Yogi_Bare

Anyway... since the convo has steered to fee tactics, I would suggest 'tiered membership'


Silver - Access to only X servers; limited Y number of of character slots, MA slots and costume slots (and other limitations, some, which can be overcome through micro-transactions) - lowest cost (or free)

Gold - Increases server access, character, MA and costume slot limits; paid server transfers; limited ig-mail privileges; even split between micro-transactions and items built into free releases (regular cost)

Platinum - Full access to all servers and slots; free server transfers; full ig-mail privileges (item transfer); anything that would normally come as a micro-transaction is built into free updates

[Not a complete example but hopefully, you get the idea]

"leaked", lol, it's a concession.

I'm not sure if I'll be doing this one but it did get me thinking about the playerbase niches and how competitions/contests, like this one, could go a long way in keeping the players interested in CoX; overall.

We have:

The Base Builders (that kind of got slighted with the slowdown/stop of the Community Digest) - CoX would do good to follow the direction of a few of the social app games and have a monthly/quarterly Base Design contest.

PvPers - More regularly scheduled Dev sponsored events (in addition to player events) once the mechanics get to where they need to be.

TF/STFers - More regularly scheduled Dev sponsored events (in addition to player events); Fastest Time Completion, Most Kills, Least Deaths, etc (tracked like Flashback Trials are)

MA Authoring - A more regular schedule for Dr. Aeon's theme-based MA authoring events as well as events to cover CoX's major holiday cycles (Xmas, Spring Fling, Halloween, New Years plus any they themselves aren't covering) ***but beyond that, MA Author/Illustrators should be able to get recognition not only for their stories but for their Custom Enemy Groups as well (design, back-story, power selection, dialogue, etc)

Fan Artists/Writers/Videographers - Periodic contests tied into a CoX backed Fan Page; listing all the top entries from these contests.

Action Screenshot/Screen Capture of the ________

Dev backed costume contests (in-game)


Bringing back the forum games (Spot the Shot, Captions, Save the World) and expanding it to FB and Twitter (at the very least through a link back to the forum article)

***The Dev/Marketing Team did well in pushing GR through these channels but they need to be consistent in pushing all PR info through these channels***

Karma for the Party Pack.

(even the store doesn't want you to buy it)

Could care less how my costume looks to other people, whether they like it or not is irrelevant to my costumes resolution... I'm not here to please them or cater to their subjective take on aesthetics or to play keep up with their graphics hardware.

It has to look decent to me on the graphics setting that I am using.

If for some reason players are having to use minimum or performance settings, they're not seeing the glories of higher resolution anyway; which means some of those newer pieces made to take advantage of higher resolutions just doesn't look right to some players sometimes; while the older pieces that cater to the lower resolutions work out just fine.

Even when the low res costume works for the player using it; there is always going to be a disparity between that player and the player at the higher end of the graphics scale... has been in in the past, will be in the future. High end graphics users will still balk [at] the decisions made by the low end users while the low end users will fail to see every last bit of detail the high end user put into his costume.

This especially holds true in the tran[s]fer of a toon from the Tailor to the open game; where lighting and other factors come into play.

How about adding a Legacy Tailor contact to a specific Icon/Facemaker location (or to all such locations); move all the old school pieces there for minimized menu clutter.

From your first few responses it seems that you've already made up your mind, but if we're serious about following the poll then I would offer this:


Show them an example or two of Option 1 (Old pieces vs. revamped pieces)

If players still opt to keep the old pieces, then I would follow one of the first suggestions made in this thread and relegate them to a sub-menu (as it stands, this should be done anyway with Chest Details and some of the other options).


Sidenote: I'm all for pushing the envelope but not for alienating players on older machines or 'forcing' them to upgrade in order to handle cosmetics.

Does Vengeance buff Plant Pets (Carrion and Fly Trap)? How about /Storm summons (Tornado and Lightning Storm)?

Super Flatulence (a la Johnny Test)

Tighter build? Subjective to the needs/specifics of the player. Moot point to argue.


Penalty? Why would there be... Base Health and Stamina do little to boost any toon to levels that would make them broken (outside of those that have mastered the art of being Staminaless - but still not broken). I mean, look at VEATs and Conditioning.

To maximize both Health and Stamina (in builds that necessitate that); extra slots would need to be spent... creating an slot offset *for most players* (uber players that are will to and can afford to min/max with IO Uniques and Sets are the minority and are mostly irrelevant to the overall picture; (ie. so what if 10-15% of you can slot an extra LoTG: Recharge? Most won't, can't or don't need/desire to do it.))

Making powers cost more endurance, or throwing out tons of critters that use -End/-Recov would defeat the purpose of making the Fitness Pool free; especially being that only one of those four powers has anything to do with Endurance. Besides, they've already added mobs that reflect the new powersets added (including Electric Control)

Vengeance will be cool for my /Kin builds and maybe my MMs and VEATs...



[Did changing Brawl into an non-endurance damage IO mule change anything else in the game?]