Golden_Avariel

There is an option to do this, it just isn't mapped to a key by default. Go into the keymapping under the camera section and you'll find it. I've got a pair of standard keys on all my characters that deal with this. The first one puts the camera centered behind the character (distance doesn't change) and the second one turns the character to match the camera view. Both are very handy.

I'd love a better variety of colors with say the old 256-color palette available for both skin and costume... but then I don't see the big deal with skin-colored tights either. How is that different than some of the stuff we see now?

And heck YES! Why does the skin color bleed through on some colors? It makes white very hard to use.

I'd also love for the interface to be less clunky. The "right-click on person vs name" bringing up different options is especially annoying but some of the other stuff mentioned is almost as bad.

Don't EVEN get me started on boleros and wings *grumbles*

For my own pet peeves:
* Contacts red side are badly handled and the bug where the brokers/detectives give you expired contacts if you happen to be a level that's evenly divisible by 5 makes it worse.
* Task Forces all require too many people to start, most should be cut in half.
* Task Forces should allow you to move the star around freely.
* Fix the store screens so hovering over stuff will tell you what you are buying or selling. This used to work and got broken somewhere along the line.
* Almost forgot and related to the OP - let us introduce others in our party to our contact. That would mostly solve the problem of parties not being able to run arcs for merits. And most of all - ALL ARCS SHOULD GIVE MISSIONS OUT IN THE SAME ORDER!

But all in all, those are minor things that I don't mind too much. The game is pretty awesome despite a few petty annoyances.

I finally managed to find Positron's post clarifying things and I had remembered it wrong. This does indeed seem to be how AT choice vs faction choice will work for Praetorians.

That's cool. However it works I'm looking forward to it.

I got the impression that you'd be able to select loyalist or resistance and that would determine which AT's you got to choose (hero AT's for resistance and villain AT's for loyalist). Then once you got to 20 you could choose hero vs villain for your new home base, thus allowing a resistance blaster to go to the rogue isles and continue leading a life of crime or a loyalist brute to go to Paragon City to continue a life of crime fighting... so to speak.

But I wasn't there, maybe I misunderstood or read something misleading.

[Edit] BTW the link in the OP seems to be broken.

Actually, per the dev's GM Guide entry on the Ghost (emphasis mine):

So it is possible, however remote, to slow down his respawn though not to hasten it.

And do it from space... it's the only way to be sure.

d'oh! I said I was bowing out... *runs for the shadows*

I'm glad to hear it doesn't take an IO'd team to do the LRSF.

But saying the team only needs a pulse IS saying it's easy by default. My apologies since you didn't intend to ... umm... imply that.

Since I've never run that SF before I really had no business posting at all. I let my pet peeve get the better of me so I'll bow out now.

Most of my villains are simple mercenaries since that's what most of the arcs are geared toward. I have a couple that are trying to do the right thing and are mostly in the Rogue Isles to strike at Arachnos and Recluse's sorry excuse for a government. For those I follow contacts like Ideon listed and I'll add...

Cap au Diable
Ashley McKnight - origin of powers and entrance into the Midnighters
Marshal Brass - uncover corruption, especially if you fail the final "stop the broadcast" mission on purpose
Mercedes Sheldon - recover a dangerous artifact from the Carnival
Vanguard - 'nuff said

Sharkhead
Captain Petrovich - save the Iron Widow
Maros - Stop the awakening of the Leviathan
Doc Buzzsaw - who can't like her? She's always so upbeat! LOL

If you want to be the mastermind and control your own fate, or you want to be the anti-hero working behind the scenes, there is really no better way than to make your own endings to some of the stories using AE. I've done it multiple times to good effect.

For example - don't like how you feel after giving the victims to the Vahz? Create a quick mission in AE where, after receiving your money of course, you penetrate the Vahz lair and rescue the hostages. Heck, use the Dr. Vahz lair map and put the good doctor there so you can defeat him too... the whole operation was just your way of finding his lair. Or create a mission to go rescue the daughter of the traitor the mobster took into his care just so he could ruin her life. Or, not only did you not stop the broadcast, you help the reporter by destroying the Arachnos base jamming the broadcast, etc... the possibilities are endless.

It's all in how you approach the attitude and character (twisting what you did to another purpose in your head - you didn't really kill the victim you faked it). That plus a little imagination in AE goes a long way.

Comments like this and "the game is too easy" really cheese me off. It's so insulting. If you ever failed it, even once, then saying that the team members just need a pulse is false. Just because you've done it a hundred times with characters that hit the soft-cap with IO's long ago doesn't mean it is an easy task. It just means you've found a team that makes it look easy. It's an illusion.

I've never run this SF but frankly the stories about multiple team wipes and pets that can't stay alive ring a lot more true to me than the stories about how easy it is.

I haven't really gotten into IO sets but the more I hear "game is too easy" and "we ran the ITF in 8.5 minutes" the more I want to avoid them so it never gets that way for me. Even if it means I'll never manage to finish the LRSF at least I'll still have exciting times playing the content.