Schismatrix

Disagree.

Jman, i think i see where you're going with this, and it makes total sense.

So your premise is that NCsoft told Cryptic to stop supporting CoX and go find something else (not tied to NCsoft) to go work on? "Hey, that game you made for us? It sucks, so why don't you go find something else to do while we wait and see if it goes belly up with minimal support. Maybe you should go see about making a directly competing product for a company that sued us the other year."

Sure, totally plausible. Certainly more plausible than Microsoft and Marvel thinking about hiring a company that had already made a successful superhero themed MMO to create a product for them. Edit: It certainly would have nothing to do with Emmert stating in interviews that he envisions Cryptic as an MMO factory that keeps cranking out new MMOs.

The fact that some time afterward NCsoft bought the rights to CoX and hired the skeletal team that had been left to work on it away from Cryptic and then proceeded to more than quadruple the Dev team certainly lends credence to the theory that NCsoft had demanded Emmert pull most of the staff off of CoX because they had panicked at the thought of having a successful Western MMO that was making them money and wanted to kill it before the revenue tempted them too much. Obviously by that point it was too late and despite their desire to avoid profitability they succumbed to the mysterious mindwarping effect of CoX and resigned themselves to investing in and getting money from it.

i vote for option 1 where it won't significantly affect the sheen and coloring of the pieces. Option 2 for pieces that will look significantly different. Which is pretty much what NS said he would do, but i just wanted to make my position completely clear.

Although, for example, while the new Gladiator shoulders look fairly different from the originals, the originals were pretty fugly in terms of how the old textures blurred and distorted, so i didn't mourn the loss.

Giving the old pieces sharper, higher resolution textures is good. Upgrading/tweaking the geometry without changing the overall size or shape is also good. Anything more should be option 2.

i'm making a new Scrapper themed around being an augmented/cybernetic kangaroo-themed android/cyborg. So basically the same old martial artist concept as every other MA using Scrapper, but i find it amusing anyway.

i've pretty much settled on Dark or Electric as a secondary to supply some additional AoE and utility. With either one i'll be going leaping pool, and probably a -KB IO or two, so really it comes down to which will synergize best with Martial Arts and later IO slotting.

Electric Armor is visually more thematic overall, but Dark's Oppressive Gloom could work well with Cobra Strike.

So, opinions or suggestions?

How does Tornado compare assuming it's used against a single target with KB protection?

i like it.

Lefty's been idle for too long anyway.