With the $500K stretch goal reached (WIIGII!) we can now expect Sky Surfing at launch. I think it's time to start suggesting platforms for this type of travel power.
The name of the power implies:
Surfboard
The KS page lists:
Cloud
Magic Carpet
Boulder
Manhole Cover
To these, I'd like to suggest adding:
Flying Platform (wiki that phrase for three real-world, albeit experimental versions)
As many other variations as we can think up and the devs have time to code ^_^
I would add in the traditional (at least in western Europe for witches) Broomstick, but that would seem to require a substantially different animation to that of a surfboard. Maybe that can be a variant of a Cycle travel power...
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Jet boots. Not the kind that makes you fly like a rocket, but the kind that is a standing hover with forward movement.
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I'd say something similar to the hover boards in back to the future 2 film would be a good idea, also what about a broomstick as well or would a broomstick be more for fly and not sky surfing?
I'd add things like a circular "manhole cover" type disc but have it be made of fire and/or glowing energy. Might as well have one made of shiny, metallic material too. That wouldn't have to just be "silvery" - they could let it be any color like a red, gold or black metallic.
Well like Foradain implied to make a Broomstick travel power they'd have to come up with some kind of sitting animation for it. That would obviously take a little more work than just coming up with another thing for people to stand on like a surfboard. I suppose they could allow people to stand on a broom for the Sky Surfing power, but frankly it would look a little weird.
Another possibility for the Broomstick might be to use the standard Fly power with workable Fly Poses. Fly Poses were awkward to use in CoH because they were implemented as tacked-on emotes that didn't work well with the built-in Fly animations. Maybe if they retooled the way the Fly animations worked it would be easier to apply different player-selectable poses to it.
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If CoT ever implements trailing feet auras like CoH did, then there should be a no-platform option just so the feet-aura alone would be the 'platform.'
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Would I be correct in assuming that this is the travel power that would be used to emulate the likes of Iceman's ice ramp?
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Wouldn't an "Ice Ramp" travel power be more like a Super Jump with a long-trailing opaque travel aura? As long as this new game gives us the standard Super Jump all it needs to do is give us a travel aura that would look cool for that.
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Some ideas I had were standing straight while holding an umbrella (Mary Poppins), riding in a giant teacup (shades of the Mad Hatter's tea party), or sitting in a recliner.
But if we're going with standing on a platform of some kind, such that the 'riding' animation can be used regardless of what's being ridden, then what about these:
Guitar (electric, most likely)
Model airplane or glider (NOT like Green Goblin, but not too far off, either)
Giant pillow or beanbag
Door (wooden, screen mesh with wooden frame, submarine with locking wheel)
Small boat (rowboat, canoe, gondola)
Large tractor tire
Giant red stapler
Giant clam shell or conch shell
More later, perhaps!
Put me down for basic Hoverboard (Skateboard)..
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I would like to suggest:
A flying platform shaped similarly to Hello Kitty's head, except with a cowl!
*trills excitedly*
A shield...of course
Circuit board
Sonic pulses
An oversized arrow (for the archers out there)
Lava patch
An Acme Rocket Scooter (think Wile E. Coyote)
Dark tendrils
A botanical/shrubbery patch
A glass sphere/orb
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Surfing on a bird would be cool, and could prolly be differentiated enough from Flight to make sense in this context.
Similar to the Iceman ramp, I'm sure there would be folks out there who would want to see different "trailer" effects... rainbows, giant star/comet with a star/dust trail, bubbles...
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I want that red stapler.
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I don't know about anyone else, but I'd honestly want to have every mobile NPC vehicle have one of these "platforms" be applied to its upper surface(s), so that PCs can "hop on" the top of a truck and "ride" it through the city. One of the disappointing things about CoH was the decision that if an object moved, a PC couldn't "stand" on it (without slipping off due to collision detection). This meant you couldn't do moving platform mazes or "elevator" platforms and a bunch of other things. But the real problem was that you couldn't jump off a bridge onto a moving vehicle and have that vehicle take you somewhere.
Imagine if City of Titans had freeways with high speed traffic, and that one of the "intended" methods of getting around quickly (as a "poor man's" travel power) would be hitching a ride on top of a moving vehicle, where you just ride it through traffic like an anime ninja to get to where you're wanting to go.
Now, obviously, the traffic speed in CoH would have needed to be much higher in order for this kind of thing to be practical, let alone commonplace, but that's what having high speed freeways is all about, instead of making an entire city with nothing but surface streets and bridges that exist to go nowhere for no good reason (*cough* Skyway *cough*).
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How about non-moving "flying-posed animal" statue sort of thing? A leaping tiger statue, a dolphin, a turtle etc. Being statues, our coders wouldn't need to have a four-legged rig working yet nor animate them.
I want to ride a flying tiger through the sky, man...
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I LOVE this idea! Way too much fun to be had :D
"A botanical/shrubbery patch"
.......A giant leaf.
I like the hoverboard idea, too.
And I would gladly stand on a broom... kinda gives a more modern look to the the "old" traditional way. (kids these days... ;) )
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And I would gladly stand on a broom... kinda gives a more modern look to the the "old" traditional way. (kids these days... ;) )
For a more modern broom look, I recommend an upright vacuum cleaner. Dyson or other cyclone-type by preference (no bag flopping around).
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That's Urd riding a vacuum cleaner in the 1993 TV anime opening to Ahh! Megami-sama! seen around the 1:10 mark (a bit briefly).
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A kind of flying manta ray looking creature would be cool, particularly for people with animal control or Atlantis themed characters. You could give it 2 or 3 relatively simple skins- just enough to make them distinct from each other.
Also, you could even share elements from whatever shield props might wind up in the game. A sky surfing platform would just be a horizontal shield that you stand on, really. So you'd have all the same 'look' options: rock, energy, tech hex, electricity, and so forth. Then, much like shields, you could have a rather generic circle, square, or other basic geometric shape that you could just pick a material for and slap your icon on.
Finally, I fully support animations for summoning your platform like whistling for it, and being able to jump off of things and out of windows and such and have it come swooping in for you to land on.
Preceded by Skuld on a more futuristic cleaning device ^_^. But note that Urd-sama is seated, which I think would be substantially more different to a traditional witch-on-a-broomstick than riding astride a cylinder upright.
So, we have a new category: Seated, to go along with the Standing and Astride personal vehicle types. Canister vacuum cleaners would go here; also flying thrones, recliners, and Yoda's armchair. Anything else?
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Satellite9IrezoomieIf we get a surfboard, which I think we should, could we please get something that looks more like a real surfboard? NOT the odd shaped plank the Silver Surfer seems to be riding on these days.
I know that this may seem nitpicky, but as someone who does surf, this is akin to the whole Katana discussion we had in COT. It matters.
Of course there is a huge variety of boards, but I think we should keep it to a classic longboard and/or shortboard. The most important thing is that surfboards usually aren't flat. The have a rocker. That is the tail and the nose are curving up to some degree. That is important functionally, but it also looks a lot nicer.
It's easy to find images online (here's a link to some longboards: http://allaboutsurfboards.com/harbour-surfboards/), but I'd be happy to help out with any questions.
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Waffle and/or pancake
plate/saucer
all sorts of sports themed possibilities...baseball base, bat, hokey stick, lacrosse stick, a big soccer/basket/foot/volley ball, ice skates/roller skates/rollerblades to sky skate
giant open book
pentacle/magic circle with symbols/rune(s)
different kinds of doors
kitchen sink
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As much as I would like to have something like this as well. I can see the lag it can cause. Unlike running visual effects these can be seen by anyone looking in a general direction (and running effects were staying too short to justify the iceman's ramp effect) if they stay too long but if they don't stay a certain amount of time than they are not giving the same impression as iceman's ice ramp.
I am certainly a fan of flying around on a cloud.
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I like the Yoda's chair idea, but what about us that want to switch from standing to seated on our platforms when the speed gets high enough to blow us off be sheer wind resistance alone, and vice versa? I'd also like to be able to customize how my platform is colored/accessories for it (say having little stops around the rim where you can brace yourself when you gain/lose speed).
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I want the ability to travel by bubble, or as a collection of particles like a fire wisp or a collection of energy bubbles or a swarm of bees
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You mean like this?
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YES - in complete form of obnoxious Glinda the pink witch of the north form!! Mwuahahaha!!!
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I just want to be able to jump on top of a delivery truck and ride around town, healing random heroes as I pass. Yes, literal drive-by buffing..
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Park bench.
Hood torn off of a car.
Stop sign and other similar street signs.
Mattress.
Picnic table.
(Ad space) Giant novelty DVD cases or movie posters.
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But that would be far too specific a method for triggering access to our version of Oro. Not everyone is going to want to get hit by lightning while using this power and getting sent into a spin fast enough to trigger the time circuits while there's still enough energy left over to kick you back to the 1800's...
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surfing on top a swarm of bees or bugs.... could also be skinned to look like dirt or smoke
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I checked, and to my surprise, I didn't see it suggested anywhere, so... perhaps we could stand atop an actual pheonix? Preferably in a gliding pose, so it wouldn't need to flap its wings or anything. Still, think of the symbolism!
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Tis a lovely image of what I had in mind. The second one. Thank you, Lynne.
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Oh, I see what you did.
(Yeah, a scene from A Certain Scientific railgun again. I swear that series is like the anime answer to X-Men.)
They're actually both the Phoenix from Gatchaman...
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Giant Paintbrush
Sky surfing(like in Treasure Planet)
Giant Frisbee
Giant Upside-Down Soda
Giant Bullet(like in mario)
Giant Hand
Giant Paper Airplane
Giant Football/baseball/soccerball/basketball/tennis ball, etc
Giant hand tools(wrench, hammer, screwdriver)
A bruised and beaten NCSoft themed NPC
Just to name a few
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Actually, riding a broom like a skateboard doesn't look that bad...
It's basically a hardcore skateboard.
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swords. I know I have seen it but can't seem to remember where.
It was a girl in a playboy bunny outfit in a fan trailer for Daicon IV
It was an amazing trailer done in a time when you just couldn't do that sort of thing!
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No, I remember now it was in the manga Binbougami. The main character had a wooden sword that she would sometimes surf around on similar to the way brooms where shown above.
Ah, Ok.
It's just that Daicon IV was pretty cool!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scRFMVAtBsA
Bare with me though, it is 30 years old!
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Ah, memories. Hmm...the unstoppable team - The Daikon Bunny Girl and SquirrelGirl!