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He'll be the pretty boy that can beat up all the school bullies.

All of them.

At the same time.

Agreed, the horse is hardly dead. He has a good idea, too.

Actually, I think Recluse will take the loss of Statesman harder than you think. In fact, I fully expect him to be fighting along side us during the last mission, trying to bring down the people responsible for Statesman's death.

Let him make what excuses he wants to explain his actions, Marcus Cole was his best friend. And over the years, he's the only one that hasn't left him. Even the Rikti couldn't remove him.

And now, he's gone.

I expect to see a wrath like nothing we've ever seen from Lord Recluse before.

(And if we don't, I'm going to feel VERY let down.)

I'm already planning to use the Coyote Travel power, and at least once deliver a "Find you soulmate, Homer" as someone walks away.

And to get it, it's quite likely you'll have to spend more than it would cost to hire someone to come up with an animated hair effect for players.

I have a friend that did that. He spent much of the trial making sure everyone knew what to do, telling people when they needed to change tactics, ect...

He got 10 threads for his efforts.

I'll leave it up to you to figure out the moral of this story.

I know I'm a few days behind now, but I want to address this a bit.

I have a few reasons why I feel this way, but I'll try to explain the least emotional one.

Let's say that they put the costume set on sale after 6 months. During those six months, I buy a pack a month, and wind up with 4 costume parts. I may use them, I may not, but those 4 costume parts are mine.

Now, when the costume set goes on sale, it will likely be as a bundle. This bundle will include ALL the costume parts, even the ones I've won in the Super Packs. If I add up the cost for all the individual parts of the set that I do NOT have, will it be cheaper than the entire set as a bundle? Most likely, it will not. So, I'll get the bundle, and have the entire set at last.

What about the parts I won, however? At that point, I've basically lost the draws that had costume parts in them, as I've just paid for those parts again. I could have gotten Reward Merits, Converters, or maybe even ATIOs in those draws, but instead I got costume parts I wound up paying for anyway.

Avoiding this problem leaves me with two choices: One, I can buy MORE Super Packs, and hope to get lucky enough with drawing costume parts that I come out ahead by buying the remaining parts seperately. Or two, I can wait until the costume is for sale by other means and buy it then, removing the costume parts from the list of possible prizes in the packs.

I will not be spending enough on the Super Packs to make option one a possibility. If I have that many points sitting around, then I have enough for an actual costume set, vanity pet, or power set and I will save them for such. That leaves me with option two, pay for the costume parts outright and remove them from the pool of reward options in the packs. I can only do that if the costume set is for sale, and I will not buy Super Packs until it is. If that means no packs for six months, then I will not buy any super packs for six months. If they put a NEW costume set into the packs when the put the Elemental costume set up for sale, then the problem just repeats itself and I'll continue to not buy them.

Does this make sense to you guys?

I'll admit, I laughed.

I'm not sure that Statesman deserves to be killed off, but it may be for the best in the long run. Yes, he could have been a very deep character, as some people have explained in this thread. But if they can't manage to capture that in their writing, then it's better to martyr him than to write him as a self-important jerk.

I was wondering the same about that and about Repel. Can a Repel effect (like the Force Field Teir 9) safely push people away from the Telepathist and leave them standing there alone?

This is still the deal breaker for me. I will not touch the packs so long as they have costume sets in them that I want and can not at that time get any other way.

I'm hoping for good news soon, but expecting bad news after much delay. Surprise me, please.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

I don't know about non-Virtue servers, so I can't answer that one.

I think it's more that Cyclops needs exposure to sunlight for his body to process and store energy, much like how our bodies produce Vitamin D (I think it's D) when we're exposed to sunlight. It doesn't really fuel him, he just needs it to turn on the energy build-up.

I too meant what Liquid has said. Let VIPs purchase them, and let all others either go random for them, or subscribe to buy them directly.

Now, let me explain something. I intend to buy this set when/if I can. If it goes on sale 6 months after it was added to the Super Packs, then I'll just have to wait 6 months to buy it. During that time, I will NOT buy any Super Packs. I'll never buy enough to get that full set, and any parts of the set I DO get I'll wind up paying for a second time when I buy the full set (if it comes in a bundle). Buying just the parts I've missed would be annoying, and likely boost the price past what I'd pay for a set bundle.

By buying the full set right away as a VIP, I'd be able to REMOVE the chances of drawing any of the parts in a Super Pack, giving me more of the random toys I'd actually want for my purchase. That's what I'll want the Packs for, given I want to get the costume in some other way.

Oddly enough, this is why I WILL buy one every now and then. (Assuming I like how the costumes are made non-exclusive)

If the costumes had been exclusive, I would have refused to buy one. EVER. While I don't care as much about the 'Type-Os, I would have felt morally opposed to buying packs due to them being exclusive to the packs too.

Once those problems are gone, I'll be able to buy one every now and then and enjoy the randomness of the game, tossing whatever I get to whichever character can put it to the best use. It's a box of Cracker Jacks that might have that very rare decent toy inside.

Place your bets, people! Place your bets!

Name the next big forum bug and win a prize!

He did.