Feeling more....well....SUPER!

OK i searched and searched, and didn't come up with anything, so here goes

So lately as im playing a 50 or, hell, any of my characters, i get the feeling that im not very "super"

To illustrate: Hypothetically you are one of those guys/ladies walking along *anystreet in paragon city. Also hypothetically this Shield/Elec Melee tanker walks up in front of you and Solo's an entire base of malta's who happening to be fighting the some Circle of Thorns, and, for the sake of being hypothetical, a few knives of artemis are there too. He is set to "Be perceived as Equal to 8 heroes" and uh....all his enhancement slots are empty...i dunno.

Anyways he pulls it off! saves 10 people from evils clutches and......exits the mission door and stands there

Now, i realize that the above example is ludicrous, but, when we finish a particularly difficult arc or take on some daunting task, or even finish a tf/sf, you'd think the local populace would be a little more appreciative. I mean, go thru galaxy city or atlas and there are plenty of statues of heroes that have accomplished monumental tasks...And they have statues built after them!

So my question/idea is, would it be possible to show a little outward recognition to us heroes or villains out there? can we get npc's cheering for us or cowering from us in the streets? Can we have people asking for our autographs? can we have...dare i say it...statues of our presently greatest heroes or some other form of public recognition?

This is a daunting task, and maybe its not even possible, and i admit, im not really sure the extent of what im suggesting here. but i for one would like to feel a little less average when im in paragon city fighting crime, and a little more like my character matters

Anyone else share my sentiments?

The only problem with this is the following:

While it is easy enough to recognize one hero because of their accomplishments, how do you handle that across 100K+ heroes?

If you want a statue, who gets it? Which of the 100K+ heroes is going to have that new statue built after them, and where? Do we have enough space for all of those statues? Probably not. Even if we kept it to the last 10 heroes to have hit level 50, it would likely change fast enough that you'd never know that your character got a statue. Especially because this would need to be across all of the servers to make the zones match up, most likely.

If you want a throng of adoring fans, that's fine. But what happens when 8 of you exit the same mission, only to be met by the crowd? Do they all call out to one person? Each one a different person? Does each get it's own crowd? Would the chatter fill up your chat tabs so much that you couldn't see tells and team chatter? If everybody gets their own crowd, what about the lag that would probably create for people?

Things like that need to be addressed before something like this goes in, and I'm just not sure if I think that it is worth it or not.

I certainly understand your desire to feel more appreciated within the city. I really just don't know how to do it well enough, given the number of players we have.

NPC reactions? Sure, certainly. They already can react to being rescued from a mugging, or comment about us as we are heading from a mission to the Market/trainer/etc.

Statues? I'd say no. I'm not trying to be argumentative, but there would either be statues on every single block in every zone or there would be a lot of folks left out.
There would be fewer statues if it were server-specific, but then you run into the problem of maintaining seperate databases for each server, or so I've heard.
The other alternative is for it to throw up a few very crude statues, remember your characters names as you log in and when you click on the plaque:

Maybe there should be a new veteran reward: Parade.

When you execute this command, admiring citizens swarm around you, praising you, throwing rose petals and confetti, and tootling on little party favor whistles and trumpets, and they follow you everywhere you go for the next 30 minutes.

(And now I foresee dozens of veterans gathering in Atlas Park to simultaneously unleash their parades, bringing the servers crashing down.)

ok, so statues are out (i didn't think anyone would go for that )

Im not suggesting a crowd of people surround you or we bog the servers down with a crapload of npc's swarming you at a moment of triumph, But something a little more than occasionally getting a comment about "I heard pyroguy defeated a bunch of malta!" would be nice, imho

For an example: i recently played spiderman:web of shadows, and enjoyed it. In this game when our red suited hero roams the streets, people who pass by him cheer him on. Switch to the black suit, the npc's are a little more apprehensive, backing away cautiously. Something like that would be wonderful

I'm not suggesting a /summon groupie flock veteran power, and i certainly didn't mean to suggest that we should have atlas sized statues of everyone who completes a tf But we get badge titles like "Saved the World" because we've done something truly difficult and something that should matter at least a little to the vast hordes of citizens aimlessly wandering the streets

Technically, we already have something a little like this. Occasionally NPCs walking by you on the streets will say something relating to what your character has previously done. By extending that to an emote as well as the comment, one could pull this sort of thing off.

Now if the NPCs could actually be taught to do that is beyond my ken, of course.

Still waiting for his Official BackAlleyBrawler No-Prize

Yes, blueside gets the NPC comments too. The OP wants something just a little....more.

Uh oh, its becoming a Plz Give us Statues! thread

as someone stated earlier, my original idea was just for something...."more" than we already have. Yeah it is cool that if you stand in the same spot for a few minutes, npc's will comment on your accomplishments, and they say "thanks" if you save them from an enemy mob, that is all well and good.

My point is that we are super heroes in game, which has its own sort of celebrity factor with it. People should be cheering us on when we happen to drop in next to them, or saying omg lets get the hell out of here when a particularly fearsome villain comes there way. Im not asking for anything complicated, just a bit more than we already have. Tie in an emote with the random comment of "I heard pyroguy beat up some freakshow dude"

Or you could do this: the code already lies in place for npc's to respond to certain characters they encounter, ie when Bob the npc runs across warrior slasher he cowers and eventually runs away. Well, reverse it. Bob the npc is walking along when all the sudden pyroguy drops his flight toggle and lands near him. Bob heard that pyroguy did this great deed (perhaps linked to his current badge title? excluding exploration and wentworths, etc) and runs up to him and says, cheering "way to go taking out praetorian earth, can i have your autograph?"

again im not saying we need groupies but a little more on the public recognition side would be a great QOL improvement in my opinion. We carry badge titles around like "saved the world" and "synapses cohort" around so why not have people on the street recognize it

Come to think of it, tying in npc comments to your badge title would be pretty cool...

I think nearly all of those heroes with statues of them are dead. I can think of atleast a few of them that died in one of the rikti wars. I'd still like to see them bring those heroes back for a ouroboros time travel arc or something.

But I have to agree that i'd love to see more of the citizens do more than just walk around talking about your deeds.

I like the "click the plaque" idea. Another could be exiting the building/cave/warehouse would lead to a small open area still in the mish where a crowd has gathered to applaud your efforts (or even boo your failure).

I've been thinking about the "generic statue with plaque idea" and have a few more details that I'd like on it.

There would be maybe a half-dozen statues in a prominent area in a populous zone. We're not going to turn this into city of statues.

1) Not all of your characters deserve statues. Should you be able to run up to a statue and click on it to see that it's dedicated to that L1 that you rolled up 6 months ago to name-squat? No. It should be one of your L50's who has done something for the city. I would say that he/she should have a few mission accomplishment badges as well. As much as the AE can be a legitimate method of leveling, a character that spent his whole career training hasn't actually done anything in the public eye.
2) The plaque under a generic statue should only tie to a character of yours that has the same basic bodytype as the statue. Otherwise, you can get a result of clicking on a Galaxy Girl type statue and seeing it dedicated to your Invuln/SS Tank "Macho McSmasher". Wow, didn't know he had such a sweet rack.

3) Lord Recluse wouldn't allow statues built in anyone's honor except his own. Sorry redsiders, but adding this in the Isles is going to be a bit of a stretch. Might need the "Usurper" badge at the very least, and then there would only be one statue. What one body-type would this single statue be?
I'd go with having it covered in scaffolding and tarps as it is a very recent piece still in construction, with it's body type obscured. Clicking on the plaque gives you the following message:

The idea of player statues around the city has been suggested before, though I prefer the base item route, such as the idea of a Supergroup badge granted by having X level 50s in the group, which allows all designated ranks (chosen through Permissions) to be able to add a personal statue to your base, which would be a copy of their default costume slot. (damn that was a big sentence.)

Other than that, what about Graffiti? Have pre-chosen spots in alleyways, on walls ect dotted around the city which, when a level 50 Hero goes near has a chance to spawn as a model picture of their default costume as a 2D picture on a wall, possibly with their name written underneath in a random set of colours.

Have them spawn under the same rules of NPCs, in that they spawn when someone enters an area of the zone and despawn when left alone/out of range of a player after X minutes. It's graffiti, so could have just been cleaned off the wall anyhow, and can be explained for both Heroes and Villains.

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Smeg, I did it again. Must learn to stop typing at times..