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Quote:That doesn't seem any less safe for work than my female avatars played by men in City of Heroes/Villains.Originally Posted by Venture
Here. It's PG-13, but still NSFW.
Is it because she's being whipped?
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Quote:The OP is saying it's not right because Ophelia is made into Hamlet's sister.Originally Posted by Delrune
So... let me get this right... you take offense to this badge, because in its original form Hamlet doesn't actually have a drowning scene, instead Ophelia's drowning is mentioned only via a monologue.
Are you not aware that many theater groups rewrite play to put their own take on them? Its not hard to imagine that someone would modify the play so that Ophelia's drowning would actually play out instead of it being mentioned only in monologue. Its not like she was suddenly killed by aliens or cooked long-pig style. If that was the case, then I might be able to understand your issue.
Also, this isn't the first time the lore writer has fumbled. I mean, Bres was not considered a Tuathuan, even by himself, he was a Formian, he was a bad king to the Tuathua, and the only good he did was in some variations of the myth where Nuada spared his life (after declaring war on the Tuathua by teaming up with Balor) and he taught the Tuathua Agriculture.
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Quote:It seems the Praetorians have been infiltrating Primal earth's fourth wall as well. When you consider that a costume and their sexuality are their only real differences, Dominatrix could easily stand-in for Ms. LibertyOriginally Posted by Venture
Taking a cue from a member of the MA Arc Finder channel, who did the rewrite, Dominatrix?
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Quote:So you want a crossover with Guild Wars and fight in Cantha?Originally Posted by Remaugen
I would be perfectly happy with a generic "Ancient Asian" zone accessed though the Midnighters Club. Perhaps an amalgamed zone who's history has already been destroyed by whichever chosen evil badguy group. Heroes and Villians would be fighting cooperatively to make that reality remain alternate and prevent it from becoming our (Earth Paragon) own past.
Take a little bit of Japan, a little bit of China and a splash of Southeast Asia and mash it all together!
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Quote:Actually, a bit a fridge brilliance: That's because there IS NO Superhero genre!Originally Posted by Aoleleb
REALLY obscure piece of backstory, and I don't remember where it's from but:
I heard a while back that comics are just as common in Paragon City as they are in our world. Instead of focusing on superheroes though, since heroes are so common in Paragon, they instead focus on other genres such as mysteries and romance.
Since super powers are reality, super hero or villain stories, or any stories that involved meta-humans would simply be categorized under broader genres such as those Aoleleb mentioned.
For example, we know City of Heroes to be a Super Hero MMO, but if the game was within it's own universe, it would be a modern action-adventure MMO. -
Quote:So wait, you say it's because Hami's rarely ever won fights that he's not able to evolve? HAMIDON IS A POKEMON, YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS!Originally Posted by Scythus
Yeah, well... the Praetorian Hamidon has been around longer. If you want to look at Hamidon's future evolution, Praetoria's the place. Clearly we must keep pounding Primal Hamidon into the dust to keep him from reaching his next stage of growth.
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Quote:My characters haven't (I'm a roleplayer, @#$% your half-***** lore) they've simply become more badass through training, hardwork, and not listening to strange, sentient, golden water pools that sit in a basin shaped conspicuously like a toilet for Rularuu.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
It's almost as if we've received some kind of cosmic power and ascended to a new level.
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Quote:We'd probably get Tales of the Black Freighter instead.Originally Posted by Vanden
I'd think there'd be fewer, considering real heroes fight real evil every day in Paragon. I mean, how popular are comics about anti-terrorism activities in the Middle East in real life?
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Quote:Well, also not helped that the katana draws from the hip. Dual blades and Broadsword draw from the back, MM Dual Pistols draw from the under arms, regular DP draws from the hips, and assault rifle and Arachnos soldier gun are (somehow) drawn from the back.Originally Posted by Bronze Knight
Have you ever done this IRL? I have and let me tell you for most Katana scabbards it does NOT work. The Katana is a long weapon you just don't have the arm length to do it. That said Game =/= RL, just know that its going to look "wrong" no matter what they do.
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Quote:Let's not go to Camelot. Tis a silly place...Originally Posted by Arilou
It's not an alternate dimension, but I love a Medieval World (like we have Roman World!) with King Arthur and his knights and stuff.
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You log into City of Heroes one night, expecting the usual fair, you head through Atlas on your way to the RWZ to join the next trial, when suddenly, you see something strange about the Atlas Globe... did they recently patch Atlas?
Then you realize, Atlas' globe is made of spiders. -
Quote:Wow... this could be a good replacement for Praetoria as the Goatee Mirror world.Originally Posted by Lycantropus
How about a world where Cole and Richter found each other after the incident at the Well and remained friends? Moreover they continued their crime sprees with their old compatriots, using their ill-gotten gains to outfit their friends with state-of-the-art gear to keep up with them as their lieutennants in their criminal gang?
In this world is a brilliant and ambitious toymaker who managed to live beyond his years built a little empire for himself in his homeland in Austria, improving the lives of its citizens and becoming a national hero. Unable to sit back and watch these super-criminals unleash terror and chaos around the world, he rises up and builds steam and clockwork machines that can match them, outfitting brave souls willing to stand up to the menace of the Cole gang, and in honor of his goal he names himself their Nemesis!
While slowing them down and preventing a number of henious crimes from taking place, he is still unable to stop them alone. Over time, Even as their gang grows and numbers and power, their Nemesis, too, comes across others who stand up to Cole and Richter's growing criminal empire. A powerful psychic who grew up idolizing the Nemesis, who can communicate with machines, and even animate small clockwork robots he has built himself! A mysterious masked woman who has knowledge beyond her years and her rag-tag group of European acrobats who fight with a flair and style never seen before! A Baron who discovered a lost civilization and learned the knowledge of an entire race of sorcerers, making him the most powerful wizard of this age!
Together, with the help of the U.N. peacekeeping organization M.A.L.T.A., they now fight against the world-dominating menace of Cole and Richter's army of high-tech terrorists and metahumans that have joined their cause.
I think it would be neat...
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Quote:Bah! you think too small, Null is greater than an Incarnate! His power is so great, the Well draws its power from him. (Don't ask how Null gives it)Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Null must be an Incarnate
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Quote:Funny enough, i've played blasters and MMs, and I can say this much: A blaster can survive pretty well on a trial because you can stay back and out of the main hairball while firing, MM pets on the otherhand, have no such self-preservation abilities, especially not the thugs Arsonist.Originally Posted by Vanden
Sounds exactly like what happens to my Blaster.
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not only that, but MM pets cannot use their powers any time they want, they too have end, and it's end pets can, and have been known to occasionally run dry on, with very little to restore said end besides feeding them blues.
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Quote:when it includes gettin' a dat dayum sash, you dawgawn better bet actual carnie pieces'd be nice.Originally Posted by Matt_King
Yeah, I saw a pretty good Carnie costume using the Steampunk pieces but as good as that looks, I would assume most people want actual Carnie pieces.
An' they better not best be lock 'hind (Jarate) Incarnate. -
Quote:No, you're not.Originally Posted by Rowdy
Am I the only one here that noticed the new Incarnate costume?!? My goodness, those costumes look as if they've descended from the heavens themselves. Me want, NAO!!
Also, sorry but if you want them you need to run incarnate trials to globally unlock them and once you globally unlock them, only your level fifty characters can us them. I should note here that the "Incarnate Armor" is not exclusive to Incarnates, just exclusive to level fifty characters, so there's not even the claim that the Well is no handing out glowing pants.
Franky, I do honestly like the armor, but this is some series bull-jarate, the characters I want all that for are NOT level fifty, if it was simply a matter of "unlock once and then all characters can use it from level one" then I'd be fine, but the Devs seem to think that they can copy [A CERTAIN OTHER MMO] and their methods will translate well here.
Oh, and also locking emotes behind Incarnate content too is a right middle finger, but at least it's not the Party Pack. (Let us never speak of that tripe again)
Now that I've fulfilled my average b@#$% quota for this thread, I will say I am delighted by the new lore pets and do wonder if they'll have any difference in powers from the standard NPCs, partly because I could have sworn a few of the present ones have powers their actual enemy versions lack.
Also, kudos on the new auras, not sure or what- *Rereads that the new auras are also locked behind merits* ...
Okay... but, the AoE shield buffing is nice... -
Quote:alright, to play a bit against my own side, I'll agree with you for this post. But I ask you, would you want more of these Incarnate costume sets? More Costume sets that are only unlocked through grinding the trials? Trials that not everyone might be able to access? There are still some people who haven't gotten Going Rogue, you know.Originally Posted by TonyV
I talked to Serge about this earlier tonight, and he assured me that it is quite impossible to replicate on a non-Incarnate. I think that his exact words were, "I do not dress zee heroes in teen foil and steerofoam."
Seriously though, what is your beef? That there exists such a thing as an "Incarnate costume" at all, or that this particular costume is locked behind the trials? If it's the latter, well, work for it; that will make it all the sweeter! If it's the former, then I respectfully disagree; I think it's cool, and is an effective way at generating more excitement at dinging 50 and doing Incarnate content.
Yes sir, I like it. I like it a lot. I like the fact that not every level 1 schmo will be running around with this stuff on, that the devs understand that it's cool to have stuff in the game worth getting excited and putting in time and effort to achieve. I give it three thumbs up. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to call the police and report finding an inexplicably dismembered thumb. Gross, where did this thing come from? -
Quote:This kind of hits the points i was going to make. I mean, the only one I tend to not complain about is boosters since they seem to allow for Devs to actual consider niche costume piece themes and gains extra revenue.Originally Posted by Xzero45
For starters, nearly every single one of those examples you mentioned have been complained about constantly by players. How it's ridiculous you have to earn the right to wear a cape around your neck, run the KHTF to wear that witch hat, etc. etc. This particular case is special, however, because the devs have actually employed tech we've been clamoring for for years; global costume unlocks. But even after going through the trials, earning the merits, and unlocking the costume set for your entire account, it turns out that all of your characters still can't wear them until they hit level 50.
You have to jump through two incredibly time consuming hoops just to wear one costume set. A costume set I'm sure if you showed a picture of to Serge he could whip up out of metal and special hologram projectors for you to wear. It's a little ridiculous. -
Quote:Oh, I don't deny there's good stuff, the thing is, City of faces the parable "The closer to the light one gets, the greater one's shadow becomes" in this case, you replace 'light' with 'perfection' and 'shadow' with 'failures'.Originally Posted by Yosomono
Wow, it just goes to show that no matter what awesome stuff the devs do for us, there will always be people who whine and complain about it.
The Devs have given us a good game, almost too good in some cases because every time they live up well to their standards (new auras, new lore pets, etc. etc.), they make one terrible failure that seems to blind out everything else, in this case, locking costume and regular emotes, as well as costume pieces, behind Incarnate content with a strict level requirement as well in a manner similar to another MMO's Epic Gear.
This is from a game where character customization is one of strongest selling points, that you can jump into any costume contest with a decent chance to win or make your character how you want them to look without having ground yourself through trial after trial and to the highest levels. But now, you apparently do. -
My reaction:
hmmm... New trials, cool, reducing grindfest... More Lore pets, great! New auras, awesome! New emotes, not bad. AoE buffs, lovely! Incarnate locked costume pieces.
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Thank you Paragon Studios, you remind me that City of Heroes is a game that absolutely, stubbornly refuses to be perfect. Every time you take a step for the better, you insist on grinding the other foot into the ground and taking a step back. The incarnate armor, for all it's gawdiness, looks beautiful, and I can think of toons of mine who would love it who are far from level fifty.
I guess I see the point of this: you want something visible for players to show off "I'm an incarnate who's ground the trials ad nauseum!" because that's how the biggest MMO does it, and since they're the ones with half the population of the world sucked in, surely they're a good example to follow.
I won't cancel my account, but I do dare you to do more "purely aesthetic things locked behind incarnate content" and see how far you can push me. -
Quote:Well if we're going for pure shonen and to work will villains too (who are almost always loner types in Anime) it should be "100%!" (You are now using 100% of your true power!)Originally Posted by Cheetatron
I'm not sure what untrademarked anime looks could go into such a pack other than anime faces, raised/spikey hair, oversized weapons(action/combat sandals?) but I do know what the pack's power should be, and that's a PBAOE buff based on the Shonen staples like "The Power Up" and "The Power of Friendship"
Call it Nakama!
Nakama! can only effect self and teammates including your pet's and their pets. The more teammates boosted by Nakama the weaker the indvidual buff is but the net buff is far greater with more receivig it then less. Does not stack from multiple casters.
Nakama should heal a little dmg, restore a little endurance, reduce endurance cost, increase the damage, the resistance and max hp of all effected
5 minute recharge ignores all buffs
Seriously though, it keeps bugging me how people think anime has a single, unified appearance aesthetics outside a vaguely defined art style. -
Quote:Should be a fairly simple matter of just making sure that the right amount of power is redirected, which, knowing Keyes, would possibly be an automatic system as a failsafe to the reactors.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I wonder what we'll need to do to cripple the power supply for the portals without harming the sonic fences?
The Reactors are capable of producing an enormous amount of power enough to run Praetoria about three hundred times over, in theory, crippling it down to essential systems would not only damage the portal tech power, but cripple the warworks production facilities.
Golden Girl, you and your team have your objectives. Take those reactors out before the Federal Offices of Interdimensional Immigration gets another deskload of paper work.
General Ciel, over and out.
The twist will be that Anti-Matter is your first opponent, but he'll only con as a regular AV for some reason, then you will fight a super super powerful Neuron who will have perma-elude and untouchable phasing... until a "freak accident leak" of anti-matter will dose Neuron, weakening him severely. behind his helmet, Keyes puts on his Trollface and then you fight him again at full strength.Quote:Originally Posted by reiella
Wonder if our AV buddy for this one will be AntiMatter. Most likely, but I can see it ending up being Neuron, or even potentially both. Although, I feel bad for AntiMatter
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Quote:Huh, I thought it meant: "From Vinci".Originally Posted by Scythus
We are aware that "Da Vinci" translated roughly means "My father was born in Vinci" right?
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Quote:Awesome... I also Like Steelclaw's Da Vinci Versus Raphael world.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Ruler: Emperor Nemesis Rex
Factions: Imperial Army, Imperial Automatons and the Paladins of Justice
Here, the Victorian era never ended. Nemesis came to power before the rise of the Metas, and conquered the world. The only force left standing in his iron-clad way are the Paladins of Justice;
Herald
Neon
Relay
The Puggilist
Fortress
Brother Psion
Gorgon
Lady Arcana
The Armies of Nemesis Rex are not to be trifled with, however. Human soldiers are backed up by humanoid automatons, armed with rifle and blade, and capable of cutting a swathe through any who stand against them.
Welcome...to Dimension Victoria XIII
((V13 is in my AE arc, Crown of Iron, Heart of Steel Part 1, if anyone is interested Author @TechbotALPHA))