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jovianj
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I had suggested it last year, not sure if the year before too. So I thought I would continue the fine tradition to get broomstick flight some year.
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When talking about TP skins, we must consider that most will be a reskin of an existing TP. Since no TP has your character sitting on anything, the closest would probably be to have your character stand on the broomstick, using an animation similar to hover disc. Would that be acceptable?
It would be cool if they had a "ghostly" flight where your character sort of left wispy trails behind them as they flew - perhaps they could use the skull/face effect from powers like defile.
Another cool idea would be if you flew atop a giant Jack O'Lantern.
Another cool one would be "ghoul burrowing" - basically skeletal or zombie hands emerge from under your character and drag them into the ground, then you travel as normal burrowing.
I'd also like to see dark acro & dark flight, using basically the same effect as dark speed.
How about "tomb stone flight" where you fly on top of a large tombstone, kinda like flyign carpet of hover disc?
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Here's the problem though - in order to have a sitting animation, the devs would also have to go back and recode every power to have a transition from sitting to that power's normal animation. The only other work-around would be to *not* allow you to use anything but self-only powers, sort of like how cape glide behaves. Then, you character would be locked into a fixed pose and couldn't attack or use other abilities.
Another idea would be to make a broomstick "vehicle" which has your character sitting on it, and give it a few unique attacks for being on the broom...
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Pretty much.
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I, for one, don't think it would be that big of a deal to give us a sitting travel power. Take a look at Energy Slide's Animation. The crouching stance. bring the right arm forward, legs closer together, imagine a broom there. It would be Ice slide or Hover Disc based, but with a new moving animation, you follow? If they can give us Athletics, they can definitely give us sitting travel powers.
No one is saying that the devs *can't* do all this - we're saying that the "cost" vs return just isn't there to make it worthwhile. The energy slide TP actually uses the same pose as the start of Acrobatics, so it's already built. IIRC, hover disc and earth flight also use that animation.
The animation that athletics uses also already existed as one of the early stages of the old acro (again, IIRC).
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Bio, what I'm saying is that those crouching animations would make an excellent starting point for a possible Broom Flight. Also, with all the magical characters out there, I'd think they'd get more than enough money back.
Ppl would probably start friggin Magic Academy SG's just from Broom Flight coming out.
It's more like they would have to go through every single animation possible and do such things. I would wager that there are more than 50 or possibly even a hundred different animations, and that doesn't include potential different animations for male and female alone and possibly the various costumes, cloaks and so forth, as well as weapon geo responses and the like.
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would be so much fun.
Think Bedknobs and Broomsticks! What was the first thing Mrs Price found whilst learning to ride her broom? Sit on it! Don't straddle it!
And thus, we have the witchy look, the sitting on the broom as it takes you to your destination, looking back at the people whose lives you have just 'tricked' with some curse or some other mystical rot.
And then, a shrill cackle, as your green-skinned hag disappears into the velvet night.
So yeah, don't mount the broom... Sit on it! (also, it'll stop people using the 'long stick-like object coming out from between their legs' in social areas if they're side-seated on it)
that way when you aren't flying you can still use the broom. maybe it can also come with a sweeping emote.
But that are just some possibilities i think of.
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Join Date: 19 June 2011
Only if we can have it as a shotgun skin too, I think.
"This... is my BROOMSTICK!"
Why not use the pose you get into if you charge a running TP (Acrobatics, SS, you know what I mean.) Your character hunches down, one hand in front of him, the other back and to the side with his/her feet in an almost vertical line...It's not perfect, but it could make something of a 'surfing on the broom' animation that could be transitioned back to a little more easily.
And since Harry potter was mentioned...If as a noob to flying, Harry could do it in the first movie, I figure a mystic ninja/talented witch/robot maid/whatever else could do it.
Also, if that's a bust, I'm all for sitting sidesaddle on it.
And broomstick riding is such a cool idea!
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