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this just all goes back to the continuing argument and bad attitude towards solo players that they do not deserve to have the same conveniences that others get.


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This is really preposterous. I play something like 90% or more of my time solo, and this is about the only MMO I am familiar with (I don't play lots of them, so could be wrong here) where solo play from 1 to top-level is even possible, much less made as accessible as it is.

That the developers have not provided canned social systems to make up for the ones we do not make, you know, socially, is hardly discrimination against solo players.

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To be honest I threw the jetpack comment in there because I'm sick of wings and boots. I'd kill for the option to craft a jetpack costume recipe.

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Oh, no question - craftable or just buyable, different jetpack looks have been on many people's wish lists for years.

And Mage, my apologies if I sounded like this is Holy Writ. It is an opinion, and one that seems to be held by the designers, but it is not like you have to agree with it -)

But the difference - making a jetpack piece or other goodie would not (as a costume) give someone a Fly power. It would be scrumptious to have a jetpack (ideally a range of choices for looks) that flares when you fly, same as rocket boots do now. But a set jetpack piece that makes you (for example) fly faster would be the kind of thing I would hate to see (as would my folks who fly on their own, or use antigrav belts, etc.).

As far as look-and-feel pieces, rings or bracers that glow have been on my wish list forever.

It's been raised before, but the concensus among the designers (one I agree with) is that costume pieces should not augment or alter (or provide) powers. Some pieces respond to powers, of course - wings, rocket boots, etc. And some temp powers include a graphic element - raptor and null-g packs are the obvious example.

But in the main: you pick your powers and then, if you are so inclined, design your look to go with them. Costume is entirely a roleplaying decision, with no impact on the powers you have or how effective they are.

One aspect of this, one of the main reasons I support it myself, is that it avoids having a "+1 Chestplate of Tech-based Damage Resistance."

Make it worthwhile (in terms of game numbers) to wear a given costume piece, especially to seek out a piece of loot that gives you a specific costume piece with powers or power boosts attached, and a significant number of players will wear that costume piece, regardless of look and feel.

I must hope that the general rule - powers and costumes are indepent of each other and it is up to the player to design a costume that "matches" his powers, if he is so inclined - remains in force.

It is thus irrelevant whether my delicate looking little brute in the gold bikini wears visible armor, or gets her energy armor powers from the nanotech threaded through her nervous system and musculature (which is in fact the case, and her gold bikini is composed of the ends of millions of lengths of nanotech thread where it shows on her skin).

More races and such, more powersets, etc. - all good. No need to tie some of the proposed additions to lore-related storylines. Also the Rikti origin is not quiiiite what you think it is :-) Further discussion of that subject requires Omega Clearance.

Yes to both.

I cannot help but reflect that there are a number of things two or more people can do acting in concert that one alone cannot.

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How the hell am I supposed to give money to my lowbie toons??

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The behavior is not forbidden, but there is no reason the developers should encourage it, and indications are that they don't care for the practice.

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they only reason i can see for not having the filters is the game doent want them to leave because they are making mad money off them! if this is true its a sad,sad state of affairs when the criminal is catered to and the customer is flamed for complaining.

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The only reason I can see for not expending effort on the mail system is that there are more important things to work on. They will modify it, if they modify it, when it triages to the top of the list.

If you get flamed it will be for a confrontational attitude coupled with a whopping sense of entitlement.

The preposterous approach of accusing the vendors of condignly supporting RMT because they profit from it is a typical internet piece of bullyragging, since such a statement delivered face to face would be legitimately answered with a blow and exchange of seconds.

And it takes a remarkable amount of chutzpah for a poster who revels, even wallows, in this kind of churlish rhetoric to make remarks about the developers being snide.

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this might be the wrong section but idk
i was watching the alpha vid for CoH
and i saw in the power selection screen
light control
shape changing
super sight
air control
why did they put all of that in the game to begin with?


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I would guess it was more of a wish list. The game went through significant redesigns between that point and release.

Some ran into engine issues, I would guess. Others were more in keeping with other powersets.

Light - a lot of it went into the Energy Blast set. Some other bits were probably more akin to illusion.

Sight (and other senses): lot of clipping issues in,say, X-Ray vision. Some powers do penetrate stealth and invis type powers, in PvE and PvP.

Shapechanging - in the sense of Plastic Man/Mr Fantastic, proved to be more than they could handle with the engine.

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Unlike a movie, a novel, or an album, a story arc can easily be changed after it's been released.

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Except for different releases, in theatres and home video, of Star Wars.

Oh...EASILY changed...OK, though I guess it counts as somewhat easier if you own ILM ;-)

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- The keys on your keyboard are some gosh-awful shade of brown/tan or orange.

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... and each one is the size of a half-dollar.

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That would be silly on a keyboard. It only make sense on my new Jitterbug.

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Right now you get double debt for dying outdoors, maybe it would be a good idea if you got double xp too.


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Of course, you don't get double debt for dying outdoors - you get half debt for dying indoors.

So the logical solution would be to halve xp for instanced missions, not double xp for street sweeping.

Or they just heard it on the supermarket muzak. Or they only know a hiphop cover.

As one of my high school students (and this was some decades ago) said to me: "Hey Paul, did you know McCartney was in a band before Wings?"

I have been an actor in my time (where a bad review is talking about you- your body, voice, personal presentation...not even the thin degree of separation involved when someone tears a piece off a book or painting). I've been a freelance RPG designer, so we may just differ in the view of what an audience, even casually malicious members of that audience, may do and how to respond.

RPGs especially were and are vulnerable to public, vociferous, and often downright nasty complaints for reasons gamers often view as silly. But you end up with your work, and sometimes your name, exposed to public obloquy, and getting calls from some local news when a kid with problems shows up with an empty pill bottle next to a copy of your rules on his night table.

I can understand disliking the response, but still feel it is a dermal density issue.

If you are writing (or peforming or engaging in any artistic medium intended to be presented to the general public) then grow a thicker skin.

There will always be someone who dislikes your premise, your chosen mode of expression, your means of presentation, or something else.

The best piece of irony is entitling a post complaining that not everyone likes a piece you created - and had the temerity to say so - with the cry that they should grow up.

I get that authors would like to consider any review short of perfection as griefing (not just in this game...in, say, the NYT Review of Books too).

But it ain't so.

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Just this morning I tried to start a sewer team and no one wants to do anything other then stupid AE farms!

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This is one of the more brilliant uses of irony I've seen on the forums lately. Well done!

More sets? Aces.
Sets that give people a flavor they like for an Origin? Hey whatever floats their boat.
Sets tied to an Origin? Not under any circumstances.

(Khelds are an outlier, so spare me appeals to Khelds).

Afterthought: Grenade based set, on the other hand, will require the playerm at least once per play session, to say "It sure would be nice if we had some GRENADES," in honor of one of the better throwaway gags in the Serenity movie.

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- You create a Superman clone who has Super Jump rather than Fly. (+2 Geek Cred for getting this joke)

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I got it! Yay! (For those that don't, where do you think "Able to leap tall buildings with a single bound!" came from?).

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I assumed thats what it was referencing but how is that a geek point when the theme says so.

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Geek point - knowing why it was "leap tall buildings."

Age point - knowing the opening patter for the George Reeves TV version because you watched it, in black and white, in first release (that would be me).

Double XP Age point - you know the opening patter because you listened to it in the Bud Collyer radio version in first broadcast (not me, but only by a few years).

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And give us a blank SG logo. Many of us don't want to have them displayed on our floor plates or windows.

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I myself want an indoor tileset for the bathrooms, and places to put the logo therein (yes, including on the toilet paper).

A workaround (I think - don't use this feature much) is:

1) After making binds to your satisfaction, save to your own file: /bind_save_file <filename>

2) To invoke those binds: /bind_load_file <filename>

That should save you re-entering the binds for the character, and then, if I read you correctly, you can save the result to the file that keeps reverting (until refreshed for the new character).

As I say, not sure it will fly, but for what it's worth.

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but after a while his story changed so that he was infected with a Technological organism that allowed him to interface with various pieces of technology on the biological level, which is a totally Science background.


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My nanotech heroes are all Tech - why should it be Science?

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Doesn't it seem that one peice of the natural evolution for CoX is the ability to respec to a different AT, or powerset within that AT?

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Seems apples and oranges (ie. comparing those features with the prospect of running a character up to a desired level with an "easy" powerset then changing to a different one in an instant.

Adding a visible scabbard would be one thing (and has its difficulties). Making the weapon animation use that scabbard, ESPECIALLY with different animations depending on whether the weapon is worn at waist or back, adds a whole higher order of difficulty.

You bet - logging into one's work system on one's time off is what every IT professional lives for.

(I am assuming this post was intended satirically, but just in case...)

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I thought CoX was rated Teen. The devs go out of there way to gen names and costumes that are inappropriate for the Teen rating. Nothing with a sexual nature or undertone is allowed due to the rating.


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You yourself quoted the ratings, which includes "suggestive" material as part of Teen.

Nor, of course, does everyone find cross-dressing worth this kind of fuss.

Sorry it punched one of your buttons.