Lothic

There have been many stories in Sci-Fi where the events of the story led up to explaining the origin of humans on planet Earth. An easy example of that is the conclusion of the recent Battlestar Galactic series which implied that the human race as we know it descended from the arrival of the last survivors of the "rag-tag" fleet which had been chased by the Cylons across the galaxy.

I think it'd be funny if we learned in the "last" Star Wars movie that Earth had been populated by a small group of refugee humans who had traveled a long time ago from a galaxy far, far away.

I19 (which will most likely be happening sometime in November) is going to be giving us not only Inherent Fitness which will allow us to get other new powers that will likely need Purple IOs but with the Incarnate system we are (IIRC) going to be getting a third build slot. That's a whole lot of respecing that's going to be happening and a whole lot of new slots that are going to need a bunch of new Purple IOs.

Seems pretty obvious to me why people are preparing/hording for that.

Throughout the history of this game (and probably all MMOs) there's always been at least a few people who like to sprint to a level cap just to be able to say they were "first" to do it. I remember when both CoH and CoV first started (and when the level caps of those two respectively went from 40 to 50) there was usually always someone around who'd claim they got to the cap within 24 to 48 hours after whatever it was went live.

By that same reasoning I'm sure the first 50s in Praetoria happened within the first few days of the launch of Going Rogue.

I agree that outleveled Mayhem/Safeguard badges can be a pain to get but they are still doable.
I think there's a definite difference between "very annoying" to get and "impossible" to get.

People have been suggesting various ways to "fix" being able to outlevel Mayhems/Safeguards.
Hopefully the Devs will actually decide to implement one of those ways eventually.

Might as well laugh about this kind of thing now... while we still can.

Oh I have no doubt Lucas already has an elaborate plan for how he wants his "vision" of Star Wars to live on after he dies. And no I was not specifically assuming any particular people (like Berman and Braga) get their hands on it.

My point was is that no matter who's "left in charge" so to speak things WILL be different once Lucas is not directly calling the shots. It may turn out to be a good thing or a bad thing. But what is clear is that things that Lucas is currently "stubborn" about now could eventually change and evolve as time goes on.

I think they'd probably want to be a little more specific than that. If you looked through the 70 years worth of WW comics you'd probably find literally hundreds of different outfits she's worn and dozens of variations of the more popular ones.

Obviously any new WW movie or TV show will redesign its own version of the outfit for its own purposes, even if they decide to take an existing example and clone 99.9% of it.

I just consider this one more baby step towards the Technological Singularity.

I figure we'll go through at least a few more decades of being subjected to "Uncanny Valley" examples like this until eventually, sooner or later, the technology will finally get good enough to get past that creepiness and become indistinguishable from the real thing.

I'd never really openly wish Lucas any harm and I'm sure he's got a good number of years ahead of him. But to be honest I find myself increasingly fascinated to see what's going to happen to the whole Star Wars franchise after Lucas passes away.

Case in point Gene Roddenberry's been gone for 19 years now and there has been some pretty interesting things that have happened to Star Trek since then. Some good, some bad. Who knows what new Star Wars trilogies and/or TV shows are going to be made in the decades after Lucas.

After several years of ToTing I'm now starting to have several characters max out on Halloween salvage.
Basically the game will only let you have up to 99 of each of the 4 types of Halloween salvage.

It's quite likely, given the close timing of these two things, that the big patch that gives us I19 will also have all the code for the new booster pack included. Actually depending on how long they've been tinkering with those new capes and auras some (if not all of it) is probably already in the current live build.

One can argue (by extension) that Marston himself was ahead of his time.

I would hardly be willing to assume "Patch day is now on Thursdays" just because we've had one example of that in recent history. The Halloween event this year is just a slightly updated version of the same code that's been used 5 times now - I would not call it a "patch" in the traditional sense of it being a new permanent code baseline.

If you look back at the history of when Issues were released in this game you'll see almost all of them have been on Tuesdays. Until something like the next 3 or 4 Issues in a row are all on Thursdays I'm not going to worry too much about changing my expectations.

Doesn't someone always think it's "Doooooomsday!" whenever a new Issue goes live?

Ah, I understand what you are saying now. I didn't realize there was pre/post cape mission difference like that between the genders. I use capes occasionally but apparently not enough to have ever noticed this.

Yeah I'd agree whatever capes are available to players either pre or post cape mission ought to be the same regardless of which body model (male, female or huge) you're using. I guess it's either a bug that females DON'T have them at level 1 or it's a bug that males DO have them at level 1.

Your writeup is almost perfect except that I'm pretty sure once you have all the badges the reward for the last choice becomes 5,000 INF not 50,000. I remember this because I recall thinking a mere 5,000 INF is so relatively trivial that it almost seemed weird that they even bothered with that value.

I could of course be mistaken, but I definitely was left with a "that's not worth it" impression. *shrugs*