Ad Astra

Hello - female (IRL) player here and I agree with Aett.

And there are tons of costume combinations that don't make you look color blind or like a ****** - even without Boxing Shorts & Samurai Armor.

(BTW - what effect do VR costume pieces have on your personal color sense? They do not dictate only certain color combinations be used and preclude the use of others that might make the eyes bleed.)

How is this different from just starting out another character?

Please expand.

So what you are really looking for is new ways to have fun with a level 50 character.

I'm not the best person to help with this because I have only a single 50 (another character is hovering at level 49.7), but here's a link to another thread over in City Life discussing ways to make the game new & different to a player without adding anything at all:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=197345
Hope it helps.

My personal solution is to take an extreme amount of time getting to 50, making lots of alts to try stuff again, and also being part of a regulr TF group on Saturdays to play my level 50 Blaster. Even lower level TFs are so much more fun now with SSK - and we run them completely, very little stealthing, and take time to read the storyline.

Both of these adequately sum up my feelings about the OP.

Me, I play Defenders that have ally buffs and blast stuff in between (or even instead of buffing if the team is already strong enough to face the challenge).

I play Corruptors that may serve a buff/debuff role - or they may be blasting. They certainly will be doing at least a little bit of both, no matter what the team.

Kind of a theme going, hmmm?

I will never play a "buffbot".

Just because a large number of players got multiple VRs the day they rolled out does not mean that those players did not have to "wait" for them. In fact several of them (costume pieces like trench coats & wings) were requested over and over and over again all throughout the first 2 years of the game before VRs were instituted. We waited throughout those 2 years of asking for them.

I'm not quite a 5 year veteran, only 57 months. When VRs rolled out, I most certainly DID NOT get all of them, only the ones I had earned up to that point in time. I will always be slightly behind the leading edge - where I should be since I was slightly behind the leading edge in starting to play the game.

Pretty meh on most of your list Jakey - but what do you mean by this?

This.

Many players returning from a long absence (per your post, from back when the game first came out) can benefit from just starting fresh to get a handle on the various mechanics of the game.

And since we have so many slots available, don't immediately delete your old characters - they may not be as messed up as you think they are. Or at least, after relearning the mechanics of the game with your alts, you will have a better idea of what you want to change.

I don't know if it is his mother tongue, but he has mentioned from time to time that he lives in Bulgaria.

You get introduced (via a popup window from Montague Castanella) at about level 10-12. You can do the intro arc early in the teens - which is great if you want that day job, netting you extra arcane drops. I just finished it on a level 18 blaster, who would have done it earlier except she ran a Posi TF that sped her past it.

Most of your costume ideas have been suggested before - SexyJ has a whole thread dedicated to costume ideas, which he reads every day.

As far as coloring Travel Powers - BaBs is on record somewhere as saying that he wasnot able to get to customizing any of the Pool Powers for I16, but that they are on his list, so that will happen sooner or later.

Flight Auras can probably be done using a keybind and the existing auras available at level 30. I haven't tried it myself, but it should work.

Rocket Packs - not currently feasible because there isn't an attachment point on the back to place them. Have you ever seen the Mayhem/Safeguard Raptor Pack on a Huge body type (it's buried in the back) or on a tiny character (it floats out from the body). Again - often asked for.

BBQPork already laid out some potential problems with your idea for alternate animations for the source for Blasts, etc. They are all valid points. Some of ToySoldierZolgar's observations about the animation difficulties for scabbards & sheaths applies to alternate power animations. Obviously, it can be done, since we now have alternate animations for MA & Super Strength. But not very "easy".

I held off from first responding to your suggestions because I really didn't want to say it - but "Search" would have found most of the ideas already discussed, particularly all the costume ideas in SexyJ's stickied thread at the top of this forum.

Thanks, Kel.

That was my first thought when I saw the thread title as well.

No -

Droning Eochai gets rid of him quicker to allow the chance for Jack to spawn.