Doc_Scorpion

That works great for roleplaying groups. Doesn't work at all for the rest of us, for the majority of the players.

That's fine for roleplayers. Then, there's the rest of us who play the game's content... I'm looking at something more "choose your adventure" than "write your adventure".

Oh, there's a number of maps where (depending on the group and difficulty setting) I slow down (or stop outright) at certain spots... Because I just know the group is gonna run smack dab into trouble. I am not above letting the rest of the team hit the hospital while I freshen my drink.

Because AE is not the open world. I mean, fighting your "nemesis" in the Danger Room is cool and all, but it's apples and the thing least like apples you can imagine. It's probably not impossible to borrow the (Resistance or Loyalist) tech from Goldside and rework it into a branching "choose your own adventure" style story arc that would allow the player to answer those questions... But it would certainly be an incredible amount of work to do right, and PITA beyond belief to debug and playtest.

If it was previously publically available on the forums, then I missed it. And so might have someone else.

My start was TOS on a black-and-white TV... and being very, very annoyed my parents wouldn't let six year old me stay up late and watch it when it was moved to late Fri nights. On top of that we lived in FL at the time, and could step out into the front yard and see the contrails of the Apollo launches. I should mention that Space Battleship Yamato was redone as Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2199 in 2012 and it's awesome. Well worth watching. It's available on Crunchyroll. In cooperation with another blogger, I did and episode-by-episode watch... https://apprenticemages.com/category/uchuu-senkan-yamato/page/3/

Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris

Yamato (as Star Blazers) was my gateway to anime back in the day... That and Shogun miniseries that aired a couple of years later were basically the start of me becoming a Japanophile.

I dunno. I think this might play better as a 'troller primary (with an actual pet in the T9), where various pets confuse, fear, mezz, etc... I can't put my finger on why, it just feels that way.

Learn to use spoiler tags please!

*nods* I got the game for Christmas (after broadly hinting to my wife)... and the computer I had at the time would just barely run CoX at it's lowest setting. And most battles were slideshows... About the fourth or fifth time I ran Frostie... Standing there (because, slideshow) in the first big room battle (where the first altar is), I simply had had enough. Was already planning on upgrading the computer, but that made me move the schedule up by months. I absolutely had to have a computer that could reasonably run the game. Oddly enough, that was also the Christmas she gave me my first handheld GPS - because I wanted to try geocaching, and smartphones with a GPS weren't a thing back then. Found out that geocaching is fun, and we're still regular cachers today. And I'm still in the City today.

Amd this post shows why community reps should be added to the Digest:

Yes, zone maps for a new toon are fogged. The OP's map is blacked out, which is not the same thing. This is what fogged map looks like, compare it to the OP's map.

I've heard good things about it, but didn't find out about it until the 2nd season and haven't had any time to watch the first.

I didn't think so at first either, but I've kinda come around to it. It's very much a YMMV thing... This was mostly because Batman Beyond badly needs a movie, and Michael Keaton is more-or-less the right age to really make it work.

I coulda sworn I've seen them there during the day...

There's usually some BP in the city area, and the open area NE of that is crawling with DE. Just went and looked, and you're right - the BP have vanished. Will have to remember to file a bug report.

Generally it's preferred that new things to the game take existing things and existing lore into account... rather than just being randomly shoved in.

Oh, that's something I do not remember with fondness - when MM pets would poof on zoning and had to be resummoned when you got to your destination. And the upgrade powers were single target, not AoE like they are now. It was really tedious when MM's came blueside and you were on a team doing story arc mishes all over the city.

Oh yeah... After the Faultline revamp, Penny Yin's arc was crazy popular because you could get access to Yin-O's (SO equivalent) as early as lvl 15. With potentially weeks and weeks of play ahead of you to reach 22, they were a godsend. At least on Freedumb, Faultline could sometimes get as busy as The Hollows with teams running that arc. Many people would then go on to run Doc Delilah and Agent G. I must have fought Nocturne. Castillo, and Sands as many time as I did Frosty. Actually, almost nobody fought all three in the final mish of Agent G's arc. You let 'em beat on each other first then went after the survivor(s). Story arcs were a big thing, and leveling by farming was largely frowned upon. (I mean people did it, but they were a minority even after autoexemp put an end to Mentor Tetris.) That's another thing, multiple accounts. Between character limits (per server) and not having /altinivite, I had a 2nd account to get more characters and to be able to invite myself to my personal SG.

A full list: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Entrusted_with_the_Secret_Badge When I want a particular hero to have to "earn" the portal [for headcanon reasons], I'll usually do Mercedes Sheldon's arc.

I commend to you for your consideration: "The first rule of being in a hole is to stop digging".

It's pretty obvious to anyone who stops and thinks for as little as a millisecond that "can't roleplay in that exact spot in the vastness of Pocket D" and "can't do the ITF at all" aren't even remotely the same thing. So, the end result is it wasn't the argument you oppose that ended up looking ridiculous.

The big thing you need to do is post something daily to grab attention and generate discussion... a screenie, an npc quote, a link to somebody's YouTube video. Something, anything. More than anything else, subs need timely content to attract attention and yet more content. Yeah. "Officially" their position is neutral, de facto they are hostile to Homecoming. It's a lot better than it was a year or two ago, but it's still not a pleasant place to be around. Lotta refugees from the SCORE era there who still carry a grudge.