Nylonus

Originally Posted by StormVyxen

Ny - Would you still be on a diet if I said a gorgeous guy was going to jump out of the cake?

Thanks for all the birfday wishes so far! You guys rock!

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Well, you can win - but only with the ultimate victory - which is a choice in the options menu to disable or enable all buffs - it'd make everyone happy

Originally Posted by Castle

This is a situation I cannot win with. I removed the prompt; people complained until I was told to put it back. Now it's back, a completely different set of people get to complain.

Originally Posted by Lady Athyna

Like stalking is a bad thing...

Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper

Doesn't the Riddler wear spandex...?

Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

TT ran pretty smoothly. Only one or two deaths the whole evening (while I was able to play). Running at +2x8 at L50 with a group composed mostly of 20-30-somethings (and one guy at L4 IIRC) the Protector Panzer Division came, saw, and tanked with a full team the entire time.

CoT, Arachnos, Council, and even Carnies simply couldn't stand up to the onslaught.

Unfortunately I had to leave about an hour in. But it was nonstop fun.

Three rules for coming to Tanker Tuesday:

1: Bring a Tank
2: Show Up
3: Follow the Tank.

Originally Posted by Pendix

Ok, time for my own crazy, homebrew Nemesis Theory.

*hands out some tin-foil-hats*

Nemesis has /always/ known about the Coming Storm, even before he became Lord Nemesis. And now for a story:

A long time ago in Prussia, there lived a young man, let’s call him Gerhardt. Perhaps he was a brilliant scientist, or maybe a simple toymaker, whatever he was, one fateful day he invented (or discovered) a way to travel between dimensions. Gerhardt wandered the many various alternate realities for many years, he learnt a great deal from his wanderings, mastering a strange steam-powered technology. He saw many strange and wonderful things, things that left him in awe, things that scared him.

Soon though he began to see a strange pattern; world after world, earth after earth, lying in ruin, devastated by some unnamed force. In some the devastation was old, in some fresh. Sifting through the ashes he would piece together the history of these worlds and he realised that this threat was coming for every earth, in every reality, even his own. The only difference was the time-frame. In fear for his home he sought ways to halt the threat, examining worlds that had lost and seeking out those that already caught up in the threat. When he finally returned home he had come up with a plan for combating this . . . Coming Storm.

His travels had taught him much, but mainly that adversity breeds strength. He knew that if his home, his earth, Primal Earth, was to survive it would need the strongest of defenders. If he was to ensure that Earth’s defenders were strong enough he would need to ensure they faced the greatest of challenges. He would need to, not just engineer those challenges, that adversity, he would need to become it. He would need to ensure that every defender of earth, every super powered individual, every Hero, faced a brilliant, ruthless, implacable . . . Nemesis.

And now for a word from our spons . . . I mean; some supporting evidence.

This is why all his plots ultimately fail; because they were never meant to succeeded, they were meant to challenge Heroes. If the heroes succeed, they get stronger, if they fail; weakness has been weeded out.

That’s why he has so many plots going at once, to challenge as many Heroes as possible at the same time.

That’s why he (spoiler) went to so much trouble to get the Rikti to invade, what better way to prepare a world for a devastation alien invasion, than by cutting it’s teeth on a smaller one.

That’s why he (spoiler) had control of the world’s weather for 2 years and nobody noticed (seriously; look up the “Meteorologist” badge).

That’s why he (spoiler) had nearly complete national mind-control network (the “Get Track Sample” mission from Maxwell Christopher), and never finished it or brought it online. He wasn’t avoiding using it because he wanted people to “love him of their own free will”, it was a set up, just waiting for a Hero to come along and be ‘challenged’ by it.


Weird Upshot of this theory; it would mean that the entire premise of our game; that of becoming more powerful by defeating ever increasing challenges . . . is a Nemesis plot.

Originally Posted by BigYeti

Ugh!! Real life has reared its ugly head and I will be unable to attend this evening I will try to rearrange life so I am available next Tuesday.

Originally Posted by Trickshooter

I'd rather have both. These smaller meet-ups at Cons for people that just want to meet the Devs, and Hero-Con for the rest of us.

I was very much looking forward to Hero-Con this year, mostly to meet so many of my in-game friends at once. Even if I went to one these smaller ones, I doubt any specific one of them would bring together the number of friends who would have gone to Hero-Con.

Not to mention, why would I want to travel to any of those cons when the only part of them I'd be interested in was the CoH stuff. I'd rather have a con just for CoH, ie Hero-Con.

Originally Posted by Silverado

***SPOILER WARNING***

They show a hammer. What Marvel superhero is associated with a hammer, that the SHIELD agent might be interested in for the "initiative" they're assembling?