Sigium

Myth: Flash Arrow on an MM will get you killed, because affected mobs will go straight for you.

Fact: Henchmen are an extension of yourself, and therefore, the main target.

My vote: Death animation by Origin.

You may all now throw spears at me and impale me on the nearest stake.

Personally, I wouldn't mind. Be prepared, however, for a throng of people telling you that 'playing in [zone] shouldn't be a requirement to get [loot]!'.

Umm... What?

Imagine you've got the Frostfire mission, so your team is just working their jolly butts away towards Mr. Freezy. They finally get there, but YOU die, so then what happens to them inside? Do they kill him, but just have to wait for you to step inside? No, that's moronic.

Does Frostfire become invulnerable until you're back in? Oh, goody good, you've just caused a teamwipe.

Is the team booted from the instance until YOU get back? Well, no, that just wouldn't make sense.

In short: This idea is rubbish.

Yes! Dual Pistols/Martial Art Assault! What shall we call it?

Oh, I know! Dumb!

But seriously, let's work on more Primaries first.

NO. N-O-O.

Losing exp is the thing that would make me tug my hair out and leave this game quicker than anything else. I hate the idea of backtracking in terms of exp.

Please, PLEASE hear me out! I'm not requesting a WoW-style system of Reputation!

Debt, in the world of Paragon City, is a joke. I don't mean to offend anyone when I say that, but between debt reduction, the fact it's not much of a punishment to begin with, and Patrol XP? Debt is no more frightening than an issue of MAD Magazine.

No, I'd like to suggest Reputation as a form of 'Debt' alternative... But what exactly IS reputation?

Reputation is how Paragon City perceives you. It is what distinguishes the good from the bad, the better from the worse, and the Heroic from the Average.

Reputation is a variable that your character will have based upon successful missions vs. defeats, and depending on how your reputation is, on a scale of -10 to 10, will determine how the city reacts to you. Every character will start out at 0 -- a neutral point in the Reputation.

Let's go through some examples...

You start a mission, but find that you die 10 times along the way. This will take 10 points off your reputation; if you were at 0, you're now at -10, and if you're at 10, you're now at 0. Let's say you finish the mission, and you gain 1 Reputation for completing it, so the net loss is -9.

Now, your contact notes this, and he/she's disappointed... This is Paragon City, darnit! You're not the only Hero running around looking to help them, and they're gonna see about other inquiries until you've got the proper reputation.

Now, let's say you've got -9... Your contact no longer wants to speak to you at your current level of reputation, nor do... Any contacts, for that matter! You're trapped, until you open up your contact list and find the scanner just aching for some action!

Therefore, you are able to raise your reputation via scanner missions, up to where your contact will take your help on further tasks, as you've 'redeemed' yourself. You go on with your life, and chalk that last mission of 10 defeats as a fluke, and you're off!

But wait, there's more!

Upon reaching a high-enough reputation, it will unlock contacts, depending on what zone you're in, and your level range! That's right... Say, you've done 9 successful missions without fault? The word's gonna spread, and more people are gonna want YOUR help! These people can offer SO much new content to the game for EVERY level group, and every zone!

This system would work for Heroes AND Villains, as you might've noticed, and I think would make the game a great deal better. I hope you'll consider Reputation, and see all it has to offer Paragon City.

It gives me warm fuzzies to be able to partake in wholesale slaughter.

My Fire/Fire Blaster just found a way to quicken the grind.

Yeah, there have been a few instances of the Witch Top causing a lot of commotion in the tailor, and even more in the community. Just goes to show that no matter what's taken out, SOMEONE will have some serious objections to it.

I don't really remember how I came to @Sigium.

My actual account name, Poyzinblud, was created about 7 - 8 years ago, when I was playing Phantasy Star Online, and Grandia 2. There was an attack; Poizon, in the game that I decided to use, but upped the ante and made it 'Poyzin'. After a bit more, 'Poyzin' became 'Poyzin Blood'. Not to be inconsistent, it became 'Poyzinblud'.

@Sigium, however? I think I was a junior in High School when I started really playing the game on a computer that could handle it. I remember I was just trying to pull a name out of my rear, and Knights of the Old Republic came into my head. There was a lightsaber crystal named 'Sigil'. I don't know how/why this popped into my head at that moment, but I wanted to edit it. Sigium... sounded a bit more flowing, and no one could pronounce it (See-jum). So, now it's my own, unique handle.

/signed

Honestly, I'd like to see an entirely-new color-choosing chart that would allow us to work with a color wheel, choosing not only level of greyscale, but either the exact color that's put up on the wheel, or to be able to type the HTML code into it to derive the chosen color.

Get well soon, by the way! That works with color blind people, doesn't it?

I'd love some more-accurate animal parts to work with. While I don't want CoH to drift somewhere into Furcadia, it would still be enthralling just to be able to have half of the Monstrous-like head options as the rival MMO.

This idea was built around a faulty premise; Controllers and MMs use pets in the same way.

This isn't the case, and by what I've read in the replies, it's been pretty torn to pieces.

This is a nice idea until you take into account Stone Armor, which is very bulky. Picture, if you will, someone punching at half the speed of light, with big ol' granite fists. It's not a thematic issue, but more of a 'this animation looks horrible' issue.

More customization for our character appearance? /signed.

More detail on the different sliders for our physical properties? /signed!

More options in the general character creator?! /SIGNED!

Devoting an issue to it? /meh.

So very yes.