Suggestions for additional costume slots

kojirohellfire

This is my latest recreation from my roster of old alts from City of Heroes, Shatter Nova. As you can see, I tried to remain faithful to the original design as possible so she could be recognizable. Thing is, she'll have those extra costume slots to fill and while I'm mulling over a few ideas, I could use some suggestions. Keep in mind, she is an alien robot found and reprogrammed by the U.S. government that has no memory of her previous existence.

CoH/CO comparison:



And the costume file to make suggestions easier:

synthozoic

A fellow former Paragonian here,

Slightly more than half of my characters in this game are sapient robots in one form or another. What I do is treat each costume as an optimized body for a specific task.

• one for heavy weapons combat
• one for stealth and espionage
• one for activity in space
• one for underwater missions
• one for common general purpose tasks
• and so on.

I then design that body with that role in mind. Heavy armor for combat or the high pressure of underwater missions. Light armor, flexibility and camouflage for espionage. Like that. I also change the color schemes that might be evocative of the role for that body. Maybe red for firefighting. Or various blues for sea missions. Yellow or black and white for space missions. Oranges and yellows for construction and heavy industry.

I've got a robot hero called Palace Guard which is making it's way down the colors of the spectrum in this manner.*

• Red
• Orange
• Yellow
• Green
• Blue

See?

* I don't know what I'll do with slot number eight, black and white I guess?

dialamx

I like to make new costumes based on different areas of the game. Most of my characters have a snow themed costume for Canada, a costume designed to withstand the heat and sand of the desert, a costume designed to withstand the pressure of the ocean bottom for Lemuria, an apocalyptic costume for the Vibora Bay crisis, with a darker themed costume to use in regular VB. Since VB has lots of Vampires and Werewolves, some of my characters have special vampire and werewolf themed costumes. I also tend to make an Anti-Radiation suit, or a mutated version of the character, for the irradiated zones of the desert. A jungle themed costume for Monster Island and the African Jungle of Serpent Lantern. Typically create a mystic themed costume for the Qliphothic realm, and an alternate universe costume for Multifaria. I even have some characters, who aren't normally armored, wear special armored suits for fighting heavily armed villains, like Warlord. Depending on my character's backstory, I also make special UNTIL and MCPD costumes to show their relationship with the government peace keepers.

You could also make themed costume based on the Holidays that are celebrated in the game. I have a few characters who cosplay Foxbat during Foxbatcon. I also tend to make a zombie version of my characters for Halloween. Some of them have Christmas themed versions of their regular costume, and some have patriotic themed costumes for the 4th of July. I also make party themed costumes for the Anniversary event, typically with the anniversary glitter costumes. Everything else is either costumes made solely for a CC category, or variations of the main costume, designed with what ever the latest costume set pieces that are released.

themightyzenith

And I like to make genre/comic age costumes for my toons. For your robot I would suggest steampunk, deiselpunk and pulp science fiction versions.