For all that I’ve waxed lyrical about the Going Rogue expansion, two things stand out as serious errors by the Cole Regime.
First off … doors on the subway? Really? The ferries and train stations of Primal Earth get by just fine without an additional click to go between zones.
(On the other hand, kudos to the Emperor for designing a city that is actually usable by Super-Speed.)
Secondly, power suppression sucks. It especially sucks at the Trading House. It especially sucks when you have a football field or two to slowly lope across at the Trading House to get to the traders and you can’t even Sprint. (C’mon — a suppression field that recognizes Sprint, Hover and Swift would be just fine and serve the purpose of keeping the TH aura-free while not driving folks mad.)
(I note with my current MasterMind that my pets get a “Stay” override at the Trading House door when I get there. They follow me inside, but stay at the entrance. Which is fine. I note that they do not lose the Stay when they exit with me, so they just hang out there until I come back. Which is weird.)
This is especially annoying because the Resistance setup has it made — trading house + bank + vendors + contacts + level-up all in one area … and it’s just down the freaking street from the crafting tables. And no suppression! Compare that to the Loyalists, where the trading house has the suppression field, the bank’s across the street, the nearest vendor’s a good 30 seconds of travel power away, the crafting tables are twice that and in the opposite direction ….
C’mon, Cole … throw us a bone.
(The Resistance setup demonstrates that it is possible to have all these things a trivial distance away — even more convenient than Steel Canyon or Talos with a Base — without somehow unbalancing the game. Slogging about building up money in trading, or even making use of trading, is a PitA for Loyalists, and a joy for the Resistance.)