Discussion: Message From Positron 4 Year Anniv!
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Posted on: 2008-04-28 10:08 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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As for those who are concerned about people making perfect farm maps...
They already exist and are useable through Flashback. Farmers can, and do, already farm the living farm out of their farm.
The pros to game longevity will probably far outweigh any cons of people making perfect PL maps.
Weight training: Because you'll never hear someone lament "If only I were weaker, I could have saved them."
Hmm ... map? Steel canyon instance. enemies? behemoths. hmmm... objective? kill all.
Aw crap ... they already have one of those.
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[u]Most Wealthy Archetypes[u]
Heroes: Scrappers
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How is this not Controllers? 
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Because the fire/kin transfers all the inf to the scrapper on the same account to pimp it for PvP.
That blue thing running around saying "Cookies are sometimes food" is Praetorian Cookie Monster!
Shoot on sight, please.
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This kind of content that would ALLOW you to create farm missions just for that purpose with unlimited enemies that you can farm for rewards just sound WAY WAY too imbalancing.
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I get what you're saying, but I think it may be possible to limit this. You may be able to pick the villain type, but not necessarily the position of the enemy or number of them (the difficulty slider would handle the number).
We'll have to wait and see how they implement it, but I am really excited about creating cool stories for friends, and playing new content that other folks have created. 
Make a man a fire and keep him warm for the day, SET a man on fire and keep him warm for the rest of his life.
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I can't say I like the Create Your Own Story Arc (it will really, really muddle with canon). But thanks for telling us.
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I think they would be more like radio missions then anything. Use the existing villain groups just in a story line that doesn't effect the big picture.
292 centuries? Really. Holy [censored]!
I mean, that's 29,200 years of total play time, or 1.518 Million Weeks, or 255 Million hours played. We really need to get some lives! 
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I was just the one with the most unsolicited sombrero." - Traegus
This is very exciting news indeed.
I wonder if they'll allow us to place AVs and Heroes in our missions as well....
Hhmmm....
Happy 4th Anniversary!!!
Player created storylines!!! Now that is AWESOME content!!!
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Please use this thread to discuss the below announcement.
Four years.
I will say that again in case you misread it.
Four years.
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... of my life you've stolen form me as I've stared at the screen and tapped the keys in endless rapture. You heartless monster. I think I love you.
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Thats not to say we havent been without our missteps. Weve implemented a couple things imperfectly (Epic Archetypes and Enhancement Diversification come to mind), which caused a lot of headaches for us down the road. I cant promise that we will never make mistakes, but I will say we will do our best to ensure that we dont repeat them.
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I think, after all this time, post IOs, that I've come to like ED and understand why it had to be done. However, the way in which it was done should never, ever happen again.
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I cant tell you how excited I am for our games future, and although we have some major announcements yet to be made, one of the things I can talk about is a feature that we are planning. Similar in concept to our character creator, it allows you, the players, to create missions and story arcs for your characters and others to participate in. Youll be able to pick the map, villain group, and objectives, as well as write the dialog and any clues needed for the missions. When you are satisfied with it, you can upload it and have other players across all servers play it and rate it. Fame will come to the players whose stories rate the best overall. It is features like these that we never dreamed of including when we first shipped, but are excited to be able to offer players very soon.
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HOLY FRIGGIN [WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS]!!! That's... that's... AWESOME!!!
I do have a bunch of questions though (but I'll stick to the 2 major ones):
1) Will players get actual rewards (xp, inf, salvage, recipes)?
2) If the content is accessed in-game (which should then answer "yes" to my 1st question), how will we do so?
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In the end I just want to send out a thanks to all of the players of City of Heroes and City of Villains. Everyone, from the veterans who have been with this game since it launched (and even earlier for some beta testers!) to the users who just subscribed last week, have made this the most fun game to work on in my seventeen years in the industry. I look forward to reviewing our accomplishments this time next year when we celebrate our 5th anniversary!
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QFT. As much as things/people in this game frustrate me from time to time, this is hands down the best MMORPG experience I've ever had. Thank you FREEM 15 for making a game I've loved "wasting" 4 years of my life on, and thank you CoV/H community, for the best MMORPG player-base I've had the privilege to run/chat (/argue) with.
Multiple people write a single comic series and often muddle with eachothers' visions. It's part of the genre. To do that is canon.
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I can't say I like the Create Your Own Story Arc (it will really, really muddle with canon). But thanks for telling us.
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It wouldn't be CoX forum with out at least 1 nay sayer
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Well, I could've spit, screamed and cursed Positron to death and darkness, but I try not to act like an [censored] on the anniversary of a lead designer's pet project.
Doom.
Yep.
This is really doom.
Mission: Battle to be number one.
Defeat the vanguard
Defeat BS, GW, Mako, Scirocco
Defeat the Freedom Phalanx
Defeat Lord Recluse
Defeat Statesman...again...and again...oh man I'd love to beat up statesman over and over.
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Hmm ... I wonder if the villian groups will have to match the level. Should I be able to create a map of Skulls set at lvl 52?
BTW, since someone else has a copywrite on one idea on this forum, here is mine but please feel free to beat me to it.
Fight all Practorians in an cave map with lava and you have to save and escort the Signature heroes who have been weakened by Practroians.
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I love this game. <3
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QFT!
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/signed.
My characters all tend to be Magic Origin...I'd like to do Mutants, but Magic is just easier. 
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292 centuries? Really. Holy [censored]!
I mean, that's 29,200 years of total play time, or 1.518 Million Weeks, or 255 Million hours played. We really need to get some lives!
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I dual box ~50% of the time I play so that counts as two 'people' playing for X hours each.
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Similar in concept to our character creator, it allows you, the players, to create missions and story arcs for your characters and others to participate in. Youll be able to pick the map, villain group, and objectives, as well as write the dialog and any clues needed for the missions. When you are satisfied with it, you can upload it and have other players across all servers play it and rate it.
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Woah. Awesome.
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Let me just add to the general swooning. SWOOOOOOON!
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Adding a tab to the Ouroborous flashback rocks.
Weight training: Because you'll never hear someone lament "If only I were weaker, I could have saved them."
Can you say lvl 53 hellions
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Looks like some great stuff in the pipeline!
Hau`oli la hanau City of Heroes! Here's to another 4 great years!
User created content? This is certainly unexpected. I can't wait for details!
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Can you say lvl 53 hellions
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No, I can't. They'd be incredibly underpowered since they don't naturally appear at such high levels.
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Can you say lvl 53 hellions
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You just took my idea. 
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Thank You Devs for Merits!!!!
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Can you say lvl 53 hellions
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Wow, you beat me by 1 lvl. 
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292 centuries? Really. Holy [censored]!
I mean, that's 29,200 years of total play time, or 1.518 Million Weeks, or 255 Million hours played. We really need to get some lives!
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I dual box ~50% of the time I play so that counts as two 'people' playing for X hours each.
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Well, even so, it's going to be a lot of hours. If the current population is about 130,000 people, let's make an assumption that over the course of the game, 4 times that many players have added to the total number of hours.
255 Million/(130,000 * 4) = 490 Hours each. Actually, that's not as bad as I had thought.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I was just the one with the most unsolicited sombrero." - Traegus
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I love this game. <3
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QFT!
An let me just say..... SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! For user created content.
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