Zortel

One of my characters has two costumes at the moment. One is a combat outfit with and without a helmet, the other is a non-combat outfit with and without. That leaves space for one more costume, with no chance of a helmet or a non helmet version.

Another of my characters currently has 3 costume slots: Costume slot 1 has the Baron Jacket, Hat, and the Magic Cape. Costume two is sans hat and cape. Costume 3 is sans Baron Jacket, going down to just a shirt and waistcoat. Costume 4 will be sans waistcoat.

Costume 5 won't be shirtless, that's just inappropriate for a gentleman, but it would be nice for some other options.

The limit of this games costume engine means easily removable costume pieces such as jackets and headgear take up a costume slot. With more slots, I can have more costumes and more varients. And given some costumes haven't been updated for a long time as I like them where they are, I'm not sinking inf into them. Given some get updated regularly, such as my tech blaster's power suit, more options would let me sink more inf.

Considering some of my characters have ample supplies of vet and free costume tailor tokens, and some have the Tailor discount coupons, that's less inf or no inf being sunk there. Oh, I also have the vet badge that halves tailor fees.

Saying "Oh, you can just run to a tailors" is one of those old style MMO thoughts that quite frankly one that needs to die, like many others.

For this, my recommendation would be a costume slot at 10 and 50, in addition to the one at 1, 20, 30 and 40, plus the Halloween salvage. That's 6 available through levelling, plus one extra through salvage.

Add in 3 purchasable ones (either with a super booster or from the in game store, applying to all characters) that'd bring us up to 10 for characters.

10's a nice number. The screen holds five so far, so the UI could have a slider added to scroll along to the next five.

DreamWeaver: For Life's Needed Anecdotes.

It also shows why the Scouts are right with the 'Be Prepared' motto. I'm likely guessing that those EMT scissors weren't borrowed from the first aid kit. :>

BUt yeah, it does have useful... applications *snerk*, in say the outdoor supplies industry. I could see it being very useful with some work.

It's come up before in a few stories, mostly NPC villains doing so, and usually the organized crime families. Human trafficing has come in stories relating to one of my characters, Fear Trigger, a Family hunting vigilante. In the first story featuring her, it involves a deal she interrupts for drugs, some black market Rikti blasters and a couple of girls to work in a brothel.

I make do with just one, on Fault.

When you hit with Fault, it does the Chance for Recharge check with every enemy hit at once, meaning in larger groups or teams, you've got a very good chance of getting the proc. I think it has an internal cooldown of 10 seconds as well, so if this is the case slotting it on multiple powers is a bit redundant, compared to say Fault and maybe Tremor.

How about this, my good man Dante? :>

'Yet again, another bonus costume that most of the EU population will have little to no chance of getting, unless they happen to have a good thousand or more sitting away in the bank to make the flight and get the hotels.

Yes, there are going to be people saying that 'It's just a costume code'. And it's true, it's not the code itself that is the issue.

There is a skew towards the US server group (and the individuals that play on them, assuming they aren't EU/Oceanic/Other players there for the more server lists and higher population) when it comes to availability of bonus codes, competitions and opportunity to attend conventions.

This has been especially pronounced since 2008, when the NCSoft Europe offices were gutted in the re-arrangement that followed NCSoft's rearrangement of non-Korean subsidiaries. There has been no UK or European Mainland convention presence in quite some time. However, even then, the only Dev (and now Dev) we've had grace us with their presence were the quite excellent War Witch, and David Nakayama. (Which IIRC was Brighton 2007 for War Witch, and Birmingham 2008 for WW and David N.)

If it was not for the kind individuals who attend US conventions and panels and kindly give some of their time to tweeting or otherwise reporting details from the CoH panels, we would be in a bit of a blind spot.

While server population has seemed higher since the release of Going Rogue, and there has been two contests arranged (the Design an NPC for Studio 55 in Issue 19, and the give away of Party Pack Items that still cause controversy due to pricing, value for money, and the not too irrational fear that it may lead to nickel and dime-ing, what with the effectively slim issue content now compared to issues such as RWZ/Faultline), there is still the worry that the server groups future is still in the dark, and generally neglected.

Couple this with the general quiet of any red name presence on this thread, it gives the impression of a cloud over the game and server group we've put years of money and effort into, with little to allay our fears.

Finally, I am still an advocate of virtual meet and greets. Place on the Test Server that's co-op, throw up a power suppression field and talk in ADMIN red, fielding questions from the players. I'm sure something could be arranged for translations from the French and German server players, e-mails could be sent in game to players with Costume-Codes, and I'm sure spending a couple of hours on the EU test server is much, much cheaper and less time consuming than flying out here.'

Any good?

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=220651

CoH fiction regarding one of my characters. It's a little bloody in places. PDF's linked via posts.

(Also, check out the IC Story Thread in the Roleplaying boards, that's where a lot of fiction goes)

Ahem, sorry about that.

Improvements to Ouro, please! :<

Nowhere, not good enough :P

I just knows what ideas I like, and more Ouro TF's would be great, same with Roman Place (with the name that always eludes me).

It's like they were just added to the game and forgotten about.

Staph, or Staphylococcus, the usual culprit in Staphylococcal infections is S. Aureus, bit of a nasty bug, especially in it's Incarnate form where it caps out in resistance to Methicillin.

Crack is whack, they say.

Unlike other MMO's, City of Heroes does not use a Peer to Peer system for its updates. You're downloading from just one source, the official download server.

Now, I'm out of touch enough to not know what a Pioneer is (Some kind of video editing software?) but as ZM says rightly above me, Open Office is open source, and Kubuntu and Xubuntu are pretty much open source too.

I think Techbot means a level beyond Ultra mode. That the Ultra of Ultra Mode is not what can really be pushed from it. Think of it like... Ascended Ultra Mode.

Or Incarnate Ultra Mode!

I'd worry that a base editor that doesn't suck would invalidate all the work that went into making the Unity Vigil's home, Unity Station (That'd be their rec room.)

One of my Loyalists is firmly anti-Resistance after they did a terrorist bombing at a restaurant favoured by some of the Praetors. The explosion cost him not only the lower half of his body (Having now built replacement legs for himself from Clockwork tech), but the life of his partner Toshiro as well.

Glad to see other people have similiar ideas of just why a character might hate them so