All Things Art: Building Edition

this isn't a building request per say but how about adding small animals to the list of NPC pedestrians, cats, dogs, squirrel, rabbit? I mean I have an arc explaining why we don't have them (see my signature) but would it be so hard?

[QUOTE=Newty;2887418]Forums were originally designed for quite lengthy posts.
And well.. it makes a change to see lengthy posts from the normal one-sentence replys. And also, it gives something for not only us to read, but the team also! aha. [QUOTE]

I tend to skim 'quite lengthy posts.' Doesn't mean I don't read them, but succinct, concise posts make for more digestible communication. In general, you guys are doing great with this, and it's helping me form a better picture of what the players want to see going forward.

I'm taking notes on all this stuff, so if you haven't posted already and you're reading this, please don't hesitate to add your thoughts to the conversation.

Of all places I would like to see some Light Houses on the Rogue Isles. It would be fairly boring to have a mission of running up the stairs... but the outside appearance would be nice.

We need some of the Homeless(and Lost) to have signs like: Will work for food, My Porsche is in the Shop, Archnos/Longbow Disabled Vet...

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Originally Posted by Newty Forums were originally designed for quite lengthy posts. And well.. it makes a change to see lengthy posts from the normal one-sentence replys. And also, it gives something for not only us to read, but the team also! aha. I tend to skim 'quite lengthy posts.' Doesn't mean I don't read them, but succinct, concise posts make for more digestible communication. In general, you guys are doing great with this, and it's helping me form a better picture of what the players want to see going forward. I'm taking notes on all this stuff, so if you haven't posted already and you're reading this, please don't hesitate to add your thoughts to the conversation.

Ok, here's a shorter version of my previous post

• Upgrade the older textures.

• Replace some of the older old building models, especially the skyscraper models, with new ones, with one model type being replaced per Issue.

• Make Galaxy City and Atlas Park more distictive from each other by keeping the urban warehouse district feel in Galaxy, and removing most of the warehouse areas in Atlas and replacing them with things like the Paragon City Museum and a shopping mall to bring the zone in line with its role as the heart of the city.

• Add faction specific buildings, like Crey offices, to the normal city zones, and have missions against Crey use them as the mission door rather than random buildings.

• Turn Blyde Square into Times Square, with neon signs and much more NPC activity.

• Reduce the size of Independence Port by merging the northern end of the zone with Terra Vola, making a divided zone like Faultline and its dam.

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Originally Posted by David Nakayama [LIST][*]Make Galaxy City and Atlas Park more distictive from each other by keeping the urban warehouse district feel in Galaxy, and removing most of the warehouse areas in Atlas and replacing them with things like the Paragon City Museum and a shopping mall to bring the zone in line with its role as the heart of the city.

I agree with you on all points except the idea of making Galaxy city a complete warehouse district. One thing I imagine when I hear a name like Galaxy City is lots of Googie architecture themes. Anachronistic, honestly, but I think that Galaxy City also deserves a distinct unique look, like how Atlas might be changed to have lots of Neoclassical architecture or Colonial Revival, Galaxy should get a good treatment with a nice spacey theme to it too.
Perhaps also mix up the Googie look with Modern Industrial architecture.
As to why there would be buildings with Googie from the 60's that survived to present? The Rikti maybe thought that such silly looking buildings were not worth bombing the @#$% out of.

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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.

Here's one thing I'd REALLY like to see:

Building interiors that are not floating inside a black void, but actually match up to a building's exterior that we can switch between in real time. Think the Grandville Tower and the various Architect buildings. It would make entering buildings feel less like teleportation and more like entering an actual space.

Make the Architect doors open like in-mission doors, such that they leave a direct line-of-sight opening between outside and inside, rather than opening to fake "blackness" that we run into, then run out of.

As for the rest of my points:

1. Look into the scale of the footprint of newer buildings, and make sure they aren't over tunnels.

2. Look into bringing more colour to the Rogue Isles, possibly via a new zone if that's ever on the agenda.

3. Tie specific map layouts to specific doors in the word. That way, if I go to "that" warehouse, I know to expect "that" interior. Missions can still take place in different doors, though.

4. Have more buildings with with less rigidly defined "inside" and "outside" like the the Wentworth's Fine Consignments building. Add these to outdoor instances, as well.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

I would like to see the night time actually be night time in-game (as opposed to 'grey-time') allowing for architectural activity like street, billboard and building lighting (including ambient lighting from windows and doorways).

This could also be used to determine the weight of combat NPCs vs. non-combat NPCs that mill around throughought the neighborhood and zones as well as the type and general activity (of either).



Cimerora needs to be expanded and fleshed out beyond the city walls.

10 Things I would like to see!

1. Movie Theaters - Accessible in and out of the theater building. Can we have a big screen inside?

2. Hotels - Accessible, at least the lobby.

3. Comic Stores - Accessible inside.

4. Elevators for tall buildings - Elevator access for tall buildings to go on the roof top, just like in CO.

5. Catwalk Runway - Fashion Runway. Maybe a new "ICON" building with a runway inside for Going Rogue .

6. Red Carpet - A red carpet for a stadiums or theaters.

7. New Arena Buildings - With basketball court, swimming pools and baseball courts and red carpet. A Boxing Ring!!!

8. Gyms - Gyms! Includes multiple day job badges or some sort when you log out in the building!

9. Parks - Gardens, Eco-parks, trees, Madison square garden! Benches, Vendors, hot dog stands, balloons, drug dealers, homeless, street performers, Theme Parks, rides, Carnival like in St. Martials only more fun.

10. Beaches - White Sand Beaches, Safeguard stands.

Oh snap! Now I'm tempted to activate my CO account...

Unrelated Stuff I want to see:

1. Sharks in the water in Sharkhead Isle.

I'd like to see Carnie circus tents somewhere on Peregrine Island.

Unless they make the Carnies/Carnival be like Deadly Apocalypse raid, where they spawn on a random place. Since the Carnival move from place to place (just like in my town, we have the carnival every 5 months...), it will be a good idea for a new zone raid of some kind.

But then it wouldn't help at all with the hunt missions, and it wouldn't make the zone prettier since it wouldn't be permanent and the changes couldn't be quite as dramatic.

C'mon, we need an amusement park... Rollercoasters, waterslides, midways, carnies running the controls and freakshow stealing kids cotton candy and balloons!!


My other suggestion is to clean up red side! Tyrants always have the trains running on time and the streets litter free... It's the whole hid the corruption under the seeming tranquility bit... A huge part of why I never get far trying to play redside is that it's just too dirty to bother with. Give me clean streets, roads and stuff worth destroying!

Doors and lobbies. Fixing two birds with the same stone. As was noted earlier almost all the doors look the same. To remedy that insert them in building lobbies. All the lobbies could easily fit within the small foot prints of existing buildings and then use the AE window tech to retain it's physical connection to the city. Once inside a lobby you have access to 3-4 mission doors or maybe just an elevator, and emergency stairwell. This could be a nice opportunity to throw in some artistic flair or quirky security and secretarily characters. Imagine walking into a building where you have a mission and the security guard shouts out "thank god your here they are up on the 23rd floor. Hurry!"

In other topics updating the store windows and matching them to the appropriate signage is a plus in my book.

Also please add a distinct restaraunt that is "in front steak house" and "up up and away burger"