SailorET

Perhaps they were always there... and you just got OUT of AE!

I'm sorry, I missed the ads claiming this to be a MMOBG.

I usually don't troll, but that just called for it.

I agree wholeheartedly with this. I remember when I first started playing CoV, the new colors applied to the same old office tileset were a thing of beauty to me. The same thing happened with the old, "destroyed" look of the science lab set brought out in the revamped faultline (though technically a new tileset, it was really just a "variation on a theme"). Some minor color changes could revitalize the game for a while, just to see a new surprise like green caves or a red lab (maybe a red/black 5th column lab? I smell a new story arc).

For starters, none of us have seen the game's code ourselves, and BABs has stated in the past (often I believe, but my search-fu is weak tonight) directly that the game's engine simply isn't built like that. As I've gathered over the years from what the devs have put out to us, however, here's some issues with the OP's suggestions; I could be entirely incorrect, as I am not a developer.

1. Size-changing. Doable, yes, but why? Currently, if I have a Inv/SS tank toon who looks like a 3-ft tall female, and use the body-alteration costume change in the science pack to make her turn into a purple-skinned, max-height huge character, she does exactly the same amount of damage regardless of size. With that in mind, what exactly would size changing do to change the game? We don't really have mechanics in the game like Dragon Age where you need to shapechange into a mouse to go through a mouse hole and turn into a huge golem to smash through doors. Sure, the game's engine may support this, but what's the point?

2. Super-stretchy arms. When a power activates, the game goes through up to three different animations in sequence: The activation effect on the PC, followed by the power moving through the air/ground, followed by the power making contact with its target. The first and final parts of these animations (depending on which power is used) can scale based on the size of the target. That's why GMs that are held appear trapped in massive blocks of ice or stone, or humongous tendrils or vines. Now imagine using your "super-stretchy-slap" on one of them. Your character reaches out, and smacks the GM with a 15-foot tall hand. Let's not forget that your costume is built on your character, not your powers, so your 15-foot tall hand will not be wearing the gloves you had in the character creator, and (unless the powerset was developed with PC built-in, always on, and non-tweakable) that hand is not the same color as your toon's face. Not to mention the clipping issues when your target runs or TPs behind a wall as you fire off the attack, and you reach through the wall to hit him.

3. Web controllers. Exactly what powers would they have? OK, we've got an immob like web 'nade. Maybe a hold, but they would be hard-pressed to make it not look like web 'nade. And then what? Maybe spiders for pets? Now explain to me how you've made this something NOT like a lame version of a heroside SoA.

All told, these sets have varying degrees of difficulty in the game, but the hard fact is that there's not as much interest in them as sets like Dual Pistols, which was one of the top votes in the poll the devs took a year or so ago.

tl:dr version: It's supply and demand. There's little demand, so it will not be supplied.

Fire is the least resisted damage type in the game, of which AR has two separate attacks, both of which can be used to devastating effect when well slotted and used correctly (and I mostly slot common IOs).

Whenever I use it, FA rarely misses more than one or two mobs out of a group and usually gives me a warm fuzzy every time I use it on an 8-man team and see the "sea of orange". Unless you're trying to use it as a single-target attack, it's typically one of the most effective skills in the set and always delivers for me.

Of course, YMMV.

Inspiration trays full of purples? Or, in the immortal words of Falkor, "With luck!"

In that case, I'll make a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater and hunt all the top brass of the council.

They want this, but under the "I want it NAO!!" principle. Personally, I like how mission transporter works currently, though maybe the timer could be dropped to 1 hour. It's useful when it's up, but I'm used to running (or flying, jumping, teleporting) to missions the old fashioned way, and I just use MT if it's up and the mission is 3 zones away. It's nice on a TF.

Win.

-Publilius Syrus

Nuff said.

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