Durakken

yes and no...

I'm assuming that this second run contact would give you more arcs and what i meant was not that a contact was inaccessable, but rather their arc that you would have already gone through. You've completed it. The character is not going back in time (That's orobus) it is continuing to develop... so what the devs could do is add new content on to things like the Dr. Vahzilok Arc. If you did it previously you now have access to it this run because Vahzilok is back type thing. Vahzilok you wouldn't deal with at level 50 because your out of his league, but back at lvl 20, the fact that you guys are on the same level again and you have experience with him it makes sense you would be called in. Get it?

It allows for expanded content and growth of character and new arcs.

Also not to mention those arcs you missed in the first run would be open again. because you're in that level range again. So arcs get would get re-opened and other arcs would get a part 2.

So it's not "grinding."

The more xp to lvl thing i think that earlier lvl you'd go with more xp while later levels you could go with the same, but the earlier levels should be a bit longer than they were originally imo the second time because the character is recovering, but I don't see it as integral, just something to add to the feel of it. After all the lvl 1 toon is 100% while the rebirthed character would be like 70% when you start in terms of how fit they are.

It's the same toon. It did earn it. It's like asking why Superman could still access the Justice league computers when he died, came back, and had all new powers, or when Batman had to come back from square one why he still had the Batcave. The Character already earned all that stuff.

Because power pools are something you get access to because of experience more so than out of power growth and all ATs have them so it makes sense that they have access to them right off if they are any part of their power at all. The character knows how to wield it so it would be able to from the start of it's new journey.

That is ridiculous to argue. If you level up and earn it then you level up and earn it. The point is the character continues to grow while still maintaining the balance that is there which a small boost would do otherwise you are claiming things like the vet rewards, and all the booster packs are unbalancing...in which case the fact that they are included only gives more credit to this than it does to your argument.

Missing the point much? The point is this allows one to continue to grow the character past 50 in another way and doesn't punish those who just want a new power. Plus it happens in comics so it fits into the schema.

It seems to me YOU didn't think things out.

Yes they have them Mabinogi has a great one, but I'm thinking more along the lines of Ragnarok Online

I agree.


I also think you bring an interesting idea. more use of dual blades combo system even though it was supposed to be unique i think you could take a part of it and create a cool little power set with the concept of time manipulation where you create a aoe scrapper power set where you hit an enemy with an attack, which causes a slight debuff to your charge time/regen/whatever in your vicinity that increases and grows bigger the longer you chain attacks.

though... i think that would be too strong or it would simply not be worthwhile.

If thats true then i ask why? If it has something to do with copying the appearance that puts the kbosh on it but if its powers or something else it could be easily done.

i dont play defenders or controllers so those ideas aren't suggestions for one set but a theme that can be used in either. I was throwing out ideas for powers to work with that theme.

Yes, doing things like this may seem like it is wasting time, instead of "creating new power sets" but what it ends up doing is create a large range of choice using current powers (which takes out a bunch of work of balancing) with minimal work in the overall.

Basically instead of just getting "chest beam" we would be getting "fire chest beam". "ice chest beam". "energy chest beam". "sonic chest beam" and whatever other ones fit. So you are getting 5 times more customability with 1/2 the work (if you consider balancing and such half the work). So you are getting 10 times more efficiency and it just is cooler.

Further, doing something like this, since it is on a power by power basis you can seem to have eye beams, chest beams, and hand beams all in one set which gives more believability to some concepts. This is something that DCUO as far as we know doesn't have. You have to select one emanation point from what has been shown and told.

Also changing the weapons like I said would allow for players to choose function + aesthetic rather than have to choose one or the other, plus like with the previous thing you get more customability with less work overall and are able to introduce new things quicker. And like with the other thing you get to wield more than 1 weapon which is more realistic and cooler.

This has no benefits game play wise i get it, but for those of us that like RP, and aesthetic + functionality, and like trying to keep to a concept, It is extremely beneficial. Not to mention the biggest selling point for this game is how well you can create a character concept and how different you can look from another person. This is something that gives that in spades and does it with less work.

Yes it's a lot of work, but it is less work than most of you think and less work overall than going about it another way and provides the most return for the players and the developers. Does a lot of work mean it's hard? Depends what you call hard. I don't call any of what is necessary for this to happen is hard, but rather a lot of work, but isn't that what they're being paid to do?

Read my second post. They said they wanted to do Customization right. If they did they would have already thought of this. The chest/eye beam is more of a tangent though as the guns are more likely and don't have that problem as even if those limitations are still there (as they shouldn't be) the guns' stuff is all there, just need to change the bullets to the effects.

Remember it's just pictures and text ^.^ anything can be changed easily.