AzureSkyCiel

I remember I had this one double zone idea called: Nemesis, California set in the Old West of California (for villains) and modern California (for heroes) where villains would work for, guess who, everyone's favorite chessmaster. Villains would find plenty to do in the Western boomtown, both as freelancing (I'm thinking there should be at least three non-Nemesis related contacts and a repeatable one/newspaper missions) or working for the Brass Prince (Needs at least three Nemesis contacts plus Nemesis himself as a strike force contact), but villains would often find themselves leaping through time to help Nemesis achieve victory. Why would villains do this? Because Nemesis would not just pay well in cash, it would also be rich in temp powers, also, a chance to do all those lovely Western villain cliches. (Tie a girl to railroad tracks, rob a train, rob a bank or jail bust Old West style!, Call the Sheriff out for a duel at high noon, and cattle rustling!)
Heroes on the flip side would be working in the present with a series of contacts from a Native America tribe who lived in the area are nearly wiped out due to the efforts of villains and Nemesis to unlock the mysteries behind the Californian city that now carries the name of Brass Prince and would be leaping back into the past to set things right, or more exactly to make sure the tribe survived as it did and attempt to break Nemesis's hold over the city. But flipping through the past, heroes would get to do all of those Western hero cliches! (Basically mostly stopping everything the villains get to do, and beating the !@#$ out of claim jumpers.)

Another one I actually wrote out was a mini-series of zones for a place called "Emiya, Japan" I was kind of proud of it, but no one really liked the idea. (I didn't mind that, but they kept asking me "why didn't you write up something else?" Well dammit, I thought of Japan, next time make up your own zone in a country you like yourself, jerk!)

/signed, seriously.
Might also be interesting to have faction exclusive contacts in the RWZ like Sister Airlea and Daedalus in Cimerora.

You know what I'd like to see with Going Rogue? Office, Lab, Arachnos, and Longbow base map overhauls so the interiors make sense!

Basically, the elevators would work sort of like trams/ferries with the pop-up option, you can actually go from the first floor to the top without any delay. Not only that, but with bigger levels you would have multiple means of getting to different floors. Unlocked, Weakened, or broken windows to scale the sides of the building, maintenance shafts, fire escape stairs, air ducts, or scaling empty elevator shafts could all provide means for moving between floors. But there's a catch for why so many options would be presented, the enemies would be quick to realize you're getting around and about and work quick to make sure you can't use the same method twice, so every time you use one, you cannot use the same method until you clear out the floor you've ended up on.
And some floors could start out locked and require a key to get to, and maybe the alternative means could be limited to certain floors.

Now this could also provide some interesting things for branching story arcs, like if you just skip over the floors to find an objective, you wouldn't find the bonus objective that could lead you down a different path, or maybe if you stick around to defeat all enemies, you could learn something vital from one of them, or you could have wasted too much time and a path has closed for your heroes of villain.

Also, new map styles, I want actual Nemesis map tile sets, museum (Natural History, Art, and General History types), more store types, hotels/apartment buildings, restaurants/bars, space station maps, icy tundra, deserts, jungle, forests, etc. etc.

/signed.
But shouldn't this be in the suggestions and ideas forums?

AT (possibly a cross faction EAT) idea I had a while ago: Rider
No, they don't use super mobile mounts, what they are as basically a Mecha pilot AT.
The mecha themselves would be a special formshift power that you can get more powers for as you level up.
I'm really not too sure on the fully details, but part of me thought it would be cool if we could choose different mecha types: Transforming (with an alt jet mode, maybe a stationary cannon mode, semi-realistic but still sleek), Assault (based on Western style mecha, lacking hands, very gritty and realistic looking, heavily ranged oriented with some soft controls nad nasty debuffs), Alien (Super robot type, sleek looking, with lots of beam and melee attacks that use energy), Steam Armor (Steampunk style, lots of upfront smashing and lethal with a healthy balance of ranged and melee), and Arcane Grans Ritter (Magic style mecha, looks like a giant knight in fantastic looking fullplate, lethal melee, specializes in diverse types of ranged damage)

I foresee in the future the eventual ability to make our own zones with contacts, missions, etc. etc. Positron will then tell us we have officially lost the right to complain about lack of content.
People will still complain about lack of content and Positron will facepalm.

On more serious note, it would be kind of interesting to have more interactive environments, I have no coding background or anything, but I'm seeing maybe a special slot on your power tray that you can't put powers into, but when you get into a position to interact with the environment (like pushing over a bookshelf), you would instantly gain that as sort of a "situational temp power."
Yes, in otherwords: it's reaction commands.

No, I don't think we'll ever see it without /way/ more work than necessary when other things could be done.

For another thing I hope we will get in the future: see my signature thread links.

But for predictions on what will actually happen? We will get more for bases, in time, but what, I'm not sure. Could be awesome, could suck, a lot.

Also, more power customization in the future, like the ability to change animations (with some limits, like if you were to give Broadsword Katana animations, you'd have to slow them down to match BS speed) and power emanation points.

Zones in other countries, because if Paragon city keeps expanding, it's going to be bigger than Rhode Island itself, and the Rogue Isles only has so many currently unused islands so time to take the Road to Morocco, folks!

More epic powers/power sets, well, let's face it, like more costume options, this is pretty inevitable.

More added to Mission Architect, it's another inevitable factor, really.

Finally, major things coming to the story: The Storm Breaks, Fifth Column makes a full return, someone dies (likely not permanent or probably not important), someone Goes Rogue, Samuraiko comes out of retirement, Steelclaw makes a list of this thread and reveals his secret identity as Weird Al, and Rikti become overshadowed by an invasion of Martians in tripods!

Okay, so beating a dead horse, I had this idea for... Well, Super mobiles kind of implies land transport, but part of the problem with that is the geometry of the game's landscapes... So, the only simple solution for now is for such Vehicles to be fliers!

Now here's what I'm thinking...

About the Fliers:
-Fliers would be form shift temp powers you would unlock the ability to purchase (a recipe/blueprint) and craft (at a special crafting station) at level 25 or so.

-Fliers would have a static flight speed equivalent to the fly power at level 14. This would be to encourage people to still buy Raptor Packs or just take flight, since you'd already fly faster by the time you can get them. However, they do have the boon of not suffering from travel suppression.

-The ability to summon and ride the fliers would be a power suppressed in indoor areas and instanced mission maps (unless they're outdoors perhaps?)

-When form shifted as a flier, you would lose access to all of your powers but be given a new set in their place like Kheldian form shifts.

-Fliers would have about 1 hour of power use time before they "wear out". (I figured it could be justified since these are all new designs and heroes and villains require some high performance that simply mechanically exhausts lesser machines that are not PC made/designed)

-You may only have ONE flier until your time runs out, you cannot purchase all different types and have them ready and on hand. Only one until your current one expires.

-If you are defeated inside of one, it EXPLODES/the remains are instantly teleported back to the shop for repairs and your body is sent PLUMMETING TOWARD THE GROUND!

-Recharge: very long (About ten minutes, maybe?)

About getting them:
-As mentioned above, upon achieving level 25 you would gain a new contact to speak to. Heroes would report to a mechanic in Galaxy City (that place needs more love.), villains would report to an ex-Sky Raider Aero-Engineer in Sharkhead (That place needs something worthwhile)

-They would be store contacts and offer three different missions to unlock each of the three types of fliers, completion of this mission would grant you the ability to purchase blueprints to build one of the different types that can only be crafted at a special workbench in the shop. These blueprints should be more expensive than Raptor packs, after all, it's not just getting a flight power, you're getting a fancy form shift.

Types, Designs, and Powers: (This is where I'm mostly just making examples)
-I was thinking the fliers would come in up to 5 types; Mk. II Longbow Chaser, Arachnos Micro-Flier, Sky Raider Mk. II Sky Skiff, Vanguard Scout Helicopter, and Rikti Banshee. Each one would have their own strengths and powers.

-All of them would be fairly large compared to the actually Sky Skiff or the Chaser used already since some heroes and villains can get pretty huge. Well, the exception of course being the Arachnos Micro-Flier.

-All of them would be completely enclosed with reflective windows, this would spare the devs the pain of trying to generate your character actually in the machine.

-The fliers would have 3-5 powers they can use against your foes as well as auto-resist/defense powers to keep you from being too squishy inside of them. They all have inherent Mez protection to all except sleep, Spending more than 10 minutes asleep while using a flier form shift power would net you the Badge "Asleep at the Wheel"


So, what do you guys think so far, any suggestions to add to this?

I have a few of my own suggestions:

More purchasable temp powers: I'm thinking origin related (but not exclusive) ones that you can buy at enhancement stores, they should be very useful enough to encourage people to buy them regularly, keep the charges and times limited to keep them coming back and purchasing, and try to avoid making them game breakers.

Special paid transportation method: with scaling inf price as you level higher, basically, a special one-way teleport system like say in... Mercy and Galaxy city that would basically send you to any of the zones without level restriction. And to make it more appealing Redside, there could be multiple locations where you could be dropped off per-map.

Purchasable costume pieces: already mentioned and I support this.

Purchasable base items: on that train of thought, this might be nice too, especially, you know, they did something useful.

Badges: We have badges for gaining inf, let's have some badges for spending inf at places besides WW.

Seems like a good idea to me. I don't see why not.
You know, besides time constraints and so forth, but yeah, the 5th Column's constant "returns" have grown tiring without the ability to actually encounter them in street sweeping, it doesn't really feel like they're back, but just a special faction that we fight occasionally in canon and a lot in AE.

I always /sign for more costume slots.

Good luck, AC!

This is /not/ a suggestion I find in any way pressing, but it might add more flavor to the game, to simply put it, let's see various Signature Heroes and Villains change to different costumes sometimes after maintenance.
I mean, it's confirmed Statesman had other costumes before, and maybe there are days when he's feeling particularly nostalgic and dons his first costume as he hands out his TF? And other signature heroes and villains are at least level fifty, so they should have gotten all their costume slots, and Positron finally able to take off his armor, so shouldn't he have made improvements or variants with noticeable outward differences?
Also, for real fun, during Halloween the signature heroes and villains can be seen in their own Halloween costumes! Ghost Widow... Will wear a white sheet with eye holes over her usual outfit...

Again, not a pressing suggestion, just something that would be nice to see.

/signed!