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I think it would be practically impossible/unthinkable for them to put us in a situation where next week (because I22 is going live on March 6th ) they'll charge us extra money for these items. There have already been several cases where updates to costume items like these have been made seamlessly without any additional costs.

Yep that's part of the problem with this idea. Once they'd let you spend PP on individual slots then you'd have to face the possiblity of losing those slots once you delete those characters.

Again I can understand that the current method of buying slots is relatively expensive. But once you've bought them you never have to worry about "losing" those slots ever again. It's effectively a permanent investment for as long as you play the game.

This is yet another example of the Devs being way too "politically correct" for their own good.

I can understand when they refuse to do something like give males a version of the fishnet pantyhose because they could at least pretend to argue that it would take "too much time and effort to recreate an entire costume item to fit a different body type".

But when it comes to these planetary symbols it's an obvious case of arbitrarily removing an option from the costume creator. There's no such thing as multiple versions of symbols for each body type. There's not a "male" version of the Alien symbol and a "female" version. There's just one thing in the editor used on ANY body type. This means that they had to go out of their way to prevent Mars symbols from being used on females and Venus symbols being used males.

That level of censorship is fairly pathetic all things considered.

Translation: Wait until March 6th.

While the game may have stopped delivering things which kept you interested I don't really think you can say that it stopped delivering things which are keeping other people interested. I don't really mean to sound harsh but this game churns old and new people all the time - the fact that you're not playing it anymore doesn't mean it's on the verge of collapse.

Take care regardless...

I'm in the "I think they're a bit too big" camp myself. But I don't think they're overly too big. If they were reduced to say 90% of their current size I think that would be a good enough compromise for everyone.

Yeah if I could magically snap my fingers I'd have a "no rings" version of this jetpack too. But since I've got at least one character who's been waiting almost 7 years for a costume item version of a jet/rocket pack I'll expect I use this regardless.

P.S. Come to think of it if I could simply snap my fingers to get -any- jetpack I wanted then I should have done that years ago. Oh well.

As a player I'm not necessarily against the idea of individual costume slots for individual characters for like 50pp. But there's probably at least two main reasons why that hasn't happened yet (and probably never will):

One is that it would have been a little harder to code that way. Doing something uniformly to all the characters of an account is probably far easier than tracking different numbers of bonus slots on different characters. Besides the way it works now you automatically get those bonus slots on any new character you make - there's no having to worry about who gets what slot in the future.

The other big reason is that they probably got plenty of people to buy them the way they are now regardless. Paragon Studios is not relying on a few random 50pp items in their store to make or break their company. Sure they might have lost a few 50pp sales that way, but lets just say if they actually thought they were losing out on huge profits over this then they would have spent the time and effort to make the system work the way you suggest.

Costume slots still apply to every character on your entire account. You're not just buying "one" slot - you're potentially buying access to dozens of them.

This is why I've never had any problem with their cost. I bought 5 extra slots six-ish months ago and have gotten many, many hours of fun from them. To me they were well worth the price. *shrugs*

If it is then I'll just by a dozen packs of it and have another complete costume set to play with. *shrugs*

If this had been the first time Star Wars had taken a defeated Sith and turned him into a cyborg then yeah I might claim some shark-jumpage. But come on people, this is just a rehash of what Lucas famously did with Darth Vader.

Wasn't that the whole supposed "controversy" over whether or not they were going to allow him to show up as the Dictator in the first place? Everybody knew that if he was allowed to make an appearance like that he was going to pull -some- kind of stunt. I'm just glad someone let him do it to make fun of Seacrest, even if it was a setup from the beginning.

At least 9 out of the 15 "words" of that post were correctly spelled English words.
Sure there was no capitalization or punctuation but really I think you're just being too picky.

The only new costume set it might be for the Paragon Market today would be the Imperial Chinese one.
Was that the one you were talking about?

You know this game actually has a history of responding to what other games are doing. For example many people thought that Issue 12 (the one that gave us Cimerora) was rushed out the door a couple of weeks too early but it all made sense when you realized that it went live the exact same day Age of Conan lauched. Clearly our Devs were motivated to get our "swords and shields" update out the same day a Conan-based game went live.

So the idea that they might release Issue 22 next week to counter the possible "massive effect" of the launch of that other new game is not too far-fetched.

Right cause this kind of thing happens ALL the time with this game. *sigh*

I'm not saying that what happened right now is good. But since this game has a historical up-time that could easily be greater than 99% of the time I really see no justification for getting all totally angsty about it. Chill and give them a few minutes to sort it out first.

That's why any kind of AoE power you can toss out is great. All my main Fire/Rad Controller has to do to rack up 600-800 Vanguard merits a raid is Hover in the middle of the Bowl, drop Fire Imps and Hot Feet and spam EMPs, Bonfires and Judgment Pyros. My little bits of damage added to everyone else's little bits of damage keeps everything dying at a nice steady rate.

Yeah like I agreed they did argue/fight with each other. I still just don't think their "disagreements" were on the same level as TV Rick and Shane's. The TV show has been brewing this epic clash between Rick and Shane leadership of the group pretty much from the very beginning of the show. At worst Rick and Tyreese had a pretty good/friendly relationship up until very the end. And that "end" didn't last too long because Tyresse was dead not too long after that.

Just to be clear ever since they switched to the NCsoft launcher last year I don't think they've been doing the big "pre-release download" the way they used to.

Yes I'd agree the chances of it happening this week (even on Wednesday or Thursday) is fairly remote. But if it's going next week we'll still have plenty of time to get the patch (if any) for I22 this week.

Prison railing? You mean when he got upset after both his daughter and her boyfriend died and were zombified?

I'll agree there were a few times he and Rick got angry with each other. But again I just don't see what happened between those two in the comic being anything similar to the constant shoving match for group leadership that TV Shane and Rick have been in for a while now. *shrugs*

Yeah regardless of whether that was a "safe" place to dump Randall or not I think what was more interesting about that place was the bus that Shane got trapped on.

Before the zombies were set loose when Shane was just scouting the bus they seemed to spend quite a few seconds having Shane realize that several (supposedly alive) people had been using the bus as shelter. It's always possible that all those people had since been zombified but it led you to wonder if there were yet other survivors in that immediate area that the might run into eventually.

If you're talking about Tyreese then yeah he and Rick had a few meaningful talks/arguments about what to do but he never came anywhere close to chalenging Rick's overall leadership of the group as TV Shane has.

Likewise when I state that something like this is "annoying" or "not worth it" I don't personally have to come up with hard numbers to support my position when I know there are other people out there like Arcanaville who are far more willing and knowledgeable about that sort of thing. It's not just me alone blindly begging the Devs to consider something that's semi-intangible or unprovable.

Sometimes a given person just has to state the bleeding obvious and then defer to others that the bleeding obvious ALSO has real numbers to back it up.