Power Customization= sickness?

I was away when it first came out, see i didn't see all the post about it in test or when it hit live, but i've heard about it. I've mostly made natural characters since i'm back so now it's time to have a really flashy character. But.... i always play on lowest setting and i'm color, so i have no idea when my graphics might be a little too much.

Anyone know what kind of effects and what kind of colors are the most likely to give someone sickness? I don't want to incapacitate my whole team. =P

The sonic rezz bubbles. Also, brightly colored Ice Slicks on white floors turn your monitor into a laser ray.

High alpha colors of certain wavelengths can cause pain for some people (certain yellows can be particularly vile). If you combine multiple examples of different pain-inducing colors...yeah.

As for making people literally sick...probably not unless they have a preexisting condition. I'm sure you can find some stuff about epilepsy to get more precise on what to avoid but I wouldn't worry about it.

take some gravel first?

Mr. Tealeaf has informed me that bubblers who set to black and red are very annoying and should be beaten with a shovel. So, perhaps that might be one to avoid.

Nothing makes me sick, although there are some things that bug me.

One is when people don't tone down, or even sometimes amplify already annoying graphics. Worst offender is ice shields. My ice character has them set to a very dull gray, so the graphics show up as a faint white. They still look like ice, just extra translucent. I hate seeing the default ice that you can't see through, or even brighter and denser colors.

I also hate how everyone just colors their stuff black. We have such a broad spectrum and can come up with cool stuff. For instance, I played with a Rad/Thermal Corruptor who colored their thermal powers to the exact shade of radiation so the flames and stuff looked like radiation. So it makes me roll my eyes when I see the 500th instance of pure black fire.

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

I teamed with a sonic defender that colored the sonic dispersion (big bubble) an extra bright metallic yellow that made my head hurt from how bright it was. Subtlety can be a good thing.

My latest Power Customisation experiment is Everlight, a cosmic powered Rad/Rad Corruptor. Pretty much every power is a different color. All using the Bright graphics with the primary color being a heavy blue for example, the secondary color is the lightest blue from that line.

The only powers that are the same are my three anchor debuff powers, they're all colored Red/Red, when I'm on PuGs I'll say "Red means stop, kill them last", which works pretty well actually.

My Rad/Fire Blaster uses Radiated Fire.

My fire/fire troller uses pale white/blue flames in varying hues. I still get the occasional compliment about the look. I tweaked it a few times to ensure that it was attractive and subtle and didn't overwhelm anyone.

I was in a cave map with a grotesque bubbler that had such hard bright bubbles I couldn't see anything most of the time.

I did it the other way around: I've got my Poison vibrantly colored instead of the sickening dingy yellow/green it was before. All the powers are colored according to the buff or debuff they do: purple for the mez protect, dank teal for the -speed, orange for the hold, etc. With the shocking contrast on the character's costume, it actually looks pretty good.

Of course black is a popular color. Half the people who play the game sit in their rooms with the lights off and they can't open the window because they're in the basement. Either the bright lights hurt their eyes, or it's cool to be evil even if you're a good guy.

Incidentally, based on conversations with people, I believe more people are likely to roll a Warshade as their first kheld rather than a Peacebringer. Why? Because dark is cooler than light.

Thanks all for the answers, I'll keep that in mind. ^-^

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Originally Posted by Dispari 8) Earth Control colored red and green to make a blooming crystal flower with immob + hold

Pics or it didn't happen! (seriously.... i'd like to see that, it must be so nice looking)

...I admit that my Brute's powers are colored Red/Black. But that's because they're supposed to be Mu Magic (which, ironically, is actually Red/White, so I need to go fix that...) But he's SS/WP so no one really cares anyway...

One thing that does bug me though, is Pain Dom's colors. No matter what I pick, I always end up with some color and Black.

I wanted to match the powers of other incarnations of that toon, (Dom/Troller/Mastermind whose powers are all a light grey, except on the MM...), but there's this fugly cloud of Black I can't get rid of...

I have seen some cool Power customization though. The Bone Spines are common. I know someone who colored Pain Dom to match Dark Blast.

I know two people with Pink Dark Miasma. I would like to recolor Dark powers to look like Nictus powers... It may be possible...

Bright sonic dispersion, some dark armor customs makes me nauseos.
A friend has problems with red dispersion.