Doctor Roswell

Catgirls are the most evil villain in CoX?

You know who else didn't ask permission to do things?

HITLER.

Not to sound too combative here, but... if you're not able to do something right, maybe you shouldn't do it at all? If you want generic coupon codes, either find a way to get them done, or don't act like you've got them already. Nobody would fault you for not giving this stuff away for free. It's the pancaked-up attempt at giving them away badly that generates the hostility.

I agree with this a hundred and ten percent. The greatest advantage this game has over its competition is the character/costume editor. That should be exploited, not limited. Keeping any costume item out of any player's hands is shooting yourselves in the foot.

(And I'll take this opportunity to clumsily segue into another plea, as someone who owns all of these "exclusive" items already, to open up access to the Cape of the Four Winds, Prestige Power Slide, Arachnos cape, and that "other" Arachnos chest detail to everyone. If someone wants it, and is willing to pay, there's no reason not to let them have it. And in the other direction, seriously, I'll pay money for any loyalty program costume items not already on the market: Seven Stars emblem, Zeus/Tartarus helmets, that cool aura from the Statesman pack, all of it. If anything, being willing to pay extra makes me more loyal, not less.)

I'm still waiting for the fabled "upcoming patch" that will finally get me back the pancaking Wisps aura that I legitimately had, but that somehow disappeared. I've been reassured that it's coming, and that it will be fixed eventually, but to be completely honest, I gave up hope a long time ago. And I don't believe anyone at Paragon has put even a single minute of work into fixing that problem in at least the last eight months. Despite the promises. After enough of that stuff, you start to adopt an "I'll believe it when I see it, and I don't ever expect to see it" attitude. Put up or shut up, and all that.

Seems like something that'll be fairly... intense... on your end, but it sounds good from my end, so if you're happy, I'm happy. And I imagine most of the other people complaining about it will be too. Or at least somewhat closer to the "happy" end of the scale.

Either way, thanks for listening and at least trying to "make this right," guys. The effort doesn't go unnoticed or unappreciated.

No, see, you're doing it again. I didn't say anything about not liking "social media in general." In fact, I said just the opposite.

In fact, I'm looking at my Twitter feed right now, and a local concert venue just tweeted about how the first person to tweet them back with the answer to a trivia question wins FREE TICKETS to tonight's show! Know why I'm not upset with them over that? Because if I want to go to that show, but I don't win those tickets, I'll have had the opportunity to get them in a way that didn't involve blind luck in direct competition with hundreds or thousands of other people. I could just, you know, buy them.

"Hey, follow us on Twitter and you could win this cool thing for free! Or you could just go to the Paragon Market and buy it."
There's your solution. Twitter account legitimized, man-hours allocated, player base not alienated.

You may be onto something here. Respec trials at 24, 34 and 44, and what we've seen so far makes issue 24 seem like a "respec" of sorts for portions of the game.

So after this, nothing in the entire game will be fixed, revised or altered again until issue 34, then again at 44! It's been proven with math!

These were the first things I bought on the new market, and to this day the purchases I'm happiest with. The price is great, they work for every character on my account forever, and my characters look the way I want them to "out of the box." If you care at all about costumes/customization, these are easily the most versatile purchases you can make.

In certain ways, it's actually better -- Ninja Run also affects jump height. Especially if you slot Sprint for that too (though I prefer a +Stealth IO, further bringing Ninja Run "up to speed" with Super Speed).

Clearly it's from before belts and tails were separated. Assuming it's accurate, and assuming the separation of ears came before this post and is therefore already included as one of the 16 nodes being occupied at that time (which I'm not sure about), that leaves one connection point/node currently unused -- the two empty nodes referenced here, minus the one now being used for tails. I can understand the hesitation to use up that last available space, but if it never gets used, then that just makes node #17 the final one for all practical purposes.

You know what, you're right. About tails at least. I also can't remember the deal with ears exactly.

I'm still pretty sure the "almost at our limit for connection points" comment came after those changes, though.

Or, depending on your outlook, they expire as often as once a month until you complete reward tier 7.

I really hope it's coming soon (real-world "soon," not dev "soon"). But hey, "we can't talk about it" implies there's something to (not) talk about... so until I hear otherwise, I assume it's coming. DON'T LET ME DOWN, DEVS. In my imagination, you promised.

This... is... BRILLIANT.

I love this so much that I'm going to share it with all my friends.

On Facebook.

This gets referenced a lot as a reason why whatever new kind of costume option can't/won't happen -- thigh/upper leg options, hair with hats, elbow/knee pads, and so on. Nobody ever has a quote, but everyone, including me, remembers some dev saying it at some point in the past.

The thing is, the way I remember it, the statement was closer to being "we only have a limited number of connector points we can place on a character model, and we're close to that limit already." So while my memory mostly jives with yours, the part I keep focusing on is "close to that limit."

"Close to."

Not "at."

I'm trying to remember the last time an entirely new connection point was added to the character model, and unless I'm mistaken, the last things added were capes/back items, and auras. And I'm one hundred percent certain the statement I'm partly remembering came after those were introduced. So it seems like there might not be many connection points left to work with, but it sounds like there are at least one or two.

I guess I'm asking what they think they're saving them for.

You're right. Creating a thread about it on the forums was a much better use of your time.

Why?

What "strange logic" is that? The part of my post that you quoted, or the part of my post that you quoted, but only if you ignore the part where I say "I don't understand why so many people have acted for so long as if they feel like the dev team was somehow obligated to put it into the game at all"?

EDIT: See, Eldagore, now it's devolving into arguing, and getting dangerously close to trolling. From both sides. Still not quite there, though.