Sakura Tenshi

Well, I don't know how feasible some of these are but I'll try to keep it within what I think the devs might be able to do: Powers: Water and/or Kinetic Assault: I think this could be done with existing assets and some retextures. My big concern is actually that they'd be similar to one another that one would kind of exclude the other. Adjustments to Masterminds to improve viability in high end gameplay. Maybe another pass over Sentinels because Opportunity really doesn't feel that helpful in many situations. But this is my personal outlook and others might be able to say otherwise. Arsenal Mastery APP added to Stalkers, Scrappers, Tanks, and Brutes. Bonus idea: ranged attacks for Stalkers in AM would be with dual pistols, scrappers use Assault Rifle, and Brutes and tanks use shotguns. Prismatic Aether rewards: Embiggen! The opposite of the mini-mode, makes your character 50% or even 100% bigger than possible in the character creator. Incarnate system: New Judgements, Interfaces, and/or lore pet options. The former two could use some things that fill in missing damage types, also psionic interface's DoT is pretty weak, if I recall, as a penalty for being psionic. Judgement ideas could include: Photonic Judgement (call down a beam of light for energy damage. Kill sat effect. basically. Also Septic Judgement for toxic and Psionic Judgement) Something to do with loose incarnate threads and shards besides inspirations. Maybe we could cash them in for some prismatic aether particles or something? Costumes: Hoodie sweater top with shoulder options for it being down or using hood options to give it a hood. Also having open, closed, and pull-over variants. Varsity Letterman Jacket Leather loafer footwear, both clean and buckled variety. Skirts and kilts with monstrous legs Enemies: Expand on the level range of Legacy Chain so villains don't have to keep fighting CoT for high level magic origin foes. 'Human' boss for Skyraiders: just gonna plug this old idea Mission Architect: Rogue Paragon Police added to the critter list Adjustments to EXP/rewards distribution of custom critter powers. EAT/VEAT powers added Player bases: Sand and snow floor tiles and mounds Police vehicles

Golden roller, is that you?

You know what I mean: a human outside of a vehicle.

Scenes like this just seem increasingly silly to me as time goes on. I mean, yes, those are also Nemesis Automatons, but this also isn't the first or only of such things like this in the game.

not really infiltration, I think, more just restoring their numbers. I do find it odd that Rikti are a race if powerful psychics and the lost even use psionic conditioning, but we never hear about them influencing things via mind control.

I think the way Ouroboros operates is that they basically send you into a 'new' timeline where you make changes and basically 'save' and 'edit it in' later. So basically, out of thousands, potentially millions of runs through flashback TFs and and storyarcs, maybe a tiny percentage actually makes it into the main timelines we end up occupying. So that TF you abandoned because you kept faceplanting during that fight does not make the 'final cut' of history.

Randomly want to add something I've had an idea for in my head for years. Not sure how well the City of Heroes engine could handle such a thing, but the gist of it is a rather sizeable overhaul of how certain instanced mission maps play out. Offices were the main idea when I thought of this but I could see it working for some other map types like Arachnos and Longbow bases: Elevators/multiple floors are at the center of this. Namely elevators can now travel between all floors on a mission map. The caveat is that once you use it to get to a floor, the elevator is locked down until you clear all enemies on the floor (or perhaps find some security override, more on that later) But if you got the wrong floor once, there'd be other forms of getting between floors depending on the size of the mission map/number of floors. These would be things like fire-stairs, maintenance shafts, air ducts ("how does your max size minotaur fit in?" You figure that out!) and so on. Each time you use one though, that method also gets locked until you do the floor clear or security override. This would also mean bosses and other key objectives wouldn't always spawn in on the top floor (afterall, if this kind of thing happens a lot, it might make sense enemies holding up will act less predictably) Real pie-in-the-sky is that for these kinds of missions, there'd be two entrance doors, one at the ground level and another through the roof. Another aspect would be maps would now include sort additional paths and even 'bonus objectives' unrelated to the mission nature. One of these default bonus objectives would be security stations on each floor where you would be able to do things like shut down automated defenses, open up shutters/unlock doors/deactivate forcefields, maybe even get a helpful guide to your actual objectives. (like a chat message revealing the floor(s) they're on), and as mentioned, override lockdowns. (figure you can only have these Security stations do one action per-stationn/floor) Hallways might be blocked off by security shutters, forcefields, locking doors, and even makeshift barricades. Some of these you can slug it out and just smash through with your powers. Sometimes these barriers might not spawn in until you've completed a certain objective (like if you're kidnapping/rescuing a hostage), As mentioned above, turrets would be more common. Basic automated security systems to provide protection for a facility that you can shut down or claim them for yourself (not sure when or where that'd be appropriate) Lastly, for heroes these bonus objectives can be rescuing civilians not held hostage, but still trapped in a dangerous place or for villains, looting safes and other caches for a bit of personally appointed bonus pay.

Honestly, the fact that Perez Park's surrounding buildings seem in pretty good condition has honestly made me surprised it counts for a hazard zone. Part of why I even suggested that in twenty one years it'd become a normal zone was that, plus a lot of the gangs there both in canon and my own scenario would have become non-issues. Circle of Thorns were apparently massively weakened due to being disembodied souls and Mot basically feasting on them on breaking out during the DA arcs (might not be helped since it seems implied the empowerment of the Tsoo wasn't just their own ancestors but bonding Oranbegan souls too. But that's just my inference) Hydra and Lost would probably be getting rounded up with Rikti traditionalist and Midnighter aid. Vazhilok has been drawn away into Freakalok stuff combined with Vazhilok having been vanquished back in a level 15 or so arc and the Posi TF. Clockwork aggression may have a drop-off due to the events of the Signature Story Arc 2 and Penny having a talk to with CK (possibly getting help) Now outside of those canon things, my headcanon adds: Hellions would have largely disintegrated into smaller, independent gang cells due to loss of faith in leadership (which might also lead to said leadership, if still around, trying to purge them back into line) Skulls seem to be moving onto bigger things, though given the Petrovich siblings apparently grew up there, they might retain a presence as one of the few original gangs. But also the devastation of Skyway city and possibly Steel Canyon in my own timeline would basically prove to be far more appealing places for small gangs to migrate to.

Storywise, I do agree: thugs should be thugs. But this is a situation where gameplay and lore might always find themselves at odds. It'd be a bit unfair to make someone who views their character as 'street level' only allowed to run actual and appropriate content via ouroboros or push them into fighting the same cosmic threats as all the cosmic tier metas. But let's also not forget that this debate was kind of settled back on live in a lot of ways with Freakshow who, cybernetics or not, are really just thugs, still being threats from levels 20 to 50, even in the old City of Villains teaser trailer, the Freedom Phalanx was struggling against Freaks. But then you have other examples in game with the Family having been pushed up to level 50 before the game shuttered, even Skulls were implied to be a growing threat (and why not? Superadyne apparently can do a heck of a lot more than just make someone strong like the Trolls, in lore it's part of how dimensional travel was figured out. It basically seems like a synthetic well of furies in many ways) which seems to be how things are panning out over on the beta server. And in the end, whether something is a 'street thug' or a 'cosmic threat' seems more about how they're written in the grand scheme. In Star Wars: The Old Republic, force users are supposed to be fearsome and powerful opponents in the setting, but of non-force user classes, only the Imperial Agent truly gives the sense of frustrating helplessness and the catharsis of overcoming such opponents, and that's strictly in their class story. Side quests can then treat force users as little more than common mooks for anyone to mow through like B1s from the prequels.

I mean it’s kind of a loaded question since it would depend a bit on how things would have shaken out in the storyline. Like The Coming Storm could have flattened Paragon into an Atlantic-filled Crater (or some side effect of said attack). Or it could have basically been turned into some exclusionary zone like First Ward because I think any actual government would see the BS constantly coming out of Paragon and just write the damn city off. Especially with an eldritch god sleeping underneath. That and there’s also the headache of “you mean lorewise or actual in-game?” But setting it aside I guess for just how I’d imagine updating Paragon based on the times: in general you’d see more modern tech around. Computers, tvs, cars (which were honestly dated looking back at launch) Several buildings and roads might have received an update due to the combined Rikti bombings, Praetorian invasion, Mot assault, and Coming Storm. (I also imagine this could have led to several war walls being irreparably damaged and either replaced with a new system or just parts of the city opened back up) Per-above, this could have resulted in heavy shifts in population centers, I imagine Atlas would remain largely the same due to how heavily defended it is, but formerly disastrous areas which, for that reason saw little aggression in those events, were would become rapidly gentrified. So Overbrook, Baumtown, Perez Park, and even Eastgate Park might have been reinhabited and efforts made to rebuild/refurbish them. Terra Volta may have been retired and decommissioned for similar reasons as the above leaving Paragon, at least for a time, precariously dependent on either outside power sources or the Overbrook Dam for energy. With the extrication of Pandora’s Box, the Zig may have also been decommissioned and a new prison might be set up elsewhere. Further adding Brickstown to a gentrified area of the city. With all this, and as these disasters were not always localized and the demand for laborers and so forth could result in an immigrant population influx creating or expanding many minority communities such as Chinatowns and the like. This would have the double-edged sword of possibly resulting in new Ethno-crime syndicates as well due to inevitable tensions that would rise in communities. Whether natural or deliberately provoked via villainous agents. Speaking of crime, I imagine there’d be a heavy reshuffling of many gangs throughout Paragon due to a mix of attrition, new communities pushing out old ones, and just changing leadership and even mergers like we see in Freakalok. Some would remain like Nemesis, Council, and such who are international threats. But I could see others vanish like Hellions (how many even know who their leadership is?) Tsoo and Circle of Thorns (too many members lost in Dark Astoria and leadership changing), Sky Raiders (loss of faith of leadership, too many losses, goldbrickers possibly making better offers), and more.

Basically a random thought exercise I enjoy asking: if your characters had a patron pool powers associated with them, what would it look like? What would be its themes? What do you imagine players would be put through to unlock it (patron arc). Feel free to be as detailed or broad as you want. One of my characters from Live was related to cosmic horror, so I had the idea they would have an Eldritch Mastery pool which would involve lots of dark, psionic, and toxic damage and the unlock arc basically involves reassembling scattered pages of an eldritch tome to learn from its secrets. One of my current characters, Gaia Redeemer, despite being Titan Weapons/Willpower brute, is, as his name implies, basically pacted to the spirit of the Earth and thus would teach Sylvan Mastery which would include a number of plant, earth, and a bit of water and weather effects and an arc involving undergoing trials to reach the heart of Agartha.

Basically, it'd be more accurate to say the limit of the cottage rule would be that build up would have to still provide damage and tohit buff still, but it could also create a nice cottage at your feet.

I'm really not sure this is a thread to talk about requesting new costume pieces from NPCs and might be better to stay on topic with feedback options. But I will say: @The Volt It annoys me so dang much that when Going Rogue launched, a pre-order bonus was 'PPD gauntlets' and instead of those hefty, giant force gauntlets we see on PPD, TEST, and DUST, we got those dumb, anemic things that barely qualified for skidplates on the forearms. Also, I think it'd be the IDF leg pouches that would be seen as having clipping issues (due to being unable to scale, maybe? I do know it would theoretically be available to male and female as twinshot has them), the full chestpiece that covers the whole upperbody would clip, but honestly, I fail to see an issue since the way large pieces like that work is because they basically clip through the whole torso with the arms and head sticking out. I get the implication is it clipping with back and shoulder pieces, and to be blunt, I still fail to see an issue when plenty of pieces already do that sort of thing.

While I disagree on some specific details, I still love this purely on the grounds of the thought you put in and my fondness of Tarot Motifs. But I do feel dumb because when you mentioned “who else?” For Emperor, I thought how it fits either Tyrant or Nemesis.

To be as constructive as an emotional neanderthal like myself can be, I do sort of understand what they're getting at, though as someone who didn't really test out the Controller changes or even really play controller at all, I speak purely from an armchair developer point of view. I can recall faintly of some of my experiences playing control focused ATs and I'll start by saying what I do remember of them was anticlimactic and unrewarding. Solo or in teams, I rarely felt like my lockdowns meant anything against crowds or most AVs, the only times I enjoyed being a controller is using illusion or gravity control, which many might notice feels more direct damage oriented and sort of contrary to the typical controller playstyle. Especially solo, even with a pet, combat feels dragged out on about any difficulty, and I respecially recall frustrating playing redside where Arachnos and some other enemies, have hold resist on lieutenants and minions, which feels like a Jack Emmert balancing method to have extremely discouraging solo experience to encourage teaming (where you just become a mediocore damage dealer). This is sadly natural for any game focused around combat as the objectives tend to always boil down to 'defeat x enemy' not 'mez x enemy for y duration', so I will also add I do not see this as an issue necessarily with this update or even unique to City of Heroes. Where Controllers do, at least hypothetically, excel would be in the same place as stalkers in priority target elimination, namely when that target has an HP threshold power, so specifically Fake Nemesis, Paragon Protectors, Council Ascendants, Master Illusionists, and various ghost enemies. So, if I were to make my own proposal, it'd be one that wouldn't really be easy to implement, but part of rewarding control-focused characters should look into that last example of being able to effectively cancel out things you normally can't easily DPS around. This might mean certain otherwise passive abilities in enemies could be made into something that control powers suppress, an example could be the Ghoul AoE heal on death so you can block their ability to heal their comrades and let damage do what it does best/not set back a solo player. This could even apply to portions of an enemy's survival powers like defense (I mean there's really no reason someone encased in stone should still be able to dodge anyway) and even resistances. On a more extreme end, I've also had a suggestion that being able to stack up a certain duration of control on enemies should qualify for an instant defeat of said enemy. The logic being that in media, and honestly real life, when someone is knocked out in the way control powers do, it tends to be game-over. They're helpless and dragged off with even big heroes like Batman end up susceptible to knock-out gas or fear toxins* and awakened elsewhere in some death trap or another. So similarly, it could be made that enemies of certain ranks are just fully 'defeated' if they're locked down for a certain duration, whether it's from stacking an effect or just overpowering. To give kind of an example in my head: Minions and Underlings are auto-defeated if they are held, confused, or afraid and one of those effects would last for over 30 seconds, and similarly are defeated if they are put under stun or sleep or sleep effects which would last 1 minute on them. And from here, further ranks would need longer durations to be stacked before the game would effectively say "yeah, they're defeated" until maybe EBs but definitely AVs where things work as they do now. So, that's kind of my thoughts and it largely just covers controls since I feel that's probably the biggest issue in my opinion. I can't say how well I explained this but hopefully it provides some insight and ideas. *Purely a tangent, but when three of Batman's biggest enemies (Scarecrow, Joker, Poison Ivy) all make use of inhaled toxins as a mainstay of their arsenal, you'd really think Batman would think to make a gas mask standard part of his costume.

Honestly, as limitations go, I just wish we could have gotten Snakes, but I think Colbalt mentioned they are far from the same thing as a Disc Jockey. (I mean, fair enough. Disc Jockeys seem to just be dudes with their legs replaced with the disc and a hover power). Now what I will say is that I'd love for something like Scirocco's skirt and maybe eyebrows to be made available to players seeing as the dude's unique enough that he could part with those and still be unique.* Also still holding out for an Embiggen particle effect. *Still so annoyed the live devs reused Scirocco's sword model for the Talons of Vengeance. It's like, that sword is supposed to be a VERY specific thing in the game and now just any angry snake lady can have it.

Sorry, I can't hear you over my Titan Weapons brute who has been able to smack people in AoEs since level 1.

Personally, I feel a bigger drag in the mid-20s to late-30s game myself because the arcs tend to be a lot older around that range but they did update Striga among other things, and I’d prefer that solved with zone revamps than whole new ones (albeit that is kind of the same deal. I just think some of the new buildings would look nice in Other zones). That said, I’m kind of relieved they don’t seem to be going so hard in on the coming storm stuff. I also am a bit confounded with some of the rants people are going on about? I mean, if they wanted the game to go a certain way, maybe ask to join the volunteer dev team or at least sign up for closed beta and give your thoughts and critiques. They won’t always be heard (like my pleas for sand and snow base tiles and less enemies with fat Smash/lethal resists) but it’s not sitting on the bleachers and shouting at the teams when you realize it’s a basketball game and not a football game.

Necro'ing my own thread because I thought of a few other power ideas that popped into my head: Controller (and possible Dominator) power change Controller* primary and secondary powers no longer require line of sight. The idea of this is largely just how in media, fighting controller type characters tends to be portrayed as much a fight against the whole environment and a trial to discern the source of the attacks. *I consider also Dominators getting the same benefit, but with the way their secondaries work, the idea of hanging back/hiding behind scenery and targeting through teammates feels a bit antithetical to intended playstyle. If nothing else, because half of a Dom's assault powers are Melee. Though if LoS requirement was dropped even for melee, could lead to funny scenarios where Doms smack someone through a door. Controller and Dominator pet idea: pets buffing/debuffing Just a random idea where I thought about control pets also providing a buff to their summoner during uptime or applying decent debuffs to weaken enemy attack functions. Stuff like Tri-cannon Gatling Gun applies a decently strong AoE -tohit and -recharge debuff through its covering fire Golem grants a straight resistance buff to its summoner Jack Frost boosts a summoner's defense Really, these ideas are ones I know are incredibly dumb/bad, but they popped into my head and wouldn't leave me alone.

I dig it. To be honest I always thought it was a cop out how higher level vazhilok are supposed to be using the parts of metahumans and not only are Eidolons the only ones with powers, it’s all just radiation and dark powers.

Basically sharing a few ideas I think would be fun additions to mobs, off the top of my head, the anniversary Rikti invasions have made me feel the Rikti could use some sprucing up especially, so here's a few ideas for some additions. Per-usual, I realize programming isn't easy, so I don't really expect or foresee these ever being implemented, but figured I'd throw the ideas out there. Rikti Rikti Chief Soldier: To increase the lethality of Rikti Chief soldiers, I suggest giving them a few Titan weapon attacks, possibly a version where they always have momentum. Specifically giving them a Rikti blade version of Defensive Sweep Followthrough Rend Armor Whirling Smash New Critter: Initiate Gunner: A minion tier Rikti soldier dual wielding plasma pistols because that's always a cool look. Figure their animations would be based more off Resistance Officer's than the player dual pistols set. So they'd probably have the normal rikti gun effects for Snap Shots Aimed Shot Fusillade New Critter: Chief Gunner: Rather than be a boss tier version of a normal Headman gunner, this is instead a Sniper added to the Rikti Ranks, largely a recolor of the Rikti headman Gunner but possessing modified Beam Rifle powers. Penetrating Ray Piercing Beam Cutting Beam Teleport New Critter: Rikti Inquisitor: A rare Lieutenant tier spawn meant to represent some of the more subversive styles of the Rikti, and also just exist because of psi-melee. But lore idea would be that they're 'militant arms' of Rikti Priests. Hide Placate Psi blade Psi blade Sweep Assassin's Psi Blade (uses fast animation but only does from hidden) Great Psi Blade New Critter: Rikti Gunship: A new GM that could spawn for zone events of even in Mothership Raids, this would basically be a shrunk down Dropship with some recoloring and different set of powers designed to swoop in and provide close ground support to Rikti infantry with Swarm Missile Fusion Pulse Fusion Overload Designate Target (Basically Surveillance but also applies a strong taunt aura to the target) Freakshow For being anarchists forced to largely improvise their equipment, they're surprisingly uniform. Well let's change that a little, shall we? New Critters: Pyro Freak: Sometimes a Hellion 'grows up' and joins the Freakshow, sometimes freaks just feel like shooting bolts of electricity warms them enough. And sometimes they just made do with gas station parts. Either way, from Minion tier to the tank bosses, heroes and villains alike contend with these guys. Flamethrower Ignite Oil Slick (Boss only) Dual Flamers (Lieutenant and boss only, uses the 'two arm thrust' stance of some powers) Incendiary Grenade (boss only, more like molotov cocktail power than normal grande) Up in Flames (Their self-res power that also has a chance to instead result in them exploding in a fireball) New Critters: PraeTank: With all the new Praetorian tech coming in, it's only a matter of time before Freakshow started to make use of what they could capture, further aided by Resistance tech being geared towards being readily homemade. This boss and elite boss tier freak has managed to capture and implement some of the best for their destructive designs. Power Punch Bone Smasher (both taken from Energy melee/Resistance Heavy Hands) Plasma Vortex (Taken from IDF but in this case it'd use Resistance gauntlet coloration) AP Round (Fires from a mounted Resistance Heavy Barrel gun strapped to one shoulder) EMP Rockets (On another shoulder, half of a IDF Heavy Trooper rocket pod is strapped on and shoots out rockets) Drone-apult (Another targetted AoE that involves the PraeTank, unable to get the battle orbs to work, instead just straps them with explosives and launches them at enemies) New Critter: Cannon Tank: Seemingly a bit redundant, while most tanks prefer to cause melee mayhem or use their augments to unleash electrical blasts, cannon tanks have opted to live up more to the 'tank' term and load up on heavy ballistics. To their arms they've strapped Council/Longbow/Fifth Column/Crey/etc. Miniguns, but in addition have another set of miniguns from PPD shells strappe to their arms, and modified plasma guns of IDF heavy commanders (that now use conventional bullets) to strapped to their shoulders and a pair of resistant Heavy Barrel cannons to top things off. Minigun Burst (short, ST burst of minigun fire from one arm) Minigun Heavy Burst (Longer cone AoE fired from two arms) HE shot (Targeted AoE fire from the Heavy Barrel Cannons) Minigun Suppression (Long animation cone of minigun fire that knocks down and can reduce recharge and tohit) All-out Fire (A wide 'line' AoE that just has the tank hose down everything in front of them in automatic weapon and heavy cannon fire. Possible gag bonus would be this attack actually being able to kill other Freaks just because they care that little where they're shooting.) Malta New Critter: PsiOperatve: A common misconception is that Malta hates metahumans, which is simply untrue, what they want is all metahumans to submit to service of non-meta federal control. Thus, a cadre of psychics have been conscripted into their ranks using a modified version of Fortunata conditioning and even Seer Network mental indoctrination, but well fettered these boss-tier psychics are, when put to the field they are no less a headache for all who face them. Adv Assault Rifle Mental Scramble Confusion Terrify Mind Link Placate Agent Deactivation (Upon defeat, PsiOperative's have a mental conditioning chip in their brain activated to effectively fry their minds and cause a destructive release of psionic energy as well as ensure their secrets are never told)

Honestly, given the setting, I’d be more worried about the chance of my powers randomly turning my opponents into The Hulk or something. You start out fighting a normal Hellion and next thing you know the Hellion is also shooting radiation and chucking cars!

Well, in rough order of feasibility Stuff that should mostly be texturing, asset imports, and renaming Add sand and snow ground plates and mounts to the base editor (also carpet tiles and maybe some walls with alternate textures) Add assets in game but not in the base editor, such as motorcycles should exist due to thugs MM, probably add shield models to various weapons that can be displayed, Midnighter and Carnival Living Armors (could be good for armories, manniquins, etc.), police cars (surprisingly they're not in already) Probably go through various factions and rename critters, mostly the Cimerorans (Minions become Hastati, Lieutenants Principes, and bosses Triarii) and the Tuatha De Dannan (Bres was a traitor to the Tuatha and saw himself as a Fomorian and sold out the Tuatha to Balor) Probably give each each villain group in AE a sort of 'generic AV' which would effectively be a normal boss or some other interesting critter boosted to AV levels and maybe given a few appropriate additional powers. Add Rogue PPD to the damn enemy critter lists! Similarly, make Mastermind Minions their own AE groups Would require editing assets either powers or models New Lore pets: Mastermind based (So you can have more of your MM robots, or zombies, all that) Black Knight (would probably beef up the Chevaliers to be the boss pet so they'd be unique from Cimerorans and have TW instead of sword and board) Paragon Police (which might get split into two or three separate ones since you'd have PPD robots, Peacekeepers, Power Armor, SWAT, the options are enormous) Midnighters Carnival of Light Praetorian Resistance New AE Powersets which encompass broad themes (So like all assault rifle, arsenal control, arsenal assault, and Arachnos soldier gun powers, traps, devices, and even Munitions epic powers would all get lumped into a single set. Or Martial Arts, Street Justice, etc. etc.) 'Generic outdoor maps' for AE which would largely just be a lot of the existing maps, just with war walls removed and, tram lines removed, and in the case of Croatoa ones, the yellow filter removed. Expand on several enemy groups in various ways with either lower level parts of the group boosted up or new enemies added. for example Freakshow: Noise tank returns (especially in the Penelope Yin TF), New Freakshow Pyros including pyro tanks (because nothing says 'anarchy' like setting everything on fire!), PraeTechFreaks (Freakalock already kind of do this but I was thinking it's surprising Freakshow having begun using Clockwork, Warworks, and Resistance parts where they can get it.) Non-robot, non-sky skiff piloting Sky Raider boss(es): The Sky Raider Ace! Knives of Artemis: Because they're conceptually cool but holy crap are they boring to fight! Legacy Chain: Now going up to level 50 for villains to have self-righteous mages to punch too! Nemesis and his Automatons getting some fixings too (admittedly a chunk is lore side, but I rather dislike that the automatons that barely pass for humans can feel 'vengeance', maybe they'd get sort of 'phase two' overclock modes for their bosses) Stuff that would require brand new assets, potentially including animations and generally would be an insane amount of work even for the live team! New Powersets: Integrated Arms for Blasters, Sentinels, Corruptors, Defenders, and even an assault version for Dominators! Live out your power armor/mech/robot fantasies with under-arm miniguns, lasers, railguns, and those awesome shoulder mounted missile racks the IDF and Malta Titans get Medieval Masterminds: Armed with a crossbow, you field lowly spear and shield wielding Levies (tier 1 pets), Potent Archers (tier 2), and even a greatsword swinging Champion (tier 3) Shotgunnery for Blasters, Sentinels, Corruptors, Defenders, and an assault version for Dominators too. A close-range, blasting set not afraid of getting into the faces of its enemies and getting messy. Spears melee powerset for Scrappers, stalkers, tanks, and brutes. Can be used as a two-handed weapon or paired with a spear! Swashbuckling melee and assault sets for scrappers, stalkers, tanks, brutes, and dominators. A sword in one hand and a pistol in the other, you can live out your privateering fantasies and exert mastery close in or from a distance. Tactical Acumen support set for Controllers, defenders, corruptors, and masterminds. A natural focused support set built around upholding the morale of your allies, exposing the weaknesses in foes, and even gaining unrealized advantages with the terrain itself! War Glaive for Scrappers, stalkers, brutes, and tankers. A heavy, two-handed polearm for those who wish to wield a heavy poleaxe, a sinister scythe, a gallant guan dao, or bring destruction with the Dane Axe. Power type variants - Basically these would be 'existing powerset, but different animations and weapon customizations' Katana - can be switched to one-handed giving access to broardsword and some DB options. Mostly for if you want a 'fencer' type sword fighter. Broadsword - can be changed into a two-handed grip, allowing you to make a HEMA longsword fighter or even a 'heavy nodachi' type katana fighter. War Mace and Battle Axe - Similarly also opening two-handed versions of the powerset animations. If nothing else because I like to imagine Warrior Elite Smashers and Hewers going with a Minotaur aesthetic and wielding two-handed maces and axes. New Costume pieces: Varsity Jacket Hoodie (both zipup and pull over), the hood itself would be under hoods or a 'down' version in the neck category New chest style: Jumper Tops. Basically like Baggy, except with full sleeves built in and can include turtleneck. (also available as a chest detail in jackets) New 'Shorts 5' option added. (Basically it's the long, Japanese 'shorts' women get but going all the way down to ankles and ported to huge and male) Long skirts Belted Trench Coat Western Duster Actual T-shirts and Tanker tops for women instead of being painted on So many new hairstyles. If nothing else, port Foreshadow and Maelstrom's hairs to players since they can lose those and still look unique. Similarly, give Scirocco's skirt to players because so many Egypt themed characters could use that. Skirts and Shorts on Monstrous legs (Now you can be a Scottish Minotaur. Among other things) Resistance shoulder pieces with Robotic Arms. Barbarian Longsword added to Katana customizations New 'Basic Assault Rifle' added to Assault Rifle, Arachnos soldier, beam rifle, etc. options. (basically it's the Resistance rifle with the glowing powerpack and other sci-fi bits removed) Arachnos Pistols for Dual Pistols (you see the RIP use them) More enemy group expansions and revamps with some of the aforementioned powersets Warriors now get a proper phalanx lancers Nemesis Officers with sword and pistol and automatons with integrated weapon systems! Malta gains an upgrade both visual and arms. (admittedly a huge part is using paragon SWAT assets to make them look more like modern military special forces) New Sky Raider drone minions because modern conflicts have told us the best investment you can make in the air is robots that spew missiles (and in this case, bullets) at you. Also, probably update the Sky raider Raptor Packs to be able to fold up and update the sky skiffs to have an enclosed cockpit. (Also, Skyraiders would get a GM enemy that'd use the VTOL model from the base assets) Additional crazy new appearances for the Freakshow, because for a bunch of egalitarian anarchists, they are weirdly uniform in their appearance! Massive revamp to Croatoa's mobs, mostly Redcaps, Tuatha, and Fir Bolg, giving additional critters to flesh out their ranks With the help of Penelope Yin, the Clockwork King has begun to regain lucidity, but with it, he has come to see the new threats to his 'princess and kingdom' and rebuilds his army anew, an army befitting a mechanical king! (might include a story arc which involves Primal CK doing a psionic fusion with his Praetorian and Clockwork World selves) Zone Revamps Kings Row - Would mostly stay the same, just have some newer buildings put in and such. Perez Park - Not sure if I'd remove it's hazard zone status or keep it, either way it'd largely be some new assets, particularly with the trees, and just touch up geometry in general Croatoa - This would be a biiiigg revamp and potentially be about having it fill a bit of the 'underlyingly creepy' air of old Dark Astoria. Also, would remove the normal barriers and have it so after a certain point at the edges of the zone, the fog becomes too thick and you're then teleported to the opposite side of the zone or something. (to feel like you're looping around), oh, also fix up the town and include some nice residential houses and such. Fautline - Yes, this has already been touched up, but honestly, this would mostly just involve some small touch ups and, if nothing else, allow for a continuous road, unobstructed road from the entrance to Yin's Market. Cap Au Diable/Port Oakes - this is small one and it's largely be touching up the mountain itself (if nothing else to feel bigger, also maybe add woodlands) and also making the tunnel open for access between the zones. A more intense revamp might even be both expanding them and adding actual residential areas, and in Cap Au's case, use a scaled down version of Mother of Mercy Hospital for the university instead of the general Paragon U one. New Mission Map Tilesets (Like, soooo many) Submarine interiors (Nemesis, Longbow, Arachnos, and 'generic') Airships (Nemesis, Sky Raider/'Generic', Fifth Column) Space Station (Okay, this would largely just be various types of labs (maybe mixed with offices) with windows looking out into space and arranged to not contradict itself) Apartment buildings/hotels Museums (both art, history, and science) Gyms Actual Nemesis bases (instead of the generic tech labs!) City/town outdoor maps in other parts of the world And now for some ideas of varying complexity that would mostly be controversial Another revamp to the Skulls per one of my old thread ideas. Scrapper taunt powers are changed into either 'gap-closers', 'pull', or projectile attack powers depending on the set. (The taunt component remains auto-hit, range debuff and other effects would have the hit check) Bring back the classic CoT appearance with some improved texture resolutions and all that Many 'eye beam' powers now are snipes so you can have you 'power superman/homelander' eye laser attacks Canonizing many of my own dumb lore/story ideas Cimerora happens in 60AD, Romulus Augustus is NOT the same as the Roman Emperor. Carnival of Shadows date back to early 16th century Italy instead of 17th The Hamidon of Primal Earth and Praetoria are different guys in the same family tree (basically, Praet Hamidon is 40 years older than Primal one, it's gotta at least be his grandfather) Tielekku is regarded by mages with caution despite being a Goddess of magic. (She did send Hecate to murder Ermeeth and his followers for teaching magic to humans. ... Which Hecate did by teaching magic to her own humans) Probably have Penny leave the FP and ultimately join an SG made up of Jim Temblor, Doc Delilah, Fusionette, and possibly some others. Probably create a new enemy group for Villains who are basically the 'Terrorists' of the Rogue Isles. Which means they're basically a resistance group of pro-democratic rebels who want to topple Arachnos and install a new government. Basically let Villains have more actual heroes to fight.

At least one is marked by an exploration badge and does say who it is.

I am aware and believe I mention them. I am saying that actual enhancement stores with interiors, though, could help the zone feel a little more alive. Honestly, such establishments kind of fall off heroside around the 30s because it’s all just lone NPCs standing around in the open, and on Redside theres not a single such shop interior in the open world.