TrueGentleman

How tantalizing:

There's no reason, even if practicing magic is somehow inherently difficult in Praetoria, that the remaining magical relics can't be distributed among the enemy groups. A Destroyer Hombre might hold on to a Luck Charm as a lucky charm, or a Syndicate Suit, Arcane Powder as an (ineffectual) ingredient in some traditional medicine recipe. These, however, are restricted to low- to mid-level salvage drops, so the question of where all the high-level ones have gone is open to speculation.

Perhaps Emperor Cole's version of the M.A.G.I. vault is actually effective in containing magical items?

Not around here it doesn't.

Here's what the OP described as the sole criterion for examples in this thread:
Do you seriously expect us to believe you feel that the ultimate collaboration of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell can be described - by any definition accepted here - as "crap"? (And that goes for all the other attempts to include the best works of "cult" directors Alex Cox, Stuart Gordon, Peter Jackson, Rob Reiner, and John Waters in this thread, too.)

Look around, do you think you've suddenly been transported to the offices of Cahiers du Cinema or the seminar rooms of the NYU Film School?

Since the CoH body builder doesn't allow for independently stretching arms, people have played around with the "huge" body type and the skinny versions of regular male and female to simulate gorillas and monkeys. The results are pretty impressive, to judge from the many submissions to the best costume designs thread. It would seem that those players interested in "monkeying around" aren't fixated on morphological fidelity. (Think the original, more popular, Planet of the Apes vs. Tim Burton's weak, zoologically faithful remake.)

That seems entirely likely, especially since they were on the table early on, as SuperOz points out. Since the devs are generous enough to go back after the release with these additions, here's hoping that they'll find some more time for super-simians.

In any case, it's encouraging to see the devs reinvesting time and labor into an already released booster pack. With any luck, this will continue to drive sales for it and supply an argument for revisiting some of the other booster packs.

This astonishing ommission is the reason I've yet to purchase this pack. Why did CoH overlook the rich tradition of comicbook apes, e.g. Gorilla Grodd, Detective Chimp, Congorilla, Don Uggie Apelino, Gorilla-Man, Monsieur Mallah, the Red Ghost's Super-Apes, Titano, and the ape incarnation of the Ultra-Humanite, to name only a few?

That aside, it's great that the art team is taking the time to improve an existing booster pack.

This is one of CoH's brilliant innovations that's surprisingly uncopied by other MMOs. Level pact is a similar one. It's rather sad to consider how many in-game friends drift away in other MMOs simply because of falling out of sync with levelling. (I can think of only one other MMO that has a comparable feature, but I haven't actually played it.)

And better still, CoH doesn't require endless ingredient-grinding or repetitive raids to allow players to create the kind of costume they want in-game. (All right, there are a few *cough*NemesisRifle*cough*.)

Blank Reg is Romo Lampkin's dad!

Facemaker telemarketing? How evil...

I understand your proposal and appreciate your reasons for it. I was suggesting a teleporter as an alternative as a compromise between providing convenience for individual players and maintaining an actively circulating community. (Perhaps there are some Paragon fashionistas who, disdaining trips to Icon where the cape and spandex hoi poli purchase their off-the-rack costumes, would prefer the personalized option of bespoke tailoring, but to those, I would simply point out Paragon's unusually democratic approach to superheroic uniforms, even at the cost of mismatched pieces and clashing colors.)

City of Instances, for such a great MMO community, peculiarly is one of the most "hidden" in its game world. Providing its playerbase with even fewer opportunities to circulate (such as an SG tailor console) would detract from one of its greatest strengths.

No thank you. This simply isn't much of a quality of life issue when there's now access to a tailor literally not more than one monorail ride away for heroes. Thanks to access to the Vanguard base, which had its level entry requirements removed, even the lowliest Atlas Park newbie can visit a tailor without risk of aggro. (Red side is marginally more difficult starting out in Mercy, but after that, it's on a par with blue side.)
A tailor teleport as a vet reward might work if it were on a timer like the others and transported the player to one of the existing tailors. As long as players are still circulating in the game at the regular places, player convenience and community dynamics should be balanced.

Except that the Doctor already knows that in his future, he's going to give her his updated sonic screwdriver (which he presumably still has in his possession) and show up at a particular date (which he should be able to deduce after enough encounters), so he can still travel in time to that future event (when he doesn't know her as well as he did the first time she met him) but reappear in her past later in his timeline (when she doesn't know him as well as the first time he met her).

It looks as though the best the Doctor and River can expect is to encounter each other at some point when they're sufficiently acquainted with one another that they don't have to keep trying to impress each other with one-upmanship.

Moffat is really making my head hurt, and it's only the first episode this season.

Conceivably, the Doctor could return at a later time to the Library planet where River's uploaded consciousness resides in its central computer after the events of The Forest of the Dead, but that would, I suspect, miss out on the tragedy that's gathering momentum this season.

As River puts it:
Moffat is clearly playing for high stakes for this season as River gets less secure in her "spoilers" advantage over the Doctor and he begins to show the strains of keeping his knowledge her death a secret from her.

After five seasons of overseas fans having to find alternative sources of the latest episodes, Auntie Beeb finally decided to coordinate air dates. Here's hoping BBC-US doesn't butcher the premiere with bad cuts (they also apparently aren't showing the tribute to Elisabeth Sladen).

They're no match for the Hall of Cliche Superheroes!

Three other specials: "Planet of the Dead", "The Waters of Mars", and the two-part "The End of Time", which culminates in Tennant's regeneration.

It's not necessary to go to the extreme of bulldozing the neighborhood to make something as uninviting as the D.C. mall. A combination of improving the sightlines and breaking up the streets' grid pattern would go a long way to improving the flow of Galaxy City's central area. It could also use some kind of visible landmark to anchor the zone, the way the Empire State Building does in midtown Manhattan. Perhaps the arena's neighborhood could be remodelled to fulfill that role. (Galaxy Girl's statue could be a candidate, although many players apparently like the way it's somewhat secluded.)

In any case, there's evidently nothing in Galaxy City that says to an aspiring supervillain or ambitious giant monster conquer this or destroy that. No wonder it's the emptiest non-hazard blueside zone.