If you were King of Paragon Studios for a day

1) Propeller beanies
2) Monkey Masterminds
3) Breast animation.

(Deja vu, anyone?)

I12 settings for Arena.

If I was Queen of Paragon Studio:

Customization for Granite Armor. No longer one Granite should be identical to the other.

If I was Queen of NCSOFT:

No more regional IP BLOCK for the South America.

I'd prolly start Paragon Charities...which would provide information/Fame/Infamy to the needy new folks of our fair city. Then...I would vanquish the greedy people selling ruby's in the market for 1 mill.

For one day? Hmm... oh, right.

Giant radioactive ants, and the punching there of.

A project to be completed in just one day?

Name purge. All trials over two weeks past their expiration and all inactive accounts over two years old.

Hummm one day. . .

Nylonus approaches a large throne in the middle of a ciruclar dias. He turns slowly to face the staff at Paragon Studios all dressed in tunics and robes as Greek Gods and Goddess'.

"Release Rularuu!" his command echoed through the hall.



Hey just because I'm the king doesn't mean I don't love my subjects.

If it was just for one day - name purge. All names attached to accounts with no global handles would get the axe.

I'd call Cryptic offices on the phone and make loud raspberry noises.

If I could, I'd make it so that the buff and debuff symbols that float around characters from using inspirations, leadership pool powers, other buff and debuff powers from allies and enemies... could have those visuals completely turned off.
No floating, flashing purple shields, no yellow target symbols...

If we had the time, I'd make it a checkbox option to be able to turn them off.
If that couldn't be done within the time limit... I'd just erase those visuals and post on the forums that it was I who did that and if anyone had a problem with it, direct your complaints to me.

Then I'd call for an after-work Praetorian Hami Incarnate Trial run with the Paragon Studio Team.

Hmmm...

Or I'd just make a statue in Kings Row for the Electric-Knight...


Hmmmmm...

Well, it's hard to say since I'm not sure what could actually be done in a day. One of the little things I'd like to see done though is to allow team members to demote the team leader. So if everyone (or perhaps even 3/4 of the team) votes for it (similar to simultaneous glowie clicks) the team leader gets demoted and the person below gets the star.

If I wanted to be evil I'd get rid of ED for a day.

Hire myself to improve the tools the content devs use to produce content.

Hm. This comes down to, "What do you think you can reasonably accomplish in a single day?"

Tough one. It would eliminate any sweeping code changes, or coding projects that would exceed 24 hours. Anything requiring artwork changes taking longer than 24 hours are a no-go. Anything that has to be run through QA is a no-go (since it has to be done over several weeks or months).

So, I'd negotiate with everyone to allow users to extend the user interface with skins and plugins. Lift the ban on viewing internal resources, and publish whatever docs were required for creating new skins, plugins and whatnot.

I've never, ever successfully gone back to a mission door after hosping to base. Are you saying it happens if there's no base teleporter to that zone?

Anyway, even if that's so I still want more base teleporters

Undisputed Lord and Master for a day?

Hmmm...

1) I'd sign an ironclad contract licensing me to develop a hand-held City of Heroes game for Android and iOS devices.

2) I'd "fix" Talos Island - ALL of the Freak vs Warriors spawns currently depict the Warriors as weak, sniveling pansies and that just ain't right. I'd assign whatever manpower required to get it balanced to 50/50 or better and depict the Warriors properly as, well, warriors.

3) Whoever wasn't involved in the above effort would be working on turning Rune of Warding into an inherent.

4) While we're at it, upgrade ALL origin inherents to better/flashier powers.

5) End of the day Meet and Greet at Paragon Studios - Pizza for Everybody!

I would preemptively appoint myself the irrevocable position of "Powerset White board Handler" which has the power to designate which powersets are and aren't on the drawing board and places them in order of priority at which 2-handed weapon sets would be placed at the top and Scythe melee right under that.

I would then request all information on time tables and schedules so I could know exactly everything the team has in the pipeline and when its scheduled to release as well as the allotted time and actual hours it takes to get things done. This would allow me to replace the whole "Standard Code Rant" with "Leo's unending and all knowing knowledge Rant...of Knowledge" to which I would be able to say what can/can't be implemented, how long it would take and an estimated date such suggestions would be expected to even get around to working on if not currently...but I *won't* actually give this information because it'd be *MINE* to know and no one else!

My first decree as King of Paragon Studios would be to do something with the Shadow Shard. I don't care what, just DO SOMETHING!

The Shadow Shard is one of the most interesting zones in the whole game. The lore behind it is easily the best out of it all, and the landscape is incredible. Yet, none of it is used. Yay, we get some boring repeatable contacts, and some Task Forces which hardly explain anything. The new exploration badges are big fat teasers of what SHOULD be done with the zones. Seriously, go read those. How much Rularuu can twist your very mind just by being in his realm. Give us some cool new Missions and Task Forces, send us into wonderland with some trippy story lines that make us question our grip on reality. That's what the zone should be about.

How about letting us battle/interact with the OTHER reflections of Rularuu? Currently, all we have is Faathim the Kind, Lanaruu the Mad, and Ruladak the Strong. I want to fight Uuralur the Mirror in his Garden of Memories. Oh the cool things you could do with that premise. Give us a shot at Chularn the Slave Lord, or Kuularth the Scavanger.

Pretty much, if I were king for the whole day, that entire 24-hour period would be spent towards expanding the Shadow Shard. Oh, and opening it up to villains, with some unique villainous story lines to go with it. :P

Removing the I13 PVP changes, removing all travel suppression in PVP, removing rooting in pvp, and adding some optional pvp games for the arena such as Capture the Flag, Zone Capture, and Incarnate Deathmatch.

Capture the Flag would be set up so that flag bearers are under travel suppression. Flag bearers would also be selectable as a waypoint on the map.

Zone Capture would be set up with 5 interactable objects, aka beacons, that change to destructable objects. Each beacon under your teams control adds 1 second per second to your teams timer. First team to 3 minutes wins. If a beacon under a team's control is destroyed, they stop gaining time from it and it can be captured by the other team. The beacons are buffable, have a base regen rate of zero (regen buffs wont work on them since 500% of 0 is 0), and can be healed though they have 75% resistance to healing.

Incarnate Deathmatch would be a Free for All Death Match with a set duration and unlimited lives. One player would be randomly selected as having the Blessing of the Well buff making them almost as powerful as the players become in Mender Ramiel's first mission. The Dot effect would be reduced to about 50 dmg per tick, the untouchable status removed, and the players regen would not be raised by the buff. There are 2 ways to gain points: Kill the player currently affected by the Blessing of the Well which grants 10 points and the buff, or Killing players while affected by the Blessing of the Well which grants only 1 point. Whoever has the most points after time expires wins.

Also the winning player(s) of any arena match can once every 20 hours chose between 5 reward merits or a random reward table. The different reward tables would be 50% chance for Bronze, 20% chance for Silver, 15% chance for Gold, 10% chance for Platinum(for purple recipes), and 5% chance for PVP. After the timed reward has been earned the winner(s) receive one random large inspiration.

To bad this would take more than 1 day to do...

As Lord and Master of All of Paragon Studios, I hereby Decree unto Law:

1 - Samuraiko signs a 10 year contract as Promotional and Video Vice President.

2 - Name Purge for all trial accounts that are beyond 30 days from expiration.

3 - Super Groups will have an email method for inviting members

4 - All hardware would be replaced by state of the art machines.

5 - These forums would be upgraded to IPB

6 - A Meet and Greet would be scheduled to take place during a Wednesday, in Orlando Florida.

7 - a whole host of items found in Pocket D, the Rogue Isles, and Paragon would become available for SG Bases such as Pinball machines, Slot Machines, casino games, vending machines, a real bar, and a ragged out stripped down '79-'84 Buick similar to the one Propel sends flying every once in awhile.

8 - Our South American Friends will have a permanent and reliable source for purchasing all items related to the City of Franchise including time cards, Booster Packs, retail box codes, and even wearing apparel in stylish fashions and color selections and have the IP Blocks removed.

9 - Ok, We ALL get to have City of clothing and accessories.

10 - i12 PvP Settings for Arena and an option of [PvP Zone 1] and [PvP Zone 2] where i12PvP Rules are in Zone Instance 1 and Zone Instance 2 has the current i13 Rules.

11 - Costume slots would be set up like the character select screen is. You would have a forward and back arrow on the UI for your 5 slots which would take you to 2 more pages of costume slots for 15 total.

12 - Character Slots would be extended to 72 per account, per server, at current pricings as appearing in the store.

13 - All previous bonuses associated with retail boxes such as the Cape of the Four Winds, Prestige Power Slide, VIP badge or Destined One, Arachnos Chest and Cape Symbol etc, would be released as a paid booster pack entitled City of Hardcore

14 - All costume codes from conventions will be released as a paid booster entitled The Con Game

15 - All vehicles in game will be stripped of one hubcap.

16 - All SG Teleporters will give the same options the train does for 2 drop points North and South for the zones that have them on the train.

17 - The Jet Pack Vendor will be placed in All Zones.

18 - Supergroup Rent will be able to be paid through a button on the Supergroup UI.

19 - The recent Security Hassle will be reverted and a true Two-factor authentication system of a Password and a Thumbprint Scan will be introduced.

20 - The Facepalm and Vomit emotes will be added for player's amusement.

21 - Price Caps at the Market

Bah! Don't bring your sanity into it...

/em Shadow Ravenwolf gets my vote for kinginess

If I had the kingship, I'd only squander it on lunch with Avatea and War Witch.