Time to Blow Up the Trains


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I've been riding the darn train for seven years in my spandex. I look ridiculous. Every time I stand there waiting for the train to arrive I hear people laughing and wondering aloud why I just don't fly.

It's time to blow up the T's and put in...

...public teleport pads!


 

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If it bothers you that the other passengers laugh at you for not taking a travel power, have you considered changing into your civvies when you need to ride? Heck, if it's the standard Spandex hero tights, you could just throw on a pair of jeans and a sweater over top of it - takes all of ten seconds; you can duck into a bathroom stall and do it while you're waiting for the train to arrive. They take up literally zero space in your salvage inventory too, since you can't make inventions out of them.


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If it bothers you that the other passengers laugh at you for not taking a travel power, have you considered changing into your civvies when you need to ride? Heck, if it's the standard Spandex hero tights, you could just throw on a pair of jeans and a sweater over top of it - takes all of ten seconds; you can duck into a bathroom stall and do it while you're waiting for the train to arrive. They take up literally zero space in your salvage inventory too, since you can't make inventions out of them.
But I took a travel power and still have to take the tram!

And I fly!


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Go-Go Justice Mass Transit!


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But I took a travel power and still have to take the tram!

And I fly!
No you don't.

You can use the Security gates, Tunnels (Like Atlas Park to Steel Canyon), the Sewers, RWZ, Pocket D, Ouro Portal, the Went/BM teleport, Helicopters (if villain), an SG teleporter, or the Midnighters Club.

You choose to use the train. You aren't forced to use it.


 

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Go-Go Justice Mass Transit!


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But I took a travel power and still have to take the tram!

And I fly!
Yeah. My bird-brains know that feeling.
Particularly the ones who spent time in Praetoria.

"Wait... What do you mean I can't just fly over the #$^%*& wall?! The top's RIGHT THERE. It's not even as high as the tops of the buildings! ... So, I can't get to the top of the buildings either... What kind'a lousy two-bit universe is this?"


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No you don't.

You can use the Security gates, Tunnels (Like Atlas Park to Steel Canyon), the Sewers, RWZ, Pocket D, Ouro Portal, the Went/BM teleport, Helicopters (if villain), an SG teleporter, or the Midnighters Club.

You choose to use the train. You aren't forced to use it.
This is true. And I do make use of them! But that still leaves my flier not flying everywhere


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Well, I'm pretty sure the Galaxy City station will be destroyed - that's a start
Hmmm...what does this do for all those people who's starting contact was in GC?

Does getting rid of a zone break a cottage rule? If so, can we break more of them?

The poor WS! They're contact will likely be moved to AP.

I feel the need to make another character who starts in GC, but what?! I prefere Corrs to Defenders, Doms to Trollers...

Hmmm...lead my main and namesake into a new secret identity, then rename my global and forum name...do all that (when of course I restart again when Time Manipulation comes out)...and complain about the loss of my starting zone contact and skittle provider!

<_<

I'm liking this idea!

>_>

Hmmm...KIN/DP maybe...


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The very WORST system for fast travel that a game can employ, from a purely aesthetic standpoint, is teleporters. As any Star Trek fan will tell you, cool as teleportation may be, it's always the CHEAPER option to more elaborate travel systems, like a shuttle lander, a train or an elevator. Anything that requires specific graphics, a specific location, its own building and has moving parts is a vastly more expensive amenity in terms of art team resources, and also a vastly more interesting thing to behold and use.

I tell you - the very WORST thing to ever happen to the Shadow Shard is the cop-out teleporters, where they just slapped a few copy-pased stargates and put a small, dinky glowy thingy in the zones to return back from. It's both bad because it looks like complete garbage and because it essentially signed the death warrant of the Mole Points system, which had its own storyline, its own locations, its own interiors and geometry and its own sense of immersion.

The last thing I want to see happen to City of Heroes is to swap the frankly very interesting train stations for Base Portal Jr.


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The very WORST system for fast travel that a game can employ, from a purely aesthetic standpoint, is teleporters. As any Star Trek fan will tell you, cool as teleportation may be, it's always the CHEAPER option to more elaborate travel systems, like a shuttle lander, a train or an elevator. Anything that requires specific graphics, a specific location, its own building and has moving parts is a vastly more expensive amenity in terms of art team resources, and also a vastly more interesting thing to behold and use.

I tell you - the very WORST thing to ever happen to the Shadow Shard is the cop-out teleporters, where they just slapped a few copy-pased stargates and put a small, dinky glowy thingy in the zones to return back from. It's both bad because it looks like complete garbage and because it essentially signed the death warrant of the Mole Points system, which had its own storyline, its own locations, its own interiors and geometry and its own sense of immersion.

The last thing I want to see happen to City of Heroes is to swap the frankly very interesting train stations for Base Portal Jr.
YMMV but I don't find the train system all that interesting, since you can't actually see yourself (or anyone else for that matter) on said train. There would be no difference technically from the current trains or a teleporter.


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All the more reason for them to someday get rid of the walls or the forcefield part above them so you can fly over them.


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We need war walls down, trains down and telepad for supers to every zone.


 

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We need war walls down, trains down and telepad for supers to every zone.
War Walls down? Yes!

Trains down? I'm not so sure about this. They work just like a telepad would. And they make since to have in a city. However, a lot of heroes would tend to have their own means of travel, rather than public transit.

I'd keep the trams, get rid of the walls, and let the bases be the telepad hub for heroes.


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There would be no difference technically from the current trains or a teleporter.
Except train stations are real locations, they look like buildings, they occupy a plot of land, they have moving parts and while you can't see yourself riding them, they do show you the interior of the vehicle just the same.

Teleporters like I've seen them practically anywhere else in the game - Vanguard, SG Base, Shadow Shard cop-out teleporters - have non of those characteristics. They're only a step removed from plopping an NPC down on a street corner whom you can pay to loading-screen you to another location like in Lineage II. And I HATE that. I hate NPC vendors standing on street corners, I hate contacts distributed randomly to alleys and below underpasses, I hate "cheap" solutions to problems when it's obvious how cheap they were. Remember the SO vendors standing in Fort Darwin from CoV Beta? Yeah, obvious placeholder.

If you REALLY want to replace train stations with teleporters, you have to replace them with Teleporter STATIONS at least on the order of magnitude of the underground Portal Corporation gateways. Something big, something which is its own building, and something that looks like it's an actual, believable part of the city built for lore reasons. I DO NOT want to see a dinky "pillar of purple swirly" that I can click on and travel to any zone.


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We need war walls down
Sure great idea.

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We need trains down and telepad for supers to every zone.
Nope. Telepads to every zone already exists in the game. Players just need to stop whining long enough to unlock them in an SG and use them.

In addition to the already existing SG telepads there are over a half dozen alternative ways to travel to zones.