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And I thought it was because, like me, you'd probably seen the full version of some of those pics

Reading comprehension?

I said solid-ish form like a stream similar to the waterfall cape vs an ambiguous stream of particles like the mist look in the Fire extinguishers or Coralax's Wave of Cold attacks.

The filters would mainly occur with the clicks (so Unnerve and Jump Start which is on a long recharge). The toggles would be 1 time things upon first activating them which would most likely occur before a battle so I wouldn't expect players to throw a hissy fit about the filters on those.

Didn't talk about animations so those are still could use brainstorming. But I'd actually be against formula graphics and the mixed symbols from Psychic Blast. That seems like you're trying too hard to make this seem like *BRAIN POWER!!1*...it'd be like putting floating clock faces into Time Manipulation.

The thought behind my suggested visuals is it's suppose to represent a more abstract honing in on details, emphasizing the important (your allies) and one way to emphasize something is to 'de-emphasize' others. Not that the user of these types of abilities would be tossing aside details, but it's a visual technique that accomplishes the same thing.

Anyway, the concept of the powers isn't *actually* the ability to change the color/saturation of things around them (although if a player wanted to use that concept...) but a visual representation of focusing on important information. And not only would it be unique, the actual visuals would be subtle enough to sell these powers as separate abilities and striking enough to be aesthetically entertaining.

When I made the comment, it was mainly because the powers descriptions really didn't mention what they'd look like and the premise wouldn't allow for any interesting visuals unless you *try*.

If I were thinking up visuals, I might go the route of a concept character I have whose powers I dubbed the 'Soul Spectrum'. His powers are basically moral related, able to drown out the enthusiasm from his enemy as well as bolster his own to the point he can do seemingly impossible things. And his power manifests through hue intensity more-so than actual color-hue.

So when he lowers the moral of things, those things seem to have a washed look to them, possibly even being reduced to a black/white/gray or sepia look while things with boosted moral have intense and sharp hues that make them stand out from the gray and drab surroundings.

Relating that to your suggestion:

Evade: Upon activation, pass the environment through a sepia filter (like flashback missions) except for those affected by this power (so they'll still look colorful). After a few seconds, the filter fades, returning the background to its proper color while having a sort of (color tintable) flash behind the affected's feet.

Analyze: Flush the target's color to black/white/gray as a targeting reticle (color tintable) is shown over the target that disappears after a couple seconds. The target's color fills back in, starting from their feet all the way up to their head which is when the effect expires.

Advantage: The color of your allies bleeds out to their immediate placement for a couple of seconds upon activating this power. The brightness of the characters is enhanced but slowly fades back to normal leaving a (color tintable) flashing behind the affected's body/arms.

Acumen: Doesn't say the duration so not sure if this will be a persistent effect that needs to be kept hidden or should have an indicative visual so one can tell if the effect is there or not. I'd probably do the reverse of Analyze, brighten the character's look that slowly drops down. Starting at the head, their brightness will return to normal, then the body and finally feet.

Unnerve: Pass the environment through the sepia filter again. Only characters affected by the set's buffs will look normal. The filter fades after 5 or so seconds but leaves the affected targets all brown and non-colorful. Have (color tintable) debuff rings (like the ones you get when you debuff someone's speed) around their feet and hands during the effect.

Commanding Shout: Upon activating the power have your colors bleed like Advantage but only on self then quickly return to normal. Every ally gets a (color tintable) flash behind their characters then a breakfree-esque glow behind their head.

Precision: Combination of Advantage's and Evade's visual; environment is set to black/white/gray while your allies' brightened colors bleed around them for a few seconds before fading and leaving a (color tintable) flashing aura behind their head.

Insight: Probably the same as Reveal would be fine. I like the look of that power...but make the grid/circle thingies color tintable.

Jump Start: Pass everything through the black/white/gray filter (even the allies affected by your other buffs) for 5 seconds while the target of this power is has brightened colors + a (color tintable) bright aura that stretch from their form and engulfs the surroundings, returning them to previous look. The targets whole body is lit up by a bigger aura that pulses slowly.

I think the regular line "Why so serious?" would fit better, IMO.

Lol that's just ridiculous. I like PR Samurai but yeah, that sword is just goofy.

If we're going realistic though, the shark teeth straight sword is a style of sword I wanted to practice with when I studied kung fu but never got around to it.



Link.


And if we're going with shark costume pieces, I will not rest until we have something that looks like this.



And I sorta liked Mako as he was. If he looked like that!?

*swoon*

And here I thought that was common sense...

That aside, I know I rarely burn out on a character because if I'm really starting to like a character, getting into them and having fun, I put them aside...leave myself wanting more so I'll *itch* to eventually get around to that character again...I'll itch to play practically all my characters, that's just how I rotate them.

If I start burning out on the game, I'll stop playing. It's easy for me to burn out on the game. I'll start a mission and get bored in 15 min so log out...then log back in an hour later and play some more.

Anyways, I'll just keep doing what I'm doing and suggest things to add to the game that would be fun.

Nope, we don't.

As long as we have a solid-ish 'form' rather than ambiguous particles that come with a visual splash effect, it'd be perfectly convincing in this game world as water since no water effects currently refract...it'd be like expecting the water blasts to be reflective before we had ultra-mode...it'd look odd for one thing to have such an effect and not everything.

You're so wise and cool, Agent White, I just want to huggle you for the size of your wisdom

*hugs*

I tend to agree. I don't often slot my powers with enhancements until I get to SO lvls. Before then, I just slot whatever drops. After that, I tend to put slots into what feels is lacking (or what can be improved more) when slotting is relevant (that is, if I feel a power needs to come up sooner, I put slots in it and enhance for recharge, if endurance is a problem, same thing, etc.).

But if as I lvl up, I tend not to use new powers unless they make a difference and even if they do, only when I have the endurance/time to spare, that is until I get slots into that power. But the game, to me, is always a balancing act of 'should I and can I use this power?' depending on circumstance and slotting. Sometimes powers just aren't ready to take full advantage of and other times its *OMG whip it out!!!* even if it's not ready or fully slotted.

That said, I tend to evenly slot things, filling out attacks as evenly as possible until they reach their desired limits (some powers I only expect to devote 4 slots to, some I want to 6 slot) mainly for exempting purposes.

Will point out this. We need this horribly bad.

I love the Shining Stars. They aren't all that strong, but they fit right in with my rookie hero that's just starting out as a 'named' superhero of Paragon. Enjoyed the bad guys in Dr. Graves group. Killing the Civic Squad (or at least the 6 that showed up on my mission) solo without much trouble kinda made me feel like a Magneto-esque supervillain.

Coming from a player that usually doesn't socialize much so don't actually stick to one server and therefore isn't invested in any sort of Super/Villain group, I think we need more NPC groups like those that ask for our help/we have to take down. This should be a more common occurrence than sprinkled lightly over various levels of content. I should be able to 'join' an Avengers-esque group where I'm joining a small collection of heroes to take down a big threat or be tasked with bringing in (or killing) a league of X-Men. Because joining a team doesn't feel like this at all (it should but it doesn't) so...yeah. Do that more balanced as a solo mission that somehow ramps up if you have a team.

Well how about linked character slots?

I try to make a point of this in threads like this I see as I don't see any downfall to the suggestion.

Basically, let a player have a character slot like normal, with a name, origin, AT, powers then level in the game, incarnates and contact list...then let a player pick another slot and link it to the first. The things that should be linked are name, badges, inf and salvaged but they'd have everything else separate including levels, origin, powers, AT, etc.

My premise is, I have characters with powers. Sometimes they have more powers or combos of powers than what is available for one character (like an elementalist and sorceress who can control elements and weather....can't make a fire/ice/storm/lightning/wind/water corruptor, but I can break that down into multiple characters). We'd just need to decide on how the switch would occur. Obviously, it'd be something a bit more restrictive than just swapping a build.

Anyway, yeah I already 'side-roll' characters like this...most of my reoccurring characters have at least 2-3 side-alts that is basically the same character/backstory but just (some) different powers. The problem with this is...there is an even bigger lack of identity (I feel this game does lack a means to identify the avatar as linked to the player unlike other games that aren't as alt-happy) since you have to come up with different names for each as well as restarting the whole game over...one is enough, IMO.

TL;DR
Linked Character Slots:
-Shared

• Character Name
• Badges
• Accolade Powers
• Alignment
• Inf, Salvage

-Not Shared

• Origin
• Archetype
• Powers
• Level
• Contacts
• Incarnate Powers
• Temporary Powers
• Costume
• Physical character slot on server select screen

You're a vain one, are you? I wasn't even replying to you, just making an observation. I could have skimmed through and quoted the other 2 posts that had a similar flavor but I don't think it's necessary (and you'd still feel attacked regardless).

All in all, it doesn't change what I'm observing. Cimerora? Shadow Shard? Yeah, those are 'zones' too and they're deserted, barely utilized and some people even dislike them. But the way you try and defend your statement doesn't make me feel you're any more reasonable, just more a whiny git that doesn't know what he wants.

I focus on those because you deliberately ignore villain involvement which are most likely motivated by villainous intentions.

Which makes me believe the playerbase doesn't know what the heck they want. Moonbase? Underwater zone? Wilderness/Jurassic zone? Yeah, that's not Paragon City, so no, you're not going to get those.

Stay in Paragon City.

I wouldn't equate the Rogue Isles to 'and her allies', even the likes of cold-war Russia...but that's just me...not even in the same ballpark. But it's grand how you'll completely ignore one of the driving forces behind the foes that oppose him. Surrendering could as likely be imprisonment under America as it could be death by the Rogue Isles.

Holditholdit HOLD IT!....

Now when was it established that Cole is fighting 'America'?

I'd have sworn he's fighting a coalition from chaotic mirror dimension of his own filled with crime, war, destruction and trans-dimensional chaos...or at the least, 2 nations, one of which is ruled by a villain.

And yet, as a level 50+, you can gain none of the powers for that new set and being the final incarnate slot, there are no slots left to put in those powers if you could get them in the first place