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It would definitely be nice if Fake Nemeses PFF wasn't flagged as untouchable, even if it was replaced with MOG-level protection, at least on the non-EB/AV version.

Your contacts in KR should offer to introduce you to contacts in Skyway and Steel once you're in level range. Sometimes you'll have to check the wiki to know who is where.

With existing tools, I believe the game would have to put you into TF/flashback mode, which would lock you out of interacting with contacts/missions.

FWIW you can do it with your base by shoving the small tech teleport pad (singularity I think it's named) partway into the police box and attaching a teleport beacon to a different room. It even makes it look like the time vortex is leaking out of the doors. Plus there's a pulsing light in the FX tab you can stick on the top. (Reposting image from a different thread. I may similarly be posting from work so can't crop the image right now... 👀)

The OP suggestion of gating the rewards behind beating the mobs works best for encouraging (forcing) the behavior of cleaning up the spawns instead of ditching them. Capping their level or tethering them to their "summoner" does nothing to prevent them from bailing from the mobs or zoning to break the chain if the glowies still pay out immediately.

To expand on what Rudra said, Natural origin also states your abilities can be natural to your species. Peacebringers used to be origin-locked to Natural. Depends on how you see power set names. There's ambiguity that could've been intentional by the original dev team. For instance, does Fire Manipulation mean "I am manipulating fire" or "I am using fire to manipulate my foes"? Both fit what you're doing. The current dev team doesn't seem as keen on the wordplay, such as with Sonic Manipulation which we can infer isn't "I am manipulating Sonic" because, y'know, grammar.

So a Controller/Dominator? 😛 Well, depending on the set.

Reorder or not, perhaps also a color change to go with the severity? Login and desktop keep their respective orange and red colors; character select changed to a yellow hue instead.

It's been a very, very long time since I've seen the Warburg nuke animation(s). (I only really solo.) Do they drop a visible missile or something? If so, I can't speak for Alchemystic's idea about the suggestion. I'd assumed the thread premise was just generic blast from above like the Seismic Blast tier 9.

I'm guessing Warburg nukes have a "type on your wrist" animation and that's what's contentious about the animation? If so, it would seem assumable that we'd change the character's animation but keep the "death from above" particle effect that is the heart of Alch's suggestion.

I'm also curious how you'd differentiate a spear set from Staff Fighting, @temnix. Personally, I think a set like that would focus on a solid stance and simpler, more impactful moves that leverage the bladed end of the weapon. Thematically, sort of a midway between staff and Titan Weapons. Here's what that might look like.

While Alchemystic likens it to having a permanent Warburg nuke, I believe they're suggesting a regular judgment power with slightly different damage/debuff types for the cosmetic benefit of having a "nuke from orbit" animation, not a replacement/duplicate of the actual Warburg temporary powers. In which case, no, it wouldn't.

Unfortunately, this is what it looks like if you hack a second set of horns into a costume file where the beards go. Looks like the options do determine the attachment point. I'm not against the suggestion but it will take more work than just listing the same options in each others' slots.

The thread has been a suggestion for additional costume auras (not power customization) since the start:

@Saiyajinzoningen: Hisako Ichiki? Nice. Heart react for that alone. @Rudra: +1 on both the bubble-style and form-fitting auras. Minor tangent - IIRC, lower graphic settings display the Victorian Decor aura as a full, solid model without the traveling fade effect, like floating tattoos; it would be nice if that was also added as an option for higher graphics settings.

Magic: magical wards and enchanted artefacts (or an enchanted set of armor), runes and spirit tattoos etched onto your body Science: a living symbiote separate from your person Natural: simple military-grade (maybe experimental) gadgets and armaments alongside body armor ... to name a few.

FupDup, biostem, A.I.D.A., and myself at least seem to view it more as a "gadgets" armor set as a cousin to Devices and Traps, in a way that primary, pool, and epic picks wouldn't be able to fill - both mechanically and thematically. Can't speak for Ultimo or anyone else in specific but some of us are tired of every new and reworked set having to have a special mechanic gimmick. Let some sets just be good without jumping through hoops. That said, storing damage taken and unleashing it back definitely fits and is a rather unique mechanic it could have, especially looking at (MCU?) Black Panther as the "sleek" representation for this as-of-yet undecidedly-named power set.

10/10 power name More of this in the game please.

Danger Sense and Flamethrower are no less redundant than what we have here. As for combining with origin and power set, that's why some of us are suggesting ways to shift it to be non-origin-specific. Both mechanically and thematically separating it from the other power sets you listed by making it a "gadget" or "tricks-up-my-sleeve" armor set in a similar vein to Ninjitsu but more tanky than stealthy.

Not if the prestige power fails to defeat them. Confront forces the enemy to march their happy-[butt] back into range of your primary powers.

@Rudra: the power names don't seem problematic, largely. Armor Plate and Ceramic Armor are already used medieval knight mail and modern bulletproof vests. Life Support, Emergency Battery, and Overcharger could be magical or biochemical. Fusion Reactor and Exoskeleton are really the only ones that need renaming to be concept-neutral but even their concepts are fine - the armor's power source giving end discount and muscle-enhancement as the mez protection. @Ultimo: It's fine overall. A bit weird going against the grain on the smashing-lethal toggle shield that's usually in an armor's t1/2 (or melee defense for SR/Nin). It needs some flavor, though. Again agreeing/parroting what biostem said: make it the Ninjitsu to Invulnerability's Super Reflexes - similar start-off and feel, more gadgets.

I feel FupDup hit the nail on the head for what a power armor set should have for its feel. To Rudra's point, I hadn't posted a version I thought up because I did think it should be more origin-neutral so it could be written off as protective runes and spells, gadgets and military training ("Arse Armor" 😉), living armor, etc. I just haven't gotten around to rewriting it as such. The star power (in my version) was a tier 8 or 9 power called Countermeasures, themed as your character having prepped for multiple scenarios (or having built-up a backlog of responses to previous problems, a-la Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man). In gameplay, you'd take the Countermeasures power and it would give you four other powers that shared one cooldown. The powers were watered-down expies of Thunder Clap, Burn, Energy Absorption, and Power Sink - either a pbaoe disorient, damage patch, self +absorb per mob, or self +endurance per mob. Another possibility was having the self-heal be similarly split between options to behave like Reconstruction, Dull Pain, or Energize. As a suggestion for additional power themes: automated defenses (for tech, your armor evading for you; for natural, your own reflexes; for magic, luck-manipulating runes, etc.) an active energy barrier (whether Force Field/Kheldian bubble or just a faint glow over your skin) nanites (for non-tech origins: serum, potion/salve, etc.) Those are just some ideas. Your version is certainly interesting. It comes with a lot of auto powers and not so many toggles. Also seems to have its physical protection split between two passives instead of the traditional armor toggle.

Sorry, Gabrilend. Clave Dark 5 and I are on a tangent unrelated to the thread topic.

Yup. I was speaking vaguely about progress as a whole. Leveling, badging, enhancing, incarnates. Completely severing effort from rewards will do the opposite of incentivizing engagement. The issue with your suggestion as posted is the complete lockout of merit earning outside of a daily handout. The part I quoted was to respond to the assertion that people would be upset largely or solely because of instant gratification. Oh, also: HC is free to sign up and play so people are just going to make infinite accounts and reap infinite merits under this proposed system.