Discussion: Message From Positron 4 Year Anniv!
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8_Ball,
Posted on: 2008-04-28 10:08 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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Bwhahaha! Badge Hunters Unite!
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That's good to know 
I need to get my remaining selling badges. Ya'll buy and sell this at 1 inf?
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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. 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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That took my breath away when I read it. Without a shadow of a doubt, this will be the coolest feature ever added to the City of franchise.
Thanks to all the developers, the community staff and everyone else that works hard to make this the best MMO that exists.
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Newly announced for Issue 15: Trading Places, a new Archtype available to both Heroes and Villains...the BLASTERMIND!
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hawt!
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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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Yeah, but taking the 140,000 accounts that we had as of the last quarterly report as average and multiplying that by 1430 days, you get about 1 hour and 15 minutes per day on average per account. Aggregate numbers get overwhelmingly high very quickly.
"I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show,
A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes."
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If I could test custom missions with my own character, I'd probably spend the rest of my days playing my storm defender in a mission entitled One Room Full Of Wizards Precariously Perched High Above The Lava.
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That is amazingly awesome!!!
I can't wait to do the Halloween mish that Hell-o-Ween Mr. Rogue Isles wrote for the Mr./Ms. contest. I hope he opens it up for all of us to do. Some people have so much creativity it amazes me. What a great added feature!!!!
Thank you Posi, you guys all rock!!!!! Here is to another 4 yrs of CoX goodness.
Can't wait to see what the next year brings
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I'm sure the mission customizer will have limitations, so those fantasizing about lvl 53 Hellions probably won't get them. I'm sure they will be limited to the level that the particular villain group can be at now.
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But seriously, I hope they make this an option. I can't wait to fight the Ultimate Hellion AV: The GodMotherFather.
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Three words: Hallways of XP.
The new way to farm- load S/L only foes, no bosses, and lots of straight hallways of mobs.
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Player created missions is awesome. AWESOME. I never thought it would happen. I know I'll be contributing.
I hope we might be able to make custom bosses using the character creator, I'd like to see some more costumed villains/heroes as NPC foes in CoX.
Please try my custom mission arcs!
Legacy of a Rogue (ID 459586, Entry for Dr. Aeon's Third Challenge)
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Win the Past, Own the Future (ID 1429)
one small questoin the most traded item,is that because it is used in more recipes?
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Hobbit's Hole 1 Person SG
Spider's Web 1 Person VG
Both on Freedom
I almost pooped my pants! We can make our own missions! YES! I will most likely never stop playing this game now. I've always thought that would be cool, but never thought it would make it into the game.
It's the experience that counts, not the "XP".
global @A-Tek
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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 crap! Awesome beyond words!
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Oh. My. Frakking. Geez. We can make our own missions???? WHOOHOOOOOOO!!!!
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Soon (TM).
http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/
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does that mean we can design our own Arch Nemisis and put him/her in the missions?
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Please be yes.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. --- Thomas Jefferson
Formerly known as YFNDBA
Glad to be a part since (almost) day one
I am cautiously optimistic about the new player-created content. As long as it isn't ripe for abuse (Drek farms? HA! Check out this map!), I'm all for it. I'm sure there will be some balancing to the system (closed betas, etc.) before it gets launched, so I have faith everything will work out. Sounds like another server will be added to store all this stuff too
You know I have to jab you about the City Vault (), but I'm still happy to be a part of this game. And you're right Posi - a lot of us forget how much has been added to the game since launch, much of which didn't involve buying a ton of new boxes (although I wouldn't mind one new box soon 
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As others have said and I will echo: FOUR MORE YEARS!!!
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((oddly enough, I was working up a system for a pitch to a licence holder for such a thing for a game... wow. great minds har har!))
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Nah. It's an idea that's been floating around for years and years - ever since Doom for PC games, and arguably since the days of Zork and Colossal Cave before that.
http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/
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More than 32 million characters created thats 4 times the population of New York City!
Players have spent a combined 292 centuries playing City of Heroes and City of Villains
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That's an average just under 8 hours per character.
As for custom missions, we will be able to pick the map and the villain group. Not the specific spawns. So you can choose Banished Pantheon or Carnies or Circle of Thorns, but you won't be able to specify Masks or Illusionists or Behemoths. And it seems reasonably likely that what you'll choose is more like sewer, office, cave, or warehouse - not special or specific maps (though I hope they'll allow a special map at the end of the arc).
It also might be that they'll limit the number of times custom missions will be resettable - maybe that's the source of the rumor about all mission resets being limited? If you only get to play 3 custom missions a week, for example?
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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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Defeat the Vindicators, and
Defeat the Kheldian Signature heros.
BTW, why are the Sunstorm/Shadowstar/Moonfire, NOT enemies on the LRSF?
END KHELDIAN DISCRIMINATION NOW, SEPERATE IS NOT EQUAL!
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Sweet! This should effectively end complaints about "end game content".
"...freedom isn't a commodity to compromise." -- Captain America, New Avengers #21
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I want to set up something horrible, stop the war between the Rularuu and the Knives of Artemis; because I think that mission would be pure hell for just about every archtype.
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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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This is made of Awesome and Win!
My initial thoughts and concerns:
<ul type="square">[*]How customizable will the maps be? Will we be able to use an interface similar to base tech to make some detailed, original maps or will there be pre-generated standard newspaper door map type maps?[*]Will the missions be screened by Devs before being available for players to actually play on? I would think so due to concerns over appropriateness of content and to avoid super easy loot generator 'missions'.[*]Does this tech give us the ability to play the game offline? We'd need to test the missions, after all. Obviously characters that play through the missions in this manner wouldn't gain real inf, exp or loot but it would still be fun just to make something outlandish to fool around with. [/list]
I'll probably think of more but those things sprung to mind as I read the announcement. Looks like it'll be a ton of fun!
Gothika (Grav/Kin) Marionette (Ill/Rad) Terra Firma (Earth/Storm) Alana Dale (Arch/Nrg)
Iceblink (Ice/Dark) Fantasia (Mind/Fire) Shadow Minx (Claws/Nin)
--Virtue
In concept I'm all for player-created missions.
In practice, I look at a lot of the players I see, and expect to be overwhelmed with variations on these two missions:
1) Level 52 Family on an oudoor map. Mission goal: Rescue Farmer Jones and retrieve the stolen tractor.
2) Freakshow on a store map. Mission goal: The enemy PR0N L0RD is trying to steal a blow-up doll from the local sex shop. Go stop him!
However, one in a thousand will be rare and good, so that'll still be plenty of worthwhile additions. And hey, maybe someone will even create a villian side mission that feels villainous. That would be unique.
It's interesting that a feature that was asked every now and then get a chance in the game. I would never have thought player made missions would be implemented.
Any hints for anything else, or would that be saying too much until the future updates come along?
Just asking
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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. Fame will come to the players whose stories rate the best overall.
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I wonder if this means we'll eventually get to see the Archnemesis System that was in the works a long time ago before it was pulled? I've always wanted to create my own group of nemeses for my characters.