Lothic

For some reason the Devs have chosen to allow various items be "male only" or female only" even when there's absolutely no reason for the given item to be exclusive to one gender or the other.

This "high collared" cape thing you're talking about might be a bug, but it's also possible they didn't even get around to making female sized versions of those capes. I wouldn't strictly call it WAI because it sucks that some items were not implemented, but it might not be appropriate to call it a "bug" either if those items never existed in the first place.

It's a new way for Primal characters to earn the Technophobe badge. Another way is to farm the first mission of blueside "The Instant Army" arc, but I19 will also make it pretty trivial since Primals will gain access to Praetoria directly.

Many people think playing a "human form only" Kheldian is silly and/or self-gimping.
It's ironic to have something in the game actually encourage/reward that kind of goofy behaviour.

I imagine they had some basic plans/ideas that when/if the Hobbit got made that they'd try to use New Zealand again for filming. But I guess if the union disputes got bad enough the government could threaten to pull their permits.

As sleestack implied I'll bet they'll work out some deal to make everyone happy. I'm betting the union was just trying to pitch a fit in order to get as much money from this production as possible.

Let me clarify what I meant: I wasn't saying they'd use OBVIOUS CGI like 300 or Sin City.

What I was talking about is if they had to put something like a mountain in the background to make where they're filming look a little more like the New Zealand outdoor scenes in the LotR movies it would relatively easy and convincing to do. This Hobbit movie is likely going to have a multi-hundred million dollar budget so I'm pretty sure they're going to be able to use the best CGI technology available. At any rate the chances that this movie would "look" bad no matter what they do is almost impossible.

I have a few capes on a few costumes with mixed travel powers among them. About the only "rule" I have with using a cape is when I think it looks good with the rest of the costume I came up with.

Maybe if the Devs allowed every level locked item to be gettable during an event like this everyone would be happy... maybe.

That's good news for those villain players out there who were crying about having to become a rogue for a few minutes in order to run a KHTF to get that hat.

You're all over the map with this aren't you? You seem to have a thing against "old timers" but you want top end vet awards to be super-awesome yet not as good as booster pack items. Pick a side.

Anyway I don't know about anyone else but I think I can call myself an "old timer" because I've had a continuously active account since CoH Headstart on April, 25 2004 and I have been regularly playing ever since. I've never taken "time off" for ED or anything else.

And as far as where I stand on Vet Awards I'm actually one of those weird people who think they should have come to an end at 60 months precisely because the whining you're doing right here. People who whine about Vet power X, Y or Z being a "rip-off" because it's not good enough to be a top end Vet award is exactly what I was talking about. The Devs have painted themselves into a corner trying to come up with new things that aren't going to significantly piss off either newer players or older ones and, as I predicted, it's clearly become harder and harder to do that.

I've always thought linking a gladiator to an anniversary badge (or any combination of anniversary badges) was a bad idea, even if it was supposed to be a "sneak peek" at the time. We've had a number of badges over the years which have had their requirements changed to reflect the changing nature of the game. The most notable one lately was the Power Liberator / Master Thief badge.

With that said I believe the fairest way to deal with the 5th column Gladiator is to reassign it as some kind of "defeat" badge as Matt_King suggested. With the 5th Column now re-established as a permanent group in the game there's no longer any reason to treat its associated gladiator as exclusively as it is now.

Yeah misleading posts don't really help. I pay more attention to the server status page because it's linked to the servers directly. That way I don't rely on whether a person posting "official" announcements has the right information or not. *shrugs*

For what it's worth I can sympathize with you on this.
I live in the United States but often travel to places like Japan and Singapore for business.
I've actually been hit by the "primetime maintenance" deal so I can feel your pain with that.

The only day we can expect (with reasonable certainty) to have downtimes is on Thursdays.
It's also been a tradition in this game for years to release new patches/issues on Tuesdays.

So what does this mean for us? It means that all things being equal we'll always get downtimes on Thursdays and we'll OCCASIOANLY get downtimes on Tuesdays. The only reason it may seem like Tuesdays have become more common lately is because we're only a couple of months past a major retail expansion to this game (Going Rogue). We've been getting many patches lately to account for the major changes involved with that.

Sorry that impacts your "primetime" but there are justifiable reasons for it. Once I19 hits we'll probably see a number of months in the future of "one time a week" downtimes until I20 comes out.

I'd rather have it all. But I know you'll think I'm messing with you if I said that.

Ultimately we are going to get the things the DEVS want to give us regardless if we like it or not. *shrugs*

Why would any of this have to happen if picking weaknesses would be purely OPTIONAL in the first place?

I'm not dodging any "question" here.
I've all but agreed with you that not everyone would use this feature.

But by the same token trying to do your best to imply that a QoL improvement like this would be so horrible to consider that it's down-right super-yucky or some such is almost childish. I get that there are people who don't like this idea. But I'll once again point out there have been all sorts of things added to this game that not everyone liked.

Let's just say if something like this ever does actually happen I wouldn't be too upset by it.

I agree. I'd also like the ability to attach decorations to my racks. The racks I have in this game are so smooth and featureless. I think they'd look much more appealing with little button-like bumps on them. They would definitely be more eye-catching that way.

What?

How many people use every single aspect of this game to begin with? The implication that EVERYBODY has to like an idea before the Devs give it to us is a flawed nonsensical argument at the very least.

The Devs have added nearless countless QoL improvements over the years that I'm sure a percentage of the playerbase would consider "minimal interest" or "not worth the effort". I'm just glad the Devs don't always listen to -that- side of the issue in question.