If there were ever a CoH 2, what would it be? (Not a doom post)

I would be the first person to 50.








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Then I would roll an alt and actually play the new game.

Yep, and then b*** for 6 months with 1000 threads on how there is no new content.

sigh

You know what's sad? I haven't had time to finish off a blog post about how Paragon Studios is working on another MMO, how Positron and Dark Watcher's 'other initiatives' have to be another title because CoH/V won't be a going concern indefinitely and then Paragon Studios turns around and makes it so easy.

Paragon Studios wants a Lead Concept Artist

That info's been around for a while

I wasn't around for EQI and EQII - how was that handled?

I meant more was there anything done to allow players of EQI to continue their avatar in EQII, or were they totally separate?

No more server segregation.

An AT system similar to VEATs. I think they hit the nail on the head with an AT that spoils you with more good powers that you can take, that allows players to take the AT into several different directions while still retaining the AT's flavour.

I would hope they'd get rid of any missions that explicitly required teams, aside from strikeforces/taskforces (double-clickies and whatnot).

I'd hope for tons of new maps. Particularly office maps that made sense. Whomever the chief architect is in Paragon City, he should be fired. They're patently unsafe in the event of a fire or other tragic, life-threatening emergency. Where are the stairwells? The EXIT signs? But, more realistically, how about offices that are laid out like real offices, instead of twisty-tangly hallways and corridors that look like hamster-runs with oddly placed rooms off to the side?

And while we're on the subject of new maps, how about maps in new settings? Certain factions seem to get relegated to the same settings that everyone else does and that just seems a travesty. I'd really like to see the Igneous get a series of maps (and backstory) dedicated just to them. The same is true of the Coralax (and expand them to cover the entirety of the universe).

We could use a *large* Gotham-esque zone, accessible to any character, where PVP is optional. Fill it with factories spewing tons of smog into the air, warehouses, a towering business district smack in the middle standing as a high-tech contrast to the run-down residential district hovering around the edges. It should have lots of contacts and missions. It should be suitably dark. Crime should run rampant, and the presence of gangs and the mafia should dominate here. This is the zone to bring Outcasts, Hellions and Skulls to real power, as an earlier poster suggested. Expand them to cover the full level range, and put them in direct conflict with the Family and the Marcones for control of the zone. Citizens here are living in constant fear of intimidation, extortion, arson and murder. It's the heroes' jobs to save them, and the villains' job to add to the chaos or further their own goals here, free of Arachnos' influence. And here, let the Villains directly kidnap civilians off the streets for a bounty, or rob them; let them set fires, bomb buildings and do all those dastardly things that villains do. Let the villains be villains, for once. (Note: It's NOT a co-op zone.)

I'd like to see lots of new mission types and goals. Puzzles to solve. Traps to avoid. New ways of interacting with objects (though I'm not sure how that could be accomplished). Smash and bash gets old, and anything that requires me to use my brain and employ a little smarts before I just wade into the battle grounds me a little more in the game world.

I'd like to see bigger, badder threats to the city on the loose. Something worse than a GM. I'd love to see something twice the size of Adamastor leaping from building top to building top in Steel Canyon, unleashing his (or her) fury on the city, destroying buildings, attacking heroes, smashing civilians. A single monster equivalent in difficulty to a Rikti Invasion or a Zombie Apocalypse, with appropriate rewards for those who take part in taking it down.

Okay, enough dreaming. For now.

You know what would make CoX 2 the most epic game of all time?

If they had 1 to 50 content in the game, but when you go to a contact... The contact gave you missions based on your level. Meaning, the contacts do not have a set level.

You could do the content in any order you desire. That would give you infinite ways to get to 50. Not 1 set path but, 1000's of ways to get to 50. No one would have the same path. Everyone could exp the game in a different way.

DO NOT get rid of instanced missions, it really makes TEAMING great in this game, something that other games have lost site of. They all seem to want to make 1 player consol games, instead of making the awesome balance City of Heroes has between Teaming and Solo. Both are possible in this game, unlike others where I hear it can take 3 hours to get a team going, or in other games where its more of a PITA to get a team together, just easier and more convient to solo.

If and when they come out with such a game where you are not stuck in the Developers path to 50, but they allow us... the gamer the choices. I think that would make a great game.

Also...

Outter Space! There are tons of Extraterrestrial characters out there without a home.

I've also found it amazingly arbitrary that we can only have three active missions.

Sure, there's the chance you could outlevel the content, but that's true fo any MMO, or even COX where you have 3 missions.

I'm wondering why we have such a low limit for active tasks, when we have so many active contacts.