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ty so much, Klaw! The demo launcher works perfectly

oh I've never even seen a purple enhancement I'm a casual player, and the strawfights are just for fun. I was just trying to make a better build so I'm not dead last every time. Even then it is still fun tho


Oh that's why my Archery blaster did so well!

Thanks very much Sentry4, your reply was very helpful to me.

I don't know what that is, but it sounds very exciting!!! Can you say more about it?

ty for posting these PoliceWoman. I like to try AE missions kinda at random and most seem to be nothing but lots of fire creatures swarming at you.

I do like my Mastermind friends but I gotta admit they clog up doorways like crazy!

The Valve TF2 Workshop things I think they *do* sell for money! I do not know how successful the program is, but Valve is still doing it so I could guess it isn't a loser business-wise. I thing UI changes could be cool too, but I'm primarily interested in new costume parts especially for girls and new maps.

Hi kchammy I have never received anything but tickets in non dev choice AE missions and have never heard of any option for otherwise but I'm kinda a noob compared to most.

Yes I think you are right but they (Paragon Studios) have an example to look at of Valve doing this very thing with TF2 so it isn't crazy. If Valve accepts the item it gives the modder a cut of the profits giving more motivation for people to submit and submit professional quality stuff. They do have to hire people to look at submissions and manage the community both those people are probably cheaper than good artists and animators.

The bosses should look at it and think it is a net win or a net loss? If enough people make acceptable stuff to pay for the added costs of running it, then they win three ways. They get more choices for all the players so the game is better, they make some money, but most importantly they keep a whole lotta people stoked about the game.

You could say it would fail if people didn't submit anything worth anything but I judge costume contests every week and I am continually amazed at the artistic talent people have. I'm sure we have some people here have not only artistic talent but good at using 3d programs too.

It might not be so simple to just say if somebody does something bad nerf them hard. You have to draw a line somewhere and there will be a significant number of people entertaining themselves by riding that line - making something barely acceptable, and making something just barely unacceptable and complaining loudly and often to everybody that theirs is no worse than some other person's who was accepted.

Moderation and punishing players for their behavior is probably viewed as an unproductive but necessary activity for the business, and best avoided as much as possible, because it must cost money especially when they lose angry long-time customers who just didn't think it was fair, and when those angry ex-customers go squawking about on the internet about how terrible they were treated etc.

So it is true that players can already do this with their AE missions and characters, but giving people a new channel for this activity would seem to the company like a big ball of yucky without much benefit to them.

But I'm on your side, I would *love* to be able to make custom minions someday because one of the reasons I like COH so much is the costume editor.

Maybe there is a way - if this ability could be expensive and limit the number of people to try to those who had something to lose. But maybe that is a stupid idea - for the developers always want to put their efforts towards features that *most* players will get something out of. More bang for the buck.

Also I think that the effort it would take for them to do this might be more than you'd think. This is a very old program it might be really hard to try and do something the original authors never thought of like store a bunch of different custom costumes all associated with one toon. I mean - they still have lots of problems that you see every day that they don't seem to be able to fix.

But in general I think the reason COH is still alive where many others have come and gone is the costume editor- the amazing way they have given us to express ourselves to the rest of the world. I hope they always keep that in mind when they decide where to put their efforts.