Art: Please more quality and efforts to make the game looking current and actual in 2011 MMO market

First of all, not a DOOM post, I love the game.
But seriously I have some rage when I see too much recycling, random designs and lazy results.
I understand free updates are not paid expansions like GR.
I understand the devs cant be revamping ALL the old content.
But seriously, the other superhero games in market are not a rival for CoX, so to stay actual, the game needs to be visual attracting.
Come on its 2011!

Some suggestions:

More work about the designs of the contatcs, NPC, AV and Heroes. Some of them, specially contacts or the villains and heroes from tip missions have awful costumes, not to mention the merit vendors in yellow and purple...

Get the old citizen models out (at least) of Praetoria. The zones are modern, shiny and look great but those crappy citizens 7 years old with 20 poligons are messing with the "shiny and new" feeling that Praetoria zones got.
I know the actual citizen models are now "Protesters" but they can still be citizens. This way we can keep at least GR zones actual.

Complete the Praetorians make-over, Anti-matter, Chimera, Diabolique, Siege and Dominatrix didnt had a new look like others, and Dominatrix is the first trainer a new/returning player would see in Nova Praetoria. Also would be great to have a complete new look like Neuron o Mother Mayhem. Battle Maiden and Black Swan are too way recycled.

Also, use power customization for more unique and matching powers, for example, give Nightstar new colour for her energy blast that fits better for her new costume, Bobcat should have black claws and Neuron light blue elec blast... etc

Update the look of the classic heroes of Paragon. Villain patrons still look awesome and didnt aged yet, but come on, Sister Psyche costume is lame.

And for new tip missions, would be great to avoid include enemies like ghost and old citizen models.

Another example, adding nurses to get inspirations in the hospital was great but...
Why use the old plain crappy model? Why dont create one using at least the current character creator? Science pack jacket, boots, different hairstyles and a little red cross in the chest emblem...

In Paragon tailor all the contacts should have some kind of Icon uniform. Same for villains.

I know most would find this silly, but I want CoX to be more pleasat visually and those little details would improve the look of the game.
CoX QoL art department improvements.

have you given thought to those of us who have older slower PC's ?? thats something to think about.

*Sighs and directs angel to the threads in his signature*

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

Trying to keep my thread alive...

Change does not happen overnight, they have to create the new graphical elements, then test them to see if they work in the game, and by the time all the creating and testing happens months have passed and THEN we get the changes applied to the game, and even then unforseen bugs and glitches can and usually do crop up. And like you said, the engine is old, and you really can't update any game engine requires a whole complete overhaul and that requires time, money, and manpower, and NCSoft and Paragon Studios only has the money, it still needs the time and manpower parts, and, if we were to get a complete overhaul, it would require the whole game to be brought offline for an extended period in order to update hardware as needed as well in which time you and other people would be complaining about not being able to play. Believe me, waiting for CoH 2 to implement updated everything like that would be far more cost effective and take up less time for NCSoft/Paragon Studios than overhauling CoH. They even updated the graphics as best they could with what they have to work with. I guess some people will just never be happy...

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