rian_frostdrake

en garde' oddity mchuggins. I am impressed , however.

grat, glad you are doing this. usually i assume that the packs are kind of sold "As-is" hate to add a beg, but would there be a way to seperate the fur from magic boleros? the wing really works for a mermaid character i have, but that fur just breaks theme, could i beg that into possible improvements?

i like your style.

as for characters that are disturbing in a non-aesthetic sense, not many, a story trope i tend to flog is the hero that has lived through great difficulty, but has created for themselves a source of hope, usually family, religious faith, attachment to a greater cause or just general stubbornness and rise above it, most of my villains have this story too. charlie in a box is disturbing in a sense that he is a tiny doll that uses what appears to be children's games to capture villains,but is actually a ancient primordial entity that has existed long before humans. but he is also a kind figure who dosent harm the villains that he fights, and really exists to protect children. he also looks like a clown, so he may freak out positron.

well, my guesses are that given that jay really hasnt put out many new sets( the new female art person did the issue 15 stuff) is that gr is going to be about on par with cov for new costume bits. similarly i'm expecting the lack of much official storyline content to have gone into gr as well. finally i'm hoping for some other animator to do some more stuff, he has made a favorable start.

here's the deal, the devs really are in a situation where they can't do right. If the booster packs were less than impressive, as many felt the science pack was, then they get roasted for ripping us off, also if the powers are useless, as the booster 4 was originally believed to be with that stealth power, then they get nailed for the booster being a waste of time. But if the booster is really good, like the magic and martial arts packs, then they are ripping us off by withholding the good stuff from free release. They cannot win really.

agreed, though really i'd let em buy the badges too, i dont care if others get to play with my toys, so long as i have 'em too. I do like being able to have a hint that if someone is struggling and has no badges, that i can politely offer assistance, though id imagine some may be less accommodating.

(and for the record, at my 63 month badge myself. so the toy are mine already) also an acceptable compromise, a token system is how i usually put it. have costume tokens happen at a certain level, a power token at another. maybe someone really wants samurai armor but dosent give a hang about trenchcoats, no argument with me. plus, this would free up the ability to add more costume pieces to the vet rewards without putting them in the realm of "are you kidding me" for newer players.

ok, its time we maybe refocus on why these packs are viewed as OPTIONAL. according tot he official version, the packs were extra work for very specific themes that wouldnt fit the majority of users, but to cover the extra expense on the art teams part, they were for cost. Check your cynicism at the door, but this has been fairly consistant, not all science heroes are mad scientists, nor are all magical heroes witches or guys in freaky voodoo suits, nor are all techies cyborgs, and based on our current info, not all mutants are beastly but each of these offers a degree of expansion in an angle of the origins not sufficiently addressed by current stuff. now we could make witches, ninja, mad scientists and cyborgs before these boosters, but they are extra options that expand a theme, not summations of an origin's thematic breadth in comics.

so was the pack not your theme, well that unfortunately happens, and would happen no matter what theme they picked, had it been military, spies, or strippers( though maybe they are tech) but it did make a number of users quite happy, and hey, im betting going rogue will have a lot of stuff, so patience

as for the topic at hand, well, moods are tricky things, i dont recall the faces in matrix, but in the other games i played that had mood stances, star wars galaxies and champions, faces changed with moods, it looks more natural that way. Problem with coh is that faces are static, smilin' face smiles if you are dancing in pocket d, or being shot by a punk. so while it would be cool if doable, there may be a disconnect by having a depressed posture and the "enzyte bob" smile face.

you really want to avoid presumptuous statements like this. This community is generally not huge on pvp, and tends to have some strong reactions against it, so shoehorning pvp into the areas where people who do not want to deal with it is a very bad idea.

ok so how do you see it working, adding contacts for both sides in every zone, full story arcs? you do realize this is adding a significant amount of content planning needed and balancing, so this is a large addition of content for a very small community, content that will present more focused and appropriate content from being added. so i have to say that this would not really be something appropriate for this game.

one bit of perspective we need here is that there were relatively few issues that added a large number of costume bits. issue 4 added the stuff from the korean launch, so that was kind of significant, cov was a paid expansion, so we really cant count the influx from then. Some of us got a lot brought in during the vet rewards days from issue 8, but not all of us, and issue 10 had the stealth, exproto and vanguard stuff, we also had that extra release of bits when we got enforcer and jester, and finally, issue 13 had a large number of civilian and cop themed costume sets. beyond that id be hard pressed to recall an issue where we got more than 2 or 3 costume sets.

so do the packs point to a throttling of the costume bits, or has it just pushed more stuff being added and funded with a seperate revenue stream? Looking at how costume pieces have been released, im not convinced that there really has been a slowdown. I am expecting going rogue to contain a volume of costume pieces on par with city of villains. Again, not free, but in line with past precedent.

kind of column a and b really. it is a unslottable power, like self destruct, or the vet weapons, it is not part of any pool, and is active at level 4. it ads the funky animation, a bit more speed than sprint, and a good bit of vertical height on jumps. for instance, i was able to jump from the water to street level easily in indep port, so i suspect super speeders will appreciate the added vertical, particularly in grandeville, though they will have to switch them because ninja detoggles actual travel powers.

who knew?

agreed, also wished they worked with pants, the shin-guards remind me of the padding you wear when sparring in tae kwon do, but we wear them barefoot, so for that it would have been nice. of course, i have yet to see a booster get more options after release(would love a shoulder fur-less bolero) but this would be something that would work for me. reiterating how much i like the rest. this was pretty much an "issue" for me, it has so much that i like.