Eva Destruction

Last month was all low-mid level TFs, until the Eden trial was swapped out for LGTF because it was bugged. This month, my 50s who don't exemp well can finally get some notices and people who need Alpha components can get some as well.

Hurt someone's feelings? How is it hurtful to say "hey, that is a really awesome jacket you designed and I want my female characters to be able to wear it too"? The vast majority of my characters are female, so I'm automatically being given fewer choices. The vast majority of my husband's characters are male, so he's automatically being given fewer choices. We're not the only ones who predominantly play one gender.

And there is no excuse for not making the "occult" pattern available for female magic capes. I haven't checked in a while, but isn't the "long cape" option also unavailable with the high collar for female models?

I also really dislike that so many of the newer costume pieces are so conceptually limiting. Conceptually limited pieces are what booster packs are for, true, but costume pieces ported from NPCs are often even more limiting, and that's what mostly made up the last batch of free new costume options.

I also dislike that so many sets have a textured "boots" or "gloves" piece but no texture for smooth boots or gloves. The shapes of many of the boots are frankly unattractive, and the bulky gloves can't be work with sleeves and clip with shields.

Oh right, because everyone who doesn't like something is always insisting it get ripped out of the game.

It's not like there's a set quota of thinly veiled troll posts the "shut up and raid" crowd must do before people who don't like the raid grind stop asking for alternatives either. In fact, that vocal minority only makes the other side more vocal. Although lately it seems like the real minority is the "well I like raids, I understand that some people don't like them and I hope they get an alternative, but I personally like them" crowd.

And we're tired of people complaining about our complaining. See the pattern?
It comes with the territory. If you put something out for public consumption, expect it to be criticized and outright mocked. If you can't deal with that, don't put stuff out for public consumption. As for mocking the creators themselves, these posts paint them in a better light than many of the actual serious complaints...especially the part about the terrible writing.

You heard it here first folks...complaining about the trials is the solo-friendly path we've been clamoring for.

No, most straight pick-up joints are like that. The women are there to be looked at, the men are there to do the looking. The gay bar down the street does not have such rules, in fact they don't care if guys take their shirts off. Neither did any of the more alternative clubs I've been to. The fact is, a lot of clubs have a vested interest in enforcing the double standard. They don't want women to see something they like, the want guys to see something they like and then buy the girl drinks. If a woman sees something she likes, then the guy won't have to buy her drinks now will he?

None of which is relevant to a game. We have no drinks to buy so why are our female characters constantly given costume pieces that expose as much skin as possible, and incidentally look best when worn with other pieces from the same set, because otherwise they cut off at the waist and look odd (Witch pieces, I'm looking at you) while guys get cool jackets that go with everything?

Can we just delete everything you like that I don't?

True story: A male friend of mine was asked not to wear a tank top to a club by the staff. Said club doesn't have a formal dress code, and lots of guys wear t-shirts and jeans. The women, of course, wear far less.

Did they switch the Glad Armor and Shield Wall uniques or something? I would expect the Glad Armor to be among the most expensive ones.

I think I have sufficient knowledge of game mechanics to tell the difference between "an enemy my character is weak against" and "a poorly designed enemy." When everything has Dark Blast/Dark Miasma/Dark Melee/Dark something, if you're not softcapped it'll floor your to-hit. When everything has electric powers, if you're not soft-capped or Electric Armor you will have no endurance. When everything has a to-hit and damage buff, the alpha strike can obliterate squishies. Enemies with a load of resistance or damage debuff powers will be tedious no matter what you're playing. And so on and so forth. There's a difference between that and "this psi-heavy group is problematic for my Invul" or "this energy damage heavy group is problematic for my Dark Armor."

The first thing that popped out at me was how flat the Electric one looks. It needs more color variation, methinks.

Also, a lot of the auras are very very heavy, such as Pixels, the cloud trail aura, Magnetic....considering I'm firmly in the "the game has too many FX already" camp, you can imagine how I feel about that....

Yep, guys get badass pieces and girls get sexy pieces. What was the title of the thread again?

Now granted, the corsets in the Steampunk pack are pretty sweet and there has been demand for a proper corset costume piece probably since the first female hero set foot in Peregrine Island, saw a Carnie and said "OMG those corset outfits are awesome I WANT ONE!!!!" But why do women get the little bolero jackets instead of proper jackets? If I want to look at animated boobs so badly I can run another BAF. Meanwhile, some of my female characters are getting cold and want to cover up.

Yeah and so are a lot of people. Most of whom don't crossdress. Yay, stereotyping!

Men don't wear enormous shoulder spikes or power armor either.

Well then I guess they'd better remove half the "with skin" options for female models.

First I'm hearing of it. How many kids' shows play crossdressing for comedy?

Three words: Victor Von Doom.

I think the "Work in Progress" tag was introduced at the same time as all the new testing tools....still, you do have to actually play through to test difficulty, preferably with multiple characters, which is the one thing I suspect a lot of people don't bother with, judging by all the poorly designed custom groups out there.

He's starting a new thread to discuss an ongoing problem, in a separate area that rednames spend a hell of a lot more time in than they do in the area that pertains to the problem.

Note how quickly the Eden Trial was first replaced as WST, then fixed so it will allow people over level 41 to start it. Any bets on which week in June it will be WST? If people working toward Incarnate goodies experience an inconvenience (after all, the trial was still doable, you just needed someone of the right level to start it...or you could go Vigilante and do Ice Mistral) it's immediately fixed, but a major inconvenience that renders large chunks of a feature unusable due to an undocumented and unnecessary "fix" is allowed to go on and on for months because when you're playing AE you're not grinding trials, citizen!