Lothic

Wow tell us how you really feel about it.

Anyway both of these games will likely always have "NPC only" costume items regardless of the technical competence of their respective designers. The Devs of CoX have specifically told us that they will always restrict some items from players so that their special NPCs will remain special. Sure it would be nice to have some of these things, but if it hasn't happened yet it's not bound to. There's no reason to suspect the Devs of CO won't follow suit with this policy and also restrict certain items from their players.

I tend to see the addition of new Master badges as a bit of compensation for the Devs making so many other badges semi-easy now in I16. At least these Master badges require some legitimate player skill that you can't ensure with other badges which can be easily AFK farmed.

As an FYI there are people I know who hated the idea of the first two Master badges so I'm sure they hate the addition of new ones too. Can't please everyone... *shrugs*

My main hero badger had 722 badges before I15 deleted roughly 80 AE badges from the game.
Some of the top badgers who (in retrospect) wasted the time to get all the original AE badges had upwards to 740+ badges.

I've noticed a few things kind of like what you're describing in relation to the Day Jobs. So far none of these "hiccups" have resulted in permanent problems. Most of the time these things seem to correct themselves when I zone or relog.

I think it just has to do with how these GUIs first populate themselves with new data when you first log in. There seems to be a bit of timing problem between when the badges trigger and when the game checks all the timers for all the badges. Again I think it's mostly a display timing problem and not a "real" bug if you understand what I mean. Well strictly speaking I guess you could call it a bug, but not really one that's bad enough that it needs serious Dev attention. *shrugs*

As I implied/predicted a few days ago in this thread there's really nothing "traditional" about the timing of this particular Issue. Based on the significance September 1st has on the superhero MMO world I still would not be surprised to see this Issue go live next Tuesday or at least by the end of next week.

While I'd be in favor of a travel power booster pack I suspect that the animation work it would take to allow for these things would not be as trivial as you'd think.

Remember the difficulty Devs had with getting a workable set of flight poses: They worked on them for many months through several patches and finally had to settle on the emote solution. While the emotes are cool enough many people don't really like them that way because they are cumbersome to use without keybinding them.

I figure the only way we'll ever get new travel powers in CoX is for them to be part of a paid booster pack like this. They would take so much extra work that's probably the only way our Devs could justify the time and effort involved.

The 2 billion cap on INF was probably a value that was considered more than adequate 5+ years ago when the game first started long before we even had a market. The fact that data of that size could be stored in a single 32-bit signed integer is a programming convenience, but I would not call the use of something like that a "technical limitation". Data structures can be created to store numbers much larger than that even in 32-bit environments. Software is not "keeping" this value set at 2 billion.

But having said that I actually think keeping this value at 2 billion would be the best thing for this game.

First of all it's an easy choice because nothing is modified and no additional risk of bugs is introduced. Second it provides a practical hard cap on how much things can cost in this game. Nothing can ever be bought or sold that would ever cost more than 2 billion INF. Frankly I don't think any one single thing should ever cost anywhere near that much regardless. Finally it prevents people from hording more than 2 billion which would motivate the few people who get that much INF to spend/sink it into the game's economy in constructive ways. The -only- thing that allowing people to have more than 2 billion INF would do is encourage price inflation to grow.

Finally as Demobot mentioned I suspect the supply of purples is going to increase after I16 anyway.
The sidekicking/difficulty changes should lead to more farming of missions that would drop purples.
More supply equals cheaper prices...

My main point was that I think anybody could rationalize the Kheldian same/different power color issue either way.
But if the Devs make that rationalization their word is going to be law on the matter.

While I think the idea of having access to your other characters directly as fully functional pets might be a bit overpowered and unbalanced it did give me an idea for a similar suggestion that might be a bit more doable:

Allow for a pet that's pretty much exactly like the 36 month Vet pets (i.e. holograms with no in-game abilities) but allow us to create their appearance using the costume creator. The net effect is the ability to have a "sidekick" that follows us around like the Vet pets do but it'd look like anything we wanted it to look like.

I think that would make for an awesome future Vet award.

Well suggestions for improvements in sliders/options for those things have been continuously suggested for this game for years.

I'm sure our Devs will do their best to push the features of this game to its limits, but I think we have to be realistic enough to realize that there are going to be hard restrictions on what this game will ever be able to do. Whether we'll ever get options equal to those other games is hard to say.

Here's hoping of course.

I'm all for a "Power Customization, Part 2" that includes Kheldians.

I'm just saying that as far as Khelds go I can see a rationalization for the Devs not getting to them if they for some reason don't. As a race it's perfectly reasonable for the Devs to explain that all of their powers would look the same from a colors point of view.

I can accept this idea as a pure academic roleplay concept. But the fact that INF is the de facto economic currency in this game any idea to "degrade" it overtime is going to be a very tough sell.