AncientSpark

Okay... That is weird that they would only announce in-game and not in the news section... odd... but no biggie really... just thinking it was not a fully hatched plan then or well thought-out... with this user-base you would think they would still make an actual post.

Today is Tues, not Thursday and I do not see any announcement for server downtime at all for today... does anyone know what is going on? I've already checked the news forums for it... strange that I cannot find a mention for 2/28 downtime right now as of 8:21am.

Have not been in game for some time, just returning. Joined up on FB. I'm ready to stay in for now if I can. Thank God for free-to-play if I do lapse, but I do not plan to.

I'm that casual gamer that LOVES this game with all his heart, just has hard financial times due to being the sole breadwinner during the summer months, and having a full household.

Well, I do what I can and play when I can... but that doesn't take away from that I love this game so much...

I'm not great at it, by any means... but you don't have to be great at something to enjoy it fully.

Having ADHD and other disorders prevents my longevity in missions... so solo-ing is my only real option. I do join teams when I can but I can't do long arcs... not condusive to my lifestyle.

Well I'm glad to be here anyway and hope to see this game through. My only other MMO is dying on Dec 15th.. SWG. And I haven't even been there for a LONG while.. and its yet another game I TRULY love.. and I hate to see it go. I might join KOTOR just to see what all the fuss is about... but I will remain a CoH-er for all my days. The ONLY other MMO that interests me doesn't start until 2012... TRANSFORMERS UNIVERSE.

Well That's my welcome message and hello to all. Hope to see you all in game on Guardian... really the only server I play on. I am Xpira Meltdown.
Magic Blaster extra ordinary.

So there seem to be no sg forming npc's or base portals anywhere in praetoria... where are they? How would you make an sg/vg and how do you get to the base portal(s) ?

Are SG's being phased out or kept hidden until the big decision @ lvl 20?

A Funhouse.. I want to address THIS idea... this is great... we need one big giant funhouse PER SIDE... and a new one for the Going Rougue area.

Lots of mirrors and checker patterns filled with trap doors and all sorts of things. invisible teleporters to other areas... all kinds of neat stuff would be fantastic in a fun-house sort of way!

THIS and the Chinatown idea... maybe we dont add as Zones, but just make these big enterable instances in pre-existing zones... new buildings!

We could also stand to have some coffee shops or something where we can actually enter and hang out in like it is in RL.. just a few, not a lot.. here and there... maybe 1 hotel per side where you can rent a room and actually go in to it and hang, stay a while... go swimming at the hotel pool... hahaha.. watch some damned HBO.

I am being funny in a sense, but its intriguing, is it not?

I must say you all have some very bright ideas. I love the gathering of animals for rescue/lab experiments.... the whole more diverse city zones idea and the chinatown ideas are great too.

I would dig a dinosaur zone, really.. that ... wow... imagine being chased by velociraptors all day while tripping over dead hellions..hahaha

All of you have some great ideas!

This might turn into one of the more interesting threads afterall!

Keep the ideas coming...

About the person commenting on my SG theme song idea... for one, the outside listener would only be so at their own option to click on the member and hear the theme... now if you are in an SG you would have to deal with the leader's choice of theme songs but I'm SO sure they could be democratic about the selection ... yeah.. I'm not one for gangster rap EITHER believe you me.

but if you read my post on this note to self, I did say an mp3 of their OWN CREATION..... so one would need be musically inclined or have a musician compose it for them.. to be fair it would have to be original. And yes, SOMEONE will make their own gangster-rap theme song all on their own so.. yeah if you feel your sg leader would do that... then it might not be such a hot idea in your case.

Well.. I'm going to be checking back in later on this thread... gotta go game before work yall... see yaz later!

wow that got derailed fast... but no biggie it is good to see other people's ideas too, even if they interject them with #'s like my list but completely change the text to their own idea... that's quite a clever derailment so I have to give it some credit, lol.

heh.. kidnapping isn't a bad idea either and I actually quite like that.

what do we mean by the family THROTTLING someone? I'm not quite clear on the throttling technique through these words could somebody clarify that action for me? That definition was clied from my brain somehow.

CLIED - Look it up in a scrabble dictionary, its not in Websters.

Okay folks tonight from our home offices in Gainesville, Fl... I bring you the top ten list! (Crowd cheers!)

Tonight, the top ten things this player wishes were in the City of Franchise of games :

#10. A musician archetype who weilds lp's and cd's and also throws cassette tapes and eight tracks. * level 50 attack uses Yoko Ono lps!
# 9. Voodoo class to match Circle of Thorns, like a with doctor with powers that target specific areas on enemies bodies!
#8. The horrible joke teller armed with an arsenal of corny jokes taken straight out of the citizen's of City Of... make the enemies run in terror!
#7. The Sin Eater - This will purge the enemies of their sins as they unwilingly tell their deepest secrets and loose hp until they drop with guilt!
#6. Whips - Ya gotta add whips, straight ones, tethered ones, all kinds of whips! Tons of whip-lashing powers to boot!
#5. Animated Fast food costumes for shakes, fries, and burgers and gigantic walking deadly TACOS from hell!
#4. Lawyer Enemies just to beat up on
#3. A monster made entirely of SLIME that is translucent, playable!
#2. Make Stephen Colbert and John Stewart contacts!

And the number one addition to City of Heroes and City of Villains this player would love to see, but in no way on Earth actually expects to be added...

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....... Squirting giant ketchip packets... really!

nah.. just kidding... this is my REAL idea :

Supergroup Theme Music .. the SG leader can upload an mp3 of their own creation to be their theme music, to be downloaded by sg members for thier own excitement while playing.

Clickable option on all SG members for non-Sg members to stand close to them and they can hear the SG theme from like, 1 meter maybe.

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Create a directory in the game directory that SG leaders can copy mp3's to. They load their folder inside the game folder structure with a particular number of mp3's and have an in-game option for sg-members to use their SG soundtrack while playing in SG. Then they restart the game and it pre-loads the specified mp3's into their own folder, or they could get said mp3's from the leader via ftp or something and place them in their game-specific folder.

At any rate, this would allow SG members to listen to a soundtrack designed by their SG leader... or even play their OWN soundtrack of a specified number of mp3's while in game.

So loading the game takes a tad longer, but we all load the game and go do something normally then come back... hehehe... no biggie.

Sure, we already have winamp playing or listen to the radio, my specific point to make is that an SG can have their OWN theme music as picked out by their SG leader or leaders.

A talented musician could even compose their own music and record that to mp3 and score the game fantastically while being played!

It would make the SG experience even more personal.

I am open to all intelligent ideas.... not everyone stumbles upon the same ideas so pm if you care to share this, as it sounds great. let me know what to do! I'm not about fighting and debating, I'm all about finding better ways, so lets hear it!

You LIKE CoT? Wow... they are the only group I avoid in my radio mishes... you can level fast while avoiding CoT and taking down all others instead. I'm talking mish-level CoT not zone-level tiny circles now... lets get that clear, you can hit them all day, its the mission CoT's that REALLY pound.

But I'm trying to suggest making cops a hero, even as I know it wont happen, thats the topic of this thread.

Not CoT or Brewha...

Well its like flipping recipes, not salvage. I did say enh in the op but its really recipes being bought no greater than 500 and being sold much higher to the store.
The Trick is doing it in Kings Row, right next to the store. And it IS a very lucrative method when you do this only on logging in or out after your day of gaming is done.

The single character method does not yield as much as having mules, but once you get the mules to level 10, its only about buying and selling once a week on each one. The hump is the leveling to 10 on each one.

Most choose to do this on one playing character as it seems to still net a good deal of infl per character.

Make a special cyborg set as a main archtype and provide a free 2nd costume that would BE the ALT mode.... vehicle or jet or something... So you could have a special new toggle power that would simply switch the costume immediatly and provide an animation for this, so people could see you actually TRANSFORM into the other form... that would be SO cool.


This suggestion is out of pure imagination and I FULLY realize it would be ridiculously tedious to ACTUALLY do, but its the IDEA I wanted to share, its not that I believe they'd ever actually do it, so save your hate mail... I get that it wont happen.

Why not have a patrolling police hero? Have a whole police force with divisions in every zone. Give them car avatars to drive along with the ability to leave the car and chase down crooks on foot... give mad xp props if cops do better than super-powered heros... and encourage heroes to be more noble! IF we had super heroes on Earth, then our cops would have competition, so why not add cops to the heroes?

A different mindset is needed using the market to simply bankroll your character. The main idea is not buying SPECIFIC enhancements at ALL... however its a routine of buying and selling that achieves a VERY high influence fast... here it goes :

This idea was created by the leader of the Wolfpack Elite.

(My SG).

To Bankroll A Single Character By Themselves :
On the way to level 10, sell EVERYTHING you can...

1. Go to level 10 as fast as you can to get all of your market slots.
2. Get to Kings Row and go to the Wentworths THERE. (Its right next to the shop and leveling). This makes buying and selling FAST!
3. Set filters to FOR SALE ONLY and RARE for enh occurance.
4. Only buy quantities (stacks) of 10 on ANYTHING thats 500 or less!
6. Buy at 100 more than the going rate. IF its 200 buy stacks of 10 at 300 instead. From 1 to 500, buy at 100 more to insure purchase as best as possible.
7. Fill the slots with what you can afford to buy, then once sold, sell to the store next to the trainer. DO NOT CARE about WHAT IT IS... just dont buy anything over 500... this insures a GREAT sale for YOU to the store regardless.

8. Lather, rinse, Repeat!

TO BANKROLL A SINGLE CHARACTER MASSIVELY !!!

Do this SAME routine on MULE characters on same server.
It helps a LOT if you have 2 game accounts, if not, find a TRUSTWORTHY friend who WONT steal, to transfer funds to your main character from your mules...

MULES?!?! Yes! Make 1 character you WANT TO PLAY to 50, then fill all other slots with FAKE characters you will only take to level 10 each.

Commit them all to the above scheme for the plan above,
Just repeat the process with all mules.

Once a month or at whatever regularity you wish, transfer each mule's influence to a friend you can trust, OR to a second account using SAFE RENDERER and dual logging on seperate accounts. Just trade to the mule on the 2nd account, then trade back to the main playing character!!