LemonLass

Also War Witch

I have been going into pocket D on Freedom server and slapping your npc silly and sometimes she says things...once i thought it was actually you taking over the npc and i got scared and ran away....jk..i asked how come your here and also in etheral form in croatia and she or you said

"oh croatia?, yeah sometimes im there...who knows where you can be with multiple dimensions"

well in a sense someone could do that with some nice photoshop editing...take some screenies of the power sets in use and then apply some custom looks to them...post a link to those images here just so you can show people what pc would look like for weapons and powers

Ok i think that the best way for this to work is to come at it from the angle of the Aura Effects and/or the Invention system

THE AURA EFFECT METHOD:

This one would be for the art department. In effect what you would be doing is attaching the aura effect to the power as well as the costume. Instead of changing the powers of the powersets back to grey scale. Ok now your level 30 and you have unlocked the ability to add an aura to your costume. Now you should then have a Powers Aura Mission to unlock aura effects for your power. This would involve taking existing aura effects and extending them or attaching them to the existing power....wrapping the power with the aura. So since I'm an energy blaster I want my blasts to come out... with a yellow aura. Now after I do the aura mission I would be able to go to the tailor and have an extra button that says:

<ul type="square">[*]APPLY THIS AURA EFFECT TO YOUR POWERS?[/list]

At this point you could select yes or no and from that point on all your powers will have the desired tint color wrapped around your existing costume and powers. If you selected NO it would simply just affect your costume.

Another way you could do this is have it come in a separate mission for the tailor (at 20 you get a cape) (30 costume aura)
and maybe (35 Power Aura) not sure about the levels but it would be one way to reduce the amount of server lag for adding some color effects to existing powers. This would work on all weapons too...they would glow with the tint of the aura effect.


THE INVENTIONS SYSTEM RECIPE METHOD:

What this would entail is a rare recipe that could be found at any level that would simply change the color of your power entirely...what would happen here is that it would be an extremely rare recipe and once found it sends a message to a art developer that you've unlocked a color choice or effect for your power set. At this point the game would tell you:

<ul type="square"> [*]YOU HAVE UNLOCKED 1 COLOR CHANGE FOR YOUR POWERSET...YOUR CHANGES WILL TAKE EFFECT WHEN THE ART AND CODING TEAM HAVE CHANGED IT.[/list]

So in effect as of course more and more people find the rare recipie....little by little colors to powers could be changed over time without effecting any new issues from coming out. I mean imagine 1st that you have to get the rare recipie....2nd it would mean that artists/programmers would not be working on all color changes at the same time. Now this may not be feasible but then heres the other idea.

COMBINE IDEAS #1 AND 2

Now this would be the same that you need the recipe instead of doing a mission to get the aura effect wrapped around your existing power. This would also allow art/coders to create the aura wrapping for each power set at a slower pace and hence get more content done for other ideas. I'm not sure if any of this can work but I just thought of these 3 ideas. if any of it sounds doable or if anyone has some changes to this idea to suggest or work around etc. Please feel free to add your input.

God Bless and thanks for reading

you can thank me and Also Thank Lighthouse!

Lighthouse approved this sticky

http://community.livejournal.com/cit...s/2279128.html

and I found another one from statesmen that talks about customization..but it feels like its missing something

http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/city-of-heroes/611236p1.html

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"We took a costume customisation tool that offered an almost unlimited number of costume options and added to it by geometric proportions," said Jack Emmert, City of Heroes lead designer and creative director for Cryptic Studios. "One of the achievements we are most proud of is that players know that they can play City of Heroes and may never see another player with the same costume. The updating of custom options also expands our ability to reach more players who are fans of Anime or Manga."

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"players know that they can play City of Heroes and may never see another player with the same costume"

But can almost always see another player with the same powers...and feel like they arent any different..

i know the argument to this is "take different powers within the powerset"

But that still wont allow me to stand out and be unique and create a concept that I see in my head and let the rest of the world see it within the game....

is that fluff to some? sure but not to me

http://archive.gamespy.com/e32002/pc/cityofheroes/
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Just assembling the right outfit can be a delightful, if monumental, task of its own. "We've got 2.44 times 1024 combinations in creating heroes," said Cryptic's Jack Emmert. You can pick masks, backpacks, torsos, heads, body types, cybernetic enhancements, boots and more, all in a rainbow of colors. While Cryptic is taking special care to leave out copyrighted trademarks and looks (you won't see a city full of Supermen, for example), you should still be able to create any kind of look you want.

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Sorry Mr. Emmert But it seems that I cannot create any kind of look I want.

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For the sonic sets, I would like to have a selection of sounds to choose from rather then different colors. The current sounds really annoy me.

Sound customization might be a good idea for martial arts and super strength, as well. Since they don't have any colors to change. Grunt like an ogre or scream like a ninja, type of deal.

And while it doesn't really belong to power customization, it would be nice if we could pick footstep and breathing sounds for our characters as well.

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Also there needs to be more female sounds

well the sonic sounds work for my character whirly bird...she shrieks...and the sonics have a shrieking sound...but they do sound male oriented..whirly bird is a female character

Good idea siska lets add "sound customization to the discussions here"

yeah i see kitty krusader started a flame war about it (sigh)

and here i was trying to make a decent thread

what are those Zyphoid?

Not to mention there are illegal mods out there that violate the EULA of this game...which defeats the purpose of having real power customization coming from the devs

This thread isn't really about making it so they never forget about PC..although I never want them to forget...i made it so people could post in here to help the dev's in any way possible. A few of you have said we can't possibly come up with an idea to help the dev and art team implement customization.

Do you know how many times Thomas Edison Tried to make a light Bulb before He suceeded?

And did you know all the people that worked on it before him and after him to make it better and last longer?

So just because we don't work for cryptic...doesn't mean we cant help cryptic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb

So we need some bright ideas...otherwise were gonna be left in the dark

Im all for new ideas...but new ideas tend to get washed down the river of posts that keep coming...hence ala we need a sticky...

i will know monday if this becomes a sticky or not

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I would hate to see all of them consolidated into a single thread where it becomes difficult to discuss each idea individually.

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I fail to see how you cant look at the posts on the 1st page of this thread and not discuss them individually? How is having many posts going to help anything?

HELLO people are complaining about the many many posts...the idea here is to get people to post in 1 thread so that people can discuss every which way but loose...and everyway the wind blows...without having to loose track of the post.

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And again, I point you to BaB's last post on the subject. Our ideas on implementation, thought up without extensive knowledge of the code and engine are the opposite of useful.

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And who says that anyone who hasant made a comment yet cant find a way? Sometimes miracles come from the least expected place...food for thought

No sapph having a consolidated thread makes it easier for people who come in every week and ask for power customization..

Are you telling me after 4 years...that we should just let you be annoyed by the many many posts or have one really good post with solutions? The reason why I made a new post is because DarkCarnage no longer cares about his orginal posts...so the discussions in there arent going to be very fruitful...hence this post....

REBOOT...RESTART...RETHINK

and besides you have a sticky thread yourself

Pippy there are alot more people complaining about there being multiple threads on PC vs people who want 1 place to discuss all good ideas.

Something that happened that was never planned on happening 06/05/2003
http://www.gamesfirst.com/previews/t...tyofheroes.htm

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Interestingly enough there will be no player vs. player conflict in City of Heroes. I was told that the real point of the game is for players to band together on a more positive note, to become real "protectors." At this point if you were hoping to become a super villain then you’ll just have to settle for saying mean things to your in-game neighbors. At first I was a bit disappointed to hear this bit of news, but when you think about it the game will provide a load of villains (including your personal nemesis) for you to tackle and the level of customization City of Heroes offers elbows that disappointment right out of the picture.

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Funny how the world turns isn't it?

thanks for all the good posts so far

well now that its consolidated...im on the look out for anything that needs to be consolidated

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Do what they do in the developers corner and other sections, and re-name it to the Consolidated, or UnOfficial power and weapon custimization thread. I agree this needs to be consolidated, but because you are not a developer, moderator or administrator you can't make anything official.

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Sounds good I re-named it to :
Consolidated Power and Weapon Customization Thread

Ok I will call it the Consolidated Power and Weapon Customization Thread until the devs feel it should be otherwise...hopefully it will still become a sticky in any case.

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Here's my suggestion for how to do this, mostly in terms of the User Interface:

Use the costume editor.

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Well that does seem to solve one part of the problem,which is how much server lag adding PC would create...at least from what your saying here

But the art and coding time would end up being the same on this...is that correct?

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Given that, i think it'd have much better chance of sticky-dom if it were just "consolidated dev posts re: PC" and just drop the player ideas altogether.

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Too bad there is no subtitle option like on eBay then you could describe more

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Problem with that,(as BaB said in the post i was talking about) unless someone actually already works for cryptic, and knows their code inside and out, their suggestions are worth about the same as a Jeter rookie card thats been in a blender.

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Thats true to an extent..the other purpose of this thread was to gather all dev responses....i mean ALL OF THEM...so people can have a clear idea of whats going on.

Im sure people are tired of having to explain the status of pc or if there is a status of PC

Thats The other purpose of this thread