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MA Map Request Thread

Aliana Blue

By Aliana Blue,
Posted on: 2009-05-10 17:27 in Mission Architect

 

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OK, I'm tired of being limited to Paragon City and Rogue Isles maps. No matter how much text description I put into it, it's still going to look like Paragon City or the Rogue Isles

Bottom line: We need more maps. And not just more Paragon or Rogue Isles maps. We need more maps that are instantly recognizable, more maps of historic places, or maps of places that have a unique architecture or geography that can be used for a lot of exotic settings.

Since there's a costume request thread, why not have a request thread for MA maps? Surely there's locations you want to do, but don't have a proper map for?

I can think of a few off the top of my head

* Times Square, NYC (ads, of course, could be replaced with more game-appropriate ones)
* Reliant Park in Houston (the design and style of the Astrodome and Reliant Stadium can easily make such a map double as the exterior of a space colony)
* The Pyramids of Giza - good for mystical-themed missions or pulp novel/adventure movie setting.
* The interior of Roman Colosseum, past or present. - The past one would be a great final showdown in between Romulus and Imperious, a present one would be a cool cave-like map.
* City of Westminster - Who wouldn't want to have a superhero brawl in the shadow of The Clock Tower?
* Normandy Beach in France - For D-Day missions or perhaps you're in Axis America world and you're fighting Zee Germans.
* Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah - This could either be used as the surface of a planet, or a western scene.
* Meteor Crater Arizona
* Tombstone Historic District, Arizona A shootout at the O.K. Corral with your nemesis?
* Gangnam-gu District (NCSoft HQ) in Seoul.

There, that's enough to get started. What do you want to see?

(Mind you, this is not a thread to critique other suggestions, this is for brainstorming and making suggestions. Nor is this for people who are not devs to shoot down suggestions of new MA maps. If people make enough suggestions, anything is possible.)

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[*]Starships[*]Spacestations[*]Coliseums (circular open space with minor obstructions, any era)[*]Outside Mt. Rushmore[*]Inside Mt. Rushmore (the famous fight in the nostril)[*]Outside + Inside a Dam[*]Metropolis (1920's movie one)[*]A mansion + grounds[*]Unassuming entrances leading into secret hideouts[*]Jungle[*]Jungle w/Secret Fortress [*]Land w/ Giant Vegetation

 

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The fact that it's Paragon/Rogue Isles doesn't seem to be the main problem in my opinion. The main problem is the need for more unique and original maps as opposed to copies of maps that already exist.

That said, I'd like to see a restaurant, a grocery store, a tropical island, and an open desert.

 

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I want the sharkhead maps back in please

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I would like the forest that is on fire map back or an explaination as to why it was taken away.

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The likely explanation is buggy spawns, but my name ain't red...

I'd like to see Paragon, but different eras. Pre-Columbian, Frontier, 18th and 19th centuries (especially a "gaslight" era), maybe even a '30s one that's all in black and white....that kind of period thing.

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Baby New Year map
Ski Slopes
High School Interior
Cathedral Interior
Night Clubs
The Giza Interior
Amusement Park

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"Pentagon"
More realistic office buildings.
Mall interiors
Mall exteriors
Marketplace (like outdoor farmers market)

 

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Nuclear Launch base
Neighborhood w/ tradional Japanese style housing
Large oil drilling platform
WW2 Style bases

 

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The Shadow Shard.

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I'd like to see the Terra Volta map, I love that one.

 

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I'd like to see a high school styled gym with locker rooms, a gym, showers, bio lab, stuff like that.

Also, the inside of a stadium would be great. It could be customized for Hockey, Basketball, Rock Concerts, Monster trucks etc.

Lastly, I'm looking for a map to use that I can't find on AE. It's one of the ones I've played with those Shaman badguys who have Storm powers, Zombies, etc. It's a round outdoor mish with some trees and tombstones. It has a round outer ledge and then a step drop off to the round ground section. At the back center of the map is a castle like structure on the bottom (not at at the center on a bridge). Does anyone know what this map is called or where to find it?

 

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Burning Crey map where you can fall through the elevator holes

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I just want some spawn points added to the Midnight Club map. The front area where you enter the club.

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Hell yes. That would make it perfect for my Jorge Luis Borges level.

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I actually use that map and work in an explanation for why the front is empty. But... probably more useful to put spawns in.

 

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I just want some spawn points added to the Midnight Club map. The front area where you enter the club.

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That and make all floor spawn points generic so that anything can be placed there. I'm tired of maps that have no or very few front rescue spawn points. Annoying as heck when you are trying to give the player clues through a mission and not have them retrace areas they have been over before.

 

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Do I smell a "City of Heroes: Construction" expansion coming soon?

Issue 16 maybe? Where we can do our own maps ala the Quake series, Flight Simulator, and others?

That would totally rock, and you all know it.

Oh, and so I stay on thread target, I vote for the following:

Moon Base with apropos physics. I'll superjump right off the moon, babies.

Danger Room ala Ender's Game. Although we won't call it that and it won't look like it was described, but you get the idea. An orbital playground of win, freefall style.

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Agree with shadow shard, particularly the Chantry, also agree with the BNY mish map.

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A bowling alley and a concert hall. There's a number of fictional business in this game that you see "advertised" that don't have appropriate maps to them. You notice things when you don't have a travel power yet...

 

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The Shadow Shard.

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