Captain_Photon

We've got at least one map that does this sort of thing already. There's an office building map in which there's a big hole in the floor which leads down into a sewer, and from there, there's a hole in a wall that leads into a sandy cave. (NOTE: My memory may be conflating more than one multiple-style map here, but I think there is in fact one that has all three, as I'm describing.) It's all one continuous area, rather than transitioning from one map style to another via elevators, but then the elevators in "multi-floor" missions are really just teleporters to other parts of the same giant flat map anyway (as an amusing M-key bug once revealed). And there are mayhem/safeguard maps, come to that - they seem like outdoor areas with buildings to go into and whatnot, but they're really just big flat instances with door "teleporters" to enclosed areas. It's all a matter of how the various big boxes are decorated.

Anyway, my point is, some of the work of designing transitions from one map style to another is already done, and the way the existing examples are put together suggests others. It'd be entirely possible for someone to use the existing toolset to build more interesting stuff, without going to all the trouble and expense of devising a whole new map system. It's not entirely unbroken ground, it just hasn't been taken as far as it can go yet. Probably not a really high priority, either, but one would hope there's somebody poking at it in his copious free time over there.

I suspect it's more of a bandwidth issue than one of computer performance - the link is so busy shoveling market crap that it fails to maintain contact with the game server, such that the client connection times out - but that's only an anecdotal suspicion. My system isn't particularly high-performance, but I've got a big pipe (as the bishop said to the actress), and this doesn't happen to me.

In the same way that page after page of this semi-RP posturing crowding into every damn thread about anything to do with Going Rogue counts as not-irritating?

I could go with this. Also, in that same heading: How about an alternate animation for powers like Regeneration:Integration? Pounding your chest and doing a bad impression of the Johnny Weismuller Tarzan yell isn't something every regenerating hero(ine) is likely to be all that keen on doing. We can shut off the glow now, which is nice, but we persist in doing that sophomoric (and, in the case of female characters, quite painful-looking) animation every time we switch on the power...

This is impossible for players to answer definitively, but the smart money is probably on an answer along the lines of, "If they ever did that, chances are it would involve a box with a 2 at the end of the title."

What on Earth is "godmodding"? It's not even permitted under the TOS to mod City of Heroes.

White or black?

... Or maybe yours does. How many levels deep do you want to go?

I have significant doubt.

Well... you know how the technology's now in place for powers to have more than one animation? There you go.

Nor much of anything else, any more.


... too soon?

Well, we'll just have to go through and expunge all hunts from the mission catalog, then.

... Actually, that wouldn't hurt my feelings at all if they did that.

Didn't we do this already, before the "not goatee Paragon" thread degenerated into a tiresome lecture series on the ambiguity and subjectivity of moral choice?

I had a couple of fire blasters nuking and Self Destructing in the vicinity when I checked in with Ms. Liberty for level 50! It was just like having fireworks, except for the dead Blasters lying around afterward.

"Hey, baby, c'mon take a ride on mah LOVE daemon! Hey, where you goin'?"

That only really works if you're Speed Walker, though.

... obviously.

(What? I'm kidding! I had to! You don't just leave a straight line like that lying around. )

I, on the other hand, insisted that it'd be as useful in-game as teats on a boar hog. Whether it subsequently got implemented doesn't actually affect that.

It's too bad, too, because it could have some small purpose. I say this mainly because walk toggles that provide some actual in-game benefit have been done before. In the original Tomb Raider, for instance, if you toggled Lara to walk mode, she couldn't accidentally walk off the edge of a cliff, which was handy for getting around in places that were mostly cliffs (which was most of the game).

It'll be an alternate animation for Concealment:Stealth when they get around to enabling pool power customization.* You heard it here first!


* This is not true. ... But maybe it should be.

All I know is, I would at this point be willing to part with a small sum of actual currency in exchange for the pair'a ya putting a cork in it.

I can (sort of) see the objection to extending US-based holiday events to a fictional dictatorship in the Caribbean, but holding up the Shadow Shard as a reason not to do something is pretty weak, don't you think?

Regardless, Paragon City is what literary types would call the principal setting of City of Heroes. Sure, they wouldn't have fireworks and turkey in the Isles - I don't think they have any holidays in the Isles, since that would require Recluse to let his slaves take a day off - but so what? It'd be just like the spiders to try and screw up an Independence Day celebration in Paragon, as they did a few years ago with the holiday event "toy shipments" thing.