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Well, I don't necessarily disagree with you. I'll disagree that Superman is "whimsical" and needs "whimsy", which is what you said in your earlier post. Of course, inject a little humor and charm into it. Whimsy? No. I didn't care for the brooding Superman in Man of Steel and BvS either. Loved Henry Cavill in the role, but he suffered from a bad script. I'd have loved to have seen him with a better script. That movie lost it soon as the introduced Super son and making Superman into a creepy stalker.

Exactly and that's the problem. Whimsical Superman film? No thanks. They tried that already and it didn't work. And for those who love the John Williams piece, here's some whimsy for you!

Exciting to hear this! I wish you all good luck and hope you find some very talented people for these roles. I had a question about this - could a basic costume template be made public so that costume skins could be crowdsourced?

If you'll forgive the pun, this music to James Gunn's ears. Congratulations! You've been successfully nostalgia baited. Richard Donner and Christopher Reeve were magic and the original Superman film in 1978 is a classic. It should be treated as such in my opinion, and Hollywood should stop trying to copy it. What makes Zimmer great is that he did just that - created something all new for Superman and it's beautiful. He did it all without nostalgia baiting you. Sad as it is to say, I think you're right. Superman needing to be rescued by Krypto the super dog. Yup, I'm out too.

Speaking for myself, this is exactly what I do. I'm spending a couple of hours at most sub level 30. It simply isn't worth the time or resource investment to create and slot IOs that I'm not going to need after a couple of hours. I can see people using these sets for characters they may want to keep in a specific level range by turning off XP and running through all the content at a given level before moving on.

Here is the "teaser" for the "teaser". I can't say I'm seeing anything in here to get me excited for this film. I'll remain cautiously optimistic, but from what I've seen so far, the costuming looks more like bad cosplay than film quality. Hopefully the story doesn't suck. Hans Zimmer just okay??? I'm going to vehemently disagree with you on that. The man is a modern day Mozart in my opinion. He has written some of the best film scores of the last 30 plus years. The man has a seriously impressive body of work. Everything from Lion King, Gladiator, The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Interstellar, Man of Steel... even his work on Megamind is classic. Don't get me wrong, I love the John Williams work on the Donner Superman. It's a timeless classic. As far as ethereal, I mean, come on. This is one of his masterpieces in my opinion.

I don't believe we need a formal mechanism to make policy change requests. This isn't a democracy, it's a passion project run by volunteers who are sharing their labors with us. I think the HC team should set policies they are comfortable with and make the most sense for them. They have the final say and what they say goes, whether we agree with it or not. With that said, I do agree it would be nice to have more communication from them. More communication is always better, but I can fully understand why they choose to remain quiet, and I don't fault them at all for it. From my perspective, they have engaged the community at large on several big changes over the years. We all may not like the decisions they make on any changes, but they do ask for our feedback.

I'm not trying to change your mind. You're certainly welcome to express your thoughts and suggestions here as much as you like. I'm not the one requesting others "stay out of it" though.

I'm sure they're delighted if people enjoy their work, but that doesn't mean that they're working for us. The Suggestion forum is polluted with all kinds of requests and suggestions for things that players would like to see. Barely any have been implemented ever. As for who puts hours of their lives into something for free? People who are passionate about their hobby and love what they're doing. You probably can't see this because this subject is close the chest for you, so you've lost objectivity, but were they to censure you now, they'd look like the bad guys. I'm sure there will be people here who'd use it as a rally cry to condemn HC and the GMs for it too. A GM and a Council member did reply to the thread with answers to the questions raised. They may not have quoted you directly, but they both did directly answer the topic of discussion.

It certainly reads that way to me, I'm sorry to say.

None of which is going to change the outcome. I know you're grieving and upset about not getting what you hoped for, but arguing with the HC people isn't going to change anything.

This proceeds from a false assumption that everything HC does is for us and not for them or for their own enjoyment. I don't think you making the request makes you entitled. Your overflow of posts and threads campaigning for something that isn't going to happen in an attempt to bully and guilt HC into adding a NPC of your friend into the game is what makes you come across as entitled. You asked and got a GM and Council member response. The response isn't what you wanted to hear, so you're going on the offensive to try and badger HC into a result that you want. I know you're trying to hide behind "I'm doing this for the community", but it's not coming across that way. Also, I'm not dismissing your idea. As I've said before, I think there should be a way for everyone to memorialize a friend or loved one here, but that shouldn't be everyone getting a NPC in the game. There was a thread linked in one of the other discussions requesting @Heracleagetting added to the game in Cimerora after he passed. I don't recall anyone in that thread complaining about the lack of HC response, or suggesting how unfair it was that the request wasn't acted upon favorably, or that it has to be done because it was done before, so that's only fair. They made their request, let HC consider it, then moved on. No complaining, no flood of posts. Nothing. They understood the request wasn't approved and respected that decision. It's not a "gotcha", it's the simple truth. Yes, HC is maintained by volunteers. Yes, that means they can do whatever they want whenever they want for whatever reason they want. Can you criticize them for their decisions? Sure. That doesn't mean they have to take your suggestions or criticisms and make changes you're demanding because you want them to. Ultimately, if you don't like how things are run here, there are plenty of other servers to try out. I'm not saying that to be mean, it's the simple truth. HC has never asked for an echo chamber, nor do I believe they feel they're entitled to one. I think they're doing the best they can with what they have in the free time they have. They're never going to be able to please everyone, and I'll be honest here, I don't think they should even try. I'd rather they work on what is important to them, what they feel like working on and what gives them the most satisfaction. Getting pressured to deliver on what others are demanding of them starts making a passion project into a job, and that's not a good thing. Is everyone going to always align with and like changes being made? Of course not. That's never going to happen. I'm sorry, but I disagree. I don't think it was handled poorly. You all got more "official" response than others ever did. Again, other request threads for memorials have been made before, and no one went nuts screaming and complaining about lapses in communication or favoritism or precedence or whatever. That entitlement seems to be unique to these threads here. I really am sorry you all lost someone you cared about and I'm sorry that HC isn't going to deliver what you wanted here. Criticizing HC for not doing what you want them to do isn't good either.

Good to know and thank you. Well, it wouldn't be empty or dead, it would just have less people on it. I'm sure the HC people and their friends and family would still log in and play together if there were no one else. Remember, this server had a much smaller population prior to going public. Other CoX servers are out there with much smaller populations as well and they're all still getting development effort on them. It was a much smaller architecture before the game was forced to go public. Remember, they didn't have a choice per se, since someone broke NDA and announced its existence. A lot of the legal effort behind getting a license was to make sure the people involved were covered legally, not any of us. Not to rehash history, but the code for this game wasn't shall we say purchased legally. I'm not criticizing anyone as its totally understandable that they wanted to protect themselves. Objectively, the current setup here is for our benefit, not theirs. They needed crowdfunded donations if we wanted to continue as they weren't going to bear the financial burden of paying for a larger architecture out of their own pocket, nor should they. I'm not at all suggesting they would, but HC could turn off public access to the servers tomorrow if they wanted to, condense to a single server and make it invitation only again. We already know it was affordable for a small group of people to pay for out of pocket, and it could be again. I agree, donations do not come with any expectation of authority, nor should they. It does seem to me though that there are people out there who feel entitled to something here because they made a donation or run in game events and such. I don't think anyone is entitled to anything here, nor do I believe that we should be dictating what HC does or what they work on. Again, this a volunteer group working on a passion project in their free time who are graciously sharing their work with us. I'm sure they all love having us all around, but they don't need us.

Doesn't matter. Right now, it's at the sole discretion of the people who are maintaining the game. I'm sorry that list doesn't include your friend.

Good point. I didn't think of that. Agreed.