Premonitions

I'd really like a staff/Polearm set. maybe Staff for scrappers/Brutes and Spear for Tankers/Stalkers.

As for Nunchaku for MA... eh.

MA pretty much looked to me to be the "I hit things just with my hands, no fancy powers or weapons" set. Adding in the punches in i16 pretty much solidfied that for me, as it's purpose as such was fulfilled by allowing it to mix between punches and kicks.

What we're really looking at when discussing this is customizing animations and entire weapon sets for weapon-based powers.

Like, okay, say we allow players to select between regular bows and crossbows,cool. How would that work? Would you select while creating your costume? because you'd have to select which type of bow if using regular bow animations, and which type of crossbow if selecting that one, If the selection was made during power customization, would it make me go back to costume to select which weapon?

The way I could see it happening is during power selection, If you picked archery or trick arrow, the Archery/TA tab would expand down into crossbow or regular bow, then you'd select which one you want, which would dictate which bow options you'd have when it came to picking weapons in costume creation.

I'd like to know if that's possible before going any further (because if so, staff would be the obvious choice for nunchaku)

Look at your Sister... Do you REALLY think anyone would impregnate her?

Good thing My Fat ugly momma is'nt a Nemesis plot.

I honestly should say I have multiple standards, and this^ is one of them.

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I was thinking of adding a new category, to make all the Scale-categories match each other on each side...

Retaliator/loner:
As a hero, you stick to your own. You have your own morals and don't like to be bothered by others. But if someone provokes you, God help them.

The character-scale description defines what they do. What they(heroes and villains) do in this game is defined by what missions they take. Thus, tag the Arcs to suit the types of characters outlined here.

The premise is it's supposed to work in tandem with the same system for dev-created content to allow people to play along the lines of what they want their character to do without going outside that range unless the REALLY like the mission that does.

Example:
Play Crime-fighter slanted dev-content until you get to a high enough level that the threats you face start to outstrip your Crime Fighter character, then delve into Architecht arcs labeled as such( or not labeled, but still fitting the description, bouncing back and forth when you get a contact that fits your character.

As for the Player-created tags
Well, that's exactly what I'm talking about here, did'nt know about that, but I still think this has merit for the reasons stated above.

God Bless you Zamuel!
/em Salute
Edit:
A heavily revised edition of this is now on the Original post

bI swear to god, I'm going to use another forum's Vbulletin interface to write up my planned revised edition for this and the AE section. Cause the lack of visible availanle tools is frustrating the CRAP out of me.

This is my point, these would be fan-made and agreed upon classifications for missions, events, and contacts. That way, people who had a character that was imagined as one of said classifications would'nt be spending the majority of their time stepping above or below their desired range because they could come to it, find contacts and such in their desired range, and run through all of those.
Quoting myself here

Well, Hero for Hire and Hunter can go any way. Hunters are basically Heroes that focus on a specific threat. That threat could be cosmic or minor. and Heroes for Hire are designed specifically as belonging to an organization that tells them what to do.
So X-men Would count as Heroes for Hire purely by concept(as opposed to how they actually operate) and the Green Lanterns would be along the same lines, with touches of cosmic defenders. To go into Greater detail.
An Individual Green Lantern is A Cosmic Defender.
The Green Lantern Corps as a whole Are heroes for hire.
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Plus, as I've stated before, this is more of a "what I do most of the time" type of thing.
By these standards. Anytime we take part in a zone event or Giant Monster fight we take a step up, down or to the side.

Well, you could always choose not to take the mishes in-game that don't fit your character, and there's a suplementary thread in the AE section.

They are, mostly/. but they match Up with arc classifications as well.
A crime Fighter hero would be less inclined to take on problems of a Cosmic Defender scale no hope(relatively speaking) of winning it. A Criminal scale villain probably would'nt want a Destroyer scale mission, holds no personal profit.

So... noone wants to help?
Obviously I'll start work soon, but I'd like some kind of help, maybe one person per Origin, and I'll divide it into the proper scales
also..

Somebody say Walken?

High-LARIOUS!
good stuff, man.

Aww Pwease do ! Hayate
He's evil!
and Grumpy!
and he kills parents!
.........
CUTENESS

P.S. he's supposed to have real, shoulder length dreds, but they don't have dreds in-game....

I mean, yeah, there's always fluctuations and flukes, but these Scale classifications are more to the effect of
"what my character(his enemies) do 80-90% percent of their heroing/villainy time"
Take Spidey as an example
50% of the time, Spider-man is fighting simple crooks. And when he's not doin that he's fighting
Criminal-Scale Villains:
Shocker
Scorpion
Sandman
Kingpin
Hammerhead
Silvermane
Nemesis type villains
Green Goblin
Venom
or Destroyer type villains
Green Goblin
Carnage
so even though 10% of the time he gets swept up in Marvel's current big cross-continuity crossover blahblah event, pretty much all his time is spent dealing with smaller scale threats and crime.
so Spider-man would be Scaled as Crime-Fighter Hero.

I was kind aunder the impression the OP was asking for these missions to occur with the frequency/intorduction mechanics of a mayhem/safegaurd, as opposed to at the end of an arc or some such. Maybe as a paper/radio mish, or from a contact who gives them as repeating mishes with randomized names/ enemies.

Companion to the Thread in the City Life Forums

I've been thinking about classifiyng the Contacts, Storylines, Missions, and other story elements in-game for players who want their characters to do things more their speed. This of course requires me to create some classifications.

The purpose of this is to allow players to create their character snad tailor their play experience more to the type of career they'd want that character to have, instead of the current system of starting out small, and growing in power.

They could start out small time and stay that way, having big wins on their own scale instead of trying to have Daredevil save the world from Cthulu. Conversely they could start out as a massive, world destroying villain/ world Saving Hero and keot it up throughout their career.

Obviously this would facilitate the need for the same classifications in AE as there's little world-shattering content at the early levels, and similarly few small scale content in the end game. This would result in a mix of AE and Dev Content play.

As a Mission Architect, you could Put a little tag before the description of each mission with one of these, in addition to the tags already available that fulfill this purpose to some degree.

If this becomes an agreed-upon activity, I'd post up a thread listing arcs people would like categorized, or have already categorized, and would continuously update the First Few OPS(for each Scale Category) with the Numbers of the Arcs as needed.

These classifications are designed to address what your character does 70-90% of the time. Since 70-90% of your play experience would be in missions and such, this would apply most directly to mission and TFs/SFs, and mission related content, Contacts, enemy groups, and all of that. Obvious allowances are made for zone events and GIant Monsters as heroes/villains occaisionally step up, down, or to the side of their usual "norm".

Origin:
These would be the origins Set in the game
Natural
Mutant
Science
Technology
Magic

Character scale:
This is where it gets somewhat complicated.

To give an example, let's examine our friendly neighborhood Spider-man

Spider-man would be classified as Crime Fighter scale

Roughly 40% of his Super-Heroing time is spent figting small crime. The other 40% is fighting Small time thugs who happen to have super-powers(Sandman, Shocker, Rhino) Villains who have a specific vendetta against him (Venom) or plain old crazy villains (Green Goblin)

Sure, Spidey occaisionally gets embroiled in Marvel's big- giant, who gives a crap Multi Comic crossover event, but that's an exception, rather than his standard.

And while some of his villains occaisionally get too big for their britches, Doc Ock is a big perpetrator of this, most of them fall into one of the three aformentioned Catagories.


This specifically deals with the type of character you're making, Obviously a low level criminal would'nt be taking over the world, and a hero determined to protect their neighborhood would'nt have the firepower to stop them if they did. So here are the classifications I've devised (so far)

Heroes:

• Cosmic Defender:
  You save the world. All the time. Sometimes you even save the whole universe. It's your specific duty to tackle the big, world threatening problems.
  
  -Examples:
  Superman
  The Justice League
  The Avengers
  Doctor Strange
  Silver Surfer
  Green Lantern
  
  
  
• Crime fighter:
  You fight crime. You're in the trenches, on the streets. You may not stop meteors from smashing into earth, but you help keep earth running every day.
  
  -Examples:
  Daredevil
  Spider-man
  Moon Knight
  Batman(except when he's in the justice league)
  Punisher
  The Question
  
  
  
• Hunter
  You've made it your life's work to attend to what you consider a major threat. Nothing will distract you from taking down your enemy.
  
  -Examples:
  Blade
  Punisher(these can fit multiple characters)
  Hellboy
  
  
  
• Hero For Hire
  You work for a benevolent organization. The pay you rather well to eliminate specific problems and then to go home.
  
  -Examples:
  Luke Cage
  Ironfist
  Misty Knight
  X-men

Villains

• Criminal
  You're a common criminal. You'd be happy having you own gang, maybe a nice little place somewhere with lax extradition laws. you don't need to take over the world.
  
  -Examples:
  Shocker
  Sandman
  Killer Croc
  
  
  
• Super-Villain
  You'll show them. One day the world will be YOURS(or at least the dark gods you serve) Through your evil mcahinations you seek to control everything and reform it in your image
  
  -Examples:
  Doctor Doom
  Lex Luthor
  Baron Mordu
  Moleman
  Magneto
  Dr. Octopus
  
  
  
• Mercenary
  You don't care what the job is, you just want the money.You'll do whatever anyone pays you to do...
  
  -Examples:
  ...any assassin
  Bullseye
  The Enforcers
  
  
  
• Destroyer
  You're crazy. It's hard to put it any clearer. You just want to destroy anything you can. You do everything for the sake of doing it.
  
  -Examples:
  the Joker
  Green Goblin
  
  
• Arch-Nemesis
  You exist purely to make someone else personally miserable. The hate you feel for them burns ith such intensity, it threatens to consume you.
  
  -Examples:
  THE MONARCH!
  Green Goblin
  Lex Luthor (like heroes, villains can fit for multiple roles)