Lothic

I've honestly never understood the theory that people would be able to "hide" the fact that they're using something like Hasten in PvP with customization. That just seems like a "smoke-n-mirrors" Dev excuse with no basis in reality. Wouldn't it be smart from a PVP strategy point of view to ALWAYS assume your opponents are using Hasten whether you can see them using it or not? If for some reason they aren't using it that's their problem, not yours.

Apparently you have better things to do than to actually play the game. It is what it is. *shrugs*

Heck I'd probably pay 400 PP just to get a "Tights Sleek" version of Bikini 2.

I have no doubt that there are current NPC-only items that would clip horribly if they were allowed to be used by our characters. But I think the issue here is not the obvious problem items but the "marginal" problem items. I think some of us would simply like more discretion to decide for ourselves if a certain questionable item can be used or not. I tend to believe that the Devs have, in general, been a tad too conservative in this area.

Posi himself said his "working cutoff" for an item clipping too bad is if it clipped with roughly 20% or more items. I happen to think his threshold for this ought to be more like 50%. That extra 30% would give us many more opportunities than we have now.

As a Dev there are really only two major types of "complaints" you have to deal with when it comes to whether a particular costume item clips too much or not. The first is "Costume item X sucks because it clips with too many other items" and the other is "We should have access to costume item X because we want to use it no matter how much it clips with anything else". Basically I think you are far too worried about the first type of compliant when in actuality the second type of compliant should be far more troubling to you.

You already have a simple stock answer you can use to respond to the first type of complaint: "We try to do our best to make sure all of our costume items avoid clipping issues as much as possible but sometimes certain problem combinations are going to happen. We're sorry." It's nice, clean and simple and requires no further action on your part.

But when it comes to the second complaint you really don't have a legitimate excuse for your overly-conservative decisions. In effect you are saying "We don't trust our players enough to decide what looks acceptable to them so we are going to waste time second-guessing for them".

It all boils down to which complaint you'd rather hear more often. Would you rather hear the occasional whiny "Costume item X is broken (when we all know it technically isn't)" rant or would you rather hear a majority of people upset that they don't have more freedom to use all the items they want? The choice between these two seems obvious to me.

No real reason? Yeah I'm sure the folks who work at Paragon Studios just love to randomly take the game servers down just to piss their customers off.

If you've played this game as long as your forum reg date implies then you'd know that the increased maintenance periods we've had in the last few weeks are hardly typical for the YEARS worth of solid up-time this game has enjoyed. The game is undergoing a major shift in its infrastructure - it's only natural that something like that would require above average maintenance for a while.

So while any down-time is annoying I'd hardly think that in the 7+ year context of this game what we are seeing now is all that alarming. If these above average periods persist AFTER CoH:Freedom finally goes live then I'll be worried about it. *shrugs*

We don't really need Hathaway to be a "hardnose wild girl with unconscious smouldering sexiness" in real life. We just need her to be able to act that way on screen. It's called ACTING after all. Sure I'll admit it seems like a stretch for someone who up until now has been a mostly "romantic comedy princess" but until I see her screw this up I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. Before Helen Bonham Carter started taking "wild" roles like Fight Club's Marla Singer and Harry Potter's Bellatrix Lestrange she was mostly known as a reserved young actress famous for pristine English period productions. If Helen could evolve as an actress why can't Anne?

I have faith in Nolan that -he- thinks Hathaway can pull it off. That's all I really need at this point.

I completely understand the launch of CoH:Freedom has everyone too busy to travel right now. It happens.

But maybe as a means to keep everyone happy you could, as an alternative, decide to sell some the costume code giveaways you usually hand out during those events in the Paragon Market. Not only would you make those of us who have virtually no chance of ever being able to attend those events happy but you'll earn yourselves even more micro-transaction money. It'd be a win-win to help celebrate the launch of CoH:Freedom.

I typically confuse my Fire Controller's Imps with Scrappers and vise-versa, but I have friends who like to drive Scrappers and they probably wouldn't like to hear that I consider their characters to be functionally equivalent to big Imps.

The problem is that it's -not- just the Vet combat powers you'd have to worry about. I thought my post was making it clear that there'd be multiple "gotchas" related to what would have to be changed/fixed in order to allow Origin respecs to happen without any problems. Obviously the fact that the Devs have not bothered with it yet shows us that allowing for Origin respecs would be anything but trivial to do.

P.S. For what it's worth I have several Controllers who still regularly use things like the Blackwand even at level 50. Sure most people only use them as low-level attack chain fillers but that doesn't mean no level 50s use them.

Lynda Carter wore at least 5 or 6 different Wonder Woman costume variants on her TV show. It was pretty clear that the ill-fated Wonder Woman show that was being made earlier this year was also going to feature the character in several different outfits (which included both a long pants version and a more classic "swimsuit" version).

While switching outfits around like that on TV shows and in MMOs is OK apparently it seems to cause too much confusion if you do it too often in comic books. *shrugs*

Yeah she might turn out to be a "bad choice" for the role. I'm not totally sold on her myself.
But then again I wasn't really sure Ledger was going to be able to pull off a good Joker either.
I'm simply going to watch and decide if she was good -after- the movie, not before.

Especially compared to this new outfit she's wearing. Sure the classic skirt always had its implied "upskirt naughtiness" but this new outfit does absolutely nothing to "de-emphasize" those regions of her anatomy. If they really wanted to do that they would have put her in long pants like Wonder Woman or at least come up with something that had a non-contrasting color that didn't draw your eyes to the exact places they're supposedly trying to make you stop looking.

This is pretty much how I'm going to take what I've seen of Catwoman here. Sure the thing with her stilettos and "ears" may seem a bit weird when taken out of context in these few production pics, but how this all comes to together in the finished movie will likely end up being at the very least acceptable if not pretty cool.

I'm pretty sure the fact that the BBC went with a new version of the "Earth 2" secenario had no bearing on whether or not FOX decided to rip -their- idea off or not. It's pretty rare when you can't easily find various networks borrowing each other's ideas.

Hopefully they'll explain that they've already tried terraforming Mars as a solution for the "dying Earth" scenario and for some reason that didn't work and the time travel thing was their "Plan B". Like you I figure space traveling would have to be an easier "Plan A" all things considered.

I like Dinosaurs too but that'll probably only be "cool" for a show like this for a few episodes tops. I figure if they don't find something cooler to deal with like a group of "proto-Sleestak" then this show will sputter out quick.



Sleestak for teh win!

I've got a Season Pass set up for it on my TiVo but I honestly have little interest in watching it. I guess I'll give it at least a few episodes to "wow" me. But sadly I'm guessing I'll more than likely stop watching it long before FOX gets around to axing it. *shrugs*

I figure if they bother to explain "Why 85 million years?" at all they'll probably hand-wave some cheesy technobabble excuse like "That's the only timeframe our time travel machine can reliably hit" or some-such. Either way they clearly wanted the Jurassic Park angle for this show.

Not to get too "mathy" but yes there's a difference between this ship flying through an exact diameter of the Earth and a chord of the Earth.

From where Smallville is roughly suppose to be if the ship went along a diameter from there then it would in fact end up at the bottom of the Indian Ocean somewhere. But if it punched through the Earth "off-center" (via a chord) then coming out in Siberia is at least realistic, assuming you forget all the above mentioned problems with the ship surviving that impact/maneuver intact.

I like this look for her. I think both of their costumes (Batman's and Catwoman's) in these pics "match" each other from the point of view that in this stylistic setting you'd pretty much expect Catwoman to look like she does if you can accept that Batman looks like he does. They are both mostly functional/realistic outfits.

I won't go into the "there's no way a real Catwoman would wear stilettos like that in real life" thing too much because obviously this is a comic book movie so some suspension of disbelief is allowed and expected.

Heck if they just added a way to specifically turn off the flashy/fiery effects of both Hasten and Super Speed (via something like Null the Gull) they'd probably satisfy roughly 95% of the people who want "power customization" for power pools

Not to mention the fact that if an object like that somehow had the force to punch through the Earth the chances that it would just nicely come to a rest on the far surface of the Earth is just about nil. More than likely this object would still have enough energy on the other side to fly on up out of the atmosphere and keep flying away.

But then again this is a comic book so naturally comic book physics apply here.

Getting people curious enough to buy comics after not having bought any for years is exactly the kind response they probably wanted from all this.