I would say that the power creep is the overal general effectiveness of sets for their point costs.


I mean, just because Doomsday is a bruiser, I doesn't mean he is all that great, You have to pay alot for it.


For the points I think Vet Echo is the best peice in the game.

No. I just wanted to show why Flash's 20 DV is Borken while Superman's is not.

I'd say R Green Flame. Free taxi who can shoot with 2 damage for only 17 points!

Chase LE Lois Lane aint bad either.

"Broken" does not always equal "Powercreepy", though.
Doomsday is PCreeped (do those words even exist?) but not broken.
Is herald Silver-Surfer broken? In tournament play maybe, in home play maybe not. But he IS a case of PowerCreep.

Black Bolt was the heavy honcho of the Sinister set, at 166 points.
Would anybody like to speculate on his point value were he to be remade in M&M?

Please define the operative term.

165?

I definitely don't think Green Scar, Doomsday, and Ares represent power creep, I think they represent Green Scar, Doomsday, and Ares, who are powerful characters.

I beg you pardon?

Powerful characters should be powerful.

Drawbacks are seemingly built in nowadays to slow the creep (like a lack of mobility, or range, or defensive powers, etc.)

I hope it stays that way.

Nothing we've seen so far indicates anything even remotely close to power creep to me.

Icons was the living embodiment of Power Creep (Heeeello Blackfire!), this is everything but!

The original Doomsday was held back creep-wise by those drawbacks, wasn't he?:knockedou

I'm not sure if it's really Power Creep so much as Seth seemed "extra-cautious" in his first few sets (the relative lack of Impervious in CD/Giants comes to mind; I think Radioactive Man has more than those two sets combined) and was still feeling things out. So as he gets "up to speed", it may seem more like "power creep" as opposed to a smoothing out of the ride.

I think he was held up more by the fact that he was in "Hypertime" which was a real "learning curve set" for the game-design. Heck, Superman couldn't punch his way out of a paperbag, let alone through a wall in that set.

I believe that Seth, in his infinite wisdom, "read" the fed-up-with-big-bruisers market's need for effective, mid-to-low-end figures correctly and acted accordingly. Also, in his infinite wisdom, he knows that the newbs won't come to play with V Echo (which is a marvelous piece BTW) but with Power Cosmic Spider-man. And he acts accordingly, in par with the Big , expect anythin (more?) Anniversary campain.

One could think that there wasn't ever a Power-Creep, just a Water-Down intermission.

One could be wrong.

Please give a definition of "Power Creep."