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Seeing the CoT revamp alongside the pieces that we actually get access to, I now hold out absolutely no hope for the All Things Art: NPC Conversions thread. What's the point, really? Any parts we request will only be remade to look worse, and we won't even get access to most of the revamped parts anyway.

At this point, I'm think we should start telling them we DON'T want access to the Carnival costume bits. If it's going to go down like this, I'd rather the Carnival stay as-is than for them to get downgraded into less interesting costumes that players STILL won't get access to.

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Speaking of costume changes, that reminds me: I've been trying to get a CCEmote bug looked at for two years, so I'm hoping you're the right person to tell.

The Peacebringer CCEmote timing is off when you're in the air. On the ground it's fine, but if you're hovering or flying, your costume doesn't actually switch until 6-7 seconds after the animation has already finished.

Really, this emote has never worked right. I remember bugging it way in the I15 beta (over two years ago). Since then, I've bugged it in-game numerous times and posted to the forum several more. For an archetype that has inherent flight/hover, its a bummer that this emote only works correctly on the ground.

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First thing I thought was, "what happened to Spiral?"

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I mostly solo, so I wasn't aware of this bug until this week when boyfriend and I played together. Wow! That's one of the most annoying bugs I've seen in some time. And from what he told me, it's been like that for a while? Yikes.

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Well, he was "missing" from the image in that other thread. Then again, so is she....


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I'm guessing an embargo until Comic Con next week, where we'll (hopefully) learn more details about what will be available at the Paragon Market.

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Ditto.

So this means I can never edit Faerie Queen's costume again or else she'll revert to the new version? That's just sad. Yeah, a new, separate face without makeup would have been a much better fix than taking away this beautiful face after we'd had a month to enjoy it.

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Agreed. One of your best yet.

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Yup. And it makes me suspect that some organizational improvements for the costume creator will be included with this issue, as well.

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Quite possibly. I do remember them mentioning something about Mercy getting an optimization pass, or something like that.

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My pieced-together (so therefore "could be wrong") understanding is that we're getting a new co-op Galaxy City tutorial, with all archetypes available at creation regardless of your heroic or villainous intentions. So at character creation, you get to choose either the Prime world or the Praetorian world, instead of our current Hero/Villain/Praetorian choice.

As with Praetoria, at the end of the new tutorial we choose to be a hero or villain, sending us to either Atlas or Mercy respectively. Heroside, Galaxy City will still exist, but it will be the new, destroyed map, while an echo of the undestroyed Galaxy will still be available in Oroboros (which Zwil mentioned will be available at level 14 characters).

On the UStream chat, it sounded as if Atlas got the full graphic overhaul, while Mercy gets not a full graphic overhaul so much as a revamp (rearranging things like starting points, contacts or whatnot -- they were more vague on this). But specifically, they did mention you will no longer start off at Fort Darwin but instead in the city itself (YES!), and will have to re-take the Fort from Longbow who have made inroads. Also, it sounds like all the missions in these three zones have been completely(?) updated, as well, utilizing the new tech introduced in the Praetorian missions.

As they spill more and more info, it's sounding like this is the big deal I expected Issue 20 to be.

Again, this is my pieced-together (so therefore "could be wrong") understanding. I couldn't cite where I read any of this, but much has been gleaned from the Ustream chats.

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Facebook has it listed as same time as yesterday.

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I think you're mistaken, and this is Galaxy City. Check out this picture (labeled "destroyed_galaxy_02.jpg") from the overview page:



Same new buildings, same blazing comets effect in the sky.

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The last line in the description for the Team Up Teleporter in the I20 features page included a caveat that, if you were willing to wildly speculate, could be read as an indication of... something:

So while this wasn't confirmation of anything, it is interesting wording nonetheless.

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I'd say you're only partially right. The "First come, first served" law is one that's fair assuming you accept the premise that unique names are the best or only option possible -- but I don't accept that premise. I think it would be equally as fair if everyone got to choose whatever name they wanted (short of using an already trademarked name/copyrighted character). Your mileage may (obviously) vary.

I can see making a case for unique names because it's technically too difficult to implement them (I honestly wouldn't have a clue), and I can understand the argument that visually the names would be unattractive if they went with an "@global" option (without being able to visually turn them off somehow, I'd agree that they would be pretty ugly). But neither of those are definitive arguments against non-unique names, just hurdles to overcome to make it happen.

If you just personally prefer unique names, that's fine, just say so. I'll agree to disagree. But my opinion is equally as valid as yours, regardless of what you think.
Seems like you think your unique and original name makes you one truly special snowflake.

<Looks at your forum name... does a google search of said name...>

Irony makes me smile.

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Wanting to give players more flexibility to create the characters they want with the names they want is also a valid reason. It just happens to be one you don't like.

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It's not coming up with new, original names that's my problem. When I'm creating a character from scratch, the unique name policy can sometimes be a hindrance, but usually not a deal-breaker. But the problem is that I (and many others, I'd imagine) don't just play new characters we created after this game launched. I also have several toons based on old Marvel PnP RPG characters I used to play back in the day, decades-old characters with established identities and names.

It's an incredibly amazing experience to see one of your own personal characters, developed back in your high school days, become a playable character in a video game! But when that name is unavailable, is it really the same character? Honestly, sometimes not, because of the ways that names shape identity. These types of characters are much trickier to rename due to their established histories. The reason my home server is Triumph isn't really because I like the solitude there, although that's nice, but it's first and foremost because it was the best place for my characters to have their proper names. (That, and I don't like to wear pants.)

I very much want the ability to chose whatever name I want on the server I want. It's not that I'm malicious and want to steal your names, nor because I'm less creative and can't use a thesaurus. It's because I want to play with my own character concepts from years gone by, characters I already have a vested interest in, characters who are already defined to the point that a new name often makes them a different character.

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I've already posted my feedback in that other thread, but I'll cut, edit heavily, and past a few of the pertinent FX things here.

Fireworks CCEmotes actually made my boyfriend laugh out loud -- but not in a good way. He said it doesn't look like fireworks so much as a dud sparkler, and that you guys needed to go across the state line and buy some illegal fireworks to play with before you try again.

Overall, the Path Auras look like a good first attempt with this tech, but they're not quite as polished as the regular auras. In general, I think they all suffer from being in one single "Path Aura" category as opposed to individual aura categories with more options (Path+Body, Path+Hands, combat options, etc).

In particular, both the Lightning and Frost auras are completely out of place here, and should be included as additional options with the Electricity and Cryo/Snow auras we already have. We've seen with the Clunker aura that paths CAN be included as additional options for auras, so it would be super for all paths (but especially these two) to be included in themed categories that make sense for them.

You specifically asked someone about the Bubbles aura, and while I addressed it just before your post, I'll reiterate: now that I've seen how cool bubbles can look, I want it as a full aura instead of as a path aura. I really want this aura to be awesome, but as is, it's just a'ight for me and will only be used in flight, if at all. Do not like its ground effect.

The Rainbow path aura, however, fits perfectly with an old RPG character I have been trying to duplicate in this game. I'm very happy that the chest itself has a slight rainbow aura, but for me it's not pronounced enough. I really wish that glow was a bit brighter and appeared over the whole body instead of just the chest.

Finally, I previously requested the Binary aura, and you gave us not only that, but Pixel as well. Bless you, because that's even better than Binary! Overall, some really nice work with the new auras, and some great promise with the path auras. But in the future, I hope we see more path auras included with existing sets rather than being locked in their own exclusive category.

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This, to me, is why it's worth discussing this. I don't see F2P as an option for growing this game, even if that's a possible outcome. I would see it more as an option for extending the game's life once the subscriptions fall below the point its financially able to maintain through subscription alone.

I want my characters to exist as long as possible, and if, at some point, going F2P extends this games life even 6 months or a year, then I'm all for it.

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