Ask A Dev: Re-introducing Melissa Bianco!

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Oh, and Gratz again.

Congratulations War Witch. See winning the Hurt and Heal game did help.

Not to sound like a broken record or anything... Well yes to sound like a broken record. Any change of minds / updates on The Moon Zone?

Congo-Rats on the promo WW! I remember when I first played City of Heroes and running to the hills of Croatoa to level-up with WW

As a sole City of Villains player, what will be some villain only changes that you might have in plan?

-Will the hidden contact system in City of Villains be expanded to include new contacts through badges?

-While previous lead designers have stated that City of Villains does not need more zones so to avoid the Dark Astoria abyss, will CoV see some villain only zones?

-Is it possible that in the future we will see Strike Forces for the City of Villains patrons like Ghost Widow, Black Scorpion and the other patrons? CoH gets the Freedom Phalanx Task forces but will we ever get Patron Strike Forces?

-Can villains get more giant monsters? We only have 5 of them.

Congratulations.

Now that the real world War Witch has gotten a promotion, will there be an improvement is the "not exactly dead" status of the in game War Witch?

Maybe her own task force?

Congratulations on the Promotion/Punishment (I'm sure the PMs will become more um... interesting now for you).

My Question:

Is your team looking into possibly mimicing the World of Warcraft "Dungeon Finder" feature?

I have never played WoW in my life, nor will I as I barely have time for one MMORPG, and I think it is obvious which one I have chosen for the last five plus years. However, from what I hear from my co-worker such a feature like a Task/Strike Force Finder would be glorious, even if it wasn't cross server enabled.

You're focus on content is understandable as it has been your job for many years now. My question is as follows:

With the focus now on content, will new powers, animations, costumes, and other aesthetics still be coming into the game at the same pace as before?

Grats on the promotion WW, can't wait to see what you bring to the table as CoH's new lead dev. As for questions, the only one I can think of is this. From what I can interpret from your interview your primary focus will be to bring more new content into the game vs. a new game feature. So will your leadership have any affect on features like base raids, citadel of pain, items of power, a secret identities system? Will the work on features like these be scaled back in favor of new content?

Hey, Gratz on your Promo, my question is

What is there to expect for I17, is there going to be any new powers, or some more costumes. also I have a idea for a new costume part, for a new costume, besides just being auras for the toon maybe auras for weapons aswell that would be pretty cool. i have more but i cant remember lol.

Congratz again and Thank you
-Exodius

A big congratulations to you, Melissa!

I don't know if you can answer this or not, but one QoL improvement I was mentioning to my friends is making the world feel a lot more open when we're in an instance.

Is it possible, or ever going to exist, when we can have some windows looking out into the world while in a mission, especially an office mission?

I've never been in an office as closed up and stuffy as some in City. I'd like to have the windows there just to remind me that there's a world outside, that I can continue to avoid by being in a mission.

Gratz on the Promotion WW

My question is about the war walls.

Are they really nessasary?

And, if not can they go away?

Congratulations on the promotion! Well deserved

Terrific news. Local girl hits the big time!

Congrats from up in the most beautiful place to be from.

hrm... I should as a question. Is there any way we could get the chest symbols to display on the side front/side of the thigh? It would add some very cool versatility. Especially if it could be done asymmetrically (On chest, On left leg, on right leg, on both legs, on all three). I mainly want this for one of my Canadian toons who needs maple leaf emblems on her legs. Right now a Canadian themed toon really only has the one option. Maple leaf on chest.

Just a few impertinent questions...
-Will we see more iconic powersets? Ex: Super stretching.
-How about different travel powers? Ex: Line swinging (like Tarzan, Spidey, Batsy)
-What about new zones with new obstacles. Ex: Underwater or Galactic (thinkin' Rikti Homeworld)
-Anything planned for SGs? Ex: SG only mishes available though the handy mish comp we are itching to use.

Thank you for all you've done and all you're about to do.

Congratulations on a well-deserved promotion WW :-)

I'm curious if bases will be given new content at some point? I'm not a programmer but it seems like it would be easy to grant access to a lot of the components (e.g. water, grass, and various other items) in the game but currently not accessible through the base editor.

Thank you for your time.

Hey,
thx for all the work you've done for the game and it made me think of an interesting question to ask such a hard working person...

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The work that you do, does it give you enough time for a personal life? Or is it like coming home and for the rest of the evening worrying about the next day of work?
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I'm not asking for something personal just want to know how hard/easy/medium/fun/boring life the team leads

GrtZ,
Neo Mystic

Congratulations on your promotion WarWitch.

I have a few questions for you,
first the most important one:
1. How will Ancilarry and Patron PowerPools work with GR?
When I start a red AT in Pratoria and I decide to switch to blue-side, what can I chose?
And when I decide to switch my mid-30s hero to the red-side, what then?

2. Speaking of APP & PPP, I really like the idea of choosing a patron who gives you new powers. But imho four are not really much options. I really hope there will be new Patrons in CoV, like the crey-Guy in Grandville giving you access to something like Munitions Mastery. Or the Carnival-Girl Vivacious Verandi in St. Matial could give you Access to Psychic Mastey. Any chance for something like this?

3. one question about Accolades. The Accolades Force and Justice and Stouthhearted blueside are pretty much the same as Force of Nature and Invader redside. Villains get powers with these 2 accolade, heroes get nothing. Is it possible to fix this in the near future ?

4. last question is about zone revamp. I agree with the other guys that zones like Dark Astoria or Boomtown need a little more love, but i think the Shadow Shard is the poor cousin in CoX. It is really a magnificent zone, but sadly no one is there. Why should they? Nothing really happens there. My ideas:
-make the Shard Shard a co-op-zone and make the TFs coop.
-revamp the TFs, they seem sometimes a little bit boring. and to long.
-make the zone a little bit more diversified, if you have seen one floating rock, you have seen all. Take the RWZ as an example. Crey, Council, Malta have Bases there. Why not build individual bases of operation for Crey, Nemesis and the Circle in FBZ.
-people like badges. Give the Shard a history badge, a few tourism badges and an accolade (please with a power connected to it) for completing all four Tfs.
-people also like zone events. Make something spectacular which fits this zone. Not just a new GM, I`m thinking about something like the Rikti Ship-Raid or the Ski Chalet.
Are there any thoughts about this?

That`s all for now

congratulations

Greetings.

Are there any new badges or types of badges that are in the works? Or perhaps any information pertaining to Badge'ing that you could devulge?

Congrats on your new position, Melissa.. well deserved!

Looks like the future should be quick exciting for a while yet, but my questions is...

When are you coming back to the UK??? We miss you!

Hey WW ... congrats on the promotion!

Since my primary interest for years has been improving the content, I'd like to know if you have any plans you can share about that.

I'd like to see better missions, better maps, better storytelling, improved handling of transitions (doors, portals), and an easing of the level restrictions that presently exist on foe groups and missions.

Also, while creating new content is fine, I'd particularly like to see new life breathed into old zones and foe groups.

And while I'm sure you have plenty of help, if someday you need to threaten your designers with the idea of some no-name guy on the forum who wants to take their job ... I'm your guy.

Congratualations, WarWitch!

Question: When will we get more Stikeforces red side, especially one for the lvl 30-35 range?
Need more content for my villains!

And Safeguardmishes should be repeatable, like in Ouroboros.

Congratulations

Congrats, War Witch!

Is there anything in the works to improve supergroups and their bases? I have not joined a large group yet because I like to keep and collect IO set enhancements for all my alts, as well as the rare salvage drops. With supergroup bases as they are, you really have no personal "space" or storage (people will argue that you have the vault but I can access that from nearly ANY zone, not just the superbase.) Therefore, I have my own little boring supergroup on several servers that house just my characters. I know I'm not alone in doing this, either. And while I have the subject opened, is there any chance of adding more options to interact with your alts, such as "mailing" items, sharing influence, or even inviting alts to your SG without having to bother other people to get involved and then kick them? (Of course, if we had our own personal stash in bases, I wouldn't need this because I'd join a more active, bigger group, which = more fun.)

Or even better yet, just expand our vault options to hold EVERYTHING, salvage, recipes and enhancements, up the limit to 2 or 3 times what it holds now, and add a few "universal" slots to it that will hold items for alts on the same server, so any alt on that server has access to those couple of items (and a spot for influence/infamy). I'd be much more willing to join a larger group if this were in place, and more active people in one place means more fun!

Thanks!