If you could make a new zone, what would it be?
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Posted on: 2010-10-11 05:16 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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My theory, for the longest time, has been that modern Japan in the City of universe is basically like every anime you've ever seen, plus some brutal deconstructions. (i.e. That cute, six year old magical girl who's just starting out? gets stepped on because a dumb, shonen mecha pilot was being careful while fighting the kaiju of the week.)
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Originally Posted by Wooden_Replica
CoX Tokyo with the tilesets reflecting that.
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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.
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Could you tell me where and whom? I hope you don't mean the altered maps of what we have or different versions of Clockworks.
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Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
Dude, we just got several new enemy groups and a number of new maps.
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I said nothing of pushing for exciting environments. I am pushing right there with you guys. I just want these in the form of a TF or SF. We have many zones (and I agree...many are not used to their full extent) but when we play, we get into the instances. It'd be nice to hit these places and see things we don't normally see. Have these exciting new places in these TFs etc.
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Originally Posted by Mothers_Love
I think we don't have enough zones that are used to their fullest extent, thats the problem.
We have Boomtown, Perez, Creys, Shadowshard, Dark Astoria (and you could argue a couple more) that have not been touched in years and are ghost-towns on most nights (most populated EU-server: Union). One could argue a possible cull, and / or reinvestment and reinvigoration of the content in those zones. The day we stop pushing for exciting enviroments being used to their fullest extent is the start of the apathetic slippery slope imho. |
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Praetorian lab maps and Underground maps, plus Resistance, PPD, Seers, Destroyers, Ghouls, Syndicate and Clockwork mobs - and Goliath War Walker GMs |
Originally Posted by TheJazMan
Could you tell me where and whom? I hope you don't mean the altered maps of what we have or different versions of Clockworks.
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@Golden Girl
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I think that would be cool as a mission map for an Ouro arc or something along those lines. Same with the prehistoric, and medieval ones mentioned earlier. A futuristic one would be cool as well.|
Originally Posted by Hazzard_County
I got to thinking the other day, how neat it would be if we had a 'western' theme zone. Maybe a small ghost town that consisted of a single intersection, nothing but dirt roads, and a dessert in the background. The buildings would be the traditional flat scaled store fronts, that included things like: a hotel, bar, county jail. The doors would be swinging panels like in the movies, and every once in a while you'd see some tumbleweed drifting through the landscape. I imagine dual pistols players would frequent the zone often. Maybe you could even have a gun dual in the center of town (even if your toon didn't have dp as a power). Perhaps it could be an ouroboros destination, and the landscape could have a sepia tone to give it that antique feel.
So, if you could create your own zone, what would it be? |
I'm also all for revamping old zones, but my top 3 list for new zones would be: 1) Moon/Mars base, 2) Earth orbit (space station for example), 3) Underwater base/Atlantis type deal.
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Hmmmm I'd rather see the old COH/V zones updated first, then go with new Zones.
I'd like to see a lvl 40-50 zone in Praetoria thats actually outside the sonic barriers. Seeing how the world has been ravaged by DE, and maybe seeing some Human/DE mutations that you'd have to fight.
Then you'd have your Praetorian Hami nearby for a Trial/TF.
Then just for kicks I'd love to see an Ancient Asian type zone kind of like Cimerora, fighting Shogun/Samurais and maybe even some ninjas. Then save the zone from a giant Dragon! YAY!
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[/center] I could see DE/human hybrids playing a similar role in Praetoria to the Lost on Primal Earth.
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I think the ghouls/experiments already take up that position.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I could see DE/human hybrids playing a similar role in Praetoria to the Lost on Primal Earth.
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That's my beef with the game. It is redundant. Why do we need something similar to what we have. Why not go off in a completely new/original tangent? |
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I could see DE/human hybrids playing a similar role in Praetoria to the Lost on Primal Earth.
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Just like Praet zones - add as few as possible (I know we are supposedly going to get zones that go to level 50 and I just hope it's maybe 2 more zones). The new zones look great but do we really need another 2+ that are MORE city?? The 3 Prae zones are plenty enough but I will brace myself for more lol.
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I'm pretty sure they've never said anything about that at all |
Originally Posted by TheJazMan
I know we are supposedly going to get zones that go to level 50
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@Golden Girl
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Thank you, golden girl, don't forget the rest of the IDF troopers and the BCUs, ACUs, and victorias.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Praetorian lab maps and Underground maps, plus Resistance, PPD, Seers, Destroyers, Ghouls, Syndicate and Clockwork mobs - and Goliath War Walker GMs
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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.
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Just a thought, but want to see a zone where Metronome killed everyone (as opposed to primal-version clockwork king)
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(scribbles into AE ideas notepad)
Zombie town PLZ
But what I really need are zeroG space maps, perhaps lowG Moon maps, and underwater zones. I know it's a lot of work, so thanks for being such good sports about it. Thanks Devs!
one big zone that surrounds all of the earthly city zones outside the war walls. Let it be fully explorable, let it be very large and let it have random quest spawns so everyone doesn't just keep going to the same locations to do the same thing. so you have to be the hero on patrol, or the villain on the prowl.
did I say make it big, I mean make it really big.
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I think Atlas Park should be the number one zone for a complete revamp. It's like sig. zone for the game really. forget the story to it, just revamp it all...
No one goes there anymore, it's too crowded...
"The potato goes in the FRONT."
An alternative to Mercy Island would be nice, I'd also like a revamp of port Oakes and Cap, add other ways to travel between them besides the ferry, since they are the same Island.
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Revamping old zones should be high on the devs' to-do list, whether wholesale (Boomtown) or partial (improving the flow in Atlas Park and Galaxy City as starting zones to compete with Nova Praetoria's). To fill in some of the blank spots on the Paragon City map, a World's Fair-style exposition could be terrific addition to the game's Silver Age/science fiction landscape if it had as many sights of the 1964 New York one.
Mothers_Love's suggestions of maps from Paragon City's past to visit via Ouroboros is excellent, too.
for god sakes no more revamping zones..faultline and hollows have no one in them already and dont tell me there is cause i just got off the game
2ndly that moon base is still wating to be built in steel fyi
3rd no new zones unless its for lvl 50s. its been 7 years.we need moar stuff for the fiddies!
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Originally Posted by Severe
for god sakes no more revamping zones..faultline and hollows have no one in them already and dont tell me there is cause i just got off the game
2ndly that moon base is still wating to be built in steel fyi 3rd no new zones unless its for lvl 50s. its been 7 years.we need moar stuff for the fiddies! |
They revamped TWO zones, and Hollows wasn't one of them. Due to the fact that it had exactly 0% geometry and mapping changes. RWZ and Faultline did, yes. Two zones out of a crapton blueside, a huge number of which are nigh empty.
In fact, y'know what?
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GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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Not only that, but from the producer's letter:|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Sexy Jay has recently mentioned Atlantis again
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| We’ve also dramatically improved the art, with some of the best animations, effects, audio, characters, and environments we’ve ever produced; early this year, we’re going to be giving you a pretty “wild” new look, and later this year we’ll turn up the pressure. |
...I forgot what experience means.
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Moon Zone with moonbase, complete with 1/6th gravity. But you have to be able to go outside and fight on the nearly-airless face of the moon.|
Originally Posted by Hazzard_County
So, if you could create your own zone, what would it be?
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If I could make 2 zones, I'd also make the space station we use on the way there.
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Well, it could also also be hinting at a frequently requested steampunk booster |
Originally Posted by SpaceNut
Turn up the pressure? Lots of pressure underwater...
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@Golden Girl
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Have you tried I19 yet? It has some good stuff for 50s in it.
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Originally Posted by Severe
3rd no new zones unless its for lvl 50s. its been 7 years.we need moar stuff for the fiddies!
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@Golden Girl
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I'd like the Atlas globe to revolve, the City Hall to get a second floor so there's actually space for the offices where the city is run from, fountains in the water pools, and the park areas to be landscaped instea dof the current "wild" look, so there'd be more walls and flowerbeds, like in Nova Praetoria.
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Originally Posted by Gr33n
I think Atlas Park should be the number one zone for a complete revamp. It's like sig. zone for the game really. forget the story to it, just revamp it all...
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@Golden Girl
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Besides, In the thirty years of PnP lore in the other game, Atlantis has already been a zone for decades. As the other studio's enviromental artists search through the PnP books for zonal inspiration, in-time it too will be attempted online to sit alongside the other underwater zone.
I like the calls for a Norse-inspired Asgardian type of zone, as i do the calls for space and extra-planetary zones.
Ancient Egypt also has merit I feel should pre-history be attempted.
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