Unfinished COH Plot threads

Do. Not. Start.

Actually, I think that'd make a fantastic 'internship' at CoH.

"Here - start by going back over ALL the arcs, badges, plaques, etc, and cleaning up names, spelling, grammar, text highlights (so you know what the mission focus is), etc. (This alone would take ages.) Next up is tweaking earlier arcs that really would benefit from just having new maps/enemies/mechanics, but where you're not really messing with the arcs' stories. (This is the bring-the-game-up-to-speed overhaul.) Third, go through each contact's missions, and for all the non-story-arc filler missions, plot ideas for better one-offs that fit that contact, enemy group, and origin."

Leave the full-blown story writing and TF writing and whatnot to the more senior or experienced devs, and give the tedious-but-God-knows-the-game-needs-it-grunt-work to a low level intern who'd happily do it for grunt pay to get their foot in the door of the industry.

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I'd probably do it for free. Actually, I do a lot of gamewide changes for free. Like manually altering every single defense debuff in the game.

I'll do it! Seriously, I got next summer free, I need some game industry experience, and I'll work for free.

Seriously, who should I email about this?

She's in (hero) Ouroboros.

You mean Mirror Spirit, Foreshadow, the one that looks like Ms. Liberty, and Spark Blade? The first is the Faultline trainer and the second is the Hollows trainer.

Trolls are affiliated with the group that rivals the Warriors, so they're not buddy-buddy enough for that to happen.

The VEAT contact? (spoiler alert): the "something important" is that your destiny shifts so that you are an official Destined One.

Dead people. Well, dead after that meat was carved off, that's the only for-sure.

Feel free to correct me on anything I was wrong about. >_>;;

Details about Shiva's origin is available in a couple of good places. A detailed history is available on the official website here. And from Cityoflore.com, a brief synopsis:

But I have my own thoughts as well. The fact that the Ghost Slaying Axe (a veteran reward that only deals very high damage to undead creatures) works on these entities suggests that they are the undead remnants of a massive entity that once made its way across the cosmos, devouring worlds along the way (a good hero named Unionite first informed me about the Ghost Slaying Axe). Or perhaps these creatures aren't "Shivans" at all, but the released souls of countless victims from countless other solar systems. The truth is out there!

The story writers at Paragon Studios are bound to get around to some of this stuff sooner or later. In the interim though, some players should get together and form a community standards consortium, for voting on AE arcs that could be considered acceptable "Official Unofficial Canon", so we can start wrapping up these plot holes.

Try to get a sticky thread, the devs nod of approval, or even a community made website. Set up polls and let the community at large put in their votes, rather than just relying on a committee's biases. Couldn't hurt, and after all, this is one of the reasons they gave us AE in the first place.

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Don't know how official it is but I've always heard that they are human corpses reanimated by the shivan shards.

Well, Lt. and higher rank shivans all have meteor pieces in them, along with a dead body (that's seen even as low as the minions), and you never see them without a skeleton in them.
I think that's safe to call official.

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.

Me too. Get a group of us willing to do it for credit, get another group as testers/QA, and call it unpaid internships. Heck, I'd be more than willing to do it using AE first, so that no proprietory NCSoft information is risked. Divide them among those of us willing to do it, and let's do it!

Heck, we *can* do it now, using AE. Why not list the arcs in their own thread, and each of us grab one and AE it?

His greatest mistake ever.

Personally, I think the mysterious letter writer is Nemesis (I know, boring!). He’s clever enough to work multi-dimensionally so I wouldn’t put it past him to try and counter the plots of his future self. The taunting and smug style of writing fit the character too.

As for Shiva, I think the Preserver’s mission only destroyed the advance party, buying us a few more years. There’s far worse out there on its way, especially with the Mender’s reference to the Shivans as scouts. The reason they class as undead is, I believe, due to the radioactive energy using the bodies of those who died when the meteorite hit rather than the dead souls of aliens.

I’ve already stated that I think that the Battalion is the Coming Storm and that we’ll need the help of the Rikti to defeat them given that they managed to beat them out of their dimension before. However, as we’re not ready to fight them, we’ll have to unlock the power of the Incarnate to do so, hence going back to Cimerora for the history and the upcoming i19 TFs. The Praetorians are tough sure, but in the end, it’s one man and his robot army (with advanced tech admittedly) but I don’t think that will be the entire Incarnate content. I suspect full Incarnates will be the only people capable of handling the might of the Coming Storm when it arrives.

As for other arcs I’d like completed? Given how much the Thorns plague us throughout our careers, I’d really like to see some kind of strike against them in the upper levels. Unlike the other persistent villains, the Freakshow, we don’t really get anything epic with them in to finish their story off.

I'd be up for helping out with a project with such an epic scope. Unfortunately, I'm afraid trying to run it through AE and the fora would result in a lot of back-and-forth and ultimate project collapse as different participants' views of the system clash. (For instance, some feel one should NEVER use archvillains, or NEVER specify anything about the character playing the arc, while others play more fast and loose with those rules. There's also a strong feeling in the AE community that "just for fun" missions don't belong in this game, that everything must be a profoundly characterized, life-changing experience, while others aren't so particular. Personally, I think there are roles for all these things.)

So, I guess, I'd be up for participating in and even helping to organize something like this, so long as it remains something civil and cooperative, not a forum for self-appointed arbiters of taste to trash one another's efforts.

Those interested in this project, feel free to PM me.

The Trolls are using cheap drugs. The guys who get the good drugs are the Family.

Another group whose members may move up are the Skyraiders (a Nemesis soldier shows up in one of their missions, and there is the Lockhardt Aerotech connection between the Skyraiders and Nemesis). Canon doesn't state that they do, but they could. Hellions might also graduate to the Warriors.
It turned out that doing it would destroy the world, so you don't do it.
Read their bios. The CoT are possessing Portal Corps scientists to gain access to portal technology. Apparently it worked, since they're in the Shadow Shard doing Not Good Things. One of the Possessed Scientists shows up in the Faathim TF as well.

Archvillains should be used when appropriate. Some people seem to feel that Archvillains MUST be used, and for a project like this, that would be the first thing to go wrong; badly designed, inappropriate and unnecessary AVs would show up for every enemy group that doesn't have one. Even the devs do it, that's why we have Gyrfalcon.

Specifying anything about the character playing the arc is also a big no-no, since as a canon expansion project it would have to assume you're using the same character you played through the canon arcs with. Which could be anyone.

I don't know where you got the impression that "just for fun" missions are frowned upon by the AE community (one of the most vocal supporters pretty much publishes nothing but comedy, and some "critically acclaimed" arcs are definitely on the "just for fun" side) unless you've been reading too much into a certain poster who has a habit of stating his personal opinion as absolute fact. What would not belong here is simple "fluff" missions: The Continuing Adventures of Lord Nemesis in the Shadow Shard and such. When you create an arc that claims to tie up a loose plot thread, I expect it to be more or less serious (although a few jokes or a lighthearted tone are certainly fine, as long as they're not at the expense of the story), to be plausible in the context of existing canon, and for the author to have done their research.