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The MindBrain is online... NecroAngel Big Bad Baby Eater is craving a little snack... Floodstorm is all wet Crafter has something for you. It's pain. Viridian Storm... because Green Lightning sounds both dull and derivative. Mister Mojo will have you rising with his gravity tricks. We do not talk about the Big Guns.

Yes, exactly. There's a button that says "Settings" below where your uploaded image is. When you click it, there's a box for Prompt which usually auto-generates to describe the image you uploaded; If it doesn't, there is a little Auto-Generate button in the bottom left corner of that box. In this box, I usually specify things like "Asian Woman" or "Robot Man" as appropriate. Don't assume it's always correct, either. I've noticed the auto-prompt give me partially incorrect descriptions like calling a blonde a redhead or giving me weird descriptions of things in the background that just aren't there. Fix it here. After that, there's a drop-down menu (Default, Flat Sharp, Strong, Reinterpretation, Oil Painting, Digital Art), followed by some sliders (AI Strength, Resemblance, Clarity), a Color Correction button, and another prompt box called Negative Prompt where you put in things that you don't want to see. This one is going to be hit or miss depending on how much you mess with your options, but it's not a miracle magic deletion button that will make anything you don't want go away... I wish, though.

And yet, we have seen continued development since it was released with some fixes for old problems and entirely new ideas presented giving life to old player requests, such as the asymmetrical boots, gloves, and shoulders. People still want more, but that will always be the case. No matter how much we're given, there will be someone with an idea that didn't get realized that will spark similar desire in others. But we've gotten innovations under Homecoming. The Gull? You mean the one in Pocket D that has been there changing the way some people play since before the 2012 shutdown? Yeah, Null is a holdover that has been granted some additional features under Homecoming, but there were some core changes that were just given away. There's also the S.T.A.R.T. vendors, previously P2W, which are new with Homecoming... but they're just a new delivery system for stuff that NCSoft was doling out in the past as rewards for time played and/or microtransactions. Honestly, I like that everything is up front and given away with little need to "earn it." Why were butterfly wings something that had to be earned originally? To string people along to keep them playing because grind = money, even after the game went from subscription to free-to-play. Why were some powersets premium and required players to pay to unlock them? For the cash grab to milk the player base as much as possible. Now you can start with virtually any costume options, play every AT and power set combination, and have 1000 characters slots per shard. And people keep on playing, so giving it all away didn't stop us from grinding or playing with teams or doing whatever else we love in the game... it just made it all more accessible. I'm sure there are people that would disagree because they prefer the model where things need to be unlocked to have fun. Meh. Boring. But they could still choose to limit themselves and do the old mission content that was required for somethings, or choose not to take things until they would be awarded for whatever the original goalposts were. It's all about having fun now, and you can be intense and power to 50 with farming or running missions and task forces, or you could slow play and stop at whatever level you want just to start a new character from scratch again and again. And despite all of these options of content and play styles... the game still gets updated. New missions, new features, even a new hopefully seasonal event added recently. And now with the legitimacy of officially being licensed, player interest spiked and I'm sure there will be more fun and innovations on the horizon.

We're all naked under our clothes. That makes our heroes and villains clothed nudists... except for those ones that aren't wearing clothes because they have animal hair or some other non-human texture that would replace ordinary nudity.

I would be in favor of creating an entirely new aura from existing resources. Specifically, take the tarot cards aura and replace the cards with the Shield -> Elemental -> Energy choice so that it looks like you're surrounded by a bunch of little force barriers that are supposed to be constantly moving to block incoming damage. Also make teeny-tiny energy shields over the eyes as a Body and Eyes option or just Eyes so it looks like you have energy googles on.

If I build a costume around a theme that involves auras from costume, powers, and/or other effects... then I want all players to see it in its maximum glory. I think there should be a player option to force other players to only view it as presented.

For costume options? Atomic aura... maybe Runes or Victorian. Glowing aura would also work. No need to add power effects to auras when what's available will work.

Well, like I said, this could be done as a tier 3 BenevoLabs hologram effect... which might be the only way I would reluctantly support it. I mean, if we're going to start adding power effects to costume auras, why start with force field? Why not everything else first? Why any powers at all as a costume aura when there are plenty of other non-costume effects in the game that could be added as auras instead?

This thread has been a discussion about what would look good as force field looking auras on brutes and tankers. If there was any suggestion going on, it was asking what would look best but not actually proposing any kind of suggestion for adding to the costume auras or as alternate power effects, hence my initial confusion over the topic. It's entirely to vague to be a suggestion... it's more like a musing and invitation of opinions.

I didn't say what people are allowed to post. I suggested that it sounds more like a General topic of discussion. So what is so difficult about that that you feel the need to misinterpret what I said? Nothing, you just like the idea and clearly making an issue of what I said to back a half-formed idea.

So are you asking for alternate animation/effects for all the existing powersets because you want something else? I think the most effort this deserves might be to add the force field bubble as a costume option under the tier 3 Prismatic Aether effects. No need to tie it into any of the power sets. But still, I think that would cause confusion for people who actually play force field and because it could be confuse them as to whether or not its time to reapply buffs... so still, I think it's a poor idea and give it a continued thumbs down. Just play the effects you have available and pretend they are a force field... anything can be a force field; it doesn't have to look a specific way.

There's no request here. You're discussing ideas that might work as force field auras without even indicating what powerset you want it for. It's not a specific request for "Hey, please make [specific request] available as alternate effects option for [specific powerset]," and more of a "I want a Force Field effect for a [melee ATs] defense powers option." Where's the suggestion or feedback? Until you come up with the suggestion or feedback regarding a specific powerset, I think this really belongs as more of a General topic of discussion. Unless you're suggesting that they add a Force Field like option to all melee defense powersets. In which case, I think that's a big thumbs down because just use the existing options and pretend it's a force field. You don't need a bubble aura to call an aura a force field.

The auras available are just fine. The available armor powersets have plenty of auras to work with already, some even with additional options available, and then there are the various costume auras and stuff available with Prismatic Aethers. This hardly seems like it belongs in the Suggestions & Feedback section, so take it to General.

I took "branded" to mean with a hot iron, like branding steer.

There were a lot of people who either knew or claimed to know about a secret server back in the time before Homecoming went public. Because secrecy was paramount at the time, those people were called liars and it pitted COH fan against COH fan as the community turned ugly. Some didn't believe in the secret server but wanted it to be true, while others believed it and hoped their time to play again would come. What they had against the people who were claiming the secret server existed was that if the lid was blown the whole thing could fall through and ruin it for the people who could play or might get a chance someday... so they treated those people like crap to make them shut up. After the game finally did come to light, there were no apologies given for the poor treatment; no "Hey sorry we had to shut you up, now shut up and come game with us." No one said "Hey, you were right all along." People were thrown under the bus, and the whole matter was swept under the rug. And there was such an overwhelming gratitude from the community at large that they could play the game again that no one cared about those people that were shunned and otherwise treated poorly. So yeah, there's some people out there that aren't happy because even though the game is back they no longer feel like part of the community... at least not this one. So they'll go off and play on one of the other servers and always harbor ill-feelings about Homecoming even though this was the source for any of those other servers being able to get off the ground. That's my take on it all, anyhow.