Paragon Studios details Issue 16 power customization
by Shawn Schuster 
Jul 16th 2009 at 7:00PM
Filed under: Super-hero, Screenshots, City of Heroes, Patches
This recent news also includes much more information on enhanced difficulty settings and the proliferation of powersets among all Archetypes, allowing more types of players to possess more powersets. Check out the entire overview of Issue 16: Power Spectrum for more information.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jake said on 7:14PM 7-16-2009
Wow they are just getting desperate now. Copying cryptic's ideas.
And yes I know cryptic originally created the game but they are not running it now Paragon studios are.
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JP said on 7:43PM 7-16-2009
Jake, I'm no advocate for CoH or NCSoft, but power customization is something that people have requested since the release of the game.
It's less "copying" from Cryptic, as it is both studios realized that it was extremely important to the player base.
Phocks said on 8:00PM 7-16-2009
Actually, power customization is something that Paragon Studios and Cryptic were both trying to do for the game since back before City of Villains launched, when both studios were together.
The issue was the way the powers were coded, and a complete rewrite of the powers coding was necessary for it to even be possible, so I'd imagine this was being worked out way before Champions came about with their hue shifter, or probably even before Cryptic Studios departed from Paragon Studios.
Jake said on 2:26AM 7-17-2009
Fair comments ^^ Glad you civily explained why I was wrong instead of flaming me...thanks..
Can't stand people that flame.
interitus said on 7:46PM 7-16-2009
They played with this idea years ago, and then it vanished. Nice to know it takes serious competition before you start to go through with an idea. Too little. Too late.
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Broken Bottle said on 10:02PM 7-16-2009
People had been requesting this for a while but the devs told us that the power colors were "baked in" to the code so customizations were very challenging to do. I don't think it's a coincidence that once NC Soft took over and Emmert left players started getting a lot of their requested features. Jack had a lot of weird hangups like not wanting players to be able to see the numbers behind the powers and things like that. If they're delivering the customizations now, it's not because they started working on it last week....
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Haggs said on 11:45PM 7-16-2009
When NCSoft bought the whole thing from Cryptic, they decided to invest a ton of money into the game. So suddenly things that were thought impossible before were suddenly on the table again. All they had to do was hire a lot more staff and they could finally get some of these long requested features in the game.
I'm really excited about the state of CoH right now. With the improvements they've made to the game lately and the promise of upcoming stuff like Going Rogue, it's a great time to be playing the game.
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Kdolo said on 11:47PM 7-16-2009
Yes. Clearly Cryptic was holding NCsoft back.
CCon99 said on 1:10AM 7-17-2009
Nah, Jack has held Cryptic back all by himself.
Vulturion said on 4:09AM 7-17-2009
I think that before posting you should really have stopped and thought:
What would Superman do?
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Meagen said on 6:13AM 7-17-2009
The first thing you think of when you hear "changing body size and type between costumes" isn't shapeshifters, or heroes who put on huge powersuits, or Bruce Banner changing into the Hulk. It's sex changes. That says something about you, doesn't it?
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Samael said on 6:21AM 7-17-2009
Well its awfully idiotic of you calling someone else's lifestyle idiotic
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Bostondreams said on 8:56AM 7-17-2009
Wow. Guess you haven't seen the futanari running around all over Virtue pretty much since issue one?
What an incredibly stupid thing to say.
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TigroSpottystripes Katsu said on 2:05PM 7-17-2009
pics or didn't happened
(pics pls? o.o