AzureSkyCiel

/plugshisthread I had an idea that might help a little.

Probably the most wallbanging part about female models/textures and lacking any sign of muscles is that there are quite a few gloves that used the muscular male forearm textures regardless of gender.
Now this would be nice for making strong women, but it fails even at that by the simple fact that the upper arms/the rest of the body do not look at muscular, and it is just the male textures wrapped around the comparatively smaller female arms, making them look squished, distorted and disfigured. It's terrible.

Okay, so one of the complaints that often come up is the monotony of instanced mission map tiles, and one thing I noticed while playing the new Posi was that there were quite a few recycled mission maps, just with new art doodads that really breathed new life into them with simply a few props.
So what I'm thinking of is that in various locations throughout office, sewer, small caves, big caves, Cimerora caves, and warehouse sets, there'd be pseudo 'spawn points' for special props to appear based on the villain group inhabiting them.
For example, the Hellions might have a few crates of vodka bottles next to a smaller one with rags and a tank or two kerosene/gasoline in a random place, maybe one of those glowing magical boxes on a makeshift alter in another, toss in a random goathead symbol, a makeshift desk with guns on it and voila!
It now feels like you're in a Hellion hideout and not just another office, cave, warehouse, etc. etc.

The possible draw backs would be the need to not only possibly design or go through existing artworks and pick out which would fit which group, but also possibly the need to go through at least two thirds of every maptile in the game and create these miscellaneous points. Then there would be the times when looking like an established base for a villain group would not be appropriate, such as when a group is simply raiding a place, or two gangs battling eachother and programming it to choose one of the other.

But all in all, it should breath new life even into the generic instanced maps.
What do you guys think?

well, this answers my first question, now for a second one: Is there an official thread or something to suggest to the Devs ideas for new morality missions or will an official one be set up in the suggestions and ideas board, or should we, the forumites attempt to make our own?

Okay, by this I don't mean the transition of rogue to hero, I mean I was running around on my main hero, asserting my morality for hero merits, and hoping to see more of the new content.
And for the third time in a row, my morality mission tip was "Turn myself over to the police to clear my name" And for the third time I had to fight silent blade (I was so bored I let her get off Elude ala McNinja), for the third time I had to fight malta, and for the third time I had to fight my own, palette swapped clone and wonder WTF just happened.
One minute he's ambushing me, out for my blood and in the company of Malta, next he says 'let's talk', then he's claiming to have been the good guy (despite working for Malta and apparently contracting silent blade to kill me), and then he vanishes, and with the way the alignment thing pops up, it looks like he poofs in a pillar of blue light.
But I digress, this is the THIRD TIME IN A ROW I've done this damn mission, and I am getting sick of it.
Also, both characters I worked towards rogue did the same mission of helping Swift Blade, so in summary, is there only ONE morality mission alignment shift?

For my kat/SR scrapper:
Exalted (Or jumped the shark since his RP story's gone from time displaced Samurai to something like this. I'm trying to fix it...)

For my Magical Girl Archery/Energy blaster:
Undefeated

It must be the work of Longbow Storm Wardens and Vigilante Storm defenders and controllers.
Man, I might be a straight hero but I gotta hand it to them, they know how to go biblical.

Cottage Rule.
For a possible alternative, please see my signature in the "Alternate power selections"

One of the biggest problems isn't just using vista tech to make make the zones you transition into have a low-res model in the connecting zone, but it's that in a lot of cases the next zone is NOT just on the otherside of the wall.
For some reason, when the Old Devs were laying out these city zones, they decided "HEY! Let's put these HUGE gaps between these city blocks that will be utterly featureless!" And some of these gaps are jarring.
(See this map: http://wiki.cohtitan.com/w/images//b..._%28GvE%29.jpg)
Like between Skyway, Founders', Crey's Folly, Faultline, and Talos, there's a gap that's big enough to be its own zone, not to mention the gap between IP, Steel Canyon (which the map shows as having a weird extension to it that I don't see in game), and Galaxy.
I think that there was a time when the devs had honestly considered making these placed into new zones, but those plans ended up forgotten and now we have these huge, hideous gaps between zones, and the zone they did add (Croatoa) was WAY out there from the main city. (Yet still so close to the end of IP that the whole damn thing looks like Family and Tsoo could still be fighting there)

Another problem with applying vista tech is that when you look at Praetoria, there's only one way to one zone. It's a straight path from Nova, to Imperial, to Neutropolois and back, but with Paragon, you have so many different things in different directions, and the gaps of (what's hopefully) more city between them,

I will be honest, do I like the war walls being EVERYWHERE? No, and I would love to see MOST of them go. (Hazard zones being a strong exception, and possibly make a much bigger and all encompassing wall around all of Paragon, hopefully with a more organic shape than just blocks)

Are they necessary? Sadly, yes, and we will likely NEVER see them taken down until City of Heroes 2.

I think a lot of people have covered most of what's essential EXCEPT...
The Mercy Island Arcs.
Okay, Kalinda is acceptable, she's a loyal Arachnos Fortunata mistress, the idea that's she'd instantly respect and revere you would be crazy.
But people choose Burke as a real chance to escape being under Arachnos' thumb, and not squashed under another's! It's even worse since Burke is a lone mercenary while at least Kalinda has all of Arachnos backing her up and she's in an Arachnos fort while Burke IS STANDING IN AN ALLY WAY WITH HIS DIRTY LAUNDRY HANGING UP OUTSIDE HIS SHANTY RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE FORT!
So would it be too much to ask for him to respect me, and maybe the other mercy contacts, you know, accept that I'm apparently strong enough to do the work THEY'RE NOT DOING BECAUSE THE ONLY POWER THEY HAVE IS BRAWL?!

Oh, on the note of getting some damn respect as a villain, rework the damn Mender Tesseract SF!
I'm sorry, but I'm going back in time out of my own good will to help Lord Recluse get out from being a sewer dweller, and just because things go south due to circumstances BEYOND MY CONTROL, Lord Recluse decides to try to kill me when I'm his own chance of getting out from the sewers.
This is not at all helped by Tesseract constantly taunting me the whole damn time.