Kurrent

I heartily second this. I'd personally love to see the option of a midline (either visible or invisible) vertically bisecting the costume, allowing different colors on each side. What would truly rock would be to put that optional midline on a slider, letting the divison of colors be moved up to, say, 90% to the left or 90% to the right.

Such a slider could also be applied to the chest detail, allowing for a player to position a chest detail atop the color scheme division line. Or not, if you like.

As I'm not a programmer and I'm just now learning the basics of 3dCG, I have no idea how feasible this would be.

K

I ran into a similar problem when creating one of my characters who was still in high school. There's no official information on any schools other than Paragon University's existence and a few random course offerings, unfortunately. I went with the assumption that given Steel Canyon's (then) unique situation as a hub for both Yellow and Green line trams, it would be a perfect zone to house a high school. Thus was born Steel Canyon High School, home of the Steelworkers, school colors Steel (really more of a dull silver) and Ivory.

I hadn't really thought about primary schools, but Atlas and Kings Row would be natural choices for primary schools, while Talos and Skyway seem like good fits for middle schools.

Honestly, it would be nice for the devs to round out a bit more lore in terms of education in Paragon. But until they do, I think we as players might be able to work together to come up with some reasonable working material for possible schools in the greater Paragon City (and maybe even the Rogue Isles). Would prob fit best in another thread at this point, though, since this poor thread appears to be long-forgotten by the development team and Manticore in particular.

K

We already have it. It's called /autorun.

K

Abso-freaking-lutely.

I personally don't see Keyes as any MORE annoying than BAF or Lambda, it just has its personal annoyances for me which are different than the other itrials. It IS a nice change of pace, it requires different strategies and team dynamics, and it awards an Empyrean merit as well as an admittedly small number of Astrals. But the reason I don't run it as much as the others is that the iXP reward is hosed right now. While that's not a problem on my main hero or my main villain, it is for my other incarnates. If I'm playing one of my incarnates who still needs iXP, I'd really like to see some tangible reward at the end of her trial run, particularly when running what tends to be the longest itrial in terms of time.

K

It's a huge pain for healing. Was playing my emp/dark defender last night and had to keep moving the cursor over each teammate to get an idea of what his/her hp and end were, because the team window wouldn't sync up until the end of the mission. Wasn't much of a problem for buffs, as I don't follow the mini-icons for them.

K

Well, now, THAT makes me sad.

I find the story of Galaxy Girl to be one of the best early examples of CoX lore. It's inspiring, not just for a young hero character but also for jaded players like me. More than one of my characters cite Galaxy Girl as their inspiration, and seeing her statue's arms reaching into the sky still gives me a thrill when I fly past it. I truly hope that if her memorial and the zone of the city named in her honor are destroyed, somehow she'll get a new memorial built in a different zone. IMaybe we could get a Galaxy Girl statue in front of the train station in Atlas, like the devs did with Cyrus Thompson in Kings Row.

K

Nope, I borrowed it from some website years ago. My hair's much shorter than hers (I like a pixie cut, but it's close to my shoulders now, to please my loving wife--she likes me to look more girly) and a dark auburn. Her eyes are very much like mine, though, which is why the pic grabbed me at the time. While I'd love to dye my hair electric blue to match my in-game persona, it would be a bit hard to explain to my patients. My wife and my daughters would love it, though.

Edit: I forgot that I had a collar like that girl's too. I save it for special occasions.

K

I think you're dead on with this theory, GG. They may be able to use inorganic matter as well as organic matter to form a "body" around. Heck, they might even be able to form around energy such as fire.

K

Seconded. No part of the game has been more deliberately ignored by the Devs than bases.

K

Absolutely. Without hesitation.

Personally I'd be willing to pay up to $20 for a base expansion pack BUT only if it contained a large (or preferably huge) amount of new details, items and materials. I'd certainly be willing to pay the typical rate for add-on expansions, $10, for a more modest amount of new base material.

Well, I've wanted to have water in my bases for years: fountains, waterfalls, pools, rivers, streams, trickling water, you name it. Right now all we have are tricks to simulate water, and they're pretty much pains in the rear all the way around. I think this is what I'd go for more than any particular theme.

However, in terms of themes, I think they could be organized either around a Big Concept (sci-fi, fantasy, anime, supers, nature, ruins, etc.) or existing in-game material, such as enemy groups (Circle of Thorns will most be likely be the biggest request, with Carnies and Rikti the next most-popular, I expect), organizations (Praetoria, Ouroboros, Paragon City, PPD, Longbow) and existing maps (Frostfire, Croatoa maps, outdoor maps).


Well, THAT'S a question with lots of leeway. I guess for a $10 pack I'd expect at least 1 or 2 new themes (like the existing Sewer, Tech, Bricks, etc.), prob 20 or 30 new details/items and one or two new "game mechanic" pieces (like new storage racks, new plots with more space for storage items, base defense pieces, teleporters, and so forth).

Really, those of us who still love and work with our bases tend to be few in number but very diehard in loyalty. I think almost all of us would be willing to pay for more base goodies. If the devs would throw in a pretty or two for everyone, like new costume pieces, new temp powers or new emotes, they'd get quite a bit of the non-base-enthusiast crowd to buy as well.

It's been years since we got any base love from the Studios. It's time.

K

This was prompted by doing a Freakspec yesterday with a friend and spending 80% of the time in the reactor room doing absolutely nothing, which is why I almost never run respecs heroside anymore. I was not aware that there was another thread on the same idea until I saw the link in your post.

I sincerely apologize for not being aware of every single post on each forum.

I'm sorry, just because a player thinks they NEED something doesn't equate to handing it to them. If someone needs Incarnate powers, do we just turn Trapdoor into a lvl 1 minion to let them stomp all over him? Lots of people need incarnate threads or components, but does that mean we nerf the various trials, task forces and strike forces just to make the only difficulty standing around being bored?

I think the main point of my post was either unclear or you just missed it. My main point is that the spawn rates of the enemy waves in the reactor core is exceedingly long, removing all challenge from the trial's final mission and replacing it with tedium. I'm not asking for things to be made harder necessarily, just for the spawn rate to be moved closer to what it originally was. Doing so without any other adjustment would indeed increase the challenge, which I'd be okay with, but I understand that some people don't want any increased challenge here. If the Devs don't want to increase the challenge, then they can offset the increase in spawn rate with a reduction in enemy mob size. This should please people who truly don't want to increase the difficulty of the respec while still reducing the tedium that has driven many players away from what is really a neat mini-taskforce.

K