ThePill

Reading comprehension for the win!

Seriously, we get it already, Shadow Wail doesn't care for Super sidekicking. We didn't need to know it, it's not terribly important to anybody, but you, that it doesn't matter to you.

New question time:

Are there any details about space that you want to talk about? Not the moon, but further out, alien civilizations/worlds/races that aren't another dimension, cosmic entities and the like.

The mediport stuff, I can agree with you on. I like the idea of "real threats" in a superhero universe. But, have once or twice had to finagle my way around how to kill a character in-universe and have it not automatically teleport a character to a hospital.

But, why the dislike for space and other dimensions?

Other dimensions and space can be fairly open areas, that are free of canon. I can see why somebody would want to have an other dimensional character, if they wanted to bring their favorite barbarian or other fantasy based character into this world. The same usually goes for Space based heroes. That you can have hundreds of millions of worlds out there teeming with life in all it's possible variations and little to no ties to pre-existing Paragon City.

Exactly! If you start from something small and simple, you're more likely to fit than if you have to have your character be a goddess from this world.

I have a couple of characters that are tied in small ways to things from the Police band. One is related to Dr. Zhondervan, his grandfather was a great wizard, but he's decided to live a mundane life. It's not a lot to hang a character bio on and it gives them a reason to run around and save him every time he turns up in a radio mission. It's less likely to fall into the trap of tying a character to the Council and then, having the Devs reveal/decide that the Council have no interest in that at all.

Alternate universes are a fairly easy fix for big grandiose characters from anywhere to Paragon City.

At present, I have characters that originate from Space, that are not Kheldians. Here's the problem, what do we know about Space in the City of Heroes universe? Other than Kheldians, not much at all. Which, for somebody making their new characters is both a boon and a possible curse. Because at any time, the Devs can jump in and say, all of Space is devoid of life, except for Kheldians and some other marauding alien devourer of worlds. Where would that leave my space based characters? Space adventuring is a part of the superhero milieu, but we have done fairly little of it. Is there a reason for this?

Not as many of you as you think there are.

You do realize that things can change relatively drastically from a marketing survey to what actually will work, right?

Oh geez, I just looked at the City Scoop that you linked to. That just looks wrong.

I have to agree with Stargazer. Maybe if we can just remove images from the sigs. Or have an option that only removes images from signatures. Signatures can have actual useful information.

I think some PIGG divers have also found secondary good or evil names for some of the badges too.

I see your point, as well as your wrestling analogy above that. I am very curious as to how the Devs see it.

I guess it really depends on what the side switching mechanic is going to be based on. Is it going to be a specific story arc? I assume it would be soloable. Or is it just an accumulation of good versus evil points? Or is there to be some sort of game mechanic that they need to accomplish every time? Will there be another system to make a character a spy or mercenary, where they can jump back and forth at will, and possibly remain in the supergroup/villaingroup that they want to belong to?

I can kinda see that too. But, for me, the underlying idea is that it's something you gain from actions. It's notoriety of your actions that earns you those things or access to better enhancements or costume change. So, if you're a villain that's just turned hero, you might have a hard time getting respect from cops, people distrust you, scientists don't trust you enough to give you enhancements. Same goes for heroes turned villains too. Other villains don't know where you stand, so you have to earn your way up so that Arachnos trusts you enough to give you access to those enhancements etc.

I can almost see them taking the influence/infamy from a character. That makes a bit of sense, or at least make the inf non-transferable. A hero turned villain shouldn't be able to take advantage of their past influence. And vice versa. They should have to earn their own infamy.

But, I don't see why they should take the enhancements away. Seems to me, that the enhancements are akin to upgrades to a Tech based character's armor or gadgets or whatever. For example, the Sandman didn't become weaker for the time that he worked as a hero. Nor did the Norman Osborne, heck, some could even argue that he became more powerful.

As to the tickets, merits and salvage? I don't know, those things are the sort of thing you'd think a person could carry on their back or whatever. Salvage that you can carry on you is somewhat limited. Granted, if you're 50 it's around 50+ pieces, but that's still a relatively small amount of material.

As for my theory?

I think that the amount of time that your character can actually be neutral is limited to new characters and only for the first handful of levels, maybe 10 at the outside, though I'd wager on 5. There has to be a tipping point where you choose one side over the other. It just doesn't make sense for somebody to stay neutral. Walk a fine line, be a spy, be a revolutionary, be a tourist, jump from side to side, wave your arms in the air like you just don't care... Okay, maybe not that last one. But, it seems to me, that in a comic book world, there are sides, and they need to be chosen, even if it's a superficial thing that anyone can handwave away with their own backstory ideas. Also, it saves them from having to make a third marketplace.

Also, you can multi-quote.