CoX repetitive?? Nooooooo :)

I really don't notice the repetition of the game,when I'm on a good team and flying along defeating mobs,you tend not to notice these things.

Yes,I would like to see more outdoor maps and other kinds of maps would be nice.A revamp of some existing zones/maps would be great but,it really isn't my top priority for the game.

I do not see this "repetiveness" in CoX. I love to whack people down wherever it's caves, offices, bla bla. Whacking people simply never gets old.
CoX offers an excellent system for you to try out a millions of combinations of characters power sets and builds. If you don't like your build, simply respec or make a new character. Every character you make is a whole new experience.

WoW on the other hand is an extremely repetitive game with it's 80 levels loooong quest grind, boring unsatisfying PVE killing and it's 'based on end-game stuf concept (yes, i have played wow in my days and I had a couple of level 80's before I quit so I'm not just trolling).

In all. CoX is a MMO and every MMO out there have some kind of repetitiveness in the end. I don't care much for that the instances have the same maps. It's nothing that I ponder about while I'm rescuing and whacking ppl down, giggling as villains hit every wall in a office corridor. The city zones are so varied in the game that it should be enough for people who want to experience views.

No more repetitive than threads like this...*shrugs*

I'd love to see three major thing:
(A) More outdoor maps. Enough said. Heck, make some outdoor maps that aren't located in Rhode Island; say that the helicopter is taking you to a Central American jungle or an ice floe north of Canada or something...

(B) More styles of interior building. Not just offices but a few "museum" tilesets and logical maps. A hotel/apartment set where most of the doors are "closed" (painted like in the offices) but others are open to small apartment areas, kind of like the side rooms in the offices. Be great for "The building is on fire and full of Hellions... rescue the people!" style missions. A department store, a library... something that makes the city seem alive instead of the same generic office and warehouse over and over.

(C) Each villain faction should have its own "base" maps. If you're stopping a robbery, then you're in the appropriate building. If you're chasing the Skulls to their hide-out to rescue Lucy Dreamtime, then it should look like a place the Skulls have been hanging out in. Even if it's largely a couple of re-skinned warehouse or office (like the "Rave" warehouse or the Hellions "hide out" office with the sprayapint and Satanic altars). Some factions have this to some extent such as the Crey "Tech" maps but what about the Tsoo? Carnival? Family (Do heroes even see the casino maps blueside)? Sky Raiders (no recycled Crey maps, please)? Etc.

As a minor note it'd be great -- and I know this won't happen -- if someone revisted some of the generic wall art for the maps. In the Vanguard base, next to the movie screen showing still images from the RWZ, is a whiteboard saying who has the highest sales for the month and the pithy quote about how sales happen. Are the Vanguard selling cookies in their off hours?

I don't mind the warehouses too much. I concentrate on the differences between the enemies or the characters I play. The map is just background, unless it's one of the newer, cool maps that really jump out at me.

What *I* hate are the caves. Hate them with a passion. I sometimes drop missions if I am not in the mood to deal with a cave.

But the article caught my attention for another reason... I don't generally keep up too much with the Devs, beyond reading the dev digest for info on upcoming stuff. I hadn't heard about WW taking over. Does this mean Posi has left us?

By the same measure if you're NOT into raiding. I use to be a hardcore raider (5 nights a week for four hours each night), then went casual raiding (2-3 nights a week for four hours) but eventually the repeatition got to me and it felt like a job rather than fun, we'd breeze through the early bosses and then get stuck on the same boss for about two weeks and then repeat for the next boss.

So when I gave up raiding there were four things to do.
1) Grind daily quests for gold.
2) Run the same heroic instances again and again.
3) PvP.
4) Make a new alt and run it through all the same content I did prior (unlike CoH where levelling is fairly quick, WoW levelling from 1-80 takes a damn age and there's nobody around to complete the instance based quests because every other bugger is high level and has since moved on from the 60/70 instances).

All the above are heavily repetative and eventually I just got so thoroughly bored of WoW. For some reason making alts in CoH is a lot more fun than making alts in WoW.

WoW was repetitive for me in that the stories weren't too in depth, and a lot of the things you are fighting get reskinned all the time (in the teens, you fight a smaller, purple reptile, in the 20s, it's a little bigger and RED! Wow!). Also, most cave missions off of the main map had very similar layouts (do note that I think WoW has some neat looking locales and dungeons, though... the reason I don't play it is how grindy and not fun it's gear focused, big team end game is).

But yeah... all MMOs are going to have this to some extent. I was in the STO beta for all of a week and a half, and I ran into the same type of room (a control room of sorts) about 4-5 times in the little bit I played. It's somewhat the nature of the beast.

That's no reason to rest on laurels, of course. I would like to see regular additions of unique maps and maps to be used in more common missions, as they really do liven things up. I'm guessing GR is going to do this, but we obviously don't know yet.