rian_frostdrake

ya know, agree entirely.

now the imperial set, THATS hitting tommorow, right?

he should make her an /emp that way he can cast Roquefort-itude

and dug..if i could rep you, i would.

well, that is great for heroes. for the question at hand, a superhero is very much the sturm und drang and general flambouyance of the setting and action. even if they lack super powers per se, the may have massively exaggerated versions of natural skills as in some martial arts films, and they fight odds that are unrealistic to think a person could overwhelm otherwise...by a lot. dirty harry isnt a superhero, despite him doing really well in gunfights, but wang chi and jack Burton are in "big trouble in little china"

oh, and to answer the other question. my characters tend to be a bit of column a and a bit of column b. There is some sort of logical consistency i feel is needed with my characters that if they really can go toe to toe with the kronos titan, they have to be more than just a well trained human. yes i know its all up with people and such, but its also outright stupid to me when a normal human with some special training can fight rularru or the kronos, It diminishes them by having that even be possible(as always, in my opinion, if you disagree, good for you, you go on and rp that, its your sub). there has to be an aspect of super to a hero fighting at the level of stuff we fight ingame or the suspension of disbelief just dies for me. so most of my characters have an element of the fantastic, dragons, angels, mad science, that sort of thing that justifies their power level. That said, to avoid making them just cardboard cutouts, I try to get into their minds to explain why they do what they do. everyone, no matter how powerful, has some aspect of average Joe/Josephine in them to make them grounded in something we can identify with, its something I try to put in my characters.

some of my heroes also would be up for that sort of thing

aaanywho. I dont have many vills, and fewer that arent jsut rogues i havent gotten around to switching, of vigs I really dont have time to take all the way...but What my vills want_

Violet tendencies-your wallet, also your pin number and any particularly expensive bits of jewelry. She underwent a bit of a character switch, as she first was concieved as a kind of feral killer human/dev earth hybrid in the vein of the movie "species" but i soon realized that eally was boring to me, so i rejigged her and made her a sort of catwoman type anti-villain who robs pretty much anything she can get her hands on from the wealthy and then fences the proceeds from her thefts(after keeping a percentage for herself) to take care of the lower class people in the rogue islands, basically refuting recluse's ideas of only caring for the strong and wealthy by being strong enough to protect the weak.

Dire worg- if you are a criminal, your femur. Dire is a former hero in self imposed exile after his showboating lead to the death of a hostage. He snapped and exiled himself to a place no innocents could get hurt because there arent any. He nominally works with arachnos so that he can get close enough to L.R. to kill him, and any criminals worth his time he enjoys hunting them down and killing them.

Marquis Renard- money, women and luxury, and more magic to get him more of the above. Basically he is a debased hedonist who comes from a long and infamous family of magic using criminals, and he's just keeping up the family business, after robbing half his family blind, and getting the other half in some very precarious demonic contracts they weren't technically aware he was signing them up for.

Mr. Snowball- some catnip. hes a cat that some scientists without foresight gave super powers and above human level intelligence..that turned out about as well as you'd expect.

Alerunner abney- Ale and wenches. a pirate from an alternate steampunk dimension, he's not a bad guy, he just has personal property issues...and sobriety issues, gains his pain dom powers from the strength of his hangovers.

Persuit- Basically he was summoned centuries ago to kill the saxons who were invading england, he was banished for a few centuries by a particularly powerful priest, but after he was summoned in the rogue islands, he decided to get back to work , tunrs out a lotta people have some saxon blood in them, so it counts to his contract.

No, my point was about how exclusives are generally timed. you can see which figure you are buying so no gambling at all there. Its just that they were 3 month exclusives and now they are available everywhere as a secondary push to wring more profit from older content. though in this case all the figs are still selling, making the need to drop exclusivity to retain sales slightly less pressing.

because there will be an initial push by the MUST BUY people and that will trickle off, so eventually it will bring them more money in to put some other desireable item in to get the must buys back in, and sell the set outright because they will see the extra revenue from stubborns like me who wont buy one. It happens all the time, the recent popular game "Skylanders" had 2 exclusive characters to 2 retailers. they sold like hotcakes but then, they released them toa ll retailers after an exclusive window so that they coudl get the cash from people who could not get them at the retailers (of course, all of the figs are selling well, but i know the exclusive figs REALLY sold well, particularly the target exclusive one) so basically, a lot fo think it will happen because it has happend so often, exclusives are almost always a timed exclusives these days.

And plus , lets be frank, how often has paragon listened and gone to bat for us and listened to our feedback over the recent past? My strong suspicion is that the packs thing is ncsoft exerting itsself and paragon wanting to respond to our feedback, so the timed exclusive idea seems the most reasonable comprimise.

My only contention with your point is this, Define long time. My guess is that its a specific time set up when they think they will get their majority of buyers both impulse buys and people determined to get the sets so they keep buying is probably around 3 months, about one quarter and then they will go for the group they could not get with supers and put them on sale. Is 3 months a long time? depends on perspective, at my elderly state, time goes pretty quickly, and given the quality of other packs that is out I can get by for a few months.

As i see it, my complaints are registered, and my lack of purchases are kind of where i have pitched my tent, so i cant really buy them now, but between the imperial dynasty stuff and the additions to the old stuff that dink announced, I should be ok. If its a longer time than that, i'll concede my point, but i find a lot of financial decisions happen in quarters, and my intuition is that this will as well.

Thats actually another costume set i should nag for, we can kind of do a miko's outfit now, but we need the wide sleeves to fit with robes. oh, dink., have another costume request