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Widow marries SoA. SoA dies. Widow keeps memorabilia. Arachnos still doesn't let her/him mix uniforms. And often, showing emotion like that is taken as a sign of weakness and puts the widow in a bad spot with the rest of Arachnos. When it comes to rules and breaking them? Arachnos is heavy into enforcing their structure and stamping out those that break from it for any reason. Even as a SoA/WoA trying to break into the Destined One bit, Arachnos writ large is out to stomp you out of existence for breaking out of your place. Only when you get to the end of the VEAT arc do you finally get a reprieve from Arachnos. And only because you are ruthless enough and powerful enough to impose your will upon the organization. As a VEAT, you express your individuality with your "hero costume" when you try to draw out the first group of Arachnos out to kill you. It is in the expanded costume slots where you take your individuality and make it manifest. Your VEAT uniform however, is still your allowed/required uniform. So take the VEAT costume elements that are available in the regular costume creator and make your hybrid look in the add-on costume slots. Edit: Also, again, the backstory is not constrained by costume. Write your backstory however you want. Noone is saying you can't have whatever backstory you want. Edit again: Hells, the female Arbiters in GV that have SoA/WoA uniform hybrids? Don't have SoA/WoA uniform hybrids. They are Night Widows with the Mace Mastery patron pool. Edit again again: And if you don't believe me about how Arachnos treats WoAs and SoAs or other personnel that may fall in love with each other? Ask the Fortunata in Port Oakes how that goes in Arachnos. She doesn't get to keep or wear memorabilia of her lover. She was even ordered to murder him to prove she didn't love him more than she was loyal to Arachnos. Her memorabilia is his spirit standing next to her enslaved because that is all she is allowed to have.

@QuiJon, your arguments are in conflict. You say you find the power leveling of ToT'ing in PI (or GV) to be a drawback of the events, yet you fixate on pumping up the xp gains even higher. If you want a monthly weekend event to draw people into playing together but are not a fan of the power leveling as espoused by the ToT leagues, then why not a different approach to the idea? What would be an incentive to get people to all come on over the weekend and run content together? That isn't yet higher xp gain rates on top of the already increased xp gain rate and the P2W x2 xp buffs?

Even before the zone rework though, the spawn sizes were always smaller than other hazard zones. You had a LOT of bosses in there, and spawns were often in close proximity to each other, but still not hazard zone sized spawns.

Once you retire from service, yeah, you can wear whichever uniform you please. While you are serving though, you may not wear the wrong uniform. And uniforms can be seized/required to be returned depending on how long you served. Such as by serving less than a full enlistment. (Or as per many fictitious organizations, upon departure from said organization.)

I was going to say that the Halloween decorations are there in Croatoa, but I'm not seeing the ghost window the universities normally have. Even during the eternal night phase.

You're not any more. After the addition of the Galaxy City tutorial and the after tutorial arcs, Wincott is no longer referenced. If you want to do the Hollows arcs, you have to take yourself there just like the First Ward content now. Edit: I also don't really consider the Hollows to be a hazard zone, just a very very broad level range one. The spawn sizes are smaller than what you normally see in hazard zones.

That'll be here in just a few more weeks. 😜

Given plot size limitations and the size of the buildings you are asking for, you won't even get a city block. I'm not against adding things like skyscrapers to the base editor, just saying the base size limits what you will be able to do. (Also, if you haven't checked it out, you should check out that castle @Shandirra gave the base code to. It's insanely impressive. Just keep your distance from the dragon. The illusion breaks if you get too close. Really impressive work though. I can't even imagine the time and effort it took to make that base.) Edit: Also, explore all the doors in the castle. It gets confusing, but it's worth it. There is what looks like a treasure room that you can see but not reach and a room with a pool of sharks in the castle itself. And every part of the castle (except for what looks like the treasury) is accessible in some way. Insanely impressive.

How about instead of a 2x XP weekend, since xp rates are already increased compared to Live and as you said, anyone can make any day double xp day, something else were to be implemented? It's already ridiculously easy to out-level content in the game, especially gold side, and that is before you add in the P2W vendor's 2x XP buff. It can't be 2x merits either, because that is covered by the WTF/WSF. So maybe a 2x Inf' weekend bit? I don't know. I was never a fan of 2x weekends and was very glad when the ability to turn off xp was made available to us, so I could ignore the double xp rates of those weekends. And with the ease with which brand new characters can hit 50 as is, I don't see a point to a double xp weekend on top of the double xp buffs and the increased xp rewards the game already has.

Like those of us who turn off xp already do.

Make it part of the Shining Stars/Hearts of Darkness tutorial arcs. Edit: There is a point in those arcs where they talk about enhancements and the importance of using them. Expand those sections/monologues to address the DO/SO enhancements and the utilization of appropriate contacts to acquire them for the character to use.

Haven't decided my stance on the OP yet, other than don't do that for AE. (Edit: Also, there is no point to double xp days since any player can have any day be double xp day whenever (s)he wants already.) It's this statement in the 1st reply that throws me for a loop though: First, the only travel zone that had no travel powers available in it was Perez Park because you got sent in it at level 6 or 7, and you still had access to Hover to (very, very, very, very) slowly get past everything to get to your destination. (Edit: Or grab Stealth and sneak through the zone just slightly slower than normal.) Second, you can exemp down and have no travel powers. No travel powers is one of the options available when exemping down to do content. Unless you are referring to just joining a lower level team rather than going through Ouroboros, but your statement doesn't read that way to me.

Then you make an SoA. (S)he won't be wearing the widow costume because (s)he is a SoA, but your backstory works just fine. Edit: The character backstory is their bio, which is entirely open to the player to create however they want up to the character limit.

I know we've asked for the various paintings and pictures we see in the various office maps, but what about the wall mount animal head trophies in the mansion maps? Or the (not animated) armors of the Midnighters Club? Any chance players will be allowed to make trophy/display rooms or noble villas as bases? We have trophies from the major heroes and villains, wall mount trophies and armor displays would be a nice way to round out a display room.

My guess? Is like the female incarnate Tsoo sorcerers, just without the glowing tattoos.

Not sure why you are confused, @KaizenSoze. As a VEAT, you are playing a Soldier of Arachnos or a Widow of Arachnos, even if you turn your back on Arachnos or even go hero. If your character washed out of widow training, they aren't going to give you widow gear. If you washed out of widow training (and survived) and then started over in the Soldier program, you are a Soldier of Arachnos. They give you the SoA weapons and armor. If you then progress to Bane Spider or Crab Spider, you are a Bane Spider or a Crab Spider. If you made it far enough in the widow program to get the psionics or Night Widow gear, you didn't wash out and you are a Fortunata, Night Widow, or Blood Widow. That's the way Arachnos works. Now, if you want to open up the SoAs and WoAs to the APPs instead of being locked to patron powers? Sure. If you want to come up with some sort of psychic power pool to branch them and other characters out? Let's see it. However, your proposal currently works against the idea of the VEATs. (As far as I know, the typical Arachnos program wash out washes out by death.) Edit: If you want a new EAT, then let's talk new EAT.

Except when they do happen, they happen everywhere at once. However, I don't know about waiting an hour. I usually see a small gap between zombie invasions and banners during the event. Otherwise, it feels like I'm always in one or the other. Guess It is a question of when I am on versus when you are on.

I'm not a fan of this idea. It goes against how Arachnos operates. Since the VEATs are just Arachnos troops as PCs, I'm not a fan of the idea of seeing a Crab Spider start blasting me as a Fortunata.

Count me as someone who likes this idea. Plus, the added option to extend some of the animation times in the character creator rather then just leave it on for those powers that aren't an always on thing but have really long animation times compared to the permitted time in the CC.

Okay, this may seem confusing, but I have an issue with the pet rename function. While I can rename my pets anything I want up to the character limit, those names are not retained if they are shared. For instance, I want my bots on one of my MMs to be Combat Drones, Sentinel Drones, and I have not yet decided on the Assault Bot's type. I can rename all my Battle Drones to Combat Drones, and they will remain that way with the differentiating number affixed to them. Great. That is what I want. However, when I have to re-summon for any reason, only 1 retains the Combat Drone designator, and the rest revert to Battle Drones. Same thing with the Protector Bots being called Sentinel Drones. Rename them? They stay renamed, until re-summoned. Is it possible to set MM pets to be able to share the same name? (I would just name them Combat Drone 1, Combat Drone 2, and so on, but I run up against the character limit.) Or can we have the character limit raised so more naming options are available to us? Edit: I can't even rename them to default. I tried renaming my Battle Drones as Battle Drones again and they still summon as Combat Drone and Battle Drone. What the hell?!

Technically, we had AOs. They were called TOs. And everyone got out of them as quickly as they could. 😛 I get your point. You're saying like IOs are. The way enhancements were set up though, you went from all origin enhancements to double origin enhancements to single origin enhancements as things became more tailored, and thusly more efficient/powerful, for your character. I'm glad making IOs work that way was deemed undesirable.

Okay, found it. It's in Darrin Wade's Midnight Draws Near arc. The word is Caelestis and basically means heavenly or divine. So... yeah... basically incarnate. My apologies.

No no no. I appreciate the effort, but that is not the word meaning I want to look up. On the tablet in the Origin of Power arc that lists 6 origins with 1 crossed off, there is a word for the crossed off origin. It isn't incarnate. It may mean incarnate, but that is what I will be looking up next time I get to that tablet. I forgot that, thanks. Edit: Nevermind. Just went through the arc. Either it is in a different arc, the tablets were changed so that clue does not come up any more. or my memory is faulty. No tablet in the Origin of Power arc refers to 6 origins with 1 crossed off. I just finished clicking all of them. ... was it a Cimerora mission that had the tablet then?

*shrug* The clue isn't listed on paragonwiki and I'm not in the mission or have immediate access to it right now to find the clue and look up what the word on it means. If it does refer to incarnates? Then the question becomes why was it crossed off on the tablet when it is still around. Were incarnates wiped out in ancient times and believed gone forever? If so, how and why? So even if the tablet does refer to incarnates (which I still intend to find the word and its meaning eventually), then it still leaves available plot points to address. Not saying those are the only options, just a thought that came to mind.

I think the Mu-Circle War was prior to ancient Egypt. So by that time, the Mu would have been broken and scattered, their surviving bloodlines mingling with other people, but lacking any real centric power or ability to project force. The Circle's failure to uphold their bargain also means that they would not be notable force during that time period either, as they had been broken into disembodied wraiths fleeing the vengeful demons. Edit: Huh. Here's a thought. According to the Origin of Power arc red side, there were 6 origins, but 1 was wiped out. An ancient Egypt zone could delve into that.