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[Autobot Bubbs]

Well, got in, got everything worked out...

and now, I officially have my Zombie Queen... actually made a bio that I didn't have to go back and re-edit for space.

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Sister Falcier

The troublesom heir to a Voodoo lineage, Shelly Franklin began dabbling in the darker aspects of the craft. Forced to run away after the discovery of her machinations, she manipulated her way cross-country to Rhode Island, where she Joined the skulls. It was here that her dark malevolence was nurtured... perfected... and when the time came that they had nothing left to teach her.... she left. Taking up the guise of Sister Falcier (What? Supervillains can't watch/plagurize Disney movies?), she set out to leave her own dark mark upon the world.

[Dvandom]

Issue 23. Tomorrow. Be sure to leave your updater on overnight so it can download in the background....

---Dave

[Devcon]

Did it today so it could update while at work (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-fire.gif)

Exploring now, I'm discovering things as I go as I didn't check out beta.

[Dvandom]

I have an L31 Mace Brute I figure on running through the entire Night Ward arc set solo tonight and as many other nights as it takes. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-hotrod.gif)

---Dave

[Devcon]

Well, playing AS Tyrant was fun... until the army of Arachnos caused me to Mapserve O_o

[Autobot Bubbs]

Question.... where the heck did the expansion pack go? Now all they have for sale is ViP starter....

And the apparent only way to get a Praetorian is to buy it in Charrecter Creation.

Also... who the hell is the big goat-legged blue man in the new opening screen?

[Waspinator]

Also on the opening screen, we've got Miss "let's do T&A at the same time" in shameless comic book tradition.

[Rust]

Also... who the hell is the big goat-legged blue man in the new opening screen?

Shadowhunter, the Praetorian Counterpart of Woodsman. Why he has blue goat legs and is blue I don't know.

[Dvandom]

Shadowhunter is undead, his Praetorian version got killed by Hamidon and this version was dragged back from the Night Ward's twilight zone. Miss T&A is little Penny Yin, all grown up and lacking any fashion sense whatsoever.

Also, be warned: now that NPCs can Taunt, if multiple NPCs are Taunting you at the same time, you can't attack ANYONE. Break Frees won't help. I have registered a complaint about this on the official board.

---Dave

[Autobot Bubbs]

Shadowhunter is undead, his Praetorian version got killed by Hamidon and this version was dragged back from the Night Ward's twilight zone. Miss T&A is little Penny Yin, all grown up and lacking any fashion sense whatsoever.

Kewl.... so, who's the evil ones?

Also, be warned: now that NPCs can Taunt, if multiple NPCs are Taunting you at the same time, you can't attack ANYONE. Break Frees won't help. I have registered a complaint about this on the official board.

---Dave

Crap on a saltine cracker.... that sucks butt monkeys. They have any specific foes who do this, or did they give it to EVERYBODY? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/icon-wildride.gif)

[Devcon]

So far the only ones that I've seen do that are the Black Knights, a new faction in the Night Ward.

[Dvandom]

Shadowhunter is the evil one. The taunters I've seen so far are the staff-fighting Black Knights and the "Hive of Hate" Apparitions. With the Hives, at least, the number of simultaneous taunts isn't so many that you can't act. But you can run into a dozen taunting French kaniggits at once.

---Dave

[Autobot Bubbs]

Allrighty.

So, I found now there is an option to buy the 'going rogue' thing on the market... for 1200 points. Forgive me for asking a stupid question, but is this for each char or all toghether.

[Dvandom]

This unlocks Praetoria for your account. If you buy it, you can make Praetorian characters as well as heroes and villains.

Thing is, there's not as much activity in the Praetorian starting zones anymore, because there's not much incentive. Most of the players have run through the content, and the overall benefits of starting in Paragon or the Isles outweigh starting in Praetoria. Praetoria has no bank missions, has no access to Death from Below, and is often left out of events (like the Nemesis invasion of last month). While there's some temp powers you can get from the mission arcs and the unique zone events, there's just enough reason to go elsewhere that the whole vicious cycle of "fewer players means harder to find groups means even less reason to be there means even fewer players" that kills redside is even worse "goldside".

Plus, the new content for Praetoria (First Ward, Night Ward) is all available to non-Praetorians.

---Dave

ETA: Oh, and the big draw Praetoria originally had, once everyone had run the stories, was that for a while it was the only way to have a heroic Stalker or villainous Tanker. Archetypes were more strongly segregated until last Fall.

This post has been edited by Dvandom: Jun 2 2012, 11:15 AM

[Autobot Bubbs]

But will it let the 'tips' actually mean something for my peeps?

[Waspinator]

There is a sad death spiral in this kind of game, where no one wants to go to the place where no one goes since there's no one there to team with. The same kind of thing has been happening to the less populated servers and it's why I think this kind of separated server design is a bad idea.

[Esser-Z]

Whee, reupped my sub. It's ISSUE 23 TIME.

[Dvandom]

Pretty sure the ethics system (Tip missions) is separate from Praetoria in the store, but I'll double-check when I get on.

---Dave

ETA: Yeah, the Tip system is separate from Praetoria. Tip system is under "Account Services/System Unlocks" while Praetoria is under "Content".

This post has been edited by Dvandom: Jun 2 2012, 05:50 PM

[Dvandom]

Night Ward offers a way to join the Midnighter Club without doing the intro arc (especially useful for villains, who have a rather harder arc to do at L30 instead of the simpler Montague arc at L10). TUNNEL to the Night Ward, then fly into the Midnight Mansion, bam.

---Dave

[Esser-Z]

Whee, I spent way too much money and now have the full Mecha Armor Tier 9 costume set. It's so very very awesome.