Zortel

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Could you go back to using Bump maps? 'ever so slightly' tends to mean 'will not mesh with any other metallic costume due to colours looking wan and sickly' which makes it annoying to use any of the new stuff with any of the old stuff.

I preferred the metal we had with things like Tech Sleek and Valkyrie.

There's sets where I'd love to use bits like the Celestial armour, but it just looks -really- out of place for no discernible (to my eye anyway) benefit.

Thanks for the answers though. Much appreciated.

(Ho! as in the jubilant cry. Not the other meaning.)

The lore of the game is subject to change, intentional retcon or simply an accident on the part of a writer, and that includes that you have taken for yourself. What happens when the writers flesh out Circle of Thorn lore and completely and utterly invalidate almost everything you have ever done about your character?

Maybe you'll accuse the mission writer of being jealous of your character to the extent they try to pull the rug out from under you. That's the way delusions usually justify themselves to their afflicted. Never their fault, always someone else. 'Haters' and 'WoWtards' and whatever else can be painted as the problem.

Also, just to comment:

Never going to happen. For one they need their own characters (they being Paragon Studios) for marketing at the very least, not to mention as springboards for the stories and setting fluff in the game.

Kind of like the... Issue 13 faces compared to the uncanny valley Normal-Mapped Steampunk faces? I love the issue 13 faces. I can't stand the normal-mapped ones.

You misread, I was stating reasons why people get the Defeat Badges that don't have a weapon customization reward with it.

As in: These badges don't reward various weapons, but here's why people might get them in spite of that.

Firstly, thanks for that little joking dig at the top. I didn't realise that the Roman weapons and shields that aren't Romulus' aren't awarded with ITF completion, and I went and owned up to that and apologised.

But, I disagree with you saying there is no reward left for earning the badge.

There is. The badge.

There are lots of defeat badges that don't reward anything. Some people get them because they like the title, some because they're badgers, some just because they happen to defeat enough of X to be entitled to it.

If someone wants the Roman weapons from start enough to buy the pack if they were included, they'll buy the pack. If they didn't feel that strongly about them but wanted them on one or two characters, they'd go and earn the badge. For those that like to have as many costume options as open possible, they'd buy the pack. For those that don't mind? They won't.

That's why in the past I've said about having the Invention Wings and Boots for sale, so that when making a character if I find a combination works, I can get it from the get go and be happy. Otherwise I'm having to look up what the other wings look like, or the boots, and try and cobble imagination and what's on the screen together to see if its worth transfering the inf over to a new character to go to the market, buy the salvage and the recipe, assemble it, then head to a tailor to try it on and hope it's okay.

My preference is include the Centurion stuff and not the Romulus Shield/sword if something has to be excluded.

Why not let people get all the normal weapons and shields and keep the Romulus nictus sword and shield (?) exclusive to the ITF?

Cause that makes more sense than no weapons apart from an exclusive bow.

I've been considering subbing for a month when i22 comes. Decisions like this make me think I might be best off saving that £8.99, as why reward stupidity?

Include the damn weapons, don't scrimp over stuff like this and earn yourself some respect and points/pounds spent.

Wondering just how Paragon Studios can keep making silly, petty decisions,

Zortel.

I use Conga Rats, Tango Mice and Other Celebratory Rodents.

You can add even more in. Waltzing Hamsters, Charleston Gerbils and more.

Earthworm Jim (Cartoon and Game) - Bob the Killer Goldfish and Number 4?

Hi Zwillinger, thank you for the response.

Sadly though, it comes too little, too late for me. Because this conversation has been had before in the past, about disparity, nonsensical choices in costume pieces restricted by gender, pre-tinting and jackets.

Back then we got told 'We're taking your feedback into account' and then... same old decisions and then some.

I cannot conceive the kind of thought process that went into a gunslinger pack without giving everyone the option to be a gunslinger. If Paragon Studio's art team wanted to do a saloon set, there's perfectly good saloon keepers that could have been the option for male/huge characters, rather than LA's Bordello Burlesque troop does Wild Wild West being given in place of a female gunslinger like those famous ladies of old in the dime novels.

I'm coming up for seven years playing this game, and as I mentioned, a lot of old mistakes keep coming up. Prior statements ignored. Blatant lies told.

Super Booster II - Magic was released in April 2009, and back then people were clamouring for the Baron jacket for female characters. Females also didn't get the awesome Skull Mask Detail 1.

There's still a lack of shoulder animals for females. Cigars are still men and huge only unless you pay money for the gunslinger cigarillo.

New Dance Emotes coming with Going Rogue. They instead wound up in the Party Pack which worked out as a dollar an emote.

A dear friend of mine was sceptical of CoH going Freemium. At the time, I was saying 'Oh, that won't happen' and 'I'm sure they're not that silly.'

It looks like he gets to say 'I told you so'. I've had more issues with the game since September than before hand.

There's plenty I want to say but have trouble wording it. And I know that this post is likely going to be deleted anyway. But sometimes it just feels good to get it out there.

I'm done with paying for the game. I'll likely pop in to take advantage of it being F2P. Small RP-SG I've got a nice little character in to keep up with. I've got Paragon Points banked up enough to get anything I might feel like, they were purchased at the start of Freedom. There'll be things I miss like my 44 character slots on Union, being cut down once the VIP ones go, and losing out on the loyalty badge and costume stuff, but I can no longer justify to myself paying with the hope that 'they'll mean it this time, they'll listen.'

My £8.99 shall go to building up my collection of classic albums in the myriad areas of grunge, rock and metal. Maybe I'll come back to be a VIP in the future, but for now...

Adios, VIP-dom. At the end, I wasn't feeling very important at all.