AzureSkyCiel

@Doc Reverend
I believe this is often known as the troubling phenomenon Humans are White. Apparently it extends beyond space opera and fantasy settings.

@SlickRiptide
Here, sort of. If I recall, it says nothing about the Skulls being Slavic, but the Petrovich brothers themselves were, as were the original gang(s) they ran with until they struck out on their own.

Also, devs are really gonna need to update that page.

Hey, here's an idea about a new Penelope Yin costume:



PSYCHIC, MAGICAL SCHOOLGIRL, FOLKS!

(Okay, this is just a gag post dude to my "What if Penelope modeled her costume off of Magical Girls. Though I can imagine everyone deciding they'd have no issue about 20+ year old penelope yin dressing like she was still in highschool... Or like Cardcaptor Sakura.)

Here's another issue though with a Rocket Launcher or demolitions blast set: how do you justify anything BUT AoE damage?
Having at least 3 Single target powers is kind of important.

(Oh! But if we made a demo-blast or rocketlauncher power set, maybe it's special gimmick could be boosting the 'blast radius'!)

Here's my own input: (I'll just copy this over to the beta forums)

-I do like the Skulls revamp and feel the Hellions could do with something similar, you know, a real revamp and not just the edition of the Girlfriend from Hell (which I found inappropriate since Hellions are normally supposed to count themselves 'lucky' to have actually MET a real demon).
The only drawback I do find is that they Skulls now look "too clean". No ripped jeans, frayed hems, torn-off-sleeves, or stains. But that in of itself can be justified since I'm pretty sure even gangbangers enjoy laundry fresh clothing. (fresh from the dryer underwear: proof of compassionate and loving divinity on cold days)
Oh, though as a small suggestion: maybe consider giving some of the bosses trenchcoats. Black trenchcoats. (mighty be a good place to showcase the cybertech trenchcoat)

-For text and lore: I do also object to giving THE WHOLE GANG cheap accents. For one: the Skulls were founded by and a bit from Eastern European immigrants, but as has been pointed out before: they are recruiting from EVERYWHERE and gathering up ANYONE they can. Besides, The Family doesn't all speak with cheap Italian accents, the Tsoo lack cheap Vietnamese/Chinese (the spread of the Hmong people, if I recall) accents, even the Fifth Column is lacking in German accents.
I would like to point out to the Devs that the Petrovich brothers already existed in-game as basic Bone Daddies in the Bonefire Arc. Back then they were known as Marrowsnap and Marrow Drinker. I will admit that this is a HUGE improvement on the two, I just think it might be best to edit some of the old website info or move the Bonefire arc purely to Ouro.

-This is more of a bug, but Gravedigger Strikers and Deathhead Soldiers guns are not rendering, making them look like City of Heroes is getting censored by 4Kids.

Well, just for the heck of it, mind if I turn this into a classic comic book, what if thread?

What if Dr. Raymond "Positron" Keyes learned magic and combined it with science?

What if Sister Psyche and Statesman survived Wade's assassination but were merely depowered?

What if Lord Recluse instead became a good guy upon drinking from the Fountain of Zeus?

What if God was one of us?

What if Synapse was a true ladies man?

What if Penelope Yin instead chose a magical girl motif for her super hero attire? ("In the name of the justice, I'll punish you!")

What if Back Alley Brawler did have one super power: eternal youth?

What if Captain Mako Black Scorpion farted during a really important Arachnos meeting?

Oh, snap!

One thing that gets my interest in these old info pieces isn't always what we lost out on, but rather what's apparently been planned from the beginning.

For example, Jack Emmert commented about bases in the old pre-alpha video, specifically having had plans to include them from the beginning, along with that there was an old faux-scroll screen of all the various powersets you would be able to pick from, among them, Plant Control and Dark Control.

Planned since before Alpha, but it took a year for us to get plant control in the beginning (and it took at least two more years before heroes could use it) and Dark Control took nearly seven years to implement.

Basically, what this is would be creating an "entirely new" power set selection that's basically EVERY POWERSET already available in AE for our custom critters. This would allow us unparalleled customization, the ability to make "four elements" baddies, give something melee and ranged attacks that are not covered by assaults, and an armor set, or even add in a few 'junk' powers to keep some enemies from getting too powerful for their level range.

With this freeform style, power pools, EAT (outside of formshift) powers, and Epic Power Pools might even be added.

There would have to be limitations of course, like only one entry per each power to avoid someone 'junking up' something with quick recovery, fast healing, and other 'weak' passives, also, two weapon selections would probably still be out of the question, and thus individual powers would need to be locked out instead of entire powersets. Memory concerns might also come up, and thus it might be possible there WOULD NEED to be an upward cap of how many powers you can select per-critter.

Otherwise, what would you think of something like this being added?

... Wow. So people's first reaction to a long asked for fix is to complain.

You know the funny thing about this?
If the IDF costume power had been ANYTHING in the IDF but a basic ranger and/or an Olympian Guard*... I would have bought it.

*Admittedly, the Olympian Guard has a collar and 'inner armor' piece that is not available to players that adds a fully "Heavy body type" look.

I'm not sure this would be very easy to code this.
And as mentioned: how much is really enough?

Frankly I think that SR could instead stand to have it's own +tohit buffs. Afterall, reflexes aren't just about dodging, but taking advantage of openings.

Oh, and maybe a +recharge buff to Elude.

It's really not too impressive.

Native American: Mother F-ing THUNDER BIRDS. Eagles big enough to pick people up and eat them!
(Possibly related: Ziz from Judaic myth. I mean we've already got Leviathan and Behemoth.)

Babylonian: Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes, and someone who could have been THE ORIGINAL Incarnate. (It's implied he was one of the original heroes from the first KNOWN/speculated time 'Pandora's Box' was opened.)