Lazarillo

Unless Pitstop has different parents in Primal, doesn't that problem sort of extend across the dimensional barrier? Or are you referring to someone else?

I seem to recall hearing that the weighting is what's broken. It would reflect my experience, at least; I've seen nothing but Commons. Granted, that's just me. But it doesn't encourage me to want to try and finish either.

Honestly, it really isn't that bad. It's not a very "good" trial in my book, but it definitely isn't as bad as, say, TPN. Though since the reward table is also apparently bugged at the moment, I'd say it's still not worth finishing yet. That's actually a bigger problem than the difficulty for me, even now.

If they have to force people to run it, they must have designed it poorly anyway.
And given the most common reaction seems to be not to bother to complete it...

Hmm, I see it as the opposite. "32,547 agree that would be a great name for a superhero! It'd be perfect if it weren't taken!"

I don't mean to pick on you personally, Bill, you's good people, but since you stuck your neck out, I'd argue though that while half of those my as work as "game names" but...maybe a little less impressive as "super hero names".

And I think that's the core problem. I have little trouble thinking up names per se. I have a hell of a time thinking up names that fit my criteria for a "good name" given the theme of the game. Namely, any time I try to name my characters, unless I have a specific concept reason to ignore it, I ask myself, "Could I see this on a comic book cover blurb?" If the name would fit into a phrase like:

INTRODUCING NAME HERE!!!
...BUT IS HE FRIEND OR FOE?!

...it's essentially a failure in my book. And yes, I myself have a big list of failures, too, I'll grant. But when I jump on teams, I tend to see most others failing the criteria, too.

That said, I'm partially just Devil's Advocate-ing. I do generally come up with something eventually, even if it takes me an extra hour on the character creation screen, and I think the commonly suggested Name@GlobalName would be generally even more immersion breaking. Though if it were done with the option to hide everything but the character name...well, I just can't argue against it if only because I don't see a disadvantage, per se (other than "development time could be better spent elsewhere", I guess).

Tyrant kinda nuked the place. Not just Nova, either, as far as I can tell. The Imperial City is totally visible from the Magisterium in Praetoria normally...can't recall seeing it after the blast. That would seem to indicate that, y'know, there's no more Praetoria.

If there's no more Praetoria, there's no more Praetorian people. Yes, there are people of Praetorian descent that evacuated to Primal earth and whatnot, but unless someone's got a rather sizable chunk of land that nobody wants sitting around Primal Earth, they're pretty much going to have to integrate at this point.

I guess we could stick them on the moon, or something, but what are the odds that the Battalion just kinda blows it up so players can't ask for a moon zone anymore?

You do more to topple the regime in the loyalist arcs than in all of First Ward. About the only thing that gets resisted is Goatee-Witch's "plan" to kill you, which is pretty much just "oh, you're here, and I'm full of rage and stuff, so die I guess".

Given that i23 ends with there not really being any more Praetorian people, I don't think it's too big of a worry regardless.

Well, I know for a fact you haven't done the Warden arcs, and now I can generally guess you haven't done First Ward, because...nothing in First Ward's story is even remotely related to fighting Tyrant's regime.

I generally agree. That's basically why, personally, I got so annoyed at First Ward (and why I'm utterly uninterested now in even trying Night Ward), too. Four different, separate arcs, separate viewpoints to see Praetoria. Then First Ward comes with one, that ties into none of them. It's less a new Praetorian zone and more a Croatoa revamp with a couple of Praetorian-character cameos.

Eh, the worst part of the Magisterium was how boring it was. I expected the fight with Tyrant to a be a bit more epic than a poorly-explained anticlimax battle. And yet, it was still probably the high point of the Issue in terms of new features.

When they announced new animations for MA and Super Strength at the time, I was thinking "wouldn't it be nice to see that punch in there somewhere"...then it indeed got added, but to the one attack that's already the coolest looking one in the game!

It was a very "monkey's paw" moment.

Wasn't Starscream, y'know, actually half competent, though? He was just...easily sidetracked. Maelstrom's entire power is summed up as "he can use the Mediport system without actually having to flatline first".

I'd love to see the level 30-35 redside SF make the WST list one of these days...

Serving Tyrant in any capacity would imply Maelstrom was, y'know, competent at something other than getting his tail kicked and running away. I think that's why Tyrant keeps him around, really.

This has sort of disappointed me, to be honest. Positron says this is a major event, one worthy of its own issue release, and all that, and it ends up being a minor sidenote to i23, with most of the changes being just simple copy/pastes, and nothing in the game world really changing.

I'll take the costume compliments! But Arcanaville can keep the math. Trust me, my mafs are not worthy.

...technically, since I showed up in i5, and Watcher showed up in i10...doesn't that make him my little brother?

Also, Devs, please add me to the list now of people who want vehicle travel...

Oh...they've more than just found art "indicating" it.