Bad_Influence

....Remember back when we were told we were going "free to play," and that people who remained VIP would be "taken care of" and "will be treated right"? I sure do.

I feel like I have been asked to pony up right alongside every freemium player out there *while still paying* a subscription like freemiums DONT, and it rather ticks me off. KInd of makes me feel like a patsy. Like I'm paying a sub in order to run itrials...? Is that my VIP benefit, 10,000 BAF runs? Really.....?

This ENTIRE chainmail/armor set should be free to VIPs. All of it.

As far as the Mech set, interesting and I have someone who might use parts of that. Nice. But I don't call a set purchasable with tokens every six months or so, the VIP playerbase being "treated right." Perhaps that is just me.

I am admiring his stylin' and profilin' boot-cut jeans and cowboy boots! However whats going on with his head confuses me.... Hey, what comic is this from anyways?

Your problem is that there is actually nothing stupid about this picture. We have 1. a guy 2. missing an arm 3. using his natural armament [teeth] to get the job done. Three things that make sense. His aim might be off, but it does not irreparably break my suspension of disbelief.

This is completely NOT on a level with stuff like Wookies celebrating Christmas on their home planet, to continue the Star Wars analogies and does anyone remember that wacky Christmas special, anyways?

[And who involved with the SW franchise sat around one day and brainstormed up "....you know what this franchise needs is some fuzzy little animated teddy bears! We will call them Ewoks!! Awesome idea, I will get right on it." ...scratch that I dont even WANT to know who it was.]

The problem with this is that we can have a "stupid" category, and an "unrealistic" category; these do not have 100% overlap.

It is the Venn diagram overlap of "stupid and unrealistic" from which most of the problems in this thread flow.

I do not think superhero-themed stuff is stupid, really. I have been reading about it my whole life; my first little-girl crush was Batman, for crying out loud. I do draw the line at cartoon dogs barking rockets, dogs fighting with swords and [perhaps most epically] someone else's mention of a game where people swordfight using their feet, though.

Could anyone but chimps do that, really? Disgression.... but just saying.

[And yes, the fact that Star wars is cram-jam-packed with crap I find utterly slapstick - Ewoks being Exhibit #1 - is a big reason I have not been following the franchise for decades.]

Completely, 100% bass-ackwards. The argument has little to do with "animals with powers, period" but rather more to do with your assertations that animals who lack arms - and indeed, opposable thumbs - look handy-dandy trying to use bladed weapons by clamping them in their mouths, and we should all just shut up and agree with your assertation because you are the only person in the entire known universe with an "I'M ALWAYS RIGHT!" button.

On behalf of everyone I will thank you for the funny mental imagery this provokes, its been a hoot.

Hint: this thing you are so invested in IS actually not all that intelligent, obnoxious one-dimensional person.

*raises brows* Perhaps this is the first time in, well, forever that I have come down on the side of our resident Malleus Badge Jihadist, but once again this is 100% wrong. If anyone has been these things in here, it has been you. Stop projecting, and take a moment to realize exactly JUST HOW STUPID a ten-foot-tall wolf needing a sword in its mouth would really be.

Or don't. This is actually pretty amusing. *gets out microwave popcorn* I love how people like you start whipping out the personal insults when you run out of logical arguments, very amusing and very telling too. Please flail around a bit more, I have plenty more popcorn.

Dat's wight, wabbit.

Ok, let me get this straight: wanting to keep sword-wielding Sparkledogs out of the game is equivalent to "homophobia"? And people accuse me of hyperbole....

I am great with "having options." I do sort of like for the options to make sense within the given framework being discussed: this is where player-created Sparkledogs - and said dogs fighting with mouth-held swords - falls down.

At this point I think what can be reasonably said has already been said; I leave it to the developer's good sense to ensure we maintain at least a semblance of comics-related sensibility in the game. I am confident that they will in fact do so, despite the wilder wishes of some of the playerbase.

Y'know, Techbot, unfortunately for you I am not staying awake nights wondering what exact ideas you think are "wrong," or 'stupid." I'll leave it to you to figure out why Im not doing that [hint: its easy to figure out].

The fact is, again unfortunately for you, that I dislike the idea of people taking this new furry idea and running all the way to Alpha Centauri with it [as we all know will immediately happen.... there are plenty of people who wait up nights on the prayer that they'll be able to grief the game in such a fashion...] and also that despite Leo's desperate attempts to claim otherwise, that the idea of animals fighting with bladed weapons in thier mouths is nothing more or less than slapstick on a level with any episode of The Three Stooges. Fight, ad-hominem, insult, namecall: will change nothing, its a stupid idea and a logical fallacy - and deep down, you are well aware of this.

You just enjoy a fight. Duly noted!

You guys already have the so-called "yiff pack" and you are welcome to it. Be glad you got that much.

Now, I am delighted that you and others have no problem with the idea of, say, a Gone With The Wind trial where your Incarnates fight the Boss version of General Sherman, in a new blighted a-la Boomtown zone called Burnin' Down Georgia. That would make NO SENSE in COX, much like rainbow-colored dog-girls who fight with 9' swords in their mouths [?!!] MAKES NO SENSE EITHER. You can namecall all you want, will not make it less true. 'Ave a nice day, mate.

Next: Rhett Butler summons a Mech to get Scarlett out of burning Atlanta.

I'm female, thanks so your fantasy is going nowhere, unfortunately for you.

Eh, meh.... not big on the Gundam look myself, but will keep hoping for pix of the other upcoming costumes later on. Thanks for the link tho.

So.... sword fighting for dogs consists of tapping one's inner thigh with the sword to cue the dog to walk between one's legs. Or, having the dog jump the sword! EPIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC !!!!!!!!11!!!1111eleventy-oneeeeee!

[yeah, I'm not seeing it as a valid strategy in a real fight, sorry. Jumping the sword might save his life, meanwhile he inflicts no damage )

Ok, I still like the idea of Transformers burning down Civil War Atlanta a lot better.

Want both of these hair options and have since I first saw them, thank you very much.

As far as Ghost Widow's hair, this is a player wish that should have come true about 6 years ago. It is far past time for animated hair, and I say let's make it happen. I am fine with not being able to use capes or other backpieces with it, I just want it now and I am not alone in that. Curly hair, straight hair, flat hair, floofy hair: animate yesterday please.

Also needed: animated topknot for men AND women. That way guys are not left out, plus I have several men wearing it.

People not wanting to wear "ugly" animated hair can just not wear it: kind of like I eschew ugly costume parts like those *&@# Celestial boots. Everyone happy.

The problem is that Diabolique actually looks good. Sparkledogs.... not so much.

I would like to get a closer look at the actual Diabolique, but she's so obliterated by a million powers firing at once that she's dead in ten seconds. Sad, because she is epic.

Which a rainbow big boobed doggie girl will nevah be

Ah, so evidently there is no such thing as a genre. This is another one we're going to have to agree to disagree on, because I just can't waste time on arguing that all concepts are valid in all possible settings. This would mean it would be ok to remake "Gone With The Wind" with Transformer Robots setting fire to Atlanta. While it is fun to imagine Aunt Pittypat running screaming across the burning landscape in fear of Decepticon.... its not something that works well for me thematically. Do excuse that naughty "theme" word again.

A fact for which I give thanks, considering the hideousness of all of the heads except the Tiger one. The female ones especially are just.... gah.

War Wolves are on the human rig. The person who stated the thread was specifically discussing using the four-legged rig for player creations.

So, scratching comes instinctually to humans, but thrusts and punches are "learned behaviors"? This is such an epic fail of logic that really, words fail me.

I think a half-hour spent in any preschool would amply show otherwise.

Next up: Ashley Wilkes goes to Middle Earth and barks rockets, stay tuned.

Yep, what Agent said. We need beacons to all co-op zones.... at least we do if you want to see people in them.

And last time I checked, I could bring my Primal people to Praetoria any time I liked: my main badger just went in there and got all the badges. So maybe we DO need teleport beacons in Praetoria, too.

p.s. I think we have a sub between IP and Sharkhead, too. OK, put subs in the zones. SOME way to navigate. I am open to suggestion.

Wait, there's actually a game where people fight with swords held by their feet? LOLtacular.

As far as wolves with swords, canines may indeed bite with far more force than humans; this is an excellent argument for canines getting all medieval and actually, you know, using their natural armaments to fight with.

No matter how you swing it [do pardon the pun] a dog's neck has nowhere near the range possessed by the human arm. If this was an idea that would actually do well, there would be people schooling k-9 forces to fight with swords in their mouths right now.

But it wouldn't and they don't. Especially with nine-foot swords *sword grounds in the dirt, first swing*. I should not have to explain this, it should be obvious!

My interests are not limited to "silver age American comic books," far from it. Way too much of an over-generalization. No offense, but you really have no idea what my comics-related interests are; they swing a wide loop.

Really? Nice try. We have a game called "City of Heroes/Villains" yet it does not have a genre or style inherent in its very creation? I'm going to let that lie riiiiiight there.

I'm not seeing rainbow doggie-girls wearing bikinis as being thematically appropriate, so we're going to have to agree to disagree on that one.

I really don't care about what the single player you, Samuel Tow, does with your characters. You are just one person. What concerns me is a potential flood of rainbow-colored dog-girls with 1000 body-piercings, anime hair, bikinis, leg warmers etc. That would not be appropriate with the theme [the word I dared to say! yes! I said it!], with the THEME of City of Heroes.

However I will unbend so far as to say we could use more anime-themed hairdos; this would be awesome.

As far as someone else complaining that it is indeed au fait for wolves to be wielding swords since people do it all the time: People do indeed use hand weapons. We possess two things that dogs don't:

1. Five-fingered hands that possess opposable thumbs, enabling us to grip objects

2. Long arms with 360 degrees of motion, enabling us to swing weapons.

A wolf with a sword in his mouth that is actually longer than his body-length is a logical fail for me, since the instant his short little neck tried to swing it, the weapon would ground itself. I am willing to suspend disbelief only so far.

Wrong, my lil' argumentative fur-person. I most certainly do care. What I *don't* care to see is the thematic equivalent of people trottting over to the LotRO forums and starting the following thread: "Middle Earth needs Transformer Robots! Let's make it happen!"

Robots would be stupid in Middle Earth, i-Pod wearing rainbow colored dogs with huge mammaries wearing bikinis would be stupid in a superhero-themed MMO. I trust I have made my point.

I dont see why you would not care; from where I sit, seems like it would be your ultimate MMO experiece.