Samuel_Tow

On cape-rig hair: This is an overall bad idea, and Ghost Widow herself is both an example of pretty much the ONLY use that doesn't look bad and a reason why it WOULD look bad. The cape system is designed to model flat monolithic fabrics, and hair is simply not that. Some hairstyles could be classed as this, but even then, hair longer than about shoulder-length tends to separate and flow around the body. It does not stick together, nor should it. Nor, indeed, is hair as light a our capes seem to be. Capes themselves can be excused because their large surface area creates a lot of air friction, but this does not apply to hair.

Furthermore, we have hairs like pigtails, ponytails, mohawks, those weird free-standing cowlicks and so forth. Cape rigs do not work for what are essentially rope-like structures, and we don't have a rope rig.

I can only ever see animated hair done decently in two ways - either by animating it similar to wings, or by giving it a brand new "hair wobbling rig" like they have in Aion, and even then I have my doubts as to how well that will handle LONG hair like they DON'T have in Aion. And, yes, I checked. I don't know how time consuming that would be, or indeed if each hairstyle won't require its own unique animations, but I really, REALLY want to see that. It doesn't have to be complex, really. No more complex than tails, anyway. Just let it wave when we run and flap when we fall. That's about it. And, yes, that includes short air wobbling like short hair actually does.

A few points:

First of all, I'm pretty confident that a 32 bit operating system won't read all 6 GB of your ram. On my end, it tended to not read more than about 3 and a half.

Secondly, if you're on Virtue, this might be what's causing the problem. I've been seeing Virtue down a LOT lately, and it's possible there's a problem between the Virtue server and the Market server. Is this problem apparent on any server OTHER than Virtue? I've been perusing the Market on both Victory and Pinnacle and have not had the problems you describe. If you have characters on either of those, can you try to see if the problem is present there, as well? That should help eliminate server-related problems.

Finally, what you're seeing seems to be a different version of the Ghost Salvage problem. If the Market interface returns your Salvage to your inventory without you getting it out, it means that your salvage was never transferred to the Market server to begin with. This would explain why you are unable to lit it - you're sending requests for salvage that does not exist on the Market server and it's bouncing your requests. At some point, both servers sync and your client is clued in on the misunderstanding. I would assume such a piece of Ghost Salvage cannot be removed from the market, either.

Here's a test you can try. If you get a Ghost Salvage piece like this (i.e. one you can't list for sale and which would eventually auto-bounce back into your inventory), then go out and try to fill your inventory up with other salvage. See if you actually CAN, and then see if the salvage will bounce back anyway. This might reveal some further info on the nature of the problem, and may confirm if this actually IS ghost salvage.

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I've done this with inspirations and the Mastermind henchmen inspiration feeding bug. Sometimes some Mastermind henchmen will bounce inspirations you try to feed them back into your inventory, and one time this happened I got an inspiration drop between when I gave the inspiration away and when it bounced back. This left me with 11 inspirations in 10 inspiration slots, with two occupying the same slot. When I consumed the inspiration that showed up in the slot, instead of emptying, the slot showed the other one. It's possible you can overflow your salvage inventory like this when Ghost Salvage bounces back if there's a logical check only on receiving salvage and not on total salvage space, as I suspect having the salvage bounced back to your inventory client-side would skip normal reception channels. The question is whether the server will still track your salvage space properly even if your client is desynched.

I don't know what any of the enhancements are called. I never learned, because I never used the names. The system works on just colour, but only mostly, because certain enhancement pictures are so big they obscure most of the colour circle, and some colours are far too close to each other, such as run and fly or defence and resistance. And even then, I pity the colour-blind folk.

Enhancements in shop inventories are not arranged in any way that I can determine. It's not alphabetical, it's not by type, it's not by "value" (the Power 10 are scattered all throughout) and it's not even logical. They are, however, arranged the same way in absolutely every store, so it's possible to remember. Accuracy, damage, endurance and heal tend to be high up, recharge is towards the middle, resistance, taunt, run and jump are towards the end and so forth. The mouse-over popup used to help a lot, until it got bugged to not show up and was never fixed. It seems like a pretty bad thing to push back because it ought to be a simple fix to remove a gnawing irritation that has the potential to REALLY piss people off.

The old Market interface used to arrange enhancements by the shop order. The new one arranges them alphabetically. However, being bred to not remember the names of the enhancements on one hand, and never having been given consistent enhancement naming makes that arrangement even less useful. Less useful still for people like me who learned the old order and are consistently blindsided by enhancements not being where they "should" be. Simple things like recharge reduction and attack rate being used interchangeably, as well as slow/entangle or whatever that was called don't help matters.

SO rings should be clearly obvious to anybody as they don't involve colour perception and are fairly different from one another, but enhancements in stores and in your inventory tend to use their small icons, which can make the borders harder to see. They should still be clear, but a mouse-over popup would help.

Having the ability to filter shop inventories by origin and level would help a great deal, especially for the "have everything" ones. Furthermore, making it easier to sell everything would be very helpful. Right now, if you try to sell salvage or recipes by just clicking Sell a lot of times, you will find your current stack deselects itself a lot, forcing you to click on the next one manually. This is a bug that only occurs if you sell out a stack with more than one item in it too quickly. This can be overcome if you sell items at just the right tempo, which is somewhere between around Nightwish's End of All Hope. It's a hideous kludge that shouldn't be required.

OK, I found a few cool ones.

For a big Fire Blast power but probablynot Inferno, how's about Final Fantasy 7's Bahamut Zero attack?

For a big Energy Blast attack, probably Nova, why not every Kamehameha ever done?

I for what I had in mind as a snipe attack, I wanted to go with Ryu's Shinkuu Hadouken, but I couldn't find decent footage, so enjoy Iron Man's Proton Cannon.

And for an overall cool and badass attack, here's Barret's Satellite Beam, the final attack I'd like to see when and if we get a Pulse Rifle set.

That's about all I can think of at the moment.

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Oh, and for Super Strength, please, please, PLEASE try to institute something akin to Tifa Lockheart's Final Heaven.

David, remember, you asked for it Time to make a list ordered in what I assume is increasing difficulty:

1.Alternate animations for Blast sets, even if they have to be taken from other sets. Blast powers differentiate between each other based on blast effect, not so much based on animation, anyway.

2. Alternate EFFECTS for Blast sets. Say, Fireball changes from one singular fireball to multiple converging fireballs on the target ala Macross Missile Massacre, then exploding and Torrent becomes something similar to the Kheldian cone that hits all targets with an individual directed blast.

2.1. My long-standing desire has always been for Sniper Blast to get a decent effect that looked big and felt powerful, instead of the "beam-bullet" it has now. Ideally, I'd take either a pure instant-hit beam similar to what Hercules/Zeus Titans have, or a kind of big huge energy fireball like the Kamehamehadoken. Just something that makes me go "Holy hell! This is awesome!" whenever I see it.

3. More awesome versions of everything. I mentioned Sniper Blast, but that's not the only thing that could use souping up. Just about every Nuke ever made could do with a makeover, because by and large they all look anemic. Where is Inferno's gigantic, towering fireball of hellfire? Where is Nuclear Blast's towering radioactive mushroom that stays behind long after you've left? Even something as simple as Sonic Blast can use the little extra touches like shockwaves on the ground as you scream. Just alter the powers to be AWESOME. Right now, most powers are kind of low-key and unimpressive, more utility than coolness.

4. The ability to customize our sounds would be great. Either that, or just change up power sounds to be more awesome. I'll repost last time's winners for AR sound improvements, the Hispano 20mm for Full Auto and the Various .50 cal snipers for Sniper Rifle.

5. Give weapon powers animation customization. Specifically for Axe, Mace and Broadsword, which could really use it. Even more specifically, could you give each of those the ability to be used with both hands in a two-handed fashion, somehow? I would honestly rather use the Broadsword like that if I don't have a shield. Assault Rifle and Archery could use some tweaks, as well. Speaking of which, the Archery animations, especially Rain of Arrows, are still bugged to have the arrows on the wrong side of the bow.

6. Give us the ability to select our base animations for running, jumping, standing and flying, along with the sounds we hear when doing these things. Giving women a running animation more like men would be nice, and I guess giving men the female run animation can't hurt. Giving us access to the Ninja Run animation for our base movement (but NOT the power) would be a good idea, as would giving us a clone of the Ember Demon "crawl." Best of all, I would suggest a movement animation alternative that would be just like the Hover animation, but will still be ground movement, as in it will follow the terrain and "jump" as normal (like Rikti Drones hit with -fly do), but it will still look like we're flying.

7. The showstopper: Give us the ability to use non-weapon powers through weapons. Instead of shooting fireballs from our hands, let us customize this to shoot fire from a rifle, or from a headband... Or from our eyes. I can live with this being done as a whole powerset swap, just so long as the option to use a gun to project non-gun powers.

P.S. I'll see if I can't find some videos on YouTube to express what I mean.

This again...

I'm against any ideas to make Origins more meaningful for two simple reasons: you're shafting people who already picked an origin when it wasn't meaningful and now you're attaching a benefit to it, and your vision of origins is often completely contradictory to mine.

You propose to give Natrual characters affinity with "hand-held mundane gear." OK, what use would Superman guns? Wait, let me try that again... What use would Peacebringers have for blades? Natural covers a LOT of ground, and natural HUMANS are just one small part of it. Things like the Hydra are also natural, because that's what these creatures are. What use would the Hydra have for gadgets? They don't even have fingers... Or pockets, or skin, or a skeletal structure.

And then you propose to give magic users pets... And I'm trying not to say mean things to you over that. Because if

Good job breaking it, hero!