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Ah yeah I guess I did misread what you said. Like you I never heard anyone complain about them being in the game from the start so I focused in on the only "complaining" I actually remembered which came from people upset that they were nerfed.

There were various rumors going around as to why the nips got nerfed. But I think it was related to what I was talking about in reference to the skintone color nerf. I suspect they got some angry responses from parents that they didn't want their kids playing a game that allowed "naughtiness" like simulated nudity. When the Devs nerfed the skintones I think nips got nerfed too as a related "anti-naughtiness" measure. Sadly I think the skintone thing drew "parent aggro" towards anything like it so the nip nerf was probably an overreaction on our Devs' part.

Ultimately it would be cool to eventually play a game like this with anatomically correct characters, but I think the chances of that ever happening in the "teen-rated" MMO genre is pretty much nil.

Ironically the Devs didn't need "unlimited" resources to make it optional. As a software engineer IRL with almost 20 years experience I'm willing to make an educated guess that the amount of effort it would have taken to implement it as an optional feature instead of a mandatory one would not have been significantly different.

The only reason we got it as a mandatory scheme is because the people whining to get it were so loud the Devs erred on the side of "gezz, they ALL seem to want it so let's give it to them regardless of the consequences." The Devs always OVERCOMPENSATE for things like this so the fact that they overreacted here sadly doesn't surprise me a bit.

I will never accept the idea of LOSING a choice of character design to be an overall "good" thing regardless what the masses think they want. Anyone arguing for the idea that they DON'T want to keep a choice like this just makes me cringe in amazement.

I might (might mind you) eventually see this if I find out that Gary Oldman was very good in it because I've loved him in pretty much everything I've seen him in so far. But hopefully it'll come out on HBO so that I don't have to pay any "extra" for it.

LOL there are always exceptions to disprove the rule.
This -is- the Interwebs after all.

I should have known better than to use an analogy like that...

Yes but other people have already told you it'll only be $9.99 on Cyber Monday. You're obviously free to have whatever reason against it you want, but implying the only real reason you're against it is that it "costs $40" is a bit silly all thing considered.

Good luck to you regardless...

Soon? Try 15 months ago.

I think the deal with Zooey Deschanel is that she's considered more "cute" pretty than "hot" pretty.
She'll never be "hot" like Angelina Jolie is, but then again Angelina will never be "cute" like Zooey is.

Sadly I think 98% of this playerbase would probably consider making Inherent Fitness optional instead of "mandatory" to be pointless.

They don't seem to realize that even if most people chose to use Fitness on their builds at least it was still a CHOICE we had for ourselves. People seem to be perfectly willing to lose that kind of control over their characters just for the sake of cookie-cutter expediency.

Yeah they've been talking about it for a while now. I was even invited to their "beta test" for it.
Ironically I gave up on CO so hard over a year ago now that I wouldn't even go back to it for free.

I don't think Carnifax_NA is creeped out because Leon was a creepy movie in and of itself. I think it's because even though Natalie is 29 now she was only 13 when Leon came out. I think some people who find her attractive have to wrestle with the fact that they first thought she was "cute" when she was very underage.

Clearly getting a good team for a Master run is always better and less stressful. I certainly have nothing against that.

But I'll just point out that the O-portal method for this particular SF would work for ANY team. And it would ultimately be less stressful for ANY team because you wouldn't have to deal with the ambushes and AV at the same time. For me I'll gladly accept it taking longer to finish a Master run to gain as much safety and risk management as possible, regardless of the skill/composition of the team.

Perhaps they "should" be run that way but the fact that they can actually succeed with other team makeups with other kinds of tactics pretty much shows us your "should" is nothing more than a recommendation.

If your team is strong enough sure, do it that way. But if you have a less-than-optimal team it's always safest to keep the team out of an obvious meat-grinder when one death can ruin it for everyone. *shrugs*

I've read that people have been getting logged out pretty much regardless of which browser (Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) they're using. Apparently you've gotten lucky...

Just call this badge "AE Baby" and force it to be an unchangeable /settitle selection so we can see their shame from a mile away.

I agree that these graphics are now getting good enough to be in the Uncanny Valley. But I see it as a stepping stone towards the truly perfect representations we'll get in the longer term future. If we assume computer graphics will continue to improve over time there will be a point where they'll eventually move past the Uncanny Valley.

I'm willing to get creeped out for a while in order for things to eventually become more perfect.

Never heard anyone complain about the "great nipple nerf"?
You must have not been too active on these forums back when it happened.

The nipple nerf was actually part of one of the very first patches to the game soon after it launched back in April 2004. It came with the nerf that prevented us from using "skintone" colors for costume items. Various naughty people were having way too much fun running around appearing to be nude. Oh my!

Technically speaking all they did to nerf nipples was to change the way the body model polygons were shaped so that the edges didn't poke out quite as much as they initially did. The Devs didn't really "cut" anything off as much as simply smoothed over the area to make what was there a little less obvious.

Ironically even though character graphics are finally getting to the point where they could easily be anatomically correct we will probably be stuck with having smooth "barbie doll" like bodies for the foreseeable future in games like these. The Devs are likely going to try to keep these kinds of things "G-rated" just to keep a handful of whiny parents from getting upset.

You ever wonder why in many towns you'll find many of the major car dealerships all right next to each other? The basic idea is that if you're shopping for a car you'll be more likely to actually buy one if you can do all of your shopping in one place without wasting any time driving around to separate locations. The dealerships are actually helping each other by being all in one place.

This is essentially the same thing that has evolved with Cyber Monday. By having many websites offer sales all on the same day potential shoppers are more likely to buy from multiple websites while they are sitting during one session to get it all done at once.

There's really no -myth- about it at all. It's just basic good business.

Are you talking about having a new version of Super Jump that would let you travel faster by sacrificing control over it? I guess I wouldn't be against that as some kind of new power as long as you left "normal" Super Jump unchanged.

Well sadly even if this was a "one-line" code change it still might never happen just because it would take some Dev some amount of time to look into. I honestly don't think it'd be too hard to do (and I'm saying that as Software Engineer IRL) but even if it were trivial that's no guarantee the Devs would ever be able to get around to it.