Add South IP Tram terminal

Simply put, Independence Port would benefit from having a Southern tram terminal. I know this idea has been brought up before, but with the combining of the Green and Yellow tram lines I'm surprised on one has mentioned this recently. At least not that I've noticed.

Part of the reason I tend to avoid doing much in the way of content in IP is because of the travel time from one extreme end to the other, especially if some of the usual shortcuts, like mission tp, aren't up. With the combination of the Green and Yellow lines it make it so much quicker to go from one end of Steel Canyon and Skyway, I can only see this benefiting the player base and making IP more user friendly.

You could go to Brickstown, then to South IP from there.

I could go for this. Though, I might also suggest the possibility of putting in a series of boats that could take you to different points throughout IP.

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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.

Independence Port: I agree is too large of a zone to not have some help in the travel department, especially since the addition of the linked trains and ferries.

As Azure mentioned and I was going to suggest, a series of boats in Independence Port is also a viable option.

The Smuggler's Boat already exists, and is not too far from the Train. It only links to Talos Island and Striga Isle, so an additional Independence Port (South) and Independence Port (North) Smuggler's Boat would be a welcome addition.

I think it would be nice if other areas were re-evaluated to ease the "time-to-travel" as well, such as Nerva Archipelago. An additional Black Line here or new Submarine system is about all I can think of that would make sense up North.

Also, Port Oakes in my opinion could use another look now that the Ferries are linked.

In closing, yea... I am all for some further re-evaluation in this phase and future upgrades.

I like the thought of putting an extra Smuggler's boat somewhere in south Indy Port.

As for other zones, I think the easiest way to give the Rogue Isles better travel options would be to move some of the Black Helicopter locations to somewhere other than ten feet from the friggin' ferry. In those locations, they're useless. Simply move the one in St. Martial to a rooftop of one of the casinos, and the one in Nerva up by Primeva, and the Black Helicopter line is immeasurably more useful. Maybe also move the one in Grandville to the Fab? With them all linked, Mercy and Cap Au already are pretty good.

A new smuggler's boat location or two in IP wouldn't be bad at all. The zone could use a little in zone travel help.

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Once you add a quick way to get to south IP, people are gonna want the same for north IP as well. That's why the boats are a good idea - definitely preferable to cluttering up the list of tram stops with 3 entries for a single zone that doesn't really have all that much of interest there anyway...

I'd like the northern end of IP to be merged with Terra Volta, so that the zone became a 2-part one like Faultline.

I like the ferry boat idea. There could be 3 locations for this in IP:

A) one at the north end of the zone (near the Rogue Isles sub makes the most sense)
B) one at the south end of the zone (probably somewhere around the SE corner to be near the Bricks entrance)
C) one somewhere close to the current tram stop (near where the helicopter for the Statesman TF would work)

Having a ferry like this would promote the idea of this zone being a water-based port zone.

Nerva.

That is all.

South IP tram station, definitely.
A shortcut to the wild north of Nerva would be nice too, but at least that has the excuse of being uncivilized (primeval, even). There's no reason not to put another station on the Yellow Line right before it makes a turn through the War Wall into Brickstown.

Personally, I'd prefer to see a train station in the South just for the sake of having logically-located transportation. With our ability to insta-travel between stations within the same zone, it only makes sense. It helps with Steel Canyon and Skyway City, it would help in Independence Port. Fishing boats may not be a bad idea, but I personally prefer a train station.

And I also agree with moving Black Helicopters to non-stupid locations. The one in Nerva should move out to Primeva, the one in St. Martial should probably move out to a rooftop in Jackpot and the one in Grandville could probably drop you either on the other side of the city somewhere on the wall, or actually inside a hangar in Recluse's Tower. Or maybe even on a landing strip above the Web, Highlander 2 style.

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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.

A ferry/speedboat sounds like a good idea. Indy Port is hurting for transportation improvements something fierce, and it fits with the theme of the zone.

An open letter to NCsoft

I know that this hasn't been brought up for a while, but rather than start another thread, I'd like to voice my approval of something like this, in addition to just reworking travel between zones as a whole. Along with the reasons already mentioned, here are my ideas:

As people have mentioned, Independence Port needs a lot more help. Every time I do the Hero 1 cape mission, I dread having to go all the way up to the NW end of the zone, especially on characters who don't have Fly as their travel power.

Faultline needs its own station. Repairs should have progressed far enough where they can have one, if not two. I shouldn't have to go to Skyway South, just to zone again into Faultline.

Founders Falls should really get added here as well. Talos would approve.

Also, this isn't just for the sake of travel times, but making the zones more accessible. Skyway and Steel were a lot more cumbersome to get around before, and now I have a way to get in there and do what I need to do.

I still support this as I did before. I've never been against a little travel, but after a certain point travel time just becomes busywork and a time sink. Independence Port is clearly well past that point.

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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.

Guess I don't do as much stuff in IP as I should, but I've never had a problem in there... always have a travel power by the time I get there, and I get about rather quickly.

The Shadow Shards, THERE's a need for some extra trams or boats.