Serva_Obscura

The polys have the wrong wind order, I.E. the are facing inside-out

Not going to vote on this as my option would be "No massive bitmaps it a massive resource hog!" but that aside I'd say that Penny looks really janky in both of those. I like her as a character, I think her new outfit is too busy but I can deal with it, but both of those images are... not something I'd like to be forced to look at for any length of time, though #2 is much worse than #1

Big blue looks fine in both of them.

These are some _very_ nice multi-purpose pieces. nice high-ish leg boots, just bulky enough. Ans some nice tech backpacks that we are really lacking.

And in that lies the problem, these aren't "premium" pieces, these are useful general-purpose pieces that fill a hole in COX's costume range.

If I hadn't hit Tier-9 at the freedom launch I'd be pretty miffed.

Y'see that chain-mail? _That_ is a "premium" set, it's nice, useful, but ultimately just an improvement on what we already have (Like the hearts and excess plus patterns), anyone who has a "fantasy" idea that could use it could make do without it, the Mecha pieces, not so much if you want to build an armour/robot-looking character you're stuck with the clockwork pieces (And the huge boots set I can never remember the name of) and some of the Ascendant pieces.

The unpleasant/nice people ratio goes _way_ up the second you place people in conflict for any reason IRL or in-game.

With minimal additional plot/story, casting the flaws of the game in _stark_ contrast and an increased likelihood of undesirables. Why would I ever spend my recreation time volunteering for this?

I would remove the repeated use of "purchasing" given that selecting a power at a trainer is radically different to paying Paragon Points for something, and you really don't want to mix your message there.

I loved taking my favourite +3 incarnate through the story.

Contact: "If you do these mission beforehand it will weaken the..."

Talismancy: "Nah, it's fine just point me at the bad guys"

*Smash, Crash, Break, Gouge*

Contact: "Did you forget something? you've only been gone for 5 minutes?"

Talismancy: "Nope, it's all dealt with, Mot's back in his box, man I'm hungry, fancy a pizza?"

Contact: "..."

Just to add that I would be prepared to pay the +40 point for a male+huge version of the sash, surely that would be worth the porting time? You already have the texture and mesh, and a male scaled version of the mesh.

Plox, pretty plox?

So, given I didn't do SSA #6 straight away people have beat me to starting this thread, Here's how I would have titled my verson of this thread

SSA 1 #6 Was so bad I'm not doing any more, I don't care about the easy A Merits, I am done

Seriously? SERIOUSLY? this is how we follow the (frankly pretty weak but could have been worse) death of Statesman? With a scripted STUPID death that I could do nothing about while sending me on yet another series of unrelated nonsense mission objectives. No build-up, no emotion, no involvement, no investiture whatsoever.

This one was _so_ bad I no longer care how it ends. I'd rather do tip missions, they are more engaging.

I would love the client code people to take another look at the female slider rigging.

Firstly I'm not suggesting the bones themselves be re-rigged that would involve editing every single female mesh item, and we all know that is never going to happen.

But, its obvious that there are "inflate" bones present in the current female rig and there is a _code_ link between a slider value and which inflate bones get triggered and by how much.

I'd like to see the following mapping changes (on the female model) (and I really thing these are possible without significant work)

• Physique: less effect on the thighs and more on the arms, (there are inflaters on the female arm bones right? because at the moment they are barely used) Is there an inflater on the neck? It could do with being used
• Hips: a little less of the leg spacing and add a little of the upper leg/bum inflater
• Shoulders: Given that there probably still needs to be a dedicated "boob" slider I'd suggest that the ribcage inflater (I assume there is one, the male rig has one) be partially tied to the shoulder slider so that the ribcage grows a little to meet the shoulders

Major changes to the CC have been made with the simple addition of a costume token (per costume) even when it breaks existing costumes.

Now if we had carte-blanche to redo the sliders I'd love to see a separate slider per inflater so you could inflate the arms/legs/other separately. But this is (IMHO) more work as it involves more slider values stored per character.

Personally I think that each of the power sets (that have distinctive VFX) should have a costume change emote. For exampel the "Evil laugh emote is ok, but we could really do with a full "flame on!" style VFX

Before you say "Ok, but that's a lot of work" What I'm suggesting is take the most iconic VFX from each set (Often the nuke on blast sets) and simply add the body covering glow/whiteout that many of the existing CCE's use.

More importantly how about making the VFX for future powers while thinking about what you could reuse for a CCE such that you get a CCE with the powerset when you buy it (if it's for sale) For example the Time Stop target-VFX would make a great CCE for Time Manipulation.

A generic gadget animation could service all the projectile weapon powersets. And a "holding your weapon in front of you" type animation would server for most of the melee weaponsets (Which isn't VFX I admit but I was just completing the thought)

Also, I understand changing all the current Auras to support two colours is unlikely but that doesn't mean that the aura slot shouldn't allow two colours at all... it would make porting power VFX much easier and make future auras much nicer so please badger your code monkey(s) on our behalf.

Is there a reason that you wouldn't reply to the GM with:

"Is there any information you need that I haven't already included in the petition?"

And if a specific question was asked that I'd already answered

"That information is already in the petition"

That's what I'd do

It seem fairly obvious to me that the "spreadsheet devs" would would usually be generating new powers cannot implement anything like what has been suggested. Hence this would be up to a combination of the server and client coders, I don't know how many they have, but I'll bet it's not many.

It's also pretty obvious that there is no mechanism for a power to move a player in any way other than instantaneously to a pre-defined point or to a reticule.

It's pretty obvious that movement is a special case in the code (Its one of the few places that animations have their rate altered, along with character height) and that gravity is a special case. Hence I don't think it's a stretch to say that even Cryptic's-other-game-style grappling into nothing would be tough-to-the-point-of-monopolising-most-of-their-time simple due to the inverse parabola and collision issues.

Soooo.

/jranger

I like the costume set, don't care about the ATIO's nor the consumable filler. Would buy the costume set outright, will not buy gamble-packs.