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Anyone else got anything ridiculous they wanna argue about?

Play on Virtue, or any other highly populated server. CCs happen regularly.

And I don't think we need a map dedicated to CCs.

Yeah, alternate animations for super strength or martial arts would be the way to go.

lol this thread

Some of those things you asked for, particularly the hand claws and alternate sound effects, would require a lot more work than you'd think. Hand claws would require going in and re animating every single claws power so that the hand isn't a fist but actually a hand. If that ever gets done, I'm sure the new animations wouldn't be restricted to a booster but instead given to the players in the next batch of new power animations.

The alternate sound effects option is something that hasn't even been touched on at all with this game, meaning they'd have to build the ability to allow players to customize their sound effects from the ground up. Not an easy task by any means and, again, something that would more than likely be given away to the player base if ever done.

We need more zone events, big and small, that help us feel like heroes. With zone glowies, we could easily randomly see trees glowing with cats stuck up them and a civilian under it calling for help. Walk up to the tree, click it, bam. Civilian holds their cat, thanks you, maybe you even get credit towards a badge. A little thing that not only promotes zone activity, but also helps characters feel heroic. Don't even need to stop there. Could have an extra mechanic to stopping fires involving running into an instance in the burning building where you save civilians like in that new hero arc.

Conversely, villains could maybe get, say, zone events where they have to raid a building Longbow might be using as a base. Run in, fight through Longbow waves, then when you get to key areas you plant a bomb. Plant so many bombs, fight a Warden or something, then leave and watch as the building is set ablaze just like in Steel Canyon with their buildings. Something small for them to do is see a particular civilian on the street. Click on them and you mug them for a small amount of inf. Next animation could show the person fall over, then shout things like "I'm being mugged!"

So many things could be done to improve this game and give zones more use than "that big area you go to the mission through." Zone events in Praetoria was an amazing start, as was yellow targeting boxes and outdoor glowies. Now we just need to implement those ideas to blue and redside. The mechanics are already there, barely any new animations would need to be made, this would allow players something fun to do and boost activity, which would boost the game's reputation while getting more people to actually play in the zones. All in all, it's a win situation for everyone.

RAAAAAGE


Seriously, though, I'm a bit bored of Praetoria, and they are stretching this war out too long. I mean, the second Rikti War, which was the sequel to the war that shaped everything in City of Heroes and was one of the largest events within the lore's history, only needed an issue and one new game mechanic.

wut

Honestly, I love all the groups. But a lot of them are just terribly written and utilized. Like, lately, Malta being everywhere despite them supposed to be a secretive group. Same goes for Knives of Artemis. Or Crey, which is supposed to be the biggest and most respected company in Paragon City, even though it has enemy spawns on the streets heckling the common citizen. They should honestly be allies to the heroes on the streets and anywhere the media, PPD, etc. can see them. Then they become enemies in their arcs around the time you discover their horrible plots and corruption.

With that logic, there'd be no customization at all. I've seen characters take dark or fire powersets and turn it into sand. Or using radiation as water. Looked very convincing. You can turn any of the existing powersets into something else entirely with powerset customization. That's the entire point. Taking an existing powerset's graphics and changing them to suit your character. So saying we can't do that same thing with ice is a little ridiculous.

Thus, dammit BaBs.

I don't think he was suggesting this be implemented, judging by the fact that the first line he said was "Not so much a suggestion as a straw poll".

Honestly, I wouldn't pay for a statue of any of my characters.

Those colors looks fine.

Dammit BaBs...

If I were an Incarnate, I'd rather fight Rularuu or the Coming Storm.


To be honest, though, I love the Praetorian War storyline going on. At least, before Cole became the Well's champion and turned into Cosmic Cole. The Tin Mage and Apex TFs are awesome. But they're stretching it out way too far for my tastes, and it makes me disappointed that I'm getting sick of it.

Because they're strong powers and it would be horribly unbalanced if they didn't cost anything.

I would buy the Mutant Pack in a heart beat if the power always turned you into a monkey.

Eh. Feels like a waste of time and resources, considering there is a "save" feature and the devs constantly tell us how painful redoing the UI could be. But hey, if they ever get spare time and some random guy decides to go for this, like with [walk], I won't complain.

That link just takes me to the Animal Pack video.

Civilian clothes have already been done. We have t shirts, jeans, varieties of suits, shirts, and shoes. Other niches need way more love than "casual".

Let's not focus on animals for awhile. There are already a multitude of things that need more coverage than them.