I16 and Kheldians (PB/WS)

I've looked and read the lists, but I haven't seen mention of Kheldians being part of the issue. Are they not being looked at for now? I know that their other forms might cause some problems, but all I'm looking for is to change my Warshade from Purple to Deep Red. I just don't like purple all that much. *shrugs*

Peacebringers will most likely need to have all bright colors, while Warshades will probably be dark ones. Colors of the various stars perhaps?

Just curious. I've seen a few people discussing it, but didn't know if there were any redname quotes. The dev and community threads are still ***** from the forum migration.

There's a temporary Dev Digest sticky in General Discussion, FYI.

And as far as I know, there's no customization for Kheldians, due to some combination of these factors most likely:

1) Complicated graphical effects with more than two colors/gradients makes them hard to customize.

2) Inability to customize the forms means they've been put on the backburner until full customization is ready.

3) Due to their status of Epic AT, they're locked into their lore-dictated graphics. It would be comparable to asking if Widows could use different claws or if Banes could use standard maces.

Mind you, the third reason is pretty weak, but it's a possible one. I myself would love to color my Warshade's powers black and grey.

Even limited customization, for a pallet of 3 or 4 pre-set colours would be nice. Maybe is a future patch.

I'm all for giving us a limited range of colors for Khelds if that's what the devs want to do to keep them within theme, it makes sense. However, just because they have different colors doesn't mean the powers are all that different, but in actual practice Khelds are a diverse little race. Heck, if you try to find two khelds with identical builds you're in for a long hunt. They have so much diversity in power choices and player style that they can play like an entirely different archetype from toon to toon. Heck, I'd probably be more inclined to play them if I could use a spectrum of colors, say warmer oranges/reds ala red shift for melee style attacks and cooler blues/greens ala blue shift for ranged blasts and the like, and support style abilities could be the current green and/or white. I think it'd be really cool to see them use the spectrum of the stars based on what kind of abilities they're utilizing.

Nictus could play the same tune really as I always read their powers as controlling dark matter. Darker purple for melee and a nice deep red for blasts and ranged abilities, etc etc.

I personally think that they just haven't been given it yet for slightly different reasons. The forms COULD be part of it, but if that was the case then they wouldn't have given MMs partial customization, or Stone Armor for that matter. I think it's mostly because Khelds have so many powers in their primary and secondary sets that they would have taken longer to complete the sets for the both of them and kept the devs from completing other smaller sets that could even possibly have power overlaps (Fire Manipulation/Fire Melee) that the majority of the playerbase has access to. If they'd chosen to do Khelds in this first wave and the time spent on them meant that say... fire powers didn't get customization there would have been a public outcry that the epic archetypes that the entire playerbase doesn't have access to got customization but fire didn't. In this way they cranked out most of the general powersets with stated intent to go in and work on epics and power pools for a future update, and I can't imagine that while they're working on those (which have mostly repeat powers from other sets in terms of epics) that they won't at least try to work on Khelds/Spiders. I can imagine the next wave of updates being Epic Archetypes, epics and pool powers, and if we're lucky MM pet customization.

That's just my two cents though, take it as you will.

I'm all for a "Power Customization, Part 2" that includes Kheldians.

I'm just saying that as far as Khelds go I can see a rationalization for the Devs not getting to them if they for some reason don't. As a race it's perfectly reasonable for the Devs to explain that all of their powers would look the same from a colors point of view.

Evolution Says that all life changes in minor ways. Humans for example have many shades of Hair, Skin, eye colors, and different shapes.

On the same idea as a race the there is no reason they all look the same. Given they are energy it could be slight changes in the wavelength of light that could give them different shades of color.

Now for the game well it's could be due to all those powers being hard to change. To bad we can't be told by someone in the closed beta.

Come to think about it was there any talk about the VEATs?

My main point was that I think anybody could rationalize the Kheldian same/different power color issue either way.
But if the Devs make that rationalization their word is going to be law on the matter.

Dwarf has always looked cool, but the nova form squid thing is lame. It would just be nice if we could just stay in human form but get the benefit of the nova powers. How they look aside from the dwarf, is one of the main reasons I just don't like playing them.

...a word of law that leads to the cancellation void tabula rasa, hellgate london and others now dwell for eternity.