Bad_Influence

Being an artist myself, I am never about "stifling creativity."

Your task is to convince the developers that City of Furries will further their creative vision in the direction in which they want it to go. I will wish you good luck on this quest, because you are gonna need it.

So the only comments allowed out here are ringing endorsements? Better shut the forums down now, then.

Your problem here is not convincing me. Its convincing the developers that these things are mainstream fodder in the superhero genre. They make the decisions here, not me.

I understand anime just fine, thanks. I simply do not like it, and if I wanted to be playing characters which resemble what usually springs to mind when "anime" is mentioned, I'd find me a new MMO. Im sure there is one out there which is thematically appropriate. Most likely more than one.

With that said, I find your insinuations that I am "ignorant" and "idiotic" to be both uncalled-for and offensive: after all, you hold an opposing viewpoint, yet I have said no such thing to you. Pray return the courtesy.

I'll leave the baby-faced, 38-DD sporting, garter-wearing bunny girls to you, you can have 'em all. Cheers.

Such an extrapolation [that since I dislike anime', this automatically MUST mean that I approach everything in life with similar heavyhanded nay-say-itude - obviously my dislike of anime' was instantateous and delivered to my frontal lobes without so much as a scintilla of a rationale! omg!], is a very dangerous thing. That's just not how people in general are, much less me. Its far too great of a simplification.

I "hate what I don't understand"?! Ha. As if anime is a deep philosophical subject taking years of study to understand. Those babyfaced pre-teens wearing garters and cat-ears are a complicated concept! You know... I don't think so.

If you like this stuff, fine. And it is true that we could use some refination of the non-human parts we have in the game now.

But City of Furries? Pass, thanks.

...you can put them on the market?

Excuse woeful ignorance, but like I say I just can't find a source divulging who what where when and how. Even Paragonwiki tells you next to nothing about how these things work.

All I need to know about anime', I learned the first time I saw a baby-faced female anthropoid sporting cat-ears and a tail. You may love it, I don't.

I don't think whether or not I like anime is going to have an impact on the problems of the world today, that's just my take

I would agree with this if we didn't have animations already in the game for fighting while using Hover or Fly [weightless]. 'Port those over to the underwater zone and I don't see a problem....?

The main work is aready done: make it happen, Devs. My people want to swim around, dammit!

I have a strong feeling - just a hunch, mind you - that the developers don't want CoX turning into anything remotely resembling the above.

I don't think "cute" is what they have in mind.

I am all for costume additions that fit in thematically with the vibe CoX has going on. Honest. I don't think horse-tails or horseheads are fitting that descriptions.

The only horsehead I'd want to see in this game would be, if my villains could leave one in Lord Recluse's bed as a warning. Awesome!

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I never use bikini or pirate, so they could yank those off the creator tomorrow for all I care. However the Isles do have a history as a haunt of pirates back in the day, so that sort of ties in. Besides pirates make great bad guys.

However, CLOWNS..... clowns will always be thematic. They will be because of *one* iconic villain, The Joker. The Joker is one of the greatest villains ever. *bows in the Joker's general direction*

...the problem is, that this is a game centered around SUPERHEROES. I can think of very few comics characters offhand that utilize anything other than wolf or cat heads. Alien heads? Ok, this is a sci-fi themed game, we could use more of those.

I will not comment on anime, since this is a genre I loathe and so I have no idea what goes on there. However it seems to me that furries are an inherently anime theme. But this isn't an anime game.....

The problem is that a bunch of people running around with elephant heads [recently suggested in another thread] would break the theme of the game quite severely. In essence, do we want to encourage things like clones of Beta Ray Bill?

So its not just about Jay's dislike of furries. Its about thematic appropriateness to the game, and cute bunny girls are.... sort of not very superheroic. Or even very villainous... This isn't Playboy Mansion Online. Pining for these type of things is likely to be an excercise in futility, I fear. Mileage will vary but I would not hold my breath for zillions of animal parts to be added; if we are LUCKY we'll get a little more wolf-themed stuff. Wolf, bat and cat-heads would not break theme, and we could certainly use some updated ones.

I have an almost 50/50 split. However, my melee people are overwhelmingly male. Ranged people and control-types are female.

There are exceptions to this rule, but not many.

I was very resistant at first to the idea of rolling male characters, since I could identify more closely with the women... being one myself. Once I got past that, I find playing male characters very enjoyable and as an added bonus, it greatly cuts down on the what-are-you-wearing tells.

Comparing Swift[!! of all things] to Speed Boost is like comparing a go-kart to a Saturn 5 rocket. Uh.... no.

Anyone not wanting to deal with the horrors of Swift or Hurdle can just leave things how they are right now, for existing characters. I may well do this with some of my people who have important set bonuses that I don't want to tinker with.

I just can't believe how hard people are looking to find a gripe with this announcement. Wait until we see if there is a corresponding nerf and then you will truly have a big complaint. I'll be there complaining too, if that happens. But for crying out loud, let's see what actually DOES happen before we go crazy with the complaints.

So, when my level eight [EIGHT!] character rounds a sewer-tunnel corner and runs up on three Abominations, an Embalmed Cadaver and a Mortificator, he or she is supposed to use powers while keeping in mind "his/her ability to sustain them." Always keeping in mind that sometimes pulling works, but a lot of time the whole crew comes along and you are right back at square one. *throws hands into the air in frustration*

I am sure those Vazhilok will wait patiently for my blue bar to recharge! How about no. And so I might well end up bolting for the door. VERY metahuman, let me tell you.

As a result I do not ever choose toggle power-picks until after Stamina [especially things like DAMAGE AURAS which have EXTREMELY high end-costs, omg] with the exception of anti-mez/sleep and -KB shields, which run all day every day until my blue bar is literally empty.

There is a reason people powerlevel, it is often in order to get past these simply atrocious levels where you had to pick Swift instead of something you really, really need. At least that is what I do.... If this change goes down without us paying some really bad cost in the name of "balance," it will be one of the top five ways that the fun-vs-drudgery balance in this game was shifted toward the side of FUN.

"FREE AT LAST!" my level 8 characters will shout. Freed from the chains that bound them: the chains of overly-heavy End costs.

Yup.

I also have an /elec armor Brute. She plays a lot differently from the Tank.

.... the last time I said anything like that, I remember being pilloried.

It greatly amuses me to see people in the game with no Stamina and two ticks of End/toggles dropped. Melee'ers tend to do this, I don't know why. Maybe their best friend is a /kin who just happens not to be present.

I'll even go out on a limb here: I have an Elec/ tank with all his shields three-slotted for Endurance, he can also replenish his Endurance at will.... and yet for all that Endurance is still a big issue for him and I would not strip Fitness off of him at the present time. I doubt I will ever take it off unless the powers become unslottable - in which case they will be gone faster than a certain spotlight-hogging, cocaine-snorting spoiled little heiresses' underwear is on a Saturday night.

I confess I am a little worried that Fitness will be gutted in an attempt to "achieve game balance," but will wait for more info before panic sets in.

Define "right." Because I think your naysaying on this issue is perhaps not the right thing for those impressionable devs to read.

Sorry, cannot agree. My lowbie Tanks and Brutes having to stop and rest after every group of NPCs is not fun to me and never has been fun. Often I stop, pull up the internet and do a bit of surfing as they slooooooooooooooooooowly recharge. Check back in: nope, only halfway recharged *brings Explorer back up...* What a blast! Now that I call challenging!

My one concern is what are they going to take away from us in the name of "balance," over this fix. It'll be something big and unpleasant, I'd bet.

And so what if people DO make threats? So what. For real, so what?

I think there is a fundamental disconnect in perception here. We seem to have two distinct groups:

*One group sees the entire playerbase as a large mass of people paying subscriptions, buying boosters etc. So as naturally follows, each one of those people - personally like them or not - is generating money for a game that all of us love, no matter how we might feel about each other on the forums or whereever.

You pay a subscription. So do I. So do people you and I like. So do people you and I despise. In the eyes of NCSoft, we're ALL equal. Like it or not.

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*The second group sees people they dislike as completely disposable: Have an opinion they disagree with? GTFO! They are the self-appointed arbiters of taste, and only people they like and agree with should be allowed to hold subscriptions. I can draw no other inference from the things I see being said.

SG members quit and now you're alone? Haha, GTFO already.

Dont like a particular game mechanism? TOO BAD, now GTFO and make it snappy!

Wait, I thought we were getting [x] in the next new thing released and its not going to be in there?! I was waiting 5 years for that. I am tired of waiting. I am cancelling my sub. Reply: HAHA, stop whining and GTFO! Who cares!

...the list goes on and on. And who knows, maybe the target of such unwarranted snark might actually take offense and quit. That's money out of the pocket of your favorite game, folks. NCSoft isnt giving [general] you brownie points for being mean to disgruntled people.

I have seen it happen once myself,and so I can sympathize with such people. Having your SG friends vanish is no day at the beach. People are angry at game changes they perceive as having caused this withdrawal of their in-game "family." That is a serious dent in one's fun. I feel sorry for them. I certainly feel no need to jump all over them - let them vent.

Maybe you ought to. Perhaps not in public, but are legacy players disposable? Or even new players... rhetorical question only. We as a whole need that money.

I am not going anywheres, and have never stated that I am, so not applicable to me. What is it to you - or me - what they post on these forums? So what? Why be so harsh? Why not give them a little hope that things might change, or their friends might come back when [x] happens, or even that they might find NEW friends if they hang around a bit?

Oh right. I almost forgot where I was.

There was a time when I would have agreed with you, but as the game ages the factions seem to become less important. When you can see a Stalker strolling across the Portal Co. courtyard, factions have definitely become less important.

Truly villainous villains can just stay redside and stay "pure." And vice versa. The problem with that is that this may hamper playing with your friends.... so, more co-op stuff helps ease the problem for diehard players looking for new things to earn cash with for those level 50 characters and their ever-open beaks. Plus lets admit, playing a level 50 is definitely more fun than playing a pre-stamina. I didn't go through all those levels just to park the character when I hit 50 - far from it.

I cannot understand all these people continually urging others to quit at the least provocation. Instead of going, "Well you know, you might be right... maybe we do need new things to do at all levels, what a good idea. We've just devoted an entire issue to the pre-stamina levels, now its time to break out the complex and challenging end content," its all [in essence] "Haha! don't like it? GTFO! We don't need your money!"

We may well need the money of disgruntled people leaving. After all, for all this wondrous new pre-stamina content, I see most of the servers are already back down to one green dot. So much for that endlessly-fascinating new lowbie content....? hm.