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Other people have already made the point that this is a "team" trial so basically everyone involved is going to have to rely on each other to stay alive. You just can't solo everything in this game.

Frankly your concern over not being able to keep yourself alive based on your "own tools or powers" is starting to sound a little too much like the classic "but I'm supposed to be able to solo anything" Scrapper rant. It always amazes me how much Scrapper players whine when they finally face one of the very few things in the game that can -actually- hurt/kill them and how quickly they assume those things are bugs that need to be fixed. Even Superman had his Kryptonite...

Consider this one of the few times you actually have to think and use some tactics to stay alive. *shrugs*

This is yet another example of the Devs arbitrarily REPLACING one costume option for another. This is yet another case where they should have simply ADDED the new version of the face and kept the original one as an option.

I've never understood why the Devs have felt the need to upset players pointlessly like this. Clearly there are always going to be people who like the original versions of things despite any problems the Devs -think- they are fixing by replacing them with other options. Would it have really destroyed the game to have provided us both versions of this face to choose from?

I think you pretty much highlighted the well known reasons why it's taken this long for the Devs to finally start giving us -any- kind of costume oriented backpacks. I can't really speak as to why the original character models caused backpacks to be such a hard thing to do "right" in this game or why it still seems like a goal they haven't quite reached yet. But at this point I'm totally willing to get more packs added to this game even if they are only 90% good instead of totally perfect.

I'm glad the Devs tried their best to get these things to fit our characters' backs perfectly. But clearly it's time for a bit of compromise to their otherwise exacting standards. Basically after 7+ years I'd rather (for example) have a costume item jet pack that might not look great from a few posing angles than not have one at all. *shrugs*

As someone with many years of professional software engineering experience I'd be the first to caution others here against assuming that any given code change to this game would automatically be trivial. Standard Code Rant and all that. But by the same token based on my experience I do not believe that adding a color swap button like we are talking about here would be prohibitively difficult either. Or at least it shouldn't be at any rate.

The costume editor currently maintains some code structure to store the "first color" and "second color" variable values displayed on the screen. Adding a new button to the GUI to simply transpose the assignment of those variables should very literally only involve a few lines of coding. Sure this could become more complex if they wanted to make this feature somehow more convoluted with layered buttons or somesuch. But if they kept it simple as a standalone button it's hard to see how it would be that "scary" for the Devs to tackle. To put it another way if this costume editor really is such a tangled mess that adding a new button to it is too hard then we as players really have much more to worry about than this tiny QoL suggestion.

Given that our Devs have been so kind to us over the years adding all sorts of QoL improvements to this game that involved hundreds if not thousands of man-hours worth of work over the years it still mystifies me that a player request that would by any reasonable estimation involve only a fraction of the development effort that other features have required has slipped through the cracks.

No, it's not "cumbersome" to click one color to the second and the second color to the first on any given item if you only do it few times.

But what we are talking about is something like this: Let's say you have gloves that you want to use a shade of red and blue on to match the rest of your outfit. Depending on the rest of your outfit you're not instantly sure if it should be red/blue or blue/red. It would be amazingly nice to have a single toggle button (and NO mouse movement) to quickly "flip" those colors back and forth multiple times to make up your mind.

To be perfectly serious in the last 7+ years I've probably performed your "all of three seconds" color change maneuver so many times that I probably could have saved several total hours of my life if I had had a single swap color button. I think it's fair to say the QoL benefit of such a button would be clear to people who do a lot of costuming in this game.

I'm sure the artwork on the particular MtG card you're talking about looked good. But trust me when I say that the artwork from a MtG card didn't "invent" the idea of the "little girl big sword" thing. That concept, like most things, has been around far longer than the early 90s.

I actually remember watching that episode when it first aired.
That either makes me a silly trivia geek or too damn old and I don't know which is better or worse.

I never said that Ron Perlman makes every movie he's in perfect.
He's a great character actor, not a miracle worker.

I never bothered to see Season of the Witch, but my guess is that whatever role Ron played in it was entertaining by itself just because he's good at what he does. I might eventually watch that movie just for Ron's sake despite the rest of the movie being bad. It's the same reason I might eventualy stomach watching Red Riding Hood just because I'm a fan of Gary Oldman.

I was going to give this new Conan a chance anyway, but I didn't realize Ron Perlman was going to be in it too. For me I've gotten to the point where I'll pretty much watch any movie Ron's in regardless of the role he plays.

Combine that with using the Test Server and you can test edit as much as you want before you actually "spend" anything for real.

I have characters with around that many tokens racked up. Since I always do serious costume editing on the Test Server (and INF is trivial to obtain and spend) I never really use them.

As far as costume slots go I have several characters who I'd probably buy an extra dozen slots for if I could.

Welcome to the game Walpurgis Nacht. As Neuronia implied this suggestion has come up in these forums every few months for over 7 years now. For whatever reasons the Devs have not changed it yet.

I think this game should allow for the "typical" overly-huge back-breaking superheroine chest sizes. I actually have a few characters where I think the Powergirl-styled "larger than realistic" sizes are appropriate. But I have always felt that the game should ALSO allow us to make flat-chested girls too. I have several other characters who, if I had my way, would be far less endowed than the game currently allows for. *shrugs*

Well to be perfectly honest I'm only technically "against" the Devs shifting the current conversion rate to a lower level for the reason that, like others have said, I too believe the entire concept of Prestige has far outlived its usefulness. At this point SG bases should be INF based, period.

I would rather the Devs waste their efforts to overhaul SG bases and remove Prestige entirely from the game than to reduce it down to a trivial level as a band-aid afterthought. My thinking is that it'd be far more silly for it to be set at 1:1 ratio than it would be for it to be completely removed. Prestige should either serve a significant purpose in this game (i.e. as a 500:1 ratio threshold) or none at all.

I consider it the "fix it completely or don't bother with it at all" solution.
Anything else would just be half-baked and semi-pointless.

You can certainly dislike the whole idea of the INF to Prestige conversion if you wish. But if the Devs ever decided that the ratio "needed" to be changed from 500:1 to something like 50,000:1 then they might as well remove it from the game altogether. Sure extreme groups like the Crazy 88's might still try to work with that stupidly high ratio, but setting it there would pretty much mean that no "regular" players would ever be able to realistically use it again.

For years I thought the current 500:1 ratio was too high, especially before the Market existed. But the actions of the Crazy 88's pretty much prove that the ratio has to be kept high enough so that the conversion don't become absolutely trivial. Sadly I've more or less accepted that all things being equal the 500:1 ratio is probably the best compromise between the Crazy 88 type players and rest of the non-extreme players out there.

Pretty much the same. I might try a -new- character with the set but I have no characters I'd expect to re-roll using it.

Frankly I've always thought the idea of anime-styled "titanic" weapons to be a bit silly logistics-wise. Sure characters can be super strong but the idea of trying to swing around swords the size of swimming pool diving boards just strikes me as a bit of a stretch, especially within the limited confines of most any place indoors. But I have faith in how this game might handle them and thus willing to keep an open mind about it.

Ever since the first Anniversary badge I predicted that this debate over whether there should ever be a way to get previous year badges or not was going to haunt this game forever. The fact that threads like this one still routinely pop up proves my concern about this.

Frankly it was a relatively dumb idea that these were never offered as account badges. But I still maintain the stronger position that even offering ANY kind of real world based Anniversary badges in this game was kind of silly to begin with. Think of it this way: why would Captain Wonderful, a fictional hero in Paragon city, ever be awarded a badge just because a real-world MMO game managed to get one year older? Anniversary badges celebrating the continued existence of a game has NO RELATION whatsoever to personal lives of the characters inside that game. It'd be like giving an in-game award to a D&D character just because that game turned 30+ years old.

Basically if this game had never bothered with the confusion of Anniversary badges we wouldn't be in the mess of worrying about whether the old ones should be available or not. *shrugs*

Just like everything else it depends.

On many of my characters I probably would not use more than the current 5 costume slots allowable even if extra ones were free to them. Those characters are not really "costume oriented" at all.

But I have a few main characters that I would (if I could) unlock a dozen or more costume slots on, even if I had to pay as much as like $5 per slot per character. Those characters I consider extremely "costume oriented". Basically at this point I've waited years for (and will gladly pay for) any new costume slots I can get for those characters.