The City of Heroes Super Booster IV: Martial Arts is out!

Yes, but it's a pain to copy and paste.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

Sapphire7 was referring to the Shape (preset geometry) setting for the faces, not the Face (texture) setting.

The shape settings are:
Average 1
Average 2
Average 3
Average 4
Youthful
Strong
Intellectual
Thin
Square

Bold settings do not cause bald spots for Braided Buns, underlined settings do. So 5 out of 9 settings cause female pattern baldness. My guess is that the buns are being pulled a little too tight.

Well she asked me that in an earlier Question before she asked me another Q that you now are quoting. Read farther up the thread. That was already covered.

As she asked me before I did not change the shape of the head. Which was the first Q. Her second was if changed my face settings to one of the NEW faces that came out in one the more recent expansions.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Super_Bo...:_Martial_Arts

So...are you suggesting people shouldn't have ideas if they're already in other games, or that we shouldn't add things to this game that have been in other games?

Either way, less work for everyone.

Quite right. I should ask my RL friend if there's anything in CO that makes his wife, who's still playing COH, ask him, "Didn't we see that in City months ago?"

I'm not sure it'd be possible to copyright stuff like that anyway - maybe the looks and names, but not the actual mechanics.
Like for example Cryptic could perhaps copyright the name "nemesis system", but they couldn't copyright the idea of making a player-created nemesis system

There are several lawsuits out there against NCSoft, Blizzard, Sony, etc. by people who have supposedly patented "interaction with other people through the Internet in 3D environments" and "communicating with people across the Internet with text messages", which basically applies to all MMOs. So it's possible to patent a system, regardless of how obtuse or silly most of us think it is. Holding up the patent in court can be a different situation altogether.

But that's off-topic.

That, folks, is the difference between a copyright and a patent.

Also, since most of the technology of this game was developed by Cryptic in the first place, likely NCSoft paid to license the patents. So whether Cryptic or Paragon continue to develop content based on the same patents, I'm guessing they can't sue each other over it. As long as one or the other doesn't develop something worthy of a new patent.

LOL! Touche!

Seemingly small aesthetic nuances can infatuate picky players such as myself. When participating in the Champions Online Open Beta, I found myself similarly infatuated with the Acrobatics powerset. Eye-candy travel power perfectly suited for certain concepts that, until now, CoH never allowed me to fully realize.

I grew bored of CO but found myself missing the acrobatics power. It provided the perfect median between the more extreme Super Speed and Super Jump, which I might have found myself otherwise taking out of necessity, rather than concept. And, lo and behold, CoH introduces a similar power with its own minor twists, and I couldn't be happier.*

As long as we're expressing opinions, I find it a little juvenile to dismiss new content purely on the basis of apparent originality, as if the Walk animation were somehow pointless because other popular MMO's have had them since launch, or Ninja Run is somehow less valuable because CO introduced a similar power months ago.

Barring the obvious fallacy inherent in assuming innovation = originality (it's not the same thing. CO might have originally implemented an Acrobatics power, but that doesn't mean the power is inherently their idea), MMORPGs learn from each other *all* the time, and adapting ideas and features from other games is not only accepted but expected. If you don't believe me, try a Public Quest in WAR, and then finish the tutorial in CO. Or spend five minutes with WoW's UI, and then five minutes in LOTRO. Another game may have done it "first", but that doesn't mean the idea is exclusively theirs.

In fact, this is how we get 'mainstream' in games: ideas that become so popular that they are essentially ubiquitous.

*If we had a version of a Swinging powerset, I might. :3

Well, until the Supreme Court finishes taking a hard look at patenting business methods.

This probably had patent trolls worried, IMO.

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Look at it this way. CO couldn't have beaten CoH to anything without first copying the idea to make an MMO about superheroes, which CoH did first by like 5 years.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

The problem is that emotes now work while in combat modes, but the costume change animations were not flagged to interrupt some of the combat modes. It's already been fixed on my end, just waiting for it to percolate into a build.

Just FYI, some more changes coming to the Ninja Run animations in the near future:

• Going to look at the deformation in the spine during some of the jump moves. Looks especially odd on some of the female models because of how the geometry is built/weighted
• Dual Pistols/Claws will be getting a more appropriate set of animations (namely the ready stance and runs)
• "Shotgun" mode will be getting a more appropriate set of animations.
• Shield combat mode (without a weapon) will be getting a more appropriate set of animations.

Jay and Cheryl are also looking into various issues with costume pieces.

Sonic Vision Goggles?

Wat?

These aren't mentioned on the wiki or the information provided here about the booster.

Pics or it didn't happen

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Very informative, and thank you, but I think what was being asked was the actual costume change emote title to use. I have tried using "ccninjaleap" and "ccninja_leap" in that equation with no luck. So please, does anyone know the actual title for the ninja leap and smoke bomb emotes?

They're the red bug-eye looking goggles the Oni in the official pics for the Martial Arts Booster is wearing.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

ccninjajump
ccsmokebomb

It's been mentioned in this thread already. By BABs, even.

Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

It's "ccninjajump".

Probably "ccninjaleap" should be set up as a synonym.

Someone should get a better shot and add it to the Wiki then.

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Does "shotgun" mode refer to Assault Rifle, or something else. Though I was not able to witness it myself, a friend mentioned that the run animations for use with AR are... less than pleasant. I don't have any AR characters myself, so I can't test to see exactly what is happening there.

I also noticed that at least one of the bows for Archery have the bow turned at such an angle that the bowstring is almost entirely clipping with the body. I'll see if I can post pictures of that when I get home.

Good to hear there are tweaks coming... much kudos to the unnamed animator who did do/is doing so much work on it!

TY, for some odd reason my screen said page 11 was the most recent, but I did find the post after I posted and it figured out there were MORE then 11 pages to display. sorry about that. stupid interface ((whacks her ISP with a hammer.))