Red_Raccoon

I'm in the same delima, there are a couple of packs I want but haven't bought yet. I could wait and buy them with my Paragon Points, but I don't know if they'll be more expensive that way or how much of a pain it will be to buy each costume piece separately. I think I will buy the packs I want now with real cash and save my free Paragon Points to buy the new stuff that I'm sure will be added in the future.

I mostly run story arcs. Just finished running World Wide Red, a great (and long, and at times frrustrating) story arc.

I mostly play solo, though. I find it hard to really enjoy the story behind an arc when teaming, so I can understand why teams aren't as into them.

It's the residual portal from the Praetorian invasion event. I believe they were left in place all Memorial weekend while the badge (Defender of Primal Earth) was still being rewarded for logging in.

You can also save costumes with the costume creator under the character creation menus and select one of those when you later visit the tailor. I never spend more than a minute at the Tailor, all my costumes are premade.

Looking at Paragon Wiki, I see that Allison King and Merisel Valenzuela have several missions in common, which I know is pretty usual, especially among the older contacts. I don't know if it's normal to have two instances of the same mission active at once, because I usually finish one contact before talking to the next. Also, I notice that this Prototype A-12 mission isn't listed in the Wiki under either of those contact's mission lists. Must be new--maybe that has something to do with it?

I think you only way you could get in trouble for having an inappropriate costume (copyright violations nonwithstanding) would be if you use costume parts to create an effect that was unintended by the developers. The only example of this that I can think of was back when certain fleshtones could also be used as costume colors and some players made characters that appeared nude (they have since limited the colors available for costumes to prevent this).

Although your character pictured here is wearing a very skimpy costume, it's because you choose costume parts that were plainly designed to be very skimpy. Heck, you've even added some skulls to cover up a bit more. So no foul there.

I'd also like to point out that while many skimpy costumes seen in game are kind of blatant and unimaginative, yours is actually pretty cool. I approve.

First of all, I have to say I was very impressed by this comic and really enjoyed reading it. I liked the look of the characters and environment (excellent interpretation of Atlas Park) and thought the story was interesting and well written. I would defintely look forward to reading more such creations.

My only criticism is that I'm sure how well the work succeeds as an introduction for new players. When I read it, I tried to imagine that I was a new player with little or no knowledge of the game. While I think there is plenty of useful information imbedded in the comic, it occured to me that if I truly were a new player, there are several places where I would likely come away with misconceptions.

Specifically, I think if I were a new palyer reading this comic, I might well think that:

1) Origins are a pretty important part of the game, not just something added for flavor--page 4

2) The various origin departments located at city hall play an important role, and probably my character will have to report to my origin contact throughout the entire game--page 4 (none of this is explicitly stated, but after the emphasis given to explaining each department, I wouldn't exactly expect that after 5 short levels I'm done with them)

3)The game emphasises that all damage done is non lethal--page 5 (really, isn't that up to the intrepretation of the player? Certainly, a few powersets seem to imply lethal damage. Also thought it interesting to see a knock against vigilantes in Paragon City after the option to become a vigilante was added to the game!)

4)Damage taken in missions need to be removed by visiting a hospital after the mission--page 17 (After Flash-Man fell in combat, I was surprised that Golden Girl didn't explain to him about teleporting to the hospital. Would've been a much better way of demonstrating how the hospital is actually used in game).

5)Boss level enemies need to be captutred and transported to the police by the player, and to do this you'll need to use the right type of handcuff--page 31. (The explanation of different types of handcuffs makes it sound to me like you're describing an actual in-game item that needs to be used correctly)

I realize that a lot of details were added to the comic to add flavor and make it flow more like a real story rather than just a game walk-through, but to a new player, it may be hard to distinguish between what's just added flavor and what is actually game mechanics that they need to learn.

I also thought it odd that the War Walls were mentioned as keeping criminals from moving freely throught the city. They always seem to move freely from zone to zone to me. Although I did think the explanation of why so many buildings seem exactly the same was pretty clever!

Edit: Forgot one. On page 5, the dialogue seems to imply that a character's origin and intial origin contact play some kind of role in how they develop and improve their powers/skills. Again, I know this was just added for flavor, but might make a new player think the decision of which orgin to choose is critical when of course we know it's not.