Eiko-chan

Stone, Invuln, and WP Tankers should still be able to do this. Mine can.

He said they'd have to replace him with a gibbering lunatic to start work on the animations for it, and they'd look terrible.

BABs is personally against trying to make an underwater zone look good with this game engine. He also thinks Aquaman sucks. Which he does.

Origins made me cry. Which a video game hasn't done for over a decade. It's BioWare's best work to date, I think (it's not particularly original, I admit, but the execution is very well done. The characters especially.)

Which are the same people that love Star Trek.

I'll note that I don't think the new movie "failed". It preserved the history and details as far as was necessary to make the movie still feel "Star Trek", while changing it enough to create new possibilities for the future. Enterprise utterly failed at the first, and thus the second did not matter.

I say this as a life-long Trekkie, born of Trekkie parents, all of whom enjoyed the new movie.

Funny you bring this up, because the very reason Enterprise flopped and was perhaps the biggest failure in Star Trek's history is precisely because the creators decided that the history and details weren't important, and because of this they alienated their target audience.

Sometimes the history and details are important. You've got to know your audience.

Well, cops got a first step with Issue 13, and commandos and mercenaries already have a lot covered in the base designer; Eastern themes did need a bit more love.

But I do look forward to the next round of these. I'm sure they won't stop at 5; they've been pretty darn successful thus far.

Agonus just doesn't want to see my 17-year old character strutting around in heels.

I love that I can walk, BABs, and thank you for taking the time rigging it up, but it would be nice to have my characters be able to walk without heels once in a while.

Wolf Spiders, maybe. The problem is that Wolf PCs eventually become either Banes or Crabs, and the CoX canon is that Recluse divides up baby telepaths by gender, raising them either as Fortunatas or Banes.

I suppose Crab Spiders have never been explained enough to exclude females.

They're Space Pirate AMAZON Ninja Catgirls, actually.



Yes, I own the game. It's hilariously cute.

Men shouldn't be Widows anyway. And women shouldn't be Spiders.

Not costume pieces. Not the same thing.

Why are you six-slotting Stamina? There's really no point in going more than three slots, two if you're using IOs.

Thanks to ED, the only things that should be six-slotted are things you want multiple types of enhancement for - attacks, primarily, for accuracy, damage, and end redux/recharge. Things you're only enhancing for a single aspect really only need two or three, tops.

Female models don't get that coat.

Except, unlike veteran reward costumes, there exists something they can do to get said piece. VR pieces as they currently exist cannot be acquired any other way.

I'm not going to let slippery slopes work. I'm asking to be able to be proactive. Your hypothetical complaints would not be proactive. There is a clear difference.

Well, I hope those coat tails keep the veterans warm as newer players flock to games that don't deny them customisation for arbitrary reasons.

Here's the flaw in your logic. You view Veteran's Rewards as something you paid $900 for. In reality, you paid $900 for access to the game. You get the Veteran's Rewards for free.

If you paid for the Veteran's Rewards, then I or anyone else could pay the same amount and get the Veteran's Rewards. But since I cannot pay for them, then, logically, you have not paid for them either.

Veteran's Rewards are not given to you because you paid for them.

You really think there's anyone that's going to feel slighted by getting something, for free, that someone else paid for? If anything, this is more disadvantageous to the person that paid - Veteran gets a "thanks, have some free stuff", newbie paid extra to get stuff Veteran got for free.

They're self-screwed out of the, what, six or seven benefits that are costume related? And they knew they would be when they made the purchase? Caveat emptor and all that. If they don't want to buy it, they can wait to get it for free. Or they can buy it and get it now. Everybody wins.

Discounts and extra days off are nice veteran rewards. Exclusive costume pieces cannot be compared to discounts and extra days off. They are more akin to exclusive access - executive washrooms and what have you. Veterans only lunch rooms, snack machines, etc. With lunch choices not available to everyone else.

I don't object to little bonuses - respecs, costume changes, a few free merits, in-game discounts. I object to the things tied up in superhero (or CoH specific) mythos - wings, emblems, boxing gloves - that are, for some reason, given exclusively to veterans, making characters using those aspects as part of their basic character completely inaccessible to non-Veterans.

When someone suggested doing away with costume unlocks, or letting other characters of that player use them, or making them unlock for all characters instead of just one, it was a relatively popular idea. When someone suggested doing away with VR-related costume unlocks, however, it suddenly became highly unpopular, despite being basically the exact same thing. I simply don't understand the mindset that creates that discrepancy.

Veterans want their special parts and screw the rest of us?

Veterans get something for free other people pay for. Sounds like a good Veteran Reward to me, and will quiet down a lot of non-Veteran cries of foul over having some vital piece - Samurai Armour, Devil Wings, Boxing Gloves - locked away in the VR system.

Seriously. Explain to me like I'm a five year old: why do VR costume pieces have to remain exclusively VR?

Okay. Let's get a "Veteran Reward Costume Pack" in the store ASAP, then.