Base Memorial Statues

Sitting here some 2:30am in the morning... Playing CoX and thinking of all the past good friends and players who have come and gone while I am in my base building. Thinking of the people who have helped me in the past, people that I had made my Super Groups and Vengeance Groups with. People who helped me earn Prestige, taught me the ways of the game, took me under thier wing and helped me progress in the game. Those people who used to be my Leaders and best friends of the VG/SG in which I had inherited now as they have moved on or are no longer with us. For you Vets, I am sure there are many times when you just reflect on where we can from and all those involved in our journey through the years and how we can to be where we are now. I know I do. That is why I would like to suggest Base Memorial Statues.

I would love to have Base Statues we can place in our Bases so we can honor these people who have long since left us. They could be Gold, Bronze, Ivory, Stone or what ever other materials. At thier feet, as they stand on a pedistal, would be a plaque where you can click and read up on the person/statue which can be edited in Base Edit Mode to say what ever you want, at least as long or possibly longer than what you can enter into a normal characters bio. If at all possible, which would give much more meaning and joy to me, you could tailor the statues to look like the player in which you are remembering. Having played for nearly 6 years now, this small addition to the game would mean so much to me and I am sure a lot of other players. Just a little bit of joy remembering great players of the past and to also give more meaning to the members who are new to the Super Group or Vengeance Group as they can read up on the past of how thier SG/VG came to be and what exactly they are a part of. I think it would be a wonderful thing to have.

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Wow, I just read this and went "I love this idea, i've thought about it once or twice myself and didn't post". lol it's by you Nezz .

The problem with tailoring the statues would be getting the costume file uploaded to CoX or transferred to your pc by the other player, and if they left without warning you can't contact them 98% of the time . (Lightbulb: Maybe have a character creation screen for the statue, allowing for you to make a "rough sketch" of how you remember them looking if you must)

I usually vote yes/no on suggestions by how hard it would be for a dev to create the feature, if it's possible at all. I'm not sure how hard it'd be to make different texture overlays for the costumes should you get your hands on it to use, but if they could get presets to look decent on all shape/sizemodels of characters it'd be awesome.

This feature would be a great addition to the game, it'd also add great personalization/interactivity to base items, since as of now none available are customizable.

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I know what you mean and I too get nostalgic and think back to MONTH one. I was on COV and hooked up with a great VG small but very friendly and helpful The two leaders were college aged and lived together and they took me in and showed me how to survive and play. Sadly we lost touch a number of years ago. They just sort of diappeared and I was never sure if it was just a lose of interest in the game or they graduated, got jobs and din't have time for COX anymore. I hate to admit it but that was over 3 years ago and that group doesn't even exist anymore plus I'd be hard pressed to recall eacatly what their characters looked like now.

Unfortunately the idea of statues is not a new one. A while back someone even suggested that EVER 50 level should be "entitled" to a statue somewhere in the city. Now I am closing in on my 60 month badge and have 2 accounts now because NC Soft won't let me buy anymore on the first one. I have Twenty-two 50 levels and about 10 more in the 40s between the 2 account and I am just ONE player. To accomplish what this person wanted they'd need to create zones JUST to store the statues because if they tried to place all those in the ones we PLAY in you wouldn't be able to move. I realize you are talking about honoring a few good close friends but human nature is human nature and as soon as one character gets a statue, for whatever the reason, ever single player in game will want one too. Okay maybe not everyone personally I don't care if I have a single statue anywhere much less 22 and counting. That thread led to a small flame war, BIG SUPRISE, and I never heard anything more about it. And obviously no one has a statue of themselves in ATlas park or any other city zone so my guess is the Devs said no. Honestly I wish there was some way to honor the players we respect most. I'd definately lobby to get a statue of my SG leader from the Taxibots. Back before newspaper mission and rapptor packs he and one friend got an idea to HELP other players and turned it into an SG. At one point the Taxis had a garage (what we call our base) on every server and we took turns standing watch at the gate to Atlas in the Hollows TPing players to safety and to mission. He's a good friend, a good husband to his wife and about to be come a dad for the first time. Shhhh don't tell him I just wrote this it would embarass him :-D

Its a nice idea but I have a feeling the answer from the Devs will probably be no. I guess the best we can do is remember good friends past and present our minds and honor them with a smile when we do something in game that stirs one of those old memories.

awww.... I guess my idea is not popular enough :-(. . . . *Le Sigh*

I like the idea, but unfortunately I see problems with implementation.

It might be easier to have a half dozen "generic male/female hero" statues to choose from, but have a customized plaque for each as you mentioned.

Actually, customizable pop-up text plaques (&/or signs/message boards) have been mentioned as a means for labeling & info sharing for SG's before. It's in the Big Consolidated List (see my sig).

Maybe one of these days, Mr. Nakayama will start up a "All things Base Art" thread, and you could add this idea there....
maybe....
one of these days...

I suppose the Cursed Sorcerer COULD /unsign this...

But the Cursed Sorcerer is not a hearless person! /signed

Yeah, I wouldnt mind a Generic Male/Female statue. I mentioned that. I just thought if all possible to allow them to be customizable so they would be better lol... Maybe a Generic one for now, kinda like the Arcane Control Statue, then later on when they get around to it let it be customizable. I would would be enough to suffice me :-)

Two things would be nice. Being able to place down written plaques and putting down statues.

For statues, i guess we can already use the ingame ones (check AE editor, it shows them somewhere.) I would have said that having custom statues would be impossible, then again. This game seems to like and take that one extra step where other mmo's wouldn't.

There's an arcane control aux that looks like a statue (I think it has to be crafted). But that's the only human statue I know of... and it's not exactly like the heroic statues that you see in, say, Atlas City Hall.


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I think this is the thread Wicked_Wendy is talking about. (In case you're tempted, please don't respond there. It's long dead; let it rest in peace.)

I had an idea back then that the PPD could start a Public Appreciation Program, where a single holo-emitter (think of the costume-switching MA contact) would be setup outside City Hall and each Police Station. It would cycle through each candidate randomly, and players could click it to look up (on their own client only) any character in the system. It's the last post in the thread, so I don't know if nobody liked it, or if everyone was just tired of reading that thread by then

I think that this is awesome, and it wouldn't be too terribly tough to implement. Essentially, it would be a completely immoble NPC clone of the player that it is about. You can put the plaque data on "info". The hard part would be the editor, but they already have that for AE.