Oh ye of yonder Player Guide section, I, but a humble peasant in your presence, doth ask for your assistance.
Now that my job's into it's slow period, I'm finding myself with an inordinate amount of free time and after reading the "Did you know...?" thread, I came upon a couple of ideas for Guides I'd like to compile. After perusing the Guide to Guides, I couldn't see anything like them, but the Guide section is 150+ pages with the number of posts per page I have my forums settings at, excluding really old posts that don't exist anymore, so I have no way of ultimately knowing if they already exist in some form or not.
So if either of these two ideas ring any bells about existing guides, by all means, please let me know.
And with that, onto my two Guide Ideas.
The History of CoH/V (or CoX)
I know there're guides for the history of Paragon and history of groups/heroes, but what about the actual game? I'd like to put together as comprehensive and objective a Guide as to how the game went from being a glimmering idea in someone's mind to the original promotional video to what it is today.
By far this' the most daunting of the two, as the game evolves a lot from issue to issue, let alone from it's base idea to what it is today. Like I said earlier, I want it to be as objective as possible, so if any devs decided to add input, I'd love to hear it.
I'll be going through the entire "Did you know..?" thread to help with this and if there's information in there that I absolutely have to have that I can't find elsewhere, I'll be asking for the poster's permission to use it. Here's what I could use from you guys to help fill in the gaps, though, and you can either reply here or send me a PM:
1. Personal experiences/stories/memories, etc about the game. These can be either subjective or objective if you want. Just keep in mind though that since I'd like this to end up objective, I'll sort through the subjectiveness to get to the objectiveness and use those pieces to put together the Guide. All data will be used anonymously.
I'd insanely love it if I could get some Alpha/Beta/early users to contribute to this Guide to make it as thorough as possible.
2. Links to any interviews, chat transcripts, etc, from the developers that can't be found by searching through the boards.
And secondly/lastly, my other Guide idea that again I don't know if it exists.
The Guide to Red Names
This might be a tough one to do, since I'd essentially like to put together any non-intrusive information about the major Red Names on the forums as possible. What I'd ultimately love to do with this one is put together info from the various interviews then also ask the Red Names some questions of my own for the Guide. I'm perfectly willing to get the individual Red Name approval on the part about them before I post it, but that's why it'd be tough since that'd require my PM getting to them and them getting a chance to read it and then respond.
Again, if this also doesn't exist, here's what I'd love for help from you guys, and keep in mind I'll be looking on my own and not just making you guys do all the leg work:
1. More interviews that can't be found referenced on the forums.
2. Not to sound creepy, but any info you might have about a Red Name that you don't think they'd mind being shared. Keep in mind I do plan on passing this by the Red Names, so it's up to me and them to decide if you're telling the truth or if the information's appropriate to put into the Guide.
Examples of this would be: Ravenstorm being a fan of the anime Naruto and Statesman being a fan of Dr. Who.
Hmm, I may expand this to one to be Red Names and CoH/V Celebrities if I can worm some information out of David Nakiyama (CoH comic artist) and Troy Hickman (comic writer and writer of a story arc of the CoH comic), but let's see how well things go first before I get ambitious.
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As always, I'm an open book (probably one that would be banned from most libraries...).
Troy Hickman - So proud to have contributed to and played in this wonderful CoH universe
Oh ye of yonder Player Guide section, I, but a humble peasant in your presence, doth ask for your assistance.
Now that my job's into it's slow period, I'm finding myself with an inordinate amount of free time and after reading the "Did you know...?" thread, I came upon a couple of ideas for Guides I'd like to compile. After perusing the Guide to Guides, I couldn't see anything like them, but the Guide section is 150+ pages with the number of posts per page I have my forums settings at, excluding really old posts that don't exist anymore, so I have no way of ultimately knowing if they already exist in some form or not.
So if either of these two ideas ring any bells about existing guides, by all means, please let me know.
And with that, onto my two Guide Ideas.
The History of CoH/V (or CoX)
I know there're guides for the history of Paragon and history of groups/heroes, but what about the actual game? I'd like to put together as comprehensive and objective a Guide as to how the game went from being a glimmering idea in someone's mind to the original promotional video to what it is today.
By far this' the most daunting of the two, as the game evolves a lot from issue to issue, let alone from it's base idea to what it is today. Like I said earlier, I want it to be as objective as possible, so if any devs decided to add input, I'd love to hear it.
I'll be going through the entire "Did you know..?" thread to help with this and if there's information in there that I absolutely have to have that I can't find elsewhere, I'll be asking for the poster's permission to use it. Here's what I could use from you guys to help fill in the gaps, though, and you can either reply here or send me a PM:
1. Personal experiences/stories/memories, etc about the game. These can be either subjective or objective if you want. Just keep in mind though that since I'd like this to end up objective, I'll sort through the subjectiveness to get to the objectiveness and use those pieces to put together the Guide. All data will be used anonymously.
I'd insanely love it if I could get some Alpha/Beta/early users to contribute to this Guide to make it as thorough as possible.
2. Links to any interviews, chat transcripts, etc, from the developers that can't be found by searching through the boards.
And secondly/lastly, my other Guide idea that again I don't know if it exists.
The Guide to Red Names
This might be a tough one to do, since I'd essentially like to put together any non-intrusive information about the major Red Names on the forums as possible. What I'd ultimately love to do with this one is put together info from the various interviews then also ask the Red Names some questions of my own for the Guide. I'm perfectly willing to get the individual Red Name approval on the part about them before I post it, but that's why it'd be tough since that'd require my PM getting to them and them getting a chance to read it and then respond.
Again, if this also doesn't exist, here's what I'd love for help from you guys, and keep in mind I'll be looking on my own and not just making you guys do all the leg work:
1. More interviews that can't be found referenced on the forums.
2. Not to sound creepy, but any info you might have about a Red Name that you don't think they'd mind being shared. Keep in mind I do plan on passing this by the Red Names, so it's up to me and them to decide if you're telling the truth or if the information's appropriate to put into the Guide.
Examples of this would be: Ravenstorm being a fan of the anime Naruto and Statesman being a fan of Dr. Who.
Hmm, I may expand this to one to be Red Names and CoH/V Celebrities if I can worm some information out of David Nakiyama (CoH comic artist) and Troy Hickman (comic writer and writer of a story arc of the CoH comic), but let's see how well things go first before I get ambitious.