JKCarrier

I've been accused of being a packrat in real life. But in-game, I hate seeing that stuff pile up. Every session, the last thing I do before I log off is pop into my base and vendor anything and everything that can be vendored. I feel you on the IOs...I've got a pile of level 10 Taunt, Confuse, and Sleep IOs (created back when I was chasing the crafting badges) that have been sitting in the Market at rock-bottom prices for like a year. They'll probably never sell.

A boost to Damage Resistance, because you're wearing a hardhat?

I wonder how much of this concern is just because "Sally" is such a cute name? I mean, nobody complains about the unprovoked beat-downs we give to Hamidon on the regular...

"Why did the farmer hit his mule with a 2-by-4?" "Because first, you have to get his attention." Sally is in a place she shouldn't be. She doesn't mean harm, but she's going to be a danger to any civilians she runs across, and vice-versa. You can't explain this to her, because she's a dumb beast. So the easiest, most humane solution is to give her a good smack -- not enough to cause permanent damage, but enough to convince her to turn around and go back where she came from.

Terpsichore is Greek, while Manticore (I just found out) comes from Old Persian. So they wouldn't necessarily be pronounced the same. Although it would be funny if Manticore had a Greek arch-enemy who always called him "Man-tickory", just to get on his nerves.

You could get a pretty interesting movie by positioning a book-accurate, borderline-sociopathic Bond as the villain. MI-6 looks the other way because he's useful and effective, but eventually he goes too far and they decide they have to take him off the board. The story is told from the point of view of the agent sent to take him out, and they wrestle with the fact that this guy is legit a hero who saved the world multiple times, but also a loathsome human being. But yeah, what we'll probably get is some bland, forgettable "Bond-Lite".

It's a fun idea, but risky from the devs' point of view. Allowing players to insert custom characters into regular missions is just begging to be abused. At best, I could maybe see allowing us to pick an existing boss, change their name and costume (but not their powers) and have them turn up randomly.

I want a Softcore Server. It would be exactly like the regular servers, except that all the missions where you have to fight Silver Mantis are removed.

Clark's disguise might not make strict logical sense (as if anything about Superman and his ridiculous powers made logical sense). But it works metaphorically, because we all know from experience how often people will dismiss or underestimate someone based on superficial impressions.

I like to alternate between blue- and red-side, just for the sake of variety. Null the Gull makes it trivially easy to switch back and forth whenever you feel like it. Of course, I know a lot of people take their character concepts and stories very seriously, and switching sides willy-nilly would spoil their immersion. I think a lot of people just don't want to play the bad guy, period. In another thread, someone suggested that there could be special Hero contacts in the red zones, with story arcs that were flavored as "stealth" or "undercover" missions in enemy territory. It's a neat idea, but I'm not sure even that would move the needle much in terms of population.

There was a story in the 1970s where they "revealed' that Clark had been subconsciously hypnotizing everyone all these years into thinking that Clark and Superman didn't look alike. It was widely ridiculed, and almost immediately got swept under the rug and forgotten.

Ironically, Jack Kirby had the same problem. His wife Roz joked that she had to do all the driving, because if Jack got behind the wheel, he'd get distracted thinking about stories and end up running into a tree.

Keep in mind that most Contacts will buy stuff off of you too, so you don't even have to go out of your way. When you're picking up a new mission, just take a moment to click on the "Store" option in the dialogue, and dump your crap right there. If you have a supergroup base, you can place a vendor there for added convenience.

Perhaps, but pretty much any change you make to the game is going to have a domino effect on other systems. If everyone can go everywhere, how does that impact the Alignment system? Badges? Task Forces? And how would Praetoria fit into all of this?

Boy, I would love that. It would be a huge undertaking, though.