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You can fight Battalion right now. He's a Hellion boss in a low level blueside mission. EDIT: More seriously, I would not hold my breath. From the developer's point of view, there is no point to publicly committing to that until they have something they're happy with at least 90% coded. Because you know the moment they publicly commit to it, the forums will go wild with thread after thread asking "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? How much longer? Are we there yet?". I don't want the devs to have to pull the City over and turn it around and go home because we over-nagged them.

This is among the reasons I wish incarnate powers had never been enabled outside of iTrials / arcs / missions specifically designed as incarnate content. But who knows. Perhaps the Law of Unintended Consequences says that if I were to ever get my wish, it would make other aspects of build-demand even more widespread. Either way, I'm unlikely to ever find out.

Perfectly fair of you to make the request. I am not personally in favor of the proposal, but who knows, maybe the devs will be open to it.

But maybe I want a Roht, God of Hammers.

Name it "Throw Weapons". Don't marry the powerset name to the look of shurikens. Even if it starts out with just shurikens, we want to leave the door open for the possibility of throwing knives, throwing axes, throwing hammers, etc. I mean, Electric armor and a throwing hammer has potential for a God of Hammers sentinel.

To what purpose? Just to have him standing around? Good, bad, or indifferent, if we see someone take up the mantle of Stateman again, I'm pretty sure it will be the other Marcus Cole. And sadly, I don't mean the Babylon 5 Ranger. I mean Tyrant.

Any changes now, would be a massive boost to people who already have tons of resources, and massive screw job to anyone new. So. Being mindful of that, I think the only way to make content truly scarce / rare, AND make it fair, is to forcibly reset all characters to lvl 1, remove all enhancements from all existing characters, remove all influence from all characters, remove all items and influence from all emails, and prevent AE from being a source of influence or drops at all. .... and then, when we no longer have any players whatsoever, there will be a fresh, pristine economy, glistening like white snow in the morning. /sarc, in case you missed it.

I mean, Galaxy City is in the middle of downtown. I could see them rebuild that (at least start to) before Baumtaun. Although I will admit, I've wanted to see more progress on Boomtown rebuilding for ... a raelly long time now.

It is my favorite Blaster secondary. Though I have a tendancy to mispell it as Marital Combat, which sort of recalls "Mr & Mrs. Smith"

There's nothing wrong with asking. But.... yea, I would not hold my breath on this one. Inventing a new Archtype means inventing a new inherent. Carefully curating several powerset combinations to find viable options. Trying to find some niche for the new AT to thrive in, and frankly, we already have trouble giving each of the 4 exisitng melee sets their own niche (Tanker, Brute, Scrapper, Stalker). All things are possible, and maybe the devs will consider this an intruiging challenge. But I don't consider it likely.

I wouldn't. For one thing, I don't need a whole bunch of new shinies. I'm quite pleased with where CoH is at right now. For another, I think the dev team is quite capable of deciding for themselves when, how, and if to add more members. Besides, there is often truth in "the more people you add to the project, the longer it takes."

In 5 to 10 years time, I think this might be true. Right now, a whole lot of software firms are certainly hoping they can replace all their programmers with AI. And they're being disappointed, often. For anything but the simplest of functions, the code produced often needs just as many hours of manual review and manual corrections before it can be inserted into the codebase of a larger product. Still. It is the kind of thing that leaves me very glad I'm within arm's reach of retirement. I would not want to be a fresh-out-of-college programmer right now.

That said, Mind Control has a Mag 3 Non-Aggroing Confuse. Slotted for Range and Duration, I can cast it, again and again, and again, on various targets until it kicks in, and then I have Free Hits on said target until it hits the floor. (provided I refresh the Confuse on cooldown). Purple Triangles are still always going to feel intensely personal since Controller is my favorite archtype. But [Shivan Shard]. Don't leave home without it.

It will probably require some of the alternate animations to have longer apparent "aiming" time, because primary and alternate animations need to have idential animation times. Still. I'd gladly take a more "professional" point-and-shoot animation for each power. The wild flailing is .... not my cup of tea. I also currently have zero Dual Pistols characters because I cannot get past it. But, those who like current animations should be allowed to keep them.

About 50/50 for my goldsiders. A lot of it comes down to backstory and the personality I invented for each such character. Some simply want to make as much of a goal-line stand as is possible. Some have leftover issues to deal with before they'd be willing to hop worlds. Others take the charge to make allies on Primal Earth deadly serious and go at 20. Others just see the chance of a world that hasn't been overrun by the Devouring Earth, hop through the portal and Never look back. My used-to-be Praetorian Archery blaster far prefers the good life at the St. Martial casinos.

During my entire career, I never considered any "suggestion box" to be anonymous. Even those that nominally are. At most, it's a fig leaf of anonymity. Leaving out identification by handwriting (we'll assume everyone uses a deskjet printer or the like), in a work environment, it's often not that hard to figure out who made a certain suggestion just by the topic itself. (people rarely suggest something that they have never mentioned to any other co-worker, and grapevines abound at workplaces) the phrasing. people write in a particular way. I've had coworkers come across code comments in programs I haven't touched in 22 years, and they immediately know "Teague wrote that." and they're right. Just because of phraseology. work computers are all company property, and if anyone really, really, ticked someone off, I'm sure there are those with the skill to backtrack exactly which device sent something to which printers at which hours, and figure out where the suggestions came from. Now, most managers probably don't want to go to major extremes to figure these things out. But I never once put any suggestion in any question box until my mortgage was 100% paid off and I was debt-free.

Perhaps the devs will go for this, perhaps not. I do feel that Enhancement Converters / Converter Roulette is already a pretty good workaround.

I like this idea, and would be glad to see it done. As a workaround, what I've done is anytime I modify my power colors, or even a costume, I click the "Save" button to create a copy of them I can load up later. It is a pain, and I would far, FAR rather have a lock button of the type you suggest. But saving a power customization set, or saving the look of a costume, can allow you to at least restore them later if you should goof up.

people survived for years and years before KB2KD options even existed. The idea of "KB tax" is 100% entirely self-inflicted.

Seconded. I'd also like a $PetName one. You can $Target on a pet but that only gives it's kind ("Thug", "Howler Wolf", "Genin"), not it's name.

Interpretive Dance is clearly supposed to be a Support set, so we can have a +DEF,+RES "Safety Dance" power.

jranger was the forum name of someone on live who was... a veritable font of ... creativity unconstrained by wisdom, I think is the nice way to say it.

For what it's worth, there are a number of player-created Story Arcs in AE that expand on Praetorian content. @Darmian in particular has some great ones. No, that's not quite the same as what you're asking, but they're very much worth a playthrough.

I have eleven goldsiders and I really enjoy those story arcs. But I plan to solo each character there, for at least the 1-20. I would not be opposed to joining a team for those, but the very first thing I would do is set it to "No Xp" for my character. I want to finish ALL of the story arcs that I think make sense for that character, giving the personality and backstory I created for each one. If that meant my teammate rapidly outlevelled me, then I would wish them well if they wanted to continue without me, but i am NOT outlevelling any story arcs there for anyone else.

I was very worried with how well my Ice Control/Cold Domination controller would fare in goldside 1-20. Now, I did sugar daddy him a Panacea proc, and 50 million from petty cash. But even without using the START vendor, he destroys things. Very nearly as fast as my brute. Largely that is on the power of Arctic Air confusing all the minions and lieutenants though, freeing him up to focus on the bosses. He definitely had an easier time in the early levels than my goldside Ice/Dark sentinel. For things I haven't done in forever... I've gone a full week without caffeine? It won't last mind you. But it's reassured me that I CAN in fact give it up, if I ever wish to.