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I think it might be the lack of eyebrows. It does not look like he has any.

Drink.

Effing. Adorable.

That's no moon zone.

It's actually the final map of the SSA Who Will Die #7. Honestly, on top of all the useless fluff zones that will be forgotten about in a month tops that we've gotten/are getting, I think we shouldn't be getting a moon zone for at least three or four issues.

Wouldn't be much different from any RWZ or Hami raid already. Costume auras don't do too much compared to the outrageous light show of power effects we already have.

Anyways, I would just love to have the Path Auras be separate. Kind of gets annoying having to have one costume dedicated to the Fiery Path Aura for flying/running around, and the other costume dedicated to the Bioplasma aura for combat.

I really wish they'd lower the top part of the helm just a little bit. Have it conceal the face a bit more and make the forehead unable to be seen. Right now, it kind of looks awkward.

Drink

This.

wut

Might also be a bit of C) Lack of any real rewards. This game has shown time and again people don't run things because they're fun more than a couple times. They run things that provide the best rewards. Look at farming AE fire farms or the DFB, for example. Tons of people do it constantly, despite the fact it gets old and monotonous very quickly and offers nothing new, creative, or even remotely interesting. Whereas genuinely entertaining content will be left to gather dust after it's been played once. Since PvP only offers a ridiculously small shot at getting an IO that's alright, I can imagine a lot of people won't be interested to try PvP, or stick with it very long.

People get angry at anything, though. I've seen folks get angry and kick folks from teams in PvE purely because you chose a power they didn't like, or you're a "noob" to the game, or the always hot topic of powers with KB.

Best thing you can do is always stay a good sport. If someone tries insulting you and getting angry at you, ignore 'em. If you lose, no big. You don't get debt, and there are no other negative consequences. If you win, say "Good game" or "Good job" and, if you're up for it, offer a rematch.

I'm not missing any point, and understand what you're getting at. I'll touch on that later, as I do semi-agree with you. But let's say, hypothetically, they post these items on the market in six months for 400 paragon points. We, the loyal customers, got exclusive access to these items for an entire six months before anyone else. Plenty of time to flaunt them and enjoy the fact that these items are ours before inevitably forgetting about them in favor of newer, shinier items. So there is, in fact, benefit.

As to your point about loyalty and inspiring folks to stay subscribed, though, yeah this program failed for a number of reasons. Mainly the fact that they spent all of one day advertising it a week before the program started, and all they had to show off was a sketch of what the items are planned to look like. Then months go by and the mods, aside from Zwill once or twice, act like this program never even existed. But I doubt that if these items someday not-very-soon get put on the market that it would've effected the amount of loyal subscribers very much at all. The last program was the Vanguard pack, a pack consisting nearly solely of items we've had access to for years already, but people still loved getting them.

Not gonna lie, there would be some awesome maps to add to the Arena. To name a few, the Fifth Column room you fight Reichsman in, the courtyard you fight Romulus Augustus in, the Galaxy City tutorial map where you fight the giant Shivan, part of the ravaged city in First Ward, the exterior of the Vanguard compound, the Magisterium, outside of Neuron's tower, and even a Rooftops map that isolates you to one of the many large skyscraper rooftops in Imperial City or the new Atlas Park. Any of these would be refreshing, awesome, and provide some variety while showing attention to PvPers. Just a little work to wall 'em off, set spawn points, and designate them small, medium, or large player sizes and bing bang boom.

Speaking of the new Atlas Park, if Zwill's still lurking this thread, there's a quick issue that also somewhat proves the lack of attention to CoH's PvP. The arena still uses the old Atlas map. Doesn't even have an AE building or Wentworth's. Any chance of this seeing a fix for this in the foreseeable future?

We're....we're not getting Panther?

That makes zero sense. You didn't spend that much money on these items. You spent that much money on complete access to this game, including free points every month. You will be rewarded with free items for maintaining said subscription.

To those that didn't subscribe, or happened to of missed this period of loyalty, they should be allowed to spend extra money on purchasing these items in the market.

Cool story.

Bab's been in Atlas. Just hiding in the police station.

Those you kept their subs get it for free. Everyone else would have to pay extra to get those items, and they won't be included to the market for a few months later anyway. Exactly how the Vanguard pack was.

Oh, that. Completely forgot about that, considering just how small of an issue it really is. If you're really going to throw a hissy fit and say the villain population is lower because we lack two whole SFs, ignoring everything else villains have and have gotten over the years, that's pretty ridiculous.

Edit: Also, in terms of equality, like I mentioned earlier. Villains get Patron pools by default. Heroes have to actually stop being heroes and become villains to get them. Not to mention the villain side SSAs give temp powers and the Kal SF gives a temp buff that lasts until level 50. Heroes don't get that. So the equality thing goes both ways.

Perhaps you misread who I quoted. Read it again.

Even before then we got Dean MacArthur and Leonard, Mortimer Kal's SF, Vincent Tarikoss, their own villainous Ouro SFs, Barricuda's SF which is actually considerably different from Dr. Khan's, along with 5th Column added to various places throughout the Isles. Pain Domination was even a villain exclusive powerset. Not to mention villains get default access to Patron Pools, while heroes are required to go villain if they want to pick one up. Again, there was never something heroes got that villains didn't in their own way.