Esoteric Requiem
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Quote:I'm hopping on the Denji train here as he has a good point.Originally Posted by Denji
I have to admit that this is a very nice list.
Though, I believe that the overuse of Pocket D is because of convenience. Most people have the Pocket D pass and get there in 15 seconds, find some people to converse with, and there you go.
Though honestly, Pocket D, visually, is a pretty boring place.
I think the idea of making a list of good places to visit and RP outside of Pocket D is fantastic and likely necessary. However, I feel like the realistic view is that it's not that people don't know these places exist, just that they're too lazy to go to them. Echoing Denji, it takes one click of a button for many players before - bam! - instant RP.
In personal experience, I've actually gone out of my way for many months now to avoid any kind of RP in Pocket D and I only ever go to it nowadays when I need a quick teleport to someplace that Ouroboros won't get me to. I like the idea of moving the RP away from places like Pocket D or simply to the Atlas statue, and rather spreading it over the interesting and obscure places that don't get the proper attention they deserve. -
I don't have any MLP presents to drop, but a friend directed me here and this whole thread totally just brightened up my day.
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As a female player, I personally don't particularly care about how many female characters/avatars we have running around in 'scandalous' outfits. I play my fair share of female characters. And my fair share of female characters have their own fair share of scandalous outfits (which again, doesn't bother me).
If we're complaining about how all the women get slutty outfits, maybe we could avoid this if we cut down on the number of female characters. Go through the game whether you're on an RP mission or not and chances are the women you do see, are going to be dressed slutty. If you want them to stop making them, stop using them. If you boycott them then it'll make more sense. Complaining about it when the majority of our female characters are a bit slutty (whether it's male players or female players who - like me, just really don't care, in moderation) seems to be a bit silly.
Like Plum Whine, I play a lot of male characters as well. I'm also going to agree with Derek Storm up above who brought up a good point that when it comes to men's costumes in general, there's a very clear view that the developers favor the women over the men.
Let's consider we can accumulate five costume slots per character (without the use of the Paragon Market). Let's also consider that I have an average number of maybe eight male characters. That is forty costume slots total. Of these forty costume slots, some are set aside for heroic costumes (whether they're actual heroes or simply 'acting' as one), and some are casual/formal clothes.
You can only use the same type of vest/shirt combination before you get tired of using it. Let's count how many times we see boys using the baron jacket? (It's a good jacket, one of my favourites.) Not all styles work on all body types, unfortunately. You can take a costume from one character/avatar and put it on another with a different body type (sculpture, et cetera) and watch it clip.
Just because it may work for you (in general), doesn't mean it'll work for everyone. Personally, I'd like to see some new male hairstyles, and I'd like to see some costume packs come out that give a little more to men as opposed to six new chest pieces for women and three for men. The male characters are severely gypped in comparison to women.
(By the way, I'm not arguing against women and their skanky outfits versus men and their heroic outfits. It's true that women get a lot of apparel that can potentially be scandalous. It's true that men do get a lot of apparel that can be potentially be heroic. But we're creative people. We can work around this kind of thing. Want to make a girl less skanky? Put her in tights (and no, I don't mean fishnets). Want to make a guy less heroic? You get the picture.)
Quote:Now, as I see it, the title of this thread is "Gender Equality in Costumes - A lack thereof". The above quote rubbed me so immensely wrong. Derek Storm brought up an excellent point. And I'm pretty sure we're not restricting this thread specifically to how so many people are upset with how the developers are categorising women's outfits to be more 'harlot' and less 'heroic' versus men who are getting to be more portrayed as 'classic superheroes'.If you'd like to counter argue then go right ahead, but do it because you actually disagree with the ideas being offered. Not out of some desire to force an argument that doesn't really exist.
And if we are restricting this thread to that line of thought, then perhaps the thread should have been titled "Female Equality in Costumes - A lack thereof" instead. So I think all of the 'forcing an argument that doesn't really exist' is a load of shiitake mushrooms. -
I'll jump on board with this!
Number of Alts
♥ 15 Total (All on Virtue, too.)
♥ 9 Female
♥ 6 Male
AT Statistics
♥ 5 Defenders
♥ 2 Corruptors
♥ 1 Arachnos Widow
♥ 1 Blaster
♥ 1 Brute
♥ 1 Controller
♥ 1 Mastermind
♥ 1 Scrapper
♥ 1 Stalker
♥ 1 Tanker
(Gee. I wonder which one's my favourite. I have plans of making a Warshade, too. Eventually. And a Dominator. Maybe I should eventually just make one of everything...)
Powerset Statistics
♥ Battle Axe
♥ Dark Blast
♥ Dark Miasma
♥ Dual Blades
♥ Dual Pistols
♥ Fire Blast
♥ Force Field
♥ Ice Blast
♥ Shield Defense
♥ War Mace
♥ Willpower
♥ I also have the following, but the aforementioned are my favourites: archery, dark armour, demon summoning, electrical blast, empathy, fire control, ice manipulation, kinetics, ninja blade, pain domination, radiation emission, sonic attack, teamwork (widow teamwork), thermal radiation, and widow training (night widow training).
Origin Statistics
♥ 7 Magic
♥ 4 Natural
♥ 1 Mutation
♥ 1 Science
♥ 1 Technology
Alignment Statistics
♥ 8 Heroes (1 is a Hero by game mechanics, but an alt for someone redside; 1 is a Hero by game mechanics, but an unaffiliated Praetorian.)
♥ 4 Villains (1 is a Rogue by game mechanics, but a villain by story.)
♥ 1 Loyalist
♥ 1 Resistance
♥ 1 Rogue
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( Agenla didn't get a chance to grow really close to Serena, but she really respected her. Although I was aware this was happening, it doesn't make it any less sad to part ways.
I'm wishing all the very best! ) -
Quote:Ding, ding, ding.
But really the only thing tat bugs me is the blatantly contradicting lore characters. If you've found a hole in lore by all means, take advantage -- at least until they fill it; then you might be in trouble. But if say... you're a Praetor, or Lord Recluse's son, my characters will laugh/attempt to staitjacket/go off in search of your keepers as the mood suits them.
We have a winner.
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This is actually a really, really interesting thread.
I do constantly look at the bios of other people, especially if I'm not in the middle of RP. (And sometimes even then I do if my character's just listening.) Some of this is for IC reasons because I have one or two characters who would literally be scrutinizing those around them to get a better understanding of them. Otherwise, the rest of the time it's purely for my own curiosity and - as seems to be a lot of the point of this thread - to find people interesting (subjective, I know) to interact with.
I'm not going to go into a list of what I do or do not agree with. I just think this was a really interesting thread, an interesting thing to bring up, and kudos for turning "playing Uno" into a euphemism for ERP.
(That euphemism was actually my favourite part. Cannot unsee.) -
Quote:This.Originally Posted by Denji
I just want more Praetorian content... Hopefully they implement that in the next issue or two. Or three...
I think it'll happen eventually.
The rest of this seems pretty neat. As a note for future booster packs, a lot of the community seems like they'd benefit from a fashion pack. We just had one for a bunch of emotes, and we're getting some other ones for the animal lovers. I think some new hairstyles for guys and girls would be pretty awesome.
And hair pieces. Hair pieces would be awesome.
Many welcomes to the new producer~ And please, keep up the excellent work and service.