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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*

@biostem an earlier idea I had actually would have involved at least power armor components, namely the PPD shells so the could have integrated mini-guns on their arms to fit the “jet fighter dude” look. Though I opted for something that should hopefully be more easily feasible for the devs to make. A power armor overall could be cool but I feel like a fitting power armor might require some decent asset tweaks. (Or maybe I’m just too set on. “Jet power armor “ looking like a starscream suit) @Turric thanks, I thought an ace pilot would make a decent boss seeing as officers and captains are already Lieutenant rank enemies. Let this be a subversion of the trope “asskicking equals authority”, as Duray was a proper military man. Officers and captains lead because they’re good leaders and smart planners, aces are good as asskickers but their radical maverick stylings keep them in non-commissioned ranks.

Oh, the “losing uniqueness “ with forms gives me an idea for a suggestion: nova and dwarf form customization which involve taking the forms of similar previous alien hosts to the Nova and Dwarf but distinct! also on the note for forms, I kind of felt like forms got kind of boring and repetitive to specialize in which made me wish nova and dwarf could get one or two more powers. One idea being that certain powers selected for human form could carry over to the shifted forms for extra diversity. But I have not played any sort of kheldian in a long time and don’t feel like a good judge of the AT.

This is a bit of an odd request, but after playing a Silver Mantis today, I was kind of reminded of how it feels a little underwhelming the only options Sky Raiders have for boss spawns are two flavors of Robots (jump and porter) which either have SMGs or a flamethrower, and a personal VTOL craft which, while cool, seems like it shouldn't be able to get indoors (given the smaller longbow chasers are restricted to purely outdoor spawns). So I was thinking maybe the team could consider adding in a new type of Sky Raider boss that's dude on foot? So, here's my pitch on specifics: Sky Raider Ace: Aces are the pride of the Sky Raiders and are hotshot fliers without peer in their ranks. While lacking the rank of officers their skills alone have earned them great respect of superior and subordinates alike, and with it the trust to have some leeway in how they carry out their own operations. Powers Ace Flying - (This basically rolling Fly/Afterburner with Hover in mechanical terms. So they'd fly faster than normal mobs even) Inspire - PBAoE, toggle, Team +ToHit, +Perception, +Damage (Would have just used leadership but I feel like with engineers, Sky raiders have enough defense buffs) Pulse Rifle Blast Pulse Rifle Burst - (right outta robotics) Full Auto Laser - (this would need to be adjusted from the robotics drone animation to work with a pulse rifle) LRM Rocket - (Probably a version without interrupt, and would probably need a weapon that could believably shoot lasers and have an underslung rocket, otherwise not too different from the blaster munitions mastery pool) Appearance wise, could take a normal Sky Raider officer and apply a unique color palette and some costume patterns similar to Castillo to denote being 'ace customized' looks. I also went with the robotics pulse rifle since we see them pick those up in market Crash but also felt it'd be a bit of a copout for this guy to be using more automatic firearms or a flamethrower. So what do you guys think? Do you want to see a sky raiders boss that is a more normal dude than a dude in a jet or robot? Do you think the current boss selection is fine? If the former, what would be your suggestions for a boss if not this?

@biostem Basically the latter. MM pet attacks are not necessarily 'free' attacks, especially since even a full squad of MM pets will spend a longer time wailing on a single minion far longer than most player characters who aren't a controller. On top of that, and in a case fairly specific to Robotics, they removed utility that had been with the pets to give to the MM's personal attacks.

@biostem But that makes no sense with their recent changes to make the attacks actually more important to grab and use. Especially Robotics since they lost the -regen assault bot used to have!

You know, not to hijack the thread, but thinking about it, I think if any group grabbed up the baseline clockwork from Praetoria, I think it'd be the Sky Raiders. Sky Raiders have worked with the Praetorians and there was bound to be a price they asked. The Jump Bot description notes how Sky Raiders do suffer a bit in the numbers department, The Market Crash TF does suggest they're working on something (besides just giant robots), and as for things that could make the Sky Raider clockwork unique could include things like throwing on a jump/jet pack and using conventional arms with distribution across minion, lieutenant, and boss rank. As another plus it even sort of nods to the addition of UAVs in modern air forces/militaries.

I feel like it might be a little bit better if we maybe gave the Crey Clockwork something unique from others. Specifically, maybe different powers, could be Crey found a way to cut costs even further, or realized they could add more functions (like maybe a cryo ray) for a minimal investment with much greater return. so, yeah, while I’m not against praetorian clockwork proliferating into Paragon (and Rogue Isle) parties, mere palette swaps are painful for players and perchance these polymer peons should pick powers representing the people procuring them? (Couldn’t resist the alliteration once it started) off on the side note, one of my characters who is a gang leader (hellion cell specifically) has a praetorian refugee who brought a clockwork with him they dubbed “roomba”, and I figured if Roomba showed up in more than just RP text they’d be a rusted clockwork model with a giant, rusty fuel tank strapped to their back and basically using fire blast powers than actual plasma. Just as an example of how praetorian clockwork brought in could be customized.

Hell, just at least make it possible to travel from. Port Oakes to cap Au via the damn tunnel.

I’d love to have some Black Knight lore pets in my main.

I wouldn’t mind this. I actually think I suggested a similar thing back on live. Some of the other alt defeat animations I suggested were: character turns into a cartoon gravestone character runs away in a cowardly manner leaving a dusty after image behind. character just rag dolls because some of us like the hilarious contortionist positions.

Personally I’m kind of hoping those NPCs are being used as a test bed for players to have such masks.