Darmian

Well, sorry to see you go, but glad to hear you're having fun, and that's what matters in the end, isn't it?

Will this (I'm not sure how but I'm asking) need to be reflected in the Siren's Call maps in the AE? Though I don't know if @Lines has already checked this 🙂

The white pieces is a known issue unfortunately. Mainly when you attempt to recolor them to be something different. It's like the color is coded into the shoulder piece/whatever rather than skinned. The Elite Bosses thing? Sheesh. Time for us all to experiment then and see if we can't find some solution.

Oh, like I said above I wouldn't want them back alive, but new stuff set in the past? Why not? Hell, with a recolor of his outfit you could use Manticore's model as the original Manticore and have fun with that! Manticore Senior and a younger BAB, all the fun of the fair before Protean shows up! You could even go all Flashpointy and have a Thomas Wayne-esque Manticore Sr, where young Justin and his mother died. There's a Mender mission for you!

It's Hallowe'en. Lots of peeps with their costumes one 🙂

Speaks for itself really. Welcome to First Ward 🙂

Yeah, it's that time of the month, so I'm polishing up the ego and reiterating my nominations for upcoming Dev Choices. 🙂 (Both come with an intro section detailing "The Story So Far...") In the meantime, keep writing people, there's some great things to be found in the AE Story missions!

Well I'm liking this so far. More Gold Content is good for me. What about people like ME though? Level 50 Goldsiders?

Having read all the comics I like what they're doing, they've changed enough so that it surprises me. And Antony Starr is just great.

Of course these would all be instanced missions in the same way that Mayhem/Safeguards are, because we simply cannot cross over without "naturalizing" as Primal characters. And as soon as we do we lose every access to contacts and arcs that we had Gold side. Or possibly more like the Portal Corps missions?

Thanks, Arcanum. That cut short my googlification! (Still re-reading the end of the novel though for the Brass Monday/Brass Monday Movie idea!)

Interesting. What about those of us who play Praetorians then?

Right, I checked the Brass Monday movie poster outside the cinema in Atlas Park. No actors mentioned, a lot of guff about produced by etc, the only REAL name on there is Robert Weinberg's (which they spelled incorrectly!) as the author, and he wrote The Web of Arachnos. So definitely back to the book for me!

Sheesh, there's a lot of misery in that thread. I don't want him back myself because I'm also an advocate of dead is dead. But that's not the same as I mentioned above. I don't want him back in the now, but then? Yeah, more then!

Seriously? Damn. Who the hell? I'm on Reunion majority (alts on other shards but mainly Reunion) No, don't tell me. Also, LOL, as an Incarnate level 50 Praet who never left, yeah, sure they did ROFL. (Although I do feel a bit bad doing iTrials and tend to stay at the back where the boss can't see me!) Many years ago I was an ST in the Cam, and I used to smack this nonsense down every time I saw it rear its head. Ah well.

And why not? 🙂 Gotta pop along to a cinema and see what's written on that poster. And elsewhere I demanded that at every update (the once a month thing rather than a new issue/page) the cinema start listing something else other than "Rise of the Council"!

ACTUALLY...ACTUALLY...how about a mission set on the SET of the in-world Movie of Brass Monday? It's advertised at the cinemas and all 🙂 Actors playing Statesman and Maiden Justice etc. Ok, I've wandered!

You know, memory fails me on that. Gonna have to research it.

I'd like to take absolute credit for that but I have a hazy memory that the OG Devs talked about it and then didn't do it due to having to turn a map instance into the 1930s. Doesn't mean it couldn't be done but they never did it. What do you need for the 1930s? Period specific autos. NPCs with hats and so on. Period specific police. More Art Deco buildings? I mean the Nemesis army should look identical. Statesman's 1930s costume is known (whether there is a model for it is another thing though). I need to dig out The Web of Arachnos and read that bit again! I mean if Recluse can send you to the 1960s to aid his overthrow of Marchand then...anyway. (And boy have I made use of those 1960s Arachnos outfits in AE!)

Well, I think now that he IS dead we should let him rest, HOWEVER, time travel missions being what they are then he can still play a part and probably should. And I think, if you've read them, Solaverse, I defy any of the StatesHaters to read the novels and not think he's a good and empathetic, and mainly human character, when NOT written by his original creator. Look, it's simple enough here. Superman is created by Siegal & Shuster (and I'm not levelling the hate that JE got at them) but frankly give me Grant Morrison's All Star Superman any day. Statesman is entirely workable as a character, he just needs to BE a character as opposed to a hat for a dev to wear. Who wouldn't want to see a time travel mish set in the 30s at the height of Brass Monday, when States was new and shiny and just earnest?

Or rather that never happened now. 🙂 Retcons! No, my point is he could have been written a lot better (and in the novels he was!) and so much complaint about him is, as we know, effectively a combination of reportage of stupid moves dictated to "move things along" by the original creator, and projecting feelings about that creator on to a character that, like any comic book character, could be rewritten, redeemed, Crisis on Infinite Earthed, whatever, to be better than any of that.

If they ever addressed anything about the full fomorian courts or how the tuatha...no, I have to stop. I have issues with the frankly terrible way that Croatoa's denizens are depicted and presented. It's so "Evil Disney" as opposed to what the actual myths are like. ARGH. The BEST that can be said for Croatoa is that possibly they are all "American Gods" versions of the denizens, because they ain't anything I recognise.

Were there some questionable choices made in depicting his actions in the game and the comic? Yep. Retcon them. We're in a comic book world here. Retcon them. Turns out it didn't happen that way!

As a character he had so much potential, and if you can get your hands on a copy of The Web of Arachnos then that comes across really well, but sadly that's the height of how he was written. (He wasn't bad either in The Freedom Phalanx novel), There's a lot of bo***cks written about him being a bad character when some are just projecting the use of him on to him as a character independent of his creators, and as, effectively, a comic book style originated character he does have a creator, but that's not the same as ownership. So at the least maybe the STF and LRSF be placed in Ouro like Sister Psyche's TF?

Excellent! I posted a vaguely similar thought a while back: "I think if you want to do something with Echo Galaxy City then Ouro is the answer IMO. Make it an actual level capped "Time Travel Zone" wherein there are missions attempting to warn the residents of the impending meteor strike. Of course they fail, but what else is discovered along the way? Link it to BAB in present Atlas even, making him a contact as opposed to a trainer because frankly no one really trains with him. Every now and then I suppose but mostly not. "Hey, $name, don't I know you from somewhere? Did we meet in Galaxy City?" But your idea has far more focus and makes more sense regarding a Lore reason to get Ouro powers, Furthermore, yes Echo DA needs more love. Personally I prefer it to the current version. "Silent Hill" DA was MY DA 🙂