BlueSigma3

See you Wednesday Ex.

I got my tickets last month. I'm ready for some distance walking.

Hello Joe,

From a creative perspective, where do you get your inspiration for these stories and/or storylines? Comic books? Novels? Slight twists on real life events then insert fantastic elements?

Thanks for your time,
Kid Kinetix - Infinity Server

I'll be traveling all the way from Atlanta for this one. My first con EVER! Look forward to seeing some City of * folks there.

Contextual dialog... This is the start of something wonderful! It reminds me of the old book series "Choose Your Own Adventure". The story itself has several twists and turns with each decision taking you in a different direction.

If this is the direction City of * is going then it will be a great time indeed! Stories would no longer have one outcome.. even more than if you fail the final objective of the last mission. You could change the mission halfway through or even by the second mission!

This is great.

Can't believe I almost fell for that one.... :P

Nice one LH, have you been saving that one for abit?

Welcome Blue Steel!

You know if we see you ingame then Shields for players had better be close behind you!

I'm sorta joking... welcome still.

And welcome Mynx! We need your official intro from Lighthouse.

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I'm just jazzed that NCNC is going to keep on going with Co*. I24 3 years down the road sounds lovely to me.

^.^

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LOL... I spit Mountain Dew...

Very well done Infinity Woman! Thanks for sharing because that looked like great fun.

Way to represent Infinity!

Lady J, I apologize. I meant the both of you. I will be contacting you both about your contributions.

Thanks.

Thank you for your assistance! I'll be contacting you soon for further details. Anyone else? Your help will be greatly appreciated and it's going to a worthy cause.

Are there any artists living in or do you know any artists living in the metro Atlanta, GA area? There is a Meet and Greet scheduled for Saturday Feb. 23rd and I'm hoping some artists would come out for a donation drive for Child's Play.

The artists would do character avatar drawings and the players will donate to the Child's Play bucket. Presently there are approximately 38 attendees confirmed with several more possibles. Please either reply or send me a PM for further details.

We really appreciate your skills contributing to this worthy cause.

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Playing since beta, the only thing that’s still a challenge is putting together a Task Force. I’ve run every Task Force multiple times, and while some could be shortened, several need A.V.s or G.M.s and unique mission maps, I had an entirely different suggestion. I just want more TFs, but in a way that will solve two different problems.

Once you got into the 20s and 30s, you’ll be lucky to level once in a Task Force. This is understandable and I’m not asking for huge XP bonuses or longer TFs, but if I can run several TFs within certain level ranges, that would get me through.

Then there is my other long-standing gripe about the majority of villain groups having little or no backgrounds. I was reminded of this with the recent Warriors background, which I was very interested in, and I’d like to see something like that for every group. But rather than just a text report, wouldn’t it be better to play through the origin of the villain group you’ve been fighting for the last 5 levels?

Each level range has a zone, and each zone has (most likely) two rival villain groups fighting for dominance. Each group has enemies and allies to enrich their position in the area, and while you fight them for many levels, you hardly ever find out where they came from, why they formed, who’s in charge and you never fight that leader. So, I recommend we solve the lack of background and TFs with a general policy of each villain group having their own Task Force at the maximum range in which that villain group exists.

So, the Warriors TF or Tsoo TF would exist at 25-30, probably in Talos. Now, I would be fine if both groups had a Task Force, and you could fight their enemies and allies throughout the chain of missions to prevent it from getting boring, but it would be understandable if you had to merge them into one large TF. Even the Banished Pantheon, another great villain group I think is neglected, falls into this 25-30 range I think. So maybe all three. Vahzilok 15-20, and so on.

Anyway, you would start by investigating some kind of conflict revolving around these rivalries, and you would end up discovering the origins of the villain groups, who is in charge of each, and get a nice unique map with several E.B.s and an A.V. at the end. Like with the Warriors, the background mentions “Heracles, Alexander, Aeneas, and Patrochus” as the big bosses.

So, how about you reach the big fancy door to the inner lair of Odysseus, and guarding that door are the 4 E.Bs Heracles, Alexander, Aeneas, and Patrochus. Defeating them, you enter the lair and there is A.V. Odysseus, all alone, when suddenly a dozen pop-up gun turrets pop out of the walls and start firing. Not nearly as many evil traps in the game as you find in comics.

A similar scenario for Tub Ci at the end of the Tsoo side, with several E.B.s protecting him, and maybe, just maybe, you could take out the whole Pantheon in a chain of G.M. battles against Lughebu and the others? Maybe you run missions to weaken them first, or get special temp powers to weaken them.

Lastly, I saw mention of tangible souvenirs, and it got me thinking, how about little things like permanent temp powers or unique costume parts as Task Force souvenirs? Just to really show off your accomplishment? Each costume part would have to be on a different part of the body though, so you could make some ridiculous Task Force costume, like the full Vanguard armor. Maybe the Freedom Phalanx TFs would each give a costume part, whereas all the non-Phalanx TFs would give a permanent temp power instead.

Sorry for rambling on as I do, but I really, really love Task Forces and this is how I would like them to be. As climactic and glorious as possible.

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I really hope the Devs are reading this thread... This makes some much sense.

First post after BAB!!!

That is great to hear your input BAB. I feel better about this move each post.... I guess that means I'll be _overwhelmed_ with all the cool new stuff coming right??

RIGHT???

That's a nice one.

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It would have been the best year ever if I9 was the only thing that happened.

Now, it's like a supernova of awesome exploding inside my computer.

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QFT

This year helped me decide to prepay for six months in advance because I didn't want to miss _anything_ coming out. Awesome job devs and I'm looking forward to Issue 11.

WT??!!

I left my computer three and a half hours ago and _this_ BOMBSHELL is dropped when I return??!!!!

I'm really looking forward to this issue.

Plead the _Fifth_!!!!

This could very well be one of the greatest threads in City of history. I could read every page.... again!

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Ok, but I can't talk about Issue 11 or beyond... but that's pretty much what you guys WANT me to talk about so we are at an impass.

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Hmmmmm..... What did you have for breakfast today? Was that before or _after_ the Dual Blades meeting!!! :P

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Devs please use idea in some way shape or form.

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There could be an argument here about whether "keeping in touch with our roots" is more important than "keeping with the times" or vice versa, but I'll leave that alone since that would derail the topic :P .

I think the people in charge of States' attitude want him to be a bit more like the ancient gods within the Classics that always had very human shortcomings despite their enormous powers. Zeus constantly cheated on Hera (even changing into different animals/forms in order to have sex), Hera was constantly jealous/suspicious of Zeus (clearly for good reason), Hades kidnapped Persephone, Athena "punished" Arachne for daring to claim she was better than the god at tapestry, so on and so forth.

Besides, if they didn't take that approach and allowed him to come off as this amazing avatar of perfection, he'd probably be way too much of an obvious clone of Superman. As it stands now, he's subtly unique enough to be considered his own character even with the Superman allusions.

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Thank you! This was very well organized and simple to understand. Thank you!

Dear Lord.... Thank you for this insight. I didn't know. All this time I didn't know.

I'm a feral. I _have_ been that scrapper to jump in the middle of a group of red and purple to have fun... What did I say? "I'll draw the aggro. Give me a couple of minutes."

Thank you again. Great post!

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I am sad. It is like a muse has left. Arctic Sun... You're words filled a much needed space in this gaming community. For a gamer the imagination is a like a unending void. It must constantly be fed. I know as a gamer you has contributed incredibly to my hunger for more.

Do you know the joy you have brought? Truly, do you know how many faces have lighted up at the headlines of your stories? Tell me it wasn't easy to walk away from that. I tell you this, Arctic Sun you did an incredible job. In this short time the bar as been raised yet again.

Salute to you Sir. Well done and prosperous life to you and yours.

There are no good byes. There are warm memories and happy thoughts. Positive thoughts of growth and prosperity. I didn't know you like a sister but I knew you. You were there for me. Even if all that meant was information to share. You smiled, laughed, sighed, and maybe grit your teeth sometimes... But you were always there.

You're going away but only from a position.

You can't leave a heart once you have left an impression.

I am in agreement with you Alexa and Artic Sun that you will be successful whereever you go!

Be encouraged.