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Sloppy. Just sloppy.

Power sets are usually in alphabetical order... So how come Dual Blades precedes Dark Melee?

I was really looking for a good excuse to use those energy claws with Pixels hands aura. And I decided to go for old school monochromatic green for the circuitry and energy effects.

Not even just inspired by this, going to completely rip it off... Codebreak Claws / Electric Armor Stalker

True, but then you are limiting your aura use to that when you might want it for something else. Also, one could do the same thing with fire + an aura for a double effect... like a smoking hands combat aura to go along with the flaming power activation effect to make it look like the character (or his gloves) are burning when he powers up... or a fire aura of a different color to achieve an additional layer of color to the colors (natural or power customized) of the flame activation effect.

Difficult, yes, or it probably would have been done before the shutdown when people complained about it all the time. Impossible? No... it's all in knowing how to code it so that it doesn't break anything else. Which, I guess, makes it functionally impossible... but not truly.

When they are unique, then yes, they will become valuable. The "cooler" sounding the name is, the more valuable it will be. I have a number of characters on Torchbearer that I would give up to get other names that were already taken. So far, I've only really had any luck exchanging a name with someone. I think when I first got back into the game, I was able to get the name on Torch but it was taken on Excelsior where I anticipated making my home. Was able to reach the name owner and he seemed to think his group was going to be more active on Torch, so agreed to switch with me. More recently, after moving many of my characters over to Torch because my friends gravitated that way over time, I contacted him again and found that he played more often than not on Excelsior... so we traded back again so my incarnate Dark/Storm corruptor could get more regular playtime.

I also like fire because when you click an attack power without having a target, your hands will flame up in anticipation of the attack just as they do when you actually make the attack. Honestly, I wish more attack powers could do this... like electric aura on hands for electric attacks, the arctic aura on hands for cold attacks, etc. I think Flame is the only one that does this (aside from weapon sets which will cause you to draw your weapon).

Quite. I think claiming a name as one's old <insert server> name is more of a way to identify why it's important to them rather than asserting ownership of a name.

No, I'm afraid I only have a few characters on Everlasting.

What do you want and where?

I'm squatting on some names on Excelsior because I've moved most of my playing over to Torchbearer, but a couple dozen of my characters names were already in use on Torch, so they got left behind. I'd happily trade with anyone who wants to switch over to Excelsior... but otherwise I've been leaving them idle for awhile in case I ever move back to Excelsior and want to play those characters again.

I think super strength should have a much stronger Knock Up/Down magnitude as you level up so that at high levels you can affect even AVs with the Knockout Punch (knock up, at least... I don't expect them to be disoriented) and maybe to a lesser degree Footstomp. Or maybe have it as it is now, but increase while Rage is active.

As someone who has placed a thumbtack from a distance and had the z coordinate way above where I could stand (such as the big crater in the Hollows), I fully support this idea.

In case I missed it earlier in the thread, one of the things I do when trying to get names for characters is adding a prefix title such as Captain, Major, Doctor, Miss, Mister Professor, or one of the abbreviations for those titles. Cricket is unavailable? I'll take Miss Cricket. Sometimes I'll add a short proper first name after something I wanted to make it more of a nickname. Firearms is taken? I'll take Firearms Joe.

Misspelling in the case of theme or personality makes sense... like I could see using the Freakshow naming convention of 1337speak spelling for a Freakshow style character. But ultimately I would love to see the global name linking as the preferred way to go.

Cool firefighter design... although at the moment, this Water Blast / Atomic Manipulation blaster is stuck with the name Squirty McMoist.

Lucky 7 Staff Fighting / Super Reflexes Scrapper

Some of these options are simply unacceptable to my brain. Changing the spelling of a word to something that looks like a child's spelling mistake would never work for me. Bookending names looks juvenile to me and I could never accept playing a character so named. I have named one of my characters in binary, but given the twenty-character limit on names, I'm only able to give a two letter name this way. However, joining words to make new words does work for me. That said, the online thesaurus is your friend. https://www.thesaurus.com/ Still... is there ever any hope of the HC team doing what the NCSoft team couldn't by making names linked to player global names so that more than one person could use a name?

If you're looking for names on Excelsior, please see the Excelsior Name release thread where I've posted well over a thousand ideas to use or stimulate your imagination.

More available names waiting for someone to use on Excelsior: Acquaintance Agreeable Anti-Heist Aporkalypse Astrophysicist Astrophysics Back-Burner Badge Lord Badge-King Badgemaster Best Example Blasting Expert Book Smart Boomtown Bruiser Brainless Buffoon Brickstown Brute Bromantic Bucketface Buzzword Bunker-Buster Cheesy Macaroni Chubby Hubby Chunky Monkey Civil War Clueless Cop Coffee Drip Coffee Toffee Combat Specialist Control Specialist Corny Name Croatoa Creeper Cumulative Hangover Curse-Breaker Curser Dancefloor King Dancefloor Queen Dark Astoria Data Encryption Data Entry De-Generator Death Chant Deathchant Deep Cut Demolition Expert Deranger Digital Heart Dirty Doublecrosser Disagreeable Doctor Chrono Doctor Deflection Doctor Invincible Doctor Toxin Downsizer Double-A Double Aces Double-Action Double-Axe Double-Barreled Double-Bladed Double-Click Double-Cross Doublecrosser Double-Dare Double Date Double-Dealer Double Dipper Double Dog Dare Double-Dose Double-Double Double Dutch Double Duty Double-Edged Double-F Double-Feature Double Guns Double Header Double Indemnity Double-Insulated Double Jointed Double Knockout Doublekick Double-Major Double-Negative Double-Scoop Double-Speed Double-Strength Double Strike Double-Strong Double Thick Double-Threat Double-Trouble Doublevision Double-Weird Double-Wide Double-X Double-XL Double XP Double-Y Double Zero Dr. Defibrillator Dr. Dehydrator Dr. Density Dr. Feelbad Dr. Robotics Dr. Schpadoinkle Dr. Sleepy Effortless Empowerer Entrusted Erroneous Evacuator Excitement Exciter Exit Strategy Exorcism Face Time Farce of Will Fascinator Faultline Fixer Fresh Brewed General Manager Giggle Therapy Gladiatorial Guru Globalization Good Time Gal Good Time Guy Grandville Ghoul Gross Encounter Healing Specialist Health Kick Heavy Lifter Heavy Lifting Hidden Meaning Holistic Holistic Healer Hollows Hero Honor Roll Hopeless Bromantic Hot Saucy Imaginer Inorganic Insubordinate Jocular Joke Teller Joking Joking Around Junk-Holder Kaboom-boom Killer Time Last Man Last Man Standing Left Field Life Sentence Longbow Scientist Lugubrious Luxurious Magic Doctor Marvelous Time Mercy Island Marvel Metathesis Mind-Blower Mind Share Minter Wonderland Misinterpreter Miss Interpreter Miss Translation Mission Specialist Mistranslation Monkey-Butt Mounty Hunter Mr. Meteorologist Next Generation Ninja Physicist Non-Prophet Old Standard Obvious Ploy Open Source Organic Matter Out-Rage Package Deal Pain Point Paragon Pugilist Peep Show Peregrine Patroller Perez Park Pacifier Phlegmstorm Playable Planetary Peace Planetary Piece Poetry in Motion Political Asylum Port Oakes Pariah Predestined Predetermined Prof. Brainfreeze Prof. Doom Prof. Gloom Prof. Pain Prof. Permafrost Prof. Poison Prof. Proton Prof. Psion Prof. Pulse Prof. Pyro Prof. Science Professor Panic Professor Parasite Professor Physics Professor Plant Professor Smartbrain Professor Speed Professor Petrifier Professor Petrifies Psi-ence Psience 101 Psience Minded Psionics Professor Punctuality Quest For Fire Quiet Life Real-Time Remastered Ritual Sacrifice Roadmap Rogue Isles Ravager Sassy Cassie Satanic Ritual Scheduler Science Soldier Science Specialist Science Storm Scissor Kick Self-Indulgent Shamer Sharkhead Smasher Shusher Sickburn Skyway Stalker Sonic Specialist Soul Scientist Sound Specialist Speed Science St. Martial Artist Steamed Vegetable Stealth Specialist Steel Canyon Carver Stimulating Stimulus Package Street Cleanser Sybarite Tainted Sample Tartar Sauce Team Specialist Team Up Temporal Theory Terminal Cooties Thermal Theory Totally Baked Treatment Trouble-Maker Troubler Unified Field Theory Unoriginal Gangster Upgradable Urban Bourbon Vacation Vacationer Vegetable Fiend Vegetable Friend Very Bad Villain Very Good Hero War-Hog Wax On Wax Off Whole Package World-Ender Worldwide X-Core X-Tremist Yak-Master Yard Gnome Yard Sale Raider Zero Grav Zero Interest Zero Master Zero Time Zero Zero One Zesty Bestie Enjoy.

He's been renamed as Puritanical. Turkey Shoot is funny, though.

I can't believe no one swiped this on Torchbearer already:

So these images me think... for next year, can more ToT costumes be added to the list we get now? It seems like the ones we get are fairly limited from the female side of things. There's one exclusively female costume with the Knives of Artemis costume... and then a handful of costumes that represent whatever your characters sex normally is (Crey Agent, Paragon Protector, Coralax, Eidolon), and the rest are all male. Some suggested additions: Skulls (add female variant as they exist now) Cabal (female only) Longbow (sex appropriate to character) Hero Corps (sex appropriate to character) Cimeroran (Roman soldier male / Citizen in toga female, appropriate to character's sex) Clockwork (Praetorian stlye, sex appropriate to character) Neo-Shivan (no sexual characteristics) Redcap (male only, obviously) Firbolg (no sexual characteristics?) Zombie (like the lieutenants in the cool ripped up shirts during the zombie apocalypse event) And how about some specific individual costumes? Statesman, Lord Recluse, Back Alley Brawler, and Hamidon all have costume salvage pieces show up indicating that these costumes exist within the lore of Paragon City... couldn't we get some representation on that? Another individual I'd like to see is a Jack in Irons costume (shrunk down, obviously, not GM-sized).

Another name that combines with badges for humorous effect... Former badge was Dance Legend (Steel Canyon exploration), but currently sporting Hunter after the Halloween event. Off-Color Ice Blast / Atomic Manipulation Blaster