Veteran Reward idea: Signal Flare


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I was reading something elsewhere and thinking about the upcoming supergroup revamps, and an idea occurred to me for a cool new Veteran Reward, or perhaps a Booster: the Signal Flare.

This power requires membership in a supergroup, and it can only be fired when a character is in a mission and in less then 50% health. The Signal Flare is an animation that projects a 3-D hologram of the character's SG in SG colors (basically the same rotating image in the base item hologram) either to the roof if indoors, or up to 100 feet up in an outdoor mission.

If someone in your SG shoots off a signal flare, you will get a text message stating that the Signal Flare is up. It will tell you who sent the flare and asks if you will answer the call. If you do, you join the team at the member's level and are teleported to the nearest mission door instantly. You cannot answer the Signal from inside your own mission, on a TF, or in a AE mission.

This power would not work in PvP zones or cooperative zones.


 

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Sounds cool. I don't think devs would do it because you could just ask on the supergroup channel and they already did a mission tp.


 

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It's true, both are existing powers... all this is doing is improving the 'feel' of a SG call for help. Perhaps if everyone who went into it received decreased XP/Inf and increased Prestige...?


 

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I was reading something elsewhere and thinking about the upcoming supergroup revamps,

Upcoming Supergroup revamps?

What upcoming Supergroup revamps?


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I think any power that is limited to being SG only is going to be a no-no. Its a cool idea, although I have no idea about the tech behind it. But I dont see it happening, not as a Vet award.


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I do like this. Not as a vet reward though.


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interesting idea, but that is what we have sg chat for. and other chat channels. like i said though, interesting idea but i don't see it happening.


 

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What about this being an sg buff or something? Meh...probably not.


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While SG requirements might prevent this from happening, it would still be a really cool idea to see implemented. It would also have the side effect of adding something visual to open zones considering the instanced nature of the game.


 

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Maybe extending it to your server-side friends list (how often is it used now with global friends?) would have more impact. Remember, veteren rewards are meant to be small, but noticable perks which make a veteren stand out from the crowd (costume items/pets) or to address with small issues which help keep the game fresh for the long term players (Permanent temp attacks/lower level travel powers).. At least that is how I understand it, do correct me if I'm wrong.

I like this idea, it sounds like something which might be useful occasionally, it's something I havn't seen suggested before and it can also serve as a sort of gimmick, a bit of pazazz which shows you have been playing for a long time so you have some shiny tools.


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