Jetpack Minibooster

I'm not sure about anyone else but I would consider purchasing this pack on a monthly basis plus a one time respec for one or two of my characters, so that I can get rid of the flight power and use that slot for something else, if you could either select a type of jetpack you get i.e. the one that already comes with the minibooster or raptor pack etc.. or if you can customise the colours the pack is available in.

Of course I'd not need to do any of that if there were jetpack style costume pieces available, I'd even purchase a full booster pack regardless of other content if jetpack style costume pieces were included with it.

So basically I guess what I'm suggesting is either have a selection of jetpack from the minibooster or ability to recolour the existing minibooster jetpack or, as has been suggested a few times, have jetpack costume pieces.

Thoughts? Comments?

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Already suggested this to devs and in the costume request thread, but thanks for agreeing with me.
http://uk.boards.cityofheroes.com/showfl...rue#Post1374516

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30 day Jetpack unlocking a customizable costume piece of the same design...
That like rocket boots activates when flying
(But without the 30 day +fly power obviously)

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I've seen requests for JP costume pieces in the suggestions thread, which is why I said it's been said before. I couldn't find any reference to selectable styles or customisation of the existing JP from the minibooster though (although the search function generally fails me), which is why I made this post! I guess I miss read the post you made though. I know that you can purchase raptor packs from JP vendors but the 2 hour usage limit is too short for my liking.

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For your search:

Forum: Developers Corner
Keyword: Jetpack
Where: In subject and body
Date Range: Newer than 3 years
Result format: Show preview of post body, checked
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Thanks, perhaps I'll have better luck in future if I keep changing the desired time frame to maximum for each search.

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You're welcome, the search function on these forums gets the better of most of us quite often (poor search-fu) but hopefully that will change Soon™

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Assuming you're talking about a Villain, why waste RL money when there's a Flight pack available for 10,0000 Inf with a 2 hour duration in the middle of the square in Grandville?

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Actually my Villain wouldn't need one (RP wise of course) but it would suit one of my heroes down to the ground. But your right they're available, but I'd prefer not to have to keep going back after 2 hours worth of usage or run the risk of running out of air time and having to make my way back to a vendor.

Besides, £3 for 30 days worth of a temp power isn't that much on top of the monthly sub for me so it's not really an issue.

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is fly ringing any bell?

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You might want tot re-read the original post. The idea was to have a permanent, customizable temp power for travelling, so that you could pick another power or two instead of picking up one of the normal travel power pools.

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Assuming you're talking about a Villain, why waste RL money when there's a Flight pack available for 10,0000 Inf with a 2 hour duration in the middle of the square in Grandville?

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Why even spend inf when Lt. Chalmers gives you a 1h raptor pack in the final mission of his arc. Ouroborus anybody?

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Just to say my post was about the minibooster jetpack item becoming an unlockable and customizable costume piece,
without flight but with the effects for it like the rocket boots.

Yes the 30 day minipack would also grant a temporary flight power and this would still grant 30 days of flight...

But if your costume had the Customized Jetpack or Rocket Boots on it it would only activate flight,
otherwise it would work as it does now and display the original minipack jetpack.

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To be honest the actual flying ability is a secondary. I basically want the same as Coolio, a JP costume piece which animates like the rocket boots but doesn't give flight power.

However, that said, at the moment I only have a choice of either:

A £3 purchase of a JP which gives me 30 days of flight, something that I'd do if I could customise the colouring of it (or choose the JP style), this gives the added bonus of not needing fly from the flight pool.

Or

A 10,000 Inf purchase of a raptor pack which only gives 2 hours worth of flight meaning far too many regular trips back to the vendor (as I fly to most places) and meaning that realistically it'd be better for me to keep my flight ability.

Some of you might think I'd be crazy to fork out extra cash on top of the sub every month, but an extra £3 doesn't particularly bother me to be honest.

So this thread has three suggestions:

1) the ability to choose the style of JP from the minibooster (Choices of the exising LKT-1700 ducted-fan jet pack, Raptor Pack etc.. [Not seasonal versions though])
2) the ability to customize the colouring of the minibooster JP (as previously requested by Coolio in the costume request thread)
3) the ability to have animated costume JPs available at the tailors (again requested by a few people in the costume request thread as I now read it).

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Croesis,
My suggestion was both 2 & 3...
However once we had a customizable jetpack we could easily request more backpack designs:
Jetpack: LKT-1700, Raptor, Sky-raider, Gold-bricker...
Other: Military, Rucksack...
(Aka suggestion 1)

Additionally regarding suggestion 3, this doesn't just relate to jetpacks, quite a few people are requesting animated/glowing costume pieces.

A glowing version of the circuit pattern and so on...

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Croesis,
My suggestion was both 2 & 3...

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Apologies, it seems that one of my edits last night didn't go through it should have read:

3) the ability to have animated costume JPs available at the tailors (again requested by Coolio and a few other people in the costume request thread as I now read it).

Besides the existing game JP's don't need to be customisable to be included in a choice of JP style from the minibooster (although it would be very welcome and your idea of unlocking an identical costume piece is a good one). I don't know how it's done right now (I presume the power is available to you immediately after applying the purchase code to the account) but if that purchase were to appear as a claim voucher (similar to the Vet claim badges) giving you a choice of which style you want to have.

Still, as 1 is still a suggestion related to a booster pack item rather than a costume part, and because it adds extra visibility to what seems like a popular request, this thread isn't entirely worthless!

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I thought of it as more of a tailor unlock such as the level 20 capes and level 30 auras, or the crafted boots/wings, roman/vanguard costumes etc...

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