Urban center of Heroes Community Quiz
Answers by Jay Doherty (Art Director)
Questions from the CoH Community

image Community Qestion: If you could only design three more dress up pieces ever for City of Heroes and Villains, what would those be?
Jay Doherty: A chef dress up set, an evil clown around dress up unmoving, 1930's robot costume set

Community Qestion: We've seen dress up pieces in a samurai theme, a pirate theme and many an other themes. If you had wholly the resources in the world, what theme would you love to see in the back personally?

Jay Doherty: Cowboy, really. I didn't make those cowboy boots without wanting to finish information technology up. But seems to me that players would rather have unusual things earlier I finish that one up.

Community Qestion: Will we see more 'detached' costume pieces in future, or will all new pieces exist inventions? It's very frustrating to have a great costume concept simply need to get the right formula and salvage to relieve oneself the dress up pieces required.

Jay Doherty: Present is what I do. I make all of the original dress up pieces for players, make all the NPCs, and fix costume bugs. What I make out not work on is index sets, FX, or Animation. Also, I put on't decide how and when costumes are given to players. In that location is nothing I like more than making unaccustomed stuff for you; it's darned fun. But… how you cotton on is not capable me.

Community of interests Qestion (FREDO62): Equally a villain, I would really like to live healthy to have a misshapen or deformed character, merely the basic character models are wholly dead formed. Will we ever so be able to have truly ugly characters?

John Jay Doherty: All costume pieces need to work with all other dress up pieces, so having a body type that was shaped like the elephant man, Beaver State a huge fat guy just would not work. I did and still do want to score a torso that has a hole right in the middle, I Don't know if I'll make IT in but we'll see.

Community Qestion (Belga): Can we be given get at to the NPC costume pieces? Many players would have intercourse to use the Circus of Shadows pieces, for example, and I'd truly the like to get entree to the Mu Mystics costumes.

Jay Doherty: When NPCs where first made there was atomic number 102 intention to give players those costume pieces, mostly because they would not do work with other costume pieces (antique: clipping, related) When the PPD exobot guys were first put into the game, players really wanted those pieces for themselves. Unfortunately whol those pieces where made to body of work with each other not as single out pieces, and they look really silly if you don't have all the pieces on. So to accost this we receive come finished with a couple of solutions. First, patc not wholly copying the carnival of shadows I stimulate built a all new costume set with the flavor of the carnival. Second, in that respect testament be a new NPC group that was built with the player in mind, all costume pieces from this NPC aggroup will beryllium something players testament exist able-bodied to wear. Now depending on how the players respond to this is how we'll handle more things in the future. Please don't opine that every NPC dress up group from this point on will be disposed to the players, but I will put across forth the effort to do as many Eastern Samoa doable.

Community Qestion: Quivers and scabbards! Please Army of the Righteou us have them, Jay! Please!

Jay Doherty: Yeah, I know. If we bash implement these, you ain't acquiring it till I'm happy with they mode they work. If I'm not happy with them so I know for a fact that you will abominate them.

Community Qestion: Would it follow possible to consecrate falsetto level characters access to two 'auras' directly, so you could (for example) have flaming hands and glowing eyes?

Jay Doherty: Maybe, I don't know. Even though auras are in the costume creator they fall into FX. I do not do the FX for the game. On that point is higher priority stuff that needs doing right now, simply I bear written it down in "the book of stuff to maybe think about possibly doing erstwhile."

Community Qestion (Belga): Are there whatever plans for any new basic body types, in addition to Male, Female and Huge?

Jay Doherty: Sorry, NO. Now, here is the long reason why. For all dress up piece that goes into the game; for example the Gear Pads, it has to be "ported" over to the other body types (MALE, HUGE, Egg-producing). When I left a costume art object I need to make a point it works with every last other dress up pieces; this takes time, I mightiness take equal to 2 years fitting to port a unmarried costume patch. We have a principle here in costume land "If information technology works with 80% of the costume pieces then IT buttocks go in the game." With the Gear pads, they work with almost everything, yes they clip with some animations and some costume pieces, just that's what happens when you have hundreds of each. If we added another body character all single costume piece of all time made would have to be ported over, there are hundreds of dress up pieces. It would take very long to make a newly body character. We could probably do a peck of some other great things with that clip and I don't think the players want to wait even thirster for more NPCs and costume sets.

Community Qestion (Alpha_Ryvius): What goes into creating and designing a costume piece? Excursus from artistic skill is there anything you would indigence or have to take into consideration in creating something a massive group of people will or will not role.

Jay Doherty: Yes, I neediness to constitute badass stuff that the players want. With every issue I'm always foiled that I didn't get much stuff out to the players but good act upon comes at a terms, time. When I started the "Jay's Costume Request wander" I didn't expect information technology to be so popular. As of today there is 4520 posts, and there are even more requests. Everyone as requested everything, some solid some lamentable. Some requests are practical and some identical outlandish and impossible. I'm getting to as many every bit I can within rationality. Peerless on the biggest requests that keep popping up is long skirts. Well I gave it a go and it turned forbidden superficial like crap, there are to a fault many animations that the players go though that just causes the long skirt to trim and look awful.

Community Qestion (AnitaCocktail): What I would like to know is that with so many suggestions on the CoX forums that I know you admit time to read, how ut you get whatsoever work done? For that matter how perform you resolve what to actually body of work on and what actually gets into the game?

Jay Doherty: Routine I make a PB&J sandwich for lunch, bring information technology back to my office, check my netmail, look at the latest news on the hacker report, and check the bespeak thread. I look at the thing everyday. As for deciding what goes into the game, I ordinarily consult a magical sea shell I keep nether my desk. The sea shell tells me to do good things, but sometimes it tells me to do bad, identical bad. It takes about 15 beers before that sea shell starts to talk.

Residential district Qestion (Alpha_Ryvius): Is there a piece or arrange that you wish was in the game but couldn't get in somehow or another?

Jay Doherty: At that place are a lot of things that aren't in the game yet. It's just a weigh of fourth dimension.

Profession Qestion (Ubie2000): From the sound of your bio and your general attitude when you Post, you appear like a person who really loves what they do and has a passion for information technology. Set you ever have those moments where you'll either hear a song or see something that on the spur of the moment inspires you to passionately bulge work at an idea and keep impermanent thereon until you refinement it? If so, is any of that work in-game right straightaway or exit to be?

Jay Doherty: Yes, on that point was this one night that I was ripe to go interior but had to knock off the browns inactive at the super bowl before I left for domicile. Piece on the crapper it hit me. I stayed for a few more hours and that why we have the pain pads in the game.

Community Qestion (Alpha_Ryvius): Also how much has the players suggestions influenced your designs or decisions in creating new costume pieces?

Jay Doherty: The player suggestions have the most charm present on out. The number of things to do is a giant one and IT keeps getting longer. The wings, samurai set, projectile boots, new patterns, vet pets, kilts, trench coats, and even the Greek letters were all player suggestions. I have, as of today successful painted 4 new costume sets for issue 10. 3 of the 4 were player suggestions, and I'm still working along more.

Residential area Qestion (Alpha_Ryvius): From your profile you mentioned Bad Soldier Sailor Lunar month. Do you watch anime, if so what former Zanzibar copal do you watch, any favorites, and what are you presently observation if you do watch Zanzibar copal?

Jay Doherty: I do watch some anime, but I have cooked myself out along it. I went to a college called digipen and everyone there was an anime nut. Daylong, nerds argumen about the inconsistencies between the original Japanese version and the dubbed version made for the Dry land audience. They drove me mad. It was just a geek contender to see who knew more about some loser guy that looked equivalent a girl. Besides I sack nary longer stand story lines near male characters that interview every damn motive that they have for the way they live, wherefore they fight off, Beaver State wherefore they love about girl. I impartial can't relate with the introspective nightmare that all gum anime characters seem to have. I more into the American stuff along adult swim, I did like "Berserk" though.

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