Schismatrix

Almost halfway there.

Heals tend to be very useful in the first 20 levels or so of the game, but past that buffs and debuffs are far more significant for providing support. That said, even in the late game heals can be very useful, but mostly as quick fix for what gets past the other defenses. There are also a few late game events where healing, especially AoE heals, trump buffing and debuffing for support purposes.
Hamidon raids and the Keyes trial are the most significant in that regard, but Mothership raids also benefit from heal spam.

As for healing pets... well, Masterminds may have the most pets, and most delicate pets overall, but they also have the shortest recharge/cooldown on their summons, so it's not a big problem if their pets die. In fact their design pretty much assumes frequent resummoning of their pets. Controller pets are generally more durable, but even so they are fairly disposable.

Superteams in CoH are normally composed entirely of support ATs due to the stacking of buffs and debuffs. Green Machine IIRC was made entirely of Empathy Defenders who buffed each other to the point that they rolled along permanently at the defense and damage caps. With goods buffs and debuffs healing in itself becomes almost unnecessary*. In that respect this game is very different from just about every other MMO.

Justice is a pretty fun and active server. i have several alts there at various levels, but right now when i play on Justice it's usually either on my lowbie (12-ish as of right now) Dual Pistols/Energy Blaster or my 50 Force Field/Radiation Defender.

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i'm glad you're enjoying the game so far; here's few tips and tricks to make some things easier: since you mostly use the mouse making macros can be very handy since it places a clickable button on your tray.
Here's a few i use:
/macro help "assist" (Targets targeted teammate's target.)
/macro find "targetcustomnext blah" (Will automatically target anything in sight with "blah" in its name. You can edit blah to whatever you want by right-clicking the macro and choosing edit.)
/macro info "info" (Calls up info window for whatever is currently targeted. If nothing is targeted it calls your info window.)
There are some much more detailed guides to macros in the guides section of the forum.

Also, here's a slash command that might help you with health bars:
/optionset showvillainbars 1
With showvillainbars set to 1 you will always see the health and endurance bars above all players and NPCs/pets even when they're not targeted. That might help you a bit with tracking friend and enemy health levels.



*Empathy has the most healing type powers, but it also has some of the most powerful AoE and single target buffs in the game. The balancing factor is that most of those powers are on rather long recharge timers.

That looks delicious! Dammit, now i'm hungry.

i still have an alt with the Malaise pants and several with a transparent torso. A Malaise top would've been nice, or even a non-tucked in version of the pants, but maybe they'll available again at some point. *crosses fingers*

The transparent torso bug was great for a ghostly character and a few other concepts. Stone Armor brute with transparent torso looks really good, for example.

Several pieces have been removed/replaced, but with the above exception almost all others have equivalents.
Only sometimes. Most of the time if a section has been reorganized you'll have to pay full price or use a token to restore the piece. The most recent example that comes to mind is when variant versions of the cat and wolf tails were added.

i've actually had a few male alts receive lewd comments in the past. The first time was back around late 2004/early 2005. i was playing a D3 whose theme was being a reformed Eidolon, so he was wearing all buckled leather. (There being no Chaos Leather pattern back then.) It was just one suggestive and appreciative comment though, so i shrugged it off and continued on. If i'd been followed and/or harassed through tells i would've used /ignore and /petition. Oddly enough i've very rarely been harassed on male or female alts on any server despite frequently receiving compliments for my costumes. Occasional suggestive and appreciative comments don't bother me as long as they're not too crude, and even then i usually see it as an opportunity for an amusing reply.

i have a couple alts in all female SGs, but leaders of those SGs are aware that female avatar does not automatically mean female player.

i used to do that somewhat frequently.
However, the last couple of years i've almost forgotten it exists.

Thank you.
Y'know the thought occurs to me that if you compare the game at launch with Praetoria and what's been shown of Issue 21 that City of Heroes has very nearly become City of Heroes 2 just through the additions and upgrades to the game's engine. If you can get the resources to do an upgrade to the character and NPC models similar to the environments we will have pretty much arrived at City of Heroes 2.

Hubba hubba!

Yep, my original response stands:
Adding "bones", "nodes" or other elements to a skeleton is changing the whole skeleton since a skeleton is basically collection of "bones".

NOW i remember why i hadn't bothered responding to a GT post for over a year. It's like attempting to converse with a particularly repetitive and annoying chatbot.

Okay, this is a suggestion i can support. i don't know how easy or practical it is with current resources, but i like it.

Your opening post, on the other hand, was not something i felt any urge to support. In my opinion if your first post had been this one it would have been more constructive and well-received.

*facepalm*
Adding animated fingers means altering the current skeletons. You really have no clue what you're talking about, do you?

You can create hand models that appear to have separate fingers, but they're still just mittens with no independent articulation unless you modify the character skeletons to have separate "bones" for each finger to be animated.

So you're saying the current skeletons have had the "bones" for fingers since launch and they just never got around to animating them? Interesting. i could swear that contradicts a Dev post from some years ago.

Yes!

Wait, what?

Ruh-roh!
*flees*

*facepalm*
*reads OP again*
*double facepalm*
Y'know, these posts make me think of this video.

Anyway, you're a bit late to the party. People have already posted their suggestions for designs in the original City Life - CoH & CoV General Discussions thread about the Titan Weapons.

Still, the more the merrier, eh?

i would prefer if forum posting rights were not free for all, but required at least being a Premium customer of one of the lower tiers.

Except that spandex is already in the game. As has been repeatedly pointed out we have tights with many, many different patterns that can superimposed. Honestly, besides variations in colour scheme spandex outfits tend to be pretty similar. When we do get new non-spandex pieces added they Devs also frequently add new patterns to the tights options based on the new pieces. (Although not every new set, like Steampunk, has pieces that lend themselves to new tights patterns.) There aren't many ways to add much more to tights. We started out with an extremely varied selection of spandex options as it was.

Not to mention that current superhero comics don't have very much in the way of plain spandex wearers. i suppose if it was advertised as a 50s to 70s superheroes themed MMO then your argument would make more sense, but even by the 80s a lot of superheroes were going less and less for the spandex option.

What, exactly, would you add to tights that isn't already there? 220 subtle variations on vertical striping patterns to allow exactly the right sort of stripes for every outfit?