Costume items, to date, have been to date of six sorts:<\/p>\n
One of CoX’s greatest strengths has been its character creator and costuming. It’s constantly under expansion, and many folks are drawn to the game just for it. Requests for a stand-alone costumer are regularly received by the devs, and a lot of people roll up alts just to try out a new visual <\/em>concept.<\/p>\n Note that most of the above items are available to anyone in the game, at least after a certain period of play. Options 3-4 aren’t, but the number of pieces involved, and their “hotness,” is pretty liimited. Having the toga is nice if you want a togaed character, but I haven’t heard too much wailing over that.<\/p>\n I9 introduces a new class of costume item:<\/p>\n 6. Costume inventions.<\/p>\n Now, we’ll leave alone the idea of “inventions” for developing costume pieces. (“You mean I can get all this spiffy power armor stuff just for free, but if I want fairy wings vs bat wings I need to ‘invent’ something?”) The changed dynamic here is that in order to get the stuff, you need …<\/p>\n a. To find an invention recipe. Simply playing the game isn’t enough. Especially when these costume pieces — and I’m talking wing types here — are considered premium bits, by design. Quoth Positron<\/a>:<\/p>\n I looked at the dataminer today at the costume drop rate and it IS lower than we anticipated.<\/p>\n We are looking into making some changes, but do not expect anything radical or quick.<\/p>\n We DO want costume recipes to be “commodities” that players actively seek and pay top inf. for<\/strong>, but we do not want them to be so rare that players can’t get them, ever, in the course of their play.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n If you don’t have “top influence” or aren’t a high enough level to get it, you are SOL. If you don’t want to be a day-trader at Wentworths (“Where CoX meets eBay with 1985-style computer interfaces!”), you are SOL. If you want to play a fairy character or a draconic character or a winged robot or whatever, and you’re not a “playah,” you’re SOL.<\/p>\n That just strikes me as a horrible strategic decision on the devs’ part. If costuming is such a big part of the game, then leveraging that to taunt folks into the invention system is manipulative at best, and for those who don’t want to dive into its clutches, a shut-out at worst. It’s like going to Disneyland, getting your entrance pass, but being told that some rides can only be ridden if you pay a lot extra, or find a random FastPass ticket for them. It stops being about fun and starts being about commerce.<\/p>\n Bad idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Costume items, to date, have been to date of six sorts: Stuff that’s there in the costume builder from the get-go. 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b. To buy an invention recipe.
c. To find or buy the underlying ingredients for the recipe.<\/p>\n