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If you're tanking on a team, you'll want to hold aggro as much as you can. Ideally, of course.

Not really, but it does appear that the Center was hiding a considerable amount of power, maybe to rout Hitler's forces after the war if the Axis powers won. I mean, he was able to place Requiem as a mole as Hitler's blackguard. That's power.

We still don't really know what caused the break between the Council and Arachnos.

At least they don't have the male faces any more.

Seems pretty together to me. You can always check the Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations to be sure.

I'm still trying to find the quote that shows that the Well is the actual source of all super powers.

Is it really the Well itself that's sentient, or something in the Well?

*arms trolling ray*

If we don't, though, we'd have to start stealing stuff from Malta.

If you had a dollar, and I gave you $999, the amount you have now has gone up 1000% from what you had before.

Actually, for some hat options, you have 160 colors for hats, and 160 colors for the hair under those hats.

Just sayin'.

Well, the only Praetorians we've gotten to know again through gold side are Tyrant, Marauder, Anti-Matter, Neuron, Mother Mayhem, Chimera, Dominatrix, and Mynx. We don't really get to relearn the motivations of Battle Maiden, Black Swan, Malaise (though that might not be too hard), Infernal, Diabolique, Seige and Nightstar until we actually have to fight them, so for all we know they could still be the "using your blood to write on the wall" kind of nuts that we already know.

Primal Hamidon has been known to have the intelligence and know-how to hijack dimensional rift technology to try and invade other dimensions. Would be bad if his more powerful Praetorian version got his hands on it.

'course, that won't answer the question why we don't try and scrap all of the portal tech over there, and then let Praetorian Hami take over. Maybe the heroes wouldn't like those aesthetics, but the villains might not care so much...

He's not. You can see from the Echo of Ruladak the Strong that whatever's at the end of the Storm has by that time bent Rulaaru to its will.
He's not, and was never meant to be. He's just the first obstacle.

I actually haven't seen that list yet.

Well sure it makes sense. I'm sure they'll get around to it. I don't recall any time that the developers said they didn't want to.

^

That's really an issue that's split between two different problems:
1) I think BAB told a story about how they initially had power customization, at least in terms of changing colors, for Mastermind henchmen. When they were starting out, he asked one of the art folks to apply a blue swatch to some MM zombies. They became bright blue smurfs.

Basically, they'd have to spend time making sure the color mapped to the right portion of the texture over the character model.

2) This isn't even considering the entirely new models and 'ugraded' bits they'd have to make for each model for them to make sense. I saw your suggestions in another thread, n' I thought they were kinda interesting. The art team is already overtaxed as it is, though, and implementing a new character model for play involves a bit more than fitting it over a generic humanoid animation skeleton. So, I don't know what their budget would be to do even just this part without having a reason to bundle it in with other content.

I do think it's possible to apply customization to Incarnate abilites. There's already weapon customization for Mace Mastery and Munitions Mastery, though this works a bit differently than changing the shader color for FX powers. However, I think they would have to change things so that every player already has every Incarnate ability, but they only become visible/usable/active when they have the appropriate enhancement slotted. Similarly, each player has the power in their power customization list (or whatever it's called) but all save the one they're currently using are locked and invisible.

Note that I have no actual idea how the costume/power customization code works.

In any case, I'd have the actual mechanics for the Lore slot ingame before any tweaking is done on it "for fun."

I told someone I was going to try and stay constructive

so "No."

I like this post on both points.

I blame the past openness of the developers. Now everyone and his or her brother thinks they can change the game by hollering loudly enough.

Everyone.

(Imagines Venture looking all grayscale, sitting at a big oak desk, counting bills in a dark room lit by a single lamp and smoking a cigar as he says this.)

D:

Come on, man. Even I'll say that over nine thousand is really kinda sick.

No, because of the subscription agreement you signed. Shake your tiny fist all you like.

Who is "we?"

'Quality of Life' means features of the user interface and user options to make the game more friendly.

What they want. To be honest, the common thread seems to be 'non-Praetorian, non-Incarnate (story), 1-3 player content.'

Herpaderp, reading comprehension fail on my part. I guess it really is gonna be a zone, and a blue-side zone at that.

Really? I think it'll either be an office building entrance or mushroom portal entrance.

This is a mission map, not a zone, I believe.
It's way too small to be an entire zone.

Have you run Vincent Ross yet?

I'm not sure if the Well is actually the source of all power, other than to give a jump start to the new age of supers, since there's in-canon evidence of super-powered beings before Statesman and Recluse drank from the Well. The five origins we use right now actually seem to be determined by the state of the 'power grid' thing that Dr. Brainstorm was trying to tinker with.

I think the only reason that people roll their eyes at the Origins of Power explanation of things is that it was explained way too fast for something that was supposed to be a fundamental piece of canon, in a 'Oh, by the way, ALL MYSTERIES OF LIFE REVEALED' sort of way. If the idea had been introduced more slowly that superpowered beings exist not by chance alone, but by destiny or potential as well, I think it would have been recieved better/more seriously. I think it's okay, for what's been done.

I'm sure we'll find out what the real motivation of the Well entity is in the future, because I don't think many people buy it's "I don't believe in good or evil, only power and will" stance, because that's a position that most villains claim to take as well. I mean, Merulina seemed to have a pretty good idea of what it was up to, and when she tried to stop it, it killed her and helped Calystix turn her corpse into a gigantic sea monster. Jeez.