Zombie Man

Nitpick: That 'regular edition' of which you type is really the "Expansion" edition ($30). It's slightly cheaper, but doesn't have the free month nor the extra goodies in the Complete Edition ($40). the "Expansion" edition was the edition used for pre-purchase which allowed early access to Dual Pistols and Demon Summoning. The GR: Item Pack ($7) adds in the extra goodies the Expansion edition is missing.

So, really, the Complete Edition should be considered the 'regular edition' of the game. Even though it's $10 more, it has the extra goodies plus a free month worth $15.

The extra value of the Expansion was early access to the 2 power sets, and that advantage is now gone. It makes no economic sense at all to buy the Expansion after GR had went Live.

I so happy you were able to help yourself. If you have any more questions for yourself, feel free to ask yourself and you will get back to you as soon as possible!

Leandro is City of Heroes' Latin Lover.


((Sorry, Leo, you shouldn't have left your Mesmerize toggle on while recording!))

Unfortunately, they're not. They're in the file, but disabled.

I know. Imagine him saying, "soft corinthian leather."

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Since Nos doesn't attack at all, it could be a bug just with him.

Or it could be a problem with the Taunt of the Phantom Army. Some mobs are smart enough to know that it's you they should be attacking, but if the Taunt prevents them, they do nothing. And if they can't do anything... morale break.

I see this with my MM when I'm hidden out of sight and a foe is in Tar Patch slowly trying to get to me around the corner. I'll send my pets to attack, and the foe doesn't attack back... he still wants to get to me. And if it's taking too long, he then turns to run.

I like to play with a lot of things, like with this...

BALL OF YARN!! <throws it over Impish Kat's head>


Oh, umm... look here.



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No Dev has ever spoken to this. There has been no Patch Note about this.

It's presumed that this is WAI so that images aren't stretched and so they don't need to provide loading screens in 5 different formats.

All the authbits we know about are listed in the OP.

The game file has a section for costume changes, but it's not enabled and it doesn't include the Vigil cc emote. See here for a cleaned up version of the current game file.

Based on the Snowflake unlock, try SigilEmoteBadge or VanguardSigilEmoteBadge.

The Gladiator shoulder piece is a case study in this regard. It had been in the game for a long time.

When Cimerora was added to the game, so was a complete Gladiator costume set, minus a Gladiator Shoulder piece because that was already in the game.

But, a problem arose: The new Gladiator Set was hi-rez, the old Gladiator Shoulder piece was low rez, and it clashed. So, the Gladiator Shoulder piece was updated with a hi-rez skin.

But, that led to another problem: People had been incorporating the low-rez Gladiator Shoulder piece for years with the other low-rez costume pieces. When the Gladiator Shoulder piece went hi-rez, it now clashed with all the legacy pieces.




This goes back to my running plea: standardized 'skins'. All pieces ideally should be able to be skinned with a standard set of skins such as: matte flat, shiny flat (spandexy), leather rough, metallic shiny, metallic reflective, etc.... This should be the ultimate goal and all updates working towards it. This would be the costume creator 2.0 that CoH needs to move towards to stay competitive; otherwise, what is the jewel in the CoH crown will be dismissed as "it's no All Points Bulletin costume creator."



What if players have been taking the low-rez version and coloring it to be horn ridges or ear flaps? One of the advantages of the low-rez 'blurry' pieces were how they could be re-purposed.

This brings me back to my point about 'skins' for pieces. It would be nice if there was a 'blank' skin that had no specific hi-rez texture precisely so that it can be colored to be almost anything.



Conclusions

Option 1.

Yeah, as much as I made an argument for Option 2, there is a reason why most of the old low-rez pieces must go away: Because others have to look at them.

Take, e.g., the competitor's creator which has taken an art style of human anatomy which I find sickening with it's shrunken cranial tops and jaws, over-pronounced brows, and slouching stance. I can use their sliders to correct all that on my toon. But the moment I go into the game, I'm sickened by seeing the uncorrected style on every other toon and critter around me.

If CoH is going to advance and be considered a modern game and not some six year old relic, it has to eject the old low-rez pieces.

But to that end, there are some rules of advancement that I recommend be followed to ameliorate the pain of change:

1. Start with complete sets. For example, the Steampunk pieces are horrendously low-rez. They should be updated and presented as a complete set... it will feel as if we have indeed received a brand new set.

2. Complete uncompleted sets: Steampunk is missing options, like Steampunk boots. Finish the set. Updating the look while leaving the gaps in the set will feel like salt in the wounds of all those who've been clamoring for the set to be completed for years.

3. Don't change the design. As mentioned above, the snowflake design got upgraded, and at the same time, redesigned. Don't do that! If the artist really, really wants to change the design, then add, don't change. Up-rez the old design and *add in* the new design.

4. Matching skins. See what I posted above. If you're going to up-rez the Steampunk set, then it would be nice to see a rusted skin, a shiny metal skin, and a UM reflective metal skin: Costume creator 2.0! Do something like that and no player crying over losing the old low-rez version will be heard over the ewwing and ahhing of the crowds over the new options.

5. Fix missing and broken pieces. I don't know how it can be justified for the Dev team to spend time up-rezzing pieces and not fixing what's been broken for a long time - a very long time. Really, I hate to be rough with you, David, but you've been pointed to a really broken part of the costume system and under your watch it hasn't been fixed yet. I regard that as a failure on your part and the other Devs involved. When are you going to fix the cape problem outlined here?

6. Join the Patch Notes process. It seems that the costume art department is immune to the patch notes process. When the Gladiator Shoulder piece was up-rezzed, there were no Patch Notes. In fact, except for when new costume *sets* are added, we're never informed of changes in the costume creator. Pieces go purposefully missing? No notes. Pieces not part of a set get added? No notes. Pieces that were broken get fixed? No notes. It makes me wonder if the costume department is in the same country as the rest of the Studio, let alone the same building. Getting back to the OP... it will reduce a lot of the anxiety and nerdrage of up-rezzing legacy pieces if you actually let us know which pieces have been up-rezzed when it happens rather than having to hunt through all the menus.

In the scale of Things That Can Go Wrong, I call this a very minor issue.

It's not something that will pop up often and it's something the player can fix themselves.

In the MMO world... that's minor.