GlassGoblin

This is my suggestion, as well. I started taking them all just to see where they would lead, after running into some non-hero deliveries which directed me to "Board Transit." It may be too much to ask of the code, but it would be great if there were a way to check the player's alignment, and if the destination were inaccessible, send them to the train for delivery.

One other note: I've only done 25 or so of these (just enough to get both badges on my main character, so far), but I was struck by just how many times the same AI valentine has different recipients. Is there some reason I haven't found yet why there's all the duplication there? Four of my seven misdeliveries for Missed Connection had me going to Burkholder. He probably thinks he has a stalker by now.

My mistake. I had assumed "You don't have to participate in the opposite alignment mission again, like you did for the badge." meant I didn't have to do the second part. It's been a few years since I bothered going for the badge, as finding a willing villain has become next to impossible, and to be honest, it isn't worth setting up CoH on a second computer just to enable this content.

Are you sure about this, ZM? I just tried three different heroes, and after doing Gamymede's first mission he would only offer me the villain-assisted mission. I tried going straight to Zero and he only offered (shudder) Snaptooth.

Some suggestions:

• Add a category to the Paragon Market for Limited Time Offers, both sale prices and limited availability.
• Let seasonal items stay in the market all year, but raise their prices out of season.
• If you must time limit items, only do so for seasonally-themed goods.

I understand retail philosophy, but bear in mind that while a window of opportunity may inspire some people to spend more than usual, there are others on a budget who will opt to cut their CoH spending elsewhere, perhaps letting their subscription lapse for a month or two to pay for limited time items.

Well, I'll most likely be the oldest. So it goes.

Meeting "Internet people" is the same as meeting any other group of people, except that in this case you know you have something in common with them. If you want to, treat it like a blind date: if you don't like the way it's going, or the way it's making you feel, pretend to get an urgent phone call and bail.

At least, I've heard that people do things like that.

I can likely dig up a comic-related prize, maybe an unopened Death of Superman issue, to commemorate Statesman's death? Would anything like that be of interest?

I'll do you one better. Not only do I not yet know anyone coming to the M&G, I only know about six people in the entire DMV area, none of whom game. Come to the event and we can be awkward outsiders together. :-)

Sold!

I haven't yet seen anyone on live with it, but during testing it was the same as Beast/Ninja Run, but also detoggling everything.

I think this would be possible, although even conceptually it's hard to figure out how. Heroes (mostly) all want to maintain the status quo, while villains (mostly) want to upend it. It's hard to see how a shared game world could allow both conditions to simultaneously exist. Perhaps it couldn't, and would have to be effectively environmental PVP, where the game world changes for all players based on the actions of each player. That would be one heck of lot of branching code and assets, but I suppose it's possible. Can't say I'd ever play it, though.

How would you feel about this scenario? Your villain makes the choices he likes, fights his way past the obstacles to his goal, and then gets to push the red button to destroy the world. You won, in that you got to do what you wanted. However, the Doomsday Device fails to work (or some other deus ex machina), maintaining the world's (and game's) status quo, and you have to make a hasty exit to your lair to plot anew. Would that work for you?

Also -- and I have to plead ignorance on this -- what degree of villainy is permissible while keeping the current rating? Single player games can let you get away with a lot, because you aren't forcing anyone else to be exposed to your digital depravity; are the guidelines different for MMOs?

When CoV was first announced I was skeptical. If this game was going to be any kind of simulation of superhero comics, the villains would have to fail on every major goal they set. How much satisfaction would you get playing a character who by definition has to fail? Of course, they way they got around it was to drop the idea of the game being a simulation of superhero comic book narratives, and allowing -- sometimes encouraging -- violation of some of the basic tenets of the genre. At the same time, they kept enough of them (possibly to satisfy the rating's needs) to ensure that people who wanted to roleplay evil would be dissatisfied, too.

I don't know how to fix things for you guys. Perhaps it's a good thing it isn't my job.

My guess is that the code was created to allow other players to view Collections and all subsets of Collections (Badges, etc). It takes less effort to add a new subset which follows the same code than to create a new system to mirror the existing code, but without the open permissions.

In this Tier 9 VIP's opinion, the exchange rate needs to be about 25 packs to the token, or it's not worth my time. When I can get all of Fire and Ice or Celestial for 3 tokens, that sets my expectation for the number of tokens a costume set is worth. If all I want are the costume bits, the rest of the 'cards' are just chaff.

Someone (although I can't find the source) once said the Silver Age lasted until the first fan of the Batman TV show got a job at a major comic publisher. </derail>

I back most of what Golden Girl and SilverAgeFan have suggested, but to be more specific on the most important items to me:

• Tights that aren't body paint
• White eye masks
• More hat options (with and without hair)
• Stuff with trim (capes, boots, gloves, etc.)

In terms of a general aesthetic, golden age costumes should (in general) look like something someone could have cobbled together in their garage from real world items. This era was an extension of the pulp age, and focused on more on ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

By contrast, silver age costumes should look less home made and more streamlined, perhaps even made from that miraculous new stuff, plastic! What had been just one of many origin types -- Science! -- was now the norm, and in general their composition should reflect the highly polished, jet age style of the future. ("The future of 1963," as seen in McCloud's Zot!.)

The "modern age style," however, is defined by spikes, blades, claws, and pockets with pockets on them. But maybe that's just my age talking...

I thought asymmetrical costumes weren't an option?

You are talking about this, aren't you?

You forgot "It's a slap in the face!"

I walked back through the house after we'd kicked Kane's butt last night, and then spent about half an hour wandering around the grounds admiring the amazing job the visual and sound artists did on this story. I was very impressed, and kind of wish it could be available year-round through Ouroboros or something. Hey, maybe that could be a new VIP perk: access to seasonal mission content out of season!

Has anyone? I was going to get a group to look for it last night/this morning, but the speed at which you get all the badges seems to have dried up the pool of people interested. Most of the people who want them have already done it.