Mr_Right

I'm running around with a near permanent 165% Recharge on my Warshade already but.... It would be nice for Hasten to be up constantly. And the Healing one would be great. And the Stun would be really handy... Damn, that one IS made for us!

Once I got the Mutation Booster, I must have used that power constantly all day trying to get the Rikti Monkey devolution, but no dice. So when I'm messing around in PvP, and click the power trying to get a bit more Defense... POOF. I'm in the middle of a PvP zone hoping around as a monkey trying to not die from NPCs or players.

It was quite amusing.

Happy Birthday Steelclaw! I am always excited to read any threads you make, and enjoy reading your wit and humor in any posts you make that I happen to see.

I want to start off by saying I love bases. They're functional, they're fashionable, and they're an excellent creative outlet that rivals the character's costume creator. But why should we update them? Like it or not, the base editor does it's job well.

But it could be better. There are almost weekly threads asking for it to be better, suggesting ideas and proposing fixes. But it still isn't quite needed, which pushes those suggestions down the pile in developer time. After all, even the largest SGs only have an extremely small percentage of players see their base, so why spend time and money upgrading a tool that's currently functioning? So to raise improving the bases in the develoment queue, I suggest givong it the "AE treatment". What does that mean? It means we request the developers replace the current base editor with a watered down version of a mission tile set creator.

The reason for asking this is three fold: First, with a new tool for the developers to create mission tile sets the developers would be able to create more mission maps faster and easier for Task Forces and story arcs, which goes hand in hand of creating new content. Second, being able to "fill in the blank" for mission tile sets would help to combat the feeling of repetitiveness of instanced missions. And finally, with a watered down version of the tool, players could create mission maps for the AE itself as well as have a new and upgraded tool to create bases with.

The general idea is to essentially give us more control over base building as a secondary effect. But there are also secondary effects for players that I would like seen thrown in.

The assumption I'm making, is that the full tool the developers would have would including being able to load up current mission maps, and add / subtract decorative objects similar to how our current base editor works (add pile of rubble here, remove burning rubble there, add Hellion wall decal, etc). A watered down version of this kind of thing would be excellent. In my little mind, I'm hoping for a more "mission like" base, where we're able to take a room from a mission, load it up at the cost of some prestige, and then add or remove certain items from the room to make it more base like, as well as functional. This alone, would give players many of the things they have been requesting, such as second floors, rooms with actual walls, etc.

Going along further with this train of thought, would be the ability to purchase "elevator plots", which would allow us to have a room with an elevator (or other doorway) that, like inside missions, would take us to another "floor" in the base. Say, going from a sewer tile set to the "secret tech lab" portion where the teleporters are. Taking that idea even further, I would like the ability to replace the blue portal with an actual doorway, such as in missions, that take you outside. This would of course only replace the portal within the base, and you would still exit to the blue portal in the zone, but it would go a long way to helping suspend belief that your base is a secret base with a hidden sewer entrance, or within an office building, or a cave.

So really, I feel that having the developers create a new mission tile set editor, something that gives them a large amount of control over what and where goes in a mission but works in the same style as the Architect Entertainment's "fill in the blank", would be an excellent reason to update the base editing process.

I would like to propose a counter suggestion:

Create a new secondary set (defender primary) that implements a "PBAoE" style of buffing as it's primary team buff powers. Make it functionally comparable to other shield sets (in that there are two of such shield powers with several complimenting powers). At a minimum, have one that's defense based and one that's resistance based. I wouldn't want the buffs to be self affecting, similar to Grant Cover, but I'm easy on how the developers choose to work it.

For me, I love the early levels. Anything from about 1-35 is great fun. But after that, it starts to feel more of a slog to me. The XP smoothing has done a lot to combat this for me, but still I find it somehow less enjoyable then the early levels.

I'm in agreement with Sharker. It's not a bug, but an oversight of the player. Not a big deal, we've had to protect players from themselves before and we'll have to do it again (and by "we", I mean the Developers).

I would "counter" suggest that there be one small change. We can increase the number of charges, so that even if the player makes the mistake, they can still complete the mission and only have a face palm as punishment. That would be the easiest and (in my opinion) the best option for this. There's no need to go out of the way to alter the basic workings of the power with unused tech (making inactive until a specific mission is collected) or altering the mission in any way.

Heck, sell some of the lesser liked ones and watch the money come in. Or better yet, sell Booster Packs that contain NPC exclusive pieces that are found in these costume temp powers.

To be perfectly honest, I could actually support a form of "PvP Booster" where the funds go towards revamping / updating PvP. I personally have a hard time actually thinking about what kind of things could be placed into a PvP Booster that would generate enough funds without seriously redefining what the Booster Packs are about or making drastic changes to PvP that would have a negative impact to those who don't pick up the booster pack. That leaves me with precious little incentive to support a PvP Booster.

I could see some standardization among the first power of the secondaries. Every secondary set's first power is something the character can use solo. There's no exception to that. And that's a good thing in my eyes.

If they were to standardize the secondaries of defensive sets (for Brutes / Scrappers) so that the first power is relatively equal in usefulness, I would actually be fairly excited by that. It would help ensure the first power is less "forced" as it would likely be a power they would want to choose anyway. But really, that's about the only alteration I would make, and it's more about the order of powers gained in the secondaries then how many one can choose from.

It looks as though they are suggesting you can use a Power Choice to pick from this power pool which gives you an extra Enhancement Slot to put in a power.

I'm not really a fan of the idea, myself. I just don't really see it as needed.