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Just when I thought I'd seen the worst of the worst.
IF this thread were an April Fools joke, it would fail, but unfortunately I think the OP is serious.
Hopefully, the devs have better ways to allocate their resources than on junk like this.
I think it would be hilarious. It'd be a lot more time then I think they are willing to devote to a AFJ but it would be funny. What would be funnier is if the classes were only playable during the first week of April every year.
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I think it would be hilarious. It'd be a lot more time then I think they are willing to devote to a AFJ but it would be funny. What would be funnier is if the classes were only playable during the first week of April every year.
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That's kind why I suggested they develop it over a Year, even two.
Let it be several people's 'Pet' project. It's not on a deadline, thtere's no rush, just present it when you want to. Something to do that the Devs can get involved in for the fun of it. The abject silliness of it.
Ever been trapped at work for three or four weeks without a day off..? By week 3 I'm almost ALWAYS shirking some of my work for an hour or so each day, taking a long break to step back, relax, and reflect.
So what if this were something the Devs did in their off time. A meeting they held once a month to take a break from the seriousness of the game to sit in a room together, laughing and making jokes with a topic and and an excuse to do it.
Likely on the clock. =-3
-Rachel-
I don't think people who want a break from work fill it with work.
Unlikely to ever happen for the simple fact that Positron is afraid of clowns. I don't think he would want to work on them for so long as it would likely give him nightmares for years to come.
I'd be happy with a few new costume options like Clown Hair, Clown Hat, Rubber Nose, Oversized Pantaloons with Suspenders and Clown Shoes.
Well... That all depends.
Is the break one they normally wouldn't recieve otherwise, though here it's likely just sitting around and talking for an hour (or two!) about an archetype and powersets that might be implemented a year or two later?
Is the work something they can find humorous and silly rather than the seriousness of the deadlines that wear on them?
*shrugs* I think it'd be fun to have a silly side-project with no deadline that takes me off of work for an hour or two once in a while. But maybe it's just me?
Of course, I also looked forward to High School Assemblies since it meant time out of class sitting in the bleachers with friends while big guys in too-tight spandex shorts tried to impress on us the importance of learning and being drug free by tearing phone books in half and lifting heavy things.
-Rachel-
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Unlikely to ever happen for the simple fact that Positron is afraid of clowns.
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This is probably the biggest one, right here.
(That and honestly, by the time we're done with V-day, I'm rather sick of events.... but that's just me.)
I could see the devs pulling something similar - they did, as I recall, put "fake" badges and such into the .pigg files to throw off those who went swimming with swine, and do tend to have a sense of humor. Just not this particularly. 
Please note that I'm typing this in a completely calm and rational manner with no negative connotations or insult intended. If the mods decide this suggestion is so bad that it should be deleted from existence, I do not recommend sending PM's to folks verbally harassing them for disagreeing with your suggestion.
Anyway, good luck getting this implemented Rachelthulu. I hope it works out.
Over the course of the next Year I'd love to see the Devs work on a new archetype in utter secrecy. No leaks, no Beta, no nothing.
The archetype will be 'Clown' and it will have four powersets.
Clown Melee
Clown Ranged
Clown Armor
Clown Buff/Debuff (don't have an idea for the name!)
These powersets will ALL be offered as primaries AND secondaries. If you pick Clown Melee you lock yourself out of two of the other options (Ranged and Buff/Debuff) The same goes for any of the other sets.
Powers would include Rubber-Chicken Melee, Squirting Acid Flower, Banana-peel Patch, and Seltzer in the face, among others.
On April Fool's day announce the addition of a new archetype, available to both sides (hero and villain) and then show -clearly- photoshopped images of Clowns cut and pasted into the City of Heroes environment.
On the following Tuesday, load the patch up.
It would be a phenomenal practical joke on April Fool's Day. People would yuk it up a bit, and various requests for Carp Armor will crop up.
And then it lands? It'd be the first 'April Fool's' joke produced by an MMO developer to be perfectly serious while also being completely ridiculous.
How does anyone open this new Epic Archetype? They must log in on April Fool's Day for a special account-wide badge.
-Rachel-