Where does CoX goes from here?

I demand more unique Trials! CoV is in need of some crazy stuff Trial-wise. Maybe revamp the current trials more? Would love an issue that was content/Trial geared.

Game engine could use an upgrade, graphics too, giant monster fights should be more epic and EVERYTHING should be a mayhem (as stressful as this would be on the current game system, thats why we need an updated game system). War Walls should be gone and they could figure out some way to load the stuff without the annoying load screens. Base maker upgrade which also introduces the custom map maker for AE, perhaps even custom event maker for AE. User generated costumes could be interesting. Another Epic AT or maybe just more for our 50s to do.

And of course, more interesting content and more places to go to. Oh, and renameable controller/dom pets.

Just my thoughts.

"Hey, anyone know where this game goes?"

*pause*

"It goes up."

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

What CoH is missing:

1. Hunting Rats (and a hierarchy of various quadrupeds for their pelts for crafting better armor or base couches and throw rugs).

2. See #1, we really need more rats.

New powersets -- twin pistols/gun-fu, staff melee, chain/whip melee.....
New costume customization -- left/right parts, multiple colors per piece (beyond 2 when applicable), power emanation points....
New Zones -- many already specified: moon, atlantis, rikti homeword, hell, more alternate dimensions, underwater....
Mission Architect 2.0 -- mission layout using placeables, like the base editor, scripting and branching
PvP -- base raids and items of powers revisited. Perhaps offline supergroup members defend the base as npcs.....

A few Zone revamps -- give Perez Park some lover (i street sweep for nostalgia and arcane drops...)

More work on the costume editor. Make the old/original pieces higher resolution (like the difference between the original head wings and the Valkyrie head wings), and for cabbage's sake, add the ability to have asymmetric costumes/patterns.

--NT

I was talking recently with a friend about the more elderly content, particularly heroside content, the writing of which treats certain things that are now somewhat old hat as if it were new news (who are these strange soldiers with their antiquated uniforms and bizarre weaponry? could it be *gasp* Nemesis?). I understand that MMO writing is to some extent under the same restrictions as long-running serial comics - every issue is somebody's first - but it seems a little strange to go into the RWZ at 35, where certain facts about the Rikti and Nemesis are fairly well disseminated, and then step out to have a chat with Maxwell Christopher about the possibility that Nemesis might, just might still be active, oh and have you heard the terrible secret of the Rikti?

This got me thinking about Ouroboros. Ouroboros is supposed to be a time travel device, but we only use it to access "past" missions that are still available in the "present". Combine the two threads of thought, and an idea sprang to mind.

Obviously the devs do not want to scrap all the existing heroside content, and of course neither would the players like having it disappear - there are badges in them thar missions, after all, to say nothing of the old content that is actually good, or at least beloved by some. But what if all the antiquated content were shunted off into Ouroboros, and replaced by newer content more savvy to the issues of the present day? It'd provide an outlet to add tons of new content created with the lessons of the past 16 issues in mind, as well as advance some of the dangling plotlines and address unresolved questions to please the continuity buffs. If well introduced, the new missions would still be a good introduction to the setting for a new player - just the setting as it is now, rather than as it was when the game was released.

In fact, if the devs were extremely ambitious, they could create a continuously advancing story by refreshing the available missions periodically and shunting the prior versions into the mists of time - still accessible through Ouroboros, of course. Your character's path through the game could meander through time as well as space.

It'd require a great deal of backend work, I suspect - much more than the current version of Ouroboros, if I am correct in my guess as to how it works. But it would be one solution for expanding and revamping existing content without feeling a need to preserve antiquated content in the "live world" on the one hand, or flushing previous work on the other.

City of Heroes is focusing too hard on retention right now.

New splash screens!

All of these are good ideas. I would like to see female stance that is different from men's.

Hecto Mundo. I have this scrapper idea... when I get more character slots...

Seriously? Um. It would be easier to describe places were they can NOT go. Like, time of Alexander. We've already done the back to Rome thing; time travel in that regards might feel too familiar. Smack-a-Hitler. We are fighting Reichsman and the Natzi cronies... so time-travel to the forties/thirties would be... a stretch. However, time-travel to the forties to fight Al Capone/Marconi/Hitler and a switch over to the Time of Alexander to make sure the Incarnate origin survives until Roman times... we COULD have a TF that is all about a Temporal Cold War.

So... any idea is actually open, if packaged right.

Me? I want to know who is writing us letters; I'd to know if Nemesis really did reform at the end of time and space... and is trying to rectify his former ill-policies, or if Oro is just one more Nemesis plot.

The title of this thread... oh, so dirty.