Old Idea? Interchangable Powers?

With the option of a full respecification happening, and the sheer apparent hatred of the idea out there, I have come up with another idea, that I am sure some one has thought of.

With city of heroes I try to create the concepts I have outside of game. This usually isn't limited to 2 powers that one would consider primary or secondary. For example, you have one charater that normally uses claws and replexes, but when they get pissed, this power expands to use spikes, and taps into their darker nature and changes to dark armor. A natural and technical type could change out weapons, armor, and gadgets. The iron man cartoon comes to mind where he changes out which armor he is using seemingly at a moments notice when not in combat. There could also be animations for this actions of power switching, such as a weapon's rack popping up, maybe like The Matrix, where the hero puts away his dual pistols and pulls out a rifle.

I also noted that with some their slots for servers is full.

So here is my thought, I am sure people have heard of before, and hate equally as so.

Why don't we have a mode our lvl 50 characters can start back up at level 1 with these powers. This would be restricted to power sets for that archetype. They will have all their badges and such, with some level appropriate unlocks on some. Once they reach lvl 50 with those powers, after a long wait time between set changing power set pairs, they could interchange their primary and secondary powers.
This way you can continue playing the same actual character in the same general location, but adapt between solo, mish, task force, etc builds. Now this will by no means be something one could do on the fly in the middle of combat. This will allow us to cut down the slot use by 1/4.

So decent idea?
Chance of happening?

Chance of happening < 0.

They *want* you to make alts. They've put a ton of work into making the game alt-friendly. They're not going to do a ton of work to negate that and encourage you to use less slots.

you can have different builds in game now, pri/sec stays the same, but you can swap out pool powers and slotting, allowing you to have different setup for solo or teams or whatever.

I have to disagree with you, Furio. It's impossibly for a chance to be below 0.

Anyway, yeah, just roll an alt dude. It's not difficult. I'm planning to roll an Elec/Shield eventually who will use the exact same costumes as my Bots/Dark. Sadly my 36 month free slot is name-camping a toon I have planned for GR, so without paying for another slot I have to wait for my 2 free slots from GR and can't create any other toons on my home server until then. Such is life. Fortunately I've got a bunch of other alts I can play.

If I'm reading this suggestion correctly, you're implying that you'd get one powerset combo to 50, then "dual-class" into another powerset combo and get THAT to 50, getting to choose between the two setups either in real time or via multiple builds. Am I getting warm?

Basically, that's not going to happen. Not even with those restrictions. I fully appreciate your problem, as this is a serious problem of mine (katana + guns + reflexes = ), but think of it this way - that's kind of what Epics are for. Granted, if you're a villain, you're screwed, because villain Patrons suck for concept. But if you're a hero, you can very much make a character that uses Claws and Reflexes and still have access to Dark powers.

The only way you're going to see an option to retain your name, badges score stats is to implement the old "character reset" option, which would allow you to reroll a character, lose all levels, items and inf, but keep your cosmetic achievements. And I don't think that's what you want.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

That's nice.

It's still not going to happen. You want it to? Make your own engine that works with this kind of thing.

Oh yeah, and train people not to be utter nubcakes when they do it and don't understand the first thing about how to play their newly respec'd toon.

It's called "we get 36 character slots per server with 11 servers plus test, use them".

Firstly, I really don't see how this idea is functionally different than the one you posted a day or three ago... other than forcing a player to create an alternate character (but without creating an alternate character).

If this type of "respec" is ever going to happen (which I doubt) I sincerely hope that it does not use this proposed mechanism. Because, what is the point of starting from scratch 2+ times when what you wanted in the first place was NOT have to roll an alt. It makes little sense. That would be like telling people that in order to make cleaning the house easier they are providing everyone with a robot maid... who you have to control by doing the actions you want it to do. Totally defeating the point.

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Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk But meh, say la vi.

Ahhhhh! I may hate French, but I don't hate it that much!
It's: "C'est la vie."

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Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk The devs apperently did try to make a character swapping teleportation option. This apperently could not reasonably done, which is fine.

And the Dev post/thread for this is... where, exactly?