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Let’s ask the TES and Fallout mod communities.

Not that I disagree with you, especially since Citadel feels like it’d be an easier one to revamp, but I would prefer we start with the Synapse TF. It’s even longer. More repetitive because Clockwork only have so many different attacks, and to make it worse: they are almost all end draining at a low level where end management is difficult. edit: my own proposal for revamping the Citadel TFs story would probably be something along the lines of tying it into the Praetorian stuff and have him be working making new frames for Nightstar and Siege. That being said, I also know people are tired of praetorian stuff or at least were back on live and so we could just stick with the original plot of using Citadel’s plans. next, both on a story front and for enemy diversity, we could have the Council having raided groups like Sky Raiders, Crey, and Arachnos for new robotics tech. Lastly, while we might have difficulty making whole new models for the new mech men prototypes, we could maybe at least give them some new powers.

There's a problem with that: Rasengan doesn't suck, Kin melee does.

Only if you’re a villain character. also, this suggestion is GETTIN’ CRAZY!

Not actually a bad idea either. Sort of related is that I thought there should be lore pets based off MM minions likewise. Both generic, and also allows MMs to basically have an army of their pets!

I want black knights myself. Have a Black Warden using Shadow Fall and Twilight Grasp for support powers, and while Dread Warden makes the most sense as the boss attack pet, I really want one that uses TW so I'd prefer a buffed up Black Chevalier.

Okay, so headcanons and all that aside: if this is meant to just be a 'form shift' travel power like the Panther, Void Skiff, etc. There's really no harm in allowing for it besides, as I mentioned earlier, the trouble with the Sky Skiff exposing the user and not being compatible with player models in that way. If it's only utility is just flying you wouldn't even need to limit it to outdoor maps/areas. Now if you were talking about flier vehicles? Then we'd run into all kinds of other issues and I'd have to say "maybe let's focus priorities elsewhere first."

Oh! I like this! It could even be called “pleasure island” and have a few legitimate aspects to it!

I could see the chaser but the issue with the sky skiff is that it’s pretty open and you can see the dude sitting inside (and who hilariously does a quadruple backflip when it explodes). Funny enough, the Longbow chaser is so small average sized characters should not logically fit inside, this is glaringly obvious when you compare a chaser to a skiff. (Also gives me the headcanon longbow chasers are drones)

Yeah, I’ll agree with this.

This has my stamp of approval! /regnarj

I guess my biggest ones would be a “small, medium, and large” tiles and mounds with snow, sand, and dirt textures for bases. edit: some things that might not be so small: all currently available weapons and shields and weapon models (we do have most of the latter, admittedly) added the Midnighter living armor statues and Icon mannequins PPD cars/vans (kind of surprising they’re not already there)

Look, I’d really like long robes/skirts too, but this discussion is kind of heavily tread and Naomi has explained it’s Not just clipping.

While only tangentially relevant, I've always thought radiation blast should have toxic as a secondary damage type to help distinguish it from electrical and energy blasts a bit more. Also because thematically it's radiation "poisoning". We even do see a bit of the logic being followed in a few radiation assault, melee, and armor powers with some of them dealing toxic secondary damage or even pure toxic.

@American Valor You know, sort of on the note of people playing Godlike beings had been how, with Gaia Redeemer, due to me kiiind of messing up with the sense of scale with how long he's been around, he's actually been in situations where other deities or demons boast about being thousands of years old and there's my guy who is so old his common joke is that "mutation origin to me meant you were born homo sapiens instead of a neanderthal" Which gets funnier since, to my later research, this in of itself undersells it as his earliest life would have put him at Homo Habilis or Erectus.

I kind of am more likely to be on the opposite end. One of my Characters, Gaia Redeemer, has basically been doing his thing for about 1.2 million years, reincarnating and regaining his past memories again and again. I usually try to be very careful not to step on anyone’s toes and usually I have a thing in my description to offer if people want to be part of that history or to have known in passing. Otherwise I gun for his relations being to comparatively obscure figures in history, such as past lives as Ametis of Babylon or Ashur Bhilit of Assyria or being a cousin to Gregori Orelev. (they’re actually pretty major, but tell me you know who they are without googling) the admittedly big things though I imagine some might protest are: that in his life as an oranbegan he was captain of “the circle of bronze”, basically the head of the army and had been against the use of demonic pacts.

I'd personally rather just some of the epic/power pool tier 1 and 2s get buffed. Not that they all need it (especially hasten which feels like it's created this god awful balance blackhole around it), but I know it'd be kind of nice for fighting's attacks. And maybe new animations because, honestly, jab and kick are kind of dumb looking (I get they're not meant to show disciplined fighting and more 'brawling' but, c'mon we've got so many better punching and kicking animations)

Alternative to this is /ninjutsu. You get a 'sneak attack' mechanic. It's what I did for my sniper-blaster Sniper Joe.

Well, @Rudra, you know what I truly want? more than power gaming? More than power pool or APP options?

@Rudra Because we can only pick so many power pools for one. Two is because it helps create a sense of disparity and AT uniqueness even when using the same powersets. Three is to increase function and utility of a largely unused and oftentimes unselected power and further encourage build variety. Four is that such changes wouldn't necessarily displace powers like shield charge/lightning rod (they're simply stronger and are AoEs) or create a 'tank mage' issue (the ranged attacks would be just not enough to stand as a ranged attack chain on its own). Lastly it could be a chance to fill out some conceptual gaps in powersets, like electric melee pulling in enemies with electro magnetism, katana doing a very anime air cutter slash, or broadsword and claws getting a charging rush attack.

While it might require new animations for the 'taunt', I've been of the mindset of just turning the scrapper taunt into a ranged attack, a foe teleport, or gap closer/self-teleport. It gains some extra utility, a maybe minor to moderate damage, and catches the aggro of what it hits. Unfortunately, last time I shared this idea, people shot it down for being too wild or making scrapper taunt a 'must-have' than a skip power.

Just a random discussion thread asking what folks might add, remove, change, clarify, etc. if they were writing the lore and background for City of Heroes, you can imagine either something for back during live, for a storyarc added here, or even imagine if it had been part of the game from the beginning and share thoughts and opinions on it. (also not sure if this should be here or Roleplaying, admittedly, feel free to move) Anyway, getting the ball rolling, some of my own thoughts and ideas would include: After colonizing in America, not all of Oranbega chose to remain part of it, and thus were spared the worst of the war and were outside the demonic pact, instead choosing to live amongst the local Native American tribes. This has resulted in a Narrangansett reservation close to Paragon the Circle of Thorns inexplicably avoid, and the shamans of the tribe wielding familiar magic and myths of an ancient member of their own deities: Emett* The Traveling Wiseman Cimerora, despite being ostensibly Roman was an island inhabited by pre-Hellenic Greeks, and largely seen as a quirky and weird backwater spot though still good enough to pay their tithes and taxes to the Empire. Relatedly I'd retcon/establish Cimerora as existing in the 60sAD during the reign of Nero, and perhaps refer to, intriguingly, Rome itself being not wholly unlike Paragon in the number of exceptionally powerful oddballs. (how do you think Nero kept his power?) Part of what makes Terra Volta impressive (and important) is that in the alt-history of City of Heroes, Terra Volta was the first practical Fusion Reactor put into operation in the whole world, and in the post-Rikti War era supports much of the Eastern seaboard of North America and even the Maritime provinces of Canada to the north. Though technology has marched on and Councilman Alderman isn't wrong that a far better reactor can be built for much cheaper (thanks to Praetorians and Positron, anti-matter reactors are available), but transitioning the power grid, not to mention concerns about anti-matter reactor tech, stymies headway into such legislation. Gilgamesh of Uruk was the first Incarnate, already a demi-deity he found and drank from the Well of Furies and gained greater power which he shared later with Enkidu. The Well attempted to assert itself over Gilgamesh many a times but failed as his will was too powerful and even attempts to seduce him under false pretense of being an equal lover ended with it rebuked. So instead, the Well offered itself to a mighty bull which then rampaged through Uruk before being destroyed by Gilgamesh and his companion and finally, the Well exploited Enkidu's greater drawing from it to strike him down and withdraw enough of its support to make Gilgamesh mortal once more. In turn, Gilgamesh sealed Pandora's Box, and resigned himself and Enkidu being remembered in their deeds and works. The original pre-issue 18 Bobcat is 'still canon', Neuron simply grew tired of the half-feral, distrusting catgirl and threw her into the Underground with the Failed Experiments while he used blood samples to create a far more docile and sensual version.

probably praetorian office stuff since that had some chance of working for residential stuff.

That feels like a recipe for the Gary Vault from FO3 happening in City. Which could be a funny mission arc in of itself, honestly. Castillo thinks it'd be a great idea to use the Praetorian clone tech on him! Duray says that's a horrible idea and Castillo pisses him off anyway Castillo ignores Duray, takes the tech, and there's now a Skyraider sea base filled with Castillos.

meanwhile, me, who has been faceplanting several times an arc on my blaster because doppelgängers get as much damage as players but more HP, or Metalshift being a goddamn Freakshow tank buffed to EB status, or fighting barracuda and dying, all while chugging lots of inspirations before these fights: yeah… this game is way too easy sometimes. Way way waaaay. Too easy. *proceeds to die more than in From Software games*