Color customization and you?
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Ahab001,
Posted on: 2009-06-27 10:40 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
I strongly suspect that if I can, I'm going to change my necro/dark mastermind's dark powers to a pretty pink. After all, her supergroup is "Little Rays of Sunshine" and their colors are pink and purple, with the Heart (the nice cute valetines' heart, not a real one) as their logo 
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My Defender Storm/Lightning. All the Lightning FXs will be like the white/yellowish of the Storm set (like thunderclap, etc...)
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I'm changing Pain from red to blue.
Something other than the same color as the sky tint for once is nice.
I'll probably also change the lightning on my Elec blaster; I've never understood how purple/blue lightning came to be the MMO norm.
Biggest thing will be blue pom-poms for my En/En blaster
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I might change my Dark/Rad Defender's blasts from yellow-greenish to something else. Something purple maybe.
Also might change my Energy Blaster's attacks to a more watery-looking color. She's not specifically a Water Blaster but Energy always has made me think more of water, Torrent especially.
I want to make a Dark/Dark toon with white attacks. So its more like "Light Melee/Light Armor" than Dark. >_>
50s: Silent Spy - MA/Regen Scrapper | Tinkerhell - SS/Inv Brute | Extrasensory - Psi/Men Blaster | Ana Cruz - DP/PD Corruptor | Sara Thunderbird - Elec/Elec Scrapper | Pinstrike - Spines/SR Scrapper | Cold Feet - Cold/Cold Blaster
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I know, I want to change the color of my MA/SR scrapper to... aw crap!
I actually kind of hope for an option to change transparency so that powers like Empathy can have more of a natural look and less magical or super-powered (for characters who are of the Natural origin).
50s: Silent Spy - MA/Regen Scrapper | Tinkerhell - SS/Inv Brute | Extrasensory - Psi/Men Blaster | Ana Cruz - DP/PD Corruptor | Sara Thunderbird - Elec/Elec Scrapper | Pinstrike - Spines/SR Scrapper | Cold Feet - Cold/Cold Blaster
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I know, I want to change the color of my MA/SR scrapper to... aw crap!
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Actually I hope SR can be recolored! The effects are subtle, but it would help my brute Goldrush who is SS/SR. He's a big solid gold guy and that slightly purplish white of the effects would do him much better were it tinted gold.
So that's one of mine.
The other would be Sludge Mouth, my DM/Shields brute. I really wanted toxic or radioactive melee for this failed experiment man-monster. I picked DM several months ago on the hopes that maybe someday I could recolor DM to a sickly goopy green. Thrilled that I rolled the dice on this one!
Amethyst Avenger, an MA/Invul scrapper will be getting a bit more purple in her life most likely.
I'm really really curious to see what they do about the plant set. If we get both effects tinting and a limited menu of particle effects/power skins, I may actually make a blueside Plant 'troller finally. I'm hoping for a brighter, more sylvan plant look with flowers and butterflies. Srsly.
Oh and my mind/empath controller Gata Blanca who's signature colors are mostly white with pink fur trim will likely recolor her green emp blooms to be closer to mind controls subtler pink.
the only color I'll be messing with is the awful red side Invulnerability, which I used to think was a sign of my old video card starting to fail.
Imagine my unhappy surprise when invulnerable still looked putrescent after I replaced the card.
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First and foremost, my SS/Inv Brute will be seeing his attack animations (and especially Rage) go from their normal gold color to something less ... shiny.
I also might remake some characters with different powersets, due to their names and concepts requiring them to have powers of specific colors.
Also, I'm likely going to be able to come up with a lot more satisfactory concepts for new characters now that powersets can really represent multiple ideas with a change of paint.
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Assuming they've found a way around the "black is transparent" problem, my Electric Melee Brute is getting black electricity.
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I'll probably also change the lightning on my Elec blaster; I've never understood how purple/blue lightning came to be the MMO norm.
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I don't know, there are arguments for reddish-pink and a bluish tint, though it usually seems just "too bright for color/white." I think it's generally the surroundings or atmosphere that we pick up the hue from, so there's potential for other colors, too.
As for what I'll recolor.. potentially darkening the fire on my Dark/Thermal's shields and such. Probably taking a hint from my Warshade to a deep purpleish. Other than that, no plans just yet, though I'm curious how Gravity will look.
I may actually *make* a redside INV brute, too. I can't stand how it looks now.
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I'm changing Pain from red to blue.
Something other than the same color as the sky tint for once is nice.
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I will make my controller's radiation emision powers blue (preferably indigo, but the game's colour pallet doesn't relaly have anything between dark blue and violate). I might tinker with the colour of my illusion decoys as well to get them too look more spectral and cool, and less like they're wearing pajamas, but I hold out littl ehope of success.
Laserstorm, my Storm/Energy Defender, has always wanted golden Energy Blasts a la the Legacy Chain. And my Fire/Elec Blaster, Inyouji, is definitely getting blue Fire Blasts.
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I'd like to change my Energy Melee Tank's pink pompoms to maybe blue or white.
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Assuming they've found a way around the "black is transparent" problem, my Electric Melee Brute is getting black electricity.
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I'm honestly hoping that this stays. The prospect of being able to dim some power effects down, especially for more naturally inclined characters, has me most excited about the upcoming customization.
Hasten, I'm looking in your direction. 
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Laserstorm, my Storm/Energy Defender, has always wanted golden Energy Blasts a la the Legacy Chain. And my Fire/Elec Blaster, Inyouji, is definitely getting blue Fire Blasts.
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Makes me think I should runout and see if the name Gaslight is taken. Might be a good name for a blue fire/some other powerset sadistic villain.
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Assuming they've found a way around the "black is transparent" problem, my Electric Melee Brute is getting black electricity.
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I'm honestly hoping that this stays. The prospect of being able to dim some power effects down, especially for more naturally inclined characters, has me most excited about the upcoming custimization.
Hasten, I'm looking in your direction.
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Oh boy oh boy... I'm quite ambivalent on this one. I see the need for both on several powersets.
Another thing you mention: hasten. I really hope we can tweak pool powers as well. Recoloring superspeed and toning that sparkle down would be awesome.
Even better would be if we get a pulldown of a few animations, I'd LOVE the option to use the old faulty "skulk" animation patrols used to employ as my superspeed run cycle on a character or two. That animation looks more like speed skating than anything!
Sort of depends on how they're doing it. If all your powers have to be the same color, I probably won't use it much. If each power can have its own color, I'll be redoing my Energy/Energy Blaster to have various colors between attacks. Off the top of my head, I want Energy Torrent to be yellow/gold and some of the other attacks to be red or green.
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Fire/Elec blaster is going to have electricity powers gold-shifted.
Hasten is going to be toned down on all characters.
I don't know why you guys are hating on villain Invuln, that's staying as-is.
The AR/Mental's psi powers are going to be red-shifted (wait that, means they are slower, right? Screw that, blue!)
Hopefully I can do something with my 'shade that gets rid of my headaches.
Dark Melee/Energy Aura stalker is probably going to have either brighter attacks or toned down armour. Maybe both.
Hopefully I can change some or all of the bubbles associated with my Bats/Tarps MM. Not sure what to, but something.
Earth/Fire dominator is gonna get some new, darker fire blasts. May change colours on the Earth powers as well, I'm not sure.
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I'm honestly hoping that this stays. The prospect of being able to dim some power effects down, especially for more naturally inclined characters, has me most excited about the upcoming customization.
Hasten, I'm looking in your direction.
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The devs historical insistence on even the most minor powers having visible effects (bank temp movement increase I'm looking at you!) makes me skeptical we'll have much if any control over the magnitude of the effect.
Other than what we can knock off by switching from an ostentatious color to a more subtle one, anyway.
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With those nifty pictures that were posted, i started to wonder which toons i would want to change power colors on and why. So i'm asking outa good old fashioned curiosity...
What toons are you planning to change colors on, why, and which color?
My first is Warren Kane, a proud member of the Cerulean Legion. As a human only PB i love the look of the powers but I've always wished they were blue to match the SG back story more.