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Let's just say no to the yellow ice and snow. otherwise /signed
*makes joke about yellow snow*
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While I do think that some people will use yellow snow for less than mature purposes, I still think that we should get it as a color choice, along with many other color choices.
I was making an Earth/Ice Dominator the other day, with a backstory that she was made out of living crystal. While I could color all of the Earth effects (or most of them) as different colored gems, I could only make the ice ones blue, green, or white, really. Red, Black, Amber, and other colors would have helped me out a lot.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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"I was just the one with the most unsolicited sombrero." - Traegus
My main and namesake is an Fire/Ice/Pyre Tanker who would greatly appreciate more diverse color palettes for Ice.
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If you guys think yellow snow is bad, try white fire. 
Especially with the splash after it hits your enemy.
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I find that earth powers suffer from the same problem, particularly when you select Crystal.
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
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Really? The recent Earth/ Dom mentioned above was able to color the crystals a lot. I was able to simulate rubies, emeralds, sapphires, amethyst, onyx, and amber quite well.
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Originally Posted by Tenzhi
I find that earth powers suffer from the same problem, particularly when you select Crystal.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I was just the one with the most unsolicited sombrero." - Traegus
As I recall, the devs specifically limited the color palette because they didn't want people coloring the ice in odd ways so that it looked like something other than ice.
"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
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Well thats just bloody stupid, then...
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
As I recall, the devs specifically limited the color palette because they didn't want people coloring the ice in odd ways so that it looked like something other than ice.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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I feel the same way just don't want yellow ice and snow. Other could would be great.|
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Let's just say no to the yellow ice and snow. otherwise /signed
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Specifically, BABs said that color-tinted ice came out looking horrible. People came out looking like giant popsicles. The color completely overwhelmed the texture. That's why they stuck to the paler palettes.
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
As I recall, the devs specifically limited the color palette because they didn't want people coloring the ice in odd ways so that it looked like something other than ice.
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Not really... the powerset is ice armor. If you want it to not look like ice, why are you making a character with ice armor? Perhaps another powerset would work better.
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Well thats just bloody stupid, then...
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Because maybe people don't want to be lumbered with Stones sub-par 1-31 run, or just don't want to play Stone? Ice armour is a perfectly good set, as are ice melee, manipulation and ice blast. Blasters, for example, don't get any stone powers, so they have no other options for crystaline based powers. |
Originally Posted by Rebel_Scum
Not really... the powerset is ice armor. If you want it to not look like ice, why are you making a character with ice armor? Perhaps another powerset would work better.
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People have long fudged powers as things they 'aren't', like energy blast for water, fire for various things, amongst others. So why is that idea which has been supported for so long suddenly 'wrong'?
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GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Like Starjammer said, because the devs thought it looked crummy. You can disagree with them if you want, but they have the final say, and I think you'd be hard-pressed to find any kind of decent software developer who would deliberately release a crummy product (I know I'm opening a huge can of worms with this statement but I can't think of another way to say it).
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People have long fudged powers as things they 'aren't', like energy blast for water, fire for various things, amongst others. So why is that idea which has been supported for so long suddenly 'wrong'?
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"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
We will honor the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die...
Then why not let there be the current 'Ice and ice only' version of ice powers, and a crystaline/gem type used by the Earth powers (since 'Earth Blast' doesn't exist) which uses opaque colours, or whatever the ones for gems do at the moment?
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GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Rebel_Scum
Not really... the powerset is ice armor. If you want it to not look like ice, why are you making a character with ice armor? Perhaps another powerset would work better.
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I meant for ice blaster and controller (I never play tank).
I dont see any reason why Chilblain, Arctic Air, Ice Slick, Blocks of Ice, Jack Frost, Ice Blast, Ice Storm, Bitter Ice Blast, Bitter Freeze Ray, Blizzard, etc cant have different colors.
For me bright ruby red Ice Slick and Ice Storm would be awesome.
I agree on the limited colors on ice shields, I'd be annoyed if a defender gave me Ice Shield and it was a color that made me look like a popsicle.
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I think it's crap that Snowstorm and Freezing Rain in Storm Summoning are forced to use the limited Ice color selection. I can't play Storm due not being able to color those two powers in the way that I want. 
Branching Paragon Police Department Epic Archetype, please!
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I think it's crap that Snowstorm and Freezing Rain in Storm Summoning are forced to use the limited Ice color selection.
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Ever play an ice/storm troller? Every sound is the same
Snow Storm: Whoosh
Gale: Whoosh
Arctic Air: Whoosh
Shiver: Whoosh
Ice Slick: Whoosh
Casting Jack Frost: Whoosh
Really fun set, but boring with the exact same sounds for almost every power.
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Correction: you choose not to play Storm because you can't color it the way you want. Nobody is stopping you from playing it besides yourself.
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Originally Posted by Cynical_Gamer
I think it's crap that Snowstorm and Freezing Rain in Storm Summoning are forced to use the limited Ice color selection. I can't play Storm due not being able to color those two powers in the way that I want.
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"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
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Semantics.
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
Correction: you choose not to play Storm because you can't color it the way you want. Nobody is stopping you from playing it besides yourself.
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Branching Paragon Police Department Epic Archetype, please!
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Semantics.
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BABs specifically explained that giving Ice vivid colours made it look like crystal. I recall agreeing with him at the time for some reason I could not reconstruct now on pain of death, but I no longer see this as a problem. Many powersets already step on each other's toes now that their effects are customizable. Rad Blast and Energy Blast are essentially the same thing when they're made the same colour. There are differences, yes, but they're academic. You blast enemies with different sprites of energy.|
Originally Posted by DarkGob
As I recall, the devs specifically limited the color palette because they didn't want people coloring the ice in odd ways so that it looked like something other than ice.
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As such, I say enable all power colours. If ice ends up looking like crystal, then LET IT. In fact, I originally wanted to make my Slime Girl into an Ice/Ice character, the ice representing crystallised slime, but went with something else instead.
Let me put this another way - if the water in Cimeroran caves can be allowed to be a Nuka Cola Quantum shade of fluorescent blue, why can't my ice be allowed to be the same? Can't I just scoop up some of that inky blue water and freeze it for my ice?
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Oh, yeah, and Storm, too. What gives? That set may as well not have customization options.
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Actually, he said it made Ice looked like cartoony gems, which I took to mean that it looked bad.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
BABs specifically explained that giving Ice vivid colours made it look like crystal.
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The only choices for ice blaster and ice controller are blue, purple, faded green and faded blah colors.
Most other powers have a huge range of colors, but ice is so limited in its color choices.
It'd be nice to have red ice, emerald green ice, yellow ice, orange ice.
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