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What would you like to see in City Of Heroes 2?

Autonomous Prime

By Autonomous Prime,
Posted on: 2009-04-29 18:41 in Suggestions and Ideas

 

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I decided to make a post of what players would like to see in a City Of Heroes 2 If NC Soft actually got their heads out their collective..... and decided to develop a newer version.

What I would like to see in a City Of heroes 2 is a revamped concept set say 300 years in the future where the Statesman and Recluse are dead in some cataclysmic final battle with one another that left much of paragon forever changed. I think an idea like this would be cool because it would open the door to say oboros missions where you could go back in time and play out the events and find out what led to the final event.

Something a person suggested in a thread that I woild like to see would be 3 different Dark Astoria's . The first if I recall would be DArk Astoria as we know it. The second would be A dark Astoria time changed and the 3rd would be dark Astoria flux which would be a pvp area where heroes and villians could run story arcs that change Dark astoria into a place of light or preserve its Dark, non player area state.

So post away I really would like to hear what others would want in a new revamped city of heroes 2

 

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I decided to make a post of what players would like to see in a City Of Heroes 2 If NC Soft actually got their heads out their collective..... and decided to develop a newer version.

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I stopped right here. Don't exactly see how or why, by failing to produce an entirely new version of CoX seemingly on your sole whim, Paragon Studios has their heads up their "....".

Edit: Skimmed the rest of the post to see that it was about as reasonable as the first part. 300 years? Really?

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They don't have their heads anywhere but on good solid shoulders.

If you want a Dark Astoria that does something different, make a MA mission arc with bits there. You want statesman and whoever else to have gone and the world in ruins? We have those maps too.

Seems to me, that what you want, we were just granted 3 weeks ago.

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Do not want.

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I decided to make a post of what players would like to see in a City Of Heroes 2 If NC Soft actually got their heads out their collective.....

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That's really a sad way to start a post. The devs have enough brains to keep many players subscribing for multiple years in a row, and have introduced several industry firsts in this game.

How about you go and design and produce a profitable MMO that makes this game look like rubbish. After that, I'll absolutely join you in denigrating this dev team. Lotsa luck with that.

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We need a 3rd COH 2 thread from the same person.... STAT!

 

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You mean issue 14 dubbed the architect where the devs charge players to do their job for them and if its good enough we are granted the even bigger honor of having them steal... ahem cannonize the work officially?

 

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WOW! you are taking my suggestion very personal. By any chance are you a dev ? Suggestions are simply that suggestions. In this case COH is dated and a newer graphics engine and combat would open up a world of possibilities that you cannot with the current engine. What is the problem ?

 

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What the ---- is up with people claiming that we pay devs to do a job? That $11-$15 a month you pay is for server access, in no way is it for new content. The new content is a thank you from the devs, they do it because they love to do it. (A little bit of the need to keep the game fresh is in there too) But those issues are not tied to your monthly subscription.

The devs could stop coming out the content tomorrow and it would still mean paying $15 a month to access the servers.

 

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Dang it, you people are as easy to troll as Oprah Winfrey. JUST STOP REPLYING.

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I just want to know how the thread got over 9500 views in just under 5 hours. That's just... That's just crazy. It's like someone just sat there "click, back, click, back, click, back, click, back..."

 

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I was hoping it was actually a discussion about things people would like to see in CoH 2. The OP was kind of a downer, but nobody contributed anything else. =/

I'd like queued (eg, launches a PvP instance when and only when enough people have signed up) event-based cross-server PvP available from trainer contacts.

 

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I decided to make a post of what players would like to see in a City Of Heroes 2 If NC Soft actually got their heads out their collective..... and decided to develop a newer version.

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To quote Angel Red who said this most succinctly:

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*clears throat*

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I don't think a CoH 2 is needed, but I would like to see some major upgrades made to the current game. Games are like movies, sequels just don't always seem to measure up to the original. As example, I loved Everquest, played it for 5 years before SOE started gearing all the new content toward the large raiding uber guilds. Tried Everquest 2 and while it looked amazing graphically it was one of the most boring games I've ever played, never made it past the free month.

 

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WOW! you are taking my suggestion very personal. By any chance are you a dev ? Suggestions are simply that suggestions. In this case COH is dated and a newer graphics engine and combat would open up a world of possibilities that you cannot with the current engine. What is the problem ?

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The problem (and I suspect you know this...you claim years of experience with the game yet are posting under a brand new forum account) is that you opened your post with a slam on the dev team's intelligence/competence. Most people (and some have stated as much) will stop reading right there, so they're not even getting to your suggestion.

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I don't think a CoH 2 is needed, but I would like to see some major upgrades made to the current game. Games are like movies, sequels just don't always seem to measure up to the original.

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I agree.. The foundation is sound so why get rid of it? The "Issue" system of updates is a great thing, and with the advent of costume packs and such I would rather pay along the way for new technology and features to be pushed in behind the scenes than to get a new edition and have to start from square one.

 

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WOW! you are taking my suggestion very personal. By any chance are you a dev ? Suggestions are simply that suggestions. In this case COH is dated and a newer graphics engine and combat would open up a world of possibilities that you cannot with the current engine. What is the problem ?

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The problem (and I suspect you know this...you claim years of experience with the game yet are posting under a brand new forum account) is that you opened your post with a slam on the dev team's intelligence/competence. Most people (and some have stated as much) will stop reading right there, so they're not even getting to your suggestion.

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The fact the OP started a second CoH2 thread 15 minutes after he made this one, has also contributed to our decisions.

 

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And the fact that he refused to search for the other topics similar to it.

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Props to Moderator 08 for his vigilence and great work.

 

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Christ I'd be hesitant to even post a thought if after reading how vicious you all are o.@ It's like sharks waiting for someone to fall off a plank!

Granted it's a double post but, damn o.0


-C.A.

 

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Thanks, Forbin

And in case people didn't catch it the first time

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| | '=(\ 9 9 /)='
| Thank you, | ( (_) )
| Management | /`-vvv-'\
+-------------------+ / \
| | @@@ / /|,,,,,|\ \
| | @@@ /_// /^\ \\_\
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I'm stealing that I love that :P

 

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Christ I'd be hesitant to even post a thought if after reading how vicious you all are o.@ It's like sharks waiting for someone to fall off a plank!

Granted it's a double post but, damn o.0


-C.A.

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The S&amp;I Forum is well known as one of the most brutal forums in which to post. Frequent posters or respondents in S&amp;I have, in truth, seen most of the suggestions that come through here, at least once before, if not many times before. This is why so many of the suggestions can be answered immediately by one of Memphis Bill's canned answers. This is also why the search function is brought up so often. An idea that you thought of as original may not be as original as you believe. There are a number of suggestions that have passed through here that are almost verbatim to suggestions brought forward not even two weeks before by another poster.

The other portion of this is that when you bring an idea here, be prepared to fight for it. You are asking for some change in the game, a change that others might not appreciate. The ideas brought forth need to be able to withstand criticism. If you can rebut the arguments against with reasoned arguments of your own, then you have worthy suggestion. On the other hand, if you cannot argue for your suggestion with logic and reason, then you need to ask yourself whether your suggestion is made for the good of the game, or for your own good.

The venom and personal attacks don't usually begin until the OP takes the criticism personally and starts fighting back with emotion instead of reason.

In this particular case, the OP led off with the emotion, and with words designed to get an emotional response. Many of us play City of Heroes because we enjoy the game and the world that the Developers have created for us. When the OP opens with a challenge for the Devs to get their heads out of their rears, one shouldn't act shocked that others do not share the OPs low opinion of the Dev team. To be fair, the folks who claimed that they stopped reading at that statement were giving the OP an honest evaluation of how this suggestion would be viewed by the Devs themselves. Back Alley Brawler has said that the fastest way for anyone to get on his ignore list is for that person to accuse him or another Developer of being lazy or stupid. BAB, so far, has been the only one to say this outright, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there are other Devs who felt the same way.

Polite conversation tends to breed polite conversation. Don't be scared away from the S&amp;I by this or other threads. If you keep your head, stay cool and rational, and show that you have thought your suggestion through completely, the response to your suggestion will be civil (maybe not positive, but civil)

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