Dawnshift

Originally Posted by Black Pebble

Take a late lunch! Or a long bathroom break.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU

It's already been established that a war with the Battalion is a war against heaven.

Originally Posted by Xzero45

"More Golden and Silver Age comic book costume parts for our characters" has been a frequent request by the playerbase for years. People always have been, and still do, ask for more heroic costume parts to help portray their more classic comic-book inspired heroes. These requests became so frequent and heated that, back in January of this year, former CoH developer Noble Savage created two threads dedicated to ironing out precisely what it was we wanted to see. These threads can be found here and here. We worked closely, kept it civil, and expressed a multitude of great ideas we'd love to see to help improve our costume creator. Things were going very smoothly and we were hopeful for great things to come.

It's been seven months since this discussion, with Noble Savage no longer working on City of Heroes. And since then, we haven't seen much of anything that shows our devs are working with our requests and ideas. The only hint that we may get something someday was a Work in Progress picture of two possible tights designs, which was shown very briefly at the recent Player Summit.

Meanwhile, those attending the Player Summit only a few months ago got to decide on a new costume set themed around Post Apocalypse. We are now already beginning to see the results of this. In addition, we've had finished sets for Cybertech and Cosmic Corsair, two other sets revealed at the same Player Summit, in beta for weeks. But nothing about those few new tights options, nor any statements at least hinting at things to come in the way of the Golden/Silver Age. When we poured our ideas out to Noble Savage were they completely dropped once he was reassigned? Zwillinger had this to say about the issue when I brought it up.



This is what he had to say on the matter before he asked us all to not speak another word of the subject in that thread. The beginning comment wasn't necessary at all, for starters, and made me feel like these requests aren't taken seriously in their eyes. But it's the bolded part that makes me a bit suspicious. If the devs actually took in our ideas we discussed so thoroughly with Noble Savage seven months ago, wouldn't there be more than just a chance we'll see them implemented? Like maybe a "We're working on something you'll like" or a "You'll see" or even a "We can't discuss that right now"? They give out vague hints every other time someone mentions something they have in the pipeline. But they didn't this time. Zwill specifically said there may be a chance these parts will be created.

Whatever happened to our Golden and Silver Age costume parts? Will we ever see proper domino masks with optional white eyes? Or classic high collar cape options? Or even simple designs like trims to put on our capes, gloves, boots, etc.? Or has the design team decided it's just not worth the time, or that they just aren't interested and don't care about our ideas and requests unless we shell out the money to make them in person?


TL;DR We asked for Golden/Silver Age parts. Seven months ago Noble Savage worked with us and took in our ideas. All we've seen since is a small WiP picture. Meanwhile we're seeing Cybertech and Cosmic Corsair already, while Post Apoc is made in far less time because it was requested by some people in person at a Player Summit. Whatever happened to our Golden/Silver Age parts?

Originally Posted by Xzero45

Everything looks great so far, don't get me wrong. Lovin' the work you do and how you work so closely with the community. That said...

Can we please stop getting mohawks? We have far too many as is. And with both this set and the Cyberpunk set we're getting more and more variations of the mohawk. It's going to get to the point where male hairstyles will be one quarter normal styles, one quarter crazy, weird styles that are rarely used, and the remaining half with be all mohawks.

Originally Posted by Texas Justice

And according to the latest tweet, all codes have now been sent out. If you haven't received a code it was because they couldn't send you a DM.

I guess that's due to my Protected settings?

Originally Posted by Hit Streak

We've modified the way Tweet Code Thursdays are going to work.

For item codes, we'll announce when the codes will be going out, and we'll give people a specific amount of time to re-tweet our post. If you re-tweet our post, we'll respond directly to you with a code to use. No scramble. No luck involved. No twitchy fingers required. Simply re-tweet our post in the timeframe given and we'll direct message you with a code.

In short, if you want an item code, do the following:

• Follow us on Twitter
• Re-tweet our tweet when prompted to do so
• Receive a code

Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven

It's not the costume piece that is the issue... it's the method to get it. Really, is it that hard to understand?

Originally Posted by Zenlon

Personally, I love this.

What's to complain about FREE stuff that we all have an equal chance of obtaining?

If you don't care about Kirby Dots and never have before - then don't visit the twitter page. If it's something you desire, cast a tent and be ready.

Originally Posted by Yoru-Hime

Here's a quick idea that somewhat follows the Facebook lines:

1) You follow the twitter account
2) You send a message to the account under some set of conditions (using a specific word from a tweet or within a certain timeframe)
3) You get a reply back with a code that you can use to unlock <insert shiny here>

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

There *will be* exclusive giveaways. There *will be* exclusive media content. For all venues, not just social media.

Originally Posted by Android_5Point9

At the very least, there wasn't a perpetual shortage of those.

I would at least appreciate a lack of this bullheaded approach when it comes to acknowleding community feedback. It's one thing to say, "hey, we hear you," and a whole separate beast to actually act on feedback. There's a real depressing reality that unless enough people stamp their feet and make enough noise to the point where it makes the people with legitimate qualms or criticisms about an issue feel embarrassed (since it makes them out to look like whiny children who need to be pacified), things just don't really see change with marketing type issues.

Originally Posted by Hit Streak

For right now, the Dark Matter aura is going to be for promotional use only. There aren't any plans to put them up on the market.

This isn't to say that they won't be available as contest rewards, or for other activities online (Zwillinger gave some away last night on Virtue, I believe). It just happens that the focus right now is to build an audience on twitter.