RadDidIt

Originally Posted by Leandro

New badge in Firebase Zulu: Stormwatcher.

"It was here that Earth's explorers first encountered the mysterious entities of the Shadow Shard. Their threat was implicit and the need to keep them contained became a driving force in the establishment of Tempest Sector. As a representative of Paragon City, you have joined the fight to prevent the denizens of the Shadow Shard from extending their range into your home dimension. Some see their discovery of Primal Earth's dimension as inevitable; a "coming storm" which could rival the Rikti Invasion in destructive potential."

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

The one thing I was worried about, and still have no answer to, is whether net influence is flowing *to* the red side or *out* of the red side. If the markets are functioning correctly after the merge, net inf should be flowing into the red side at the moment. If net inf is flowing out of the red side, it points to potential long term problems which we wouldn't be able to see clearly yet.

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

You know it's bad when I agree with the Geko of Darkness.

Originally Posted by Scythus

That's what you did wrong there. You should have brought in a tray full of purple.

Originally Posted by Shubbie

Im finnished now, I already dropped it.

Im saying this is bad game design, the teaming situation is doubly exasperated by villian imbalance, no cross faction and people are dropping it all over the place.

Originally Posted by DumpleBerry

This just in:

I18: DON'T GIVE US INCARNATES WITHOUT CONTENT!!!
I19: DON'T GIVE US INCARNATES WITH CONTENT!!!

Now, back to your regularly scheduled forums.

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

Getting a bit personal attacky now, Rad.
Immitation and flattery and all that, but, y'know...

Originally Posted by Lothic

There's always a bit of time between when they say they are up and when they really are.

Originally Posted by Lasher

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

I'm sorry, did I miss somewhere where it said we have to play AS Calvin Scott? All the man does is manage the Resistance. You never work directly FOR him until the very end, and you can choose to stiff him at that point. And for good reason.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

That's if you buy into the idea that Praetoria is a utopia, which it isn't. What Praetoria has more akin with the city in Logan's Run. What Praetoria is is a cross between utopia justifies the means and a world half empty. It's a horrible, violent, hostile world where humans have found some small haven run on happy thoughts and methodical violence, where people are oppressed and controlled for their own good.

That's not to say that the regime is strictly EVIL, as Cole and his dictatorship are, after all, solely responsible for saving the world from complete depopulation, so they did at least a few things right. However, that's not to say that the regime is strictly GOOD, as Cole has seen fit to rob people of their rights, their free will and, in fact, their very world, breeding them like pets. So on the one hand, he is the saviour of the world, but on the other hand, he IS the slave driver and slave owner of the world.

Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano

Male Arachnos agents that display Psi powers are taught to focus them inwardly and are funnelled into the Bane Spider program. If they show no aptitude for Psi but are otherwise exemplary agents with good leadership skills they are promoted up to Wolf Spider Huntsman and if they're willing to undergo extensive training and surgery they go into the Crab spiders.

Female Arachnos agents that display Psi powers are taught to focus them outwardly, if they are gifted enough in Precognition and have higher mental prowess than physical prowess they get shifted into the Fortunatas, a little Psi skill but greater combat skills, into the Night Widows.

If I remember my fluff correctly it goes:
Wolf Spiders: Regular police force.
Crab Spiders: SWAT division.
Bane Spiders: Military Commando unit.

Originally Posted by MunkiLord

Honestly my biggest problem with the current exploit is the name of two of my characters.

Munki and MunkiLord. I've had several people over the past few weeks accuse me of naming my characters after the farms and being an AE baby. This despite MunkiLord having close to 400 badges, all the accolades, and almost every blue side TF badge(and being around for at least two years).

Munki is a praetorian that I haven't played nearly as long, so his badge total is much lower.

It's actually kinda irritating.

Originally Posted by Feycat

I like the way Sam thinks.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

So the arguments people made where they powerlevelled to 50 where the game was supposed to begin were justified, then? We should have all new players just get powerlevelled to 50? And the claims people made that they couldn't find a decent team which wasn't door sitting and were constantly badgered with bridge and mid requests weren't justified?

Please don't insult my intelligence. If you let people ruin their own fun, they will, and that's a fact. Don't believe me? What do you think would happen if the developers instituted a "Level to 50" button at character creation for every player to use? How long do you think the game would survive? You may or may not be perfectly happy just replaying the level 50 content, but I can tell you this for a fact - the general community will collapse.

Want a very practical example of how people powerlevelling are hurting ME? The prices at Wentworts' are absurd. Yes, they mean I can sell high, but they also mean I can't buy squat. I'm just fortunate enough that I've been playing characters too low for inventions. But that's just on the verge of no longer being the case.

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As far as cats go, yes, to allow a cat to overeat to that level constitutes taking poor care of the animal. To allow players to "overeat" constitutes precisely the same level of poor care of the players. And let's not flatter ourselves. "The players" are not better than this. I've seen this more than enough times in the last six years to know better.

And, yes, my grandmother did indeed take care of cats. She never owned any. She was a peasant woman with a large yard where stray cats took shelter and whom she fed. Need I remind you that I don't live in the US, nor did I 20 years ago?

Originally Posted by MunkiLord

That may have been his intent. But a lot of people(if not most) perceived it as a pissed off rant. And how it is perceived is the only thing that matters. His intent isn't relevant in the least bit.