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I think BABs (the developer) was the one completely against this, I'd hope with him gone it could be revisited now.

Just to point out, I believe Nerva is actually a US Territory, in the CoH verse.

It may have been retconned AWAY from that at a later point, it was designed as such, which is why it has such a strong LB presence as well as being a place where Ms Liberty and BaBs could reasonably show up and not be immediately attacked.

The actual wording of the situation of Nerva can be found in the CoV "players guide" PDF which was available as a free download on the main site ages ago, if my memory serves correctly. Unfortunately, I can't locate the PDF again to confirm this.

I recall it being said that we will get an echo of the zone, during one of the community chats.


I think the introduction of super powered individuals and the concept of a global catastrophe on the scale of the Rikti War guarantees that the laws and US Constitution are going to be fairly altered in the CoH timeline. However, that's getting into politics, which the game smartly avoids for the most part.

I think some people are jumping the gun assuming that quote, even if it is true, applies to everyone in Paragon.

It only applies to the Phalanx. And notably, this tidbit also says that you can basically be a level one guy and say "Im a member of the Freedom Phalanx!" and technically be accurate. I'd really like to see where this came from. (I suspect its from the second CoH novel, but I havent read that one.)

Now, I think that -by lore- every hero in Paragon is going to have willingly told their identity to the FBSA/Goverment, simply because of how much access they freely get to everything. But I also think it's debatable that you could request your identity not be "public". I don't see the FBSA gaining mass "Costumed" acceptance without that caveat.

If the stun aura didnt do self-damage, I probably wouldn't mind it. I just found that in the situations where the stun would have been useful, the self damage was adding another complication. The areas where the damage wouldn't be noticeable, the stun was unnecessary.

Mind you, thats purely just on casual observation while playing the set.

Still was Castle's doing then? Jerk.

Plus it still stayed live for four years without the game falling apart.

Dont get me wrong, I love Street Justice and it's hands down my favorite melee set now. Its just the animation for spin strikes doesnt fit it being a targeted AOE in my opinion. Ill learn to use it, lol.

The logic behind the change was simple. Either Posi, BaBs, or Castle decided to try PVP. They promptly ate the double damage spike of AS and 1sec ET from a stalker.

BaBs and Castle then decided the power had been bugged and assigned an incorrect animation, since, you know, the four years at the time the game had been live, and BaB's throwed in some POS Snipe animation from a blaster set. Never mind the fact that the source of the problem wasn't ET, it was how the stalker functioned in PVP, which was later changed slightly as well. I dunno the specifics on that. I quit after the ET Nerf and swore I wouldn't resub while Castle and BaBs still worked on the title.

But yes. Don't bother with EM. It's a horrible set for the way the game is played now. And if you do, don't pair it with dark armor, because EM doesn't have enough mitigation to cover dark armor's lacking mitigation. (well, you can IO DA up to beast mode, but really, what armor set can you not do that on?)

It absolutely in no way was necessary, the game survived and thrived fine with ET as is for around -FOUR- years.

The only place it was problematic was stalkers in PVP, and that wasn't because of ET, that was because of how the Stalker AT operated.

Because, as farms get upvoted by the farming community, it makes legitimate arcs harder to find.

I say this, as someone who does farm sometimes, but I can definitely see the frustration in working for a month on an arc for it to see less than ten plays and never be touched.