Eva Destruction

About the fitness pool being made inherent: I don't see how it's necessary honestly. We won't be getting any more slots for those power picks we're freeing up. Which means I'll be spending those three saved power picks on filler like Super Speed. Second, I predict Stamina will inherently unlock at 20, which won't do anything to speed up gameplay in the early levels of the game. And if making the Fitness pool inherent means that it either can't be slotted (doubtful) or that the effectiveness of the powers is decreased, no thanks. You take your inherent Fitness and shove it you-know-where.

Secondly: A new task force? Really? A new Task Force does not really constitute "more end-game content." It's nice to have but it's far from enough. Either you can do it in two hours or it's so long nobody wants to do it, and it leaves soloists out in the cold. Besides, everyone will set to the lowest difficulty and find the the best way to speed run it soon enough, sucking all the fun out of it.

A story driven Alpha Incarnate slot: Nice. As long as it's soloable. And by soloable I don't mean "by a melee character" or "with Shivans." No EBs that two-shot squishies from range and have Unstoppable, tyvm.

Primal Earthers in Praetoria: Yay badges. Hopefully this also means the Preatorian arcs will be available in Ouroboros, for those of us who don't have four new characters they want to make and solo all the way through.

More tip missions: Please. Hopefully also more morality missions.

Mission maps getting a "minor update:" hopefully this doesn't translate to "we'll be making them prettier, ie laggier" (unless it means "we'll be making them prettier in Ultra mode," in which case I don't care), and doesn't wreak too much havoc on people's AE arcs.

You guys and your "complementary powersets" and "all tanker teams" and "buffs/debuffs" and all those silly unneccessary things.

I tried to get my static team to agree on an all-Blaster team for our Preatoria run. But we're going with all buff/debuff because they are all wusses. So we will have to resort to my Plan B: an all-drunk team. No, it's not on Pinnacle.

I've had one drop from running tip missions. I sold it, even though the prices will be higher once people use up their freebies, since I have an unfortunate tendency to accidentally vendor/list for 1 inf valuable items I want to hang onto.

I think the only other respec recipe I've had drop was before the new difficulty sliders, when I amused myself hunting in the RWZ.

After reading some other people's responses, especially Ironik's, I think I should clarify I have a very broad definition of "someone to cheer for." In a work of fiction I can "cheer for" someone who is not heroic at all, who has no redeeming qualities whatsoever, who is completely unlikeable and out to do the wrong thing, if they are a compelling and interesting character. I want them to succeed because I want to see what they will do next. More to the point, I want them not to die, because then they won't be able to entertain me anymore.

Yes, that means I do cheer for the villain and the hero at the same time. It may be a foregone conclusion that the hero will win, but you can at least hope that the villain will be back for the sequel.

I like it. That's why I do it, I like doing it. I have stories to tell, and AE lets me do that. Ideas pop into my head while I'm playing or just at random, and AE lets me do something with them. Occasionally someone will even play them and say nice things about them.

Of course I start way more arcs than I actually finish. I come up with a basic premise, characters to play it out with, I play around with the mechanics a lot, but I'm not that good at actually putting out a finished product. My most recent published arc sat nearly finished (as in, completely playable except for some missing contact dialogue) for months before I finally redid the contact completely, polished it up, and published it.

Someone to cheer for. I'm a girl. I don't get anyone to identify with in the kind of genres I like. The protagonist is still nearly always a guy. When you do get a female protagonist, the circumstances are usually so extreme that they make her difficult, if not impossible to identify with.

When I make characters, sometimes I make "this powerset and this powerset would be awesome together," but sometimes I make CHARACTERS. I've never had a problem coming up with characters that are interesting to me. The only problem is making characters that are interesting to me and that fit the powersets I'm interested in playing.

I had a friend a long time ago who unfortunately no longer plays whose main was an Empath named Buddy Christ. His real life best friend then joined the game and made Buddy Satan. I think they both managed to avoid the generic bat.

Screw riding a Titan, I wanna ride the Kronos!

Which is a question I asked in the Canon Fodder thread and never had answered: is the Kronos Titan a brain in a jar/a collection of brains in jars or is it piloted? I know if I were Malta I wouldn't be raiding the Pwn shop looking for Excelsior-addled brains to control my relentless machine of destruction. And piloting the Kronos could be some kind of loyalty reward. There has to be some incentive for that poor shmoe pointing a sap gun at a fully IOd, buffed to the gills 8-man team....

They will spawn as EBs if you're solo/on a small team with AVs turned off. Both the EB and AV versions are the same strength as they are in normal missions, afaik.

I've been running a lot of tips in between running a bit of Preatoria, and I do think the devs are overusing the Ambush feature. It's one thing to have the end boss ambush you once in a while, or have a swarm of guys that can be one-shotted, or have one high-level mission with piles and piles of guys coming after you, but when it's every mission it just gets old very fast.

Although I must add that my Stalker was ambushed by Hardcase today. Mr. Big Bad Demon hunter...too bad for him I'm not a demon. I don't mind being ambushed by him at all. On my Stalker even.