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It'd be really interesting to go all-in on this idea - give them a toggle or perm-able click status protection toggle and some shields, while you're at it! If we're not going to get the oft-suggested "Commander AT", then something like this could be quite novel...

For me, the reason to choose any AT, (besides their obvious connection to what powers they have access to), is what *I* want to focus on. To that end, I've been leveling up a marine/dark defender, in order to maximize the buff/debuff values, while also giving me a few solid direct attacks to fall back on. The highest values for other such powers, like the leadership ones, is a nice boon as well!

It's also, in my experience, no worse than SB or ID, which are far more "spammable"...

Hide your cat/schoolgirls!

I mean, using someone's likeness without them or their estate's permission definitely seems wrong to me. That being said, I could even see that extending to only the person themselves, as you may get situations where the current owner/holder of said estate may hold positions ideologically opposed to the deceased person, and could use their likeness to have them endorse things they wouldn't while they were alive...

IMHO, a lot comes down to how you perceive the purpose of powersets - what is AR or DP without their actual weapons? When we distill what is being asked for, down to it's most fundamental component, is what you want a blast set that deals lethal damage? What is one actually asking for, when they say they want "AR without the AR"?

A simple mini-arc could center around Council or 5th Column staging recruitment drives around the Universities, (this initial group wouldn't be targetable, using the excuse that technically they're just petitioning/holding a rally), and heroes trying to find evidence of actual direct wrongdoing, so they can actually take them down. As a bonus, allow vigilantes to just attack them outright, but then having to face repercussions from it technically being an extra-legal attack - maybe that vigilante has to face some ambushes or perhaps even avoid some hostile PPD. A rogue could instead try to tempt the college kids with something "better" or "more fun" than would be had by falling in with some fascists. Conversely, the villain version could have Arachnos doing the petitioning/holding the rally, and our characters simply choosing to aid them in recruiting or dissuading students, (again with relevant repercussions).

Don't universities usually start, at least in the US, in August, though? AFAIK, it's generally grade-schools that start back up in September...

I'd just love some "hard-light-construct" weapon models!

I got kind of burned out on all the high fantasy MMOs that came out around the time CoH came out, and it was nice to be able to look however I wanted, instead of having to look like whatever my gear dictated. Besides that, CoH is very solo-friendly for an MMO, so I can play at weird hours and still make at least some progress if I can't find a team...

This just demonstrates your lack of imagination; Not only could/does technology currently facilitate the growth of plants IRL, but in a world of AI and nanotech, it isn't much of a stretch to imagine some sort of device that spontaneously generates plants and/or uses some sort of existing plant stock to rapidly cause them to grow and in a specific direction/location and with specific properties...

Here's another I think came out rather nicely - The DB/Nin Scrapper, "Dead-Vine":

I have to wonder, when I see suggestions like this, what the OP envisions their proposed set would look like; In this case, when @Solok says "Magic", do they mean something like a stereotypical D&D mage, with a magic missile, fireball, lightning bolt, and other such signature abilities. or are they picturing some kind of vague blasts with runes, pictograms, or other such "magical symbols" floating about...

This feels like a trap. Is this a set-up? Are we being punk'd?

Could it be that some have prompt for tp on?

I'd drop the extra end cost but keep the amount refunded, (though in the latter case I'd do it based upon their total remaining HP).

We can already make our own characters as "slooty" as we want, regardless of whether they use the male, female, or huge body types. If someone's behavior goes beyond what is acceptable, then they should be acted upon by a GM or mod, whether that is a female MM beating their male minions, or a male MM doing such things to their female ones, (should customization be available at some point). Frankly, as much as I love CoH, the costume designs the O.G. devs implemented are very... lacking, in some areas, IMHO, so more customization options would be very welcome.

Oh I have no issues with YOU, personally - just your bad ideas. Yes, I've seen the movie. The gore and gratuitous violence are part of the absurdity of the entire movie. That being said, you mentioned "gratuitous violence", not gore. Now, go fight some enemies and tell me that you weren't guilty of just a little overkill... ** kills some low-level thug with a fireball, by crushing them to death with the very force of gravity, and so on **

If you have a problem with this, how do you ever level up a character?

But that's too slow for them!!!!

Except that isn't applicable in-game. You want to move more slowly - then do so - just don't full speed directly to your target. I have zero issues positioning at base speed, with sprint on, with any other travel power on. *You* just need to adapt, but you seemingly refuse to do so. Walk is too slow, and normal run is too fast for you. Even if they added a new "stroll" power that's in-between the 2, it still wouldn't be enough...

Then *only* fly or teleport where you need to go. RP your slow walking speed outside of combat using walk. If you're ok with flying or teleporting, then please don't talk about the world being small because of the fast run speed...

Kickass can run. In fact, because his nerves are damaged, he can probably run faster and longer than a normal human. If running around is too much for your character, then I hope they either have another means of getting around, (in which case use that instead of walking), or they simply cannot contribute meaningfully since they cannot get anywhere in a timely manner...

Then use walk. Are you just as opposed to surviving multiple point-blank gunshots, or is your desire for realism just selective?

What about... Zoidberg!!?