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How in the heck does someone get wiped in Praetoria? Did he aggro multiple groups or something? (oO) I play solo and have taken some pretty weak toons there and I might wipe once, maybe twice...usually in Neutropolis by the slums or reactors. I find Praetoria easier than blue and red zones personally even with all the psi attacks. (prefer dealing with those over the Vahz and CoT). But yeah, the highlights are amusing. Only thing that comes to mind there is 'what was the person thinking?' for most of 'em...'cause they sound more like bad choices than something wrong with the game. The tutorials and starter zones are there for a reason after all...simple common sense. Gotta agree with Doc Scorp.

I use the synonym trick as well pretty often or translate to a different language than english (who says all the heroes/villains come from english speaking countries after all?). I avoid the L33T stuff and things that would've given my grammar teacher a stroke. Ended up with some fairly good names too I'd like to think.

Fly for range attack users. Being out of melee range as much as possible leads to much better survival chances. Jump for melee most of the time though I may take Super Speed for a change of pace despite it making elevated destinations somewhat of a challenge to reach.

Yeah. I agree. At low levels the contacts really don't link up...a lot of the MI to CD seems to rely on Dr. Graves missions or you get stuck doing a lot of newspaper stuff to get introduced to contacts. And there really doesn't seem to be that many of those. At least in my experience so far. But...back to OP topic: I'm in the red zone about 50% of the time I'm playing, though I pretty much stick to solo though willing to help out if I have time. On Excelsior General Killerwatt or Cerebral Scarab are causing mayhem while on Torchbearer Major Holocaust is tearing up St. Martial while Fusillade has just started busting heads in Cap au Diable.

Yeah...the article did say they were going non-profit status...and as a volunteer group that has gone far above and beyond for the game and fan base, I think the OP is just a wee bit out of line. Kinda like calling the ocean wet though. Given the frequent nature of their posts, surprised they still even have an account.

MURPHY!

I get curious or bored and play with different combos fairly often. Within the first 10-20 levels is when I either still enjoy things or just get bored with them and end up deleting them once I lose all desire to play those particular toons.

It's all a Nemesis plot from the '20's anyhow...

Spam spam the magical fruit...the more you click the more they loot! 🎶

Just at my desk with the speakers on moderately high so I can hear the glowies over my tinnitus. I'll play for an hour or three depending on my back and attention span. Not in a hurry when I play, so I play tactically...so tend to not use a lot of inspirations outside of really tough (orange or red) fights...or more than six mobs. Due to altitis, highest level toon so far is 38 with most being in the 20's. Getting old sucks though I am looking forward to official retirement in a couple years. 😉

It can be used to 'scout' around corners for mobs blocked from sight as well giving you a few precious seconds to setup for the now aggro'd foes. IMO it's a pretty good little power for the set.

Not really. Though I did just use it to tour GC for the badges...and honestly, I think the zone is better laid out than most of the other urban zones in Paragon. They should've nuked Perez instead. :P lol

Altitis struck again... so gold-side now has Volt Rigger (Elec/Dev Blaster) flying around making sure your vote goes to Emperor Cole this coming election year. :P

The RIP and PPD are going spare with all the 'suspicious packages' reports coming in. They really want to have a word with whomever is leaving them all over the place...especially the Ordinance Disposal crews. The missing packages are probably ones they have actually got to so far. 😉 lol

Been giving my new toon a workout this weekend on red side; General Killerwatt, he's a power in his own mind and totally skipped the chewing gum.

I spend almost all of my time on red side doing paper missions trying to get contacts to do some 'real' stuff after Mercy. So yeah...I get ya. Blue side I go to the Hollows since KR is all skulls nearly all the time. >< Even the low-mid is a lot of hunts as well between TI and IP. Taken to doing alignment missions rather than contacts in those zones. A lot of the contact missions could use a real overhaul IMO both blue and red side.

I switch between blue, red, and gold as the mood hits. But I'm also solo by preference. One thing I have noted is that there are fewer transition contacts between zones, especially Mercy and Oakes unless you've joined up with Graves. That is a bit of an unwelcome headache...as well as the villain missions not really seeming all that villain-like outside of textual context. I'm mainly on Torch but never seen things totally deserted yet...I always seem to run into one or three other toons flitting about.

I went to tabletop mini's and RPGs though I gave WoW a run for about a year in there too but dropped that just before Cataclysm.

Just a kid...that sucks. 😞 Condolences and sympathies.

Gender also gets involved with some expressions and word use. Boku vs Ore (sp) are mentioned often in translated light novels and manga for instance. Then you have the written forms; kanji, hiragana, and katakana; the latter two being syllables vs the ideogram of the former. My 2nd grade teacher was a survivor of Hiroshima and liked to introduce bits of her home culture to us with activity and art projects. :) Great teacher too.

I made the mistake of attempting to learn Latin since it was a root language of several...what could go wrong? One root word can be an entire sentence depending on the suffix used...and as a result, I also found I have absolutely no talent for languages outside of english as I cannot memorize the words involved without years of daily use. I should have gone for German or French back then...at least those are in the ancestry. Hats off to ya Snarks for the progress. (the neck guard stays on though...sorry, but I've heard the stories ya know?!) :p

RIght up there with Super Unknown. LOL

Hero Corps....counter mercs against the Sky Raiders. :P Or Malta. But yeah...you can't exactly trust "heroes" that pay more attention to what they are getting paid vs having an actual ethical commitment to the safety of the general public. One of the things in the wars of old; mercs could turn on you in the middle of battle simply by getting paid a better offer making them the worst sorts for inclusion into a military force. Still...they could serve as an interesting faction; finding them on missions doing questionable things as foes or turning around on another mission and having them come in as allies. But then, we have the Legacy Chain which seems to fill that function it seems.

The truth of Twinshot's name come out...no wonder she always seems beside herself. 😄

I actually managed to keep him alive for the first time the other day...and he actually seemed to get stronger after surviving the first half of the run...still, he must have no mind to keep charging into groups of clockwork by himself...