EERC now have a cool stockpile of goodies awaiting a 50 so let's see what you got!
Thelonious Monk
very nice idea Riff, i would love to help setting a build for a new player and providing the needed recipes for slotting it
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Ok we've been batting this idea around for a while and figured we're about ready to run it out to the entire EU community as an in game event, that we hope will be well received and enables all you good people to have a hand in it.
Since GR went live, we've all noticed a lot of new players in the server communities, some of whom now have 50s and are discovering new parts of the game such as Inventions and Incarnates and Ice Cream... oh... well would've been nice.
Here's the thing: If you're a relatively new player it's possible you may not have mastered the finer points of the invention system, or gotten your head around build planners etc and spent a fair bit of time puzzling the Auction House.
So this is the idea that involves the community: We're gonna help you get a great build! Easy as, with a very simple idea, broken down into 3 parts:
- If you are a player with fewer than 12 months of Vet Rewards, you can put your level 50 character forward for some build help. What you need to do is explain why your character needs help, obviously give the main info: AT, Origin, Name, Your Global name, Primary Powers, Secondary Powers, APP/PPP, and then a bit about the character's back story, and their reason for being in this wonderful game we call City of Heroes as either a hero or villain.
- Once we've got a few applicants the EERC team will pick a winner - and then the community will dive in and help make the dream a reality: Players with a lot of experience in build planners such as Mids will be locked in a dungeon until they come up with a suitable build which they will then release into the wilds of the forum for perusal. The winner will then get to pick the build s/he likes the best from all the submissions.
- The community then throws in Invention IOs to make the build possible, either by recipes or crafted IOs, which the player then slots accordingly and at the end provides some cool screenies of their character and his/her build.
See? Nice and simple and everyone can take part to make a cool toon even cooler. Almost all self-respecting SGs have bins of crafted IOs which "might come in useful one day" but are sitting there languishing. We're not proposing to help purple out a toon with the best IOs available but a decent, functional build that is achievable from the communities' collective kindness.See? I said it was simple. So put your thinking caps on and let us know why this will help you. Make your submission as funny/serious/quirky as you like. I can tell you we're all excited to see the results!
Thelonious Monk