The purpose of the Suggestions board is to give our players a place to let us know what changes they'd like to see made to City of Heroes and/or City of Villains by posting their ideas.
However, there are a few things that do tend to come up fairly often. In an effort to help us all focus on the new and original ideas, the following is a list of suggestions that have already been made many times.
Please take the time to scan this list before posting to the Suggestions board. Unless you feel you have a new or interesting take on one of these ideas, you can rest assured that the idea has already been suggested several times. I've also included brief comments about each one.
Please note: The comments about each suggestion are based on my understanding of the game. They are intended as guidelines only:
<ul type="square">[*]Vehicles - player-owned and/or controlled vehicles. (Bridger's comment: My feeling is that controllable vehicles - cars you can actually drive around and the like - are unlikely.)
[*]Wall-crawling/running/climbing - the ability to walk, run or crawl on vertical surfaces. (Bridger's comment: Cryptic (note: now NCNC, however comments were made under the Cryptic banner) has confirmed several times that these abilities are technically tricky to achieve in the current game engine, and would probably require a very large amount of animation time to introduce even if the technical problems are cracked.)
[*]Swinging - the ability to move around the city via swing-lines, webs, grappel guns or some similar means. (Bridger's comment: Cryptic (note: now NCNC, however comments were made under the Cryptic banner) has mentioned that there are both technical and gameplay problems with this form of travel power.)
[*]Weapon/Power customisation - the ability to alter the appearance (and/or sound effects) of your character's weapons or powers. GhostRaptor comment: weapon customisation is now available, however power customisation is still technically very difficult to achieve.)
[*]Influence transfer - the ability to move large sums of Influence from one character to another, and/or between alts on a single account. (Bridger's comment: Not really sure how likely this is.)
[*]Character slots - requests for more character slots. (GhostRaptor's comment: The ability to purchase additional character slots was added during 2008.)
[*]Secret identities - requests for 'secret identity' modes or options. (GhostRaptor's comment: The Issue 13 feature 'Day Jobs' takes a small step in this direction.)
[*]Weather effects - requests for weather in Paragon City and/or the Rogue Isles. (Bridger's comment: Given the amount of work this would be and the potential impact on people's frame rates, I'm guessing that this is unlikely any time soon.)
[*]Server Mergers - the merging of EU servers either with each other or into the US server lists. (GhostRaptor's comment: There are no current plans for any changes in server structure.)[/list]
If you can think of any other suggestions that keep coming up, please send GhostRaptor a Private Message (PM) with the details and I'll add it to this list.
The purpose of the Suggestions board is to give our players a place to let us know what changes they'd like to see made to City of Heroes and/or City of Villains by posting their ideas.
However, there are a few things that do tend to come up fairly often. In an effort to help us all focus on the new and original ideas, the following is a list of suggestions that have already been made many times.
Please take the time to scan this list before posting to the Suggestions board. Unless you feel you have a new or interesting take on one of these ideas, you can rest assured that the idea has already been suggested several times. I've also included brief comments about each one.
Please note: The comments about each suggestion are based on my understanding of the game. They are intended as guidelines only:
<ul type="square">[*]Vehicles - player-owned and/or controlled vehicles.
(Bridger's comment: My feeling is that controllable vehicles - cars you can actually drive around and the like - are unlikely.)
[*]Wall-crawling/running/climbing - the ability to walk, run or crawl on vertical surfaces.
(Bridger's comment: Cryptic (note: now NCNC, however comments were made under the Cryptic banner) has confirmed several times that these abilities are technically tricky to achieve in the current game engine, and would probably require a very large amount of animation time to introduce even if the technical problems are cracked.)
[*]Swinging - the ability to move around the city via swing-lines, webs, grappel guns or some similar means.
(Bridger's comment: Cryptic (note: now NCNC, however comments were made under the Cryptic banner) has mentioned that there are both technical and gameplay problems with this form of travel power.)
[*]Weapon/Power customisation - the ability to alter the appearance (and/or sound effects) of your character's weapons or powers.
GhostRaptor comment: weapon customisation is now available, however power customisation is still technically very difficult to achieve.)
[*]Influence transfer - the ability to move large sums of Influence from one character to another, and/or between alts on a single account.
(Bridger's comment: Not really sure how likely this is.)
[*]Character slots - requests for more character slots.
(GhostRaptor's comment: The ability to purchase additional character slots was added during 2008.)
[*]Secret identities - requests for 'secret identity' modes or options.
(GhostRaptor's comment: The Issue 13 feature 'Day Jobs' takes a small step in this direction.)
[*]Weather effects - requests for weather in Paragon City and/or the Rogue Isles.
(Bridger's comment: Given the amount of work this would be and the potential impact on people's frame rates, I'm guessing that this is unlikely any time soon.)
[*]Server Mergers - the merging of EU servers either with each other or into the US server lists.
(GhostRaptor's comment: There are no current plans for any changes in server structure.)[/list]
If you can think of any other suggestions that keep coming up, please send GhostRaptor a Private Message (PM) with the details and I'll add it to this list.