Sigium

No, you shut up!

Recently I got a shiny, new Paragon Rewards token, which I celebrated with the Fire and Ice costume bit (the one with the awesome sword and Phoenix wings.)

What this set also came with (under the strange guise of "Robotic Arm 1") were three new arms; Fire, Ice and Crystal. I apologize if those names are not accurate, but that's the general theme of them. They're large, well-textured arms that have a sort of "blocky" look to them that goes excellently with the set- the Crystal arm, in particular, is fantastic.

However, the Crystal arm also comes with a large piece on the shoulder. This was fine until I was trying to decide shoulders of my own and realized that they were still symmetrical and if I were to put anything on it at all, it would cause some major clipping issues. Not fun, but I can deal.

My question is, to my lovely devs... What is the technical limitation that's preventing making our Costume Creator (easily CoH's biggest asset) asymmetrical?

This isn't some guy trying to express dissatisfaction with free VIP rewards, or blaming the devs that they can't do anything right and eat ponies under the light of a full moon- this is an actual question at this point.

So many resources have been funneled into the Costume Creator that it seems a bit strange, after almost 23 issues passing and close to 8 years in the making, that we're still limited by making symmetrical costumes, when in fact, having the option of asymmetry would be such an improvement.

So, an honest question, posed with an honest discussion: Devs, what is holding it back?
And to the rest of everyone- do you think this is important? Being able to select 2 different shoulders, gloves and boots? Or do you find it not too terribly big of a deal?

Thanks for reading. Have a good day.

I'd pay between 400-800 PPs for some fresh animation on an older powerset.

Money talks- I think the Paragon Market really paints the community into a place of participation where they can voice their desires with their cold, plastic credit cards.

/psyched

If I could only transfer all my badges to a new toon, I'd make me a new Staff/Willpower main.

Sigh- I'll make do without my shineys.

That last power idea needs some work- no way in hell should someone else's character have to be drained of endurance without their permission/use of a nuke.

Beyond that? It looks a lot like Widow Training and is Leadership turned into a full-fledged powerset.

Sorry, friend, but I can't quite get behind the idea.

Villains will always be lacking when compared to Heroes- CoV was much akin to a large expansion pack... Granted, with plenty of new, fun stuff to do, an expansion pack, nonetheless.

The zones are what drive people away more than anything- not only are there so fewer zones, but they all blur the line between City and Hazard zones, making it difficult to get accustomed to. Not to mention the dingyness?

Villain ATs are another issue- before Alignment, they had ill-defined roles that most people couldn't get a grasp on. Most people generally equated Brute = Tank, Stalker = Scrapper, Corruptor = Blaster/Defender, Dominator = Controller and Mastermind = ???

The Villain stories are also very lacking. For Heroes, it's good to do the right thing, but Villains most often feel they should be independent, rather than relying on contacts for their source of information, missions and goals. For a Villain, it feels very much like you're just helping a bigger fish along the stream and then have to fight back when it tries to eat you.

Of all the things I desperately want to see in CoH, the prospect of removing the RIDICULOUS effects of Super Speed remains close to the top.

/signed and /signed again.

I'd settle for a flypose emote that makes you look like you're steering an invisible jet.

I don't know if I should be proud, or ashamed of mine;

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While I'd agree that Mastermind pets could use some proliferation to a new archetype, I'd be cautious to just throw them in there.

Perhaps, if anything, a sort of Warlord Archetype would involve pets without making them the center focus- perhaps doing away with one of the buffs involved in the process in order to make room for more offensive capabilities unrelated to Henchmen.

Also, perhaps an Inherent that works like a reverse Supremacy; for whenever your Henchmen are near, you get a buff.

I can't be the only one laughing over someone who wants a free weekend on a game that's free to play.

Can I?

/meh.

No more unlocking costumes at 50 without any other recourse. Between Vanguard, Roman, Rularuu sets and a few others, I don't want to have my options limited through some of the best parts of a character- the leveling phase.

/signed for a Tech/Natural option for Controllers.

/unsigned for a lot of what's presented here. As good as the ideas may be, a lot of what's posted here could use some serious refinement before it goes out into the happy, happy world.

Edit: Also, Dominator Assault sets focus on a mixture of Melee/Ranged and maybe a buff thrown in. Beam Rifle would not be an acceptable cut-and-paste substitute for an Assault.

/unsigned for PvP-only.

/signed to make it more... compact.

I realize that, due to size issues of character models, the ice armor is a sort of one-size-fits-all, but if they could find something that makes it feel more like a sheath over the player rather than replacing them with polygons, I'd LOVE it.