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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bad_Influence View Post
    I have tried it both ways, and to say IOs [and by proxy, the bonuses they provide] are not needed for end-game content is disingenous at best, and a real sardonic hoot of laughter at worst.
    I'm 50+3 on 11 servers without using any IOs - but as I'm a regen Scrapper, that makes me a goddess by default
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by InfamousBrad View Post
    But in game, I've served alongside both the Paragon PD, and Arachnos troops, and the Praetorian PD, and the Praetorian PD scare me less.
    I must have missed badges like this by the Paragon Police Department buildings:


    Secret Prisoner:

    "You have found one of the most forbidden of places in Praetoria: the secret interrogation chamber beneath the PPD Precinct where the officers take the most recalcitrant prisoners for enhanced interrogations."

    Disappeared:

    "This is where enemies of the State vanish forever. These lost souls have been brought here from the PPD Headquarters for summary execution without review or recourse."


    Silent Witness:

    "You have seen much injustice and brutality in your journeys through Praetoria, and here beneath Precinct 4 in Imperial City you are witness to a chamber dedicated to both. Will you remain silent forever?"

    Nailbiter:

    "This PPD interrogation and holding area is littered with the signs of harsh treatment. Dried bodily fluids, ripped off fingernails, and a few human teeth mark this area as a place you don't want to wind up in."



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    Mass murder? Really? Of whom?
    Enemies of the dictatorship - or even their families, who the PPD make "disappear". Tyrant even tells the loyalists that his hands and theirs are stained with blood.

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    If you're going to bring the ghouls into this, Praetor Berry didn't start in on the Olympian Guard super-soldier project, or the Goliath Warwalker project for that matter, until (and yes, this is canon, I checked with the dev team) their world was attacked by a timeline with 10 times as many supers in it; that's more our fault than the Praetors'.
    So was it the Praetors idea to conquer the multiverse, and Tyrant just went along with it?
    Did their thinking go "that world where democracy and free will are encouraged seems to be suspicious of our nightmare fascist world and have palced scanners to monitor us - we must enslave all of existence" - or was the idea of multi-dimensional conquest already in Tyrant's head?
    After all, he is Praetorian Earth's greatest villain, according to the devs, and archvillains are pretty big on enslaving worlds.

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    The BAF is one of Praetor Tillman's projects, I've said that I won't defend her.
    The BAF is run by the PPD, who are Tyrant's personal army.

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    Fascist outlook? Have you BEEN to Paragon City?
    Yes - and neither the state or the federal government seem to be murdering, torturing, brainwashing or oppressing the people there.
    They also seem to only put up statues to dead heroes, and not members of the government, and there's also a lack of any kind of personality cult around Statesman or Positron.

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    Drugged water ... I've been meaning to get around to pointing this out for at least a year now, thanks for reminding me. It has only been a hair over 15 years since ninety percent of the entire human race was killed in the Hamidon War, a planetary disaster bigger than what the great plagues did to the native Americans. Under those circumstances, part of me thinks that putting low dose anti-psychotics and anti-depressants in the drinking water is a brilliant solution, no more controversial than fluoridation. I wonder how much the dev team agrees with me
    Going by the actual storyline, I'd say roughly zero

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    notice that within days of Calvin Scott's destruction of the Enriche facility, riots broke out all over the city. After a planetary disaster on the scale of the Hamidon War, I think it would take at least a generation to see even minimally sane human beings again.
    Rioting when you find out that you've been brainwashed by a fascist distatorship is a sign of sanity, not insanity

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    Remember that the people of Praetorian Earth did vote for Cole. They begged him to take the job, repeatedly, after he'd turned it down.
    Making his grab for power look too obvious wouldnät fit with the lies he's trying to project

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    And as for Skyway City, been there lately? The murder rate's a lot higher there than it is in even the worst parts of Praetoria City, probably even including the tunnels.
    Yeah - only the murder victims in Skyway aren't dying at the hands of the police.
    That was one of the many neat little visual touches in GR - they replaced the tradtional citizens in peril from ciminals zone mobs with citizens in peril from the dictatorship zone mobs - muggings were repalced by arrests for "interrogation", which was a great way of showing that there was no one to protect the people, as the biggest criminals in Praetoria were all wearing government uniforms.

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    Praetoria City has the Praetors and the Powers Division, but is what Paragon City has any better? Is the FBSA really doing any better of a job policing Paragon City's supers than the Powers Division is?
    Well, according to the devs, the Powers Division kills more people than the Clockwork, PPD, Seers and Praetorian Guard put together, so that would seem to indicate that they're not - but as murder and oppression are the main purpose fort eh existence of the Powers Division, then ithey could be viewed as doing an excellent job.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hulkman View Post
    I honestly don't get all the hate
    There's an agenda
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by InfamousBrad View Post
    she turned out to be (like just about every powerful psychic in canon) completely insane.
    So did the rest of the Praetors - it makes you wonder what exactly Tyrant thought he was doing by appointing psychopaths to every important position of power in his dictatorship, or how he didn't discover that they were all evil and remove them instea dof letting them all keep their jobs for as long as his evil empire lasted.

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    Strip the Seer Network out of Praetoria City and I would move there from the real world in a heartbeat.
    So the mass-murder, torture, brain-washing, drugged water supply and general fascist outlook woudn't bother you?

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    Seriously, would you rather live in Skyway City than in Imperial City?
    Well, in Skyway City I'd be allowed to think my own thoughts, drink un-drugged water, vote in elections, trust the police force, not need to worry about being arrested and tortured for citicizing the government, or being murdered for it - which is all worth more than a few clean skyscrapers and nice flowerbeds.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by G_Savior View Post
    I will restate that the corruption within the praetorian regime came from the people serving under tyrant, not cole himself.
    Seems weird that every single one of the Praetors he chose turned out to be insanely evil - or that he wasn't able to spot that at any meeting of the Praeors, or that he wasn't aware of what they were doing during all the years the loyalist dictatorship existed.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Atilla_The_Pun View Post
    I find it equally distasteful that P.Yin can point both Yin and Yang at us simultaneously.
    Just turn your waist and you can do the same
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man View Post
    Yeah, you should work on getting some of that, miss "this princess hat is so stylish."
    Some boys just don't get it
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man View Post
    I'm sure they will. But I'm very serious about it, and every time they release female costume options but not male ones to compensate, I get a little closer to cancelling my subscription and never coming back.
    While the new fairer costume policy helps retain other subs
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man View Post
    I'm sure you will. And you'll look ridiculous doing it.
    Again, it's that style thing
  10. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
    or, just make neat stuff people like and ignore silly GENDER WAR!!11 whining.
    Well, that's exactly what they're doing
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man View Post
    Darn, wouldn't that just be a shame?
    It would - which is why the devs continue to give us unique female costume parts

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    Yes, under Face Option 2. Under every other category, women have just as many or more options.
    Because we'll wear anything
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aura_Familia View Post
    The devs have never said one way or the other if they care if we use incarnate abilities in non-incarnate content.
    If they cared, they'd have made them available only for Incarnate content
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by I Burnt The Toast View Post
    People really use AE?
    I play arcs there that I see advertised on the forums, as well as just picking random ones.
  14. Welcome to the game and the forum

    There's actually a time travel system in the game that lets you "flashback" to all the major story arcs and badge missions, so even if you miss one, you'll always have the chance to do it again.
    The time travel place is called Ouroboros, and it can be accessed from level 14 via a portal.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sinister_Toi View Post
    There are a lot more options for facial hair then makeup for starters.
    We're actually missing hundreds of makeup combos right now - we only have 5, plus 1 basic lipstick
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Shubbie View Post
    Now lets assume for a moment im the WORST player in the world
    Easily done
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aura_Familia View Post
    ehhhh, the devs have NEVER said this.
    They need to keep challenging us, but at the same time show how much more power we now have - and the easiest way to do that is to let us use Incarnate powers on non-Incarnate content and totally trash everything that gets in our way, and keep the challenges for the Trials.
    Incanrate powers weren't designed for non-Incanrate content, because non-Incarnate content was never designed for Incarnate powers.
    For example, when the devs made the STF, they never thought that Dr. Aeon's clones would be wiped out with one multi-Judgement strike, or that the team would have Lore pets to use against the Arachnos Patrons, or that we'd be able to fight Recluse at 50+1.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by JKCarrier View Post
    I still consider those things hard.
    I've found that the STF goes a lot smoother when the team are all Incarnates
  19. It's not hate - it's just a new challenge for us
  20. As far as I know, the Mekman model is at the top of the ID list, so when the game can't find a model ID, it uses the Mekman as the default replacement.
  21. I like both, but DC has more memorable and iconic characters.
  22. Golden Girl

    Choppy Lag

    Welcome to the game and the forum
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sylph_Knight View Post
    Faultline was the perfect example of a Tanktroller, so I would assume Penny is a Contrapper (Scraptroller? Dominapper? Scrappinator?), but she's still no Omega Slot though.
    She's Alpha and Omega.