Brodie

I was getting mostly tricks, after I scored 6 costume salvage and 17 costume powers. Oh, and lots of baby inspirations. But after a while, all I was getting were tricks.

If ten days is what it takes to max out a day job's bonus, why not make that the requirement for the badge?

I'm really only disappointed in there not being any costume tokens or vetspecs with either.

I preordered CoV long ago. While I could jump on a bandwagon and cry foul about my precious helm being a vet reward now, I should also cry foul that the VEATs have access to them (okay, only two of the Arachnos helms). Then again, it doesn't really bother me since I didn't want the helm advertised for Gamestop (the Widow helm), which is where I preordered.

I think for the 60 month vet reward, the devs should roll out a new Epic Archetype, one that can be used for either side. Cuz, really... any one could PL to 50 to unlock the EATs.

Am I the only one that doesn't think Mind Probe's name doesn't fit it's effects? The power itself is pretty sweet, even for a low level power, don't get me wrong. But... the name just seems off.

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All looks good as far as QoL improvements go, now how about the ability to "organize" our character selection screen? (IE by name, level, origin, affiliation, etc)

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Do you mean as an option? Personally, I would want to keep how my character selection screens are organized. I have one server where the characters I created alternate hero, villain, hero, villain because I did that purposely.

But, I can see how being able to organize the character selection would be appealing to some.

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So, was I reading it right that each AT will get one primary and secondary power from its corresponding AT? If so that's awesome!

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Every AT gains at least 1 powerset -- Masterminds only get a Secondary, no new Primary. Brutes get 2 new Primaries, and 1 secondary. Everyone else gets 1 Primary and 1 Secondary.

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Speaking as someone that loves the MM AT... couldn't we at least get two new Secondaries, to compensate?

This is all well and good, but... When is Positron's TF going to be shortened?

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To work...or not to work...that is the question.

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LOL!

Couldn't you just reason that the Natural character was using a device/gadget/invention of some sort that allows them to leap like that?

Same. I've got a ton a screenshots I think are gems.

I'd love to see some Tank-only sets appear for Scrappers and vice versa. Also, toss in Brute sets that neither have.

(Oh, and I'm soooooo glad that pistol sets weren't an option.)

You know, aside from the Ball And Chain choice, I would love to see all of the sets in the polls make it into the game.

And the Shield sets would be a good time to try out (at least limited) power customizing, perhaps by choosing a static design and color scheme at character creation (and respec screen?).

Some issues I found tonight (and also during Testing):

* There's a weird sort of clipping on the left side of the neck on the new cape that drapes over the shoulders (ala Batman). There's also clipping with the Small Shoulderpads with this cape.
* The Blast Goggles Up clips into Male Hair - Styled. I noticed a very negligible amount of clipping with this combo on Test, but the clipping seems more pronounced on Live.
*I've tried the workarounds for the inside color of the trenchcoats, but when I uncheck the Copy All Colors button, the inside reverts back to black. I tried with three separate characters on different servers.

I didn't mention either of the first two during Test because I figured they had been brought up already. With the third (trenchcoat), the work arounds worked on Test so I'm kinda bummed they didn't work for me on Live.

I'm also jumping on this bandwagon. I hate that just because I pre-ordered from Gamestop (favorite store, and most convenient for me), I get an exclusive helmet for FEMALE characters. I still have yet to see the appeal - as a man - of playing a female character. It boggles my mind.

I have friends that love playing female characters in MMOs and pen-and-paper rpgs, but me? I just can't get into it.

And now I get an exclusive, female-toon-specific helmet option. Not cool. Why couldn't we get something like pre-order prestige running sfx again? Something that wasn't gender specific?

But I'll stop complaining once I get my preorder disc and get into beta, so don't take me too seriously.

Ick... reviewing my last post, I think it's presents a different answer than what I intended...

Yes, you can have your character become an icon in the world.

Well, by 'iconic', I meant heroes that have been around for a few decades, in-story.

But I'd definitely allow well-written stories where a character joins those ranks.

But the Superman/Captain America role I'd like to keep filled with my character.

Would your characters affect the world around them? Hell yeah. But it'd be up to your fellow creators to what extent he/she affects it.

Let's say your character saves some stranger from being killed. Another writer could go and say that that was his/her character's love interest that was saved, and then have their character feel they owe a debt to your character. I'd like to see interactivity of that kind in this superhero world of mine. I mean, outside of mini-series, we hardly ever see interaction of that kind among heroes in the major comic companies. Just look at Marvel with their whole mutant thing. It's supposed to be the same world as Spidey, Cap, Thor, and the rest of them, but the X-books seem to exist their own little world, where mutants are hated, yet the mutant issue isn't touched upon in any Marvel book that doesn't have an 'X' in the title.

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So, let me get this straight - you give us a universe (if I can call it that), with other characters and we write our own character in it? I might be interested, but you never did say how much dedication would be required, size of text, style and all the other really formal parameters. I'd like more information on what this will invole (more than just the idea), because it seems very intriguing.

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Well, more than, say, a small handful of paragraphs on a regular basis (be it, daily, weekly, hourly, etc) of story. As for dedication, I'd say as long as you stay interested and inspired (and preferably to the end of any story you may be writing). I'd like to do it on a message board to begin with, and also on a site wehen I can get one. With the message board set up, I plan on having forums for just the stories, a forum for discussion of those stories, and hodge of other forums.

As for guidelines involving story content, I have few, but I don't see them as a big deal. Well, one I do, and that guideline is that I don't want to see any pro-racism views or other things of that nature. I'd like to limit encounters with aliens from other planets, as I'd like to keep that stuff to a minimum. One thing I don't like seeing alot of in comics is the countless encounters Earth has with alien races on regular basis, occasionally being 'invaded' in an attempt to conquer Earth. (I am by no means knocking the Cryptic guys for the Rikti thing; from what I've seen of backstory, there were no alien encounters before or since the Invasion.) 1) I'd like to keep the number of existing alien races as small as possible and 2) I have plans.

I have iconic type characters in place, such as the Superman/Captain America/Statesman type, the guy in the shadows, gods on Earth playing at the role of superhero, etc.

I've been working on this world on-and-off with a few friends long before I heard about City Of Heroes. So that's about 3 years. (I'm stating this so that when I give up further details when the project gets going, people don't think I'm intentionally using elements of CoH.)

Anyone else interested?

I don't post much on these boards, though I do play and really enjoy City Of Heroes.

I'd say about 5 years ago, I - as well as a group of internet friends - formed a little club of our own (we also have an incarnation of that group's name on the Victory server) on the DC message boards. Well, eventually, it turned into a sort of round-robin storytelling, but we each had our own 'character', who's name just happened to be our user name. Eventually, we got our own message board system (we were more or less ousted from DC), and continued the story. Well, another message board system later, and we've still got that story going. The members of the group have changed over those years, but the story still continues.

But, at our first message board system, we continued the story in a specific forum, labeling it the 'roleplaying forum'. Well, over a few months, some new 'rp's' popped up. Each person had their own character, and progressed the story forward.

Then, I came up with something I wanted to do, but not on my own. The idea was similar to rp's, but each person would write their own story, in a serialized format, similar to a comic (because, well, the setting was going to be a superhero one), with a time table set by each writer. I've tried 3 or 4 times now to get the thing going, because it's something I want to, a universe I want to write in. But it's failed so far because I couldn't get enough people together.

I'm not looking to take attention away from this forum and the characters being portrayed here. I'm also not going to be using Paragon City (for obvious reasons). I've read stories here that I think are really good, so I know there's alot of talent here. And what I'd like to do is give people the opportunity write stories involving characters of their own creation, in a shared world.

If I get enough interested people together, I'm going to set up a message board system of my own for this project, and, possibly, a website where I could feature character bios, maps, city bios, etc.

If you're interested, private message me.

Thanks for your time in reading this.