Day Jobs suggestions thread
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Acanous_Quietus,
Posted on: 2008-10-10 10:38 in Suggestions and Ideas
Playing Dead: Logging out pretty much anywhere while your hero is still KOed/dead.
//it amuses me when I log in and have a character fall flat on their face first thing because I was too lazy to send myself to hospital before I last logged them out. Give me a badge for this bad habit.
Consolidated Day Job Status Page
If you have a lot of different heroes, each gaining credit on different day jobs, something that would be mighty handy is a data screen on the login page which shows earned day job credit for each job, for each hero. That way, you would know at a glance which of your toons needs to be logged in in order to get played or to relocate to a different day job. The status of each could color-coded to make it even easier... going from red to orange, yellow, green, and finally blue if it's "maxed out".
"If you think something is impossible, check your assumptions." -- Atlas Shrugged
Sanitation Engineer: +Toxic Resistance for logging out in a sewer 
Omega Zim - lvl 50 Rad/Dark/Power Defender, Alpha Zim - lvl 50 Tri-form Peacebringer
Theta Zim - lvl 50 Tri-form Warshade, Nightshade Zim - lvl 50 Dark/Dark/Psi Defender
Omicron Zim - lvl 50 Emp/Psi/Power Defender, Scrappy Joe - lvl 50 MA/SR Scrapper
I would like Lazy Playboy. You get 1/10 of the inf of the player that dies a stupid death. I call it the blapper defensive set ;P.
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Playing Dead: Logging out pretty much anywhere while your hero is still KOed/dead.
//it amuses me when I log in and have a character fall flat on their face first thing because I was too lazy to send myself to hospital before I last logged them out. Give me a badge for this bad habit.
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I used to do that sometimes.. but there was a nasty bug once that locked out characters who'd logged out dead, preventing you from logging into them.
They took care of it pretty quick, and I doubt it'd happen again- but just the idea made me a bit nervious about 'playing dead..'
Fun idea- although I'm sure if implemented, people would complain about this one left and right.. "Wah, now I HAVE to die at the end of every eight hour session so I can get it as soon as possible because I'm entitled to evrey badge that exists!"
Or maybe I'm overreacting.. who knows or cares?
J/ Wilde
Still hate the visit Winscott mission- make it dropable, have it give actual exp or remove it altogether. PS- Down knows who you are.
J/ Wilde/ / AIL - Celebrating five years!
Trophy Collector: Log out in any basketball court and any kills you make that add towards a "defeat" badge are doubled.
Meaning, if i clear out a mob of 8 skulls, than the badge count applies 16. Oh yeah, couldnt really think of a good place to log out for it, any better suggestions?
...And of course, this'd be great for badge hunters whom often have difficulty trying to find sparce mobs.
- Im Not Talking Fast, You're Just Listening Slow.
- To Each His Own
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Trophy Collector: Log out in any basketball court and any kills you make that add towards a "defeat" badge are doubled.
Meaning, if i clear out a mob of 8 skulls, than the badge count applies 16. Oh yeah, couldnt really think of a good place to log out for it, any better suggestions?
...And of course, this'd be great for badge hunters whom often have difficulty trying to find sparce mobs.
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Are there any basketball courts in the Rogue Isles?
Also, idea for a Day Job accolade.
Badge Title: Fightmaster(named for Staff Sergeant Max Fightmaster)
Requirements: Cimeroran(in Cimerora) and Vanguard Recruit(Vanguard base)
Power Name: Ultimate Attack
Description: By studying once-lost fighting techniques in Cimerora and the modern tactics of Vanguard, you have attained the skill to unleash your full strength in one decisive strike. Logging out in Cimerora or the Vanguard Base for 7 days will grant you access to your Ultimate Attack that devastates your foes. However, its destructive power is such that you may only do this once per episode.
This Ultimate Attack would differ depending on your primary power set(except for on Defenders and Tankers, where it would depend on their secondary). For instance, Fiery Melee characters would get Greatest Fire Sword[Short-Ranged(Cone), ULTIMATE damage(Fire/Lethal), DoT(Fire), Foe -Resistance], while Energy Melee characters would get Fist of an Angry God[Melee(AoE), ULTIMATE damage(Energy/Smashing), Foe Disorient, chance for Immobilize]
Please note that you would not be able to fell a Giant Monster, Arch-Villain or Hero by using Ultimate Attack as an alpha strike.
Formerly known as Stormy_D
Chef-logging out an any restaurant/grocery shop
Logging out at the donut shop in Faultline would give a Law Enforcer + Chef = donut toss (like a snowball or rock) or hamburger, hotdog, sandwich at a restaurant/cafe/grocery store to hit another player with. EPIC food fights!
Powdered blueberry, plz! 
-Listen to my Light!
-MA #1065 "Star Struck"
Fan Boy - logging out near any TF-giving NPC.
The reward could be a discount towards the purchase of superbase cover art posters.
Inner Circle - Log Out by the Easter Egg
Playa Hater - Log Out near Posi in Steel
Accolade
Dev For A Day: Your Toon Name is RED for 24 hours (in game time) and you gain a nerf bat (acts just like St. Louis Slammer).
New Day Jobs Idea's
Artist-You spend time Painting in you loft area.
Computer Programer-You design many good Software while undercover as an hero.
Teacher-You are Teacher,teaching the young Knowledge.
Model-you so off you good looks everyday
Movie Star-you are famous actor.
Rockstar-you play alot of good music
DJ-you been hang out with Dj Zero so much you now have you career as one.
Fire Fighter-you put out way to many fire,keeping the town form burning down.
Assissin-you took out to many people as an contact Killier.
Fbi Agent- can't think of anything
Play boy-you have so much money and spend you time clubbing with the ladies you became a play buy
Never play another NcSoft game, If you feel pride for our game, then it as well, I Superratz am Proud of all of you Coh people, Love, Friendship will last for a lifetime.
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Main Toons:Super Ratz, Burning B Radical, Green Flame Avenger, Tunnel Ratz, Alex Magnus
Not suggestions for new jobs really, just suggestions for the ones we already have.
1) Mortician Badge -- given the number of tombstones around Croatoa, it makes little sense that there's not at least one Mortitian-qualifying cemetery there. Heck, the entire zone of DA counts, but nowhere in Croatoa? That's just... odd.
2) I think the accolade powers for Physician (Prof + Caregiver, giving you a revive ally) and Alchemist (Midnighter + Caregiver, giving you an ally heal) should be swapped. My reasoning: right now, doctors bring the dead back to life, while alchemists just help them get over small illnesses. Seems more logical the other way around. Go to college and work at a hospital, and you too can heal people who haven't died yet. But work at a hospital and learn some magic on the side, and maybe you can conquer death itself. The use of the more empathic animation for heal while using the the tricorder with revive ally makes me think it's working as intended, but still, it makes more sense to me if Physicians could heal while Alchemists could revive the dead (well... the "mostly dead," anyway).
-d
Longbow Agent - spend time in a longbow base in a pvp area. This gives you a defense bonus.http://boards.cityofheroes.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
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Originally Posted by GreenFIame
New Day Jobs Idea's
Artist-You spend time Painting in you loft area. Computer Programer-You design many good Software while undercover as an hero. Teacher-You are Teacher,teaching the young Knowledge. Model-you so off you good looks everyday Movie Star-you are famous actor. Rockstar-you play alot of good music DJ-you been hang out with Dj Zero so much you now have you career as one. Fire Fighter-you put out way to many fire,keeping the town form burning down. Assissin-you took out to many people as an contact Killier. Fbi Agent- can't think of anything Play boy-you have so much money and spend you time clubbing with the ladies you became a play buy |
Am I the only one that found this post hilarious?
Champion-
Flaming Intern/Tanker(main)
The Ice Albatross/Blaster
Apollonius/Controller
Valtrix/Defender
All the tank sets in the Intern variety
Burning Intern/Brute(CoV Main)
And the list goes on...
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Maybe they're going by how it works in the real world, where New Age nonsense like alchemy and homeopathic potions aren't NEARLY as effective as modern medicine. |
Originally Posted by bjooks
2) I think the accolade powers for Physician (Prof + Caregiver, giving you a revive ally) and Alchemist (Midnighter + Caregiver, giving you an ally heal) should be swapped. My reasoning: right now, doctors bring the dead back to life, while alchemists just help them get over small illnesses. Seems more logical the other way around. Go to college and work at a hospital, and you too can heal people who haven't died yet. But work at a hospital and learn some magic on the side, and maybe you can conquer death itself. The use of the more empathic animation for heal while using the the tricorder with revive ally makes me think it's working as intended, but still, it makes more sense to me if Physicians could heal while Alchemists could revive the dead (well... the "mostly dead," anyway).
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Formerly known as Stormy_D
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Ok, I can kinda see that, but then I remember we have a magic origin available for characters.
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Originally Posted by Autonomous_Prime
Maybe they're going by how it works in the real world, where New Age nonsense like alchemy and homeopathic potions aren't NEARLY as effective as modern medicine.
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"YOU DID NOT READ THE THREAD. GO READ THE LONG, LONG THREAD.
Then, perhaps your butt cheeks will relinquish their grip on your chin." -The_Zekiran
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Originally Posted by MortisEques
Ok, I can kinda see that, but then I remember we have a magic origin available for characters.
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So what, magic beats everything? I think we might want to avoid that kind of plot device.
Formerly known as Stormy_D
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Not saying magic beats everything. But generally in most fiction magic can do things that science cant. Bringing things back from the dead, or in the case of this game as close to dead as we can get.
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Originally Posted by Autonomous_Prime
So what, magic beats everything? I think we might want to avoid that kind of plot device. |
"YOU DID NOT READ THE THREAD. GO READ THE LONG, LONG THREAD.
Then, perhaps your butt cheeks will relinquish their grip on your chin." -The_Zekiran
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Originally Posted by MortisEques
Not saying magic beats everything. But generally in most fiction magic can do things that science cant. Bringing things back from the dead, or in the case of this game as close to dead as we can get.
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Formerly known as Stormy_D
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Nope.
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Originally Posted by FlamingIntern
Am I the only one that found this post hilarious?
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All great idea's... it is about time the dayjob system gets a small (or huge) update.
But it will be easier to implement this if we could actually enter more buildings. Throughout the zones there are comic shops, donut bars, supermarkets, news building, bars all inaccesable.
There should also be some real necisary building added like schools...
And why can't I enter the Cinema... or the Broadway show? Open these up so we can have rp inside... dayjob badges... and rotate the boards once in a while. Especially the cinema is a great place to advertize the latest movies.
- The Italian Job: The Godfather Returns #1151
Beginner - Encounter a renewed age for the Mook and the Family when Emile Marcone escapes from the Zig!
- Along Came a... Bug!? #528482
Average - A new race of aliens arrives on Earth. And Vanguard has you investigate them!
- The Court of the Blood Countess: The Rise of the Blood Countess #3805
Advanced - Go back in time and witness the birth of a vampire. Follow her to key moments in her life in order to stop her! A story of intrigue, drama and horror! Blood & Violence... not recommend to solo!
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I like the DJ, Rockstar, and Pla-boy ideas, although the latter would be a little dubious. |
Originally Posted by GreenFIame
New Day Jobs Idea's
Artist-You spend time Painting in you loft area. Computer Programer-You design many good Software while undercover as an hero. Teacher-You are Teacher,teaching the young Knowledge. Model-you so off you good looks everyday Movie Star-you are famous actor. Rockstar-you play alot of good music DJ-you been hang out with Dj Zero so much you now have you career as one. Fire Fighter-you put out way to many fire,keeping the town form burning down. Assissin-you took out to many people as an contact Killier. Fbi Agent- can't think of anything Play boy-you have so much money and spend you time clubbing with the ladies you became a play buy |
Firefighter already exists as a badge, so I don't see that becoming a day job as well, especially since the fire calls in Steel Canyon go to random areas and there isn't a fixed place for you to be to get one. But I DO have a workaround for this.
Here are some of my ideas based on those suggestions:
DeeJay - if you hang around DJ Zero long enough in Pocket D (that's being up on the platworm with the giant speaker) then you become a DeeJay in your own right.
Rockstar - Get the DeeJay and Clubber badge
Celebutant - Get the DeeJay and Duelist badge (little easier to sell than Pla-boy)
Crisis Manager - Firefighter badge with Police Chief acolade - this would actually be something of a level 2 acolade, which would be a really good way to incorporate day job badges with achievment badges.
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Can't believe I haven't heard of these.
Sugar High: logout around the donut shop in Faultline. Bonus: adds a multiplier to your speed boosts. reason: Cracked out on refined sugar and sprinkles! (hero)
All Beef: logout near the various burger billboards around R.I (Are these in Paragon, I haven't noticed) Bonus: add multiplier to attack boosts. reason: a high protein diet makes for strong muscles (villian)
Fixer: logout near paper contacts. Reward: Special missions. Reason: you keep your ear to the ground and catch wind of special opportunites before other villians (villians, duh :P)
Sewer Rat: logout in Sewer Network. Reward: Teleporter that will take you to anywhere the sewer runs, provided you're in the network. Reason: You've spent so much time in these tunnels you know shortcuts that even the sewer workers don't know about!
Badge Name: Troll
Hero/Villain: Both
Location: Under bridges
Benefit: Troll Regeneration (+Regen)
Badge Name: Merman / Mermaid
Hero/Villain: Both
Location: In the ocean
Benefit: ???
Badge Name: Treeman / Treewoman
Hero/Villain: Both
Location: On top of tree mazes (Like in Perez Park and Cap Au Diable)
Benefit: Barkskin (+Res to Lethal and Smashing Damage)
Badge Name: Dryad
Hero/Villain: Villain
Location: Near the Thorn Tree in Nerva
Benefit: Summon Tree Spirit (Summon pet. Does not atttack, but can heal you and your teammates)
Badge Name: Alien
Hero/Villain: Both
Location: Any area of the Rikti War Zone that doesn't currently have a Day Job
Benefit: Alien Blaster (Ranged attack, High Energy damage)
Badge Name: Professional Wrestler
Hero/Villain: Both
Loaction: Near the Monkey Cage in Pocket D
Benefit: Toggle Power with half the benefit of the Tough power
Accolades:
Badge Name: Legendary Creature
Hero/Villain: Both
Req. Badges: Troll, Merman/maid, Treeman/woman.
Benefit: Logging out in one of the locations for the required Day Jobs grants the bonuses of all three required Day Jobs.
Badge Name: Ent
Hero/Villain: Villain
Req. Badges: Treeman/woman, Dryad
Benefit: Take Root (Self Immobilize, +Regen, +Recovery, + Res to Knockback)
Badge Name: Alien Ambassador
Hero/Villain: Hero
Req. Badges: Alien, City Official
Benefit: ???
Badge Name: Alien Invader
Hero/Villain: Villain
Req. Badges: Alien, Arachnos Agent
Benefit: ???
Badge Name: Face
Hero/Villain: Hero
Req. Badges: Professional Wrestler, Patroller
Benefit: Finisher (melee power, high damage, foe knockdown)
Badge Name: Heel
Hero/Villain: Villain
Req. Badges: Professional Wrestler, Criminal
Benefit: Foreign Object (melee power, high damage, foe stun)
Badge Name: Mixed-Martial Artist
Hero/Villain: Both
Req Badges: Professional Wrestler, Duelist
Benefit: Toggle power with half the benefit of the Weave power
Job: Horse Groomer/Pony Tamer
Loc: Log out near Ms. Liberty.
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Grants a chat window icon so whenever you type in chat a unicorn graphic pops up showing how flaming [censored] you've become .
Come on, we all know that Ms. Liberty is a closet fan girl. Anime up the wazoo, a few SailorMoon costumes and her bed covered in plushies. Ya, she rolls like that. That's HOT.
I can't feel my legs..!