If you were King of Paragon Studios for a day

The Clockwork King would get some self respect and stop chasing after Penny every time she whistles in his direction.

After being killed by Rikti and impatient Lady Gray Task Forces a few times she might learn to appreciate him.

Hmmm... king you say?

I'd revamp the shard

As Ultimate Ruler of Paragon Studios for a day, I'd do...nothing. Let them all keep going about their normal business getting i20/21 ready. While they're doing that, I'd go sneak a peek at the 12-month white board and see what's REALLY on the other side.

Oh, and also have a me NPC put into the game who's warning new heroes/villains about the dangers of hoarding xp.

DESTROY ATLAS PARK!
(By combining elements of the Atlas Park Ruined and Recluse's Victory maps and changing all the NPC dialogue to include a panicked introductory speech along the lines of "WTF just happened?!".)

The zone is also now overrun by Clockwork, Hellions, Infected, and Vahzilok in greater numbers than have ever been encountered, pitched battles between them and Longbow/PPD have erupted everywhere, and the few remaining citizens are under constant harassment.

That's right, Atlas Park is now a lowbie hazard zone. Starting players may still chose it as their beginning but are warned of the additional dangers and advised to group as soon as they hit the ground.

Naturally people will be shocked by such an arbitrary change - although one I'd argue is necessary to shake up CoH's stagnating starting game - and will depose me by the next day. That just means that someone else will have to come up with the explanatory lore for the devastation.

What? It's not that CoH canon doesn't have enough dangling plot lines already.

Hm. With only a day to have that kind of authority, I think I'd have a sit-down meeting with the lead developers to clear up in a concrete fashion what's not going to be done in the game. There's always been talk on these forums about going back and revamping zones such as was done with Faultline, and I'm personally of the opinion there should be a semi-periodical review of zones just to see what's working and what isn't.

I'd get the mythical whiteboard to work. Let's put aside the next year's plans just for a moment (and I appreciate they're needed to help work out their budget and build times) and make some decisions.

If we're not going to revamp the starting zones (which to me is the logical place to start with the success of the Praetorian starting zones), then concretely say so and let the community know this is the case. If you want to say that the lessons learned from Going Rogue are going to go into a possible City of Heroes 2 down the track, say so! You don't have to confirm or deny such a game will be made, but don't be afraid to say if it was going to happen, what features you'd take into it.

This applies to pretty much everything from costumes to animations to TF's. If, and I do stress if it became noticeable that an issue could be addressed or redressed, then I'd order a short list of five to ten items that were within reason to be deployed across one or more issues, because I think that shows both faith and acknowledgement of the playerbase. It's when Paragon can't/won't do this is when people get really frustrated and angry, and maintaining what I think is one of the best player/developer relationships in MMO's should be a priority.

That's it. Nothing more. I have my wishlists, but I also accept a lot of what I want is restricted by the age of the game and those things cannot be done. Show me what can be, and let's roll with that.



S.

hmm lets see....

1. If no snow then rent snow machine
2. Have snowball fight.
3. Have hot chocolate after snowball fight.
4. Play games and veg.
5. Have a cook out for dinner. some nice chicken legs, a few steaks, baked potatoes, grilled corn, various salads.

*nods* That would be my day as boss of paragon. Just a day to kick back and relax.

A shiny tights option for masks so I can actually use full masks with the shiny tights. They added the option for gloves and boots, but never got around to masks.

A close second would be Random Power Day. One day a month, for a few hours, maybe just on test server, activating a power would instead activate a random power of the same tier. Ie. You hit Unstoppable and drop a Gun Turret instead, or hit Headsplitter and Fulcrum Shift instead.

24 Hours to do whatever I want with Paragon Studios.. I guess I would issue a name purge. Any names that are attached to inactivate accounts that don't have globals, inactive trial accounts, and any acct that has not been consecutively active for the past 2 or more years will be released regardless of level of character that name is attached to.

Intiate a plan that dedicates an issue to nothing but bug fixes, no new content, just have the devs dedicate all their time and resources for one issue in fixing and eliminating bugs in the game. Also put a plan in that dedicates that one issue will have a complete overhaul of costume system.

I would redo the structure of the game to meet the modern standards of the New Age in which high quality graphical appearance and simply exquisite gameplay creates a creation of amusement in which many people would gain an exuberant amount of frivolous entertainment.

or sum crap lyk dat