SilverAgeFan

All of those exceptions are ironically things I associate with the late silver age of comics, things like The Falcon, Rocket Racer, La Tarantula, etc. There were definitely some one off disco villains of the late 70's, bell bottomed V neck jumpsuits and all!

Your comment went up when I stepped away from the keyboard mid-draft of my first list of suggestions. Based on this, I'd agree with Golden Girl that B is quite covered at the moment. A combination of both A and C would be welcome.

Personally, considering that this is a superhero game first and foremost and since the sort of pieces we are talking about are more graphic in nature, I'd like to see at least two classic items folded into each set, whatever the theme. A facemask. A chest emblem. A new classic tights pattern.

For example: Chinese New Year could have a dragon tights pattern--not highly textured like anything we've gotten since the Stealth set through Olympian Guard. But a simple bold graphic tights pattern. Or a dragon eye mask or dragon brooch or something like that.

Another example: The Gunslinger set could have also included a full masks forehead detail that was a horseshoe. Two in fact: one right side up and one upside down. Or a simple belt--not a bullet belt--with a horseshoe on or crossed pistols on it. Again as per my prior post--symbolic logo like versions of these items, not a detailed piece with precise wear marks in the metal, etc.

A third example: With the coming space set, people had proposed a number of belts with a Saturn or atom or some sort of symbol on it. These assets could and should also be repurposed and relocated to the forehead. Maybe single shoulder or arm jewelry details (jewelry for all three body types!) as well. Or even use them as cape brooches. (Some of the original cape brooches, though VERY small, do a good job--saturn and stars in particular. And the new bat brooch was very welcome.) Additionally, I think a good simple bold tights pattern, similar to the radioactive one I point you to in my earlier post that bakes in some rocket or ringed planet logos and also has an accompanying cape would be very welcomed.

I think nibbling away at expanding the more adaptable (but SPECIFIC in symbolism, not GENERIC!) classic characters in tights options as you guys continue to do sets would be the best way to introduce new never been done bits.

Meanwhile, I personally think a revisiting of the old assets (patterns and white on skin issues in particular) and updating them to have crisper lines is kinda necessary at this point.

Lastly, I think some of the BASIC full body skins suggested in my prior post should be targeted for roll out in a 1/2 issue or spread over several issues and 1/2 issues. (uniform reflectance maps, uniform glow maps.) These are basic lego pieces that shouldn't take too many development hours but will be used as widely if not more so than some highly specific tailored pieces seen in the current trend in costume set design.

Feh. That's what I get for cooking dinner and cleaning the kitchen. That'll learn me to step away from the forums.

Yeah. I have fond memories of hanging out in DA. BP mask badges are going to become a bit more of a PITA to get now as we'll have to rely on Talos day and night cycles to bring them out if we don't get an echo.

Here's hoping that ALL of the new DA hasn't gone to the zerg. I have a soft spot for the BP's campy, totally un-PC, retro-horror comic book qualities.

And if a dev is reading: Pssst! Echo of old Faultline too if you can plz!

Hope there is something small and dragon-y coming then. Even if it is a dragon related sale? Or a sale on the fireworks pack? (Already have it myself! But it would fit, right?)

To be fair, fashion is pretty hard to keep up with and history is geographic. This leaves the artists at Paragon making items for multiple markets. For better or worse, I'd guess they get more sales trailing rather than leading.

For what it's worth, you are correct that aspects of the jeans in this pack have already fallen out of style in some places. Embroidery and shiny denim have all but disappeared from the subway trains here. On the runways, at least for women, this year it was a lot of crops (high waters by a different name), high rises, often baggy and awkward up top tapering tight at the calf. But a few designers were pushing the highly exaggerated wide bell bottoms this year too. On the streets, I've seen a lot of the silly Barney Rubble fake fur vests. There are also a lot of billboards pushing moon boots over ducks (wellies are already out here but alot of people are still sporting ducks)--but I've honestly not seen one person wearing retro moon boots. Just billboards and subway ads. Marketing fail on that one.

Just like an elemental bow, elemental claws would have also been pretty awesome.

New dark control colored white as "fluff"?

Dare I say the one on the right looks more like ice than anything we got in this set...

An elemental bow would have been pretty awesome...

I have some similar tastes regarding what pieces I prefer. But Magnolia, I urge you to try the belt as well. Switch it to "ice" as a subsetting and then play with colors. I've found it makes a very nice "magical belt" pulsing with arcane energies.

I think the tri corner hat, from having seen it, is more of a one-off and is not really the quality of the pack pieces we've seen thus far.

But we do know from leaks to the cc that there is some sort of chainmail set in the works. I don't think anyone has seen a single item from that yet. (IIRC, chainmail gloves made it as a blank item to the live build and chainmail coif made it to open beta or test.)

I'm glad that they looked at this side of the equation finally at least. Simply put, the short duration dual and team duration inspirations were like a hit of a bad street drug. A lot of money for a relatively brief high. Now these actually become reasonably useful. And less of a bummer draw if I ever decide to use 1 token for 5 (it is five right??) super card pack thingies.

Pretty much this. Wentworth's is the games PvP. And it's all about making change off the "gotta have it now" folks and people who don't understand how this particular interface or a blind auction works.

The one positive thing I will say about this system: it actually disincentivizes afk price barking which other games' common areas seem to be rife with.