Have a drop-down menu for every power possible.

I understand that this would be an amazing amount of work but one of the strengths of Champions Online (even way before CO the MMORPG was a spark in anyone's eye) wonderful is the ability to customize things.

The powers would still DO what they normally do, but players could change the graphcial appearance, the color, and in some cases even the sound.

You could even GET THE PLAYERS TO HELP CODE THIS. Come up with some sort of design toolbox that people interested could help work on the powers. You could then set up a section of the forum where your players could vote on what looks good and proper and what doesn't, and then down the road your art team would cherry pick what is good in their eyes and what is not up to par.

Imagine if a character wanted to... "Control the powers of LAVA!!" but use electrical based attacks... it would be a lot of work. Let us do it for you, Cryptic.

What if someone playing munitions wanted his powers to appear like he was slinging rocks and other debris... completely possible...

Many of us players love modding. We'll volunteer our time for free.

You could even have many powers appear like they are coming from a weapon... I.E. the player holds out their twin swords and the power appears to arc from them.

The possibilities are near endless, and with your community helping you do the grand majority of the work I'm certain its doable.

All you need to do is write us the toolbox in which to do it. We don't need you to give out your entire proprietary design suite for this.

And in closing... HIRE ME. I've been a gamer probably longer than most of your players have been alive. I'm passionate about these things. I see a LOT of potential in this game.