Ban Zoning

A few none Arachnos islands would be nice.

You all are a bunch of wimps. I remember needing to circumvent Britannia in Ultima IV like three times on a quest just to get everything to make climbing gear so I can cut through the mountains instead of going around and around.

And with all the various short cuts now in CoH/V that make travel many times faster between zones, the only problem you could have is keeping the team together as you travel to the next mission since the longer the time between missions, the greater the chance someone will go off and train or hit the stores along the way.

I swear half the people who hate AE babies want exactly what they have for regular play, near zero travel time between missions. Then what's the point of zones to begin with? What's next, complaining the zone is too big like IP? Well boo flippin hoo!

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I don't have a problem with zoning like some people seem to have. That said, I wouldn't mind some of the random zoning in the old hero content being toned down.

The devs already realise this though, since all the content released in recent years only goes to another zone when there's a point to it. A contact in Sharkhead will typically only send you to Mercy if the mission, storywise, actually takes place in Mercy. And this is the way it should be. If you have a problem with that I suggest you restrict yourself to AE missions. No zoing required ever.

I don't mind zoning when it makes sense. A contact I have is tracking stuff related to the CoT; they have a presence in a large number of neighborhoods in the city. It makes sense that Boss A's lair I'm currently checking out may not be in the same neighborhood as the lair that Boss 8's is. I'm OK with that.

I'm even OK with Numina's massive, multi-zone hunt. I actually kind of like that from time to time; it's a flavor you don't see very often. It's showing "my, how you've grown!" - from hunting lowly Hellions all the way up through the ranks. You're watching your progress in hyperspeed. (It doesn't hurt that you can split up through the first several hunts and progress MUCH faster that way. You don't ALL have to go to each zone for each step.) Although I do think that you should get your own instance of the zone so that you're not interrupted for up to fifteen minutes at a time when some kind of event is playing out. I'm looking at you, zombie invasions that no one cares about and linger around forever and ever and ever.

However, if I'm doing filler missions that don't have any connection to pretty much any story, they should all be in the same zone (preferably the same zone as the contact, at least until you get their phone number), or AT MOST one splash page away.

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I will keep to my guns from years past and keep supporting zoning as a legitimate part of the game. Few things make the game feel like a soulless grind like being stuck in the same zone for an entire five levels with nothing else to see but the same tired old terrain. Sharkhead is this way, Nerva is this way and, to be honest, all of Praetoria is this way.

Travelling from zone to zone makes the city feel larger, and it gives the scenery some variety. Requests to restrict all missions only to the same zone as the contact strikes me as the next best thing to instituting a mission hub from which to access all missions directly without needing the overworld at all, and I feel the game would only lose out for it.

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