AzureSkyCiel

Another cast of thread Necromancy as well as further dicussions on the idea of improving interior/instanced environments along with outdoor/persistent ones. This one goes a little beyond the art department though but i think it has a worthy place here:

I won't disagree with you, I'd love more options for custom AE minions, sometimes not even to make the AVs tougher but keep the minions more balanced.
But i'm not sure it'll be easy to happen, it would require an expansion of the data used per-custom critter, I believe, which is already quite a bit.

So as a bit of random crackiness, if Paragon Studios ever put out a spinoff of our beloved franchise, what might you want to see or be willing to play?

For me, two things come to mind: An Action Adventure game with RPG growth elements that's basically City of in a more actiony, single-player, console format, doubly so if it basically allows us extremely similar levels of customization. It all just seems like the logical leap if one were to make a spinoff of this game for a different genre.

Though another possibility, stretching the feel of super powers, would be some kind of RP Strategy game, similar to Makai Kingdom, basically putting strong emphasis on lots of powerful hero units mixed in with more generic units. I could it in various campaigns like a C&C game where you pick which faction you want to lead.
It seems like another logical branch out because we've got so many damned paramilitary groups (Malta, Longbow, Arachnos, Council, 5th Column, Nemesis, Sky Raiders, PPD, Vanguard, and, to a mildly lesser extend, the Rikti. did I forget anyone?) that we could easily make armies out of them to slug it out with one another and even expand on just what their full resources are.

So, I unlocked my Interface today, crafted and slotted my first and then upgraded to the second tier along the core path of Reactive, to say the least, I was giddy since I was playing my lethal-only-damage dealing katana scrapper, which many know is the most highly resisted damage type out there as well as most highly resisted.
Anyway though, So I decided to break out a Mark III Power analyzer to see just how much I debuff my target's resistances.
After mashing buttons and keeping a close eye on my target's resistance attribute I found out I was debuffing my foe's resistance for an awesome 2.5%!!!!
Wait, what?
Okay, so it also stacks on itself for up to, I think at the VERY most, up to -10% and it left me wondering: Will this debuff improve in either duration or strength as I unlock the final tiers? And are all the Interface debuffs this tragically laughable?

Okay, for starters, I'm not even sure the coding for this is possible, but...

I know Devs don't want Incarnate level shifts to exemp down past 45 to avoid trivializing lower level content, and I can get that, but at the same time it can kind of make an Incarnate character... Not feel very special, but I still get it, and I came up with this kind of half-way meeting point.

Each level shift you have is added to your power restrictions. I'm not sure that's a good way to put it, so, I'll try this.

Say a level 50 character with a +3 Level teams up with a level 10 character. Where normally the level 50 character would have access to powers up to level 15 under examplaring, his level shifts would increase his available powers up to 18 instead.

Does this make any sense?

I support this idea!
I support it so much, I will /sign it twice!

having played a lambda trial for the first time myself today, I can say this is a fair and reasonable suggestion.

Dancing Sword lore Pets
Especially if you can summon multiple elemental blades.



Also, a judgement power that basically involves shooting dozens of swords at opponents. Can you tell I like swords?

As another odd idea:

(TF and SF No, it's not coop, there's just equivalent versions between sides) Scirocco's Blood Trail: Scirocco never did want to be a villain, but his curse commands his best intentions be twisted to evil, but Imad Malik is a shrewd man, and he realizes a loophole. He has vowed that to become the greatest hero... He will become the world's worst villain, and his first plan is to bring the full wrath of the entire world against Arachnos and the Rogue Isles themselves.
Heroes will work to prevent Scirocco from assassinating key figures in International politics and military to keep the world's full ire off of the Rogue Isles for the sake of the innocents that do live there. (as well as getting more than a few refugees off as a bonus.)
Villains will attempt to cover up the damage, detract the blame on someone else, maybe even profiteer some top class military secrets and garner some blackmail material on the living politicians.

Both versions would come to a head when Scirocco takes a team of loyal Arachnos operatives with him and overruns Warburg, claiming the facilities in the name of Arachnos and the Isles as well as the entire world's scrutiny of a nation of villains now being a blatant nuclear power. Even Lord Recluse has become desperate in this situation and is begging villains to halt Scirocco's ambitions before his entire empire is reduced to radioactive rubble beneath the ocean, and here the alignment of the team comes into play, one way or another, Scirocco must go down, but anything that happens after...
Heroes will simply disarm the nuclear crisis, bring Scirocco to his senses, and even have a chance to work with him to stop a vengeful Marshal Blitz who intends to use this as a chance to make Scirocco and Arachnos as a patsy to his own nuclear assault on the planet.
Vigilantes will know there is no point in redeeming a man who is pathologically evil now, either from without or within, but there's no sense in letting a wretched hive of scum and villainy still stand either. So you can take this opportunity as a chance to have the Warburg nukes launch a full assault on the Rogue Isles in an attempt to cleanse the world, once and for all of the place.
Rogues will see the grand opportunity in this, they take down Scirocco, stockpile some of the nuclear weapons, and have the thanks and praise of EVERYONE (as well as them being in your debt), and while being seen as a 'hero' might call for a shower on your part, you can be sure that it'll be a nice shower in a five star hotel in Hawaii or some other nice little vacation spot.
For full villains, you can use Scirocco as your own personal patsy while you go and not only pocket some nukes, but you can even get rid of that own country that always stands in the way of your schemes. Well, if not get rid of entirely, you can at least put a nasty little hole in their infrastructure and force heroes to divert their attention to the latest tragedy. You tried your best to stop Scirocco, but it seems some madmen are just too far gone.