Bad_Influence

Totally agree with this assessment.

Have been on one MoM which succeeded, out of three tries. Have to say it, MoM is right on up there with Keyes as far as unpleasantness. Not AS BAD as Keyes - I'll grant you that much, but almost as bad. I have no intention of trying it again for a long time.

If its not being locked in the hospital for an eternity of time "for your own safety," [pfffft] its NO hospital at all. Who comes up with this tripe? Seriously.

The problems start when we can't touch the keyboard at all, for fear of doing the wrong thing. I'm all for strategy, but I don't call being hamstrung "strategy." That's just me though.

And yes..... we'll be seeing BAF as usual after another few days of people becoming frustrated. I can't repeat some of the language I saw in League chat after a failure yesterday. People are very wound-up about this stuff.

Yes, this was done in the two TPNs I ran as well. The problem is, there are relatively few sets which specialise in single target attacks; I can tell you that [for instance] my Plant 'troller has.... none. I guess if I pulled Brawl back onto his trays, he'd have one. Wow. Brawl against level 54s.

As a result, there was much complaining that not enough people were cleaning up outside - because few people qualified to be on the ST team. I sure wasn't going out there only to make a slip and be yelled at, I can tell you.

To be honest, I had little if any idea what was going on. Into this building, kill everything, into that one, kill everything, back over here, back over there etc. It was like a mini Shard TF! Same thing over and over again.

Truly: meh. Nice badges I guess.... BAF is looking pretty good right now. So's UG, despite the binary nature of the lichen WW.

Am all for everyone having a useful role.

What I question is having to sit on my hands for half the Trial.

Frankly I would'nt want to be ST either; one slip, one civilian hit and let the rage begin. Ugh.

This has been increasingly common lately, and I despise this mindset so much I can't even tell you. I have one-starred more than one recruiter over it.

Sometimes the leader of the league is cool, but then someone in the league starts complaining that not everyone present isn't at least +2. Hate. So. Much.

If people want to do this, they should be running private trials with their SG or coalition,. or whatever. Don't start this crap on a PuG.

*bzzzt!* WRONG AGAIN!

What I meant by that is that I don't want to wear clothes that I wear every day, here in the game.

Mnay here seem to want to dress in CoX, just like they do in real life, all modest and proper-like. Different strokes and all that.... but I don't want to. This game is an escape for me, I'd rather dress like Desdemona than I do in real life - however there seems to be a movement afoot to get the developers to stop making all those naughty, woman-exploiting bits like the Gunslinger stuff, and make it all boring and gender-neutral. This is what worries me. I hate the idea of that.

This.

As soon as we get Staff Fighting, I will recreate my staff character from that other game taking place in Metropolis, etc, over here. I've been missing her, but don't want to play that game.

She won't have that awesome tattooed skin that they have over there [sigh] but otherwise I can 98% recreate her.

I don't care for the look of these huge weapons, but those of you who do, have at it.

There's no hidden meaning at all, the concept is very simple: people often use the pretext of a joke to say what they really think, in a socially-acceptable construct. Its a way to take the edge off of harsh or otherwise unacceptable statements.

Not sure where I said leather chaps and scrubs were "the same thing." I'd suggest not leaping quite so far ahead of what's actually being said; you have me making all these wild statements that never actually came out of my keyboard.

...Are you literally insane? Sometimes I wonder.

I am of the school of thought that holds jokes are the socially-acceptable method of saying what one REALLY thinks. I evaluate all such statements as yours carefully, just sayin'.

This forum's insistance on *only* mundane statements is pretty funny. One must be as sober as a judge [moodwise, not speaking of imbibing] at all times, and puctuation must be perfect. But regardless.... that's a pretty low blow. I'd say I'm much less hostile and dogmatic, but I am sure opinions differ.

As for those who want to dress their toons in utter, completely-clothed seriousness since they're mothers now [which is what I took away from someone else's post], go for it. Your toons belong to you, not me.

Just understand that not all of us want to do that. I wear scrubs every day.... don't want to do it in CoX.

...And "It's ALL going to suck, all of it from now on, NO exceptions, and it's all your fault!" ISN'T hyperbolic?

'K.

Please use quotes around things I have actually said, or at least state that you're speaking hypothetically; I didnt say what you have in quotes above.

But yeah, when you go up to a hornet's nest and give it a few good whacks with a stick, you own what comes out. My understanding is that Noble Savage himself admitted that if they're going to start 'porting everything male over to the female bodyform, that would leave less wiggle-room for female specific pieces. I'd love to be wrong, but I could swear that's what I saw.

From where I sit, its sarcasm right now - but far from impossible. And that is what scares me.

*raises brows* Condescending little thing, ain'tcha?

Its ok, Selina has already schooled you so I won't pick this apart sentence by sentence. Suffice it to say I find your logic to be BEYOND hugely faulty, and your attitude non-conducive to changing minds.

Purchase all of these pestiferous Packs that you please; myself and many others are going to decline. Why? Because sometimes, you got to vote with your wallet, and this is definitely one of those times. If we let this get by, EVERYTHING will be up for a roll of the dice and HOW ABOUT NO THANK YOU.

Well, I've been here since 2006, and others have been here even longer than that. Had you been here all along, you'd have seen that things are way less unbalanced than you believe.

But don't worry, we have it covered now. *cue the three-piece business-suit for females, with a cute little bow on the lower back of the jacket* Puns fully intended.

*heaves a big sigh....*

I see that the concept of sarcasm is lost on you.

Regardless, since the developers have limited resources for costume development and some of you - such as yourself - decided to speak for *everyone* and got said developers to promise we'd be getting many fewer things for females that males cannot ALSO wear, in the future.... thank God for Gunslinger. I have a feeling those will be the last truly feminine costume pieces we are going to see for many a long day.

Nice going. Thanks.

Good lord, its going to be City of Evangelicals next. We'll all have to have pants or knee-length skirts on our female alts, or risk getting reported.

"HI GM, there's this chick under the giant atom statue in Cap Au Diable wearing a mini, DOOOOOOO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!" [send report]

Meanwhile that stupid leather-straps-and-bare-chest-with-nipple-rings top for men will still be ok. Ha.

What part of "getting out of bed or breathing do not require monetary purchases, but buying these silly packs DOES" are you immune to?

You damn' straight I am. I like to pay my money and take my choice, not pay my money to take a chance; this is where we differ.

I dont know what I can say here.... I'm sorry for you, but I doubt your dislike will change many minds.

Its a free country, and you can go to the casino all you like. I don't like casinos, viewing them as hopelessly rigged for the benefit of the House... so I don't go there. I won't go to the CoX version, either.

Well, I pass through the Golden Giza every now and then, but you get my drift. If you like to gamble, have at it.

....Except that it rather feels like that's exactly what's happening. I for one welcome our new City of Androgyny, since it means there will more cash in my pocket.

I'll cherish the nice female costume pieces that we have now, and look forward to more.... er..... whatever.... more 'ported-from-male-bodyform pieces with bows on them to denote that they are female, as someone in the other thread suggested that the developers so. *facepalm* Ugh.

Getting out of bed does not require us to purchase the opportunity to do it. Failure of comparison.

Non sequiter; move along please.

*Turns up nose* and it'll STAY up until at least VIP players have the opportunity to purchase the pieces, as we do now.

I am sorry that the concept of people not wanting to gamble upsets you to this degree.

No hypocrisy needed, I'll be right up-front about it: I don't want to gamble for costume pieces [the rest of this crap I really don't care about].

We'll have to agree to disagree.