New stuff for CoH

Well, most of their features were ripped straight from this very forum, so what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

All things that I think Jay is working on. As I understand it, our character models have two more possible "attachment points" where new types of costume pieces could go. There are apparently issues with the "back" attachment point as it currently stands, in that what they attempt to put there is attaching to the model's "spine," as opposed to the "skin." This results in the costume piece floating over a character with minimized sliders, or melting into the backs of characters with maximized sliders. Once the "skin vs. spine" problem is worked out, I expect we will see back options.

Personally, I would like to see the last attachment point become tails, independant of belts.

With character creator 2.0, three colors may or may not be possible.

At some point, I'd like to hear Positron's original pitch for a Nemesis system before Statesman told him to put the idea on the back burner.

I still think the best way to do a Nemesis would be through the Mission Architect. I have three mission arc slots on a secondary account I'm not using at all. I'm tempted to take applications for Nemesis story arcs, if people would be interested.

Fire Fly? Flight with an Aura can be done now. Ice Fly? Alternate flight pose. Earth Fly? See Ice Fly. With Power Customization coming in Issue 16, and the promise of PC for Pool Powers coming down the line, I don't see why not.

Tunneling? Kind of lame, actually. I'm not sure how it could work, either. What would the other three powers in the Tunneling pool be, anyway?

Swinging? Same question, what are the other three Powers in the Pool? How would it work, mechanically? Click on a surface like Teleport, and swing to that spot? I don't think it is lame or unworkable, like Tunneling, but I don't think it is easy, either.

I kind of like having to come up with a unique name, thank you. I don't think I would enjoy running into Firebolt Omega@Power_NA while I'm playing Firebolt Omega. And I want to be Firebolt Omega, not Firebolt Omega@Lightfoot. Even if the global is hidden from view, I like the idea that I'm the only Firebolt Omega on Champion, and it would break my immersion a bit to run into another Firebolt Omega. Granted, with the way this game is so heavily instanced, the chances of my running into another Firebolt Omega is pretty slim. This is (one place) where I think CO went wrong. Nothing would hammer into my brain how uncreative I actually was like seeing three other heroes with the same name as I fighting the good fight, or camping the same spawns, whichever the case may be.

The current system forces me to get creative with my names, as I refuse to use the ".", "-", "xX__Xx", or other internet naming tricks.

That's a Spider-Man tradition though. So often in the cartoons and even the old comics you'd see him swinging on his web when it very clearly cannot possibly be attached to anything. Besides, it's pretty much impossible to do a Spider-Man game without that conceit.