No "More"

Multi team raid type in door missions.

"Sorry bucko, but CoH and CoV are the same game." -BackAlleyBrawler
"Silly villain, CoX is for Heroes!" -Saicho

You know Sam... sometimes you think too much.

1. Dynamic Zones where your faction (Hero/Villain) is always fighting against the enemy faction(s) for control of buildings/areas. ( Proposed this a long time ago )
Faction flags would appear on buildings that they control. ( i.e. Nemesis, 5th Column, Aracnos, etc. )

2. Ability to design maps in AE.

3. New zones that do not have the random mission paradigm that the game currently has, and where each door is not a totally random portal to a random map.

4. Totally New citys, each as large as Paragon City, and all with their own factions. ( London/British, Los Vegas/Western, Oriental, French, etc. )
Yeah, this could be considered "more", so what.

• Add rideable vehicles and boats with gun turrets that disable all your powers except the gun. When I enter the ride, I want my UI to be converted to the console of the inside of the vehicle.
• Tear down those ridiculous impassable blue walls. They stick out like a sore thumb. They make me feel trapped, and less like a super-powered anything. Permit zone to zone travel simply by going towards that zone. If you hit the edge of the map, you should instantly zone into the adjacent zone, picking up where you geographically left off.
• Reduction of zones, starting with the useless, to be determined by data mining. Though everyone knows, if you want to do anything with anyone, what zones we all ignore - and have been thusly for years.
• Redesign existing zones with far more diverse textures.
• Delete BM/Wents. Give everyone the ability to open a store and set their own prices. "Oh look, Joe Blow has that item, 5 billion infamy/influence cheaper - I think I'll buy from him." - EPIC!
• Design Ability! If I can design a base; and I can create a story arc; why can't I design a map AND story arc?
• Add drones next to any NPC to which I must open a full screen window (which removes my ability to see the invading hoardes surrounding me).

At HeroCon, the devs stated that they prefer to give us "new" content rather than revamp old content. However, I argue that revamps are new content. Let's take a look at Faultline. As it was, no one used it and no one even went there unless it was to badge hunt or to do the one sweeper mission that sent you there. Now there are well-written story arcs, the underground tunnels, the back end is opened up, and the front end looks like it's been repaired. If that isn't new content, I don't know what is.

I would love to see Boomtown get the same treatment (5th Column zone please), as well as Dark Astoria, Perez Park, and the Shadow Shard. It would be great if content we already have was actually used before brand new stuff was added.

In addition to this, I would really like to see an alternative to the Safeguard mission. I would like to see a pro-active mission that would send heroes into the Rogue Isles, with destructible environments, side missions, etc. Safeguard missions as they are are boring as all get out. Mayhem missions, on the other hand, are incredibly fun. It would be nice to see something that awesome for heroes, too. I know that there has long been the dichotomous thinking by the devs that heroes are reactive and villains are proactive, but I think there is room for both on either side. Perhaps even add an alternate to the Mayhem mission that keeps the villain in the Rogue Isles, stopping the invading heroes. There is already precedent in game for something similar, as Longbow has that base in Nerva. Other hero groups, like Legacy Chain, also have a presence.

I would like to have NPCs in our base. Perhaps a receptionist that would be an access point to a revised mail system that lets you mail items and influence/infamy. But as it is now, bases are too quiet.

- The ability to put shininess or glowiness on a section of say Matte and have the rest be Matte.

- Asymmetrical costume creator for arms/legs/shoulders beyond robot parts.

- Stylized tattoo design patterns. You've proven with Vines that you can make things that don't have to be big blocky patterns.

- Pattern layering of two patterns on a body part.

- Unlockable NPC group costume pieces for either getting X badge or stopping X amount of fires/robberies, etc.

- Piercings/jewelry.

- A way to have actual white masks.

- Tattooed tanktops/T's/belly T's for women.

- The headsets the AE NPCs have.


And for my off the wall and non-costume related ones...

- Very low light maps lit by lighting effects and powers.

- Being able to stand on moving objects like cars and the blimp. A big flying fortress moving around above one of the villain zones that you can stand on would be awesome.

- A system whereas you're given benefits for helping the infrastructure of Paragon City and helping the police, etc, where you gain vendor discounts that last for a certain amount of time and unlock things like the Cape and Aura missions sooner.

Edited to add:

- Less completely awesome things being made into way far off Vet Rewards.

• AV fights that aren't just beating on a big bag of HP. This seems to be the direction they're going with things like Romulus (though Reichsman was a step backward.) Give me bosses with targetable individual components! Give me bosses that can only be defeated by using the environment! Anything but five minutes of mashing ST attacks.
• A complete revamp of pre-CoV content.
• Merge the train lines in Paragon.
• Hazard zones for villains and another 40+ hazard zones for heroes. I'm probably alone here, though.
• Laser rifle blast, spear melee, air blast/control.
• Power effects that are the opposite of KB/Repel (Knock/pull enemies toward the emanation point.) And sets to use them with.
• Dynamically generated mission maps.
• Environmental hazards in missions that can be used against the enemies.
• Villains to be able to actually try for world conquest instead of being really angry mercenaries who really want to work for Arachnos.
• Branching dialog options in most major story arcs, particularly letting you slide yourself toward factions in the morally ambiguous ones once GR hits.
• A new Defender inherent.

* A statue of your character placed somewhere in the city, once you reach 50 and perhaps get an accolade for performing certain difficult tasks. The plaque at the base of the statue would be your bio at the time you won the award.


* Faction based missions that grant you themed temp powers or costume parts. Like doing missions for a Freakshow contact that give you a "summon Tank freak" power or "Tesla coil shoulder pieces".


* Major incursions. I want Statesman or the whole Freedom Phalanx and allies to show up in Grandville. Fight their way to a "mission door" through a horde of Arachnos and vanish in the door. I want Arachnos Fliers to show up and bomb the Atlas statue or a random building into rubble every so often. Have a team of NPC villains show up to "rob a bank" and get attacked by spawns of PPD.


* I want Rikti Invasions to end when big flying ships called Vanguard Destroyers show up and blow up the Rikti Dropships. That could go with getting rid of the War Walls, and explain why the Rikti vanish even without the Walls going back up.


* I want BIG GMs. I know that the devs are working on making targeting work properly with those ( they had the Giant Mek Man in the AE on Test for a while for that ).


* I want easy movement between servers ( but not to go serverless; having different server cultures is useful ), and for the servers to be made different from each other for a more parallel universe feel. Have Boomtown partly rebuilt - on some servers. Smash the Atlas statue on others. Have the 5th Column winning most of the time on some servers but not others. Have the Moon at night have a big glowing crater from an ""exploded superweapon" on some servers but not others. And so on.

I was thinking the other day about secondary graphics effects, possibly origin based. For instance, if you had a magic based character, and every power you fired off would create an ankh like halo around you (think Dr Fate) maybe from different origin points that you could choose for each power.

Magic could have ankhs, tarot cards (like fortune teller power), runes, etc.

Science could have swirling atoms like Capt Atom sometimes has.

Tech could have a grid hologram pop up.

Sort of like these mock-ups:

http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y70...rent=coh-1.jpg

http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y70...rent=coh-2.jpg

http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y70...rent=coh-3.jpg

A true secret identity system.
I have no idea what would be or how it would work, I just know I want it.
Now.

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Originally Posted by eltonio This is over the top mental slavery.

restate what i said in other threads...

new missions:
- rescue missions: non-combat objective, rescuing civilians from environment - fire, flood, walls, cars, etc
- heroic sacrifice: running with a bomb to save a populated area, fighting an overwhelming number of mobs long enough for npc backup to arrive

costume options:
- sports players (american football, baseball, basketball)
- animals (have some pig/boar themed toons that i'd like to be able to design properly in the toon creator, wolves, rats, and birds would also be cool)
- glowing costume parts (mentioned earlier like tron & positron)
- steampunk
- anime faces

zones:
- space
- underwater

vehicles:
- flying cars

bases:
- a way to integrate bases into some sort of zone so there was a point to decorating

inventory:
- huge personal storage with more storing options would be nice

bars:
- it would be very nice to actually be able to enter some of the establishments we see around town like the movie theater, the pizza restaurant, the bars, etc

grander events:
- i like the suggestions earlier about GMs and other events being spruced up via the environment to be more "epic"

sprucing:
- a revamp of coh content, and a bit more expansion of the cov content

and a lot of what Kelenar said.