Hero_of_Light

But at what point does that hurt engagement, and should new gated stuff never be added?

I could agree with that, long as the different avenues both encourage engagement.

Which side do you agree with more? Do you feel there should be in game goals/rewards created by the devs that players can play towards and helps keep engagement, or do you feel that it's a way devs force players to keep playing by 'locking' content behind gameplay? Or do you have some other opinion? (Stay civil and don't attack someone's idea of it or what they think they goals/rewards should be because you don't aggre with them.)

I definitely notice it when suggesting something some people don't like, but just on the fourms; in game things are normally very cordial.

Ahhh, ok. I may be thinking of something completely different, but are there emote timers? Like bind a button to be fly, and then a second later pose change? (For devs) Also, if the emote is already there, why not use that animation? And instead of it being an animation change to the existing fly, copy/paste fly to the fly power pool as a 'new' fly power and have it use that animation instead? (Edit) Ah I see, has to go the one pose, then the other since the emotes weren't made to be an initial animation so it looks funny. Gotcha (Edit 2) What about the animations for the other flights? Could those more easily flow into it? (Edit 3) Just spitting ideas. What about having a color customized sonic boom flash, light, dust cloud, ect... obscure the character momentarily so the glitchy animation change isn't percived?

I thought there was a / command for different fly poses?

I say open these peices up as unlockables for helping/beating the NPCs 😄

I'd love this! Make em rewards for beating/helping these NPCs 😄

That seems fair enough, let's go with that. Unlike real life, when ever someone makes a character, they all start off on the same foot with everything available to them the same way. The only real resource difference could be time, where I could totally see being a have/have not if costume unlocks were behind doing a long taskforce all in one day, or if every costume unlock was per character and not global. Personally I'd be okay with that, but to compromise I ask that any costume unlock be global and not behind extreme gates. So what if someone is able to spend time on one day doing a story arc for va costume peices, and it takes me time spent durring 3 days? They'll probably also be lvl 50 and incarnate before me too, and that's just how it goes. In the end we'll still have the same things, but I had the option of enjoying the journey.

Okay, back to topic. More things to play towards and feel accomplished after. For me, that's a few of any new costume peices be global unlockables and be earned during gameplay that's available to everyone. It's one of the only things not achievable in the game currently and would help some keep engaged.

Also, if people didn't want to play a story arc and get costume peices, that's them excluding themselves, not being excluded.

That argument works both ways, and those example play to my argument, not yours. Women voting for example. Which side wants no way for people (women) to unlock costume peices (vote) and which side wants there to be an option for people to have unlockable costumes prices everyone is allowed to get? All players are included when having most costumes free, with a couple unlockables behind a story arc, because everyone is allowed and able to do the story arc. It would only be exclusive if players weren't allowed to freely play those story arcs. Thank you for providing examples to help me prove my point.

People also enjoy the feeling of accomplishment when earning something they like. If badges we're completely free for everyone but all costumes were unlockables, would you be happy because 'if you want something free, enjoy the badges'?

If all costumes were unlockables, but badges/powers/lvls we're free to everyone, would you suddenly not care about costumes since other things we're free?

So you disagree that the average player doesn't use the fourms? Or do you think the other people here agreeing with me don't exist?

How is it not? You're not wanting to consider having a few out of the hundreds of costume peices to be unlockable via gameplay, thereby excluding those that do since there is no option otherwise.

Yeah, because the whole player base is engaged with the fourms lol. The average player doesn't use the fourms so the poll would only give significant numbers if the devs had an announcement in the launcher.

I agree, and if the devs added new unlockable costume peices spread through out the content you just mentioned, you can be sure people would start to do the content.

It's funny how un-inclusive towards those wanting a few of any new costume pieces to be unlockables some on the forum are. I'm all for the Devs putting up a poll! Although I don't think you'd like the numbers on how many players would like new unlockable costume peices.

So then by that logic, the third that doesn't want it isn't large either.

Yes, it would be more specials, and typically humans like feeling special especially if it's something they like. It scares me to see people that view having unlockables costumes peices this way and use psychobabble to defend having every costume price, even future ones for free. I bet you'd rather have no future costume pieces if some future ones were required unlockable huh?

About a third, with the second third not caring either way and the last third being against

This one? About a third of the people that replied agreed or see how it worked be nice. Not to mention everyone I've asked in game

I'm not asking for money spent costumes or really hard to get costumes so your point isn't valid. If someone is a 'have not' because they don't want to complete a particular mission or story arc, that's totally on them because it's not hard to do nor does it cost money. Plus adding things to work towards keeps people engaged, so that would actually help the health of the game. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it shouldn't be there if a large amount of people would like it, which since you can see everyone here agreeing and asking for the same, you can't deny exists.

Agreed. I choose to lvl characteres (except my main because I had already got to 50 in live) the old fashion way. Do I care if people grind AE for exp? No. Would I care if the only way to lvl was AE and people just did missions for fun pretending to lvl'd? Yes That's how I feel about having every costume for free including potential new costume pieces.