Kiralyn

I'll be keeping an eye open for when/if you start this up again (great idea, btw). I got a lucky drop of a Respec Recipe a few days ago, and that gave me enough bankroll to give this market thing a try. I'd been trying to get over 100m (yeah, I'm an amateur) so I could try to get 75-100 matched to get my base off the ground.

(It's a bit shocking, at first, to see how much more prestige you need to go from "some workrooms and storage" to "energy/control/teleporters" )

Now I'll have time to raise a bit more....

[ QUOTE ]
That said, I can't be the only one who plays this game, and think "This is a world of superheroes. A MMO based off of comic books."
.
.
.
This is still a comic book superhero based MMO, is it not?

[/ QUOTE ]


Yep. People running around in impractical technicolor spandex, with irrational builds is kind of par for the course, given the genre.

People in SuperHeroWorld™ don't really bat an eye when some guy or girl wearing primary-colored very tight&very little saves them from a psychotic clown. It's just the way their world works.....

-------

On the average, my female characters are.... not completely clothed. But there is a decent amount of variation, some jackets, skirts, etc. Although they are all wearing stilettos of some form or another.

(And yeah, I'll even admit that I've got an Eden/Bikini3 character.... but I at least tried to give her a theme. The Sunbather! Blond, big hair, big sunglasses, big smile, dark tan..... and she's an energy blaster with the battle cry "Catch some rays!" /giggle)


....of course, the guys I've made *also* have the chest slider over to the right, giving them pectoral development that's probably crushing their lungs. Whee!

I've seen an awful lot of Banished Pantheon guys banging on drums this evening. (Not sure if that's a new thing, or not, since I'm pretty new around here.... )

Just some alternate perspective from someone else who's played WoW....

If you *don't* want to join a frat house (Guild) for raiding at end-game, and aren't a big PvP fan (arenas, which according to many aren't well balanced at all), there's still some stuff to do at the level cap, but it's a small % of what they release. You can run a bunch of 5 man dungeons, you can try to max out your rep with different groups to earn some lesser rewards (Merit reward stuff vs. the HO-level things you can get raiding). Or, you can go the CoX route, and make more alts.

Me, I've got lots of alts on my WoW account. (I play a few months at each expansion, then drop the account til the next one, I'm currently on break again.)

That said..... it's a good game, and I enjoyed it. It has good and bad facets, just like any game. There's really no need to have any arguement between WoWers and CoXers.

As someone else who's recently started the game, I just wanted to mention that, even just following that Hero Story Arcs guide from the Wiki, I've had to use the "turn off XP gain" option at the end of each five level block (14, 19, 24...) in order to have any chance to see all the story arcs. There's far more mission and combat XP in the story arcs than you need to clear their level ranges....

It can get tough to come up with decent names, when you go into a character creation with a couple ideas and then everything you thought of is taken already.


I think my favorite of my characters is Kneebane (4' tall claw/SR scrapper )

This thread finally motivated me to register for the forum.
--

Ignoring the basic idea (crossdressing is immoral/wrong/R-rated), which I disagree with....

....here are yet more examples of using the gender-switch function *without* it being "crossdressing":

1) Mystique/shapeshifter. The four costume slots are:
Base form (blue female); Senator Kelly (adult male); Jean Grey (adult female); a small boy

2) Several generations of heroes, with ancestral powers. The four costume slots are:
Dad (original hero); his daughter; his grandson; his great-granddaughter

3) Psychic entity who possesses any body that wears a cursed necklace. The four costume slots are:
Buff adult male; slender adult female; bookish/wimpy adult male; Huge brute

4) Artificial intelligence chip that can be installed into different robot bodies. I'll let you work that one out yourself.....

5) Mystic curse. Heck, I'll pull this one straight out of D&D - the Girdle of Masculinity/Femininity.

6) Power armor. Main costume: 13 year old girl. Couldn't hurt a fly. Good thing she's got (alternate costume) Spitfire, a giant suit of mechanized armor! (Huge character model)


I think that's enough obvious examples for now.....