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What I'm curious about is groups such as the "Robot" one. The Robot group only has gloves and boots in the set. Are the devs porting in different body groups from the Mastermind robots set to player toons? Very-very doubtful, but it would be welcomed. None of the robot toons I've seen look very much like robots...

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I surmise, (Don't get any of that on you by the way, it is dangerous.) That we shall see many fine additions to the world of super-heroic attire. It has been a while since Jay has laid down a whopping batch of sexy upon the masses, and I am going to assume that he has been getting a touch of help lately.

WOOT!!!





And I don't usually say that.

But for sure this will satiate the appetites of those who ravenously tear at the soft tissues of....Man that's slick! I spent an entire 6 hours online before ever playing CoH simply tooling about in the creator and finding unique and interesting combinations. While this feature will be heavily tested by me, and a boon to...*ahem* those of less than creative inclination (You know the ones, those that make you wish a 400lb. beast of a man would bludgeon you with a 2x4 till your retinas detached.), I am more interested in seeing what they have done to my power trays. I always felt that a bit more malleability in manipulating and organizing my display, aside from color and opacity, would put more of a unique face onto each of my extra personaliti...Avatars

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O_o Yeah, Avatars.....

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Mmmm, corporate-speak... Tasty...


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It's like politician talk, with $$'s attatched...

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So it is exactly like politician talk...

Back on topic, I can't wait to see what tidbits are added for my mind numbing to deepen. Groovy? A trip back in time would be a blast IMHO... Not the flashback system, but a FLASHBACK system. Take me to WWII or even the Bushido days for some time stripping fun.

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Hmm. Some animation-prodigy needs to do the Thriller dance on this CrypticAR rig thing. Then we can finally give the Banished Pantheon something to do in Dark Astoria.

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If anyone can get this to work with the slightly older 3ds7 for me, I WILL do this. After all, I have not invested over 30 years in comics, 20 years Gamemastering super heroes, and 6 years in digital graphics to not attempt to be a part of this. If I lived near Cryptic I would have been bugging them daily for a job as it is. Jay and I could play blackjack under his desk while Positron oohs and ahhs over our uber-sexy designs.

Hey! a man can dream can't he?

You know? I never came by here and posted my entry. Since I have time, I will give a touch of background...

I have been taking screenies since I heard about the contest (Snap, Snap, Snap). But being the guy that puts off things that do not actually make money (yeah I'm poor, big whoop, wanna fight about it?) I did not actually start slapping my book together until about 11 p.m. the night before the contest ended. I wrapped up at about 6 a.m., and had it posted to the hypercomics website as fine as you please. What I submitted is the end result of 7 hours of loving labor. Not too shabby considering that if I had taken the time to actually bring these bad boys into photoshop first, the end result would have been pretty much indistinguishable from a printed work. In fact, the story I had originally intended unraveled after I laid out my first panel. So much for planning. I operate better on the fly anyway, and I laid the story out panel by panel, inventing it as I went along. my issue: "Violet Spider" is available for your viewing pleasure here:

VIOLET SPIDER .

Enjoy, and the best of luck to all who entered. lots of nicely laid out stories involved, and plenty of eye candy for all. Makes me cry a little bit inside (and not because James Doohan's ashes were launched out of my neigborhood this last weekend. R.I.P. "Scotty". You are keeping gods engines running now.)

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Great guide!

Another tip that I use is using a another language. I wanted to make a name for my Fire/Dark Corruptor. Tried at least 15 different names and Google searched a translator. I'm partial to Latin so that was my first choice. My Corrutors name is Nox Incendia, which means Dark Fire!

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A rose by any other name #6. one of my personal favorites.

I am glad to see the interest that has been taken in my guide. I do want to point out that though I have given tons of ideas to many, so many more facets of inspiration are lying around in wait. I do not claim to hold the market on naming guides, as this is simply one man's method. Other very well written guides with other methods are out there, I would also recommend those for your reading, as they have diferent methods or diverse conventions for naming. They can be found in the Guide to Guides by Zombie_Man . Direct links to them are as follows:

Naming For Noobs: A Guide To Originality! by: Tyrantula

Naming your Character by: Speed_Bump

A Guide to Creating a Name for New Hero Characters by: tpull

And...
MrMarvel's Quick-and-Dirty Guide to Naming Heroes by: MrMarvel

Enjoy your time in Paragon City.

~Uncle Harry

And I bet no one has it.

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EXTREME TAUPE PANTHER

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Nice, but if you are going that route, how about:

"Mr. EXTREME TAUPE PANTHER OBGYN"

A different approach to character naming focused on making sure you can get the name you want by making very few sacrifices.
Guide to naming without replacements.

#9 my good man. Excellent testimonial though. Any suggestions and advice will be taken into account assuming I make a second version.

Finding Your Heroic/Villainous Moniker V1.0


UNCLE HARRY'S NAMING GUIDE

Well, you have found your way here, this is probably due to the fact that you either stumbled onto it by accident, you have come seeking help in naming your hero, or you just have to know what that smell is. I know your pain wee ones, I too have suffered from the loss of not being able to name my character “Cinder”, “Turbine”, “Meltdown”, or any number of other common names most likely snatched up in the fervor of the first few hours of CoH’s release to the public.

FEAR NOT! Your humble, helpful, generous, handsome, modest Uncle Harry is here to make it all better. I will attempt to use the name “Cinder” whenever possible to demonstrate flexibility, and to show that you are never truly at a loss if you have your heart set on a name. None of the names mentioned have ever been created by me, and I do not attest to the fact that some names I suggest are free. They are used for demonstrative purposes only (though I suspect that many suggestions are open as of the time of this writing.).

<ul type="square"> 1)Color that name: “Cinder” becomes “White Cinder” so easily, but lets say that for the sake of argument you have gone through all the colors you like and it is still taken. The easy fix is to simply find another name for that color. White can become Ivory, Pearly, or even Snowy (Perfect if you have got anything Ice/Fire “Snowy Cinder” yeah, I like that, and I bet it is not taken somewhere…yet.) This alone would allow an entire population of people on a server with the name “Cinder” Somewhere in their name and not have the same name twice.
a) Use Colors. If you can’t think of a good color name, a great list is Here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors
b) Need to simply find another word for colors this is a good resource. http://thesaurus.reference.com/

2) Misspelling made easy: “Cinder” changes into “Cindera”, “Cinderette”, or even “Cindertron” with just a suffix snapped on there. If you want to add a Prefix onto it, you can create “Encinder”, “Overcinder” or “Ultracinder”. If you think this sounds bad, remember that many common names have just a prefix or suffix attached to them to make many well known Heroes and Villains (Magnet, Infect, Angel, Lion, etc…). As for my opinion on numbers, see #4.
a) Add Suffixes: Things that can be put after a word to change or modify its meaning. A good list can be found here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix
b) Add Prefixes: Things that can be put before a word to change or modify it’s meaning. Very useful when trying to think of ways to use a word in a stronger or opposite way. A good list can be found Here. http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/prefixes.htm

3) Be PC: “Cinder” is OK, but “Cinder Lad” has more pop to it. “Cinder Lass” or even ”Cinder Woman” Could be used, but this technique was used heavily by a popular comic book company, and is only used by me as a last resort (Mostly because I don’t really remember exactly how many lad’s lass’s, girl’s, boy’s they actually had). But for theme purposes, this method could be exactly what you are looking for, as it really captures that silver-age feel. Also useful is putting Mr., Ms., Mrs., or Miss before the word to me gender specific, and assigning a Dr. or Sr. or any other designation you can think of. Also covers rank, such as Captain (Capt.), General (Gen.), Major (Maj.), etc.
a) Be gender specific: Man, Woman, Guy, Gal, Lady, Girl, Lad, Lass, Boy,
b) Can attach He, She, Mr., Mrs., Ms., Miss, or Dr. to front of name.
c) Can attach Sr. Jr. DDS., etc after the name for character flavor.
d) Rank designation should also be included. This Covers Captain, Major, General, etc.


4) Numbers are for math: I can honestly say that I have never even for a moment thought to use the name “Cind3r”. Being as I love to immerse myself into any video game environment, I feel drawn out when I see someone run by me with this vocabulary abortion displayed so proudly. For shame! If you want to use numbers, I feel it totally acceptable to make number-words like “DVST-8R”, “Hot 2 Trot”, or “4-Tress”. Also useful if used to determine numbers in a series such as in clones or robots “Cinder 2.0”, “Cinder 9” (or alternately and frequently used in comics the roman numerals “Cinder IX”). But to each their own. I will not say not to do it your way, it is just not my way.
a) Use Number-Words: “B-4” (before), “In 10se” (Intense), “GR8-1” (Great One). Fantastic for those robot characters.
b) Use to show a Sequence or assigned number from secret project. “Cinder-7”, “Cinder 2525”, “Cinder 2.5”
c) Can use roman numerals if favored number is used. Roman numerals can be found here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals

5) Let them know who you are: “Max Cinder”, “Cinder Ellen”, “Tia Cinder” give your character some zip and personality, while also being personalized to you. It is also totally acceptable to create a simple name such as “Bill Preston”, “Justin Trebourne”, or “Vince Trueheart”. Many heroes have just dropped the pretense and waded into the heroic fray with nothing but their name to hide behind.
a) Tack a name onto a desired name and make it yours.
b) Just create a name that sounds heroic or simply appeals to you and go with it.

6) A rose by any other name: A great man once said, “What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet;” I think it was William Shatner :P. Sometimes a word just seems to keep us caught up, and we don’t want to let it go. I have encountered that many times and not being one to give up without exhausting all avenues, I resort to the good old Thesaurus. Unfortunately, in this case, I could not find anything even resembling the word I have been using all along. In the thesaurus site itself, save for “Cinder Block”. But this is not the end, as we can also dip into other languages for inspiration. Not to worry if you are not bilingual, there is a number of translating websites out there. “Ceniza” (Spanish-Ash), “Cendre” (French-Ash), “Asche” (German-Ash), “Cinza” (Portuguese-Ash), are but a few possible results I came up with for the word “Cinder”.
a) Use a Thesaurus to find synonyms and antonyms of the word you wanted to use. You may find something better than you started out with. An online thesaurus can be found Here. http://thesaurus.reference.com/
b) Use other languages as a source of names. Translation Websites can be found Here http://babelfish.altavista.com/ and Here http://translation.langenberg.com/

7) The simplest answers are often the most obscure: Some heroes have names that have nothing to do with their powers, or look, but just sound good rolling off the tongue. These people have names that are nothing more than minor common household items or tools. Shying away from my primary example name, these names are just that, a name. Examples include, but are not limited to: “Cord”, “Staple”, “Rook”, “Frame”, and “Bench”. It is not as easy to just suggest these without simply giving out a huge list that could go on and on. Needless to say, the best way of thinking up these, is more of a matter of what sounds good to you.
a) Think of some words that have stood out for you. This may have been due to a phonetic sound, or just the way the letters look when viewed together.
b) Objects such as tools, instruments, components, supplies, furniture, clothing, materials, and groceries, are a great source of names and inspiration.

8) One Word… Two Words!: You get two power sets, use them. Simply look at your power sets and determine what your name could be. Grav/Fire? “Pressure Cooker”, “Heavy Burn”, or “Hard Cinder”. Emp/Arch? “Heaven’s Quarrel”, or “Healing Sting”. The trick here is to find a word that best describes each powerset, and work them together somehow. This process usually involves a lot of trial and error, and is more of an advanced method to use. But is included here for completeness.
a) Figure out a word that you feel best describes each power set.
b) Try to work them together

9) Know Thyself!: For all the suggestions prior, the best names will come to you through the simple forethought of a back-story prior to creation. The character could have received a bio-engineered virus called the “Blood Cinder” and so you take that name in order to let those responsible know they are being hunted. Or: born in another time, the High-Elf Alastria finds herself in this new place. She has traded her Home-Wood in for a chance to fight the evils lining this smooth-stone city. Taking the name “Lost Ranger”, she now prowls the alleys of Paragon City looking for a chance to get back home.
a) Know who you are, and where you are from. This is most important. This will help to define your name in a way that no one else has.

10) Hyphenation time, come on!: It should go without saying, that two words and two words hyphenated together are not the same word…exactly. Take a well-known comic book company’s signature character. There is a hyphen in the middle of the name that will not be mentioned here. this means that the name could be used without the hyphen as long as there was nothing else resembling the hyphenated character. This means that “Cinder Gal” May be taken, but “Cinder-Gal” May not.
a) Use this thing: -

11) A Hero Doing Is a Hero Being!: Last but not least in my 10+1 commandments, is what I feel caps off most holes in my naming method; Verbs!. Usage of these fun little bundles of energized vocabulary divinity gives one the power to not only make a hero, but also a dynamic hero. Boo-hoo, someone stole “Cinder” Did they happen to snag “Living Cinder”, “Walking Cinder”, or “Raging Cinder”? Well, guess what? While they are just being “Cinder”, You are living the life of a “(Living, Breathing, Walking, Raging) Cinder” or “Cinder (Rising, Burning)”
a) Whatever something can do can be a name. Just like those commercials say…it is what you do!
b) Whatever something can be can be a name. Not like those commercials it is what you are![/list]

That just about sums it up. One basic name, A multitude of possibilities. I hope that this may help others to find a name that makes them happy. I have been playing CoH off and on since 04’. I have seen many people asking for help with names, and have helped some when I could. I have always threatened to make a guide to help people come up with names since I never seemed to have any trouble with it. I have usually gotten names on my first try, and I felt that a bit of insight in to my reasoning would help some of you. Some of the names I currently have are:

1) “Strong Box”-Virtue
2) “Scroll”-Virtue
3) “HONOR 2”-Virtue
4) “Loxosceles Reclusa”-Virtue
5) “Living Junk”-Virtue
6) “Gun Blue”-Virtue
7) “Violet Spider”-Virtue
8) “Pequin”-Champion
9) “Quagmira”-Champion
10) “Ubermenche”-Champion
11) “Gloss”-Champion
12) “Ultra Freeze”-Champion
13) “Alpha Sigma”-Triumph
14) “Human Hot Rod”-Triumph
15) “She-Blade”-Justice
16) “Phantom Hawk”-Justice
17) “Shockpoint”-Justice
18) “Onyx Titan”-Victory
19) “Slipshade”-Victory
20) “Rogue Serpent”-Victory
21) “Psionic Avatar”-Victory
22) “Rhinotaur”-Victory
23) “Polar Wolf”-Victory
24) “Isotope Omega”-Victory
25) “Human Iceberg”-Protector
26) “Plasmia”-Protector
27) Several others, I got to have some privacy don’t I?

Now thank Uncle Harry….


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Have you tried?

Unfinished
Prototype Omega (Delta, Epsilon, etc…)
Living Schematic
Hardware Anomaly
Non-Compliant
Unintended
Subroutine


One of those should work; I have very little trouble naming characters.

In fact, I may actually write that “Guide to finding your Heroic Moniker” I have been threatening to write. Good luck!

Noticed this Today after a long hiatus away from the game. Jumped down into the park, totally prepared for Vahz or Skulls, and right into the face of two paladins.

No sir, not me. I stuck around to get some screenies, but bolted to my next mission.

Just going to put here about the Chest emblems doing some kind of weird Anti-aliased outline effect when used with some upper body costume parts. This gives a "jaggy" outlines like they were poorly cropped in PhotoShop. With this effect I have noticed a sort of transparency when used with Buckled Leather. In these edges you will be able to see through your character.

In addition, my mantle and broach disappear when I use the leather pads top.

Sorry man, I can't tell you that you are sexy, it is just not me. But you ARE doing a fantastic job.

or Apocalypse, Ra's al ghul, Samuel Guthrie, or....oh wait, never mind....:P

LOL, congratulations!! Nice to see you have your avatar Cricket. wear it with pride.

Cricket Avatar by H.C.

OK, I revised it a bit. this makes me feel better.

I saw this and had to submit something, so I fired up my photoshop and worked an old drawing I made for PnP Hero gaming of an NPC character of the same name. If I knew how much time I had before a decision was made, I could really work this up for you and make it really shine, but oh well. a graphic artists life is full of this kind of stuff.

Cricket Avatar By Harry Canyon

Oh yeah......Welcome to the Peanut Gallery! I promise to be kind. but I speak for no one else.

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The problems with CoH are evidenced here:

http://snarkbait.com/dave/saysitall.jpg


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Ugh! your power tray, combined with your open inspiration tray is an affront to my senses! "So many colors"

On topic, How about enemies that randomly spawn near you and track you as in an ambush. Put this on a random game timer (ala monster spawns), and give the player a choice to customize their opponents (AT{s}, Origin, Powersets..etc.) and you have your own personalized villain group that chases you throughout your career.

As an aside...^^ "Greatest American Hero" was the best..

Granted...it was late, and I was thinking more along the lines of dull pain, or hasten....Duh!

I had intended to make the final power more like a focused nova ability as the effect (like the assault rifle final power). I think the standard weakening of a char after the attack (as per nova or most other final powers) would suffice.

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Where would be the fun in that? How can we truly feel his intent unless he uses a Louisville Slugger covered in colored tape.

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It is actually a nerf bat (albeit a really hard hitting one) covered with Red, White and Blue Duck Tape. Statesman said he would swing around the office when he returned, so maybe I should be apologizing to the rest of the Devs...


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Sorry, I guess my imagination got the best of me. Bad Brain!! em/smacks head

although.....
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Oh, and on a side note, I found out a bit of information about dual pistols for Scrappers. Apparently, Statesman is in favor of this but it would be a melee set or a very short range set while Geko felt that the players would reject a pistol set with shorter range than villians. I see both sides of that argument, so maybe we will see pistols and maybe we won't...

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Hold up a minute, make the first attack in the Pistol set a simple ranged attack that does minimal damage. Not truly worth 6-slotting for damage, and is more like a ranged brawl (great for an opener to an attack chain as you close with the baddies). Spines has good damaging ranged attacks, as does Claws, so it is not like a ranged scrapper set is unheard of.

Maybe something like this:

Set-Pistols
Scrapper Primary

Shot-A ranged attack with low damage. [Ranged/Lethal] Recharge/Med, Damage/Low, low end use.

Clip-A low close range shot at targets lower body. [Melee/Lethal] Recharge/Fast, Damage/Medium, +Slow

Kill Zone-A spray from two weapons in a 45 degree cone. [Melee-8'/Lethal DOT] Recharge/Medium, Damage/High(DOT)

Target-(same as build up)

One/Two-A single precise shot from each weapon, these shots do little damage, but can cripple your target lowering his defense. [Melee/Lethal -Def] Recharge/Fast, Damage/Low, -Def

Insult-(standard Taunt)

Clear the Room-A series of contortions and spins while firing in all directions, 360 degrees of gunplay. [Melee-8'/Lethal] Recharge/Long, Damage/Med

Head Shot-A critical shot that does great damage.[Melee-8'/Lethal] Recharge/Very Long, Damage/Extreme, +Hold

Unload-Raises both weapons and fires relentlessly in front of the hero, this intense volley strikes every target in a small cone in front of him with major damage but leaves you unable to fire your weapons for a while.[Short Ranged/Lethal] Recharge/long, Damage/Superior(DOT),25 degree cone, Disables Pistol set for 300 seconds (this can be reduced with recharge enhancements)


There whatcha think?

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Priceless...

So you got him to pose for you with the infamous Nerf Bat ehh? Darn, I was hoping it was going to be a softer bat.

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Where would be the fun in that? How can we truly feel his intent unless he uses a Louisville Slugger covered in colored tape. But he should know that the tape will keep people from getting splinters in their Kiester, and that is just counter productive to the nerfing process.

Seriously, why not have a sense of humor about it? I think he knows what he is doing despite the predictions of doom by those who don't know what goes on behind those closed doors. He won't show his whole hand yet, and I for one like that. Swing that sucka like it ain't no thang!

I have a ton of concepts for power sets..I could dig up my thoughts and make the whole sets, but here are some names for now...

Mist-Defender primary, Controller secondary
Spray-Defender secondary
Whip-Scrapper primary
Light (Holy) Armor-Scrapper secondary, Tanker primary
Club,Hammer-Tanker secondary
Energy Rifle-Blaster primary
Energy Armor-Tanker primary
Charging-Tanker secondary
Grappling/Wrestling-Tanker secondary, Scrapper primary
Light Blast-Blaster Primary, Defender secondary
Light Manipulation-Blaster Secondary
Force Barrier-Tanker Primary
Offensive Dancing-Scrapper Primary
Magnetic Controll-Controller Primary
Plague-Defender Primary
Reality Controll-Controller Primary
Time Controll-Controller Primary (Yes I have a viable solution, for implementation)
Spikes (not spines, SPIKES)-Scrapper primary
Metal Armor-Tanker Primary
Bladed Armor-Tanker Primary, Scrapper Secondary
Water Blast-Blaster Primary, Defender secondary
Water Manipulation-Blaster Secondary
Missiles-Blaster Primary
Daggers-Scrapper Primary
Pistols-(Still on the fence about this, could be Scrapper, could be blaster...Maybe a lot like the spines set perhaps?)

That is all for now..

She-Blade seems like the most likely candidate, as she was once a professoinal model herself. She has not competed since she was sold for medical experamentation after being put under for cosmetic surgery. When she awoke, Her skin bore unusual markings. Medical studies have revealed that her body has been permeated by Nannites, miniaturized machines that regenerate her tissues at an amazing rate. These nannites have even constructed bladed talons that form from the back of her hands. She thinks that these machines have made her ugly and hence she tends to dress in the most revealing clothes in order to draw attention away from her face (Vanity is a harsh mistress)
She-Blade: Virtue
She-Blade (Pose)
She-Blade (Strike)
She-Blade (Ready)
She-Blade (Original)

Don't tell her I entered her.....PLEASE!

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Who the heck is the yellow jacket, anyhoo?

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Originally? One of the many faces of Dr. Henry "Hank" Pym, aka Ant-Man, Goliath, etc.



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Not to kick a dead horse, but Yellowjackett is also the name of a female villian who shacked up with the "Masters of Evil" for a while...


/signed