Lothic

I don't think the /cce feature is "unfriendly" to most people by itself. It was the addition of the new costume slots in Issue 21 that made the costume GUI twice as big as it used to be so it obscures more of the screen than it used to.

I've been using costume change keybinds for years, but for people who rely on the costume GUI as their primary method to change costumes the new slots made it that much harder to use unless you shrink it down using the /windowscale commands.

Maybe Shane is a little bit of both in this case.

And there's always an exception that proves the rule.

Besides even if the codes were your PRIMARY reason for going they weren't your ONLY reason.
My statement clearly questioned whether there was ever anyone who's ONLY reason for going were the codes.

'Primary reason' does not equal 'Only reason' in this case.

Maybe. Then again at that point the zombies were only like 10 yards away so it's not like Otis would have even stopped twitching and bleeding from a head shot. I figure the zombies still would have considered him to be "good eats".

Let's put it this way: it's reasonable to guess any agony he put Otis through was less important to Shane than ensuring his own chance for survival at that moment. I can understand that once Shane decided to go so far as to shoot Otis at all then the exact location he shot him at wasn't going to ultimately matter. Still, it does arguably make Shane's action just that much more ruthless and cut-throat to leave Otis out as "live bait" instead of "put out of his misery bait".

I think Shane finally completed his morality mission to switch alignments from hero to vigilante with this.

It could be argued that shooting Otis at all was bad enough, but at least Shane could have instantly put him out of his misery by blowing his brains out. Shooting him in the gut just let Otis suffer that much more by still being alive when he was ripped apart. I actually think Shane ultimately shot Otis as much to punish him for shooting Carl as to save his own life.

This incident forces us to re-evaluate the scene where Shane tried to get Rick out of the hospital. It now makes you wonder just how hard did he actually try to save Rick. At first you could just conclude that Shane got scared for his life and fled without doing his best to save Rick. But now that we see what he's capable of with Otis then maybe we now realize that Shane consciously (maybe even borderline maliciously) decided to leave Rick in the hospital on purpose to get him out of the way.

All these things together are swirling around in Shane's head and it's clearly driving him some kind of crazy.

Yeah it's a little funny that way, but I've just gotten used to using it when I know I don't have to move anywhere while it's active. At this point I don't even really think about it much as a "limitation" anymore. *shrugs*

This is a reasonable compromise idea but still relies at least to some degree on people spending real money for things that might end up being under the control of other people via the SG base editor and editor permissions.

The only way the Paragon Market could ever be cleanly involved with something like this is if they ever got around to giving us individual player hideouts/housing. Then we could buy stuff for our own personal use under our strict control.

As long as we get the hair and clothes options with it I'm good with that.

This is definitely a good example of the flexibility of this game. Players can achieve the same goal in many different ways depending on whether they'd rather spend more time than money or vise versa. While it's certainly true that you can make a good profit while working on the portable Field Crafter accolade it's also possible to just blow 50-100 million Influence buying everything all at once and having the accolade done as quickly as you can click the GUIs to craft a few hundred recipes in a row.

The same generality can be said for making Influence in the markets - anyone can make as much or as little as they want depending on how much time or Influence they want to spend there.

It'd be great to have a "murder of doves" CCE right now, but I could see where something like that might be introduced for the upcoming Winter or Valentine Events.

For the record the idea of the Devs selling items in the Paragon Market that were formerly only available to a tiny minority of players who were able to travel to a convention to get is in no way a "lowering" of any standard imaginable. There's a huge world of difference between things in-game that have been modified over time (like badge requirements) and people doing things in the real world like buying cross-country airline tickets or paying $15 a month to a MMO company.

The belief that a person's subjective "devotion" to a game should be reflected in something you equate to "achieving" or "earning" as an in-game exclusive reward is an arguably misguided and elitist notion from the start. Being upset or disappointed that an oversight such as this is finally being corrected by the Devs is a troubling (and almost baffling) concept to me.

Until you can rationally tell us how a vanity costume code that I might buy from the Paragon Market for $6 is any better or worse than either a code someone got for free from a convention OR a code someone paid $50+ from eBay then you might have a leg to stand on here. My guess is that you're not going to be able to come up with a good case for this.

I loved B&B as well, but only in like 5 minute exposures. For some reason I remember it being hard to watch them for entire episodes at a time. Anyway now that I have TiVo I'm willing to give them another chance with updated material.

All joking aside that was actually the main reason why they used to limit capes to level 20 and auras to level 30 - they wanted to reduce the overall number of characters who could have these things to reduce the stress on the system.

So your suggestion of making graphically intense costume items be limited to the Tier 9 VIPs actually has some validity as far as that goes. Of course you know as well as I that if they released items like this which only Tier 9 VIPs could have there would be people screaming bloody murder about it forever.

Ghost Widow has had animated hair for years.

True they've yet to make that a player option, but for all we know dresses like Sorceress Serene's may be easier to provide us than that.

Eh, it keeps reminding me of the Mentats from Dune.

It'd be cool to have it as a costume option regardless. Not sure I'd use it myself, but more options are always better.

Yep and we all know the Devs have -never- solved problems or limitations like this before either...

Capes...
Wings...
Moving Tails...



So, I'm not assuming we're going to get dresses like this tomorrow, but I'm also not going to assume it'll never happen either.

Thanks for responding to this thread and making Paragon Studios' intentions clear on this matter.

For what it's worth I'd have no problem if the "period of exclusivity" on any new convention based costume codes was at least six months or even a year. That should be plenty of time before they are offered in the Paragon Market.

Well people have been wanting the dresses the Sybils of Cimerora wear for years now. Maybe this is hint that something like it might finally become usable by player characters. Either that or this is going to be yet another tease of something we'll never be able to get.

Even though cartoon characters generally don't age the irony with B&B is that they're such total idiots that they could probably start up this relaunch of B&B with the "thirty-something" year old versions of the characters and they would basically be just as moronic. Maybe have them look fatter and older, but their characters would basically be the same.