Doc_Reverend

In CoHworld, Nemesis is only the 2nd Emperor of the United States (and I've always thought that Nemesis actually being Emperor Norton would be far cooler than him being an old German guy )

Would a platypus themed hero's vehicle be called the Platypod? *flees*

Looking at the stuff in the Titan Weapons Booster, I think the Atom Smasher is the kind of style I mean when I say Tesla style gear. It looks like it was stolen from a mad scientist's lab. Stuff like that.

EDIT: Also: Shark heads. With a shark fin "backpack"

Oh I know, but there are a lot of times the rocket boots just don't look right with the rest. Additionally, we have stuff like the IDF or Enforcer boots, where you really could expect little rocket flames. Heck, the IDF boots has exhaust nozzles which don't seem to do anything. I always liked the rocket boot and piston boot effect (the subtle thoom impact and shockwave on landing is cool), and would like the ability to expand that beyond those two parts.

Yeah, that is something they honestly be extremely careful with. I'd suggest not doing it, if you think the furor over gender stuff was bad, imagine what happens when race gets involved.

That'd be better, really. Not having to conform to a theme and instead being "Hey, here's a cool part you can use" is great for some of us. I'm a big fan of the "big bag of parts" school of thought regarding costume packs instead of being required to shoehorn everything from one costume pack together to make a coherent costume on it's own.

Also, I always thought one of the striped capes (can't remember the name, it's the pattern that Dr. Quantum uses) looked like a big beach towel when it's white and blue.

I'd prefer more old style, almost cornball elements for costumes. I like my villains cheesy and have a fondness for retro (as anyone who looks at my characters can tell). Also, I prefer less "wacky" things and more kinda goofy stuff we can use for non-silly things. The brain-in-the-jar was perfect of this: sure, it's completely screwball, but can it's SO comics, it was awesome. I just love it when we capture the sheer weirdness and over-the-topness of comics, rather than going for just something that can only be silly. So stuff I'd like:

Ming the Merciless capes and fringes
Backpacks or arm bits or whatever that look like they came off a Tesla coil (heck, you could probably make a whole Tesla pack building on that theme with just themed parts for back, shoulders, arms, chest, hands, feet, etc)
Barnstormer jackets (I'd love a tights chest pattern that used a retro/barnstormer design)
Big, 1930s style rayguns for beam weapons (and dual pistols)
Brass diving bell helmets
The big wooden Carnie mallet scaled up for Titan Weapons
A rocket feet travel aura: when you fly or jump (but not running around normally), you have these little flames and contrails coming out of the bottom of your feet, like you had rocket boosters. Would be great for a lot of fliers and superjumpers, especially the tech-based ones.
Gorilla head, of course.

Or a tiny little man or something. Or include the bowl with the little dude/cat inside.

I have the same problem on poor Eco. She can't walk without her belly clipping through her shirt!

But I do like the new shirt. It's nice, and I can find a lot of purposes for it.

Very often with the pretinted items, it's nearly impossible to color things beyond a fairly narrow range. Try coloring a set of gloves yellow, it comes out green because of the pretint. It throws off a lot of stuff. So if these helmets are pretinted silver and black, rather than just using a colorless metallic base, it does wonky things with trying to make colors work. For instance, making the Statesman helmet black in a way that lines up with other black costume pieces becomes problematic.

Gunslinger and the Steampunk packs, though Gunslinger has the most egregious examples of it yet.

Yeah. This does not mean that every single bit of everything or whatever has to be copied over. If they make, say, a Retro 1950s Sci Fi costume like they discussed at the Player Summit, and the female version has a skirt instead of pants for our space cadet, I'm fine with that. That's fine and fits the style and theme of the set. It doesn't have to be identical, but at least a fair, viable counterpart. A pile of corsets is NOT a fair and viable counterpart to a jacket.

It's the implied statement that for girls, an underdressed saloon girl is an equal equivalent and counterpart to a badass gunfighter, that sticks in our craw.

And my argument is that if they have to make a choice between giving the girls a Knight or a Princess costume, or a Gunslinger or a Saloon Girl costume, go with the Knight and Gunslinger. It's also a gameplay issue: I can't make action-y superheroines with this kind of stuff. If given the choice, err on the side of Badass.

I'd be willing to accept the line of "It'd take a LOT of work to do and there's some troublesome UI issue's we'd have to work through" or whatever. It's an upfront, honest answer. Disappointing, sure, but at least it's an honest answer.

Or they could just make the Knight and Gunslinger parts for girls and skip the Saloon Girl and Princess. And I get the feeling that the vast, vast majority of the players would be HAPPY with that. Heck, I'd love it. I can get far more mileage out of chaps or medieval armor than I can out of another set of underwear.

Honestly, stuff like that doesn't bother me. And I'm okay with some of the female characters wearing what's more or less a super-bathing suit. You have to remember that superhero costumes are evolved from the circus and carnival performer outfits of the early and mid 20th century (Superman's costume is basically a 1930s carnival strongman's) as well as bathing suits. This is a genre where people often wear their underwear on the outside and pants are optional.

That, and Silver Mantis is an insane body mod junkie who makes every one feel like they need a shower after beating her up. She's also a rather isolated case. I think the only other character anything like that is Dominatrix, who's got an entirely different kind of crazy going on.

I have no issue with some outfits being sexy or attractive. Supers of both genders are flamboyant (again: circus outfits). My issue is with the inexplicable decisions to focus on making more and more sexy outfits for the girls at the cost of alternatives and the double standard of "no female minions" vs. "here's an outfit where you'll need to break the laws of physics to keep it on." I mean, we have how many corsets and bits of lacy underwear now?

Wow, did not notice it. Though it did seem that Tornado wasn't hurling everyone quite as far over the horizon. Heh.