Samuel_Tow

It's kind of hard to feel special with prefab costume regardless of circumstances. That's my entire point - giving people all of one set isn't the path to making anyone feel more special. It makes everyone feel even more like a copy of everyone else. Incarnate powers are bad enough with blurring the boundaries ATs, and now we're offering to dress everyone the same, too?

Anecdote: When I bought the Animal Pack, one of the first things I thought to do was a basic tiger character. The first day I logged into the tutorial after the Pack went live (with another concept), I zoned in standing next to two basic tiger characters belonging to completely unrelated people who had not just managed to make nearly the exact same character I'd intended to make but managed to make the exact same character as each other.

"You are a unique snowflake" is probably the worst, most depressing method of making people feel "special." When the next big shiny is the exact same thing everyone else gets, that's not unique or special. What's special is a good costume design, and a good costume design is much less a question of the precise pieces used and much more a question of design talent, freedom of imagination and good taste. To try and offer people a "better" costume is madness in the extreme, because what makes a "better" costume is not numerically definable. It's both unique to the person doing the judging and strongly dependent on practical uniqueness.

You know how people rolled their eyes at everyone who made a Neo clone when trenchcoats came out and everyone who made a Green Arrow clone when Archery came out? Do you know how many people will roll their eyes when they see those Lineage II shoulders? When costume items stop being about good design and become about shallow flash, the costume design system has failed catastrophically.

The reward of making it to level 50 is having a character who's massively stronger than that of a level 1 guy who forked over $10. You can fight stronger things, you can take on tougher challenges, you can use more impressive powers and you can claim that you are "better" and be quantifiably, provably correct. There are enough real, functional rewards that show up when it really matters. I don't believe we need basic vanity added to this.

Furthermore, I will never, ever agree with a system which encourages people to want others to not have someone. Any time someone derives satisfaction from the fact that I DON'T have something, my sympathy evaporates on the spot. I still firmly believe that everyone should have access to all cosmetic options, then let those who are truly good enough at making costumes shine and those who don't care ignore that side of the game entirely.

I can understand why they did it, as well - it's simple bait. But understanding their reasoning doesn't mean I agree with them, and I have a habit of remembering my disagreements for years and years.

Frankly, if I could make a level 1 character with that armour set, I plain wouldn't. Every single full set in the game looks absurd if used in whole. I'm not sure I'd even use any of the pieces. I don't have a concept that can use them. And unlike Matt Miller and (I presume) you, I don't believe that any costume which uses those pieces is automatically somehow better or more special than any other costume without the pieces. I'll admit, the Incarnate armour pieces are decent. But they're not God's gift to man and they don't enhance every character they're slapped on. They're just another costume set.

I'm sorry if this insults the art team, but the pieces are just another costume set - good if used right, terrible if used wrong. No more, no less.

There used to be a LOOOT of clipping between jackets and the undershirt underneath them. On the Family, too. You'd see it at the elbows, in the armpits, on the shoulders and so forth. They did change transparency thereafter, though, so you can't see through jackets any more But the upper arms are... Or were still there.

I usually have a question I like to ask about that: Is it wrong to ask that this be placed in the hands of the player? If someone wants to denote his rise to power with a "better" costume by his or her standards, then I heartily approve. I've done the same. The editor gives us the freedom to do so. I kind of want it to give us the freedom of not doing so and, more than anything else, not having to do so.

Let the player decide.

Not true. Only the jacket sleeves that Jay made with the I13 Day Jobs pack do this. The older jacket sleeves keep the arm underneath, which you can see via clipping or stealth powers. Furthermore, Shirts have sleeves that apply over the arm, rather than instead of it. It's a choice that the artists made, rather than a costume editor limitation.

I had to spend a mission drop and petition for Support three additional times in the span of two days that one time I've had missions with missing enemies very often lately, and I've had a LOT of enemies knocked into walls. Almost every time I knock one around in a pink cave map, it ends up in a wall. I've had enemies spawn in ceilings, I've had enemies knocked through ceilings, I've had enemies drop through holes in the floor, jump through walls... It's a lot of fun

If you wanted to be anatomically correct, I suppose. I don't think it's necessary, though. So long as it doesn't look horrible, I'm pretty sure any kind of pelvis will work.

Besides, if we alter the human pelvis too much, we'll lose the ability to add sexy butts

I'd say this is the answer. A lot of the eye auras are quite large and can end up obscuring the entire head, clipping through hats, hoods, helmets and so forth. I think the smallest eye aura we have is the Alpha one, but that still clips sometimes, and is actually aligned slightly too low on Female heads, or so it seems.

Moreover, BABs made the distance a shield is offset from the hand depend on the size of the glove the character is using. Is it possible to do something like this so that eye auras will display in front of goggles and visors? I'm specifically talking about Full Helmets, where the visors are HUGE, bulky and dense, which means eye auras display "inside" the visor, preventing flowing visor eyes. This isn't really a problem with smaller types of glasses, like the various spectacles and sunglasses props, though.

Finally - would it be too much to ask for Dark/subtractive versions of existing auras?

Thanks... I think I never really had a concept or an AT in mind for this costume, but I've been mulling it over for some time. I keep wondering if I can't make something useful out of it with other Vanguard weapons.

In your example, there's a difference between "people" and "people" that you can't catch with that phrasing. "One set of" people were displeased with Booster Packs and insisted on free costume updates, as well. I can name Bad Influence off the top of my head, but there were others. These are not the people offering to buy in this thread. "Another set of" people are now asking to buy these things instead of unlock them, and I've always, always been in this camp. I've HATED costume unlocks ever since I2 and the "Capes at 20" fiasco, and my opinion hasn't changed. Sure, I have more financial stability now, but my opinion remains the same - I would rather buy costumes than unlock them in-game.

This is a simple case of different people wanting different things. I still suspect that if you give costume items both an unlock and a paid option, you will end up pleasing all but the most extreme fundamentalists.

I was about to post Ironic's brightened pic, myself, but it seems like he beat me to it

However, I did a slight cheat which you can't see even there. The bottom uses a Pencil Skirt (obvious), as well as a combo of Stilettos/Matte and the Pants lower body texture. It looks really goofy if you can see it without the skirt, because it has the belt hoops, the button, the pockets and so forth, but since you can only ever see the knees on this costume, it looks like matte fabric that's part of the boots.

I may retcon this costume to use the Thigh High boots later on when we get that patch which allows female Steampunk jackets to be used with Sleeveless Jacket torsos, which will allow me to use the Witch long gloves.

And also kind of like Final Fantasy VII. As well as kind of like the almost original Samuel Tow

Thank you, I needed that

Well, David talked at length about updating older costume pieces to have higher-resolution textures, better meshes and more contemporary effects. Then David fell into a black hole and has only been able to get out one post per few months, so we don't know what became of that. Curse you, black holes!

They received a mixed reception because they're just BAD, and a lot of this comes from the fact that aside from normal mapping, the faces themselves are horrible. They're low-resolution, their textures are not very detailed and their normal maps aren't all that fine yet still have dense black shadows, leading to faces that look like head candles and are even more fake than older faces.

I hope that with a higher-resolution face texture and a more fine-grained normal map, these faces can look more impressive. It won't change the fact that the people depicted in them apparently fell off the top of the ugly tree and hit their faces on every branch on the way down, but we have plenty of ugly person faces in the editor since before, and those have their place, too. So long as the faces are technically sound, I can get over the aesthetic ugliness of them.

Unless you can find a quote saying that, I'd say you misunderstood. What people are saying is that the MALE hair under the top hats isn't tintable. And it isn't. But it should be, once the fixes roll around.

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I really have to commend that list again, by the way. If I'd sat down and written a list of all the things I wanted to be fixed with the Steampunk pack, we'd have an over 80% overlap, and considering people claim I'm unpleasable (even if they're wrong), that's pretty dang amazing. I love the detachable ascots, the tintable hair, the changes to the jackets, the HIGH-RESOLUTION FACES!!! and so on. I don't think there's a single item on that list that I'm "meh" about, let alone hate. Everything is pure gold... And it's not even a complete list!

Pretty much exactly like how I feel now, actually. It's almost every day that I'll knock an important enemy into a wall, find a locked door with the key to it on the other side, find a door blocked by another unopanable door, end a mission with an enemy apparently having taken a stroll off the map and so on and so forth. Some of these I reset, some I petition, some I mission-drop, and life goes on, apparently.

To be perfectly honest, the expediency in response to non-showstopper bugs around here is kind of disappointing, and that's not a new phenomenon. There's a reason we get the weekly "One Issue fixing bugs!!!" suggestion threads over at S&I.

If I were the sort of person to put quotes in his sig, that would definitely be sig-worthy. Even out of context, that's just golden!

You may want to alter your title, because that's not an "offline" name check. You still need to get online, connect to a server and check its name database. What you want is, perhaps, an in-browser name check.

Hey, Port Oaks has that Villa Montrose and Marconeville. Those might fit. I'd have to check those out. Thank you I'll try to avoid the old cobblestone roads in Mercy Town, however. High heels and cobblestone don't work well together.

Thanks!

Isn't that what badges are for? You know, as a badge of honour to show off accomplishment? Why not give Incarnate badge titles their own unique colours?