If *I* Ran April Fools In CoH

Yes, I know this is jumping the gun by a few months but these ideas occurred to me and I wanted to get them out before they disappeared into the miasma that is my mind. That and if... by some perverse twist of ironic fate... some developer actually wanted to implement them this gives them time.

Yeah... right...

Anyway... on with the list.

* There would be a 1 in 10 chance on any door mission that the enemy inside will not be the ones mentioned in the mission briefing. The actual enemies will be completely random. So you may enter a Defeat All Hellions mission and find yourself facing wall-ta to wall-ta Malta; all showing their combat level as 50! Don't panic though; the change is purely cosmetic. Their actual abilities, attacks, combat level and rewards are identical to what you were supposed to have. Oh, and all such missions will have one patrol with the conversation: "Hey, do you feel different today?" "Yeah, now that you mention it I do feel a little strange."

* A new zone event will be available just for that day. Your character will be standing around minding their own business when all of a sudden the sky will go bright pink and music will begin to pulse and throb. The words "Atlas Park Dance Party!" will flash on the screen (or whatever zone you happen to be in) and every NPC in the affected zone will stop what they're doing and start to dance emote. You have three choices at this point:

1) Ignore it and get back to business (although all dancing NPCs are untargetable during the event so no street sweeping)...

2) Search out a dancing group of NPCs and join in with your own dance emote... doing so nets you an influence reward dependant on your level, duration of dance and how many emotes you used...

or 3) seek out the Zone Event Elite Boss... the boss is a troll wearing a white leisure suit by the name of John Troll-Volta... He has melee and electrical attacks as well as an AoE sleep attack that makes you dance emote rather than snooze emote..

The event is on a timer but will end early if John is defeated. Defeating John before the normal end of the event will earn the defeating team/individual the "Party Pooper" badge.

* The doors at the base of any transport tube in Rogue Isles (for example: the door that goes from inside the fort to the Ferry docks in Mercy) will not transport you but start a 5 second countdown timer. Once the timer reaches zero the player is launched (complete with cannon-blast sound effects) high into the air and out to sea.

* High on the inner thigh of every statue in every zone in the game will be scrawled graffiti reading "$name was here". And yes, it will be YOUR character's name.

* Anyone.. and I mean ANYONE... typing the words "Costume Contest" into any chat channel will immediately (and temporarily) have thier costume generic'd.

* One in twenty transactions in Wentworths or the Black Market will spawn the message "We're sorry but your credit card was declined."

* Every train station in Paragon will have "Out of Order" signs plastered all over the rails and walls outside the train entrance. Other than that it will work just fine.

* Anyone entering The Hollows, Boomtown, Crey's Folly or the other destroyed/derelict hazard zones will find themselves in a small idyllic suburban community where all the houses look exactly the same and the civillians all look like they were taken directly out of a 1950's issue of Better Homes and Gardens... trying to move in any direction or attempting to target a civillian will cause the character to rezone to where they wanted to go in the first place.

* Certain costume pieces that reveal a LOT of skin (you know the ones) will now cause a Sims-esque flesh colored distortion pattern instead.

* Anyone training to the next level will have a 5% chance of finding themselves in middle of a mini-game where they are waxing a car with a rag on each alternating hand. Two buttons to move each hand; perform it successfully and the words "Very good $name-san" will appear and go to the normal train-up screen.

* Walking NPC Civillians will have new dialogue for this day:

"Have you seen $name from behind? I swear, sometimes capes are a crime."

"Sure, $name has done some stuff in crime fighting, but that's nothing compared to their breakdancing skills!"

"$Name, you *******! Where are my child support payments?!"

"I'm struggling for hours over my purse and what does $name do? Runs on by!!"

"Hey, $name! I gave the (level appropriate enemy group) your home address. Was that wrong?"

"I heard $name once won a Costume Contest... I'm pretty sure it was sponsored by The Institute for the Blind."

"I heard $name was why the Carnival of Shadows started putting buckets on their guys' heads."

"Wow, is that $name? Out in public and still sober?! Amazing!"

"M'kay $name... Power Leveling is bad... m'kay?"

"Wow, now there's a face that violates the Teen Rating."

OK, when I saw the thread title and who started it, my first thought was

"If Steelclaw ran the April Fools Event - I would be very startled, but highly amused..."

I'd be happy simply if Carnie parties broke out in random zones.

I'd contribute to this, but I'm all lightheaded from laughing at the initial post!

Ok. I'll just give you the Flatulence temporary power. Use it in Pocket D for the perfect icebreaker! It never expires!

If *I* Ran the April Fools event, we would see a Hostess Fruit Pie temp power.

I would also include an "I participated in the April Fools Day event and I didn't even get a lousy badge" badge.

I kind of wish Steelclaw would get a temp job at NCSoft. Starting at April 1 and well you know how jobs are going freem at that particular day. But at least we would have a fun daylong event.

I shudder to think of the ideas you may be giving the Devs.

And another "GROAN!" for "John Troll-volta".

This is Energizing Ion and I approve of this message!

Someone give Steelclaw a temp job at Paragon Studios.

Like, NOW.

Always though it would be hilarious if the devs put a long line of villians in Galaxy City in the Magi vault and at the front of the line would be someone shouting "Now serving ticket# 56!"

Wow. Steelclaw. I think that this was your funniest list yet!

Glad you all liked 'em...

And NO I'm not going to apologize for the Troll pun... heh..


Oh... 'nother one that occurred to me...

* In Pocket D DJ Zero will be replaced by a floating Snaptooth who is dressed exactly like Zero normally is. Outside the window on the slopes side of the club will float the Candy Keeper, Father Time and Baby New Year... all banging on the glass to be let in. Finally, War Witch will have a Red Cap wearing an explosive device riding on her shoulders and whacking her in the head with its fist. Her only comment..... "No more absynth... got to remember... NO MORE absynth..."

I like most of these, Steelclaw

How about, on a random Newspaper/Radio missions, when you click on the mission door, a giant boxing glove on a spring comes out, and knocks back your entire team. Then once everyone has recovered, you must destroy the glove before entering the mission. That might be a nice surprise...