New Archtype

I want to know how many people would like the rikti to be a new Archtype. Also, if so, how could it be pulled off.

A select few people already have Rikti outfits from meet and greets and contests, I think. A Mind/Psy dom with that outfit could perform a Rikti pretty well. If they make NPC costumes purchasable from the NC store one day, that would be an option for you.

Also, there have been suggestions about giving weapon dependent animations to non-weapon sets, like firing energy blasts from an energy gun.

As for Rikti as a new archetype, I don't like it as I don't see the Rikti providing that many options for powers, and it would be extremely hard to make costumes available for the Rikti model.

I'd love a Rikti Archetype, if the devs ever put it in the game I'd hope they'd follow the same model they for SoAs. New characters would start as say a Headman and at level 24 choose to be Chief Soldiers or Chief Mentalist.

This would be alot of work, I just checked out the Rikti page and Rikti have no powers. The Devs would have to make new powers and animations so a Rikti player could have a full attack chain. There aren't really any Rikti AOEs, and without AOEs this EAT would be laughed at by the spreadsheet crowd.

I'd hope there'd be story arcs, it would be nice if the pre-35 story dealt with the build up to Invasion the Rikti must have been going through before RWZ got its revamp. The 35 plus content could deal with the Restructurist and Traditionalist conflict at the same point in the timeline everyone else is starting the RWZ arcs. There would have to be missions where we rescue Faultline and Fusionette.

Make Amphibian people for Praetoria. The Invasions like the rikti would be through a dimensional portal instead of a space invasion. Good or bad would depend on being a loyalist or a resistance fighter. The new content could bring underwater areas to the game.

Yes before you ask. I'm an Aquaman fan.

I'm keeping it basic here. Rikti would change story because both heroes and villains team up together to defend against their invasion. They are neither good or bad and are their own alignment with their own goals.

Only new AT's I see being is like SoA like characters for Praetoria. I suppose you would be SoR or SoL.
(Soldier of Resistance)
(Soldier of Loyalist)

I wouldn't want to play an archetype called SoL. "Castle, we're horridly underpowered!" "Sorry, you're SoL"

I'd rather have the Praetorian Hamidon archetypes that also get suggested often when this question comes up.

You character is a human infected by the Hamidon virus who has somehow made it into Praetoria. As your power grows, you find yourself falling into Hamidon's control. Your choices are to either follow through and become a force of eco-terrorist destruction or subdue it and work towards a truce between humans and nature.

The two archetypes would have an earth/crystal theme and a plants/fungi theme.

This would be moderately easy to include sotry-wise, since at the moment we have no idea at all about how the Praetorian Hamidon look like and operate.

Another possibility would be Vanguard. A varied group with a foot in both the hero and villain worlds. The backstory could be that Vanguard has decided to train up new members by assigning them to work as heroes or to try and climb to the Social-Darwinist top of the heap in the Rogue Isles. The theory being hey, look at the powerful people those paths already produce. As you advance in levels more Vanguard storylines open up; you discover Rikti infiltrators, assassinate Praetorians who aren't playing nice in their new world, that sort of thing.

Sorry, I have been gone for a while and I didn't have a chance to get the the computer. Your thoughts on the matter are great, it's good to see both sides of this.
Here's an idea:

There is going to be a war between the praetorians and those of Primal earth, naturally the rikti are going to be involved too so considering they have "their own alignment" , Desitre, they would fight alongside the heroes of primal earth to defend their morals, goals, or whatever they are fighting for. After this war is over with the praetorians the rikti realize something, thus changing their thoughts about those of primal earth. So they set up a ceasefire with the primal earth heroes and become allies with them.

This is all just speculation and theory, an idea to pass around. As for the powers and how we need something we haven't seen well. . . I'm still working on that.

I don't like quoting entire posts so I'll just say: everything that Techbot said. With a cherry on top. Yes please. Mmmm mmm.

I'm against any further epic ATs. Powerets usable with any origin are preferable by far.

If you want a Rikti AT or whatever AT, I'd rather do it like this:

1. Add the ability to pick a 'backstory type' that unlocks a series of Rikti or whatever arcs.
2. Add tons of additional enemy group costume pieces.
3. Add tons of additional enemy group weapon or power customizations.
4. Possibly add some sort of VEAT style restricted costume to the backstory types, but honestly that's probably too much work and lots of them could be handled with normal costumes.

Build your own epic! This way you can have Rikti, Freakshow, or whatever epic AT you want and it is far less work intensive or cluttering than adding tons of epic ATs, while adding more customization options to every AT in the process. Seriously, there are 14, and if an epic can't work in a current AT, I'd rather implement it as a whole new general AT for more options.

One way of having a Rikti AT without conflicting storylines (maybe) is to simply lock them out of doing those storyarcs in normal gaming. They would be able to access it via Ouroboros for the badges, but in normal game progression, they would never be able to do those arcs. Biggest examples would probably be Steven Sheridan and Timothy Raymond. Steven because he actually introduces you to some Rikti secrets which your character already knows, and Timothy because he'd never willingly work with any Rikti he was aware of.

Costumes... I can see a lot of people being unhappy if their wardrobe becomes extremely limited because they don't get to wear other gear than Rikti armour, haha.