There is truth to be found here.
And whole SG/VGs will be formed around playing soccer/kickball with said ball. And I would play.
I think the Big Red Ball should be a zone-specific temp power. If you get hit by the Big Red Ball (it's auto-hit), then you get the big red ball. If you leave the zone (either by zoning or going into a mish), you lose the power. If nobody has the power, the next person to enter the zone gets the power. They get the power by being hit with the big red ball from a civillian.
Silly little monkey. Cheeky litle monkey. DEAD LITTLE MONKEY!!!!!!!!!!
I remember Phantasy Star Online did something like this in the higher-level lobbies.
People were amused incessantly for months. Soccer games were everywhere.
This would be so much fun.
Soccer teams will be made and people will be screaming: "NERF Energy and Force Fields, they are beating us in CoH Soccer!!!"
Gah.....what a great idea!!!
5 stars!!
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This would be so much fun.
Soccer teams will be made and people will be screaming: "NERF Energy and Force Fields, they are beating us in CoH Soccer!!!"
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Now *this* would be cool <,<; Honestly <o.O> You could create an Arena event like this too; I mean, in addition to the free-floating red ball of "wth" <@_@>;
This is an awsome idea, but then some griefer will hide it in the circle islands behind a rock or something. I'd say make the ball spawn in every zone somewhere.
I absolutely love this idea. Even better, if a hero gets hit by the ball, he gains a special buff...."IT". Does nothing, has no effect, but you're IT.
Imagine the fun a couple of Grav/Energy Corruptors with their Singies could have with this thing.
Even better, make it buffable/debuffable. I'd love to see a radioactive, darkest nighted, adreneline boosted, metabolism accelerated, speed boosted, envenomed Big Red Ball.
This would be awesome.
This has to be the best and most sparkly suggestion I have ever read here! Yay!
its gotta have ragdoll physics though, so if i shoot it onto a ramp it rolls down. Can you imagine skyway with this?
Jay Doherty: Yes, there was this one night that I was ready to go home but had to drop the browns off at the super bowl before I left for home. While on the throne it hit me. I stayed for a few more hours and that why we have the pain pads in the game.
You and your idea are strange and beguiling.
O.o
Depending on how fast the powers move the BRB (Big Red Ball) 
we could even play dodgeball!!
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"so we are looking into the possiblity of maybe someday thinking about maybe implementing something similar to this, in the future" -Positron
ROFL I love this idea. I'd so play with a ball if I ran into one somewhere.
When i saw this suggestion I was like "what kind of loser wants to put a ball in a hero game"...but...as i was reading the forum replies and picturing the great times we all could have with this ball, by the end of the forum i was smiling! ME?! Smile at the thought of a fun RED BALL?! NEVER, I shall Smirk with anger and hate for fun things in the CoX World!
Actually...its a great idea, i can just see myself losing sleep because i was on CoH, not due to a long TF or an impossible AV, no. Just due to that stupid red ball that i become addicted to! Lets do this, everyone petition the ball! I will make a BRB (big red ball) supergroup and we can really get this idea...Rolling! (ooh punmaster!) But one suggestion... make the ball eligible to be affected by all powers, even teleport and team fly! i can see it now, my controller with his ball and his imps flying around Paragon! We should all get a temp power for the 2 year anniversary for a red ball!
Or... If "It" you have to run with the ball and everyone has to try to take it from you. 
"every defender needs to fight. I don't care if you have to use BRAWL!"
I see this best implemented as a specific type of arena match. Superpowered soccer! A goal on each end of a large flat arena, with teams trying to KB/push the ball into the opposing team's goal. The ball should be affected my most powers, such as TP foe, inertial dampening, AOE debuffs, etc. To make it fair though, the ball might have to be immune to force bubble- otherwise you just park your FF defender as goalie and watch the opposing team cry. And the ball should have very low, or even negative KB resistance so that even powers without a KB component would send flying back in the direction of the hit. This is such a 5-star, huge fun idea! I don't know why it hasn't been suggested before!
Of course, the OP is right that just having a big red bouncy ball to play with in zones would be fun too, but I really se it taking off as an arena event. Perhaps it could even lure people back to the almost deserted arenas! I'd want one in Pocket D too- that way griefers would have fewer places they could "hide" the ball to deny others fun.
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We say the same about you all the time Clint.
*giggles*
*marks his name down as pro-BRB*
*runs and hides*
"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill
I would love this, I think it should reset once a day in a designated spot so that griefers couldn't perma hide it.
I like the idea, but red is overpowered. maybe magenta at best. but red? now you just an "I win" ball.
As long as Containment doesnt apply to it, I think we can safely ignore any color balance issues.
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i think that it should be a SMILEY BALL
I want a Big Red Ball!
No, no, not as power or anything, just in the game.
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lemme explain
In one zone in CoH (Talos) and one zone in CoV (Nerva) there should be a single big red ball that does absoutly nothing except when you attack it, it gets knocked back a bit. By every attack not just knockback attacks. It cant be destoryed or anything, just a Big Red Ball to hit around, thats it.
How big is big?
Well not huge. Just like 1 meter in diameter. Thats Big for a Red Ball!
The reason for just one and being in just one zone is so you dont run into it every time you log on. Maby you'll only run into it once a month or something, then youll be like "WOW! a Big Red Ball!" then you will knock it around for a few minuties laughing very hard then you will leave saying "What a cool Big Red Ball"
Whats the point?
A little extra thing like this would add tons of fun!