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One request in the line of weapon customization, pet customization for MM's. Nothing too deatailed but simple stuff like setting pets to be male or female to better fit you characters background, setting uniform colors to match your VG's colors, putting your emblem on them stuff like that.

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The chances of getting female MM pets is extremely slim. Mostly due to, well, let's say 'less than mature' people that would misuse the emote system with said pets.

It's possible that they'll happen, a Carnie set would be kewl, but not likely.

[/ QUOTE ] That's not a good reason not to have female pets as the same can be done with male pets.

Heck I even have a bio on Cameron the Lovely that makes Dorian the Stronge (Bruiser) her boy friend and she cheats on him with my hero too.

Don't need female pets for people to go around acting like pimps and sluts. Besides that why would they care? One of the contacts in St. Martial is a ****. Jezebel Jones and Johnny Sonata is her pimp. Why do you think she has that rope around her and that couch.

I case there's any more confusion about what I was talking about with the maces and because I gave horible descriptions of the different maces here it is again with visual ades. (I took screen shots)

Here is Vestereo 1, my robot/traps MM with his current lame mace that I've never liked.

Here is my dad's stoner brute DIRTY DUCK with his Mace. See the difference?

My dad actully got the Mace BEFORE I did and at the time I didn't know the appearance of the Mace would change for every archetype. I thought his mace looked cool but when I got my mace I was entirly disapointed with it. (Allthough this is actully the first time I seen my mace with the graphics all the way up and it doesn't look as horibly bad as I originally thought.)

It'd allso be nice if I could change the color of my Mace because the Black and Red mace doesn't really blend with my Gold and Silver color scheme.

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What about my mace? Can I do anything with that? I've already noticed the Mace seems to have 5 different types depending on archetype but I hate the Mace style on Masterminds. I'd rather have the one with the bigger spikes Brutes get but not actually be playing a Brute.

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You mean the arachnos mace you can shoot with? That's highly doubtful you'll be able to customize that with a shovel that shoots!



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Mr and Mrs Beast - Ninja/Trick Arrow/Scirocco... YES! and still wandering if the Jounin are getting Dual Blades.

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Nope, pets' costumes and weapons are not customizable.

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You missunderstood me.

1. I'm not asking if I can replace the Arachnos Mace with a shouvel or a War Mace I'm asking if I can switch the Mastermind style Arachnos Mace with the Brute Styal Arachnos Mace.

They both use the same aimations anyway but the Mastermind mace is coverered in several tiny spikes while the brute mace hase 2 verry large "horn-like" spikes on it.

2. I'm not asking if pets weapons will be costumizable. I'm asking if the Jounin will be given Dual Blades where it's appriate for them to have Dual Blades.

Currently Jounin allready have 2 swords mounted on their backs when they're trained however they continue to only use a single sword.

I think it looks horrible but I accepted it because there's not currently a Dual Blades powerset in the game. After i11 there will be Dual Blades in game and I will not be so understanding of why they carrey 2 swords but only use 1.

This is basically what will happen. After i11 launch if Jounin start useing Dual Blades I will be verry verry happy. I see they continue to use only one sword then Cryptic is going to be bombbarded with pettitions to give Trained Jounins Dual Blades.

A major past event I'd really want to visit...

Help save Marcus Cole (Hero) Corrupt (can't remember his real name) (Villain): You travel to the past before there was a Statesman or Lord Recluse and lead their past selfs to the Well of the Furies that gives them their powers.

Hero version: You help save the future Statesman's life by helping to cure the infecting mustard gas. If it wasn't for your tampering in the past Marcus Cole would have died and there'd be no Statesman. You're not supose to change history by stoping Lord Recluse from gaining his powers or warning Statesman he'll be betrayed but you might want to anyway.

Villain version: Lord Recluse does not want you to kill Statesman in the past but you try to anyway. What is unknown to both Statesman and Lord Recluse is that your tampering in past is what caused Lord Recluse to become corrupt and evil in the future.

Cosiquenses: If you take any aditional action in the past other than the mission objective rather than getting a mission failed and exiting mission you'll be sent to another mission map in an alternate future.

Hero: If you stop Lord Recluse from ever gaining his powers when you return to the future you soon discover the world has been overthrown by a more evil villain and Marcus Cole was allready killed by him. Lord Recluse at least had respect for Statesman even though they're not really friends anymore. This other guy just kills without thinking twice.

Villain Version: You return to the future and find out with no Statesman around Lord Recluse is even MORE corrupt and evil than he was before. Without Statesman to focus on Lord Recluse is just a killing machine with his powers and no one to stand in his way. There's no longer an Arachnos army, just a pile of dead bodys everywhere and you're his next target.

I'm seeing alot of "Go back and do missions you missed" talk going around. I was under the impression that the Flash Back was actully "Go back in time to events of Paragon's Past" meaning NEW content like stuff that you can currently only read about in the comics, history, and in game plaques. Not OLD content that you can easily EX with the lower level character to do right now.

If all the the flashback thing will do is give me missions that allready exsist in game I'm not that interested. That's like bg wopty freaking do I don't have to look for some noobs who have a badge mission I missed. That's not new content in my book just rewrighting old content.

Being able to actully travel back in time to me, my first thought was you'd go to a plaque or exsplore badge location and rather than READING what happen on that spot you actully get to SEE what happen there. Now that's what I call new content.

Another thing I like about this idea, I think it'd be cool if we actully had to complete these missions to get these badges. I allways thought it was kinda lame you could get a badge just by flying by a certain location like on top of Atlas Globe. So insted of flying up and automatically getting a badge you fly up there and end up in the past where you have to help Atlas do whatever the heck he did that earned him the big statue then you get the badge on mission completion and are sent back to your own time.

I even have an in story reason for this to happen. Some new arch villain has made invisable "time traps" around both Paragon City and the Rouge Iles in an attempt to change history in his favor or just trap all the heroes in the past where they'll age to death.

Of course if you went with the age to death plot you'd be stealing from Dr. Who still it's a funny plot.

~ = - = ~ Birth - Death ~ = - = ~
March 6, 1986 - August 8, 1807
WTF? He died 179 years before he was ever born?

Lets see...

Lord Imperial - Dark/Dark/Dark Defender... can't do anything with him.

Lord Vestereo - Zombie/Dark/Ghost Widow... Nothing

Vestereo 1 - Robot/Traps/Black Scorpion... YES! and you say I can have a different gun in each costume slot? *drool*

What about my mace? Can I do anything with that? I've allready noticed the Mace seems to have 5 different types depending on archetype but I hate the Mace styal on Masterminds. I'd rather have the one with the bigger spikes Brutes get but not actully be playing a Brute.

Admiral Shark - Soldier/Bubbles/Capt. Mako... YES!!!!!!

Mr and Mrs Beast - Ninja/Trick Arrow/Scirocco... YES! and still wandering if the Jounin are getting Dual Blades.

Cameron the Lovely - Thug/Poison/Ghost Widow... YES!!!!!!

So 4 out of my 6 characters can customize their weapons.

About the renameing thing of Katana and Ninja Blade to "Medium Sword" why not simply call them both Katana is what I wanna know. Ninja Blade IS a Katana, they're the same weapon, same powers, same animations, why do they have different names?

I have 2 more questions...

1. I know Power Custimization has been asked for a long time but this is the first time in 3 years I've ever heard of the "flashback" feature how is that something people have been asking for? It's a great idea but still I never heard of it before.

2. Will unlockable powers like the Ghost Slaying Ax be included as costimizable weapons or only the Battle Ax power set? Basically I'm just wondering if I can change the style of my vetran reward weapons.

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I am thinking a big club instead of a mace, or a single pop out blade on each hand instead of claws, maybe a giant butcher knife instead of a broadsword. At least that is what I WAS thinking. That's why I got so excited.

After seeing the player made mods I am thinking that is closer to what we are getting. Hope I am wrong, but I think it's a good bet we are just getting different skins over the current weapons. ):

I would love for a Dev to pop up and say I am completely wrong.....right....now.....

[/ QUOTE ] There was a list posted a while back that has the REAL weapons listed. No pictures but from the sounds of the names they are not just the same stuff with new skins even though I do like the bloody weapons on the fan site they are fake.

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The write up in the article for "power sets" affected by weapon customization is confusing.

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Current power sets that benefit from this upgrade include Assault Rifle, Mercenaries/Assault Rifle, Bow, Broadsword, Claws, Villain Claws, Dual Blades (see below), Katana, Ninja Blade, Mace, Robotics/Pulse Rifle, and Thugs/Dual Pistols.

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For example: "Bow" isn't a power set, it should probably say Archery and Trick Arrow specifically. Likewise the lack of "Ninjas/Bow" from the list seems to imply that it's not included (even though BAB has made it clear later that it is).

May I suggest quickly rewriting that list to specifically reference only actual Power Sets and to make sure that all affected Power Sets get included.

[/ QUOTE ] Sorry I can't tell if you're being serious or not.

"Bow" includes every power set you just mentioned so why over complicate things by listing all the actual power sets when it's obvious what "bow" is.

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I love the idea that Tanks and Brutes will finally get a 'weapon' power. I can't imagine will power yet, was hoping for shield

I just hope a fix goes in for the recipe ingredient imbalance. I will laugh if the 'very rare' recipes are all techno dependent (buy shares in Rikti alloy now!) and cry if they are as overload with magical ingredients as the ones that already exist. Maybe there will be more magical villians at high lvls?

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Sorry about that. Magical villains keep following me through the portal when I travel back and forth between Primal Earth and Mythical Earth. Don't worry about them though, they don't care about you mortals, they just wanna kill me.

Just a few questions about some of the new features mentioned here...

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<ul type="square">[*] Ouroboros System: Gain the ability to "Flashback" and travel through time and relive major events from the history of Paragon City and the rogue Isles.

[/ QUOTE ] From the way you describe it here it sounds like a new power everyone will have. Can you exsplain more about how this works or am I completly missreading and they're acctually missions that take place in the past?

Either way I love the idea.

[ QUOTE ][*] Weapon Customization: Players will be able to change their weapons in the same way that they change their costume parts!

[/ QUOTE ] I'm just wandering if skull hand guards will be avalible for the different swords? (Broad Sword, Katana, Ninja Blade, and Dual Blades)

[ QUOTE ][*] Two New Power Sets: The City of… universe expands with two new amazing power sets: Dual Blades and Willpower!

[/ QUOTE ] Biggest question here is regarding the Jounin pets. While it's fine for them to use a single Blade when they are first summoned the Trained Jounin have TWO swords on their backs. It drives me nuts to see the two swords on their backs while they're still only useing the one. Will the Jounins be updated to switch from a single Blade to Dual Blades when they're Trained?[/list]

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Zloth's editor has had about the same interface as long as I've used it, so you're probably thinking of a different one. The only other available editor I know of would be Balshor's, which you may prefer but I don't believe is the same one you had before. As for a list of NPC's and such, you can always look them up here.

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I couldn't help but notice looking at that list the "No Ring" part At first I was looking at Sister Psyche and thought "Is her model wearing an engagement ring now?" But then I noticed others had the same thing so I guess that gets rid of the contact ring around their feet.

Just downloaded the Demoeditor. Man I'm confused. Some how I remember Zloth but don't remember that program. This new one you just posted I don't remember the author at all but yet that's the program I was useing before.

Just took a look at it and everything I thought was missing from Zloth's program was in this one. Apperently I got 2 different programs and 2 different authors mixed up in that roundish thing that sits on my neck.

OK Zloth changed his program or something.

Rather than haveing a nice easy program with different cells that each have a small amount of text in them I'm now looking at a giant block of text I have no idea what to do with.

If I wanted to look at a big block of text I could open the files in Notepad (I've done it before) and edit them. I can't work with this thing.

Is there any way I can download an older version of the program? I don't know what's going on with this thing but I don't like it.

As a visual refrence here's what the program is looking like. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y72...g?t=1189482084 Text is a little messed up due to resizeing of the image but it's the fact the text is all in one giant block that's bugging me. I can't figure out what to do with this.

Allso the program I was useing before had a help function with a huge list of NPCs and allowed me to open multiple files at once. This doesn't seem to have any of that. If I open a new file the old one automatically closes. It doesn't even ask if I wanna save changes. (not that I would want to right now all I've figured out how to do is delete stuff)

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The search function can be a fickle creature, sometimes you have to offer up your first born and a cheese sammich to get the results you wanted.

Anyway, this guide covers the shortcut method for demo records, and you can find Zloth's demo launcher and editor here and here. As for guides, plenty of them can be found in the guide to guides.

[/ QUOTE ] I love it when I make a request and get a fast reply whith the info I need and bonus credit for posting guides that I didn't even ask for.

I got exactly what I needed and MORE.

There was a topic a while back called "Makeing a Movie?" I think where I got all this info from once before but I can't seem to find it. Ran sevaral searches and came up with nothing.

Anyway I got a new computer and I need to redownload the Demorecord editor and Player.

The player I know I can create one with a shortcut to the Updater simular to how the Test Server is downloaded but can't remember what tag to add.

So if anyone can help me out I'd appreciate it. I just can't seem to figure out how to work that search feature.

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Does this mean server transfers will become avalible on the same day or is that just put there for future refrence?

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Ex answered that earlier in the thread, like page one or something.

Oh, neat little trick. Hit threaded view and you can easily scan through just poster names if your hunting for redname posts. It's a lot faster than reading the whole thread.

[/ QUOTE ] When the topic is only 4 pages long that's not really an issue. I'm just lazy.

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This policy is being enacted in order to free up character names based on player feedback and for our Character Transfer and Rename features.

[/ QUOTE ] Does this mean server transfers will become avalible on the same day or is that just put there for future refrence?

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Use this thread to discuss the below announcement:


Read all about City of Heroes art creation from the mouth of Jay “Sexy Jay” Doherty in the latest installment of Warcry.com’s “Ask a Dev” article series. Also, make your acquaintance with Cryptic Studio’s World Designer, Melissa “War Witch” Bianco and pose her questions about what she does in the City of Heroes content creation process.

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[/ QUOTE ] I'm a little confused. Do we submit questions for War Witch in this topic or somewhere elce? I'm not really clear on what's going on here.

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Now if this was actully intended as a real life interaction then that wasn't really made clear and totally changes my answer.

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The poll is basically asking if you would like to go to a "City of" convention (like Comicon or Blizzcon). A real life event in the real "live" world.

Seemed pretty clear to me.

[/ QUOTE ] As I exsplained before I thought it ment Live servers as aposed to the Test Server and I was running on limited to no sleep at the time I read it. :P

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For the question "Would you attend a live City of Heroes/Villains Event?" I put I would consider it but what I really meant was "Yes as long as it doesn't conflict with work/school" I don't go to school but I'm just saying that really should be an option there.

I've been to one event on the test server last Holloween other than that one night these events allways seemed to be planed for days and times when I'm working.

I don't know about other people here but I can't nor do I want to skip work just to play this game.

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A live event does not occur in a server. It occurs live, in real life. Or did i misinterpret your post?

[/ QUOTE ] No you didn't missinturpret my post allthough one of us may have missinturpreted the poll.

The servers (Freedom, Justice, Champion, Virtue, ect.) are refered to as LIVE servers. As far as I know there have never been any events planed by anyone other than players on the live servers. The only events I'm aware of that the deves actully attend are on the test server.

I thought this poll was about bringing the events that would normally be held on test to the live servers.

Now if this was actully intended as a real life interaction then that wasn't really made clear and totally changes my answer.

I'm going to have to go with "Only if it's in my area" and if that happen I would hope everyone would come by SRT (Sierra Repretory Theater) while in the area as well. Maybe if enough people planed on going whoever is put in charge of planning this thing can work out some arrangment with Denis Jones.

www.sierrarep.com

I'd just like to say and I think just about everyone would agree with me on this, that we need more of a description on what these power sets would actully do. The names you gave us don't really tell us anything about the power set.

To that note I allso belive any new power sets added to the game would be a good thing and don't really see any perpos for this poll. The poll leads me to belive the power sets that don't win will never be seen and that's something I'd rather not see happen.

As for the "dual blade" set mentioned I hope that gets implimented on the ninja pets for MMs, it really bothers me to see that extra sword appear on his back when he never uses it.

For the question "Would you attend a live City of Heroes/Villains Event?" I put I would consider it but what I really meant was "Yes as long as it doesn't conflict with work/school" I don't go to school but I'm just saying that really should be an option there.

I've been to one event on the test server last Holloween other than that one night these events allways seemed to be planed for days and times when I'm working.

I don't know about other people here but I can't nor do I want to skip work just to play this game.

Only other heroes see this right? Some of us would prefer the civilians not know who's "behind the mask"

As long as only heroes are reading this I'd be happy to submit myself for an interview and if we can pull my Primal Earth counterpart away from LA for a little while I'm sure he'd love to clear up some confusion about us, mainly that there are currently four versions of us running around on Primal Earth and most heroes are still unsure why.

Only 2 are still present in Paragon City and the Rough Isles, myself and Lord Vestereo. Alot of the confusin seems to be about exactly what Lord Vestereo is and why I stay in your world even though I've been free to go home to Mythical Earth for the last couple years.

Or maybe no one ever realizes I'm from another dimention still I'd like to clear some things up and let everyone know what horrors await should I die.

-Lord Imperial

This does make for an interesting story if someone wants to actully follow it and do the interview with the above Character. If not oh well I tried. I just don't wanna interview myself, that's just a little weird.

I wonder if anyone will be wearing a joke style costume where they have a suit over what is obviously a super hero costume. (You know when they're still wairing their mask and gloves under their street cloths.)