SilverAgeFan

You can do this with binds. I don't play with the numberpad and regularly seat a number of costume emotes there. Going from memory, but an emote whiz could check me on this:

/bind numpad1 "cce 1 ccspin"

will make it so when you tap the 1 on the number pad, your character will change into costume slot 1 with the spin emote.

there are more complicated binds and a list of all their slash commands here:

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Cce_(Slash_Command)

Two new emotes related to this:

/e onyourmark
/e leftinthedust (cloud of dust happens, you're stuck in the superspeed pose frozen. :P)

silly? yes. but fun in an /e alakazaamreact sort of way...

Steam shots from the four main limb joints, similar to what goes on during the animation for [self destruct] would be greatly appreciated by many a retro-robot!

Back to power animations, amongst all the requests for greater displays of effort and grizzle, hows about considering the other direction too of utterly bored and indifferent animations? NOT to be confused with boring animations... but what about power animations that show complete dismissal and confidence on the part of the super? I.e. a look away from the target with the head and a bored snap of the fingers to execute the power for example? Think of it applied to a mass hold power. Some people choose to create characters that are just that bad a** that they can barely be bothered to use some powers.

[EDIT: Okay okay--I remember, no fingers in this game. BUT you get what I'm saying. It's all about the nonchalance.]

And on a related note:

/e yawn
and
/e bigyawn

Nothing like that exists in game currently if I'm not mistaken.

Had a few of these a while back myself. A couple that jump back to mind:

- Teleport: toss down a hole (yes, a cartoony black circle) underneath you and jump in using the jump down manhole animation. on the other end, similar hole opens in space above where you appear, you drop into view from above

- Superspeed: back in the day, some fast moving patrols mistakenly used the "skulk walk" animation on mission maps. the timing was off and they looked like they were speedskating. use this as a starting point for a new superspeed animation for supergliding. upon release, include roller skates/blades as a costume option. yes. I'm completely serious about this. loved "Rocket Racer" back in the wayback day.

agreed. expand the options, keeping the range of origin concepts and their presentations in account, but only as a creative guide. do not limit ANY animations to actual character origin. folks already enjoy scuffing those chalk lines separating origin and manifestation already in game with their costumes. don't limit them at this stage of the game--especially when several original canon enemy groups totally play up the "things are not what they seem" with power origins, where magic seeming beings have technological origins and technological seeming beings have psychic origins, etc etc.

Realistically the general solution might be for a new art asset for female models called perhaps "Tights 2" that is tights only, not tights and skin and has a singular panel of fabric bridging the cleavage canyon. I know I'd definitely use this for many of my more modest femmes.

And in the case of wanting to show some skin, we'll need to rely upon a handful of custom geometries that make good use of textures as the witches top and MM's new top both do. In this case I suppose a few more tops for variety of designs would be welcome, especially if they blend with skirts well and can be used to fake evening dresses.

But I know I'd get much more mileage out of the "Tights 2" option I describe above.

If I'm reading this right, you are then looking for suggestions for a few sites within each zone that MAY or MAY NOT serve an in game purpose, but do add to a sense of location and dynamism to each city zone?

For example, the fight club in Mercy Island that isn't really much other than something to see, correct? (On a related note, I have found that most of the new redside exploration badges are much easier to find because of clues in their name rather than often random feeling blueside locations...)

Back on track, to the meat of a few suggestions that could use some existing assets and may require creation of a few new ones. As a whole, most of these are meant to be neutral zones that are more about something to see or fly past and should at times replace the baddies that spawn there. The homogeneity of spawns from year 1 design is really dated and works AGAINST a sense of space, which more recent design indicates y'all learned some time ago:

- Galaxy City: An open air farmers market/flea market using vendor carts and lots of pedestrians during the day. Can also use some shelters already found in galaxy and peregrine--but spruce them up with some banners including a sign "Galaxy City Market." No baddies spawn here during the day to give it a neutral feeling. At night, NPCs clear out. Gang wars happen between spawns, preferably lowbie versions of Hellions, Skulls, Warriors and Outcasts.

- Kings Row: A biker bar. Take that motorcycle from the Thugs set and line 'em up outside. Maybe make a couple good NPC's that can stand around emoting? If time, make an interior or at least an exterior interior like the Egg Hunter lounge. Put Jim Temblor inside (as an alternate trainer? Hey if WW can be in two places at once, so can Jim, dammit!).

- Talos Island: Put a ferris wheel in at Spanky's Boardwalk. Rework the spawns here. Maybe get some lights that light up at night so the boardwalk comes alive with friendly NPCs. Not sure if you can do this with current tech in terms of when spawns change if it is only Day/Night or if you could make it Afternoon through Night are one set and Late Late Night through Morning are another, but if it IS the latter, NPCs should come out in the afternoon through the evening and baddies late late through the morning when everything shutters. The NPCs should be sitting in benches, along the boardwalk, strolling, fishing off the piers and some new animations (or appropriated power animations) to allow them to participate in some spruced up carnival games like the classic strength contest with the bell at the top and knocking over bottles by throwing balls.

- Steel Canyon: several sites here already which helps the zone. One more site that could be added... the Paragon City Stock exchange... something spectacular a bit like the Chicago Stock Exchange that sits at the end of a street but more chrome like the Chrysler Building. Perhaps it sits at the north end of the zone, facing the big statue at the center of the zone, with the tram tunneling right through the building... and that tunnel should be open so airborne heroes can fly right through. Maybe even give us windows into a trading floor with traders emoting wildly during trading hours and an LED ticker (pulling WW data on salvage?!? could this be done would be awesome.) Then at night this floor is empty of NPCs, lights are low and the floor is littered with paper.

- Steel Canyon: additional touches for vertical life, add a few NPC's flying kites occasionally in some of the parks. Everyone in Paragon always seems to be just walking... often in circles. (Other than talking on the phone, no one ever seems to be doing anything!) Also add window washers moving up and down some of the larger buildings.

- Perez Park: rework the spawns here entirely. If you touch the geometry, rework how awful the forest maze is in terms of function. In reworking the spawns, let Paragon reclaim the park at least partially. New NPC emotes include flying kites and picnicing. Use that amphitheater at the center of the park and occasionally have NPCs there performing and audience in the seats and fishing at some of the docks. Daytime should see the occasional vendor cart inside the park or near the gates. A great baddie spawn on some of the fields would be gang members from different gangs lined up for a game of football. Vary the baddie spawn sizes like, keeping some huge for the old school hazard zone feel but also have some nice narrative spawns with a circle boss or the lost or whatever threatening the newly uppity citizens of Paragon who dare to try and recreate in the park again. And lastly as a site, add a "Lost Cove" someplace deep in the woods where one can always find rectors preaching, several small shanties made of salvaged items and street signs (like on their armor) hanging all over the tree trunks.

I've got more ideas swirling for Skyway and beyond... but running out of room and have things I need to get to this morning...

Was thinking I like the costume parts on these and the seers a lot as well. That rubber shirt/coat/buttcape combo item is pretty cool. As are her unique boots. This is how Mother Mayhem should have always looked.

Plus the Seer lycra unitards with that subtle front panel seam are nice too... and I like those strange boxy shoulders they have that look like they are actually something under their suit. Looks very 1970's sci-fi IMO, like something you'd see someone wear as an inner EVA suit in 2001. (Edit: That's 2001 the film. Not the year 9 years ago...)

I know they are supposedly going to be doing minor updates to the blueside Praetoria arc with the release of GoRo. I hope this means we'll sometimes face MM with the Seers rather than just the Crazed...

All this said, I'm also on the same page as GR33N here jonesing for some more substantial feature based info on GoRo... or at least a mutant pack teaser. Or more info about how those "stance emotes" are going to work--like will they be persistent stance states similar to how your character behaves if you leave Ninja Run going?

Well we all know who doesn't get an "A" for reading comprehension this week. Thanks for pointing it out!

I tried it in game and it does indeed bring up the power description. I personally hadn't commented on it since I assumed that the information was originally discovered via .pigg diving, which is verboten to discuss on these forums. A couple of the witch patterns were discovered that way prior to the magic pack release.

I also didn't say much because it is kinda meh IMO since we already have the tarot cards that function in the same manner. And nothing about the description clearly says that this is a self buff. The icon is even a targeted buff. So it may actually be exactly a clone of the tarot cards with a thematic skin change. If the devs were going to recycle one of the powers from all the other packs, I would have much preferred a feral run style. Eh. C'est la vie!

A few costume ideas:

- More animated tails. (Timing of tails with i17 pre Mutant Booster has me banking that THIS will definitely be a part of it...)

- Big reflective fish/alien eyes as a detail, similar to how insect eyes are now in the CC.

- Huge heads so we can experience City of MODOK.

Beyond costume bits:

- Costume Change Emotes including melting into a pool of slime and rising up in a new costume.

- A sprinkling of new power customization animations that include a few melee attacks with more feral flavor to them and a few missile attacks that look more like spitting.

- Auras that include drippy slime or and plant hybrid stuff like leaves that swirl about you.

- Another travel power like Ninja Run that include padding around on all fours with lovely feral leaps.

- Other as to be seen custom powers. A self res with a massively long cooldown timer has been suggested on several occasions here on the forums.

- An emote or two?

Of course it all depends on what the crew took "Mutant" to mean. And from some of the recent chat sessions, it sounds like there was a wide range of interpretations of that term within the CoX universe.

Or merely normalizing to our current custom window settings would be appreciated. I personally set my HUD to match each character's theme. Adds a tiny little sumthin' sumthin' to each character.

That's good to read. Looking forward to those as well.

Just gotta show more discipline next time I sit down to play. Getting too old to stay up past 2 on a work night. Headache today. Guess you could call it a "new release hangover."