Rabid_M

First, the pack ideas!

Strong and Pretty: This pack would contain the muscular female details that Samuel_Tow was asking for, or a good replacement. It would also contain items for "pretty" male/huge characters, such as a few types of long hair and a hip sash. Finally, it could contain a frilly shirt/jacket like the Jon Pertwee wore as the 3rd Doctor.

Beast Pack 2: Mythical: It seems like there's enough support for new beast/monster parts to make two packs, so let's start with the mythical stuff. New dragon heads, dragon wings that lack the spots and better match the reflective nature of the reptilian scales. Horse head, with optional spiral horn. A fox head (I've seen more than a few Kitsune running around) and a jackal head would find a fair amount of use as well. Toss in a few arcane/ancient weapons and scaled tail that ends in a snake head, and you're set.

And now, for a few select items that don't fit in with a pack:

Mecha feet for Monster legs: Make them big enough that the large clawed feet can fit in them, and they're big enough for all the monster feet to wear. I would suggest three versions: One normal that you can put patterns on, one with glowing bits, and one with glowing bits and claws.

Top Hat with long hair: It's much easier to make someone creepy with a top hat if you can give them long hair. It can look good on non-creepy characters, too. Something like the Male/Huge long hair would be fine for how the hair should look.

Fur shoulders: We had this at one point, in the CoV Beta. It was taken from us, but I'd really like to see another shot taken at this. Great for barbarians, animal people, or (colored green) any stone people that have sat around for too long and become covered in moss.

Thank you for your time.

I thought of one more:

For the next batch of Super Packs, I'd make Very Rare cards actually matter when it comes to the ATOs. Rare cards would contain the 5 normal ATOs from each set. Very Rare cards would contain the specials from each set, and ONLY the specials. No more getting a "Very Rare" that's the same thing you could have gotten from a Rare.

First, I too would either cut down the +Def bonuses from IOs, or set a cap on how much you can get from them. This is killing Def based characters/power sets, because the Devs are having to account for people running around at the soft cap.

Second, I would put in some IO sets that carry penalties. Example: A standard set of 5 normal IOs with normal bonuses. The bonus for slotting the sixth would be something huge, but the sixth IO is a Unique proc that does nasty things to the player. Bonus: +10 Max End. Proc: -15% global recharge.

Third: Domination mode only refills your End if you're not in Domination mode when it activates.

Fourth: Bases. Doesn't matter if I do anything with them or not, someone will hate me for it. Still, there has to be some way to add new items to them, much like the vet reward decorations were added.

Fifth: I would remove the recharge on Snipes, and up the range. If you can see it, you should be able to snipe it. Once you fire, you're already in position, take aim and fire off another round, if you think you have time.

Alternate Fifth: Taking a snipe power would give you a second power, Sniper's Positioning. This would be a toggle that drops you into a sniper's pose and immobilizes you, but ups the range of the snipe and either removes the recharge or ups the damage.

Sixth: Add the occasional cat or dog to the city streets. This also includes giving groups like the PPD some Police Dogs.

Finally: Remove EXP and INF from the AE rewards. Add the "Experienced" power to the list of things you can buy with Tickets, and reduce the recharge on it greatly.

/getglobalname can tell you more than just the player's global name, it also tells you the character they're currently playing.

Let's say you met a character named "Fool's Golden Girl", and you wonder if that player's online. If you do "/getglobalname Fool's Golden Girl" you may get back:

"Arby Drab's player has the global name of @Statsman"

That tells you that "Fool's Golden Girl" is played by "@Statsman", and said player is currently playing a character named "Arby Drab".

This doesn't work if they're offline, or correctly hidden, naturally.

If you want to tell a story about mutants in CoH, I think you need to look at what's different about them compared to mutants in other comic/game universes.

What's different? They're connected. They were rare before mankind split its first atom, but became more common after that. Later, you have a group of 90 kids all around the world born with linked mutations in one year.

It's obvious that CoH mutants are/can be born in response to something, but what? Why?

One of my characters suggested (way back, before the Origin of Power arc) that the various animal type mutants showing up all over the place were a response to the stress mankind was undergoing. They were made to deal with the stress upon the human race (cull population or eliminate a threat), but the changing world had outstripped them so there were more and more being born as the human race tried to adjust. The unleashing of stronger and more dangerous powers upon the Earth leads to the birth of stronger and more dangerous mutants to deal with the situation.

Having characters look into that, and deal with someone/something trying to manipulate that defensive response, would make for a fairly good story arc, I think. Maybe you could even find out what the Nuke 90 were born to deal with.

It might be better to show some kind of indicator that there's other locks on a character beyond the character slot one. That way, you'll know that there's more to do before you can play that character, but still choose to unlock the slot if you wish to.

If you can't unlock it without unlocking the rest of the stuff on the character first, then you'll be unable to access that slot to delete the character if it's one you didn't like and want to reuse the slot without paying for something you're found unfun.

The pattern for chain mail armor DOES look nice, but is there any chance we'll be getting it for baggy tops and tucked-in bottoms, too? Or if not baggy tops, maybe a robe variant? I'm looking at it, and wondering where the padding is, so I'm kind of hoping for the other types to created a more under-padded look.

Try making a boss spawn when they click on the trigger.

Set the boss at the beginning of the mission. AV, with /Nin as the secondary power so it has Hide. No minions, and set to run away as soon as it's down to no minions.

The boss should spawn when they click the device and run right for the nearby exit, causing the mission to fail before they have a chance to get back to the start of the map and stop it. Just to make sure they realize they're not supposed to, I'd call him something like "Mechanics Trigger" and put in his description that he's there just to trigger game mechanics.

I think this'll give you something close to what you want, if it works like I think it will.

So... not only should they blow it up, but they'd get to make it a tax write-off as well?

I'm sorry, but I just can't swallow the idea behind this move.

So, you have a prison in space, for the worst criminals. Anyone that goes up there should know what might happen, I don't care who they are.

When they break free, the rest of the movie should last about 5 minutes. The person responsible for dealing with it gets the news, they arm a device, and press a big red button.

Boom. Roll credits.