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For me it's the existence of Longbow itself, something ol' States had issues with on a gut level. I reckon he saw it as a mirror of Recluse's Arachnos, even if she didn't, and I think if he did he was right.

AH! I have such sights to show you! But spoilers!

Applauds! And if half of the madness I propose re shifting the "political" focus of Arachnos were ever implemented, ie letting them pull back so as to actually take MORE control from the shadows, that might help too. Linky!

There you go! We're not on the same shard so I'll just leave this here for you 😄

Double Zero in Call of Cthulhu = OH BLOODY HELL! RUN!

Just another screenshot! The sky in First Ward is beautiful and clear directly after a Seed of Hamidon takedown.

Thanks for answering, and it looks like a lot of tedious work. But I'm still going to ask for it to be done. As an advocate of the AE as a legitimate alternative to demanding Piecemeal somehow cloning themselves and neither of them ever sleeping again I don't see it as being too big an ask. Now, my hyperbolic "ALL DA MAPS" may be too big an ask, but perhaps some. Would it be worthwhile us AE writers looking at the current list and comparing it with what is missing and of that "missing" list, whittling it to a set of doables? And as always I caveat these things with great appreciation for all you wonderful devs do!

Sounds fun, wouldn't be. @CrudeVileTerror has a possible answer. Over to you!

I have THREE "Ones"! But that's it. The others are fun fun fun, but those three I return to again and again.

Is it? Never had an issue with it. Well, learn something new everyday.

Goldsiders 4EVAH!

No, I don't think that is the reason. Nova Praetoria, Imperial City, Neutropolis, the three Undergrounds, First Ward, Night Ward, Last Bastion, those are are the reasons. I don't want to derail the great discussion going on here but I think we need to avoid "Endgame Mentality" creep. For PEATs to work they have to work from the start.

Couple that with the alignment/tips/morality thing and you could really bend reality around yourself. Sorry, Positron, diplomatic immunity there, can't touch me. (I've got JUST enough on my hero alignment bar to keep you off my back but not so much that I can't actually DO my agenda.)

True...however, if DFBs had damn GHOULS in them then maybe they would be less popular!

Can you not hide them though?

Ok, a lot to think about there. Wanders off to muse.

That's a LOT of interesting toons! Also, where do you find the time???

Bear with me everyone, slight digression for @Doomguide2005. My main, Kameron Daniels, (pictured in avatar) is a level 50 Goldsider, got the incarnates. So, no, you cannot get to Ouroborous as a Goldsider, so you can't do the Mender Ramiel missions, or talk to Prometheus or any of that. You level up and you earn everything through threads and shards, and it's totally doable, you just haven't anything to, not shortcut things for you but to point the way. You can however access Ouro missions, but only Praetorian ones, via a crystal in an SG base, so that really helps. Plus you can do Cathedral of Pain, the Summer Block Buster, and all of the iTrials. Last Bastion is a bugbear for me as a goldsider, in that it is an area of Praetoria that no non crossing Praetorian can go! You need to work with Number Six to access it and other Praetorian instances that are closed to actual Goldsiders (as opposed to Goldsider originated toons). Lore-wise? You don't learn anything about the Well if I'm staying in character now, you just find yourself getting stronger and more powerful. Hmm, that at least might need to be addressed! Ok, happy to answer more questions on incarnate Goldsiders as I have spent the last six months pushing against as many limits as I can. Back to the topic at hand, thanks for everyone's forbearance.

This definitely needs looking at and I reiterate @CrudeVileTerror's comments about asynchronous pseudo PVP re Bank jobs. If a villain does a bank job then give them the option for allowing their toon to be doppelgangered as the next actual villain a hero meets when doing a Safeguard. and vice versa. It'd be fun, interesting (especially as it would cross shards) and still not have the baggage of having to retool a zone for PVP. As for the villains being outnumbered more than 2 to 1? Well, the heroes can't seem to clear out Level 1 Hellions from Atlas Park despite that so...YMMV.

More lovely thoughts from people regarding what can be done 🙂 I'm still waving the flag though, that all of this is for naught if you're just going to (a) leave for Primal at 20ish or (b) leave for Primal at 40ish having gone through FW and NW. Gold side in addition to this needs at least one 40 to 50 additional zone, possibly some variation of Last Bastion, and the ability of any Gold sider to interact with Primal earth/Primal Earth forces without becoming effective natives of Primal Earth. Right, that's that reiterated. I'll stop ranting about it now.

Well, that's a fair point. How about an ACU or a BCU with a human consciousness trapped within it?

Personally, while a lot of thought has gone into the above DE ideas, I'm not feeling it. I'd see something more along the lines of Noble Savage or a Ghoul who has broken from the mindless rage somehow. Links to a former life, links to the Forlorn. I dunno, I'm just throwing stuff out here. Or the sometimes mentioned "True AI" of an awakened Clockwork (not that sort of Awakened!),

I agree it's probably more complicated than I imagine, but it's also entirely doable, isn't a major introduction of plot content or powersets so shouldn't be impossible.

I'm damn proud of my Praetor badge as it's not straight sailing to get a Praetorian to level 50 without leaving. I earned that Praetorship!

Gold Loyalist Incarnate here. (Getting Duncan to give me that Praetor Badge was sweet) Long Live the Emperor!