If I Sat at Posi's Desk, thoughts from a Veteran Player.
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Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2010-01-08 08:26 in Suggestions and Ideas
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The War Walls also fail to keep out Arachnos, keep various villain groups contained/confined to a single area, and can be shut down with distressing ease.|
Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
And since we're stuck with the War Walls (Yes, I know they dont work against Rikti, but they work on everything else)
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Also, if I sat at Posi's Desk I'd probably soon get up and walk around the studio since I'd be too worried about ruining things on his system.
But once he was back I'd ask him if he could let me become the developer for enemy factions and take the redname Spark Blade.
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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.
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Discussed previously. Both game (safety, most controllable, 3 axis movement) and technical (increasing fly beyond a certain point causes problems) reasons. |
Originally Posted by Cyyan
1.) Fly is too slow, it should be at least as fast as Super Jump or Super Speed, please.
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| 2.) Jacobs Ladder animation is too slow. |
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| 3.) Crey Pistol accolade power is pathetic, either increase it’s availability or give it some power or better yet… both. |
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| 4.) Mission Transporter power could have it’s recharge cut in half, a 2hr recharge is just ridiculous, better yet make it 30mins. |
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| 5.) Do away with Falling damage, I didn’t realize how much more powerful my characters felt until I dropped 300’ down over the edge in the ski zone to a mission door and took no damage. |
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| 6.) After level 15 you should only receive DO’s and after level 25 only SO’s as Enh drops. |
Dev comment previously, paraphrased:
If they did this, they would NOT increase the drop rate. You just wouldn't see the others drop. Still want it? (In other words, say you're at 25. You currently - making up numbers - get, in a mission, 2 TOs, 7 DOs, and two SOs. You would, instead, have... two SOs. And wonder why the drop rate was "nerfed so badly," most likely.)
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| 7.) Do away with Trains as a means of inter-zone transportation, in a superhero game this is just … well I can’t even begin to say. Train stations could be converted to Tele-portal stations, like a scaled down mini version of Portal Corp only no clicking on it, pick a portal by the sign over the portal off you go, you’d just walk into it. If you have a mission selected in your Nav, any portal would automatically take you to that mission’s zone. |
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8.) Independence Port needs to be zoned better in mission descriptions, divide the zone into Indy North, Indy Terra Volta and Indy South. The whole zone is just shy of 3 miles long, presumably if your contact knows where the mission is they should be able to tell you what section of the zone as well. 9.) Contact cell phones need to be issued after the first mission, almost every contact you have is a referral or has already asked to work with you, why on earth would they not trust you enough to give you their number up front, isn’t time supposed to be of the essence ? |
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10.) There needs to be a Badge for taking out Snipers. 11.) There needs to be a Badge for rescuing people on the street, either that or tie these rescues into character reputation somehow. |
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| 12.) Winter Event Present Inspiration rewards, I wouldn’t mind having fewer drop but actually have them do something special, like Cap an ability for 20-30mins, maybe you can only have 2 things capped at any given time. Maybe a temporary power like SS, SJ or TP Friend or even a Temp Store where you can trade in so many presents for a Temp Power your char would normally not be able to have. It’s only a few weeks a year, lighten up. |
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| 13.) Archery Set, animations are too slow, range at 80’ is ridiculous, speed up the animations, increase the range to 100’ and give the snipe some damage, it’s remarkably weak compared to other snipes. |
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| 14.) Why do none of the Ranged Damage IO sets have any Range in them? |
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| 15.) The Devs need to monitor the Market better, there are whole segments of the market that have ZERO product available. When this happens for an extended period the game should automatically dump some product into the market, or better yet the game should increase the drop rates on the recipes that have depleted themselves. What good is an Invention system that offers nothing to invent? |
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| 16.) The Archery set desperately needs a bow based melee attack, and I don’t mean a pansy Stun, I mean a swing-your-your-bow-like-a-staff-whack-attack that does decent damage maybe even some knockdown or knock back. ( if you’ve seen the movie Avatar, you know what I mean). |
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| 17.) Dump Base rent, it’s dumb. |
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| 18.) How about a Dark Astoria Task Force that culminates in the fog being temporarily lifted from the whole zone for the members of the TF only for say, 12hrs?, along with a reobtainable (like Shivans) To Hit or Perception bonus. It’s a beautiful zone, and I bet most players have NEVER seen it. |
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| 19.) Increase the size of Giant Monsters to GIANT size. I want to see these menaces from half a zone away!, and give ‘em some crazy knock back that sends you flying a couple of blocks away when they whack ya. I’m talking about the scale of the giant mech-man in the Hess Task Force. It shouldn’t be “Where is AV So-N-So?”, it should be “Holy *&%^#$ !! This is gonna be amazing!” |
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| 20.) Now this one might be controversial but, character’s power should scale with age, I know it kinda does, but what I mean is, a level 50 scrapper that’s got 4 years of crime fighting under his belt should be more powerful that a relative nOOb who’s only been a Hero of the City for 1 year. I don’t know numbers, but say a 1 or 2% increase per month after the 1st year of becoming level 50 would be the best “Veteran Power” benefit I can think of, these percentages could go into a bank that you redistribute to specific attributes of YOUR choosing, ie: Hit Points, Defense, Resist, Mez Protection, To Hit, Recharge, Endurance, you get the idea. |
If you were sitting at his desk, he'd probably call security 
@Golden Girl
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Archery and TA animations were shortened several months ago and are currently as fast as they can make them without appearing utterly ridiculous.|
Originally Posted by Cyyan
13.) Archery Set, animations are too slow,
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Additionally, due to those now speedier animation times, Archery compares quite favorably to Fire Blast, which is generally considered the reigning king of ranged damage output.
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| range at 80 is ridiculous, |
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| and give the snipe some damage, its remarkably weak compared to other snipes. |
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| 14.) Why do none of the Ranged Damage IO sets have any Range in them? |
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| 16.) The Archery set desperately needs a bow based melee attack, and I dont mean a pansy Stun, I mean a swing-your-your-bow-like-a-staff-whack-attack that does decent damage maybe even some knockdown or knock back. ( if youve seen the movie Avatar, you know what I mean). |
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Just to correct this, because I'm nitpicky like that, the reason for the tram-only entrance is that Salamanca is something like 2-3 hours away from the greater Paragon area.
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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Except to get to Croatoa/Salamanca, and that has a magical curse reasoning behind it.
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The only thing i can agree with is the crey pistol. When other accolades DO give powers, they're pretty darn good. Some extra HP, endurance, a +recharge/acc/recovery clicky, a +def/res clicky. The crey pistol (low damage, low immob mag, looong recharge) feels underwhelming. I say increase its mag to 4. I don't think that'd be too overpowered.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
If you were sitting at his desk, he'd probably call security
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"Ah, Mr Miller. I've been expecting you!"
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| Just to correct this, because I'm nitpicky like that, the reason for the tram-only entrance is that Salamanca is something like 2-3 hours away from the greater Paragon area. |
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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I think Posi is doing an absolutely fantastic job--he listens to player requests (instead of ignoring them in favor of his "vision"), he doesn't tell us about updates to the game until he's really sure they can work, and he isn't trigger-happy with the nerfbat.
So, if I sat at Posi's desk, I would let out a Darth Vader style "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" And try to hire him back as my replacement pronto. I don't think I could do anything better, and I'd rather have more free time to actually PLAY CoX.
Feel free to try out my AE mission arc, # 473452: Praetorian Redemption
@Valerika