Things I'd Like to See In Going Rogue...

For this one the best implementation would have a pop-up come up when a 'travel event' is triggered that asks you if you want to take part in it. This way if you are on your way to sell/level/ect just before logging off you can choose not to take it. The events should only have a chance to trigger when you are solo and don't have a timed mission on your plate. Then add in an entry in the options menu to completely disable them and that will pretty much cover all bases.

That would handle my concerns with the idea, I think. As long as it wasn't too frequent, I don't think the extra popups would annoy most people into turning it off.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

Would also need to be disabled if you're in a team. Can you imagine how much fun it would be if one member of your team gets stuck doing some studpid train mission and everyone else has to wait?

Frankly, I'd disable it all the time, it would interrupt game flow way too much for no apparent gain.

Are wonderful in comics (actually, no, they're stupid, but in context they're wonderful), but they just staright don't work in games. And what's with the double debt? Why?

A lot of unimplementable stuff here. Or, your suggestions for heroes make it harder, carrying your victim villain-side would make it easier. You play a villain a lot?

I have an enormous dislike of companies enforcing roleplay on me. My current main RP character has had her objectives change several times over the year or so she has existed. I don't want her to have a 'life-long theme.' Point of fact, same applies to al my other characters. Could never be made flexible enough for most roleplayers.

Hate the entire concept.

Random optional missions would be a nice addition to radio-style missions. But that explanation you had might be a bit too hard to implement.

Hmm.. We had a similar discussion with our SG a while back. That while, say, teleporting, you could get caught by a subspace disturbance and get stuck in some sort of strange otherwordly place.
But really that would be just insanely annoying when that happened if you were just TP'ing home to log out.
So, no.

Death Traps would be a nice addition to the game. But I hate all timed missions, and they'd be annoying to most players, I think.
But if you got defeated in a special map and clicked "hospital", you'd be sent to some sort of death trap. Like the villain maps where you're sent to jail.
What kind of death traps they would be, I'm not sure. Something fun and non-annoying.

Hmm. Didn't quite get what you meant with the Hero-side resque stuff. I like the fact that the victims are cowering in front of muggers. And some enemy types hold their victims in force fields and rituals anyways.
The villains "throw the darn kidnapped on your shoulder and run" would be great. They wouldn't get stuck on each and every corner in a cave. And wouldn't get lost when someone has Steamy Mist on.
In fact, a major tweak on their pathing would be nice for each side.

Don't like it, sorry. What if I choose the "wrong" theme in the beginning? Something that you later find doesn't fit the character. Or gives lots of missions with maps that you hate?
Actually, you can play a theme now anyways. Just write it in your character description, and pick missions with enemies that fit your "theme".
No need to force it on everybody.

Umm, so you got different missions depending on what you do on a mish, right?
That would just create lots of content people would rarely see. And already I hate the fact that contacts can give missions in random order. I usually play with my friends, and we all strive to get the same contact. So we can complete the same missions simultaneously.
But when a contact throws a curve ball and gives the missions in random order, we're stuck in playing the same mish multiple times.
Instead of branching missions give us more contacts

I like the fact that you immediately know what to do. It'd be really annoying when you think that you're done with the mission, and 5 more objects just spring up. "Agh, so I have to re-search the cavern for the glowie, that wasn't glowing when I first saw it?!"

Some sort of dummy range would be nice, so you could test your powers. (Then again, we DO have our dummy ranges already http://www.flymancomics.com/ep3 :P )
I'm not sure about the "collect double XP here!" stuff, though. And I think most of those training simulations could be done in AE if somebody wanted them bad enough.

Some games give awards for not being defeated. In Lord of the Rings Online you get a "badge" if you get to certain level without dying.
Some players delete their chars if they die before getting all the badges (if I remember correctly lvl 20 gives the last "Yay didn't die!" badge). And if you want them, PUG's and bad players become a real liability.
So I'm not a big fan of those kind of rewards. I don't mind if superheroes get defeated. As you said yourself in "Death Traps", these things tend to happen. The hero just bounces back, dusts him/herself off and runs in the fray again.

Maybe there could be a toggle on the train/ferry destination list. Tick it to have the chance of one occuring and untick to have no chance. Default is set to what you have on your options each time you log in. Have the chance 0% if on a timed mission or on a team.

Alternatively if on a team the incident could be set as the teams current mission so the rest of the team can join in.

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Originally Posted by Steelclaw Non-Contact mission starts A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to... Death Traps Rescuing/Kidnapping Tweeks Life Long Themes Branching Missions Unknown Mission Objectives Training Facility The Undefeated Champion

I definitely want all of these items, except the last item The Undefeated Champion should in my opinion simply be a badge that every character starts with and loses if they are defeated before they reach Lv50.