What would you like to see in City Of Heroes 2?
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Autonomous Prime,
Posted on: 2009-04-29 18:41 in Suggestions and Ideas
Yeah the lesson to bring from this is: if you HAVE an idea - search first, research those posts, make sure it's not been seen as utterly stupid. If your idea seems to have merit, post a well-written first post about it, consider the effects on the game, and don't be an emotional troll about it.
Like begets like - if a post is full of anger, it's GOING to get angry replies.
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Are you taking about CoH3?
CoV is CoH2.
CoH3 - the next add-on game (not expansion, but a different game like CoV) was voted to be set on a space station and a lunar colony (I think those were the ones that won in the voting, I wanted underwater and the Mars base myself...) So I could see that set in the future - but that's an add-on game and not a replacement of or re-doing of CoH.
I would seriously hope a re-doing of CoH does not happen.
CoH/CoV have been improved and expanded almost from day one and this is a continuing process.
This whole CoH 2 thing that people keep starting is all because of conjecture from a magazine writer and has nothing to do with actual facts. Obviously, the writer doesn't have a very good grip on what has been going on if he thought at that time that CoH would have to completely rebuild itself in order to compete with Champions Online and DCU Online.
Champions Online isn't even Champions the RPG Online, so they shot themselves in the foot with that one from day one.
Champions Online is built upon what was to be the Marvel Online (which fell through) as far as I can tell. It is set-up with an archetype system like CoH. One of the many brilliant innovations of Champions the RPG was that there were no archetypes. Your character was an archetype because of how you made your character and not the other way around. There will be an option for you to pick powers from scratch, but from what I can tell it will be about less than 10% as customizable the Champions the RPG character creation system. Pretty sad really.
(I don't know what the newest versions of this RPG look like. I'm talking about the original books and the first hardbound) All the game mechanics of Champions the RPG were mathematically able to translate to a computer game easily, but the Champions Online DEVs chucked the mechanics and kept the Signature characters. The same Signature Characters that were apparently made as jokes of how to make bad characters in the RPG. Take for instance Foxbat who has all of his powers in an OAF. That's an Obvious Accessible Focus - one that anyone can grab and break. Without it, he is powerless. Good thing it is so big.
Layer two of complete flailing on the game design was to put the PC version of the game out first instead of the X-box 360 where it would have had no competition with CoH and had a chance to get a good audience.
Without this actually being Champions the RPG in an Online format, it's pretty much a farce as far as I'm concerned to call it Champions Online. It's kind of like calling a game Poker Online, and it actually using the Uno game play mechanics as far as I'm concerned. If it truly was Champions the RPG Online, they would have given CoH a run for it's money, but it isn't.
DCU Online is kind of failing in similar ways.
Wouldn't it be cool to play Superman. No can't do that.
You can't even be a Kryptonian from what I understand - unless they have changed things recently.
Sure you will be playing in the DCU, but you won't be part of it. You will be some other guy that happens to be there among the "real" DCU characters who are cool - you're the other guy that isn't so cool, btw. Some players are really interested in this. I hope it meets what they are looking for.
If you want to have the Fable-like mechanic of being classified to an alignment by action, then maybe you will want to give it a try (because I hope that CoH never gets that mechanic).
It is supposed to be very pretty, but pretty and playable are two different things.
CoH just need to keep being what it is - an evolving/expanding game. There is no need to re-invent the wheel. The competitors will be starting at square-one and trying to catch up with the 300 lbs Gorilla that is getting bigger and better by the day.
I'll be looking for a new version of CoH when I get a holodeck installed at home. Until then, CoH is doing fine progressing as it does at a steady clip - if you have been keeping track...
I'd like to see a pvp-server with:
<ul type="square">[*]Auto-level to 50[*]Access to all pvp zones, the arena, and pocket D ONLY[*]Free and unlimited access to all IO's/Enhancements[*]Boo Ya![/list]
Thank you!
2 things that I'd like to see in a COH2- the first being an effort to understand just HOW the players will use the tools you give them before they actually go live. i.e. Look for exploits that will be farmed and take care of them before release.
The other thing would be aggressive policing of the forums so that both "regular joes" and fan boyz get a fair shake. Your edict against "no" and /jranger type posts was at least 4 years late. Most of the people posting to the suggestions forum are actually trying to help the game, whether their suggestion is great or not. It would be nice if they were treated with an ounce of courtesy rather than ripped to shreds from every angle and the general impression that the game company agrees with those attacks.
I think that would help quite a bit - althought i suspect that COH2 will never happen.
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I'm sure they'll get those to stop when they get /signed to stop, because both kinds of posts are equally useless.
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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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I agree with Zek. See, this is what I find funny. Before players cried, "We need NEW content! We need New content!" The Devs give you MA/AE (hehe Sounds like a power set) where you can make up your own content and yet, players STILL *Censored*!! I bet there have been plenty-o-times where players have said, "Oh My Diety! Man, I wish these mishes were better." or "Diety! I wish we could make our OWN mishes and do what we want with them.. that would be epic!"
Well,... here it is! In all its "epicness" MA/AE. Make YOUR content and enjoy!
But we're not getting PAAAAIIIIDDDD to do it! That's THEIR job!! Content is THEIR job!!
*sigh*
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/signed.
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that would be cool but not a very good beggining
Hmm. Well thought out and logical. <nods> I believe I understand now!
-C.A.