Dispari

Yeah I've been mentally working out the details of some CoH fiction between several characters of mine all interacting and explaining their stories and backgrounds... Now that's all dead.

I refuse to let my characters die, especially my favorites. But I have no idea where I'm going to take them.

Another good reason to change it.

I think I've settled on Rosaline for the first name (with the nickname of Coyote Rose). I like Baker and Whaler for last names. What's Johanna Baker in reference to?

Heh, my name is Kara.

I mentioned she's a coyote.

That's actually Ms. 27,000 posts. But your decision is wise.

It used to be $15 bought you the game and powersets. Then you started having to pay $10 for costumes too.

These days your $15 still pays for the game and powersets. Except some powersets cost extra. But now costumes cost less. And the real kicker is you get a free $5 every month to spend on stuff. So in theory you don't have to "buy" costumes and powersets if you pace yourself. And overall, I've found the flow of costume parts to be much more acceptable.

But when we start complicating it with random factors like item packs and other stuff that's where it can get iffy. It used to be more straightforward. Pay $15 to play, and $10 for costumes. The places they hide things these days though are like an Easter Egg hunt.

In theory you could put your $5 toward super boosters. But I'd rather get predictable returns and just buy costume packs.

I know. I was agreeing with you.

On that subject, as someone with a lot of trans friends it shouldn't be something that offends people. Guys can wear skirts if they want. I always hated the "not suitable for children" thing. What you really mean is it's not suitable for you and you'd like to shield (your) children from it. But kids are going to get exposed to that stuff at some point regardless of your attempt to censor it. Transgender people exist in real life and your kid is probably going to run into one at some point. You can't censor real life. Well, you could but it involves a pit, a basket of lotion, and a flexible definition of "home schooling."

But from a business standpoint, people should realize that the appeal for guys having high heels and corsets is a very small minority and would not pay for its development time. It's not that practical to ask the dev team to spend time giving guys purely women's clothes.

Asking them to give men's clothes to women though is pretty basic stuff. It's a lot more prevalent in society. I'm wearing pants right now. I'll be glad to gain some new pants from the Gunslinger pack.

And the costume parts, catalysts, and wolf?

If you took away things like skirts and high heels I would be very angry. Arcanaville addressed this already, but not doing any more gender-specific items just changes the complaints.

Glad I could help.

You don't think it's possible to improve upon a power so that you and more people could be satisfied? And make the company more money?

This argument you're using could be applied to literally everything that comes out. From now on, the devs don't have to balance or adjust powers again ever. Don't like it? Don't play it!

The argument is that if it was a little more desirable than "worse than NR but neato looking" it may be more popular. It's true some people will be buying it anyway. I don't think that means there's no room for improvement and anyone who doesn't like it as-is can't offer feedback.

If you do something to make it slightly more desirable it may be more successful. Right now it's spending 600 points for a Ninja Run that detoggles you. There's no good reason to take it other than aesthetics. I recommend stealth at least.

I know you aren't the powers team but maybe you could pass it on.

Dude this is not how math works. You're only comparing the powers at their maximum damage. Which is only 1 in 5 shots for Ion so that's not a fair comparison.

+160.63 damage at 20% chance means on average it only adds 32.126 damage. That's 160.63/5. Or in other words, 20% of the time you do +160.63 and 80% of the time you do +0.

Ion Core does 460.486, not 588.99. It would only do 588.99 if the bonus damage was 100%. Also, Pyronic does 531.176.

You know what's great is whoever bought that still has to buy another one if they want to have the pistol in both hands.

You can only do that if you're already level 50. If you want it on a sub-50 character or someone who hasn't run any trials you'll have to buy the recipe.

Hey, don't go overboard now. I never said I was "unwilling to do so;" in fact if you read the OP I said I did try to answer their question once I realized why they were asking me.

And I don't get "a lot of help request," it's the very first time I ever got asked a question since the system launched.

When it did launch I expected to get asked questions, and never did. This encounter wasn't the result of an unwillingness to help. I was totally thrown off guard by someone actually trying to use the system for its intended purpose.