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We already know if the Devs had their way they'd probably try to figure out a way to make the workaround NOT work. Clearly they tolerate it because as you say there's no real harm in it. But likewise since they DON'T really want it to happen there's no motivation for them to make it any easier either.

Sure you could use the argument that they might make a little money by selling tokens for this. But our Devs have a long history of standing by their own principles for their vision of this game regardless of opportunities for quick profit. We may not like their position on this but it is refreshing to know they are willing to stand up to what they believe regardless.

Besides we also know that CoH:Freedom has in general given them a boatload of cash in recent months so it's not like they have to exploit every last way to make a buck. My guess is they are going to be willing to lose out on this opportunity. *shrugs*

Yes, this is probably the best "workaround" for this problem at the moment. But ironically as long as workarounds like this exist the Devs will likely be that much -less- motivated to ever make this any easier.

To their credit the Devs of this game have done a pretty good job pushing this game engine to its limits over the years. You have to remember this system is now 9 or 10 years old at least because you have to figure much of it was in place at least a year or two before it officially launched back in April 2004.

Still it has its limits, and one of those limits is how our characters interact with the environment. When you think about it there's really not that much we can actually touch or grab in the game. That would severely limit what you could do with something like Parkour. This is why all of our current travel powers are basically "independent" of the surrounding environment and probably explains (among other things) why we haven't gotten things like "vehicle-oriented" travel powers either.

This is easily one of the top five all-time suggested suggestions this game has ever had.
I've literally seen this tossed out there dozens (if not hundreds) of times over the years.
The Devs have repeatedly acknowledged that they know we've wanted this for years.

Sure it's a shame the Devs haven't figured it out yet.
But for this game this thread is the quintessential example of "beating a dead horse".

Welcome to the game.

As others have said the impact/effect of Origins have evolved over the history of this game. Like Jagged said individual players will always have their own interpretations of what the Origins mean to their specific characters. This is why trying to assign specific in-game advantages and disadvantages like yours has been actively (and wisely) avoided by the Devs.

The only way ideas like yours would ever be acceptable is if the Devs allowed for Origin respecs. Frankly I'd hate to have new effects retroactively imposed on my characters without my ability to choose. It might work (like Aggelakis said) if they gave us a system where we could choose from any of these effects without being locked in by a specific Origin, but after almost 8 years that kind of thing seems doubtful.

Bottomline Origins should only really be considered as a guide to roleplay or character concepts.
Locking new in-game effects to them would likely only upset as many people as it would help.

Dog's name on dogbowl = Loki
Car's licence's plate = A5G 4RD
Car make was a SAAB = Swedish
Stark coffee mug in kitchen.

This ripoff was full of win.

Nothing wrong with Tron in general, but it's not really "retro" either unless you're young enough to consider anything from 1982 to be old enough to be retro now. Let's just say I wouldn't mind a Tron-ripoff here as long as the retro stuff is taken care of first.

I sometimes feel sorry for the kids who were born -after- MTV used to have anything to do with music.

I like it and I'm glad you're considering it, but that particular "jetpack" is much more than just a backpack-sized device. The pilot literally straps into it and flies it like a miniature helicopter. It's much larger than any of the other backpack-based temp flight powers you've done so far.

If you seriously managed to replicate the appearance of this device then any argument you might have against being able to give us other vehicles like motorcycles will make absolutely no sense.

Eh, guns and swords with no obvious blood is sort of workable/acceptable. Sure it's not completely "realistic", but at least you could potentially shoot or stab someone without showers of blood from every single hit. On the other hand swinging a chainsaw at someone almost always includes severed limbs and/or gallons of blood flying all over the place. Frankly if we couldn't have realistic gore with chainsaws in this game I rather not have the chainsaws at all.

I guess what I'm saying is that the idea of "bloodless chainsaws" are just a bit too unrealistic to be worthwhile.

The main problem with the Devs trying to use this as an excuse against Player Housing is that theoretically every player can already go out and create a 1-character SG base with every character they can make now. What's the difference?

Now of course from a software engineering point of view the chances of every active player going out tomorrow and creating a brand new SG base for all of their characters is admittedly extremely small. So small that it's entirely possible that this game, right at this very moment, lacks the disk storage space to handle such unlikely event. Still, trying to claim that Player Housing is specifically impossible for that reason alone is somewhat disingenuous when you consider the Devs have never overtly claimed that being able to create SG bases for everyone would also be impossible for the same reason. Again I'd ask what's the difference?

Frankly I think the Devs need to do better than to use something like this as convenient excuse. Clearly if that "other game" has managed to provide this feature for its players then it would not be impossible to implement here. Yes it might actually cost the Devs money for extra hardware, but on the other hand they do have the clear potential to make money from a long-wanted feature like this regardless.

Or more accurately it's the very definition of the word 'compromise'.
Everyone both wins a little AND loses a little, depending on your point of view.

For the record it actually doesn't bother me that they finally made some of it for sale, but likewise it doesn't bother me that you still have to play the game to earn some of it too. I suppose that means I don't fit into one of your "realistic" camps. *shrugs*