Lothic

I'll just take your argument to its logical conclusion: As soon as the Devs let us use the "Sybil" outfits from Cimerora then I'll believe they really have no design and/or philosophical problem with us looking exactly like the NPCs.

I think you guys might be missing the joke behind Zwillinger's post. I'm pretty sure he's equating the new word Stuff™ with our old tried and true concept of Soon™. Clearly what this means is that we will definitely get new Stuff™ but it won't be on any fixed schedule and it'll only randomly appear whenever it's ready. I think if we actually routinely see something significantly new out of this exactly every 7 days it'll be a minor miracle.

Yeah I thought the whole Hotshot arc didn't get started until like the 5th or 6th book. My bad.

In any event the TV show introduced the whole Jason/Hotshot thing earlier than the books, probably like you said to give Jason something to do in the 3rd season. And it looks like according to a brief review of the wiki the Fairy plotline didn't get seriously covered (except for mentions of Claudine and clues from Andre) until all the way into the 8th book.

I agree that the TV show was fairly close to the books during the first two seasons. But I think my point still stands (despite the details) that I doubt that any future seasons of the show will be able to be tied directly one-to-one to a particular book now that they've started to cherry pick plotlines from many of the later books. Let's just say if Quinn doesn't make an appearance by the end of season 5 then all bets are off.

I wouldn't "blindly" assume that in all cases. But yes, as a general rule of thumb at any rate.

As a sidenote to your question people have been suggesting for years the idea of "fixed wing" costume options. It looks like the Devs are finally getting around to that with things like the fixed wing Celestial costume item. Hopefully this means we'll be getting other options like that soon.

I missed it the first time it was offered a few months ago myself. I was on ship at sea with limited/restricted Internet access so I had zero chance to get it at the time.

But as soon as Issue 21 went live last week I got it on all my characters. It appears that they decided to turn the badge on for the entire Freedom Headstart period, not just during the scheduled invasion events on each server.

But like Eric Nelson said if you can't get it this time around they'll probably give us another opportunity. Back in May the Devs more or less implied that this was going to become a repeating event and that we would periodically get new chances at it.

No worries.

Some bookish spoliers...





As far as the TV show being "based" on the Sookie Stackhouse novels I think you'll agree (assuming you've read at least the first four books) that as time goes on the TV show has definitely skewed farther and farther away from the books. Just about the only thing the 4th season used from the 4th book was the generic "witch war" plotline, and even that was significantly different in the book. In the book the witches involved were ALSO themselves werewolves AND V-addicts.

As it turns out much of the storyline for the 3rd and 4th seasons of the TV show has actually borrowed bits and pieces of the later Stackhouse novels. Things like Jason's Hotshot/werepanther story and all the Fairy stuff didn't really get started until like the 6th or 7th book.

I think since the TV show has spun off so far from the books it's going to be pretty hard for any further TV seasons to be clearly connected to a specific single book. Even the author of the books (Charlaine Harris) has supposedly said she likes the TV show mostly because even she doesn't know what to expect of it week-to-week.

The "argument" as you put never held that much weight for me either. But like I said the general consensus at the time (and over the years) has usually held to this as the reason why it hasn't happened. Legal settlements often don't use much logic or common sense when it comes to real world realities - I could easily see how NCsoft could have made the arbitrary concession to drop all plans to support an offline costume creator in return for Marvel dropping the overall lawsuit. Weirder things have happened.

But even if the situation has changed and there's no legal reason why this couldn't happen now there's still going to be the matter of the Devs being convinced to put in the time and effort into doing this. It's pretty clear that this has not been a priority so far.

Just to be clear about this while I might agree with your general idea about targeting prices towards "impulse buys" I think it's pretty obvious that the threshold for what different people consider cheap enough to be an impulse buy is going to vary widely. To some people an impulse buy is a pack of gum and to others it's a late model Lamborghini.

Having most things cost 400-800 points is fine. But I see no reason why -everything- in a store like this has to be in that price range. The idea of having some relatively expensive (or even relatively cheap) items should not be seen as a "failure" of the system. Instead they should just be considered what they are - exceptionally unique items.

As far as the costume slots go I've already mentioned that to me they were anything but an "impulse" buy. I had wanted them for years and when I first learned they were finally going to happen a few months ago I was able to easily budget having enough money to effectively buy as many as possible at any price. I understand that for you and many others they might not be "worth" that to you. But to me they were. It's as simple as that. *shrugs*

What is this BSG1980* you speak of? Sounds terribly terrible...

* Not only do I unfortunately know what it is but I'm pretty sure I've seen most of the episodes of this travesty back when they first aired. In order to retain my sanity I've had to resort to pretending it doesn't exist.

Well to be fair I usually "ask" when I take a screenshot of someone because if I like their costume enough to save it I've usually already told them in OCC chat that their outfit was cool to begin with. It's usually pretty easy to figure out the items used regardless.

As already said Heroes and Vigilantes can talk to Miss Liberty in AP. The wording of that mission objective is misleading.

The Shining Stars arcs are "Hero/Vigilante only" arcs anyway. It would not matter that Rogues couldn't get into Fort Trident because I'm pretty sure they couldn't even start these arcs regardless.

The idea that messing around with league settings can interfere with whether you get a badge is weird but apparently not impossible.
I guess until further notice we just have to try it without doing any league stuff just to be safe.