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One cape and two auras per origin:

• Nature: autumnal cape/leaves aura/thunderhead aura
• Science: unified field facade cape/atomic aura/cryogenic aura
• Tech: impervium mantle cape/steamjets aura/sparks aura
• Magic: cloak of the 8th circle cape/runes aura/tarot card aura
• Mutant: spliced cape/bio plasma aura/toxic vapors aura

edited to add: this pack is already much more interesting to me than the emotes booster. I can't get enough auras, and am loving the leaves, atomic, and runes auras. The capes (particularly the impervium and leaf capes) aren't bad either.

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It would make much more sense, and would engender much more goodwill, as well.

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Personally, I think it boils down to a difference in our approach. For me, I didn't come here to play their game. I came here to play my characters. If there's something that prevents my character from clicking aesthetically, why would I continue playing him/her? What's to keep me interested once he/she stops being the character I envisioned and becomes the character I'm forced to live with?

There are plenty of great games out there one could play because of the gameplay itself. But one of the most unique things about this game is the level of customization it offers you to become your own character -- even down to creating your own story/missions if you want. So it's a bit cray-cray that customzation still doesn't include the most ubiquitous powers (the pools) or the highest level powers (the epics/patrons).

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This is pretty much my take as well.

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More time travel zones in general would be great. And yes, I'd love a medieval zone. Croatoa comes close, but not quite, and it's only accessible heroside.

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This. And I'd add an Atlantis zone to the list (even if the zone has to be domed for tech reasons).

The most disappointing thing about Going Rogue for me was that the new zones gave us nothing different. Sure, Praetoria is a prettier city than the old cities we have, but it's still just a city, and I don't think we really needed even more city zones. I want to fight in jungles, or deserts, or the arctic, or space, or Atlantis, or anywhere other than more city zones.

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If you're looking for the best way to serve the game as a whole and new players in particular, I think you should reconsider a costume creator menu reorganization/submenu upgrade. Neither new nor old players are being served by menu lists that are far too long (i.e. chest details, face detail 1). The CC is the first thing new players see. It should be organized and easily navigated, and currently it's not, at least not everywhere.

I don't think it needs a complete overhaul, but honestly, where it needs work, it needs it badly.

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I thought the same thing.

"There are 10 types of people in the world -- those who understand binary, and those who don't."

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I'm completely for more "plus" treatments on these sets, as they would be great additions some of us have been requesting for some time. But do leave the originals, please.

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Given the front page link that isn't quite working yet, it looks like it's the CoH Party Pack.

The only text available on the front page: "Ready to be the life of the party? Now you can be with the new City of Heroes® Party Pack coming your way this month! Jam-packed with all-new dance, nightlife and sports emotes, the Party..."

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That's it for me, as well.

I don't care so much about how difficult they are, what I care about is that they look awesome. Fighting them is better than fighting yet another paramilitary mob with guns.

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Awesome electrical suggestions. I approve.

Ooooooooo.... a "hovering lotus" rest (or even a "sit on ground lotus" rest) just might would make me squee.

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Nice.

I wouldn't say I'm sad, so much as intrigued. It doesn't feel like magic was deleted so much as it's just missing. There are story possibilites in that. Like I said, I've not done a huge number of the new arcs, so more could be explained than I know already.

Can't direct you to the pics of the Alpha or Omega auras, but I can tell you this: ALL the auras already in game will now also have a "combat aura" option. That's pretty awesome, actually.


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Oh, I agree completely. But on the other hand...

Once I got over the shock of nothing magic-related (and only 2 female/1 male hairstyles!?!?!?), I started looking at parts individually. Key costume pieces here and there blend quite nicely with more natural or magic looks. Police pants, Resistance boots, the sport set somewhat. The new hairstyles are beautiful, and the whole Omega set from the complete edition/pack looks promising. I've even found the sport and overguard shoulders work better than I initially thought, at least for the Medieval armor-type looks I was working on at the time.

There are pieces there that can definitely be used by non-techie folks, they're just not whole sets. But if you can look through the forest and see the trees (to mangle a metaphor), you can find more usable than might initially be apparent.

The dearth of new hairstyles still bugs me, though.

My toons are all sooooooooooooo magic-based that Praetoria feels weird to me. Magic doesn't seem to really be a part of this universe, from what I can tell (admittedly, I didn't do all the arcs, saving some to do next week on live), and that absence appears to be deliberate. Do any Praetorian foes drop magic enhancements?

Hopefully future updates (the incarnates update, perhaps) will explain what's up with Magic in Praetoria, and at that time I HOPE we'll get new magic parts to use. But if the next costumes we get are even yet still more highly-detailed metallic armor set, I think I'll scream... well, all I'll probably do is ragepost again, but you get the idea.

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same here

For me personally, I wrote off your initial post when I read this paragraph:

I'm one of the folks that honestly does enjoy playing solo and playing on a less populated server. And in that one paragraph, you basically called me a liar, that you couldn't believe anyone could enjoy empty servers, and you dismissed us all as apologists. And THEN you condescendingly state that despite us all being apologist liars, you're still awesome enough to not hold it against us.

I don't think I posted a reply in this thread or sent neg rep (but I could be wrong, as that paragraph rankled me a bit). But honestly, you came off as a troll who thought himself quite witty for making a thinly-veiled attack on his fellow players, not as someone interested in actual dialogue.

Does that answer your question?

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I agree. There have been plenty of times when I could have used a bit more prestige for a building project I was working on. I've thought about converting inf for it, but the exchange rate is so poor (something like 1,000,000 inf for only 2000 prestige) that you're right -- it's not economically worth it -- at least it doesn't feel like it is, and that's what matters.

If they truly want it to function as an inf sink, they'll have to make it a more attractive proposition; so long as we feel like we're getting a raw deal on the exchange, it won't be used very often.

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Many thanks for the info.

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Thanks for clearing that up. I knew as soon as you quoted it that I'd likely misused "chained." That's more when one mission leads directly into the next, right?

Since you seem quite knowledgable about this, do you have any insight on why the cape mission change (from "not required" to "required") was made?

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But they are connected, in that you must complete a cape mission to get an aura mission; you said so yourself. And I'd have sworn it didn't use to be this way. I seem to remember at one point having her offer one of my capeless, auraless level 30 toon a choice of either a cape or aura mission, both offered at the same time.

Are you saying it's always been "must get cape before she'll talk auras," in which case I'm just badly misremembering? Or did they become sequenced/chained/whatever when the new cape mission went live? I'm not trying to argue, just trying to figure out why I seem to remember her giving me a choice at one point, but no longer.

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