MA Critter Improvements

A few random things that would be nice for Custom Critters to have access to or changed, in no particular order. I suspect some of these might not be possible, but I don't know which would be. So, might as well throw them all out there.


1) Able to set various "flags" for critters. You know, stuff like robotic, ghost, fae, clockwork, etc. All the various flags in the game that causes some powers to have additional/different behavior with the critter. This way, we can have our custom robots actually take damage from EM Pulse like the normal robots do, for example.

2) Access to the zombie movement. It'd be nice if I could make my zombies lumber and shamble like zombies instead of rushing the players with perfect posture. I "think" there's other movement animations too humanoid mobs get, but none come to mind at the moment.

3) Allow custom critters to take one power pool and/or one APP/PPP. We can already give them Fly, but this would let us also give them Hover, Air Superiority, and Group Fly if we so chose. Or any other travel power. Or really, lots of other powers too. I put the limit of one simply because that seems to be the most we'd get for whatever reasons.

4) Let us choose what ranged attack melee sets get, or skip it if their other powerset is a ranged one. It's very annoying that my Assault Rifle/Martial Arts military soldiers are running around tossing shuriken when they have a gun. Or another example, if I decided to be egotistical and made one of my toons, let's say a Katana/Invuln/Darkness Scrapper, into an AV to beat around players, I'd like to be able to give him a dark blast to match his APP instead of a shuriken (assuming we don't get APP/PPPs down the road to begin with).

5) Can we get Mending Mitos back please? I know people farmed them like mad, but that's not why I want them. I don't care if they come back with zero rewards, I was using them, along with the other Mitos for a particular mission to create a Hami-esque battle with an AV. That's no longer possible and I can't finish that arc, at least not in the way I envisioned. I'm sure I'm not the only one who was using them in a legitimate fashion either.

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1) Able to set various "flags" for critters. You know, stuff like robotic, ghost, fae, clockwork, etc. All the various flags in the game that causes some powers to have additional/different behavior with the critter. This way, we can have our custom robots actually take damage from EM Pulse like the normal robots do, for example.

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While it would be nice to have, I'm not sure if it'll happen. On one hand, it's essentially picking weaknesses, and could be abused. On the other hand, you can already do that anyway with normal NPCs in the MA...

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4) Let us choose what ranged attack melee sets get, or skip it if their other powerset is a ranged one. It's very annoying that my Assault Rifle/Martial Arts military soldiers are running around tossing shuriken when they have a gun. Or another example, if I decided to be egotistical and made one of my toons, let's say a Katana/Invuln/Darkness Scrapper, into an AV to beat around players, I'd like to be able to give him a dark blast to match his APP instead of a shuriken (assuming we don't get APP/PPPs down the road to begin with).

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Yes plz. I've got what amount to secret agents (MA/SR) that should be using Throwing Daggers by design.

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5) Can we get Mending Mitos back please? I know people farmed them like mad, but that's not why I want them. I don't care if they come back with zero rewards, I was using them, along with the other Mitos for a particular mission to create a Hami-esque battle with an AV. That's no longer possible and I can't finish that arc, at least not in the way I envisioned. I'm sure I'm not the only one who was using them in a legitimate fashion either.

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While there is no assured timeline, once the Devs can rework them to either give no XP or make their powers work correctly, they'll be put back in, AFAIK.