Ask A Dev - Melissa "War Witch" Bianco - Answers!

War Witch you neglected my super kitty and now she is dead. why did you do that?

Donna don't worry about Hydro because i'm sure he/she will change his/her tune when DR hits pve land.

Hydro be careful what you wish for. also, it generally helps to know about a topic before you start providing suggestions to improve it.

Hydrofoil, do you expect to go into a ring with Mike Tyson and win or even have a chance at winning? How about a game of Tennis with Federer or the Williams sisters? Do you think you have a chance at beating them?

I don't think you have a chance to beat them and I don't think you should be able to beat someone that has dedicated many hours to learning the game and practicing. The rules of the game aren't beating you, their fancy racket and expensive sneakers aren't beating you (although they help) their superior skill and training is.

There is nothing preventing you, however, from inviting friends to the arena to have a friendly competition among equals. I imagine that, unless your friends happen to be expert PvPers, you will be on relatively equal footing and win some and lose some.

That said, I STILL think that it would be worthwhile to have a zone or arena setting where it was SO level only. Not that it would help that much against the real pros. Even if you switched rackets and sneakers with Federer he'd still crush you.

I could not possible agree with Bionic_Flea and Sharker_Quint any more, both of them hit the nail on the head...

Ill try to keep my answer on your points short, i'm becoming aware of a slight thread jacking and I don't want to do that as it's a little unfair.

"Yes exactly all I want is a chance." - PvP in arena is a perfect example, Zones tend to be where big fish swim.

"a number grater than 50% of the total. If the zones weren't packed how douse this apply?"
- The Majority of the PvP community, not the total player base.

"DR kills anything even close to God mode this isn't that the new god mode" - No, because DR means closer you get to it, less you benefit.

"And if as you say the changes were bloody stupid thin it means the changes obviously wern't good enough." - I'm saying they shoudn't have changed it at all !

"Badgeing isn't something dependent on any sort of caricature class or slotting it's something that any body can just pick up and do at there leaser. And no badges has ever had a negative effect on other players. " - Your fast to defend your own past time, is it per chance annoying that someone else suggests a change to it?

Hi Melissa,

I am not avid forum user so this is rare occurrence for me. I have one simple question to ask. I've noticed over the past several months or years rathers (I've been away from the game sometime now) different people have been hired to fit certain criteria within the COX community.

My question to you is simple at best ;" what would take to hire a Dev that soley is responsible for the aspects of pvp?" ( I.e a PvP dev intially)

Kind Regards

@Hush

Is that War Witch or Wentworth's

I apologize if this has been asked Elsewhere, But its a concern i have with Freedom1 For the VIP members, who get the new Server, Will we have a way to relocate our SG Base, Or Sell our old base to re-obtain the Presitige used to build? Many of us have spent over 4 years building, and would not want to loose our base. Thanks!

Dear War Witch,

So, we were told that once the incarnates began rolling out PvP would get looked at. So, will pvp see any love within the near future? I'm not really much of a fan of arena PvP but I never got to participate in base raids. Will that be fixed?

Thank you Greatly for the Reply. I also had a Suggestion, 2 really. Yall had mentioned at ComiCon that the contacts in the Tutorial would actually talk via Voice overs... What about the NPC's thruout the game talking...Instead of Typed Text. Also, Within the confines of the SG Base's, NPC's would be a neat addition, as well as possible Decorations for holidays, Halloween, Christmas etc... The Base's need some love too...so more Personalization would be Great!

I had a few other ideas, and not certain if this is the thread as to where i shold post. Underwater abilities, Breathing Apparatus's ets. More environments, Underwater, Space etc. The underwater environment could be linked to the Kracken somehow to tie it into the story line. The Space environment could be tied to Rikti, Maybe ending up on their homeworld and stopping an impending assault Before it got to Paragon. I know ideas are the mother of invention, so hopefully, i have contributed some fuel, You guys have done a Phenominal job over the last 7 years, and i will remain a loyal Paragonian!!

Im not new to the Game, Been here since Beta, took a break for a while. Alot of new powers have been created, and redesigned...That, is what keeps the game going, why CoH continues to grow... I'll take suggestions to that thread tho, TYVM for your insight

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Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man This is where you should post: City of Heroes Suggestion Forum Your ideas aren't exactly new (in fact, they're pretty popular inquiries for new players), but they're not all feasible. For one, an underwater area would have issues with a lot of player powers (if you're a fire user, how do your powers work?) and require new animations for every power in the game to be used while in "swim" mode. And as for an outer space area involving the Rikti's homeworld? They're not from another planet, they're from a parallel dimension. And the further you get into the game, specifically the Rikti War Zone storyarcs, the more you learn about their origin and why they're attacking us.

Hello Ms. Bianco,
My question is: what is the best way to advertise a new power set to the development team, forums seem to be cluttered with new threads, quickly causing new posts to get missed in my opinion, is actually mailing in a well prepared suggestion allowed?

Hello Dev - Melissa "War Witch" Bianco: I like to asked if maybe in a future patch or exp can we players have a option in your charactor costume slot screen to add that faction logo in the background our character outfit is for please? Say all the Arachnos, loyalist, Rest, Heroes, rogue etc (think there like 8 faction).

I really like the emotes what change your character costume and I was wondering if there be more? I like to see something for cyborg/robot. See you human character transform to his or her robot/cyborg outfit (see sparks, comp chips, electronic device, electricy, surround the character and big flash and there the new emote. Something like power rangers tranform scene.

Just asking if there be a option where we can have reg emote like villian stands or holding up a sign, etc so we dont have to type it, there be a option for it please? Updated - Found it ingame - big ty !

Just a suggestion for a future exp, how about our character is pick up by aliens, have a choice to help or conquer the alien world before coming back earth? Maybe add a new lvl cap to 60 and have a new type of outfit when on that planet?


I hope you like my ideas because I really enjoying this game, thanks

Long Time since I've felt the need to post on the Forums. I started play CoH in 2004 (so the system tells me). So I'd like to ask why the need of the new CoH Loader Program instead of the CoHUpdater? Why the switch to Dot Net? Which is the main reason I've decided to stop bothering to play (It was diminishing anyways). I used to be able to run CoH quite nicely, and enjoyed exploring and playing, but I guess feature creep over the years made it too much like work to get it to work. This change to Microsoft's Dot Net is the final straw. If I could even just log in to give away my accumulations I would, but I can't. So it's bye-bye. It was fun, once.

I don't suppose there's anyone answering these questions anymore, nor is there anyone to actually ask. There doesn't seem to be anyone to complain to.

Hello Ms Bianco: I like to asked if the devs have any plan on having 2 or 3 costume slots for Arachnos Soldier and Widows so we can 1 slot - full armor, 2nd no helmet or cape and 3rd maybe a official arachnos uniform (wolf armor for soldiers and something for widows) please? I new to this game so I dont know why we dont have access to more costomes for arachnos soldier and widow tho. I hope this will be in a future patch, ty

I want to know who the new guy is on the cover opposite statesman with the blaster cannon!

Hello Ms. Bianco: I like to posted 2 ideas please,

1st)New login screen for each faction - villain, Prae and Hero. Maybe have 1 screen with the 3 factions logo, they you have your characters in that faction sub menu.

2nd)Can you have a option to change what our pets look like for Mastermind? Say my mm is from Prae, could that character have clockwork robots as pets then the reg one? Also having female soldiers or give the option to change their likeness. That would be cool.

Hope you like my ideas and thanks

Hi,
I love playing city of heroes, its a great game. I was wondering if we will ever get more heroic/villian type costume. I do enjoy the fun novelty outfits like the halloween pack but i would love just more traditional classic hero/villian look. Also, will we ever see permanent jetpack gun holsters and sword shealths
Thanx for reading