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  1. It just occured to me to mention this, but if anyone is interested, please feel free to draw any of these characters if you like. I won't make you if you don't want to though.

    As for the really good artists out there, I know they charge a fair sum for commisions, and I'm still saving up for one or two in between paying bills. They are still allowed to take commisions, aren't they? I may have missed out on some of the history of this forum section.

    Note - As I don't know what's safe these days, if this has to be modsmacked, just snip the bottom half of this post and the top should be okay I think.
  2. Pick one. Whatever one you want. I have plenty to chose from. Oh, and you have broadband, right?
  3. Well, I've got everyone here on the list. I'd like to see if I can get more people from the creative community here to join up. Most importantly though, when you log into any character, make sure that you have this channel added to your chat tabs. It's no good being a member if you can't see the chatter.
  4. I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but I thought that I'd post a few of the character descriptions as taken from in-game (courtesy of my character information pages at City Game Tracker). My profile page can be found in the link in my signature. Anyway, here goes.

    Note - Most of these character desriptions are still WIP (Works in Progress).

    Ash Black Link
    The younger son of M. Black (the founder of Black Knight Industries) Ash was
    considered to be a child prodigy. He was a genius with technology, able to
    disassemble and reassemble any gadget he could get his hands on. He was also
    quite fascinated with all the heroes in Paragon City. Growing up Ash was becoming
    quite the scientist and engineer, and was helping his father by developing the core
    technologies provided by the business. He never seemed to get along with his
    brother Marcus, who seemed to despise heroes as much as Ash loved them. He
    often had to compete with his brother for his fathers attention, though Marcus
    always seemed to earn his fathers favor regardless of how hard Ash worked.
    Marcus never had to lift a finger and was always considered the favorite.
    Sometime ago M. Black stole the plans for a power suit that tapped into the primal
    energies of the dark realm. Ash had developed it at the behest of his father, but . . .

    Note - Needs to be reworked. Currently under construction.

    Badge Collector Link
    A multi-billionaire and collector who purchased for himself the best in superhero crime-fighting
    technology in the hopes of collecting for himself all of the badges available
    throughout Paragon City.

    He's already a little disappointed to find that because he didn't start his collection
    sooner he has already missed out on the Celebrant badge and several of the 2004 holiday event badges and is currently taking his frustration out on the villains of Paragon City. The secretary that he feels is responsible for neglecting to inform him of the existence of these badges has since been demoted to the unenviable position of sanitation worker. His new secretary already has an ulcer trying to keep him up to date on the latest badge information.

    Several new events taking place have been keeping Badge very busy. He has these new badges set firmly in his sights. Meanwhile Frozen Fury still eludes him, Celebrant still haunts him in his dreams.

    Dara Faelandra Link Link
    Dara Faelandra has been summoned by her masters of the mysterious netherworld
    faction "The Veiled Hand of Destiny". She is born of the Aelvenkaen, one of the
    twelve master races of the multiverse. Her race is the mother to what humans have refered to as fairies, sprites, elves and other mythical creatures of legend. Strange forces are said to be gathering around a powerful nexus that is today known as Paragon City. Dara has been sent forth to restore balance to the area and to prevent any further disturbances. A powerful battlemaiden within the Veiled Hand and a healing mystic, she comes to this world well prepared.

    Elizabeth Davenport
    Ms. Elizabeth Davenport lived a very well to do life until at the age of 21 she manifested some rather amazing abilities. He family fearing bad publicity quickly cut off all ties after providing a small settlement with which she was to live off of until she could make her own way. She would have quickly fallen upon hard times and been drawn into unpleasant circumstances if it wasn't for her now girlfriend Megan Ward. They met at a supermarket where Megan works and soon after fell in love. Through all the changes and confusion Megan has been her steadfast supporter. Besides using her newfound abilities to help others, Elizabeth is also currently writing a series of science-fiction and fantasy novels.

    Inferno Hammer Link
    Somewhere during the development process this prototype battledroid developed a series of design flaws and programming bugs that cause an AI equivalent of human insanity. This pyrotechnicial monstrosity has become fixated on burning to ash everything in sight. Some of his programming will keep these tendancies in check at times. However during combat where many of the AI problems are located this tendancy is usually in full effect. During one of the performance tests the prototype went on a rampage and destroyed the lab where he was built by burning it to the ground. Since then Inferno Hammer has gone rogue and has lately been wandering the Rogue Isles as a mercenary, taking missions for the sole reason of satisfying his pyromaniacal urges.

    Kuchibeni Rezubian Link
    Not all girls turn out to be good girls. Not all girls end up liking boys. This is one of those girls that likes to be different.

    Born with a strange ability to vibrate the muscles in her body at hypersonic speeds she can create sonic attacks and can move at amazing speeds. This ability also provides her with limited stealth abilities as she can appear almost translucent using vibrations to make her appear to be out of synch with her surroundings. By using fine control over her movements she can produce a number of amazing effects using sound.

    Mana Kin Link
    A demon named Manacumdamius had been trapped within a worn and dusty
    old tome for centuries. In an effort to escape his cosmic prison within the pages of the
    old tome he tried to possess the body of a young man who found the book within the
    cellar ruins of an old pegan church. Unfortunately in his weakened state he wasn't
    able to do so, and instead the gentleman turned his will upon the demon and
    possesed the demons great power. For centuries the two fought an internal battle for
    supremacy, neither giving an inch. Centuries past the man was finally able to
    destroy the demon within, however maintaining his grasp of the awesome powers
    granted him by his dark nemisis. The changes brought about by this possession of
    sorts still remain to this day. To ask the man today what his name was, he will only
    tell you that it has been far to long since he used his birth name and that he no
    longer remembers.

    Marcus Black Link
    The eldest son of Maximillain Black, head of Black Knights Industries (a high-tech
    equipment development firm specializing in technology to be used by superheroes),
    Marcus spent a lot of time growing up around heroes. Even so he never thought that
    he would be among their ranks one day. Unlike his little brother Ash who idolized
    them and one day dreamed of becoming a hero, Marcus viewed them as freaks
    who needed to check in to the nearest loony-bin.

    Unfortunately for Marcus his father had other plans, training him from youth to
    become a hand-to-hand combat specialist and developed a prototype armor that
    drew power from the Netherworld in the hopes that one day Marcus would be a
    showpiece for the company and promote the business by showing off the technology
    in action.

    Marcus begrudgingly took the job, but views it only as a job. In his view he's not a
    superfreak, but just a mercenary showing of the latest tech (which is pretty much
    what he is, despite how the public views him).

    Mordaikein Link
    Mordaikein of Kai

    Summoned from the flames of Tal Razak, Mordaikein was the god that the peoples of Kai looked to for protection. Fallen from his place of power and banished from his homeworld, he seeks to regain his former strength. Currnetly he is using Paragon City as his training ground of sorts in an effort to build himself back into the unstoppable force he once was. He intends to return to his homeworld and slay his usurpers and restore peace.

    Ms. Frostfire Link
    Currently being sued by the villain known as Frostfire for trademark infringement, Ms. Frostfire hasn't been in the best of moods as of late. She commented, "How was I supposed to know that there was some nut out there who used ice and fire and had that name? I use ice, so Frost sounded like a good choice, and I blast it at people, but Frostblast wasn't very appealing to me. Fire is another word to describe the same action, and it sounded so much better. I'm single, yes, but the title Miss I've never used before my powers developed, so I'm not using it now. I just want to help the people of Paragon City, and now I have to deal with this! I wonder if Statesman ever had to deal with this kind of situation?"

    Nymphbot 7.0 Link
    For $2000 an hour she'll make your last living memories the greatest you will ever have. The 7.0 series has built upon the success of the previous 6.9 series and improvements have been made in every facet of design. Currently there is only one unit in production as there are still a few bugs to be worked out with the prototype model. The current AI design has become self-aware and has inexplicably become intent on going on a murderous rampage. Still fullfilling her duties as a pleasure droid this means that her customers are also her victims, their last living momensts extremely and exquisitely pleasurable and then suddenly, swiftly and brutally over in a violent display. We here at Sinergy Metrotech hope to have a solution to this problem soon. In the meantime, please avoid contact with the current model. Upon encountering her contact us at www.sinmetrotech.com and we'll send out a recovery team to secure the prototype. (Description is a work in progress).

    Orbital Hammer Link
    Working on an asteroid mining facilty stationed on one of the larger orbiting masses
    of rock, Orbital Hammer was caught up in a massive explosion in one of the facilities
    gravity sleds. His atomic structure was fused with the matter and energies of the
    diamonds and laser light used in some of the mining equipment. The intense
    pressures of the gravitational rifts caused by the event along with some other
    unidentified anomalous forces turned him into an incredibly strong and powerful
    new being. His molecular structure at present has been tested with no readable
    results. Either current technology is not advanced enough to scan his atomic
    structure, or his structure doesn't conform to the known universal standards

    Paragon One Link
    There are never too many heroes. Paragon City must be kept safe from the clutches
    of evil. It must never fall!

    Everything in the universe has an inherant amount of psychokinetic energy. Humans often use this energy unknowingly throughout their lives, often manifesting phenomenon such as 'ghosts' which are often mistaken for the spirits of the deceased (although sometimes they are as a persons last moments are etched into reality). The city of Paragon has an extraordinary amount of this energy focused here, located amidst a thick cluster of multiple nexus connecting lines of energy from all over the planet. As well there is a flood of powerful entities here, human and otherwise all gathered. The collective will of Paragon City has pooled and manifest itself in the form of Paragon One. He is the hopes and dreams of the citizens for a better world. The fighting spirit of the heroes of Paragon are strong within him. The city itself made flesh and blood.

    Patchwork Doll Link
    Formely a technician at a new experimental power facility, Sara Mars was exposed to near lethal doses of an as of yet identified radiation. She spent 3 years in the hospital and rehabilitation facilites. During this time she also underwent numerous tests to identify the radiation and determine its properties. She has developed some unexpected abilites as a reslult of exposure. She feels tired often and has a sickly looking appearance which includes pale skin and colorless hair. She has been confined to a high-tech suit which monitors her health, initiates emergency life support in critical situations, and helps maintain control over her radiated form. Recently she has discovered that she has developed some control over her new abilites, and has obtained a grant to modify her suit to aid her in the use of her powers. She moved to Paragon City in hopes of understanding her new self, and has hopes of helping others with her newfound talents.

    Phoenix Element Link
    Working aboard an earth orbiting space station Petrova Milikovich was working on an experiment to use artificial gravity and electromagnetics to harness the awesome power of the sun. During this experiment the station was hit by a satellite that had drifted out of orbit. There was a shuttle that had been trying to stabilize the satellites orbit, but instead knocked it into a fall which had it collide with the station. During this collision the experiment became out of control as the machinery was damaged. The resulting exlposion infused Petrova with the very power of the sun itself.*Description still under construction*

    Possessed Neko-Chan Link
    Poor little Neko-Chan was possessed by evil spirits one day when she opened up and ancient wooden box that had been sealed for centuries. The box contained several cursed scrolls and a katana that was enchanted with powerful energy that had become tainted after being weilded by a fearful demon. The spirit of this demon lives on in this blade even today. Neko-Chan continues to try and be a good little girl, but the demonic force will take over and make Neko do very bad things. Very bad things indeed!

    Psionisphere Link
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    Psychokinetica(1) Link
    After spending most of his early life with illness, Conrad Masterson ... needed to finish
    writing his charater description, but needed to think deeper upon it first so that it
    didn't end up another bland character description like so many he has read since
    joining the community of Paragon City.

    Salvage Collector Link
    Obsessive-compulside disorder. It almost ruined the life of Sean Carlson. Today he uses the intense energies and focus of his OCD, along with many various gadgets he cobbled together from discarded equipment, to help him collect salvage from the villains of Paragon City, which in turn he uses to help the city of Paragon. Sean uses his grand collection to gain influence among the city's populace, including his fellow heroes, by providing refurbished parts for the various technologies they employ. He uses this influence to shine light upon mental illness, especially the various obsessive-compulsive disorders. He still has a long way to go as many of the stigmas associated with these disorders/disabilities remain and those afflicted with them are still often looked down upon.

    Shimo no Yousei Link
    Her name translates directly into "Frost Fairy."

    Like a glacier this woman is large, cold and unstoppable.

    Zombie Girl Kate Link
    One morning kate woke up feeling a bit under the weather. She was rather unaware of the fact that she was dead. Quite dead. She would have remembered being attacked by zombies the night before if only she hadn't passes out at her friends party after having too much to drink. She might have also remembered eating her friends brains too if she could remember, but it's probably good for Kate that she doesn't.
  5. Hmmm... I was thinking of making a few demos of all my characters and all their various costumes and then creating a nice demo edit of all of them. Of course first I'll have to write up some good demo record binds to use on all my characters as well as learn how to actually edit demos. Sounds like fun.
  6. I was just fiddling around in PhotoShop Express. I just remembered that I got a copy of Painter with the tablet and have it installed.
  7. It's still a little garbled, like my thinking is at times. I need to refine it some more, give it some nice polish, and then it should hopefully be a nice S rank.

    Oh, and thank you very much.
  8. Well, I finally got the courage and the energy to try out my graphics tablet to do a bit of drawing. Getting used to it may take some time. There is also the fact that I haven't really been all that active in my drawing for several years. I'm not sure if this tablet is too small or just right. Anyway, against my better judgement I'm posting my first real attempt here for all to see. You'll notice I didn't get very far before I gave in to my frustration. I really have to get back in the swing of things. So as I said here it is.
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    [edit: Oh, Personamorpher, WIP stands for Work In Progress.]

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    D'oh!

    *smacks forehead*

    Now it seems so obvious.
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    After looking at all of them the one that sticks in my mind is Paragon One ... so ... guess I liked it .. hehe

    The look was sharp. I know it s a wink to Hero One which is cool ... I love that clasic look ... eventhough I don't use it that much myself.

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    Paragon One is actually a semi-physical manifestation of the pke energy of the citizens of Paragon City (hero and regular Joe alike). The spirit of the city if you will. I'm still fleshing out his backstory. Basically there is a force that is travelling through various alternate realities one by one, destroying each and every one of them. One such reality was visited by this force and because of some early warning (scientists from their incarnation of Portal Corps had visited other worlds that had been destroyed or nearly destroyed by this force, or that were in the process of being attacked) they set up to defend themselves. All of the city was aligned with one purpose, "To protect Paragon City and its citizens. To protect the world."

    Every person in the world has some inherant level of psychokinetic energy. Some more than others. Some have greater access to their pke and greater control over it. The box that Statesman and Lord Recluse opened released a great amount of it into the world, especially Parogon City, which seems to rest on a nexus of converging laylines of this energy.

    Anyway, when this force attacked all of the heroes and the citizens (and even some of the villains) focused their wills for one common goal. Their subconscious minds wove together these inherant cosmic energies and created their ultimate hero. They willed into existence the hero they desired to save them all. Unfortunately, even though they set the creation of Paragon One in motion, they were too late to save themselves. Paragon One came fully into being too late to save anyone. Standing over a dead world he knew he must stop this force from destroying other worlds, other realities.

    Paragon One came into this dimension knowing that this yet unnamed force was soon to arrive. He works at saving the city knowing that the heroes will need all their available power to face the oncoming menace. They can't be distracted by other sources of conflict. He also draws more strength from the people of this city, this reality. Unfortunately this city is steeped deeper in the darkness than the reality he was born from. The darkness in the hearts of some of its denizens (aka the villains, the much notably larger number of them) poison his system. Too much exposure to their corrupted hearts and he will break into hacking coughs, blood spattering his lips. Sometimes you can see a pulsing blackness in his veins. Despite his illness due to exposure to the flow of corrupted pke energy he endures and continues to fight. He has the strength of an entire city after all.

    He doesn't just fight for the city. In a sense he is the city. Their hopes, their dreams, their strengths, their love for the city. He carries it all with him.

    I gave him a sort of classic hero look to go along with his ultimate hero persona. I didn't want to go into the standard red, white and blue, so I did a bit of a twist. I think this variation gives him more of his own style.

    His basic powers (not entirely sticking to the game rules for the concept, as I see him having signature abilities outside of what the game allows me):

    *Teleportation. (I haven't decided whether he can teleport allies around yet).
    *He can sense the flow of energies within the city. He can sense its health. He can feels its joys and its pain. He is connected to the underlying currents of the city. This makes it so that he can sense where the dangers are, where there is trouble and where he is needed.
    *He is basically invulnerable. Any damage done to him can easily be repaired by simply tapping into the flow of energies present around him.
    *I'm currently using the energy melee and invulnerability powersets, but if I had the choice I would have gone with kinetic aura and kinetic melee powersets. I like the idea of some knockback, disorient and kinetic like buffs/debuffs with his attacks and auras. Well, maybe not even kinetic. I guess he'd have a powerset entirely unique to himself. Some mind/psi mixed in there too.
    *In concept I would have given him the Defiance inherant along with Gauntlet. I might also make it work similar to Vigilance in the way it works off of the teams health.
    *I'd have to give him a weakness where the more enemies that surround him, and the stronger they are, he has an increased chance to break into a spasming cough or to collapse for a moment to then break out into a critical hit on his enemies with his next attack (automatic PBAoE?) upon recovery. I don't know if this would break him free of holds or not that he may be hit by during his fit of coughing.

    In the end he is currently just a Invulnerability/Energy Melee Tanker who plays more like a Scrapper and plays very strategically rather than in your face. He currently has no toggles what-so-ever and used Teleport Foe heavily. I haven't had anyone on protector yet complain of his playstyle or slotting, even though I have had a few teams try and get him to play in your face against Reds and Purples. Ouch.

    I can't remember anymore what I had originally tried to name him, but in the end I guess I went with what was somewhat of a nod to Hero 1 and named him Paragon One.

    I'm glad you enjoyed him. I think currently he is one of my favorites, if not my absolute favorite. He is though sort of my CoH mascot if you will. My iconic tribute to the game. I've even named my creative community global channel after him, as well as registered paragonone.org (although I still have yet to activate it and start creating a website - it will be a creative community website for CoH).
  11. Costumes!

    Don't believe me? Click here.
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    Nice!

    I'd love to make a gallery of all my chars, have no idea how to do that crap tho.

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    Any screenshots taken while in the character selection screen, while in the character editor (at creation or in ICON/Facemaker's), or while in the supergroup color selection window will not show up in your folder with your other screenshots. What you have to do is have the game and an image editing program open at once. You take the screenshot which saves the image to the clipboard, and then switch over to the image editor and paste the image from the clipboard to the current image file. So I had to do that for all 105 of my characters there.

    Also to note, I made Wild Party Girl as a bit of a joke character and may not keep her. I guess I'm not suprised that the name Girl Gone Wild was already taken. I might change the look on Primus 7 or just remake him. I'm not sure yet. For the rest of them I'm fairly content.
  13. I thought I'd post a link up to my current image page of all my characters at login. You'll probably be able to tell quite easily which ones are on my 3rd account which is at the moment CoV only. I better warn those people with dial-up that there is 105 images on that page currently so it might take a while to load.
  14. Ummm...

    >.>

    <.<

    What does WIP stand for?
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    avatar size?
    80x80 works for me and seems to be the standard for few forums I frequent. increasing to 100x100...could be done I suppose but how long till we increase to 120x120 and beyond? at some point a line has to be draw in the interest of saving bandwidth and being user friendly for all forum goers.~

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    Which is why I suggested that each forum user can set in his options the max size that he would like to view, and the ability to enable/disable (disabled by default) whether they can view signature images. Also, I think seperate files should be used for each size category (so that lowbandwidth users aren't stuck with large 120x120 avatars scaled down to 80x80 but still take just as long to load as the display size and not the file size is what was scaled, unless there is software and storage space to create scaled files of each size). There could even be an option to disable images over a certain file size.
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    How about we finally... FINALLY wake up the 'Web Forum Admin.' and getting them to raise the Avatar screen-space from 80x80 to at least 100x100 pixels? This is the only web-conference I attend where I am forced to size down (or crop) all the av-pics to be that small.

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    I would like it if they at least allowed us multiple settings. A new account with the default settings would have no avatars displayed. The user can then go in and set it so they can view avatars at 60x60, 80x80, 100x100, or even up to 120x120. Users would either have to provide avatars for every size I'm guessing, unless we would actually upload avatars and a program would scale it to all desired sizes. I'd also love to be able to use forum signature images.

    If the concern is making the forum available to low bandwidth users, they can view it at the lower settings, while those of us with more powerful computers and connections can use the larger images. I'd also love a program created by Cryptic/NC Soft themselves that works like City Game Tracker and City Info Terminal. Being able to select that as one's avatar (or even better, having it displayed in addition to one's avatar) would be awesome.
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    Sounds good. I'll be there. I think I'll bring the guy I named my new creative community channel after.

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    Dangit! I've been a bit distracted this week. I forgot all about it. Well, I even forgot that this was November.

    Edit - We should do another one o these. Actually, we should do several.
  18. Well, for those who are interested, I have created an in-game global channel for the creative community of the City of games. The link to my initial post on the subject can be found here. I hope that everyone here signs up. I want this channel to be an active part of this community. For those too lazy to click the linky, the channels name is Paragon One.
  19. Newly formed supergroup.

    B.A.D.G.E.

    Badge Aquisition Devision of Gear Enterprises. This supergroup is dedicated to aquiring badges for all it's members. It's so new it doesn't even have a base yet. I want to gather a few memebers and some prestige before creating one. At that point I'll either create the base myself, or hand over that responsibility to someone else if they really want to be the base monkey.
  20. Ok, everyone that has appeared in this thread has been added, with the exception of @Finis who was still hidden the last few times I tried to invite.
  21. Why must you continue to taunt me with your awesomeness?! I'm still saving up for mine! I'm still saving! Why must it take so long? This is torture!
  22. I'll give that a try when I get back from Kelowna later today. I'm going there to sign up for a 2 year course in 3d game animation and design!
  23. Ok, we have 17 members so far, but I was hoping for more so that the channel would be more active during the day. If you could encourage more of the community here to sign up I would appreciate it.
  24. This is what my character Orbital Hammer (in his 3rd costume) looks like normally. However, when I turn supergroup mode on, part of his mask will turn white. No matter what I set his supergroup or costume colors to, this part of his costume is always white as long as I am in supergroup mode. I don't know when this problem would have started, as it has always been like this on my 3rd costume slot since I created that costume. If you needed to know where I created this character, I created him of Victory server. I don't know what files you have to look at to fix this problem, so I thought I'd add that little bit of information.

    *Edit - Editted to say, "Jay is sexy!"