golstat2003

I doubt this would ever happen based on the philosophy of this dev team. Also This would be amazingly difficult to code base don how this game's code works. Even the New Dawn server (which has various types of free form systems similar to what the OP suggests) that has a similar system could not do this for some ATs, as the coding was too complex. Stalkers for instance do not have a free form power selection system over there due to how baked in Hide is. With the lack of dev resources here (again volunteer dev team) if this ever happened don't expect to see it any time until 2045.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with expressing dissenting opinions or saying why you think a suggestion is a bad idea. The title of this part if the forums is Suggestions and Feedback.

Agreed. This is the most silly definition of gatekeeping I've ever heard. Tilting at windmills is a favorite past time in this part of the forums. The knockback issue really isn't even up for discussion until a dev says they view the so called "slot tax" of changing KB to KD with an enhancement as an actual tax. Everything from various posts to comments in beta seems to lean in the opposite: that this is what's expected of players if they don't like the KB. I've never once in the literal decades that this has been discussed seen dev say "yeah we'll do universal or in set changes to move something from KB to KD", and especially not on sets as strong as something like illusion control. But maybe I'm wrong and a dev will choose to chime in this time. (Not holding my breath lol)

agreed. The only way I can see this, if it's made auto with the full effect as if it were at least two slotted with two level 50 recharge IOs. I doubt the devs would agree to that.

Absolute insanity.

On some Doms I do take the concealment pool, just to get the extra LOTG recharge cause it makes perma doming easier.

I could have sworn this was brought up before and a dev did in fact chime in that having more than one auto power was something they were not inclined to do. But I can’t find the post.

as mentioned only a dev can confirm.

I don't think anyone is saying anyone has to prove anyting. Folks are just pointing out the POSSIBLE pitfalls to any suggestion. Answering those can help the poster (or others) refine a suggestion or offer alternative approaches. Which happened in this thread when the idea of the checkbox came up. (Though not what the Original Poster asked for).

As someone who works in IT for planning, these are the types of questions Developers, Architects, Business Analysists and QA folks are challenged daily to ask. I'm sure the dev team would also have to look into these. They may be volunteers here, but they sure as hell ARE professionals in their day to day paid jobs. On a side note, I'm glad HC takes a methodical approach like this to anything they implement. And that's not guessing or assumptions before anyone says so. Just spend any time in the betas Discord and you can see it first hand. I've seen what happens on other COH servers when things are done in a slapdash throw everything at the wall manner.

I don't like is a perfectly fine post. It helps the devs judge how popular or unpopular and idea is. And that helps the dev to give them direction if they ever do decide to go on a spree of implementing suggestions from the forums (not likely they will or will ever have the manpower to go on ANY spree, but one can dream.) I don't thik any idea is dumb, but there are some that . . . well shouldn't be suggested. But that's subjective and is STILL not calling the actual poster dumb, stupid or awful. Those are two very different things. We may have to agree to disagree here.

I’ll saying again pointing out why a suggestion is problematic or would take too much budget or you would rather the devs do something else is NOT toxic. If folks don’t want discussion about their suggestions they should just dm it to a dev or GM and be done. This is a public forum. Telling folks why you think a suggestion won’t work isn’t toxic. Sick of seeing that false argument.

hmmmm a dev would have to comment but the fact that this has not been done since it was requested in freaking 2019 makes me think there are some technical limitations that they ran into when they dogged deeper into it. In that post the dev did say they already saw some UI issues. Would not surprise me if they found other limitations with how infamously bad and spaghetti COX’s ancient code is.

I would not. I’d prefer they didn’t break all my characters costumes. they can adjust the aura menu only to add extra aura UI.

And this is the problem with a checkbox that others were alluding to. the amount of incidental splash damage and AOE in COX is probably a bazillion times more than in games like WoW. And you can’t really control how other players choose to play. If hardcore player complained to me that splash damage got them killed I would laugh in their face and immediately put them on ignore. 😹 A server for those folks who want to play that way just sounds like an infinitely better idea. with that said may not be issue as I can’t see many folks playing hardcore anything on COH. i can image at most 30-50 players using it. Again, not a good use of server resources, but if the devs want to do it up to them.