Well there are airport-like areas in both Striga Isle and Cap au Diable but that doesn't really discount your idea. 
It would make sense for Paragon City to be "equipped" with a major airport somewhere on the mainland. It's technically weird for a big city like that not to have one. From there the Devs could develop new missions that would be set in different locations around the world.
Not a bad idea all-in-all. Probably more likely than the often-rumored Moon zone at any rate. 
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Game canon: The Paragon City Airport is deliberately outside the city because the entirety of the city is a no-fly zone...because of the danger of hitting/being hit by flying superheroes.
Many maps of Paragon City indicate the airport as being north of Steel Canyon, and southeast of Baumton.
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Game canon: The Paragon City Airport is deliberately outside the city because the entirety of the city is a no-fly zone...because of the danger of hitting/being hit by flying superheroes.
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That "game canon" was established back at the beginning of CoH when they either couldn't or didn't want to deal with creating the graphics for airport-like objects such as airplanes or runways. There would likely be very little trouble "re-imagining" that canon if the Devs wanted to reconsider giving Paragon City a proper airport zone.
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No.
Why?
Because there is a metric crapton of characterful zones already sat there with nothing in them!
Astoria, Perez, Boomtown, Creys Folly, Terra Volta and all the others need a lot of TLC before ANY new zones should even be thought of.
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I... half agree with this. Redside needs more (and preferrably not garbage-dump-themed) zones. Blueside? Yes, DA, Creys, etc. have been BEGGING for at *least* some content.
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No.
Why? Because there is a metric crapton of characterful zones already sat there with nothing in them! Astoria, Perez, Boomtown, Creys Folly, Terra Volta and all the others need a lot of TLC before ANY new zones should even be thought of. End of. |
It's a valid point to say there are a number of blueside zones that are already underutilized. Maybe as a compromise they could rework one of the old zones in question (like Boomtown or Galaxy City) by adding an airport section to it. This way an old zone could be updated with the new "global mission" idea Wooden_Replica talked about. I actually like Galaxy City for this now that I think about it - replacing that whole southern warehouse area with a globe-trotting airport might make GC a more useful "hub" zone like AP and TI are.
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It's a valid point to say there are a number of blueside zones that are already underutilized. Maybe as a compromise they could rework one of the old zones in question (like Boomtown or Galaxy City) by adding an airport section to it. This way an old zone could be updated with the new "global mission" idea Wooden_Replica talked about. I actually like Galaxy City for this now that I think about it - replacing that whole southern warehouse area with a globe-trotting airport might make GC a more useful "hub" zone like AP and TI are.
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1) They suck. They really, really suck.
2) You can get from 1-6 by street sweeping in about 1/3 the time it takes to run back and forth to the stupid missions the starting contacts give you.
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Also when considering where they would put an airport GC is really one of the few existing zones that actually makes sense. They aren't going to put a major airport on the island where the city's power plant is (Terra Volta) and they aren't going to put it in a perpetually dark ghost area (Dark Astoria). Many of the other zones either have too many tall buildings or other reasons to discount them. The south side of GC is really one of the better places. Other candidates include Boomtown and even IP where a long north-south runway built on the west side of the zone make sense.
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Actually the airport is marked on papermap. I'm not saying we need new zones but personally I don't mind even let say... enormous number of new maps just for fun
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Anyway, there's one issue I see with shoehorning an airport into our existing city zones (aside from the same risk to aircraft from our heroes that RL aircraft have from birds). Short of VSTOL aircraft (I.E. Harrier, Osprey, etc.) and helicopters, no aircraft can approach the correct altitude during takeoff/landing to clear the war walls.
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New Zone Idea
You know the one thing that has always bothered me, is that neither PC or RI has an airport, which I find strange.
Here are my thoughts, two new level 50 zones, PC International Airport, and the RI International Airport. In the case of PCIA, you could have it being rebuilt( Im assuming PC pre-rikti would have had one, and that it was maybe destroyed during the Rikti War), on the site of Boomtown.
The content would be designed with 50s and incarnated 50s in mind.
This would cover a number of bases,
-You would get a glimpse of what the rest of Primal Earth is like beyond PC and RI.
-Your actions would have a more global feel, if youre a hero, maybe you will save the President, defeat some plan of some faction taking over somewhere, while if youre a villain, you may be in some plot to discredit Longbow, incite war somewhere, or kidnap the Queen of England or something. The missions entrances would be at various terminals or jets. The idea here with your growing power, your getting involved in truly global stuff that takes you to places like Hong Kong, Paris, London, Moscow, etc etc etc.
You could even name the issue that this comes out World Tour