A paragon of customisation

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Not at launch, but villainous champions are planned.

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That's a bit of a contradiction there. Dark Champions aren't villains, they're still good guys. They just have more... direct... methods of dealing with crooks.

Yes, iron man, spawn, those kind of heroes. But i want villainous champions. Champions don't have to be heroes by definition.

I want to do evil

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Yes, iron man, spawn, those kind of heroes. But i want villainous champions. Champions don't have to be heroes by definition.

I want to do evil

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A villain and a champion are contradictory. What you want is to be a villain, and you won't be getting that.

No they aren't.

Don't conflate being a champion with being a heroic good guy. There is such thing as an evil champion. Champions by definition are victors, people who win or succeed. Nothing says they have to be good to do that.

They're not even close to a contradiction.

Could you please discuss CO related matters in the corresponding thread in the Comic and Hero/Villain Culture forum please? Thank you!

My apologies. I really should learn to anticipate the mods with their disspassionately objective posts.

Despite the extremely minor deviation from topic direction, back to disscussing customisation i guess.

Custom power colours, WOOT.

The only thing i care about is the colour of my lazers, which i will be firing at everyone x)

Oh, and the energy i will be discharging from my nrg/wp brute's fists of DOOM.

Also, being able to customize the fly/SJ/SS aura sparky things. Red FTW!

I'm not sure how you could customize Martial Arts powers - but Regen has possibilities - I'd love to remove that retarded chest beating animation for Integration

Harsh on Avatea. She and GR did end up getting us a lot more info then we used to get, and replying faster too. I know *I* wouldn't want to really work on these Forums

OT; Customisation is always good. And amen to that, GG. Integration I tend to hit on the run, just to stop it doing that and martial arts could be either punches, kicks, or a mix. With slight re-naming, I admit.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Can we also change the colour of the slipstream from our kicks? Just for the hell of it

Dispassionately objective, me? You wouldn't say that if you saw me cracking my whip :P

*back to topic now*

We were on topic, until you did your whip cracking

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Dispassionately objective, me? You wouldn't say that if you saw me cracking my whip :P

*back to topic now*

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I rest my case
-uses camera.exe to obtain incriminating evidence/blacmail material-

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

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I'm not sure how you could customize Martial Arts powers - but Regen has possibilities - I'd love to remove that retarded chest beating animation for Integration

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I think if you could customise Martial Arts, the first thing most players would pick is the one with the quickest animation time. You'd hit like the Fist of the North Star. Im not a fan of the chest beating animation myself either. Since my characters are female it just seems a little too Tarzan-esque for the ladies.

There are a few power customisations I'd love:

- Coloured (pink) mastermind robots!
- Invincibility powerset auras
- Storm Summoning (white just isn't EVIL enough for my MM!)
- Super Speed animation (Something more subdued)
- Empathy (A pale blue would suit my Thunderspark better)

Power customisation sounds like a HUGE task though, so I don't expect it to be added anytime soon, even if they are working on it. But it would make the world seem that much more diverse if everyone had their own unique powers.

One thing should be noted if they change powers so that you can customise them looks wise that would be good for Proliferation as one of the things that will currently slow that down is changing animations to look heroic/villainous. Remove that step and all they'll need to do is play with the numbers.

In theory.

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Dispassionately objective, me? You wouldn't say that if you saw me cracking my whip :P

*back to topic now*

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Well I like direct people :P I'd rather have a down to earth dictator mod who says shut the [censored] up than those business types who write novels without saying much x)

And please take that as a compliment xP

ANYWAYS, regarding power customisation, someone tell me that we can change the animations on powers. I know people have been talking about integration, but i'd like to see that god damn horrific *up up and away* animation on WP's strength of will GO AWAY!!!

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And for sprint, maybe we could change the way they run?
Instead of just arms pumping at their sides, we could make people actually lean forward as if they were trying to run?

Correct me if i'm wrong, but the sprint animation is just a faster running animation.

Characters could lean forward as if they were actually running like hell.

Of course you could have power customisation in another way. What if you picked the asects of a power and then the system worked out the cost in endurance.

So for example you start off as a Fire Blaster, you get Fire Blast and then choose to customise it. You pick the Damage, Accuracy base, range, Cast (minimum based on graphics) and recharge times and the system then works out the endurance it'll use. You can make it a Super powerful, long range quick recharge power, but one shot and all your blue will be gone. Would be fun and frustrating, maybe at a respec you'd get to change it when you realise how big a mistake you made

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Of course you could have power customisation in another way. What if you picked the asects of a power and then the system worked out the cost in endurance.

So for example you start off as a Fire Blaster, you get Fire Blast and then choose to customise it. You pick the Damage, Accuracy base, range, Cast (minimum based on graphics) and recharge times and the system then works out the endurance it'll use. You can make it a Super powerful, long range quick recharge power, but one shot and all your blue will be gone. Would be fun and frustrating, maybe at a respec you'd get to change it when you realise how big a mistake you made

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I think that would be way too big a change for the current game engine. You're talking about a fundamentally new powers system there.

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Of course you could have power customisation in another way. What if you picked the asects of a power and then the system worked out the cost in endurance.

So for example you start off as a Fire Blaster, you get Fire Blast and then choose to customise it. You pick the Damage, Accuracy base, range, Cast (minimum based on graphics) and recharge times and the system then works out the endurance it'll use. You can make it a Super powerful, long range quick recharge power, but one shot and all your blue will be gone. Would be fun and frustrating, maybe at a respec you'd get to change it when you realise how big a mistake you made

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I think that would be way too big a change for the current game engine. You're talking about a fundamentally new powers system there.

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So it's impossible then

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Dispassionately objective, me? You wouldn't say that if you saw me cracking my whip :P

*back to topic now*

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Whips are so horribly inefficient dear, consider a riding crop.

On a sidenote; you really have no idea of the Pandoras Box of forum fanboism you've just inadvertantly opened do you.



*laughs

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So it's impossible then

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Ah, now.. I didn't say it was IMPOSSIBLE! Anything is possible, given enough time, money, and programmers. It just doesn't fit in with the info I have.

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Of course you could have power customisation in another way. What if you picked the asects of a power and then the system worked out the cost in endurance.

So for example you start off as a Fire Blaster, you get Fire Blast and then choose to customise it. You pick the Damage, Accuracy base, range, Cast (minimum based on graphics) and recharge times and the system then works out the endurance it'll use. You can make it a Super powerful, long range quick recharge power, but one shot and all your blue will be gone. Would be fun and frustrating, maybe at a respec you'd get to change it when you realise how big a mistake you made

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I think that would be way too big a change for the current game engine. You're talking about a fundamentally new powers system there.

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Nothing mentioned there that can't usually be modified by enhancements - so possibly not so big a difference to the current system, we just don't know.

And even the end tradeoff is sort-of there already.. if you want to not enhance dmag/range/accuracy/recharge you can slot endreds to effectively lower end cost.

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So it's impossible then

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Ah, now.. I didn't say it was IMPOSSIBLE! Anything is possible, given enough time, money, and programmers. It just doesn't fit in with the info I have.

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Alright, get a hit-team together! We're going to plumb the chubby one for intel
What sources, what info? Whats going on?!
@_@

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

*fetches special foam wrapped baseball bat and some extra strength duckt tape*

Oh, I can't possibly say.

If I tell you, you'll tell someone else, and they'll tell someone else, and pretty soon Paragon Studios will be knocking on my door and be inserting red hot needles under my toenails trying to find out who my sources are!

All will be revealed... But not Soon™

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Oh, I can't possibly say.

If I tell you, you'll tell someone else, and they'll tell someone else, and pretty soon Paragon Studios will be knocking on my door and be inserting red hot needles under my toenails trying to find out who my sources are!

All will be revealed... But not Soon™

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Right. Let me get that address book...
>.<

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.