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Just make a Mommy-themed toon the leader of the SG.

Except under this hypothetical challenge Marcus Valerius is out because you cannot drop the last mission in a story-arc and therefore not gain access to Cimerora.

My personal baseless optimism is that the Halloween event is so short this year because I19 is already ready but they don't want to release the Issue at the same a holiday event is happpening, so they're cutting the Halloween event short to get I19 out sooner.

Naturally this will turn out wrong because I19 is supposed to be released "soon(tm)" and not soon.

I am fairly sure that getting higher tiers of contacts requires you to have a higher security level, which in turn requires training, so I guess at least the 'no training' question is out.

My favorite part about Longbow is that they often burst on the scene shouting "Halt in the name of Longbow!" They don't act in the name of justice, or in the name of the law, or for anyone else. They act on their own accord and for themselves.

The thing about Longbow is that they're really just good guys by technicality. Their methods, philosophy and ethics are highly questionable, but they're fighting the bad guys so they get to call themselves the good guys.

I'd just say stick with B, but just form small teams of three or four.

With short and erratic playtimes there's really no way to reliably get a full team without, as you said, wasting half your playtime already. Finding one or two people takes a whole lot less time than finding seven people, so really just ought to cut down on recruitment time and team-size.

You were able to talk down Praetor Duncan because she took a solid hit to her influence and popularity while you're Praetoria's new favorite hero. She couldn't possibly retaliate in broad daylight without the populace regarding her as a psychopath and possibly even Resistance sympathiser. At that point Emperor Cole would be forced to decide between helping out his granddaughter but risking losing the populace's love and respect, or take Duncan's Praetorship away and maybe even have her killed to show that nobody's allowed to go against Praetoria.

Meanwhile, in your encounter with Cole you're in someplace secret. Cole would just tear you apart in combat if he thought you were threatening him and his regime. On the public, political stage, Emperor Cole is still the beloved saviour of the world. He would just need to say that you're a Resistance member and that you orchestrated the events prior to the morality mission to destroy Cole's image and everyone would believe him.

Remember that the Power storyline is all about getting, well, power. That is, both in the combat and in the political sense. Your work against Praetor Duncan and with Praetor Berry is all to maintain your own base of power while trying to open up a spot for a new Praetor by getting rid of an old one. All you do is for the purpose of rising through the ranks and gaining said power. At the point you meet Emperor Cole, you may be the Powers Division's greatest Top Dog and Praetoria's new favorite hero, but you're still just a member of the Powers Division. Would you really give up all your progress for just one moment of pride?

Unrelatedly, I kinda figured that you of all people would hate the orange text simply because it's there to state your character's thoughts and motives. At least, I am pretty sure you are one of the people who are very vocal about disliking red-side doing similar things.

It's assumed that you're essentially a bad person when you choose to do Crusader and Power arcs while it's assumed you're a good person when you choose to do the Warden and Responsibility arcs and the choices you get in Morality missions reflect that. The good guy morality missions are usually presented as two ways you are trying to help people that both have undesirable consequences whereas in the bad guy arcs it's more about what direction you want to develop your power and influence in.

If your character is outraged by what the Crusaders are doing, the simple option is to stop doing their story arcs and either go back to the Wardens or chat up the first contact of a Responsibility chain. Remember, you can do the Responsibility story-arcs regardless of your alignment.

What I'm kinda curious about is how Corruptors now compare to Blasters and Defenders now that Defenders got their solo damage buff. Do Corruptors still do more raw damage than Defenders or did that change?

What actually bothers me is that I think Doc Quantum is supposed to get a blue rectangle halfway through the fight so he can explain his masterplan to you, but that never happens and I just finish the mission never knowing the full story.

Black Scorpion is a buddy. The answer is obvious.

Haha, wow, I'm the only one who'd the tell newbie hero to stop being a hero.

To me, "less experienced, less efficient" means they don't know what they're getting into and are likely to get overwhelmed and killed. If I was a superhero I'd be out to protect people and for me that also means keeping people from getting into life-threatening situations. I couldn't in good conscience let someone try to be a hero when I fear they would just get themselves killed.

So with the Fitness set becoming inherent in Issue 19, I'm wondering if Health is worth three-slotting with Healing or not.

Currently I usually just pick Health at 16, three-slot it with Healing at 17 and then call it a day. Stamina gets the same treatment at 20/21, of course. Now the problem is that with Fitness becoming inherent, I essentially get three more powers, but I lose four slots for those powers if I three-slot both Health and Stamina.

Now I'll still three-slot Stamina, but I'm wondering if Health really gives enough benefits to be worth three-slotting or if I should really just stick with one Healing Enhancement and call it a day.

Also, please note that I usually only bother with SOs or generic IOs. I know that IO sets can give me some quite nice benefits, but I don't really care enough about that to bother with the necessary marketeering and build-planning. I'm mainly concerned about SO/Generic IO builds here.

All threads are property of the State of Golden Girl, didn't you know?

This was about half a year ago and I already forgot the GM's name, but there was this bugged mission door during a Silver Mantis SF that almost ruined our attempt. See, everytime we tried to enter the door, we'd crash.

After two whole-team crashes (and losing two SF members to them), we decided to file a bug report. After a short wait for a GM and quickly explaining the problem to him, he auto-completed the bugged mission for once and we were able to successfully complete the SF.

Also note that you can basically spy on both sides at the same time. The only requirement for the "undercover" options is that you have your faction-leader's phone number, so if you pick one side at the tutorial and the other in your first morality mission, you get to call both Calvin Scott and Provost Marchand and get their respective undercover options.

Why your toon would do that is up to you, but the option to sabotage both sides at the same time does exist.

I think it was SexyJay that said it in one of the GR ViDocs, but in this game you don't just make a lumberjack, you make a Super Lumberjack. I am pretty sure that's the philosophy that went into the four new sets, especially Dual Pistols.

Personally, I like both the more down-to-earth and the more extravagant action scenes, but never in the same movies. I have a soft-spot for Hong Kong martial arts movies from the eighties and while I never watched many Spaghetti Westerns, the few that I did managed to create amazingly tense moments with something as simple as a quick-draw simply because you know that it's just one bullet that will decide between life and death.

However, a lot of the involvement in those fight scenes comes from combat choreography, scene composition, camera angles, etc go into making those fights tense. This being an MMO, though, we lose all of that. There's no combat choreography that makes the interplay between combatants interesting to watch, and there's no skillful use of the camera to make even the smallest strikes seem significant, so all we're left with is the attacks themselves to keep things interesting to watch.

When someone wants cowboy-themed pistol attacks, they want to capture the spirit of those cowboy movies. A quick draw, however, is only interesting as long as you have someone to do a quick draw with. This being an MMO, it's all about you and your powers, and I at least feel that the DP set that we have reflects this nicely. Grand, recognisable attacks. You cannot rely on your enemies to make your attacks look cool, so the attacks themselves look cool.

Conversely, I feel that too many animes and the like look too much like MMOs in that it's all NOW I USE MY NEXT FLASHY ATTACK, an exchange of signature attacks that will just turn formulaic. I think DBZ was especially bad at this when it literally just showed the characters as a trio of lines running across the screen and colliding a lot to imply fighting instead of actually showing any fighting, only to turn static when all their big powers recharged and their player clicked them again. Fluid combat choreography is replaced with character-centric signature attacks and that just makes combat scenes boring to watch.

So yeah, my two cents.

They realised that living in a city known for being overrun by sociopathic criminals is not a good idea and decided to move to some other town with less gangs, cultists and other crazies.

It probably was the -1/x1 difficulty. If you're 20, that means your enemies are 19 and therefore won't drop tips.