Discussion: May Producers Letter

The talk about replacing old content, making it still available in Ouroboros, updating the beginning experience... Second Measure is giving us quite a bit of hints.

Primal Earth is getting a Mercy Island/Atlas Park/Galaxy City update, eh?

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I'm glad that low level zones/content are going to get some attention. If this is done, Atlas Park and Galaxy City should get the Ultra Mode upgrade for buildings, roads, parks, etc; make it appealing to go there.

Not keen on the Atlas Park/Galaxy City merge. I like them seperated, so long as both Atlas and Galaxy City gets some serious attention to more NPC contacts, repeatable mishes and maybe even zone events added.

Personally, I'd like to see Perez Park, Boomtown and Dark Astoria get the primary focus. They need help, period.

They could combine Atlas and Galaxy together IF they removed the AE building from Atlas as well, forcing the farmers to go to a different zone.

Atlas Park and Galaxy have unique environs and backstory to each of them that would be BETTER as separate zones than as one conglomerate mess. That's genuinely 'taking things out of the game'.

Leave them separate.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Whatever you do please don't screw over villian side like usual.

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... Can't say this wasn't expected, but it's still a tad disappointing.

My QOL thoughts on the early game of CoH:

1) Please make 1st Hollows contact David Wincott a popup contact like 1st Midnighter contact Montague Constanello (or whatever his name is). I am so incredibly sick of having to run to the Hollows just to blow through a "meet me" mission.

2) Please keep Architect Studio Manager from being your "you should talk to so-and-so" reference contact when your missions run out at your level. It's ridiculous.

3) Leave Perez Park alone. In all my time playing the game, I've never had reason to complain about that zone.

4) Revamp Boomtown and Dark Astoria. Those zones are just sad. Dark Astoria in particular has great story potential.

My QOL thoughts on the early game of CoV:

A) Give a choice of 2nd contacts in Mercy Island. Kalinda shouldn't force you to take Mongoose next, nor should Burke force you to take the Doc next. You should get a choice instead.

B) Really, really don't like secret contacts, nor do I care much to explore the city on my own. I played CoV for almost a year before finding out about the ghost traps missions in the NE area of Port Oakes, where I never had any reason to go and find that out.

C) Add some "Defeat X of this villain group" missions to the missions offered by contacts, especially in Mercy Island, but elsewhere, too. One of the nice things about CoH is that by singling out villain groups, CoH allows you to familiarize yourself with your enemies and form opinions of them as distinct groups, whereas in CoV, it's more like, "Here's some spawns. Rt-click and read the text if you care what they're about."

And here's a QOL issue that applies to both sides:

PUT TASK FORCE CONTACTS ON THE MAP!!! I SO hate looking for TF contacts!

P.S.: I would actually like to see "Defeat X of this villain group" missions added to the Newspaper and Police Band missions. Maybe they could count only halfway or a third of the way toward a bank mission credit, just so they're not exploited?

The thing that bugs me about the new-style zones in CoH (I'm talking I3 and later) is how linear they are. You have to see contact 1 to get contact 2, contact 2 to get contact 3, etc, and practically everything is zone-contained. So it's not like, "Which contacts will I do now?" but instead, "Will I do this zone or not?" If you're not going to do ALL of the Hollows, then never mind the Hollows. If you're not going to do ALL of Croatoa, then never mind Croatoa. And the same goes for Striga Isle, Faultline, the Rikti Crash Site, and pretty much all the City of Villains Zones that I've seen so far.

Another thing that bugs me about CoV is that having to do 3-5 Newspaper missions before you can get a story contact sometimes means you level up past your contacts before you even get a chance to do their arcs. (Maybe this has been remedied already?) Also, the contacts are all single-story-arc -- no mission choices. I'd love to have more variety from the story contacts -- story arcs mixed with one-off content and "Defeat X" missions, just like in CoH.

For pity's sake, offer an option to ignore a contact so they don't crop up every time an NPC suggests our characters should talk to someone (the AE Studio Manager and Levantera are the worst offenders).

Also, seconding NewScrapper's request to make David Wincott a popup contact.

You do know you can talk to David Wincott and start his missions even if you aren't introduced?