PsyFox

You gave us NC Soft's "thanks" so here's mine for them - "Thanks, NC Soft, for closing my favorite game ever without warning and with plenty of life still left in it, and thus relieving me of the burden of EVER wanting to buy, try or even hear about another game from your company."
Will my decision make a dent, or persuade them in anyway, shape or form? Nope, obviously not. Don't care. NC Soft is dead to me.
Good luck to you all though in your future endeavors, Zwill and the former Devs of Paragon Studios. You will be missed.

I saw on Facebook that your Distinguished Competition superhero MMORPG just released a "water body" costume piece.
Considering we just got a water blast set, it seems to me that this would be a wonderful costume piece to have in City of Heroes, with your guys' own unique spin/take on it, of course.
And it got me thinking that it would be really kind of nice if somehow you could plan cool new costume bits to be released around the same time that cool new powers were released that would complement each other. For instance, for that Nature Affinity powerset coming up, it would be great to have some plant pieces (vines as belts, bracers, arm and shoulder pieces, tree bark armor, etc.) released. Or for the new bio armor, new insect pieces or a costume set that lends itself to the concept. This kind of synchronicity could help plug up any thematic gaps in the costume creator and give players more tools in their toolbox when they go to roll a new character.
I know this is impossible for the near/immediate future, but it may be something to consider in the farther out future.

Yeah, not liking this at all. Not one bit.
I do understand the need to branch out and draw in new players, and that MAYBE Twitter can help you with that, but it just seems to me that while you're trying to build "new communities" elsewhere you're only succeeding in alienating and angering your community right here, on your own official website. If you were giving away the web grenades, or pieces that already exist, I probably wouldn't blink twice over the announcement. But you are offering an exclusive and desirable costume piece on a social media outlet that a lot of us don't/can't/won't use, and that's not kosher.
If nothing else, I hope that you plan on offering this aura somewhere else down the line.

I was Photogenic Metalhead and was positively FLOORED by being added as a finalist. There were so many great costumes and concepts. I kept thinking I was invited by accident and was waiting to get booted out. So thank you, thank you, thank you judges, for liking my costume. Makes up for me missing out on part 2 of the Bugs themed contest because of a reading comprehension issue on my part (those time zones really mess you up if you don't read carefully ...)

Without a doubt, CoX wins for me based on the sheer volume of options we have over the competition.
I have played all three games, and there are some things that each game does well. For instance, CO has some costume pieces we don't have - a real blindfold, sashes for BOTH genders, cool loincloths, some really attractive (to me) hair for both genders (including long hair for men), long skirts for both - and I also like that you can have more than two colors per piece. I also like that for each piece there are options - cloth, leather and metal, so you can achieve uniformity of look while using pieces from different themes which you can't always do with our pieces (due to pre-tinting, different textures, newer tech, etc.). As fpr DCUO, it has some really cool, contemporary looking pieces, and a GREAT cosmic/star field pattern in their store, and the looks are often quite slick. However, DCUO lacks volume of costume pieces, you are pretty limited to what you have access to at first, and some of the really great end-of-game armors are locked behind nearly impossible to get (for casual/free players) fund and/or token requirements.
CoX could learn a thing or two from its competition, but the competition has far, far more to learn from this game right here.

Thanks for making a liar out of me! LOL
I told a poster on another thread that the Tricorner hat that he had been clamoring for for some time was spotted as a Freebie Friday item on test, and that maybe it would come out this week or next. And now no Freebie Friday! :P
Enjoyed the surprise of a Freebie each Friday, hope it returns, and many thanks for the free stuff!

Hi Dink,
With the water blast power set coming in the semi-near future, I was wondering if we might consider some aquatic-style clothing options. Specifically, I was looking for something that resembled a wetsuit, with both zipped and unzipped fronts for both male and female characters, and maybe some fins/flippers for your feet. Would be also a good time to consider that scale mail I keep mentioning ...
Or maybe, and this is being very fanciful, I realize, armor pieces (shoulders, chest, gloves, boots, belt) that looks like it was carved from shell (like with nautilus detailing).
Also maybe mesh tops for both sexes that look like they might have been made from fishing nets?
Thank you for your consideration.

Same. I would spend hours dressing up that yummy male barbarian alone ...

Back with some more wishes ...

Jewel tone skin - a sheen/skin like "Metallic" that makes your character look like they are made of living gems/jewels

Medieval-ish Jerkins (maybe in the jackets category) that we can put over shirts/tops

More variation in briefs for men - chainmail, leather, metal, scale mail - and "boxer brief" style shorts

A hairstyle and beard that looks like it is made out of moss, vines, and/or other plant matter. The plant hair we have now is just meh.

The Olympian Guard top/bottom pattern ported over to tight gloves and boots, so we can have one whole matching base.

Stubble for men

Chest hair

Probably not the right place to put this, but a Jester's baton, as both a mace and as a staff, or even as just a vanity weapon.

A true checkered pattern

A top hat with long hair for both male and female toons

A cowboy hat with long hair for both male and female toons (the Gunslinger set's hair looked kind of stringy to me. I'd like something nicer.)

A skull cap, like a wizard might wear. Bonus points if we could get different textures - metal, leather, cloth.

More to come as they come to me. Thanks for your consideration.

Hi Dink,
THanks for this new thread.
Here are some things I would like to see added to the costume creator:
Jungle Lord loin clothes and Jungle Lady bikinis - plain, leopard spot and zebra stripe versions
Fur trimmed robe for males - emperor's robe (think of it as something like a retooled Witch's Bolero for the guys)
Deep V shirt/top for men
V-neck T-shirt for men
An acutal long hairstyle for men, akin to the gals' Real Glam style.
More masks like the Jester Mask, that actually look like masks and not painted on - I would especially like to see a bird beak mask similar to this.
A swashbuckler's shirt with puffy sleeves for both sexes
Sashes for both sexes
I'd like to see the Olympian guard texture applied to boots and gloves so we can have a cohesive look.
A Tabard for the upcoming chainmail set
Scale mail tights - top, bottom, gloves and boots
A blindfold without barbed wire going over the top of it
BP Shamaness styled wait capes for the ladies
More facial hair options, including sideburns/muttonchops, a horseshoe moustache (I'm thinking like WWF's Rick Steiner's 'stache), and stubble.
A clothing set that looks like it's made from plants/vines for Elf/Fairy heroes
Dragonfly wings (I know we have Insect WIngs already, but I'd like a set that looks sleeker, more Dragonfly-like)
Circlets and bracers for men
Hoods that could work with capes to look like cloaks - for both sexes
A Hoodie/street level costume set
Actual trenchcoats, like Rosarch and Dr. Occult wear.
A turban, both modern and old-timey (Like Sargon the Sorceror's headwear)
More briefs options for men - leather, chainmail, scale mail, metallic, Barbarian bikini
Metallic tank top for men, like the gals' Metallic dress top but turned into a tank top
Metallic T-shirt
High collars, like Dr. Strange's
New breastplates to go over chain mail, tights, etc.


Thanks for your consideration

I don't know if this is where official feedback for the pack goes, but here's mine after playing with the costume creator this evening: Nice work. Love all three new faces, and one of the men's faces has become my brand new favorite face. The woman's face is beautiful, and love the beauty mark, nice touch.
The astronaut suit looks good as a whole, and I think the pants especially are versatile enough to lend themselves to a variety of costumes. I am not terribly excited about the shoulder accordion arms in the top, as I think it detracts a little from the versatility of the piece.
The one problem I see with this suit is the same issue that plagues a lot of the costume sets - the issue of the gloves not really matching the boots very well. I like it when the boots and the gloves sort of match each other, not just completments each other. I have noticed though that in several of the last sets, Imperial Dynasty, Circle of Thorns and Elemental Order being the two that stick out most in my mind, that they don't really go well together. They complement each other, but they don't really match, and that often, for me, throws me off if I am trying to go for a cohesive look. I wonder if it's not two late to specifically make a matching pair of gloves for Retro Sci-Fi 2 boots, the ones with the rings. This would give me the sense of symmetry I look for.
As for the woman's dress, it looks good. I would like to recommend that someone go back and make a metallic texture for the Retro Sci Fi skirt to match the Metallic Club Dress top (or Retro Sci Fi textures for the top) because the two pieces would work very well together if they shared a texture.
I do wish the bubble helmet was not part of the same set of options as beards and facial hair for the men, because this means my space rangers cannot have facial hair. This is a terrible, terrible place for the helmet. Can you please consider moving it?
And of course, my one final complaint. I see no reason to keep the top/shirt from the men. The men desperately need a V neck top, and put a couple of short sleeves on it and it would make a rocking V neck T-shirt for the boys. Please consider porting this over to the gents. I and (many?) others would be most grateful.

I don't know that I like purples being in the Market. I guess I will reserve further judgment until I see what it means for the game.
I had gotten my hopes up to see Panther/Stealth this week, but alas, no. Maybe next week?