City of Heroes PAX East Panel 2011: Issue 20 and Q&A

I heard that too

I wonder if that's it's "real" name - like the Well of the Furies is what it's called here because it was named by the anceint Greeks, who would obviously link it to their mythology.
It's called the Well of the Furies on Praetorian Earth too, as their early history seems to be just about identical to ours - but to someone like Rularuu or the Kheldians, it might just be called the Well of Eternity, as they'd have no reason to name it after anything from Earth culture.

Nah, Rularuu just calls it the toilet.
(Ever notice how the Well's water appears to be... Golden?)

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.

Maybe it just refers to the fact that the devs feel like they've been working on it forever.

Or, he's playing something else.

I meant costume loot tied to powers.

I can't think of a single instance where "You can't where nifty shoulder pad 5 unless you have AoE Damage Aura of Cool."

There are instances were they are tied to "completed X", granted. but few and far between given the general awesome of options within the costume creator.


So it is a matter, I suppose of how it is implemented...

edit: and apparently a moot point anyway

anyone have any screenies of this, can't seem to find it in the video

I completely agree. They really need to rethink the capes thing, because it is, frankly, stupid. So capes weren't in the game at launch because of technical hurdles. Big whoop. I argued back then and I'll reiterate now: just add them at level 1 and pretend they were there all along. Unfortunately, it turns out capes were indicative of how the Devs would treat adding things to the game: namely, that they feel compelled for some bizarre only-god-knows-why reason to explain game mechanic changes and engine upgrades in the game's lore. Capes and Power Proliferation are the worst offenders of this, but AE is just as terribad. I'm actually a little surprised they didn't come up with some half-***** explanation for the improved graphics, like Sister Psyche suddenly defeating a bad guy and "lifting the veil from our third eye" so we can all see better.

At the very least, the minimum level for capes and auras should be lowered dramatically. Let us do the cape mission at 5 and aura at 10. It's ridiculous that we have to wait so long to get these things.

From your keyboard to the Dev's monitors.

He also said the mutant pack would be animal parts. Things change.