Golden Girl
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Quote:That's one of the basic themes of Praetoria - the population are trapped between those 2 monsters.Originally Posted by Seschat
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Quote:So do most peopleOriginally Posted by dugfromthearth
I want to play a hero in city of heroes.
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Quote:I understood that bitOriginally Posted by Matthale
la mort de COX
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She's an example of how it can be tricky to make challenges for small teams - the other 2 AVs there go down pretty fast no matter what 4 ATs are on the team - but Syvia can cause problems to some combinations.
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Quote:You should change the bulb thenOriginally Posted by Eternal_Wilting
Guardian's been dead since I8, by my lights.
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Quote:How? It was already at the bottom when it launchedOriginally Posted by MrPlayskool
Jack let the other game slide down the chute, too.
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They've already been processed and sent to work as slaves in the Vanguard weapons factories as Lady grey turns her attention to the next world to conquer.
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We also got the Princess Hat recently, plus the IDF costume set in I21, the Olympian Guard costume set in I22, and the chainmail and leather costume sets in I23.
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Quote:Well, it was presented form a pro-loyalist position.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
all the misstatements, fallacies, assumptions and distortions that were used in the OP.
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Quote:That's not the way accountability worksOriginally Posted by Zemblanity
Assuming I was on the jury stand? On the grounds that I can't link a single piece of evidence directly to him, which fails to meet the requirement of guilt beyond reasonable doubt. I have doubt. Not saying he's innocent, I'm pretty sure he's evil and rotten to the core, but unless I can prove it, there's nothing I can do about it. Go talk to a vigilante if you want more.
What I can do is join a league to disarm Praetoria as retaliation for their attempt to invade Primal Earth (Lambda), ensure the freedom of their press (TNP), prevent their population from being mind-controlled (MoM) and force their leader to surrender (Mag). I'll leave the issue of Cole's trial to the courts, but if I'm asked to join the jury bench, I don't see how they'll manage to convict him at a fair trial.
We need more proof, we need an excerpt from Cole's diary saying "I did it, I forged the election!", we need a videotape of him holding a smoking gun over Recluse's corpse, we need an eye-witness testifying that he saw him grinning as Hamidon burned Rome to the ground. We don't have any of that, all we have is a biased assumption that Cole had to know about the oppression happening in Praetoria and that he chose to do nothing about it. I challenge both claims.
As the supreme ruler of Praetorian Earth, Tyrant is accountable and responsible for the actions taken by those under him - especially those he has personally appointed to positions of power, and allowed to keep their positions even when he knew they were carrying out crimes against hiumanity.
The whole feeble "maybe he didn't know" defense collapses at once when the scale of the crimes committed by his underlings and the length of time they were allowed to go on for becomes clear.
All the Paretors are bad people, but Tyrant still gave them all the important roles in his dictatorship - where they kept on being bad people for years and years, while Tyrant did nothing about them.
Plus, there's also things like the invasion plans revealing that Tyrant was not only aware of the planned genoice on Primal Earth but had actually given the order for it, along with him telling ex-loyalists escaping to Paragon City that he has blood on his hands.
Tyrant is fully aware of, and responsible for, the suffering of the Praetorian people under the loyalist dictatorship, and the planned war crimes against Primal Earth and the rest of the multiverse. -
I don't think game mechanics should always be assumed to reflect the lore
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Quote:On what grounds?Originally Posted by Zemblanity
I'd be forced to release Cole
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Quote:Not sure if serious...Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Wonder when the Devs will realise that you need Revamp as well
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An alternative could be that he was actually able to destroy the Hamidon when he first fought it, but it would have required his death to - like it could only be destroyed by the death of an Íncanrate, and that he'd backed out of the idea and struck a deal with it instead - but now he could decide to sacrifice himself to destroy it, and finally do something heroic at the end of his life.
And as he'd be much weaker now after his defeat, he'd need us to escort him to the Hamidon and keep it distracted while he made his sacrifice. -
Quote:Without spandex, there are no superheroesOriginally Posted by rian_frostdrake
Amen...lose the spandex, instant improvement.
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I could see Tyrant being useful as a source of info for better understanding the Well - or he might even be able to help us lern something about the mind of the Hamidon that would give us a chance of taking it down.
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It's also important to remember that he was called "Tyrant" right from the start, back when he was a standard moustache twirling archvillain, rather than the GR version - he wasn't named for any subtle double meaning.
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Quote:Some of those ambushes are left by mistake, and not laziness - not every ambush spawns right by the mission door, so it's quite possible to sometimes exit and head to the next mission without realizing that you've triggered an ambush.Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
I've actually seen a Vigilante Mercs/Time MM named Cleanup Crew who runs around sweeping up ambushes just like that.
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Quote:Then you need to improve your thoughtsOriginally Posted by khorak_EU
When I see beautiful women in spandex, my thoughts aren't particularly moral.
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With the new Penny Yin TF basically talking the respec storyline and expanding on it, that could mean that a totally new respec Trial could be made.
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Quote:And Reichsman.Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
is a character named Tyrant
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Those are more fantasy than medieval
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Quote:I think the point is that they wouldn't even be charged if they were useful - a convenient cover story about them not really knowing what was going on, or that they were working under duress, would suit everyone involved.Originally Posted by Venture
To the best of my knowledge, no one convicted of war crimes was given a free pass because of the potential value of their scientific or technical knowledge. Certainly no one convicted at Nuremberg was.
For example, a rocket scientist working on weapons to cause mass destrution to cities and other civilains areas, and relying on slave labor for his project could be portrayed as unaware of what his work was going to be used for, or that he and his family had been threatened with death if they'd refused to serve the state - that'd allow him to be portrayed as a "victim" being "rescued" - the winnign side would get a useful rocket scientist, and the rocket scientist would avoid any of those annoying war crimes charges.
Something similar could be done with Anti-matter, if some governments on Primal Earth thought that he could be useful - even though he came up with the plan to use the sonic fences to wipe out everything in First Ward, and constructed and maintained the reactors that powered the loyalist war machine and invaison portals - his status as an ex-Praetor could be played up, presenting him as someone out of the loop and not really aware of the full horror of the loyalist dictatorship he was serving. -
Welcome to the game and the forums
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Quote:Yes - when they make free power sets for VIPs, they give them out with Issue releases - anything released between Issues is paid for.Originally Posted by Shadow Wail
So this is a powerset everyone has to pay for? Just Checking.