustments that screwed up the older arcs, but some of the older DCs are a downright mess compared to what we're capable of now.

There's an important distinction between hundreds of players and hundreds of protagonists. As far as the game is concerned, no one has beaten up Frostfire before you, and once you do so he's in the Zig and stays there. There is very little content that is truly "repeatable" in a story sense, and it doesn't have much story behind it. Paper missions, Mayhems and Safeguards, Mothership raids, Hami raids, zone invasions. For everything else, no matter how many times you repeat it the lore treats it as your first and last time.

One solution to that could be parallel content for heroes and villains, but we have very little of that right now and what we do have is mostly confined to Mayhems and the Reichsman TFs which have exactly two things they do right and that's one of them.

A massive invasion by extradimensional aliens has devastated our hero population and destroyed huge swaths of our city. Years later, we're still recovering, and they're still there, still trying to figure out how to make a comeback and wipe us out. Issues later, they do make their comeback.

A mysterious group of mages run around kidnapping citizens to use in....some kind of ritual, we're not sure what they're doing exactly...they control demons and spectral soldiers....holy crap those spectral soldiers are really them, they're kidnapping citizens to use their bodies as puppets, and they made a deal with the devil millennia ago. A few issues later you go into the whys and wherefores of said deal.

A low-rent street gang is dealing a drug that gives superpowers to a slightly higher-rent street gang. Then you find out that the source is an established crime family. And then you find out that the drug also allows a small number of users to "pierce the dimensional barrier," whatever that means. Then you find out exactly what that means. Issues later you find out who was behind it all (although if you hadn't at least guessed or speculated who was behind it you weren't paying attention.)

Way back when, the government decided superheroes were a national resource, and should be put to use in defense of their country. In practice, black guys with superpowers were sent out on suicide missions in service of some white guy's agenda. They weren't too happy about that. The Might for Right act was repealed. Some people had a problem with that and passed their own unofficial Might for Right act. And if you weren't on board, they'd kill you.

No plots? No, it doesn't have one single plot, but well, the Incarnate system has a single plot and we get threads like this. Instead, the game established a number of running plotlines so there would be something for everyone. How many people have you run into who dislike fighting CoT because they don't like magic in their comic books, or don't like Malta because they have no powers? Now think of the people who love the idea of fighting evil wizards, or a secret worldwide conspiracy? And it's not like any world that allows anywhere near the diversity of this game's world has a single shared running plot anyway. That doesn't mean they don't have plots.

I have said "I wish this was good" or "does this ever get good?" but never "I can't wait for this to be good." If it ain't good, I'll get bored and abandon it around level 7. I have, however, said "this is good," gone into mids, played with my build pr0n, and said, "this is going to be AWESOME!"

There's only one fireman in all of Paragon.

And none in the Rogue Isles, which is why Mercy Island is always on fire. Although how anyone could drive a fire truck on those roads is beyond me.

Then why are there handicapped bathrooms?

According to Roy Cooling's arc, civilians don't have access to it. You have to become a hero or turn to a life of crime to get emergency teleported.

Then you should be ok.

That depends on your answers to the following questions:

1) When was the last time you went outside?

2) Are there food stains on your underpants?

Yeah, you know, I'm really glad they've done away with the leet-speak in the newer Freakshow missions. There's even a tip mission where one Freak berates another for forgetting that there used to be a philosophy behind the chaos. I liked them much better when they were disillusioned yuppies gone to the opposite extreme (with the delicious irony of the Crey reveal) than a bunch of cybernetic clowns.

Of course, leet-speak is really hard to read in the middle of combat, so that might also have had something to do with it.

People will also respond to you when you enter a "how do I do this" or "where's this" message in broadcast, and the answer is unlikely to be "your mom."

Authority bad in this case because CoV already presents an Anarchy bad scenario.

Oh I agree completely. The difference is, what do they do about it? Ghost Widow doesn't just sit around whining about being dead. She comes up with a plot to get her body back and get revenge on a rival at the same time. She is jealous of Red Widow, it's a weakness and it's very human, but she doesn't tell you why until after she tells you about her plan to kill Red Widow. Her fondness for Wretch is very human, very sympathetic and from a villainous point of view could be seen as a weakness...but at the same time she's got a super strong, super loyal lackey willing to kill anyone who looks at her funny. She turns it into a strength.

You want to talk about insecure? How about Malta's mysterious board of directors? Or Black Scorpion? Granted, he's not that big of a threat because he's an idiot, but it doesn't take a psychoanalyst to figure out he's insecure despite his best attempts to show no weakness.

Anti-Matter's crush on Dominatrix really just makes him look pathetic. You're going to participate in an interdimensional war just to snag a girl who doesn't even want you? Really? It's almost like they needed to come up with a quick excuse to make him an enemy after presenting him as a relatively reasonable and sane individual in his own arc. Sure, he's got a huge grudge against Neuron, but it's not like he's sending you out to directly sabotage Neuron's creations or anything. He's taking the high road (considering the setting) and trying to prove his superiority. Then you meet him in Tina's arc and hear about his perfect plan to get Tyrant to feed Neuron to the DE and make Dominatrix marry him....what? I'm sorry, is this the same guy?