Blue_Centurion

This is exactly what I am suggesting. In fact, the way I envision it is like this: In the tailor you choose a "platform" For tech characters a little techie thing, for mages a little stone platform with sigils. Really similar to base items that already exist, just resized. Heck, you could flatten the auto-doc, take off the arms, and make it larger around. Look like a mini-flying saucer platform. Maybe an ice platform, or a cloud one too. Four or five styles should give everyone a shot at something thats decent for their concept. they each need to be about as big as a character's feet move doing fighting/shooting stances. Now, the platform functions as just ground, period. its ground that moves with you on it, when you have hover or fly activated. Technically, you could fight on it as a brute hovering, but it seems silly, very few hover brutes out there. Mainly this works for ranged characters. It will not require any extra coding, other than adding it to the tailor as an extra item. it is a special effect to hover/fly only. When you fight on it, its exactly the same as if you were standing on one cave level, shooting down to the next. or standing atop a short bldg and blasting someone standing on the ground. The animations are all the exact same ones because you are basically standing on a piece of ground. All the thing does is add flavor to the game, no coding changes, no bonus to any powers, just a special effect.

Unless a Willpower armor melee character is really built out with I/Os these high level steamroller teams will always be tough, even when you're 50. I have run a Willpower brute at 50, built for fun, rather than off tanking. I had to judge very carefully when to be in with the first wave of attackers. -and I was running the two extra fighting toggles. (for me it was so much end, why not?)

I have also taken A willpower tank to the other extreme and softcapped to all damage. Wow. Even in giant ugly melees versus AVs he would just stand there, might as well have been in AP. He even tanked Lord Recluse once, and that guy hits over the softcap, one of the few exceptions in the game. I pulled him to the cubby door for 5 minutes while team killed towers. Never even used inspirations, but of course he didnt notice my dage either. we just stood there agro-ing each other and making ineffectual combat motions.

this is like the fourth one of these responses in this thread. Okay, I am not talking about modifying any of the existing rocket board power. I am talking about using the animation as an add on to characters with hover and fly.

In my opinion this is an original name.

I draw, I paint, I play music. I make up endless characters in this game, and for about a dozen over the table games with my friends. I mention this to let you know my background of providing review to fellow artists, musicians, and gamers.

The character concept has absolutely nothing to do with the character that has trademark protection. The name is not the same. It is a similar name, but only because I built it off of ERG. The name is the same as a starcraft alliance race, which I knew nothing about. Also, that refers to a whole insectoid race.

I said the character is extremely colorful. Someone saw it and said "It looks like Salvador Dali built a robot." I specifically was not trying to make anything derivative of Dali's work when I made the character. Dali's work had a dreamish quality and was surreal. It featured many impossible things. Theree is nothing impossible about my bot, err, except I still am unclear on how slowly flapping wings make a 1 ton bot fly... But yeah, nothing unreal there. Hrm. It is rather improbable also for the paint job, but not impossible. I can see and appreciate why someone made the comment, and I took it as a compliment. But I just will not make a "Dali Bot", and it was not where I started with this at all.

I get quite attached to my characters. I came here once I had concerns for advice. It did not take long for a clever gamer to realize what the name was. I come here to talk to the clever people. I have gotten some good advice, and should get a ruling shortly on whether I am okay to run with this or not. I prefer the short powerful memorable name of Zerg. Rather than "Zergometric bot 42". But I came here for help and clarification. I have received help, and am awaiting clarification. I will definitely let everyone know the answer.

ARGH! - mebbe i should just go with that, Argh? prob taken. Anyways was just thinking of Erg, or Erg^2 or something like that. Getting frustrating. I ran around with a character called Scourge 23 for 4 months, and he was carrying 5 sets of purples. Are we completely relegated to characters with names like ("Flamezy"-an actual character of mine 4 bill build SS/FA/MU). ("This'll work" - my wife saw this at Fort Mercy, and still suggests it to me from time to time), or ("Black fortuna X1J" - k, I made that one up) in the cities? All the decent names are either way too long, trademarked, copywrote, or were created one time long ago by a player on a dead account that Cox will not delete.

FTW. Okay, we did not take long to get the luandry out in the open. The copywrited character is "Zurg." My character is Zerg. I originally tried Xerg, taken. For my mind, in that momemt, I was playing off the Erg and wanted something short and powerful. I like me a X or Z at the beginning of that kind of name.

Wiki "An erg is the unit of energy and mechanical work in the centimetre-gram-second (CGS) system of units, symbol "erg". Its name is derived from the Greek ergon, meaning "work".[1]

An erg is the amount of work done by a force of one dyne exerted for a distance of one centimeter. In the CGS base units, it is equal to one gram centimeter-squared per second-squared (g·cm2/s2). It is thus equal to 10−7 joules or 100 nanojoules (nJ) in SI units."

The character is a Energy/Energy blaster. In my mind he just generates a lot of erg, that's his power. I wish I was at my gaming computer, I could post you an image of him. He looks, well, in a two words colorfully gawdawful.

But 25% difference is less than 33% difference. Sigh. Now, I did google it after the fact, and found this.

Wiki again. "The Zerg Swarm is a race of fictional parasitic insectoids and the overriding antagonists of the StarCraft series. The term "Zerg Rush" or "zerging" has entered video gaming jargon to describe sacrificing economic development in favour of using many low-cost and weak units to rush and overwhelm an enemy by attrition or sheer numbers.[36] The tactic is infamous, with most experienced RTS players being familiar with the tactic in one form or another."

I am posting because I am butting up against two different copyright problems. I feel I am different enough in name and concept from the one "Zurg", but would love to know in fact. On the other, mine is a super powered robot, and I am not in competition for creating with a game company in creating an alien race. Also, keep in mind the fact that these two companies have these two branding names so close to each other and have not sued each other says there is substantial difference, mainly because concept/application are so different. And, the one letter of course.

Misread much? I have not been Generic'd, which is why i ain't saying the name. And the name is one syllable, has about 12 alternate spellings I can think of. If you take a character like "Mork", from Mork and Mindy. And you name a character "Mark" are you Generic'd because you are to close too "Mork"??? I've had a number of people comment on the name, always in reference to the trademarked characters name. Is it really my fault half the nation is illiterate?

My more serious concern is to the actual spelling of the name, and finding it being used elsewhere. But not as a super powered hero/villain. Not sure what kind of ground i am on there.

But what I am getting is that the Generic tool is more or less capricious. Which was my greatest fear all along. I do not mind following rules, but it is much different when they are "more like guidelines."