Mission Architect Custom Critter Power Selection Suggestion: Freeform

Basically, what this is would be creating an "entirely new" power set selection that's basically EVERY POWERSET already available in AE for our custom critters. This would allow us unparalleled customization, the ability to make "four elements" baddies, give something melee and ranged attacks that are not covered by assaults, and an armor set, or even add in a few 'junk' powers to keep some enemies from getting too powerful for their level range.

With this freeform style, power pools, EAT (outside of formshift) powers, and Epic Power Pools might even be added.

There would have to be limitations of course, like only one entry per each power to avoid someone 'junking up' something with quick recovery, fast healing, and other 'weak' passives, also, two weapon selections would probably still be out of the question, and thus individual powers would need to be locked out instead of entire powersets. Memory concerns might also come up, and thus it might be possible there WOULD NEED to be an upward cap of how many powers you can select per-critter.

Otherwise, what would you think of something like this being added?

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

Yes, but since the devs have all but abandoned AE I think they will just ignore the great suggestion.

The devs have NOT ignored AE! Some things that people want (Myself included) are apparently complex to work with.

Oh, for the ability to give enemies passive resistance and defences (like real NPCs...) without having to give them Invul or WP or something. To be able to make something with ranged/melee/armour like NPCs have, not Ranged/Armour/Too cheap to have brawl...

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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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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

I like this suggestion.

As an additional suggestion? perhaps have a list of powers that act as a boss critical power, like Protean's Energy Absorb or Anti-matter's Atomic Blast?

Have a list of these powers, some already used by NPCs, others not, restrict their use to Elite Bosses and Arch-villains and have one per NPC.

Yes, please.

What Azure said, exactly.

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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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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Sounds like a good idea on the surface, but just to play devil's advocate...

1. As a Dev, 99% of the development spent on AE since its inception has been to stomp out farmer exploits. Now, I'm going to open it up even more?

2. As a farm map creater - hmmm. Now, I have even more fire attacks to choose from. And I can make a mob with zero defenses balanced out with these extra attacks ( or a weaker combination of defensive powers), probably without penalty to the xp/ticket level.

3. Back to the dev side - now I have to tweak the code that determines the amount of xp/tickets per custom critter. Probably becomes much more complex.

The devs are going to say - is this worth the headache of going back and closing down all the loopholes found by farmers in the new open system?

Note: I am a ticket farmer myself. Got nothing against farming, especially given the drop rates have been nerfed to heck.