Just a suggestion but how about a 'temporary no second FC' type of policy? If people really want a second character so badly right out of the gate, make them create an OC if they already have an FC.

Something set in the Borderlands universe. Pandora could be a lot of fun to play around on.

A superhero/comic book game that wasn't taken over by insane and/or creepy people

An all original or OC-only superpowers/superhero game. Maybe set in a school of some kind.

A science fiction game set on a space station or in a spaceport city. Something like Deep Space Nine or Mos Eisley without being in either of those universes.

A Final Fantasy Mu* but not one set in any of the specific games. Like take the rules on how classes and magic and monsters and all that work from one game and apply it to an original world.

Electric tea pot with an auto-on timer so there's hot water ready for making tea first thing in the morning now that its actually getting cold. Love it.

And another question I have:
Would you make your limiter "Mutants Only" or "X-men Sphere Only"?
Open things to non-mutants that have been members of the X-men (like Deadpool, Hepzibah, etc) and restrict non-X-men related mutants like Justice and Squirrel Girl?

There's a couple characters I'd definitely knock off that list for an X-focused game. Namely Speed and Wiccan (They're more Avengers tied any X) and Speedball (Not tied to any X-men stuff and not a mutant)

@ghost What I meant more was that while they might have an X-gene (something the comics really should clarify sometime), they've never actually be associated with the X-sphere. They're like Justice/Vance Astrovik. He's a mutant but never has been associated with the X-men. And while Beast has been on other teams, he's always primarily been known for the X-men. Same as Wolverine.

@tempest Reed Richards.

Edit: Though in all seriousness, what's boring to one can be the most exciting to another. And really its all about what you do and how you do it when it comes to 'boring'.

Resetting characters like that likely wouldn't be viable at all in that kind of setting. Its just making another Year One game but forcing all the PCs to be Year One in a Year Five (or whatever) world.

And while there are people out there just in it for the power levels, it usually comes more down to people apping the version that they know most. I'd argue that 'super strong, flight, and power absorbing' is what comes to mind as Rogue's default powerset to most people more than just 'power absorb'. Same with Jean, most people are going to think Phoenix more than plain Marvel Girl for her.

@zombiegenesis There's another X-game opening?

I don't buy that $60 per person isn't enough for a second. Especially not when companies set unrealistic expectations for the money they claim they need to earn. They're not happy earning money, they want to earn ALL the money and anything short of that is called a failure.

@arkandel I imagine the constant jokes about it would be the frustrating part.

@bored Well for Jean I'd say the first thing that comes to mind for most people is "she keeps dying and coming back" which I'm told is a source of frustration for a lot of Jean players. But that aside, I think its not that hard to address the issue.

Have people app what's fits the cut off/era. If someone really wants say 'super strong and flying' Rogue, they could always work towards that by running a plot or something to have Rogue get that.

@bored said in X-Men Utopia MUX:

But those aren't Rogue's powers at the time period they're planning to set the game, or arguably for a lot of 'modern' comics (which was kind of the pitch for the setting).

Anyway, that's just kind of the point I'm trying to demonstrate. Do you actually research issue numbers and stat these characters out 'correctly' per this continuity they want to do? And if not, and people can just app what they want, how is it a continuity game any more than UH on an island?

I know, I was just trying to offer a theory or explanation on why people seem to always go for that one version of Rogue. That it wasn't so much about power as that being the most well known one.

Electric tea pot with an auto-on timer so there's hot water ready for making tea first thing in the morning now that its actually getting cold. Love it.

Resetting characters like that likely wouldn't be viable at all in that kind of setting. Its just making another Year One game but forcing all the PCs to be Year One in a Year Five (or whatever) world.

And while there are people out there just in it for the power levels, it usually comes more down to people apping the version that they know most. I'd argue that 'super strong, flight, and power absorbing' is what comes to mind as Rogue's default powerset to most people more than just 'power absorb'. Same with Jean, most people are going to think Phoenix more than plain Marvel Girl for her.

Wouldn't staff having to sit down and talk to players about characters they want to app take longer than just filling out an application and slow down people getting to play?

@bobotron Heck, she'd dead at start then her coming back could be a mini-plot of some kind. Have her come back at non-Phoenix levels.

Okay, another question!
Would characters like members of the Exiles be allowed? And if so, would their 'main' universe counterparts be allowed at the same time? Like Beast and Dark Beast? And how about characters like the time displaced original 5?