Expand Oro destinations

Hi:

I been doing some of the Oro retro missions, and often they wind up sending me to a zone not covered by the Oro portal system.

It would be nice, QoL, improvement if the zones one can be sent to by Oro flashbacks were included within the Oro portal system such as Kings Row, Sky, Steel Canyon, Faultline, and Brickstown for instance.

I would like to see connectivity to Cimerora and RWZ as well, but I can see technical issues with level entry limits.

I would like, but I could see where it could not make sense, for hazard zones such as TV, Striga, DA, Eden.

Hugs

Stormy

*chuckles*

You DO realize the Ouro system has a built in teleport to send you to the contact you need? (once you get the mission, clicky the biiiig crystal.)

So, I've solved your suggestion.. unless you were just trying to find an excuse to get your transport hub improved.....

The last thing it needs is to be turned in to an all-encompassing transportation hub, which gives you no need to ever walk anywhere other than limited distances inside zones.

I remember the good old days when we took the Yellow or Green Line to places.

We still have a trams, right?

Otherwise, one could use Pocket D, RWZ, Mission Teleporter, ferry, zone door, or a base (if available).

There are so many ways to travel already I don't think we need to turn Ouroboros into a travel hub. It's already so much easier to get around in this MMO than others as it is.

Besdies the 'transport hub' comments.

One reason behidn this is such that the no travel powers setting is actually meaningful.

If you could get to every mission zone, where is the real 'handicap' of that setting ?

An excellent point Cat.

The setting disables travel powers.

A mix of the two, I suppose. Paragon City was a significant achievement in MMO worldbuilding circa 2004, even if they did have to break it up with War Walls; sure, it's missing a lot of things a real city has, but look at what it does have and how much explorable area there is. It's neither fantasy nor sci-fi, either, which was (and remains) the most-trodden ground in the genre.

People (like the one I was responding to here) did get tired of crossing zones just to get to the mission door, however, especially when we didn't have the shortcuts we do now - Pocket D, Ouroboros, an expanded Green Line. Heck, the original PDP door got moved because people were using it almost exclusively as a convenient shortcut, messing up the original game design of having to cross Steel Canyon the long way to transfer from Yellow to Green. And the wide-openness comes from having two redundant zones at almost every tier. When it came time for CoV, the Devs took the lessons of their first attempt to heart and condensed the experience. Some people liked the more compact world and convenient missions, while others found it cluttered and claustrophobic and overly linear. *shrug* Can't please everyone.

And like I said: five years ago, that WAS the state of the art. That was the dominant paradigm in MMO world design.
These days, a lot of players don't have the patience for that kind of transparent "filler." Sure, the hunting and crafting and whatnot are still grindy as heck, but at least the player is engaged, not watching their avatar's rear end for ten boring minutes as they walk/ride/fly to the next waypoint/town/jumpgate.

Should change oro to only send you to the zone with your oro mission in it. And ONLY oro missions / flashbacks.

Shouldn't be used as a lazy way to travel and I suspect that's what this thread is really about.

You do know thats the whole reason why it still hasn't been expanded right? 95% of the people using ouroboros aren't even doing flashbacks or missions. Its just a super mario brothers warp zone.