Crazy1van

Very fun!

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Taken: 2, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 33, 42, 43, 47, 49, 53, 57, 63, 66, 68, 71, 73, 75, 78, 82, 83, 84, 87, 95

I did something like this with the City Hall map. I have several npc versions of my toons as characters to be rescued that will then help you fight, but the enemies holding them hostage are all L1 mimions. Taking their picture on the steps of City Hall proved difficult, but I could lead them all to the area under the Atlas statue.

Mind you, I didn't try this with ALL my alts; I don't think any AE map allows for over 100 NPC allies.

Fair enough. Thanks for getting us the info. You and your dev community have been nothing but wonderful to the player community.

Thank you for the update. And for everything else you've done and continue to do for this community.

AE was one of my favorite features of the game, and despite it turning into a farming tool, there were many great player-created stories there.

When I see what you had coming with i24, when I think about how convenient the LUI system would have been for Mako Week type events to be tailored on the spot to what the players are doing and saying, and when I wipe the blood from my eyes and ears after watching all three videos, I know that I'll miss you as much as I miss all my close friends that eventually find out what I keep in that back room in the attic.

Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes.

Gotta say, the idea of where to log out for the LAST time got me a little choked up, more than most of the posts I've seen since the announcement.

Most of my toons have a 'home town' that I leave them in once they stop working on day jobs. Many of my main toons live in Salamanca, the analog of my RL home in Salem, MA. But I think the Nightward would be an appropriate resting place for my toons, a realm locked between the lands of the living and the dead. Like the Einhjar of Gladsheim, they can do battle with the phantoms of that place and at the end of the day they can all sit back at the meadhall discussing their glory days, and in the morning start all over again.

Except for my MAIN main toon. Kavik the Wolf Boy already knows he is destined to evolve into a new aspect of Rularuu, so I would be remiss if I didn't park him in the Shadow Shard... unless of course, I'm still playing him right at the moment the servers go offline, and then he'll probably be partying in Pocket D.

The Coming Storm. Yes, I know it was finally going to be revealed, but with all the hype for it since I started playing in 2007, I really wanted to get this party started!

My fave bugs were costume creator related. My main still has a 'missing right hand' costume, for that time he was lost in the Shadow Shard.


but THIS one takes the cake. Naturally I never took him/her out of the tutorial, and never posted the pic before, to avoid getting banned. But now...

I have a lot of toons in this game who will never appear on screen at the same time, though many are conceived as related in some way to others. My scrapper will never meet my defender, except possibly in AE.

But what if the interface that let's you build NPCs in AE could be used to build an NPC in the regular game?

Plenty of superheroes have sidekicks, like Rodentman and Birdy, or Colonel Courage and Bugle Boy, or Captain Powderkeg and Pammy Powderkeg, etc. It's not uncommon for experienced heroes or villains to have a full-time sidekick or lackey to guide.

Sure, you can have another player make the sidekick character, but players, even RPers, often want to do their own thing on their own terms, and the team-ups can only occur when both players are on and willing to play those two characters, a feat I've seldom been able to achieve.

Conceived as an Incarnate Power, the various trees would allow for the various ATs, minus EATs, to be built, with each tier representing the ranks as per AE; Minion, Lieutenent, Boss, and Elite Boss, and the various branches defining which power sets are primary choices for the NPC to use.

I see such a pet being controlled like a Lore pet or MM pet, and as with MM pets the Companion would not auto-dismiss, though the cool-down would be extremely long, and the inactive time needed to spot an alternate Companion would be longer still.

Sure, there is the potential for such pets to generate lag, but no more so than the Lore pets already create (except maybe if your Companion pet is an MM, but maybe that AT isn't available).

Perhaps the Incarnate system is the wrong venue for such a power, but I can think of no other area of the game where this would fit, outside of AE, and an awful lot of games these days provide PC characters with NPC pets they can earn which never despawn on their own. I believe that such a concept lends itself well to a world of superheroes and supervillains, and that via the Incarnate Tier system, it wouldn't break the game.

The paragon Rewards tokens might also make such a power possible, but I'd rather not use such tokens to buy powers good for only a single toon, and potentially have to be bought multiple times to grant that toon a defender sidekick or a scrapper sidekick. A money-maker for Paragon, sure, but it doesn't allow for the Tier / Rank system to determine the 'growth' of the NPC.

Thought?

I like it. It would force the PVP issue to get a serious turn around, which will likely never happen otherwise, but I do think it's silly for powerful heroes to be physically unable to travel to the Rogue Isles (and vice versa).

1313 on Kavik the Wolf Boy; Infinity

I hope no one is taking pix in Beta and posting them in a non-Beta thread.

Assuming you're just funnin' with us, I imagine the Archnos organization would be taken over by Ghost Widow, who would keep things very similar to the way Lord Recluse did, just because ghosts cannot change who they were, according to her lore.

Why Ghost Widow? Because everyone else in the Isles is a potential automaton under the control of Nemesis. She alone remains above such suspicions...

... setting everyone up for the real bombshell; Ghost Widow has been Lord Nemesis all along, masquerading his astral form as a spectre ever since his real body died decades ago.

Um... what?

http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/news/n..._statesman.php

If Wade gains the power of the Well, I count on him being absorbed into Rularuu in some way, probably by becoming one of the unseen Aspects, but not until after the super-charged Wade kills Statesman of course. Ideally, having Wade ascend to Rularuu also opens the Shadow Shard into a co-op zone (lore-wise, all they have to do is let Vanguard take over the military operations goig on in there to justify villain activity).

I got Slide via an eBay-purchased DVD, but I would be more than happy to see it available on the market. An alternative might be to offer a Skid or Skate sprint that mimics the position without the glow (and probably doesn't override the motions associated with beastrun or ninjarun).

Weren't the Shivan meteors originally sent to Earth by a destroyer of worlds called galact... er, Shiva, by Earthlings? I haven't seen anything directly connecting Shiva to the Battalion / Coming Storm, so for the moment Shiva ought to be considered at least potentially a seperate space race.