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Quote:And that's the same thing you already posted and which I already said is not what I'm asking for. And really, I didn't watch it all the way through the first time, I'm not going to watch even a bit of it now. I'm really not into that sort of nonsense.Originally Posted by Tokyo
And also it's tame compared to some things I've already seen on CoH.
Dom/Sub overtones are more than prevalent in City of Heroes, as are a few other "fetishes" such as latex/spandex and the like.
The admittance of these sorts of costume pieces is not going to see a flood of furries streaming in to take over the public channels and doing who knows what. And if they try, that's what petitions are for.
I just want to make a character with a mythological background that doesn't look like a person in a cheap set of slip on cat-ears. -
Quote:okay, yes, that's creepy, but that's NOT WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR!Originally Posted by Tokyo
Please Devs if you are reading this thread; For all that is good and hairless don't make a furry booster pack.
We don't need City of Furry http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck14LKBI9GM
Sheesh, when they added "anime" pieces everybody cried "City of Anime" and "Never"!
But really, the pieces we have now are such that it's easier to make a creepy fur-suit wearing weirdo than it is to make a decent mythological creature with anthropomorphic features. -
Quote:Radubadu, most of the time I log into Champs Online it is to use the character creator in order to make an image for a tabletop or play-by-post game. I haven't actually played the game in months.Originally Posted by Radubadu
Seeing the larger variety it is tempting to try CO... but then I think about how many posts I see here that say "I'm back!" lol
I especially like Koi though, trying to get advice on how to reproduce her look in CoH on the Costume Design thread. -
Quote:While I would not like to see anyone replaced, it is true that most of these requests have been getting made since the game's inception. I know because I've been either part of or the original poster of several such threads since the game's original beta test.Originally Posted by Radubadu
Being relatively new to the game I can only assume Jay is the one responsible for costume design. If so, I can respect his dislike for certain things but isn't his job to give us the options we want? I'm sorry but that's what a job is sometimes especially when dealing with customers... sometimes doing things you don't want to do. This is clearly something that enough people want that it should at least be given consideration and if he can't handle it because of his personal distaste then I agree, perhaps he should be replaced.
How nice to have the freedom to say "I don't want to do that so I'm not going to" and still collect a paycheck.
Everytime we get a fairly good size thread going that agrees that such costumes would be useful to making a variety of character concepts. Now, on Champions (which I admit I rarely play anylong) I have to deal with body proportions by Leifield but at least I have some vareity.
Here are some of the available heads (towards the bottom are male heads that seemed substantially different or unavailable to females)
And here (and these really are grotesquely over large Leifield tails, but oh well) are the tails:
This allows me to make the following:
A rather decent kitsune:
A good werewolf:
A dinosaur:
With the shark and toad heads in combination with other pieces I can likely do a good sahuagin or deep one like character. With the stag head a celtic-inspired wild hunts men is possible. And, of course the insect options and the ability to create dinosaurs
And there are plenty of options even beyond the full beast heads allowing for the following characters:
Random
Koi
Gothika
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Quote:ah, in either case, neither is a governmental authorityOriginally Posted by Quinch
You're referring to Hero Corps. Unless I'm mistaken, Freedom Corps is formed by Statesman, and Liberty is heading the Longbow arm of FC.
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Quote:Also, Freedom Corp is a private company, I believe we're all registered with the Federal Bureau of Superpowered Affairs. We are, in essence licensed bounty hunters.Originally Posted by DoctorParadox
while that's true enough, it seems like it would be simple enough to make Tendaji a non-required objective. and I take your point on the Lex Luther thing, but don't these longbow have direct orders from Miss liberty?
Miss Liberty's pet organization isn't Freedom Corp, it's Longbow. They tend to be a bunch of rabid idealists that manage to be worse at the ends justifying the means than Wyvern is.
Even then, Longbow is another private organization.
Vanguard is UN sanctioned and the Rogue Isles, much as we heroes don't like to hear it, is a member nation and thus forces are accepted from its ranks.
Miss Liberty's urge to shut down Vanguard is rather like Bruce Wayne and his army of trainees (admit it people, he's no longer quite the lone hero he used to be) insisting that Interpol be dismantled.
However, there is a history in comics and comic roleplay of UN super-groups having friction with American super-groups.
Granted, my first thought comes from the Champions Paper and Pencil game (HERO system is awesome even if the MMO based on Champs is disappointing).
Ask any classic player of Champions about how well PRIMUS and UNTIL get along and you'll hear quite simply "they don't".
This parallels the real life tendency (at least portrayed in media, which are, granted Hollywood inaccuracies) of American law enforcement to dislike Interpol.
Americans have a tendency toward Isolationist thinking (quite the contrary from the Imperialism most accuse us of) and trying to keep the world out of our business.
So, the FBI - Interpol rivalry is naturally mirrored in comics.
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Quote:You know, I really wish I had the continual patience for number crunching that you seem to display. It only comes to me in short-termed waves curiousity (such as how I haven't done the threat values for the powersets of ATs outside of Tanker yet). Sustained projects is something I can only do with writing and world building, and even then I have a tendency to spread myself thin and take on what some would probably say is too many projects at once.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Not to get too far off on a tangent (and I've said this before, just not recently) passive defenses should have always been the strong powers, and toggles the weak ones. What the devs focused on was endurance balancing, but that's the least important factor.
What is important is that passives can't be turned off, but toggles can: you can be endurance drained to zero, you can be mezzed, you can be detoggled. So every character with a defensive set can be in one of two states: passives, or passives + toggles. That's it. So the best thing to do is to make sure that when a character is detoggled, the right amount of protection comes off. And the right amount of protection is not "basically all."
Consider SR (its the easiest to consider in this case). Fully slotted with SOs, Sr has about 30.4% defense to melee, ranged, and AoE. With only the passives, its about 8.8% defense. With only the toggles, its about 21.6% defense. In terms of survivability, knocking out the toggles increases incoming damage by 110% - more than double. If it were possible to knock out only the passives, incoming damage would increase by only 45%. That's a lot more survivable.
In fact, if 75% of your protection came from passives and only 25% from toggles, on a survival adjusted basis (to give you an idea, that would imply the toggles would be offering about 4.9% defense *slotted*) then detoggling and mezzing would be much more reasonable. Instead, its almost a death sentence in many cases, and therefore the playerbase rightly dismissed detoggling as a viable game mechanic.
If you combine this with a linear returns mitigation mechanic (similar to the one that Champions Online uses for resistance, actually) then you wouldn't have soft-capping issues complicating matters, and people would not be able to exploit strong passives by skipping the toggles altogether.
Which is the objection to this idea: if the passives are so strong, won't the players skip the toggles altogether? And my reply is: since the toggles are so strong now, why don't the players always skip the passives now? And the answer should be obvious to the devs: because the game is balanced with them taking most of those powers on average. You can walk around with 21% defense if you want with only the toggles, or you can have 30% defense with the passives and be about twice as survivable. That's not much of an option.
Furthermore, if the players *do* decide to take just half the set, doesn't it make more sense to give the players the option to take just the passive half? After all, they are sacrificing half the set's protection: are you going to force them to eat all of its endurance costs anyway?
It makes a lot more sense to say, in effect, the first half is free, and the second half costs (end). Because then there's actually a valid endurance choice: do you want to pay more for more. But instead, the game offers this choice: you must pay endurance for the baseline protection, and if you want more, its free. That actually ironically trivializes the choice of managing endurance, because you have to pay it no matter what, so why skip the zero-cost protection powers?
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Quote:Ewww, flashbacks to the old WoD Tzimice Clanbook with its fanged orifice of unknown vareity on the cover.Originally Posted by Leo_G
Watch your tone, Sam! That's very insulting to many fanged butt cracks of the world. You have to think of their feelings when making such brash comparisons to those horrible monsterous heads.
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The Warriors....given that they are supposedly the main perptrators in the Hellion-Outcast-Warrior artifact trade, they have a serious lack of people with strange powers.
While I admit that the majority of them (including all minions) should simply be really skilled martial artists, I think there should be at least twice as many lieutenants as their currently are (total of 6) with the extra three having "weird" abilities based on artifact use.
OR, probably better, you can design them like the Tsoo, with lots of strangely powered bosses and a small selection of predictable minions
Really, these guys should be going toe-to-toe with the Tsoo for martial weirdness. With the Warriors basing their powers on artifacts and "gifts from the gods" in contrast to the Tsoo bosses that learn strange, mystical arts. -
more tilesets would always be nice:
houses
mueseums (I get tired of going to a museum to protect it and find myself either in a warehouse or an office building with no displays)
schools
malls
hospitals that aren't abandoned
and even if you don't do that, yeah, new tiles would be wonderful -
Quote:Now, I do have a character ported over from a Scion chat game who has some kitsune blood (originally she just had a kitsune teacher and an affinity for foxes until the GM revealed that she was part kitsune)Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
I got lucky in that the orangey skin tone was just the right colour, and it matched the ears when coloured too, so much so that she does actually look quite fox-coloured. My arguement IC was that, since she started off in-game as looking fully human, that her mutation kicked in a little bit more during a certain event, resulting in the fur and fox ears.
I dont think a full anthro head would work on her (unless it was *really* good), but I know it would certainly work on other characters I could make.
Eventually in Scion she was going to get the shapechanging powers to turn into a fox or other forms, so it would be nice to have a simple, non-snarling vulpine head for a fox-version further on along down the line -
Quote:Though I'm sure the Ninja High School Fans appreciate that particular glitch (the Salusian skunk-girls in that have two sets of ears if they go through a metamorphosis to turn more or less human)Originally Posted by Radubadu
/signed
Furthermore make it so if we pick certain ears the human ones GO AWAY.
I made a TA/Archery defender and named him Tricky Rabbit (yes after the Trix bunny... I was bored) I can't tell you how annoying it is that his face looks mostly human and that the rabbit ears don't make the human ones go away... -
Quote:I've never been genericized, and that's with character's like Major Ride (part of a joke group me and some friends, some female, created and played around with until one of our number: Major Cleavage, did get genercized...of course, all our names related to our powers and roles in the group: Ride was the porter, Cleavage used a broad sword, Bang had a gun, Burn was a fire tank and Crush was an earth troller)Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint
not to mention that there will be no way to insure that anyone under 18 doesn't join the server.
and, so what you had a name genericed. everyone does at some point.
and Satyr Dae...though Satyr is, admittedly, a milder form of the name Satyr Nau -
Quote:Easily possible, I know for sure that I managed to get one Regen build up to 4 end/sec (forget what the decimals were), which definitely means that getting to the 2.5 or so of most stamina builds is possible without actually having stamina.Originally Posted by Aggelakis
Most of my energy management comes from "don't use a big attack when there's only 3 HP left", and also "wait 2 seconds to use a lower-end attack instead of using my gigantic-hitter (which is also an end hog)" - also, basically all my attacks have at least 30% endurance reduction, if not more.
Also, I have a recharge slotted in Rest's base slot, which allows me to use it more often. I am not ashamed to use Rest when I need to. I really don't understand the stigma that Rest seems to have, "I can't use Rest once I hit double-digit levels!" Ridiculous.
I also have binds to combine three of each level insps (except greens, purples, break frees, and awakens) into blues. I manually combine BFs/wakies if I have enough, otherwise I delete them. I use greens and purples to avoid having to use heals.
I also slot IO sets with recovery in mind. Some of my builds/proposed builds have Stamina-level recovery.
Note the end-crazy build for my regen was built expressly to deal with Dark Ring Mistresses and their PBAoE end drain toggle
I would like to see those combine binds though. -
They've all been suggested before.
The long and the short of it is that the engine isn't designed for it.
I doubt we'll get a web-centric set, that's way, way too specific. -
Indeed, the following heads would be nice:
Raptor (as in predatory birds)
Vulture/Condor
Song Bird
Oriental Dragon
Canine (actual canine head, not the beastial things we have now)
Feline (with optional mane and other details for various sorts of cats)
Goat (or at least something non-carnivorous that can be made horse/goat/cow by adding details)
Other reptiles/amphibians (snake, turtle, lizard, frog)
Fish (Sharks, piranaha, something Sahauginish)
maybe have a seperate category for animal heads as adverse monster heads
as to monstrous heads
Cthulhu-ish
demonic heads akin to what champions has -
Quote:never really had much of a problem with Endurance 14-20...as long as I pace myself...Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
I'm not saying 'low level'. It is specifically level 14-20. And, as I said, I tried endurance management. It is, frankly, impossible at that level. The limited number of slots and the maximum being DO level enhancements means that, with pretty much the exception of /regen and certain support ATs, endurance fail is guarenteed. Which seems fairly broken to me.
I'm also not saying 'make it a non-issue'. I'm calling for it to be balanced. Stamina being a near necessity as it is has never sat well with me, but I can live with that. Being crippled in the run-up to it is a step too far, though.
resisting the urge to push a button as soon as its ready is keen skill
so is learning to purchase blues or make them -
Quote:Too bad that can't do an AoE immoblize/phase/hold that affects ALL nearby, ally and enemy, and makes the hold animation a dance emoteOriginally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
Not the General crafting badge, that would imply that you were useful
. I think it should be Professor and Monitor Duty (you spent your on duty time sitting around doing nothing). The Accolade power is Impressive Solo an AoE placate that applies an immbolize and "only affects self" to you with an animation based on the sing emote. -
Hmm, just thought, slightly off topic but still
If you can get the Professor Day Job, the General Crafter Badge, and all the Historian Badges, then you should earn:
MODERN MAJOR GENERAL!
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Quote:Tier it out with Marathon Walker being awarded for 26 milesOriginally Posted by The_Nezz
I was very bored today so I decided to walk from Miss Liberty in Atlas Park to Castle in Peregrine Island. Took only side walks and used only cross walks lol... Took me about 1h 32mins and 28 seconds
no trains or portals... just walking atlas to sky to talos to PI. On this long walk, I got thinking.... We need a new badge for this amusing new power. Now, before you all start in, Yes I am aware I have no life and just about any other thing you could possibly toss my way XD lol... So, here it is....
Marathon Walker:
Description: Some people have it in them, some dont. You have showed that you have the patience and endurance to walk long distances in Paragon City(The Rogue Isles).
Alternate names like "Walkman" or "Walkwoman" would be amusing as well lol.... I figure it could be easy to add it. The game uses a coordinate system, I was thinking maybe when the power is activated code could track the location and update every second and calculate the distance traveled by the player. Maybe the badge could be attained after about 5 miles? thats the idea.... now..... CONVERSE! -
Indeed, its no worse than the bondage-fetish style pieces we do have, or the android pieces (which is a rather disturbing fetish), or the number of people that make naked costumes
heck, you can even fetishized versions of school girl and cheerleader outfits
Given all of those, especially the LAST one, I don't see the "no furries" complaint...immature people will be immature regardless of what we do or don't give them
Anyway, what the rest of us want animal pieces for are things like the characters listed above and the following:
Mythics:
Egyptian Gods: Bast, Sehkmet, Anubis, Horus, Isis (we do have very intimidating monstrous heads for the evil gods, but some noble animal heads would be nice...Native American spirits can also be done this way)
Mythos Creatures: Medusa, Minotaur, Satyrs, Kitsune, Tanuki, Raven, Naga (many of these I can somewhat do, though Kitsune and Tanuki are missing their tails and Medusa her hair, Naga unfortunately require a new skeleton and library of animations...granted they HAVE the skeleton already, but they'd need replacement animations for all the powers since the snake skeleton doesn't have the bulk of animations attached to it that are necessary)
Werecreatures: Wolves, Cats, Bats, Rats, Sharks, Foxes, Rabbits, Alligators, Snakes (most of these are simply missing one piece: head or tail. Snakes are the most difficult, see the problem with Naga above...also, the above, with the possible exception of bats, are all from actual myths...not comics)
Journey to the West: Lots of the characters have animal characteristics, especially Monkey and Pigsy (though Monkey is relatively easy to do) -
Quote:ah, forgot about that oneOriginally Posted by Techbot Alpha
And Serpent Drummers first mission in the RWZ
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I have also wanted to do rescue missions that aren't related to crime:
natural disasters, fires, traffic accidents
For example, have an "earthquake" where the players have to beat into cars to rescue citizens before the bridge is destroyed similar to what happens with with fires in Steel Canyon (and note that even the mind controls and psychic blasters have telekinetic abilities, so no problem there)
or a fire where the villains are replaced by spawns of fire
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Quote:There is one, count them, one mission like this in the Faultline arcs.Originally Posted by Unholygiant
So today when I was in the middle of clearing out this ENORMOUS group of Freakshow, I started thinking to myself: Why do we always successfully clear THEIR bases out? Can't they strike US when OUR guard is low?
That's when I got the idea of Reverse Missions. They're quite a bit different from the regular mission. Reverse missions are, exactly what I'm hinting at: the enemy groups attack you at your base instead of you attacking them at their base. So all of you dastardly villains could protect your precious bank loot from Longbow, or you bold heroes could protect the hapless citizens from waves of supercrime.
I've always wanted a bit more variety in my missions. I know you do too. So here's how it'd work: You'd be at the back of your (relatively small) base, chillin' with an innocent, and a small group of (for instance) Hellions attack. You (and your team) would have to thwart the Hellions. Now here's where I get a little confused: I'm not really sure if it would be that the next wave comes after the group is defeated or if the next wave comes periodically no matter what.
I'm sure that if you wipe, you'd have a set time to get back to the hostage and defeat the thugs so they don't get away, or if that's too hard you fail on a wipe. I'm thinking that most of these missions would be tough, especially when solo, so you might get a fist or four to aid you in your attempts to send the bad guys behind bars or make sure those goody-two-shoes don't take your toys from you.
So lemme know what you all think about this. Thanks, guys.
You set up a trap for Nocturne. This is made by giving you a glowy that, when clicked fills a previously empty base with enemies that you then beat up.
This can be similarly done in AE missions by using the maximum number of patrol and defeat boss spawns (all of which use up regular spawn points) set to spawn only after certain things happen. -
Wipe Brow (perfect for after a tough fight)
Facepalm (perfect for responding to moments of stupidity)