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The more I think about it, I don't mind at all that they reset it so everyone could have access to the new cape mission. That's pretty cool. But chaining the two missions together seems clumsy, especially since they have nothing to do with each other storywise. I want an better control of my powers/an aura, but first I have to learn about Hero 1 and his cape? Okay....

The new cape mission isn't hard, and at least it's more visually interesting than the old one. It's not perfect, though. The chain of cross-zone contacts you must speak to was always the worst part of that mission for me, and unfortunately that didn't change one bit. But the weirdest thing about that mission is that you have to leave City Hall and go to a building across town to enter somewhere the City Rep describes as being "in the building here right down the hall." I guess that's WAI, as well, right?

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Was afraid of that. Kinda sucks that people who don't need capes still have to do the cape mission to get an aura. Sucks even more that people who have already done the cape mission have to do it again.

Thanks for the reply.

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I'm curious to see if this helps me, as well. Thanks in advance if so.

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Yeah, I must be one of the old ones, because "model" to me implies that you put it together yourself. In my day, we already had a word for a model that came preassembled -- we called it a "statue."

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Eh, you're probably right. I can't say I stuck it out.

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Thanks for the clarification, and the pics of the new tails, and notification of the sword. It helps a lot, actually, because I can see everything you're saying. The more I see that frog-like face, the more I fall in love. Frogs ARE animals, after all.

At this point, my biggest problems with the set: the seaming & the way the armors don't match skin colors.

• The seaming is a tad too obvious, especially around the neck and boots (hate the way that armor just stops at the neck). If those looked more seemless, they'd work better with other sets.
• Given the discrepencies between the skin color palette and costume color palette, the armors don't look like they are a part of you so much as something you are wearing.

And oh yeah -- I too add my vote for another matching weapon or two at some point (but your Lost questions/answers analogy was true enough that I LOLed, so I won't be too upset if they never come).

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Yes, please! This is a pet peeve of mine.

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This sounds right to me. My boyfriend plays mainly on Virtue, me mainly on Triumph. He's been complaining endlessly about market issues recently, while I've barely seen a hiccup or delay.

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I wouldn't call it "the best thing in I17," but it was an awesome QoL tweak that I thought made the game better, not worse. So count me among those not happy with this change back to the clunky, old, block-your-screen and waste your time dialogue box.

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Reminded me of the old Mad TV sketches. Literally.

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I've been thinking about something akin to this since I17 went live. I know there's too much work to really redo all of Paragon City to better take advantage of Ultra Mode, but redoing just a handful of important buildings here or there could make a HUGE difference.

And I'd start with Atlas Park City Hall. With the real shadows we now have, the look of that building (the whole plaza, really) is almost scandalous -- it looks like it was designed for a computer game 6 years ago. Since it's arguably the most important location the game, it really deserves a makeover.

And while not technically buildings, one other thing I think could help paragon look slicker: new trains -- those things look really, really basic, and not in a good way. And yet you see them everywhere.

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Yes, I'd agree. And if you have Ninja Run and the GvE Jump Pack, you're travel needs are pretty set.

If you're using recipes for Jetpacks and are worried about running out of one during a long play session, I'd suggest buying a few extra recipes and mailing them to your global. If you keep the parts in your base (or also in email or on your person), you can craft a new one between missions without having to go to the market or Shard.

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Not just noobs. I've got a few toons -- one DP blaster specifically, but also a claws stalker and a few others as well -- that I've worked to mitigate their endurance issues just so I can keep NR on as much as possible. Love the backflip. Love the frontflip. They make for much more dynamic battles, especially if you practice a move-around-while-fighting style. Granted, there are times keeping NR on means I have to slow down a bit, but that's a small sacrifice for those awesome flips.

My biggest problem with NR -- the idle stance, hunkered over with your arm all goofy, stuck out in front of you. I actually turn OFF my NR when I'm idle (at the auction or trainer), but will turn it back ON just before battle.

Because it's just that cool.

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Well, the story apparently did get relayed to someone somewhere, even if someone jumped to a conclusion (or else spoke prematurely).

Your HeroCon thread still lists Electric Control as "upcoming" in the misc features section. I guess that should be changed now? And with this new info, should we get a Dev to check all the rest of info on that page? I know BABs posted later in that thread to correct the misconception about the doves, and I assumed other Devs had checked the info as well (since for months, that was the go-to thread for GR info), so I figured everything reported was legit. Now it looks like that's not the case, and so I'm wondering what else in that list may have been either misunderstood or misstated.

BTW, Orion Star -- not a dig at you at all. You were great in compiling that info, even if apparently nobody from NCSoft thought to verify that everything got reported here correctly. The big problem there, I think, was that from October until only recently, your unofficial thread was the ONLY place that the con-divulged GR info was compiled. Turns out, something that we'd thought had been confirmed since October was just a rumor.

My suggestion for next week: With PAX East coming up, I worry about something similar happening. I'd like to see either, a) right after the con, NCSoft update the official page with the very same info given at the con, or else b) when they return to their offices, the Devs should go through the Con threads to verify that everything was reported correctly, so as to nip this sort of rumor in the bud?

I for one was quite excited about the "upcoming" Electrical Control, and more than bit bummed to see it's been reduced to rumor status after been seemingly confirmed for so long.

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LOVE!

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I don't completely agree with you about the CO costume creator. Yeah, the sliders on the face are hurt quite a bit by having one face that looks like Mr. Incredible, but the sliders options on the body, while not completely intuitive, are pretty wicked, and allow so many more options that we just can't duplicate here.

One of my first toons in CO was a stereotypical grey alien with tiny body, incredibly long skinny arms and legs (with two-toed feet and two-fingered hands), and a huge head with huge eyes. The fact I can make the arms long and skinny and the head so much move oversized really shape that toon into the alien he was meant to be more so than any attempt I make at him over here. (It also helps he has a hover sled!)

My very first toon in CO was a huge muppet-like beast, with a large maned head, huge upper body with long, beefy forearms, but with a teeny-tiny corseted waist and short skinny beast legs. When he gallops around with his beast run stance, it looks awesome.

Once I'd seen a game with the ability to scale individual body parts, it made this game's costume creator feel every bit the 6 years old that it is.

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