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"a goth girl with booty shorts and Aerosmith hair"? Really?

Please people... Desdemona is obviously a skillful yet not-so-subtle homage to Bettie Page.

I have wanted animated tails in this game pretty much since Day One.

But I sincerely hope that if/when they ever offer them they will not remove/change the existing static tails AT ALL. The Devs have a very bad habit of replacing costume items with new versions regardless if people have been using the old versions of things for years or not. The Devs should only ever ADD new items like this, not replace.

Like I said I'd love to have new animated tails added to this game. But I'm quite sure there are many people who like the current tails and would not like to see them removed. If animated tails existed then there would be a legitimately perfect reason why static tails should -also- exist: people could then have "real" live tails or "fake" costume tails. People would actually have a choice which kind of tail to have, and having more choices is always better.

Yeah your information on this is very, very old. Years ago when the Devs first hinted at allowing Crossovers I think they mentioned they were going to implement it like a very hard TF/SF that you'd have to complete. As a "reward" for completing it you'd be allowed to switch sides in some form or fashion.

Now that this whole thing has been reorganized under the Going Rogue expansion it's hard to say exactly what they will require people to do. There still might be a series of steps, but what they might be no one knows yet.

I seriously doubt the Devs would have let AFK badging continue for years if they actually cared about it one way or the other.

I'll add a little more fuel to this fire...

Turns out after playing the CO beta for a few hours over the weekend I realized that they implemented a Walk capability in that game which worked pretty much EXACTLY the way Ironblade and I have been suggesting for CoX.

As long as you walk forward it gives a nice walk animation but as soon as you move in any other direction it looks like a slow motion run, which while not being perfectly ideal is in fact ABSOUTELY acceptable for the intents and purposes anyone would ever use a Walk in this game for.

For BAB's sake I'd suggest he take a look at what they did with it in CO and realize we don't need a super-duper fancy version of this with dozens of its own animations/transitions.

Well I think you basically illustrated -my- point that while you can kind of, sort of play MMs without having to manually control them all the time you'd effectively be playing the AT with one hand tied behind your back. You -could- do that, but why would you really want to?

I have absolutely no problem with having different powersets with different schemes for "controlling" their pets. I don't think Controller types need or should have MM type controls (especially if that would necessitate major nerfages to compensate). I think people like the OP who "wonder why" Imps can't be manually controlled aren't really seeing the big picture. If they don't like those control schemes they shouldn't play with those powersets, the same way I don't really like MMs so I don't play with them.

I love these suggestions.
I also loved these suggestions the couple of thousand other times I've seen them come up over the years too.

At least you included a cool picture with your post...

It'd be funny if in a couple of years we look back at all this and say Cryptic would have been better off if they had just developed a better costume creator for CoX and sold it to Paragon Studios.

I do. And I just mentioned the related skintone color nerf that went with it in the post just above yours.
Did you have a point beyond that?

Well theoretically you can almost make "nude" blue skinned or green skinned people now. My guess is that our Devs would have less trouble with a non-human skintoned nude character than they would with a human skintoned one.

As I said filtering RGB color ranges would not be trivial, but your idea of also accounting for whether costume items are foundation "skin tight" ones or more top layer oriented is a good one. For instance it might be a little weird but why would flesh colored shoulder pads or belts actually be considered naughty?

Another thing accounting for costume item type would allow are things like flesh colored tails, wings and horns. Why should me being able to have a flesh colored tail be considered bad?

Perhaps a combination of RGB skintone filtering and flagging all costume items with a "skin" flag that would either let them be any color or restricted to non-skin tone colors would be the best total solution.

Looks like you came here looking for an argument.

I tend to agree with most of what you've said here, especially your suggestion for the better screen labels and the 'check name' feature. Some of your other points might be a bit too picky, but that could just be a consequence of your highly in-depth analysis of what you saw.

My main comment (which has already been talked about) is the "allowing Vets access to the full RGB spectrum the game is capable of" issue. While I understand the spirit of trying to restrict the temptation of doing bad things I think gating it based on player Vet status would not only upset people with another "haves/haves not" situation but actually draw attention to the whole idea that people could do naughty things with colors. Why would advanced colors be restricted to 'mature' people unless there was something 'mature' you could do with them?

Basically if the game ever allowed people to create "nude costumes" in some way, shape, or form then somebody is going to try it regardless of how long they've been playing. The answer to allowing people more reasonable access to the RGB spectrum is not arbitrary Vet gating but instead having the Devs go in and do some conditional filtering on the range of colors that would actually be considered questionable. Out of all the possible colors the RGB scheme can create the range of obvious "skin" colors has to be a relatively small subset of those. If the game was able to reject any attempt to input an RGB value in that restricted subset then it could potentially allow any other valid RGB color.

This would probably not be as trivial as it sounds to implement, but it would be the only fair way to do it. With the naughty skin colors directly prevented then anyone could use any legal color they wanted at any time.

After the Vet Awards were first introduced I got mine that way. But the most recent 5 or 6 I've gotten have been very spotty. I've had to petition for several of them for no apparent reason.

I've been paying for my main account annually since before Vet Awards started so I know that's not the issue. Basically for me what used to work like clockwork is now a random roll of the dice.