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It would depend entirely upon who was offering and what they were offering.

It'd be cheaper for me, there's definitely things like emotes and travel powers and parts of costume sets that I haven't used and probably would not have bought in the booster pack bundles.

Quantum flight is supposed to give you a boost to flight speed, but doesn't because the flight speed cap is too low. I could see Afterburner's speed boost going in there.

I don't know how you'd give Warshades the extra teleport power without adding an extra option though.

There's a handful of rooms in office buildings that even just hover will be enough to get the attention of groups on the upper decks.

I try to remember to tell people to turn off hover in those rooms because of how often I've seen groups suddenly "overwhelmed" by those groups.

Thinking about flying simple non-descript, metallic, energy etc. disks, I realized that I don't need the "disk" to actually be disk shaped, it could be any number of shapes: rectangle, square, oval, triangle etc. With Triangle, the option to fly with one of the points in front as well as one of the sides/legs in front should be available as well. Ooh, just thought of this, "Vanguard" disk. I could see the Vanguard shield working as a flying platform.

Somebody upthread mentioned playing cards as an option, which made me think of Tarot cards.

The Vanguard Sigil(is the demon summon symbol on the ground the same?) that is used for costume changes, standing on that would be cool, in lieu of a rocketboard.

Along similar lines using pre-existing things, the Ouro portal symbol, the thing that is on the ground used to be solid, that could make for a cool looking platform to stand on. Though, not sure how a time travel portal would really work as a flying platform.

I'd suggest other players, but other devs have already overruled that particular idea.

A simple metallic disk would be cool. I know, it's a little "dull" but less work for the guys making stuff. Though, a high tech disk(with some tech texture/pattern on it w/ blinking lights) would be cool too.

A big rock or piece of cement/asphalt, maybe w/ a summon animation where you see it rise out of the earth. Maybe give it a trail/path type aura, so if somebody stayed near the ground you'd kick up a big-ish dust cloud too. This last bit so if somebody decided to always stay near the ground it could appear like an "earth control" type of travel power.

My thought is that the price per powerset should exceed the monthly stipend of Tier 9 players. So, over 550 points.

Seeing as the point of these powersets is to sell them, the costs should be enough over the monthly stipend that folks won't be too offput by the idea, but also enough that they make some amount of profit for the amount of work that went into making them. This should be balanced for cost versus player desire for them.

I'm not saying that something that everybody wants should be more expensive and that something that a very small amount of people want should be less expensive. Rather that there needs to be a middleground between the two points where the largest amount of people will agree that that the value of any new powerset is worth the price we end up paying.

The value of powersets should also exceed that of a bundle or set of costume parts because there's enough situations where someone can design something vaguely similar to new sets that we can circumvent buying new costumes to make a different character. But, ultimately, while the clothes can define a character, new powersets mean that an even greater number of characters can be created. The price list that somebody produced earlier, set the magic super booster at the assumed value of 400 points.

The reason why I mention the monthly stipend comes into play is:

If the cost per powerset is below the stipend then we won't be as motivated to spend money to bolster this new market system and there will be less reasons to make new characters and the game will die sooner. Whereas, if they cost too much, the same will occur. So, the trick is to find that magic number over the monthly stipend where the cost will exceed the monthly stipend, but not be so much as to deter people from buying them.

The other thing to consider is that we should have enough points leftover so that we will consider buying more points when the next set comes out. Which I believe we can safely assume will be in multiple 400point(or $5.00) increments.

So, at the very least, the cost needs to be between 600($7.50) to 800($10.00) points(assuming that the price will not exceed the number in the preview) to make sense from the point of view of somebody selling these items and point bundles.

Isn't Poison getting proliferated with issue 21? I could see a Fire/Poison corruptor working fairly well for a Hobgoblin-esque character. Granted, you might have to wait until Freedom launches. /traps and /devices from Corruptors/Defenders and Blasters would work fairly well too. Heck, now I'm getting a little jazzed about the idea and thinking that maybe I could wait until 21 for poison. Mmm, Dark attacks, yeah, also good.

I could almost see Dual Pistols working too, what with the ammo types and effects, not that people swap out to different types that often, but that's definitely an option if you wanted to have a bigger bag of tricks.