Golden Girl

A perma-rain effect could be a possible compromise - it's make the place very dark in the daytime, and then extra dark at night.
I think the use of a lot of neon signs would also look good, as well as highlighting the darkness - like the glow tech used in Neutropolis, only on normal signs.

Well, that is correct story-wise - but what the devs and players there didn't mention was that there's been zero story use been made of the presence of the Clockwork and Blue Steel in the same zone - there's a huge opening there to set up the Clockwork King more fully for the Synapse TF, and to explore the vigilante aspect of crimefighting through Blue Steel - he crossed the line from hero to vigilante, but then came back again, but his actions created an archvillain that's still causing trouble in the city.

Carrying Penny Yin's throne instead of the globe?

Actually, it combined a pretty wide scope of visually distinctive peices combined with pretty flexible uses - which is something that the other 2 sets didn't offer.
The Film Noir set would have run out of suggestions for distinctive parts quite fast, and ended up more as suggestions for which current costume parts that fit the theme could be revamped - it had the wide flexibility, but not the distinctive look.
The Aztec/Mayan set had the visual uniqueness, but not the flexibility, because the a lot of the parts would be almost too unique.
Basically, I think that the majority of the audience just looked at the 3 choices and thought "which of these will offer the most new and interesting parts that I can use on the widest variety of costume concepts?".

Actually, that's not totally true, especially in any game that uses micro-transactions - finding out what would be popular with players and then delivering something based on it is a vital part of keeping up the cash flow, even if what's being asked for isn't at the top of the list of things that the developers themselves would like to work on first.

Actually, it didn't really have anything to do with the presentation - both the choices are based on the same nuclear theme, and once one was chosen, it was pretty obvious what the other choice was going to be

Even 2004?

The magical dollar amount is 15 a month.

It's red sdie too - but story-wise, i'm not sure if Paretoria will be included or not - the 3 GR zones are now "historical" zones that take place at an earlier point in the timeline.

I think that a more important question would be how a group that's claimed to be only subset of the player base managed to force the Superpacks to the top of the sales chart above every single power set and costume bundle, when those apparently generate far more hype and anticipation, and require quite a few less units to be sold to make the same amount as the Superpacks have made - they need to sell 8 Superpacks just to match the amount they make from the sale of one power set.

Which is exactly why they've been converting some of the "extra" blue side stuff into co-op content.

It'd also reduce the visual diversity of the game by doubling up - Praetoria is bright evil, the Rogue Isles are dark evil.

The view was small and fuzzy from the UStream camera view - but I think that we'll see a lot fo the Summit screenshots on the next regular UStream broadcast.

Well, some of them anyway

Actually, I think IP would be interesting to quite a few people - after sci-fi fascists, alien meteorites and gods of death, the Family and the docks they control presents a perfect example of genuine, non-epic level comicbook crime to fight that quite a few people have been asking for.
They're a group that's so Golden Age they could cause the word "hoodlum" to make a comeback, and make players refer to any missions featuring them as "capers"

Players hate Villains even more than the devs do

What part of the male side of the spectrum would be exclusive to men? Which part of it would women not want to wear?