Expand A.I. to More NPCs....

Currently AI is only really given to NPCs who engage in combat in the CoH universe. I think this is a wasted opportunity. AI could be equally valuable in the hands of NPCs who currently only read from predetermined scripts...

For example...

• Trainer(any): "I see you're a Tank who just advanced to 16th level. Congratulations... but... well... I notice you have 4 toggle powers and haven't yet invested in the Fitness Power Pool... You DO realize that Toggle-Man was a forum joke, right? Okay, you don't get the power choice screen... I'm giving you Swift... that'll set up Health for 18th and Stamina for 20th... and don't bother trying to sneak off to some other trainer for those levels... I'm sending out an email as we speak."

• Azuria: "Yeah, that's very funny... But let me ask you a question... How exactly do you expect me to guard the MAGI vault when I'm stuck here telling clueless newbs like you what to do 24/7? Why can't I delegate this responsibility out to a peon? This is like asking Sherlock Holmes to man the Lost and Found counter at a kids' summer camp!"

• Ms Liberty: "Okay, so you made 50th level... very impressive... I notice you came from the AE building over there.. In fact, unless I'm mistaken, you've come from that building every time you've needed training... Hmmm... Okay, new rule... You have to answer a little trivia question before I'll train you up... How do you get to Striga Isle from here? Don't know? How about Boomtown, how do you get there? Uh-huh... Do you know where Kings Row is? OOooookay. That's it... you're respeccing to first level... No, I don't care if you did the tutorial or not... FIRST LEVEL!!"

• Day Job Trainer: "Please... someone... anyone... talk to me... we don't have to talk about Day Jobs... really... I... I like movies... books? Plays? Oh for the love of God will someone please acknowledge my existence?!"

• Merit Vendor: "Psst... Mac... Hey, I got some great recipes for ya if yer interested... C'mon... I'm talkin' fresh off the truck recipes at rock bottom prices... Yeah, a few of 'em may have had their serial numbers umm... accidently scraped off... but they work just fine... I swear..."

• Super Group Registrar: "Yes, your monthly rental fee for your base will be 900 in prestige. Yes, I said monthly fee... You say you pay more than once a month? Oh... well I must apologize... the fee is only supposed to be once a month there must have been a clerical error... You say this has happened to you every month since you created the base? I hate you one-player-super-groups... the multi-player SGs never notice... fine... here's a freaking refund you anti-social piece of...."

• Detective Freitag: "Yeah, we just got a tip on the bank being robbed over in Atlas Park. No, no... don't run off quite yet there 'hero'... I've noticed something... You respond to three of our Police Band broadcasts and then 'coincidently' the bank gets robbed... Seems to happen every single time you complete three of our radio missions... We have a few questions that need answering... You have the right to remain silent..."

• Doc Delilah: "Now I believe the story we all know about the Faultline Incident has some holes in it... Eyes up here... but I need some evidence to prove it... Eyes up here... The evidence has been scattered in caves and ruins... Eyes up here g****mnit!"

• Admissions Officer Lenk: “Here’s your badge and your free enhancement… Oh, come on… we all know that’s the only reason you talk to me in the first place.”

• Coyote: “Thank you for saving Flower Knight! Now I have another mission for you… No really… Oh, what, you thought I was only a one-mission Contact? No… Ha ha… That would make me a pretty pitiful Contact, now wouldn’t it? Nope, I have a great 2nd mission lined up for you! Umm… I need you to… er… go… and defeat… umm… 100 Infected! Yeah… and this mission is so awesome you’ll get a BADGE for it… Yeah, I bet ol’ Jonathan St John Smythe can’t say THAT!”

• Detective Martins: “Yes, I think my new movie will do very well at the box office… Do I think my past actions will hamper tickets sales? What actions are those? Listen, I said all those things years ago… when will you <expletive> <racial slur> let this go?!”

• Imperious: “Now that I am no longer reading from a script I have come to realize that most of the people I am sending on this Task Force are of a bizarre and, dare I say, almost other-worldly appearance decidedly not in keeping with my people and our surroundings. This is discomfiting enough; however I also seem to be sending people on the same missions over and over again despite the fact that the ones I sent before have been successful. As my AI protocols work on a logical system where everything must make sense I can come to only one conclusion… I have gone stark, raving bonkers.”

• Jim Temblor: “Who are you supposed to be? Some kind of hero? Did one of those do-gooders send you? Well, you’d just better turn around and leave. No, I’m serious. This is no joke! Listen, I’m emotionally scarred, my girlfriend has the worst case of Attention Deficit Disorder you’ve ever seen, then there’s the girl who has a brain-in-a-bucket as a not-so-secret admirer. The only normal one is Doc Delilah but with her new AI she’s more likely to attack than befriend anyone whose eyes seek the valley, if you know what I mean. You’re better off just turning around and going BACK up the rabbit hole there Alice.”

• Julius the Troll: “Me think me got too much Artificial and not enough Intelligence.”

• Katie Hannon: “If one more… just ONE MORE… hero comes up to me and says they wanna do a ‘quick Katie’ I’m suing for sexual harassment!!”

• Mender Lazarus: “Okay, that’s it! Who keeps turning back the clock five minutes before my break is supposed to start?! Is it you, Silos? This isn’t freaking funny!”

• Midnighter Store: “ZZZZZZzzzzzz… ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz….”

• Positron: “No, I’m not giving out this Task Force to your team until I’m sure you have enough time to complete it. Don’t you people realize I only get paid for a completed job? You people are putting me in the poor house!”

• Serpent Drummer: “Come they told me… a hiss-ah hiss hisssss…. In zone to fight Rikti… a hiss-ah hiss hissssss…. Go on a killing spree… a hiss-ah hiss hisssss… then get drunk in Pocket D… a hiss-ah hiss hiss, hiss-ah hiss hiss, hiss-ah hiss hissssss…”

• The Dark Watcher: “I’m the Watcher. You’re $name. I know what you can do. I know where you live. I know what you wear under your super-suit. Or don’t wear as the case may be. I’m the Watcher.”

• Boris the Russian: “To hell vith robbing the bank! You must help me defeat moose and squirrel!”

• Captain Petrovich: “Arr, Matey… Tis good te see a strong Villain here te help with the spread o’ evil here in the Rogue Isles. Would ye happen te be a Ninja, by chance? Why do I ask? Well, Matey, this here be the internet an’ I be a Pirate. Let’s just be sayin’ I got a whole load of … heh… ‘special’ missions fer me Ninja friends.”

Ah, that’s enough for now… add your own if you’re of a mind to…

I hear the Day Job Trainer and the Vanguard Security Officer attend the same support group.

What's sad is that this would be a fairly cool suggestion to implement.

Quote:

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.

Of all the things I've lost,
I think I miss my sense of humor the most.