Captain-Electric

Virtue. I clicked like 50 pages back in the latest updates for Virtue, before giving up. And admittedly, I didn't do searches for every global friend; mostly just those that wouldn't be creeped out if I sent them a link to a picture of their face with a twirly mustache, or a third eye or something. I don't want to ask my friends if they're on there, I want to surprise them. Hee hee.

And I disagree with Zombie Man, when I was clicking back, I saw a few attractive faces. But come on, this isn't Hot or Not. I'm not going to be friends with someone based on that.

I was mostly just kidding around, but it's good to know. I was curious why he was on there and thought it might be you or TonyV.

This has sometimes been something I've wondered about: How much of Community Relations actually involves matters related to the in-game community? I've mentioned before how, out of my big global list of very active friends, I've never seen any of them on the forums. And many of the most vocal forum posters have occasionally admitted in their posts that they rarely log into the game during long stretches of time. Do you know where most of my friends find out about upcoming issues, new items on the market, and other new content? Me.

Zwillinger, player petitions are a customer service issue, but the fact that you have no involvement in that process from a community relations position, is a fact that ought to be changed. The game servers are the REAL community.

Right, it's just that I'm not sure if that's the case anymore. Without giving them something to file during this new process that's been added, I'm concerned that the incident might not get filed in the proper way. Maybe someone with inside knowledge could speak up about this part.

I'm not arguing, I know this is frustrating. But I fully intend to get around the problem of encroachment it might present us with at times, if it means filing a helpful petition.

Go to Amazon and click on Prime Instant Video in the top-left, then look over the vast black hole of inescapably awesome entertainment waiting to suck you in. You want to check and make sure your favorite shows are all in there, but given Amazon's wide reach, there's a strong likelihood they will be. Amazon is usually my first stop these days if I'm renting a movie on my computer (Click on "Learn More" at the top-right of the Prime Instant Video page to figure out how to get it on various devices or your TV).

Hulu has commercials but I watch some TV shows there.

And there's YouTube Movies, a much unsung department of YouTube, but always chock-full of lowered prices for some movies, and you can expect good quality.

There's also the movies section of your Android market if you have a phone or tablet.

Oh, almost forgot, there's also Vudu.com--has a good reputation, but only provides movies, and I've never personally tried it (I hear the prices are good).

Oh, and there's iTunes, if you love being gouged.

You'll never get away with this, you meddling Paragon Studios!

I am subscribed to many global channels on Virtue and haven't heard a negative word yet in-game (I played for 3 hours tonight). Heard lots people talking about what they got in their packs, happy about the costume piece drops, and especially freaking out on some of the enhancements. Not too different from late last night when they hit the market.

Words to live by.

The night before Galaxy went away, me and my friends RPed through an AE arc one of us wrote as a lead-up to Issue 21 (we even got a dev to join us and they loved it, but they didn't RP ). At the end, everyone was real sad. During the course of the arc, we all ended up with IC knowledge of the impending strike, just a couple of hours away. There was only time to evacuate our own loved ones who lived or worked in Galaxy, so that's what we did ICly. (Mass district-wide panic and limited War Wall exits don't mix very well.)

But later on, I invited a few of those teammates to come to Atlas. I showed them up to the domed garden, and explained to them how one of my characters (Gravity/Force Field controller) had strained her powers to the limit: she had bubbled a gigantic chunk of Gemini Park, and teleported it into the specially prepared dome.

I don't normally take such liberties with the game world (in your version of City, something else happened maybe), but this was isolated to my circle of friends, and it was fun and therapeutic for them. So I did it.

Somewhere deep down, you know that it takes far less development time to port male costumes to females; and you know that making some pathetically correct stab at equality (i.e. a matching number of completely new parts for us guys) would amount to a greater strain on resources. But that wouldn't actually happen. What would happen is that the devs would simply take all of our toys away, and go for homogeneously equal options for both genders. It almost seemed like things were going to swing that way, if you were keeping up with that Gunslinger thread, according to Zwillinger's initial comments before Noble Savage stepped in. You should be glad they didn't.

Think about this. If men could run around in women's clothing, I guess none of us would be arguing right now. Now, if you're not exactly into that, then I'm with you, bro. But at least I'll be open and honest about why women have the advantage here.

P.S. Don't forget about that second body type we have.

We'll return to this conversation later.

I wondered if "Couldn't afford it" was the right language to use ("...Might flip out over the price" may have been more appropriate). Remember, CoH: Freedom quadrupled our rate of new shiny stuff.

Don't feel that way. I have a theory that subsequent packs are going to contain more ultra-rare vanity items. That way, everyone who buys super packs will likely end up with something that not too many other people have. I think that's great (hint devs hint ). My only suggestion for the devs is to allow ultra-rare vanity items to be traded for other ultra-rare vanity items of the same degree of odds.

But beyond that, you played the game, just like the rest of us who bought super packs (considering the testing you did on Beta, perhaps fate is smiling on you. ). Personally, anyone who seriously calls me a jerk for using an ultra-rare vanity item won't get a single reply, they'll just be placed on /ignore.

This is one of my inner quirks, ever since I saw a ragequit post the first time. Although I never announced it publicly before now, I've been putting extra dollars into the game almost every ragequit I see. It's the heroic thing to do.

Fixed that for you.

Dude, your principles only lasted 35 minutes! I say this mostly to tease, but partly to show why I think a phrase like "on principle" ought to be reserved for matters of greater significance to begin with.

Subsequent posters have delved into this question more than I wish to (I hate arguing on the Internet). My personal opinion is that this isn't about the costume set's merits. It's about the amount of money on CoH: Freedom's real, actual price tag. You're talking about the trees, I'm talking about the forest. The two big factors here are, (1) They've got to find ways to encourage us to pay the full amount on that price tag, or the consequence is having resources taken away. And, (2) No one but Paragon Studios knows exactly what that price tag says.

If they slapped the full amount of that price tag solely onto the Elemental Costume set, trust me, you couldn't afford it.

You've been at this all day, I see. You'd beat me in a war of attrition, so I'm not going to be arguing back and forth with you. Marketing needs to be many steps ahead of the game, so your second paragraph isn't difficult for me to swallow. But dude, I get how some people feel manipulated. I didn't have to make a post to learn that. I wasn't trying to tell you how to feel about this. I was only telling you what you can expect. Your third paragraph is where I went and hit the quote button. "Under the pretext of..."? You're calling Paragon Studios a bunch of liars as a matter of fact. Where's this inside knowledge of yours coming from, Internet tough guy?