Kheprera

Tony,

Count me in when/if the time comes to donate. I can't say it will be much, but what I can is yours if it keeps this game alive.

WAAHH!! TA!!

*hugs*

Dammit. Going to miss you ya big lug.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L8-FTvSVxs

This is what I have running through my head.

Samuraiko, I've never had the pleasure of being in one of your videos, though it was always a little dream of mine. I always enjoyed them and know whatever you decide will cause me to cry more than I have been already.

I do agree, there are those who have left us unwillingly and permanently who need to be remembered, Coyote the one springing to mind.

I still have a few characters in Breakout even. How silly is that?

Whatever they look like, you can rest assured one thing...


Their costume we will want.


Hear that Devs? Just go on and plan on the begging.

I agree. Organic Armor is the best face. No plastic sheen, the lips are beautiful... I'd love to have this face with eyes that are tintable and without the bone pieces. <3

If they made more such faces, I'd buy a whole pack of them.

Yes, the hands look bad, the older costume pieces are flat and not very exciting, and we still have a few core pieces missing (ankle boots! bracers and Kheldian sashes for Male/Huge!) but I have yet to be able to use a new face since Steampunk came out. *shudder*

New features gated behind VIP:

Multi-cape rigs (Sybil costumes, wings with buttcapes like the new Tech Knight, real tabards and loincloths!).

Kheldian Sashes for male/huge models.

New Space and Underwater zones.

Just to give a few suggestions...

I noticed this occurs when scrolling through hair optons. I had the colors set, but pass Skin and it's reset.

Happens in Shoulders too, not on none, but close to the top. It's frustrating.

That's IT!

The Super Secret Project the devs are moving to...

CALL OF CTHULHU MMO!!!!


*prepares to lose sanity points*

"Let's do the time warp again!"

I have always said...

DINK ROCKS!

Tonight I gather ingredients to make cookies.

Then I find where to send them, then overnight expressmail fresh homemade cookies.


I think in coffeetalk mention was made of Tollhouse, Oatmeal Raisin, and iirc, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip...

Culture packs have been requested for years. Check out the All Things Character Art thread by the Fantabulous Costume Designer Dev Dink. She keeps an eye on that thread and responds when she can. You'll see these suggestions have been made, in some cases with a complete idea listing of what to include.

@Dink: Thank you for all your hard work. The pieces look great so far and I look forward to seeing the rest. Thank you, also, for taking time out of your busy schedule to show us what you're working on and scan other suggestion threads for ideas.

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Umm, no. Taking infants into extremely dangerous and life-threatening situations gets a massive /unsigned from this mother of two.

Robert Englund also voiced The Riddler in Batman: TAS. To me he will *always* be Willy from V.

"Larry" Fishburne is Cowboy Curtis from Pee Wee's Playhouse.

See Zwill... first post....


Rainbows and ponies.



Am VERY excited! Woo!

If it's tradeable/sellable on the market, couldn't you do that anyway?

So...

If the costume bits and ultra super rare item (black wolf pet) were, instead, craftable recipes that *could*

• drop more than once
• require salvage to craft
• be traded or sold in the auction house
• possibly require more superpacks than 30 to acquirea full costume set

Then would this sit better with the entire player base? It's a compromise.

Choppy but not unbearable. Chat was fast and furious today. How manydid Zwill say we had? Over 300?

I did get lots of pauses and such, still far better than UStream.

Still on my Android phone.

Cloaking Device - Field Operative (+regen 1/2 enhanceable/+recovery fully enhaceable)

Touch of Fear - Touch of the Beyond

Chilling Embrace - Frigid Protection (ticks less, now 30' range, added Absorb shield to mechanic)

Lightning Clap - Force of Thunder (+regen/+recovery much like Field Op)

Conserve Power - Energize

That's from my notes

Sam, I like your base idea a lot, so I’m going to show you an example of my own alien.

I wanted something that clearly stated “alien” so I started, first, with the sliders. They are a mix of maxed out or completely minimized. In this case, she is as tall as possible, as skinny as possible, with a thin face and large eyes. My base image was “a really tall Grey alien”.

http://www.wingedscarab.com/ra/maaseruat.png

Then I went through all the faces. I wanted her to have three eyes. Unfortunately, the Third Eye under Detail 1 looks like a normal human eye. That’s something I have to live with. Right now I’m considering a change to one of the Carnival Masks but I’m not certain how well it will work. I used the Veil on her to mask her lower face. Instead of normal eyelids she has an “iris” type fold that “shutters” over her eyes. The base creature idea is Insectoid-Reptile. She doesn’t eat in front of others, and eats a ground meat protein paste.

Her skin color. Here’s where I wanted colors that don’t normally go together, so I went with a Lavender/Rust mixed. Used the Reptilian skin, Chitin for arms and legs, and Monster legs with the insectoid claws. A Reptilian tail gave her a good mix of Reptilian/Insectoid. The Mohawk hair is defined as a “Fin” and I used the large Bat ears (iirc) for additional fins as well as the Illium on her shoulders. These fins glow different colors depending on her mood since she cannot show emotions using her facial expressions.

Also, her hands were something I could not show in the costume creator, but it is clearly stated on her info. There are five phalanges per finger, and she has three fingers and a thumb, ending in short nubs.

It’s really amazing what you can do in the character creator these days, and this character was built several years ago. With the new things that have come out, from Organic Armor and Bioluminescent, you should be able to find something that gives that otherworldly appearance. Stray from the human skin tones and green or red, and you should be able to come up with something. Just remember that some skin colors don’t play well with other colors in the costume palette, which can hamper your clothing choices.

For Gender I’d choose female simply because there is a greater choice, costume-wise. However, do check out the heads in male, as there is a marvelous alien one there that females do not get (I think it’s under monstrous) that has no eyes and a huge, toothy smile. Another reason to go female is I know they have the insectoid claws under the Boots, but I’m not sure men do, so you can have skirts or such with the legs unlike with the Monstrous legs.

Powers and AT: I have never played a Brute, but have plenty of stalkers and scrappers. One thing you can do is utilize the effects of some of the powers to be even more alien, like spines. Defining what the home planet climate is like may tell you what kind of powers the character has. My alien, above, is a dark/dark/electric. Her powers are a sandy-teal, and the planet surface has a lot of massive electrical sandstorms. It’s a large, low-gravity, three sunned planet that is extremely hot and most creatures live underground. Only the really scary and dangerous creatures live aboveground.

Intelligence: I like the idea of someone who has learned a great deal, but not necessarily how to apply it. They know the method of how to tie a shoe, but, not needing shoes, has never actually tried it. My character, above, is an exiled diplomat who crashed to Earth. The damage she sustained in her crash knocked her three brains out of synch from one another, so for a long time she spoke in three distinct voices that took turns in speaking. It made communication for her difficult and, though quite intelligent, made getting her ideas or points across to others difficult. Even now, with her minds in synch, she still has to think about what she is saying as English is so completely foreign to her.

Brains and Brawn: If the character base idea is brutish and warlike, then I see this as a basis of the powers as well. I am not certain what powersets you have already played, but you can mix it up. You could have the primary be something like War Mace followed up with a more intelligent secondary, like Super Reflexes or Shield Defense. I, personally, have always wanted to try an Electrical Melee/Shield Defense scrapper. Shield Charge + Lightning Rod? I’ve seen two separate characters use these powers against the Devouring Earth for the Eden trial. I was laughing hysterically as the DE exploded in a shower of fragmented crystals.

Overall, I think you have a great idea for the character to start, you just need another push. Play in the character creator, mix and match things you would think are the most obnoxious possible combination, and see what you can develop. You need to decide a few things still, though. Instead of human, what is the basis? Reptilian? Amphibian? Aquatic? Insectiod? Living Rock or Tree? Then the climate of the home planet may guide you more.

As for the name? I hit my Ancient Egyptian dictionaries and came up with a mix, calling her “Ma’aseruat”. It’s an alien sounding enough name without being too far out there. Most people call her Ma for short.

I see both sides here...

The problem boils down to personal opinion.

Fitting a name to a character, especially if that name is so deeply tied to the character, can be difficult to overcome.

I have a character originally created over 20 years ago for a tabletop superhero RPG. Her name was Omen. This character became such a mainstay in the group that eventually when I started playing here I naturally wanted to make her. As a dark/dark/dark defender, this did well. Unfortunately the name Omen was not available. Now... she's Lady Omen. Pretentious? Not the character. She doesn't have time for that. But it works and doesn't detract from the concept.

But...

Another character, similar situation. Her name was Shard. The Shard name is so heavily tied to her backstory that to remove it destroys an integral part of the character. Right now she has Transform, a name gifted to me, and though it works due her shapeshifting powers... it's Just Not Right.

I have a hard time playing Transform because though a *great* name, it's not the one she should have.

Still, there are good names out there, many mentioned in this thread. I would much rather read a comic of the Azure Scarab rather than Blue Beetle, personally, but again, that's just me.

Do I think the name policy needs changing? No. I *like* being my own special, unique snowflake. I know several people who have the names *I* wanted. Oh well. That's how it goes. I'm not going to tell the devs they need to change it.

As for older accounts, I've understood that in the last name purge that it did not free up as much as people hoped. Also, there are now some people returning to the game after being gone for three+ years. They're thrilled that they still have their characters. I doubt there will be any more purging.

An Ethereal Aura that makes me intangible like a ghost rather than ghosts flying around me.

Something that makes a character appear ghostly, see through, with maybe some fog included. Right now this is sort of doable using a Stealth proc in Sprint and an aura, but I'd like to see it color tintable for various effects/reasons and not having an additional toggle on that 1) uses end and 2) drops when faceplanted, etc. I don't necessarily want the stealth benefit, I just want to look like a ghost/hidden celestial being/whatever.

Cons:

No scrolling on chat
No Snow_Globe
DL'd the app for Android but did not use it. It has no chat and can only search for things currently streaming.
The Q was replaced with SMSkull. Typing that on a virtual keyboard is a pain. :P


Pros:

I had video, instead of Usteam's random, sporadic slide show. Still hung up, but I kept up better with Twitch.
Zwill could take us in-game to show stuffs
I had -video-
No ads booting!
I had *video*
Zwill pronounced my name correctly
I. Had. VIDEO!