poptart_fairy

This.

Once again you're demanding the writers consider every single possible consequence. It's an awful comparison, too; authors have the freedom to do that, but game writers do not simply due to the medium.

It's the ridiculous hyperbole that's been attached to it.

No you're not. You're awfully, horribly, terribly wrong to do so. You hyped up the content as something that it wasn't, created a character under that mindset, then got uppity when it turned out things weren't consistent. Half a dozen ranty paragraphs changes nothing in that regard.

I was pointing out how inherently stupid the analogy was. Comparing metahumans to the average soldier or mother on the street is...yeah.

Go back and read the context of what you responded to. For god's sake, just do it. Please. Then think on how silly you're being.

I have absoluely nothing against this. My issue is, however, with people that insist everything they do is IC, and refuse to acknowledge that their chosen character concepts simply do not work in certain situations - it's similar to the frustratingly common "oh yeah i'm not really a hero i'm a villain shhhhh" sorts that were roleplaying their way around the likes of Atlas.

It's one thing to come up with an Awesome Super Background, but I don't think people have any grounds to stand on if the setting makes it unworkable.

Why don't you ask people who were hyping that up, rather than bunching up your panties at me when you clearly don't understand anything I'm saying.

So in other words you want binary choices, unless it's a binary choice you disagree with. Alright then. Thread's over, folks.

You did catch the part where I was talking in a general sense, right.

Knickers, untwist. thx.

The problem is your character, not the setting.

Why the hell don't people take into account the political atmosphere and state of the city when creating backgrounds. This irks the living hell out of me, creating a character first and bending everything to accomodate it, rather than vice versa.

You're not forced to kill in CoX, not when meta powers are involved.

Then disable exp gain during the filler. Duh.

im sorry theres no rule saying this so i can get away with it

/whoosh

Ugh.

I would unironically love this if they changed it to several pristine rooms, and the 'boss' was indeed a bald guy in a suit who would die after a single shot.

it doesn't say we can't use info gained as players rather than characters either

/thread

No thank you. Too many fantasy MMOs on the market as it is. I'd rather like to have one game that avoids the temptation of bowing down to dragons and elves.

When it comes to a character respecting the lore and someone who doesn't, then damn straight the person who respects it is going to take precedence. Otherwise there's no point in playing with an established setting.

Your "but but why don't you follow the story arcs exactly" argument was just a pathetic attempt at distracting from that. Either that or you just had no idea what it was you were saying.

this is a moronic argument and you should feel bad

"I feel players should stay within the game lore."

"WHY CAN'T YOU STAY WITHIN THE LORE HURP HURP"

Yeah.

/edit - As I have a feeling even something that blunt will fly over peoples' heads: there is a world of difference between taking your PVE progress as a literal story in the canon, andrespecting the baseline lore presented to us. As far as strawmans go, yours is an incredibly dense one.