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Uhm, I'm having the exact same problem (identical), and the only thing I have in common with ShaolinMaster is Vista.

I am too. Are you on Vista?

It's always clique time!

Duuuuh-nah-nah-nah, duh-nah, nah-nah.

Heheheheheheheheh, exhibitionists.

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There's no Wikipedia entry for "The Spad", thus I submit that he does not and has never existed and therefore cannot be involved in this debate. Anyone who believes him to exist is clearly suffering from some degree of mental incapacity.

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I'm always amazed that people think the people devoted to doing new content are also the people who do bug fixes and the QoL changes.

As if there's one guy working on the game and he can only do one thing at a time.

I know CoH has a small staff, but damn

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They all work together. BaB has to make sure his animations work with Jay's costumes, War Witch has to make sure her zone designs don't break the game, Positron has to check his new ideas are actually do-able by the rest of the team; and everyone has to make sure their code works.

Every single change to the game can, and most likely will, break something. It all needs to be checked and tested - so the "bug fixers" have to be called in anyway. And everything added takes time away from something else. The devs need to prioritise (which they do, much to the chagrin of a number of people), so asking for a QoL change and expecting that and everything else would be silly.

QoL changes are new content. New content likes to break. Adding more content just increases the bug list.

No one in their right mind would demand all the bugs be fixed before anymore new content. For one thing, the game would stagnate for likely years, and for another - new bugs pop up all the time. But QoL changes that a lot of people deem pointless are not especially likely to top the list ahead of "fix the bugs".

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I've canceled my subs till something big happens pvp wise to get me back. Sorry for my attitude but i'm a bit fed up with shannon thinking she knows all, yeah we all know you pwn with your empath who buffs with teleport

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I'm sure we'll all miss your mature, intelligent posts. Bye now!

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Because coming out with comments like that makes you much more mature and better than he is

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Play nice, you.

Shadowe, I freakin' love you.

I play an anthropomorphic male bat.

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"Oh dear god almighty." adds nothing to the discussion

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Perhaps not, but if you'd read the thread at all you'd see you were about a day late and we'd tried so hard to get away from the whole topic.

Oh dear god almighty.

Do I make a [censored] joke?

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And apologies about the ulterior comment, perhaps I should have engaged brain before commenting on it. Or you know slept first...

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And I apologise for anything offensive I may've said. I assure you, and everyone else, it was not intentional.

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Would you please stop telling those of us that are skeptical of this idea that we have ulterior motives?

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I have read your replies, I happen to think you're wrong. Speaking as someone who not only knows several hundred people who suffer (or not) from issues that an result in a 'sex change', and who looks at one of those in the mirror when I can't avoid it. I really dislike the idea that, this shouldn't be in the game because it is a subject that is unfit for the consumption of minors, which is what you and others seem to be saying.


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Then obviously you haven't read my posts at all. You read my first post, which was defending someone who was attacked for stating it was a mature subject and my post in response to Col. Bliztkreiger's kindly telling me what my own thoughts and beliefs were.

My reasoning for not thinking (please, for crying out loud someone at least notice I have never said I'm against the idea) it will ever be implemented is that I, personally do not believe it makes enough sense to become a new feature.

That is all.

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Do you have an ulterior motive? Yes of course you do or you wouldn't bother posting in this thread, I'd guess your motive is that you would rather time be spent on other issues.

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ul·te·ri·or
adj.

1. Lying beyond what is evident, revealed, or avowed, especially being concealed intentionally so as to deceive: an ulterior motive.

So, no, I do not. I don't think this implementation is worth the time and effort. I am not against it. I wouldn't use it on any of my characters, the same way I'll never use half the costume pieces. I'm currently drinking a cup of tea, having a cigarette, pondering eating a Mars delight, waiting for my mobile to charge; my hair's an utter mess, I've thrown on the shabbiest outfit ever, there's a large smudge on my glasses I think may be a paw print - I love cats, horses, my boyfriend, cake, bad jokes, reading, these forums, CoH/V and psychological thrillers.

There. Nothing hidden. No ulterior motive.

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My girlfriend and I (sorry to disappoint certain people, but Stasis IS actually female. I have proof) disagree on a LOT of stuff.

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No we don't.

And stop blowing my cover. Now how will I chat up busty Amazons?

The NCsoft team (Norcal) is growing, isn't it? Perhaps if we're patient enough they will eventually have a big enough team to allot the PvP side of the game to some of them, so that it can be taking care of - both with and seperately from PvE.

And I've used the phrase "in my opinion" so many times, my fingers hurt.

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We just really went into "Saturday thread" territory, didn't we?

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I don't know, I haven't been told what I think yet.

I'd love to join in, but I'm too busy chatting up busty Amazons I'm hoping won't turn into men.

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Please - anyone that sees a female character and immediately assumes that they are in fact female is being incredibly over optimistic.

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^ That.

Would you please stop telling those of us that are skeptical of this idea that we have ulterior motives?

As for our arguments being for our "own gain", how strange. We can't sway the devs, we can simply state why we're unsure of the idea or simply do not want it - surely those of you who're arguing that it would be a good and useful change are (also) doing so for your own gain? You'd actually gain something from it, after all.

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Second: How is a change from Male to Huge in anyway tconnected to any of the issues that some of you keep bringing up?

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No one reads my posts anymore.

Male to Huge makes sense however the chances of it being implemented without the rest is slim, or at least would cause much uproar if done.

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Fourth: Asking for the thread to be moderated or locked, the continued fighting over whether or not Transgender issues or transvestism is mature/right/wrong/etc is not what this thread should be discussing.

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A few posts at the beginning of the thread, and none until it was kindly brought up by the Colonel doesn't, I think, constitute continuous.

I don't see anything in that post about me being worried about it. What I do see, is me explaining why transgenderism can be seen as a mature subject, because it was already mentioned and the original poster had been accused of being narrow minded. I didn't relate that post to CoH/V, I related it to games targetted at a young audience. Please also note the "to any great degree". Mystique, for instance, does not cover transgenderism (or even homosexuality) to any great degree, whereas a character with a storyline covering the ins and outs of transgenderism would.

It is therefore, in my opinion, unlikely any game targetted at a young audience would have subject matter like this - whereas books and films have the loophole of being educational (i.e. not just for lols), and are more likely to cover mature or controversial subjects.

To give a related but not identical example: Lord Of The Flies is seen as a fantastic piece of literature, whereas the game Bully is seen as glamourising violence.

Superheroes are likely to be able to "fart laserbeams", as whilst obviously tricky, this can be used as a power. Shapeshifting also, is a power - being able to mimic the appearance of anyone (and in certain cases, anything)? Fantastic - that can be used to your advantage.

Changing gender, however, as it is (and this is very important) limited to a simple changing of the sex, does not, in my opinion (also a very important word), offer any benefit to a hero or villain whatsoever - bar maybe moonlighting. Moonlighting, of course, being possible with a secret identity.

Now, Kheldians - as they can already change form, gender changing would make sense for them. Not much sense, as again it would be just a cosmetic change, but with clever writing, it can mesh with the character. Same goes for having male and female characters swap to the huge bodytype - this makes sense in a Hulk like (or steroid use) way. Male to female for anyone, does not - storywise, make an awful lot of sense to me. A woman can disguise herself, or portray herself as a man and vice versa, without any need for a sex change. Granted this is not as easy with the costume creator, but that's where imagination comes in.

So, it is for this reason, and not my obvious prejudism, that I do not believe this QoL change to be useful or worth the time and effort needed to implement.

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I'm pretty dang sure you just don't want it in-game because the thought bothers you and conflicts with personal beliefs or something.

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Ahahahahahahahahaha.

Please go back a few pages and take note of the post made by me, stating I am not against the idea - I just don't think it likely, or worth the time and effort.

Think of it like this, Thorny Devil: If time and money is spent implementing it - things much more useful, much more exciting and much more understandable may have to be pushed back on the roster.

As for those who're getting their hackles up at the "it doesn't make sense" argument: In many cases, it doesn't. Batman changing into a woman doesn't make sense, either - even if they did do it. Same goes for Superman. Just because it was done, doesn't mean it makes the slightest bit of sense.

Shapeshifters make sense. But that is a power, changing gender in CoH would offer no benefit (beyond perhaps a wider range of costume options) to the vast majority of people. I would much, much rather have a new powerset that allowed various disguises to fit in with the shapeshifting idea.

I don't for a moment believe this would be easy to implement. For instance, when they first introduced gender specific text on the badges, it took a few attempts to get it to work - and that, apparently, is just changing some text and an ID number.