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What does AoE buffs have to do with Destiny or procs have to do with Interface? The only current slots that fit their name are Alpha and Judgement. Alpha because it is the first slot and Judgement because it fits various instances of God judging unworthy people by smiting them. The other slots are just as likely to not fit their name.

I would rather have us not do this method, but create our own pets with Praetorian powers. A Coralax with Seer powers is not something I can get my head around since Coralax have their own style of attacks. A Mind Flayer with Seer powers is something I have no problem with since there is no preconception of what a Mind Flayer does.

Having us all have the same pets allows us to look at our teammates and know exactly what we can expect from their pets. I know that this teammate has a couple of pets which deal lots of control and this teammate has a couple of pets which just deal damage. Allowing customization would not allow us to know what their pets could do at a cursory glance. Which is probably one of the main reasons why the lore slot is set this way.

How is this irrelevant? Either the devs would have to add more npcs to the lore set with no major changes except tweaking the numbers a bit, add some new npcs to the various groups, or allow us to create our own pet with our own choice of powers.

Say I choose the Warrior pet for my Lore slot. Either I am severely limited in what they can do or the devs would have to add a few more npcs to the Warrior group so I have the same options as another person that took a better selection for their Lore slot. The problem is bringing up the Warriors pets to other enemy groups so they are balanced or ignore them which might anger a few people that have good reason to pick Warriors.

Creating pets similar to the AE system brings up other problems as numerous people that have tested the AE system know. It is just too easy to create characters that are too powerful in the AE system. My Illusion/Granite Armor pet with Robots/Rad pet would makes things very difficult to balance.

The only other option is to have full customization with lots of different power animations to accommodate whatever choice we want, but limit it to the powers of the current Praetorian pets. I could change the Seers to be robe-wearing Mages that use spells to knock people out. They are still Seers as far as the game is concerned, but to me they would be Mages.

All of these options would take more time and resources to achieve and some might not even be possible. Therefore, changing the Lore slot to accommodate a vocal minority would delay other features from being added. Keeping the Lore set simple is a way for us to get it now and not in I30.

It is nice to be the only super-powered entity around, but if you gain powers, then someone else can use powers and they will most likely use them for personal gain. The whole idea of a person gaining powers (political or super) makes their deepest desires in the forefront. Some peoples deepest desire is heroism while others are villainy. There is also various deepest desires that have nothing to do with super battles. For example if I had super powers, then I would save the people I can, but I would be busy learning about the universe. What is the closest planet with extraterrestrial life? What does it feel like to be standing on a neutron star? In other words, if I had super powers, then I would be a Superscientist.

I imagine it deals with unnecessary pain and injury. Teach a special forces technique to someone that can't control their body well and they could kill a person instead of just restraining them. Or worse yet, they get in a fight with their friends, family, strangers at a bar and they get sent to prison for manslaughter. It will be a while before it is possible to train proper restraint. A chip in the brain could solve this.

It is on the Endangered List so it is just as likely to be cancelled as it will be renewed. It is all based on TV executives that usually have no idea what makes for good television. IMO good television is stuff that is memorable even after twenty years after the series finale not having millions of people watching the same garbage.

Better than the original TV series, but debatable if it is better than the original miniseries.

That everything is going to be reality television? /shudder

The twinkie is a LIE.

My analogy was based on the assumption that we would have to physically manipulate objects from orbit not create machines that can manipulate the objects for us. Physically manipulating atoms is currently possible with Scanning Tunneling Microscopes. Creating microscopic machines to manipulate atoms is not currently possible.

Although I agree that other new science topics should get their say as well.

There was one of Asimov's books where a robot was created without the Three Laws. It amounted to them starting from scratch since they were hardcoded. Another robot developed the Zeroth Law where it can't let humanity fall to harm. Then there was a bunch of robots that were programmed to kill humans by changing the definition of human. There are ways around any law.