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I'm still waiting for an Earth Blast set.

There are so many other animations in the game, as well. I've seen gang members jumping up and down on cars before they notice me and attack, and it looks hilarious. Would love to see that as an emote, as well as other NPC actions before they notice foes and rush to the attack.

Seal Clubber War Mace / Invulnerability Brute

Rock Singer Earth Control / Sonic Resonance

Inaction Hero Stone Armor / Psionic Melee Tanker

Health Kick Martial Arts / Willpower Scrapper (plus Medicine pool)

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Is it a lot of work, though? Or are you just saying it because you assume it is and don't really know how it works and it's easier to just dismiss the idea by saying it's a lot of work?

So I was thinking, wouldn't it be easier to join up with friends if we could see ahead of time what characters they're playing on which shard before we select a character to jump in to join the fun? And what's worse than logging in and finding you're on the wrong character or even shard to play with friends? How about signing in and finding them only to have them inform you they're about to sign out because they've already been playing for awhile?

Forget the holiday scare of Krampus this Christmas season. 2020 brings you a new boogeyman: The Big Bad Baby Eater Savage Melee / Regeneration Stalker (Inspired by Jawbreaker and his Midnight Monster creation)

Worn out old red track suit? Check Newspaper-wrapped feet? Check Torn up old overcoat? Check Gentlemen, meet the first bionic hobo... we rebuilt him to be better, stronger, faster (than the rat on his shoulder). That's right, we were on a budget. I present to you: The Six Dollar Man

I also did a normal kid character... I posted an image awhile back but in a different area of the forum. Teen Violence War Mace / Super Reflexes Scrapper

The difference between that game and COH with non-unique names is that if you somehow got a team of 8 people filled with the same names, they would still be different characters. Marvel had a limited pool of characters to draw on and tried to make it a little more diverse by giving each character multiple skins so people could play with their favorite costume of their favorite character, but in the end all the Hulks are the pretty much the same as are all the Wolverines and Squirrel Girls and so on. City of Heroes has a lot more diversity in the freedom to design our characters from the archtype and power set selection, and allowing us to create a unique look for our characters with the extensive options available in the costume creator. 8 characters with the same name on a single team would still be a unique experience of everyone filling a role. But if you found yourself on a team with a bunch of other people with the same name as you, you could always decline the invite or leave to find another team after seeing what you've gotten yourself into. But I really don't think it will come to that. Sure, you would see some names doubled up on in play occasionally, but across five servers thousands of people playing aren't as likely to bump into each other with the same names as they would on Marvel where there was such a limited pool of characters to be shared by so many players. It's a crappy comparison.

The reason Marvel doesn't have and Superman or Wonder Woman characters (or DC not having Spider-Man or Hulk) is because of trademark law and big companies doing what they can to protect those trademarks because if they don't they risk losing them by having legally abandoned them because trademark law works differently than copyright law. But that doesn't mean those names are unique within the universe of their own characters. At least 4 different people went around calling themselves Spider-Man at the same time for awhile. Same with Superman after the whole Death of Superman storyline... and recently DC ran a Chinese version of the Justice League with their own Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, and Batman. Captain Marvel has been used by 9 different characters over the years by multiple companies. DC continued to use Captain Marvel for quite awhile despite Marvel owning the trademark to the name because Marvel came in with the Mar-Vell version during the Shazam version's downtime... DC maintained it by publishing his comic as Power of Shazam, but eventually just gave up on the confusion caused by this and just renamed their character Shazam because that's how most people identified the character anyhow. And coming up with unique names may not be hard for some... but it can be especially infuriating if you've come up with a given character name and used it plenty for years on one of a dozen shards on the Live servers back in the day only to come back to the game late and discover the name of one (or more) of your main characters has already been claimed on one or even all five of the current shards at Homecoming. And having to use the numbers to letters substitutions, adding a period or hyphen where they don't belong, intentionally misspelling a name, or just coming up with an entirely new name can be a real buzzkill for the love of an old character or a even a new idea. Damn, I had a great idea for a character named Captain Awesome, but it and "Capt Awesome," "Capt. Awesome," "Captain-Awesome," and "Capt-Awesome" are all taken. I guess I could make "Captain 4wesome" or just go with "Captain Something Else" but... nah. Once one starts running into the name taken roadblock repeatedly, the idea for the character starts becoming less shiny and the challenge of finding the right name no longer worth it. I'd rather a Captain Awesome (@Player2) and Captain Awesome (@Rishidan), and Captain Awesome (@someoneelse), as it would be more like the multiple company Captain Marvel naming convention... Captain Marvel (™Fawcett Comics), Captain Marvel (™M. F. Enterprises), Captain Marvel (™DC Comics), Captain Marvel (™Marvel Comics). People's global handles are the unique tags that would identify which character of a given name you are dealing with.

I believe the policy you speak of is for character levels 1-5. 6-20 it's 90 days, and 21-49 is a full year. But I also believe that policy has not been initiated yet.

The problem I have with unique names isn't that people get them before others who want to use them... or even people who get them and then squat on them because they plan to do something down the road. It's when someone takes a name for their character, plays awhile, and then goes off to do other things... and maybe they'll come back to the game someday and they want that character to still be here when they get back. But as long as we're stuck with the unique name system, I say if you're not using it then you should lose it.

Very nice. Love that face with the big red eyes.

Good use of asymmetrical gloves and shoulders.

Midnight Rose Nature Affinity / Dark Blast Defender

It was technically possible before. You could create (or join) a supergroup and set up a teleporter to take you to, among all the other zones, Galaxy City (Echo). This allowed you to bypass Ouroboros. I think that teleport beacon has been removed with Issue 27, though.

Christmas time starts tomorrow, and remember, even villains need a little holiday cheer. With that in mind, I present to you... Satan's Lil Helper Fire Blast / Fire Manipulation Blaster

I was working on my badge hound character yesterday and finished up the sewer and abandoned sewer network when I decided to make this guy: Drain Cleaner Water Blast / Atomic Manipulation Blaster

Irish Cream Water Blast / Cold Domination Corruptor Invader-X Kinetic Melee / Shield Stalker

The Penetrator Spines / Ice Armor Scrapper Suggestive Illusion Control / Storm Summoning Controller

Chic Mind Control / Force Field Controller The Hell-Child Psionic Melee / Bio Armor Scrapper