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I hear her voice a-callin’,
and it ties my heart in a knot.
For she cries, “Though a comrade has fallen,
You must play for those who cannot.”

awhile back i won a contest being run by an artist, and got a free commission. since he specialized in Anthro characters, i chose to have my Villain character Fenrir Lokison immortalized in art.

the result was very impressive.

the artist who did this art isn't on Deviantart, to my knowledge. i'd link to the artist's webpage, but some of his art is NSFW.



Fenrir Lokison is the demon-wolf of Norse myth, escaped from his place of imprisonment and now looking to regain his strength in time for the coming of Ragnarok, the death of the gods. opposing him in this is Tyr's Hand, the immortal agent of the gods, who must now find and recapture the demon-wolf before he regain his power.
i made Fenrir Lokison as a counter-point/sorta archnemisis for my main city of heroes character (Tyr's Hand). even without being able to have them fight in the game, i thought it would be fun to take the backstory i'd made about Fenrir escaping and the trail leading to paragon city, and make an actual villan character who could run around The Rogue Islands and the shared areas of Paragon City, and actually generate roleplay content for my main character to discuss in game.

Fenrir Lokison is a Stalker, with the Dark Melee/Regeneration power sets. he isn't anywhere near the level of my main character yet, Villains take a bit longer to level up, and Tyr's hand was already 20+ when i made Fenrir, so he has lagged behind a bit. not that such things would matter in roleplay though.

sounds fun. i'll try to be there. probably with my bots/FF mastermind.

sorry, guess i got the threads confused.

i've been unable to access the store entirely. i click on the store button, and the window goes blank like a transition, but then freezes with a "(program not responding)" message up top in the window title. clicking the window again makes it go grey. closing the window get me "City of heroes is not responding", the check for solution, close, or wait options, and the following detail;

the only suggestion i can make is avoid anything with an M on the end of the name number. those are special "manufacturer's model" types that get no driver support past their initial release. not really a problem unless your using a laptop like me.

next week? i gotta keep up on the news more. will they be running pre-i21 events to set things up?

i was excited until i realized this isn't a group for fans of Dresden Codak, and instead some show i'd barely heard of.

so, um, good for you, lots of luck?

one of the big parts of superhero comic book's is the archnemesis. where would spiderman be without the greengoblin? Superman without lex Luthor? Hellboy without rasputin?

at the moment, city of heroes/villans doesn't really capture this feel. sure, you fight alot of different villans as a hero..but they're mostly the archnemesis of one of the other NPC heroes, or one off named villans you never see again. it sometimes feels like your just a background hero in someone elses comic book series.

one of the ideas i'd had about how to alleviate some of this feel is to allow players to designate their own "archnemesis"

this archnemesis would occasionally show up as a radio mission or newspaper mission, where you'd have the opportunity to travel to a spot in one of the zones and fight the archnemesis.

now, the way i see it, you can leverage City of Villans to create your Archnemesis.
basically:

1) an archnemesis is a hero or villan from your own account. so for example, my main character Tyr's Hand could be the archnemesis of my villan character Fenrir Lokison.

2) to qualify as an archnemesis canidate, both hero and villan would have to be over a specific level (not sure what would be best.)

3) for the missions to appear, both character must be within a certain level range of each other. (say, 3-5 levels apart). if the gap is more than this, the missions won't show up until the gap is narrowed.

4) a character can only be the archnemesis of one other character. (simplifies things)

on the "archnemesis missions", the computer runs your archnemesis, using the stats from that character slot as it would be if you were playing it. (same hit points, endurance amounts, powers, etc..)


this would allow players to create an archnemesis...and it would encourage more play redside, since to make an archnemesis you have to create a redside character..and to keep him available, you have to keep playing him.


once this kind of system is in place, many options open up. a "sinister 6" type task force for example, where the task force has to fight a group of their archnemesis's as one mission.

hmm.. now to decide. main character or new character i made last night...

even if they themselves are not in any myth? (for example, my main character is a servant of a god, and has a name and costume based on that diety. would that work?)

i gotta learn to read the locations more closely. after making my char and leveling him up for fun...i realized the CC isn't on redside... off to make a new character!

(sadly, i'm running out of easily recognizable mythological beings from my preffered mythology source..)

hmm.... does it have to be a direct base on a being/creature of myth? could a suitably themed servant of one those said beings work?

try photobucket.com. free, and if you upload the iamges you can post them here as links or using IMG tags..

since no one else posted an image:

perhaps it could be programmed to only show as valid targets those who fell within a particular level range relative to you?
so for example, if your level 26, anyone between..say Lv23 and 29 will show up as valid targets, while any under or over that range don't.

this would keep power balances a bit more in check, and it would encourage teaming so lower level characters could get a crack at high level ones.