Ironik

In Marvel and CoH, a "mutant" is someone who had their abilities written into their genes from conception. With that broad a definition, then this set can clearly be defined as such. The problem is with the iconography. That's what's causing the most hang-ups, I think, since a lot of these pieces resemble the extant demonic costume parts. The fact that so many people have had the exact same "these look like demon parts" reaction is a pretty big indicator that however one defines "Mutant," piggybacking on the demon-style sets wasn't what a lot of people were looking for.

Objective Feedback: The pieces in Bioluminescent have seams which are extremely obvious, particularly at the neck.

Even with Ultra Mode on, the glowing aspect of Bioluminescent doesn't really come through. Looks more like Embedded Tiger Stripes than anything else.

I did not see new tails; I assume that's a bug.

Subjective Feedback: After looking at it myself, I'm even more convinced that this should be renamed Demonic Pack. I don't get "fishy" from the slits, but more like "filleted corpse." The Organic Armor pieces are also strongly reminiscent of existing Demonic pieces, especially the horns and wings. I can see how the gloves and boots can be used as Plant parts, but they seem more Green Man than anything else.

I forgot to try the self-buff, so I can't comment on that.

The Mutant thing... I get that Paragon Studios would want to stay as far away from the X-Men vibe as possible, hence no Beast, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Ice Man type of mutant pieces, but the game itself has a lot of mutation in it, from the Council werewolves and vampires to the Lost, Devouring Earth and Troll mutants. That was sort of what I was expecting with this pack, perhaps distorted proportions like extra long arms or funky legs, as well as a few animal pieces. (Although I'm really hoping that basic animal pieces like wolf/fox/raccoon tails are freebies coming very soon.)

Costume emotes aren't something I use very often, so although they're fairly cool, I'd more than likely forget they were even there.

Holy frijoles, dude, how old are you?!

In a burst of similar optimism some time ago about a potential underwater zone, I snagged "Sea Devil" on Virtue.

The mathematical usage of "infinite"' doesn't apply to this discussion, because we're talking about the lay term for "unlimited" or "immeasurable." For all intents and purposes, those are completely separate terms and concepts that happen to be homophones.

Infinite universes in a fictional setting are, by definition, uncountable. There are not more atoms in those universes than there are universes, because they are both infinite. Which should hurt your head right back.

I wouldn't credit the original designers (Rick Dakan et al) with that much forethought. I don't mean that to be snarky towards them, just that the tale grows in the telling, and with so many hands in it, naturally things get confusing.

There have been other, similar changes in the game over time, as well. The whole 5th Column-Council war is a biggie, but the true papa change that shifted everything to another course was the creation of Lord Recluse. He's a gigantic monkey wrench in the works, changing everything we knew about the lore a year and a half after the game debuted.

This is a concept anyone would do well to embrace. The canon is constantly in flux and what is true today may not be true tomorrow. If it helps, perhaps people can look at it like the twists in a thriller: you're so sure about the character or the story up until that moment when you get new information. That can bump you off onto a slightly different track or it can turn everything upside down. A lame example is the curve ball of Vader being Luke's dad, while a good one is like The Usual Suspects when you discover the whole tale is just stuff Kint made up.

This does not compute. "Infinity of infinities?" Now THERE'S a phrase that's utter nonsense. You can't get MORE than infinity. It's like when people say something is "very unique" or "extremely unique": "unique" can't take adverbs because you can't be MORE unique than unique -- it's already maxed out at the ultimate end of the scale. Same thing for "infinity."

Stephen Hawking once remarked that the math tells us that out in the universe somewhere there could be a singularity which is burping out exact copies of everything we know. My car, your mother, Sam's computer mouse. That's with our physics in our universe, not a fictional universe where everything is just made up.

The City of Heroes universe doesn't have to follow your rules, no matter how much you stamp your feet and insist it do so. From all evidence we have, the CoH multiverse could just as likely be an example of Sam's convergent theory as it is your divergent theory.

What are you blathering about?

This wasn't an act of god. It's not a server crash or a power outage. This was a deliberate deletion of player items without any disclosure. That's not "an accident."

Somehow I have RMT emails from last friggin' summer, and they ALL HAVE THE SAME HEADING and IDENTICAL CONTENT, yet those we get to keep forever until we manually delete them ourselves, but if, god forfend you haven't picked up your self-directed email in a month, well, THOSE, by golly are going to be deleted just because, boy howdy, they feel like it.

Mind telling us how to do that? In-game, out here, what? Make it easy for us, please.

I know that, thanks.

I don't want to petition this. I shouldn't have to. Just reverse this until next month and put an announcement on the start-up page, the Message of the Day and in the email system itself.

And in future, stop just taking things away from us without warning. That'd be keen!

Which they SHOULD. That's their job. So just make future temp powers self buffs. Done. Next.

Today we find out they arbitrarily deleted all of our global emails without warning. That's acting without thinking, and it frankly pisses me off. I prefer a little deliberation now and again.

Maybe someone emailed them to themselves and they got deleted.