Crazy Issue 20 Theories

Things that might require a signed NDA

1)Specific details of the Incarnate System and what each slot will do.

2)Nemesis/Archenemy system

3)Signature Powers for PC's (whether through the Incarnate System or otherwise)

4) a awesomely sweet Underwater/Rapture style zone. Many games try to do underwater combat. A really good system for it would be big.

IMO DR along with a buff seems like spinning your wheels. Any DR introduced into PVE would be a horrible mistake. Lets make everything weaker? How could that be good for the game or consistant with the theme of the game?

Lets put out the invention system, give set bonuses, Purple Unique Sets with even better bonuses, Lets put out an incarnate system/Alpha Slot to make your toon more powerful... ok thats done now... Lets introduce DR... !??!?!?!

The single most STUPID IDEA ever if thats what this all is about.. /ragequit

Well this is the crazy I20 idea thread so....

1. Big Red Ball
2. Based on noble savages threads, reworked/higher res versions of older costume pieces.
3. Pool power customization, not just colors but appearances as well, just look at how many teleportation animations there are in Praetoria
4. Update to Blue side buildings and mission maps (mentioned as a maybe in some thread somewhere [don't know where])
5. Zone events/Hamidon encounter/new zone(s) for Praetoria
6. ill jump in with the "coming storm" is coming crowd.
7. Based on another thread by noble savage, more new animations for existing powersets

That's all I can think of

This isn't speculation, but rather just wishful thinking. I kinda hope one of them is listening:

1) Along with power pool customisation, having alternate animations for the pool powers to allow them to coincide with the five origins. For example, a lot of people don't take the medicine pool because it doesn't mesh well for them with either magic or mutant based characters. Being able to choose what animation to use in the power customize screen at the tailor would be a boon to them!

2) Primary and Secondary power mixing and matching. Not that a blaster could take every nuke from every set, mind you! But say if they want Charged Bolts from Electrical Blast as their tier one power, and Power Blast from the Energy Blast set as their tier two, then they'd be able to do it. I, for one, would love to have Electric Fence, Build Up and Power Sink from the Electricity Manipulation set on my Elec/Dev blaster, and still have Targeting Drone and Cloaking Device.

3) (And I pressed the submit button too soon!) A revamp of Paragon City to make it a lot more pretty. Going Rogue has now entirely spoiled us and we've seen what the game is possible of showing us. Paragon City could have a lot better looking and more unique buildings, and the streets could look a lot better than how they appear. The Rogue Isles aren't as bad, but they could probably do with some improvements themselves. Personally, I've always kind of hoped we'd get some iconic buildings for El Super Mexicano, City of Gyros, and Up and Away Burger! Much like that doughnut shop in Faultline!

Issue 20:Orphan Bonanza

New and exciting Hero, Villain and Vigilante/Rogue Taskforces!

Hero Task Force: Save The Orphans!

• In this task force, heroes will face no enemy groups, but will have 3 minutes to escort sixty whining, screaming, crying slow moving escorts out of a burning orphanage.
• Watch out! Those kids only have 3hp!

• In this strike force, Villains will have the opportunity to hurl crying orphans into a burning orphanage while horrified NPC's watch on.
• Introducing the Kiddie Cannon!
• Side Missions: Villains have an alternate side mission where they can fire burning orphans into nearby buildings in hopes of setting them aflame.

• In this task force, your Vigilante/Rogue character will have the opportunity to watch a burning orphanage full of children burn to the ground.
• Will you sip Enriche or stand in the warm orange glow of the flames and ponder how you can make money off of this?

• None

• Orphan Annie
• Miss Hannigan
• Rasputin

It was not PEATs on the list, it was misread.

Instead it was Pete's. As in Unlucky Pete. The new EAT is the Lost.

Only we are limited the Scrounger Swordsman, Rifle, and Blaster.


And we can't use Rikti weapons.

Okay, my wild theory for i20 craziness?

- Revamping primal missions to take advantage of the new alignment system. Certain missions will give you the option of a Vigilante or Rogue path that will count as credit towards flipping your alignment (or even change it outright) based on your actions.

For example, A revamped Martial Brass arc might turn the choice to help Amanda Vines (currently only possible by deliberately failing the final mission) into a true moral choice with a seperate "defend the WSPDR building" mission that tilts you towards Rogue for your actions.

Another example might be that a Vigilante doing Madeline Casey's arc might conclude that the most effective way to deal with her being transformed into a soulless minion of the Carnies is to execute her before the process is complete.

- "Spy" missions. True Villains can now journey to Paragon and True Heroes to the Isles under controlled conditions. Then leverage disappearing contacts to put special hero-only contacts into the Rogue Isles and villain-only contacts into Paragon City.

- Targetable civilians in the Rogue Isles (especially during Mayhem missions). Saving Kittens from trees and helping old ladies cross the streets in Paragon.

Some people are over-educated for their intelligence.

If they added DR to PvE I would quit city of heroes, end of story.