Ms. Mesmer

Snarf that doesn't speak already makes this miles better than the original. Snarf, Snarf.

That's not terribly helpful when it comes to the 87 month reward. Thankfully, VoodooCompany got his and told us what it was.

Perhaps you missed where he said this:

Or maybe the lack of a link to the claims.

Personally, I wish they would ditch Identity Crisis. It was a lame story that used the host of God's Vengeance as a McGuffin, among other writing problems. Does anyone really think Hal wanted Ollie to "get" Jean Loring for killing Sue? Catch her, sure, but get vengeance on her, as the conversation implies? He was friends with her, too.

This hasn't been anything close to my experience. I'm on a 256K WiPOP connection since February of 2010. Before that, I was on dial-up. The old updater had consistently downloaded at about 80% of the available bandwidth under both connection speeds. The NCLauncher downloads at full available bandwidth pretty much every time. That's a 20% (or 25%, depending on which direction you're looking at it from) increase in just the range that you describe as the problem area.

Harras wasn't EIC when the Image founders left, that was on Tom DeFalco. He was the X-Men editor, though, so he is partially to blame for some of them, and for Chris Claremont leaving, but DeFalco could have smoothed that over, or outright replaced Harras.

You also mischaracterize Heroes Reborn. They at most leased those characters out for a year, they didn't sell them.

Harras made some bad calls, to be sure. He was the editorial hand behind the Clone Saga finale, for instance.

You said this a few times, but she didn't. I even checked her original post and it wasn't edited. 5+10+30+55=100.

It's possible, if they're referring to Barbara Kesel. Her then-husband, Karl Kesel, had been co-writer of the series with her, and worked consistently for DC in the following years, but she is conspicuously absent as a creator for DC for the next five years. Must have been fun in that house for a while, if true.

I suspect that these two might be the same bug. From my experience, the teams getting spread out along the League window happens in the same predictable pattern each time. I think that the ones getting dropped are getting put onto teams beyond the limit of the interface.

Yeah, it's the Anti-Matter getting stuck fix.

I also use a Mind/Kin.

The +HP problem is no longer an issue. It apparently got quietly fixed sometime between the middle of last year and early this year. I didn't post it in there, but I did my last damage farming at around the same time that that thread came up, and my results coincided with what was reported in that thread.

Monet St. Croix aka M

Nice! I logged on nice and early, bought all of the costume bits and emotes, then cashed in all of my extra Astrals on 3 characters for some rare recipes that sold, just as uncrafted recipes, for 1.76 billion or so. I figured that the prices on those would be dropping throughout the day as the supply became a deluge, so I got it done early.

I'd personally describe his powersets as suck/die, but this works. He's a relic of a long ago age, and the only real upgrade that he's gotten since then is common IOs. I've begun rectifying that by taking him into Incarnate Trials, but it's going to be a long process.

You can craft as many as you want, even with the new Lore options. Since Empyreans and Astrals were 1 Inf per to buy on Beta while testing Issue 20.5, I went a little overboard and just crafted every single Incarnate power that there was, Very Rare, Rare, Uncommon and Common, filling up every tree in every slot. They were all there in the Equip tab, with scroll bars to select them.

No, it really doesn't. You said it yourself, you want these things. If you needed them, you'd be being forced. At best you are being coerced, tantalized or encouraged. This isn't being forced. It isn't even a case of semantics, they're way far apart on the spectrum.

I really do hope for something along the lines of dailies as an alternative for earning trial rewards, to be perfectly clear. This is coming from someone who enjoys the trials, mind you.

I think the multiple servers were set up for an earlier idea they had to test global access that they didn't go through with.

As far as how long it will take? However long until they invite you. It's a closed Beta, and is apparently in the very picky early phase this week.

No, I'm making a couple of separate points, as evidenced by those paragraph breaks. I'm saying they can stretch the timeline on the pre-JLA period for Batman and Superman by saying they debuted some years earlier, thus at least giving the Robins a little room to be his sidekicks. Batman being an urban legend plays into it, since it leaves Superman as unique in the public eye for whatever amount of time that he's out there before the others debut, but it probably isn't a necessary condition.

The other point is how I've always found the urban legend idea for Batman in the era after he was a member of the Justice League (and Dick was a member of the Teen Titans) to be stupid, and that even prior to the Justice League, him driving a big, flashy, almost-certainly very noisy high-performance vehicle through Gotham in that era will stretch that idea beyond the breaking point.

As for him being an urban legend supposedly up to No Man's Land, that was a ridiculous concept put forth by Denny O'Neil as one of his freebie retcons from Zero Hour. It invalidated Tim's origin, as you point out, and his definitely in canon appearances in the early years of the post-Crisis Justice League series. It made no sense with his original sidekick, who everyone knew was his sidekick, having been a member of the high-profile Teen Titans. It also hasn't been canon that he was an urban legend anywhere near that late since at least Identity Crisis, which restored him to being active with the very visible Justice League way back before COIE. New canon trumps old canon, always.

The Youtube comment is just to point out the absurdity of him even having the Batmobile and managing to keep his identity secret, much less having his very existence questioned. In the same blog post where he points out that the DCU version of Youtube would be filled with videos of the Batmobile going by, Campbell makes another interesting point. This car, that's very noticeable, goes out of the city in the same direction every time. Any intrepid reporter with half a brain would find the pattern of roads that it always takes within a few months, then camp along one of them to the access road or whatever they converge on, and follow it upward by probably a half-mile every night until they got to whatever one led right to a cave under Bruce Wayne's house. Identity blown right there.