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Are you... Tony... Stank?

You chose Savage because it has the most AoE, didn't you. I've been thinking the same thing. Another Sister might be in the works. 🙂

Fertile, reliable and the source of power for the most fascinating culture in history? Shh. Don't tell anyone. I'm in disguise.

Orangebagel is already down there. And we haven't managed to permanently evict the current residents, so we'd have to tolerate snoring demons and gassy Air Thorn Casters. Pass.

Eh. Too much foreplay, you have to start over too often and it wants to quit halfway through (endurance issues). Size doesn't matter if it can't stay up, or needs a lot of extra attention to stay up. Smaller, more frequent, and lower maintenance is more pleasurable in the long run. I can do this all day. TW can't. 😏

The New Gods. Kirby worked both sides of the fence. He created numerous characters for Marvel, but he also created The New Gods for DC. Darkseid, Highfather, Orion, Apokolips, the entire Fourth World concept came from Kirby. He laid the foundations for some of the most popular and well-read stories DC has ever had. In more specificity, your comment brought to mind New Genesis, the home world of Highfather and other new gods. Highfather and his pantheon resided on a floating platform city over the world of New Genesis. Neither am I. Poverty and collecting comics are mutually exclusive. But I am a fan of numerous comic book characters, I enjoy reading about them when I can, and I find the history of comic books and the people involved to be fascinating (it's modernized mythology, essentially, and i'm fascinated by the mythologies of different cultures). I couldn't spend money on comic books, but I could spend time reading about them and their writers, editors and publishers. They'll have to come through me to get to you. 😉

Ask Jack Kirby.

It's a gold mine. No, it's a placer deposit on a gorgeous sand bank with glistening nuggets lying in plain sight. Enhancement conversion is a huge equalizer, and the biggest key to making inf* on the market. Once you figure out what sells, and presuming you have converters to burn, people throw inf* at you. The comparison between lucrative now and lucrative six months ago is really just drops in the bucket, and it's actually a boon, even if you're trying to make a profit, because it also means you're paying a little less for the things you can't acquire through conversion of typical uncommon and rare IOs. The ceiling might be lower, but so is the floor. That said, I also play solo and focus on story arcs, so I'm rarely hurting for merits. A bad streak of conversions, or being too impatient to wait another hour to fill an enhancement slot, that's really all that slows me down on making inf* or kitting out a character with "the best".

They had a big boost in understanding and manipulation from Rikti tech. Portal technology isn't vastly different from teleportation, the way it's portrayed.

Force field technology, the emergency medical teleportation system, everything going on at Portal Corp., most of the advanced science shown to be part of the foundation of the game world was reverse engineered from recovered Rikti technology. It wasn't available for use during the reconstruction.

Check the Guides and Market forums for primers on how to make inf*. You can make more than you'll ever need with almost no effort (just crafting, dragging, clicking and listing), and buy the ATOs you want, or any ATOs and convert them to the ATOs you need. Every character I've leveled past 20 has at least one full set of ATOs, and the only merits I've spent were buying converters. You can do it!

It was, indeed. One of my masterpieces, I'm glad someone other than me remembers it. 🙂

Brutalism is mostly concrete and rebar, so it's cheap and comparatively fast to erect. Those two factors are important in the perspective of a post-war economy. If you need to put businesses back into the economy, house people quickly and keep costs under control, it's as good a way to do it as any. The only really viable alternative would be having the military forces construct sub-urban housing units (United States post-WWII) and low-cost urban apartment units (Britain post-WWII), but that wouldn't have been large and impressive to fly, jump, run or teleport through. Brutalist architecture is also relatively solid, compared to a lot of other options. That's another important factor, from a psychological perspective. People would want solid buildings, thick walls, concrete over their heads, rather than glass and steel, because they represent safety and shelter. And knowing that the Rikti weren't gone, safety and shelter would be critical factors in the rebuilding efforts. In the context of a post-war reconstruction effort, Brutalism makes sense. It may not be pretty, but it checks all of the boxes better than anything else does. In the post-post-war era, now, newer architecture is warranted... though I loathe having to say that. Praetoria and AP play merry hell with framerates on my $350 laptop.

I was almost entirely dedicated to defenders on the original servers. You can do almost anything with a defender. Tank, scrap, blast, control, turn water into coffee, the possibilities are endless! Here, I haven't gone past 20 with a defender. I will, if for no other reason than to recreate what I had "back in the day", but my lovely Legionette, my Staff/Willpower brute, captured my imagination and sent me into an Amazonian frenzy. I'm not touching anything but melee until I finish the Sisters. Sticks and stones and fists breaking bones!

I was thinking of the similarity to stalkers, with the crit from Hide mechanic, Placate, but more junk in the trunk (strong team buffs, easily capped Defense to everything, more ranged and AoE potential, etc.).

You should meet Night Widow. You'll like her. Not my Night Widow. Stop looking at her, find your own. 😛

These, and there's also Physical Perfection in the Energy Mastery APP. +12.5% Recovery. It's not huge, but with Agility buffing that and Stamina, it might be enough.

Tier 1 - 1/6 ignores ED. Tier 2 - 1/3 ignores ED. Tier 3 - 1/2 ignores ED. Tier 4 - 2/3 ignores ED. Core offers the highest individual bonuses, Radial spreads the bonuses out amongst more things and has a lower ceiling. If you're really struggling and a slotting change won't improve the problem (+5 boosting frankenslotted Def/End IOs can really make a difference), Core would add 30% beyond ED (45% * .66 = 30%) to whatever you're looking to improve (Endurance Modification or Endurance Reduction). So Cardiac Core or Agility Core. They can both be created and swapped to find out which is more effective, but you won't see the full strength until T4.

Enjoy what you have now, be prepared to lose it and start over, and hope that doesn't happen. There's nothing more you can do, or should. When, if, the time comes, preach from the mountain tops. Until then, whisper. You can wink, nod and nudge if you like. No, not at me.

That is a really good idea.

By several million years. An axe is a combination of two simple machines, the lever and the wedge (which itself is an adaptation of another simple machine, the inclined plane). It may seem basic when viewed from the perspective of modern culture, but it's not. The fist is the first and most basic weapon. Before we learned to use any machine, we learned to use the fist, and we learned that before humans, in any form, evolved from other primates. Without the fist, we wouldn't have survived long enough to evolve from primates, or develop the six simple machines which formed the foundation of nearly all mechanical devices throughout human history. Lacking claws or large, sharp canines or cutting molars, we had only our fists and brains to defend ourselves from other predators, or to feed ourselves, and our brains didn't develop until millions of years later. The most basic weapon would be the staff. Not staves as they're known today, but instead, simple sticks used for crude swinging. The stick is a lever, the first simple machine we figured out, and by using that lever, we could transmit greater force than we could through sheer muscle power, and extend the range of the blow. Next was the hammer, which, prehistorically, was a knobby stick (club) (the ability to attach a rock to a stick to make a hammer came later, when we had learned how to use materials to make cordage). This machine transmitted significantly more force than the lever alone, and localized it to the specific area where the target was struck. It's essentially a fist on a lever. Then the axe came along, when humans realized that a tapered point narrowed the focus of the transmitted force. It did more work than the hammer, and acted more specifically (it was a better killing instrument), and required less physical strength to perform that work. But if the dispute is about which is the most frequently used or typical example of a comic book superhero, the fist is still the most basic. Nearly every superhero punches, but I can't think of any who use an axe. Swords, staves, bows and arrows, hammers, plenty of other weapons, but outside of Conan and similar comics (barbarian or medieval themes), I can't name a single hero who uses an axe. It's an atypical weapon for heroes, because it's mentally associated with extreme violence and murder. Axe murders have been surprisingly frequent in the last ~200 years. Axe-wielding superheroes, not common at all. Yes, I've seen Infinity War and End Game. No, I don't consider that as sufficient evidence to rank the axe as the most basic anything.

Throw some Googie up in that place! Glass! Sweeping points! Starbursts and rocket fins! ❤️

Unless they're AoEs.