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Stradden  4/17/07 11:06:15 AM
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Jay Doherty is a Character artist who is currently working on Cryptic Studios' City of Heroes / City of Villains. Today, he writes this developer journal about designing the costume piece wings that are available in the game.

Hey, I'm Jay Doherty, and I am a character artist for City of Heroes. One of my specialties is inventing wings for City of Heroes and Villains, and I am here to tell you how it all goes down.

With each new content update that has come out over the recent years, I always saw players making their own threads on costume pieces what they wanted, so I decided to start a thread on the City of Heroes several months back asking players what they most wanted. Within about two weeks 10,000 requests were made. So I started chipping away at the ever-growing requests. Obviously one of the cool aspects of City of Heroes is the ability for characters to fly, and not surprisingly one of the biggest requests was that players wanted wings. So wings are what they got.

Read the whole article here.

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Jon Wood
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mastervalek  4/17/07 1:48:13 PM
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cool, fairy and butterfly wings.... oh i kinda like the way that the broken angel wings look too, maybe i can make baxter from the ninja turtles or something... they sorta look like they could be fly wings
 
mooshim  4/17/07 2:23:27 PM
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Awesome work!!  Its really cool seeing a little glimpse of what goes into making the characters and their differents aspects. Honestly I would like to see more!

Looking forward to playing again!
 
geldonyetich  4/17/07 6:47:23 PM
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Who is more the troll? The troll or those who feed them?
I'm looking forward to Tech wings, myself.  I'm not holdig my breath on easily obtaining them as they're likely going to be hot items on the auction house.
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DAMNIROCKASS  4/17/07 10:22:07 PM
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I just have a question about the new wings. I know you can invent them but can you invent them even if you don't have the 15 month badge? I don't have the 15 month badge yet and I just wanted to know if you have to be playing for 15 months before you can make the wings or you can make them right when Issue 9 comes out?
 
Lumynous  4/17/07 11:20:34 PM
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Inventable wings do not require the veteran reward. The Veteran Reward Wings were intended as a preview of the larger range of wings thats coming in Issue Nine. Of course, the drop rate for the recipe needed to make the wings is very, very, low, so don't get too excited about these.

 
skinnys  4/18/07 8:23:17 AM
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But with the cross-server auction houses, i don't think it'll be that hard to get some of the new wings.

Nice preview of the new wings, i cant wait to get some tech-wings for some of my bots :D

Now we just need the fame-system!

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Vallenar  4/18/07 2:06:41 PM
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Unfortunatley I have never played this game but kind of admired this from afar.
This addition though looks really cool.
 
Arson1c  4/18/07 3:10:05 PM
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This article is a perfert example of how the devs of CoX listen to their community.  For once I would like to commend the development community on such an excellent addition to the game.  Great work guys, please keep it up on behalf of your fans!
 
XxjagoxX  4/18/07 7:47:46 PM
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Originally posted by Arson1c
This article is a perfert example of how the devs of CoX listen to their community.  For once I would like to commend the development community on such an excellent addition to the game.  Great work guys, please keep it up on behalf of your fans!
They Listen? HAHA! If they Listen, Rather then bull craping around with costume stuff, they would  install lvl 50 unlockable epic toons for cov by now and IOP's "Items of power" already.... these 2 things alone people have been crying for months now!! at least a year or so.. i just stop playing cox about 2 months ago because i  was tired of waiting for them, thats after playing for 2 years off and on...

A Newb is As a Newb Does...
SkullZero1  4/18/07 9:14:34 PM
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