Discussion: Featured Items at the Paragon Market - 10/25/11

I'd much rather have Carnival of Darkness COSTUME PIECES around Mardi Gras.

I hope all the copy and paste text errors get sorted out for transformation powers. Be nice if the stealth powers worked with them too.

I think its a good call on the name change.

I still think its fairly insulting (to the art ***** team) that the dollar value of the transformation power is higher than the barbarian costume pieces.

I still think its the result of seeing how high the prices on eBay went for some of the codes that have given Paragon very rose coloured glasses to the value of the transofrmation powers.

edit: hrrrm it wasnt a rude word that got filtered.

Amend it to "art resource" team

I just want to comment on the whole transformation/costume power vs actual costume pieces thing....

I do not think players are hell bent on having the entirety of the PPD hardsuit available as individual pieces....at least, not as 100% identical copies.

i think what players really like and want on that particular model is just a few items. one being chain guns hardpoint mounted on forearms. I think players would also like guns hardpoint mounted on shoulders, as a related piece.
On a related note to the forearm guns, is there a way to make alternative animations that would utilize a gun arm? it would need a "stand and point" animation. This would blow the doors off on players robot/cyborg/soldier theme characters. it wouldnt need to be universal, but could be done by set. ice blast and energy blast come to mind. Elec would also look cool with a stand and point forearm cannon animation.
Also, as mentioned above by one poster, the boots. And likely that means pretty much those particular boots, but i also think a lot of players want the rocket boot idea expanded. I know i suggested once upon a time in the 8 million page costume thread about using existing models and making "rocket" alternatives, like the enforcer boots. there's even little round circles on the bottom, or, have rocket flames come out from under those plates that stick off the boots from around the top area. Also, the newer imperial defense boots look like they should have rockets built onto them. These PPD boots could be the same, a non rocket and rocket version.

In short, moar rocket buutz plz. You could sell the new rocket boots in a "rocket boots collection" in the store. Same with arm cannons, bundle the costume pieces with the animations. These would be a little more time intensive to develop, but the price could be commensorate. i would pay 15 bucks a piece easy for these.

I'm pretty supportive of the Paragon team and the market, but am I the only one here thinking...."they ran out of new stuff to sell already?"

Ok ... conversely, does that mean we'll never ever ever get costume pieces of costumes that are sold as Transformation powers ? Because I would rather you not sell the powers then if it meant we could get the costume pieces ...

(I know there's no way of knowing we'll ever get certain costume pieces, but the question has to be asked)

480 points so I can cross-dress as a Carnie and detoggle my cloacking, why not.

Lol, pass.

Edit:
What? People actually sold those codes on Ebay for big bucks...and people bought them? Wow, dude.

So, for us big convention-goers and collectors who already have and spent (years) collecting the 'exclusive' costume codes, this blows big time to see them sell for pocket change.

When can we expect the Halloween codes to be released back onto the market? I already have every costume code via trade/convention, and it's sad seeing that these are on the market but Halloween costumes not. Considering now all the users who spent the time to buy a few of these when they first came out have them mutually exclusive.

EDIT: Oh.. And being someone that has purchased costume codes in the past for 2.5-3,000,000,000 influence, I find $6 to be a freaking steal.

Now, just please put the Halloween ones back so us people that earned our convention costume codes have something to buy.