I14 - New constructions


ChrisF

 

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With Day Jobs coming in I13 and access to Mission Creator in I14, I started thinking about certain new buildings/constructions that would make Paragon City a more varied place to live and work both in and out of costume.

If it will be possible to create layouts both internally and externally it would add a lot more depth to the existing zones. Maybe the designer could have the honour of naming the new construction type and/or it's placement, e.g. the John Smith Memorial Library or McLeod Hotels.

These new sites offer the benefits of potential new day jobs and new contacts, possibly with special story interests, and maybe in alater issue could provide the secret entrance to your supergroup base. Imagine going into the fitting room of Moss Boutique, pressing a switch and entering the base of the Paragon Fashionista supergroup.

They might also provide a way of increasing advertising revenue by companies sponsoring certain in-game businesses, so that we had Barclays Bank branches being raided or Honda Car Showrooms being vandalised.

Some suggestions I've come up with are :

Fire Station - we have other emergency services but not this at the moment, although fire fighting badges are available.
Religious Buildings - I know this may be controversial but think of the scenes in Daredevil, X2 & Batman Movies and imagine a COH/COV mass battle there.
Cinema - I know the outside already exists but designing the inside could make for another interesting venue
Library
Bookshop
Mechanics
Garage
Mall
Car Showroom
Art Gallery
School
Factory
Museum
Waxworks
Clothes Shop
Airport
Musin Studio
TV Studio
Movie Studio
Army Barracks
Navy Dockyard
Air Force Base
Laboratory
House/Apartment
Mansion
Hotel
Restaurant
Sports Stadium
Theatre

I hope this makes some sort of sense and would be interested for other peoples ideas.


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I think you think the MA is something it isn't. You can't 'construct maps' for starters, so you can't build layouts the way you'd like.

The level of gameworld customisation you're asking for is very desirable, but probably impractical in a game like this.


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Is that possible to make missions like you can make bases? I mean somethin like, put rooms and stuff into the rooms etc... Thats the creator what I'm waiting.

If the creator is something like: select map type, select mobs and finally write some backrounds then it will nothing more than crappy disappointment.


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Custom maps will not be available at launch. They may be added at some point in the future.


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If the creator is something like: select map type, select mobs and finally write some backrounds then it will nothing more than crappy disappointment.

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It's likely to be more than that, but you will not be able to build your own map either. It's odd how not being able to design the map suddenly means that all you can do is select map, mobs and write some text.

Personally, if they handed us the base editor as a mechanism for creating mission maps, I'd laugh in their face. It will take huge amounts of effort to produce the kind of map editor you are looking for, Zachary.


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Well. I'm big fan of different map editors like HOMM3, AOE, Age Of Wonders... etc. So my first touhts was like "OMG, my dreams are becoming true." So that was too good to be true.


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Unless I'm mistaken, those are all single-player or networked P2P games, yes? The technical and logistical problems involved in doing the same kind of thing for an MMO are substantially greater.

Don't get your hopes up.


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Yes those are singleplaying games. Ok. I'm not holding my breath


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Plus, of course, you can select from literally any map currently in the game, I believe.


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Plus, of course, you can select from literally any map currently in the game, I believe.

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Also the "unique" maps that are lurking around in TFs/special Story Arcs


 

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This needs to be in suggestions under updates for the normal zones. Bring some life to the city by making it workable. Include those buildings that should be in a city.


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