What will you miss from Galaxy City?
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Posted on: 2011-07-17 12:37 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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That only worked with PDP and the Rikti Crash Site. Since then they have implemented a auto teleport feature for changed zones. Just like at the Chalet after winter event is done. You appear in the old zone for a few seconds and then are teleported to a different location.
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Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
On another note and maybe I shouldn't mention this - When Paragon Dance Party was removed from the game, and then replaced by Pocket D, there were people who had logged out of the game inside of Paragon Dance Party.
As it happened, when those players went back and logged in those characters, they discovered that they were STILL in Paragon Dance Party. The zone existed still. The doors leading in were just all closed, so to speak. Anyone who wants to keep access to Galaxy City over and above whatever access might be available from Ororbouros, might do well to create a character whose only purpose is to "live there" past the launch of Freedom. |
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All of it, almost every hero side toon I have on Pinnacle started their career there.
Was even a little miffed one timr when somebody refered to GC as Garbage Can
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I am wondering though where M.A.G.I. is going to keep it's vault now. Not that they kept anything in it but Azuria needs somebody to blame.
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Originally Posted by Benchpresser
Well said- personally I vote for Brickstown. I mean really, who uses that zone except for the Manti TF and that is BORING!
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I always liked "Lion Plaza". I chased quite a few punks through here. That parking garage behind it is the site of a number of battles from my "signature" Hero's early career.
I'll miss eavesdropping on the Vahzilok surgeons - "The freshest meat is right by the Brawler fellow." "If you want real choice limbs, do go check out that Brawler fellow. The youngest ones tend to flock to him."
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Maybe they'll still keep it there - once it gets totalled, you now have to dig through rubble to get anything out of it...|
Originally Posted by Mandu
I am wondering though where M.A.G.I. is going to keep it's vault now. Not that they kept anything in it but Azuria needs somebody to blame.
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Or not.
I imagine the FC people will now end up in City Hall along with their AP counterparts (might be nice to see City Hall a bit 'busier', with more contacts in there you can talk to).
Something else I'm curious about... how they're going to close off GC from the other zones (Perez Park and Kings Row). I think it'd look fricking AWESOME to have the car tunnel collapsed with a mob of cops and medics and civilians milling around for Kings Row (a la the Sutter TF when you go down into the tunnels under Talos).
And those HUMONGOUS security doors going in and out of the hazard zones? GC is now closed off with a detail of armed guards.
Even more heartbreaking would be to put the background sound effect of battle and sirens and panic (the way you hear bowling sounds near the Alleys or sirens as you run past the PPD, etc).
If the zone's gotta go, make it REAL that it went.
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That would be perfect.
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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
And those HUMONGOUS security doors going in and out of the hazard zones? GC is now closed off with a detail of armed guards.
Even more heartbreaking would be to put the background sound effect of battle and sirens and panic (the way you hear bowling sounds near the Alleys or sirens as you run past the PPD, etc). If the zone's gotta go, make it REAL that it went. Michelle aka Samuraiko/Dark_Respite |
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Sad. I have been playing for years (I did have a different account) and I think the only time Im ever in galaxy is when I need a respec, or during a TF.
Seriously...I just never end up there.
It has Eidolons. A good exposure to super powered beings at low levels rather than just thugs and robots.
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Everything.
On Virtue, before the PDP and Pocket D, the place RPers used to gather was Galaxy Park. Galaxy City was where the RPers would start, you could get lowbie teams with people playing IC, and then head to the park for RP with others. A lot of my high-level character spent time "cleaning" the park so that lowbie RPers could get there without fear.
Atlas was so noisy, so crowded, so annoying, so full of constant SEWER TEAM FORMING! - I started one character there and then never again. I have started every one of my character that wasn't a villain or a Praetorian in Galaxy City, and BAB is my favorite trainer. I make sure I train every 50 with him, just like (almost) every level 2 trained with him.
Galaxy is one of the nicest zones in the game, and the one I knew best for years, back when leveling was hard and I ended up with LOTS of lowbies and only a few characters straggling over the 30s hump. I'm going to miss that place 
Grumble, grumble.
There's plenty of space on the city map between the zones we know for a whole new tutorial area. There's no need to destroy Galaxy City. Why do it, anyway? Shock value? Bah. I would once again advocate destroying Atlas Park, but upon reflection all that would likely accomplish would be to turn Galaxy City into Atlas Park II.
Grumble, grumble.
I'm not keen on losing Outbreak, either. I take screenies of all my new heroes with Flower Knight. It's become a TRADITION. I'm sure there are others who would like to keep Breakout as well. Why the heck can't the devs keep *both* of those starting areas in game and just *add* this new one so we can CHOOSE which one we want to start in... and keep Galaxy City, too!
Grumble, grumble.
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So to you, female = passive? |
Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
male-female, active-passive.
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Yin is represented by a tiger if I recall, so "passive" in a stalking predator sort of way...|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
So to you, female = passive?
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Back on topic though I'm not a big Galaxy goer, so other then low level badging there I'm not going to be very broken up. But removing it seems ill-concieved if CoHF increases the player base as hoped. There is bound to be some of the incoming player base that would like a less frenzied environment and with a numbers boost there would be enough people there to justify the zone for them. Since they are changing the building look of Atlas, they could easily justify both zones being attacked and rebuilt to explain why the look of things suddenly gets altered.
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Going to miss the Galaxy Girl Statue, this City was rename after Galaxy Girl when she died in the Rikti War, kind of felt like She Dieting again. This Statue might be as tall as the Atlas Statue is, kind of going to be down about seeing this Statue go always.
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They Can't Destroy Atlas Since what heard thx to the leaking of Information is that they Revamping Atlas and Mercy island. I really don't like Outbreak, never had, I don't like tradition and junk like that.|
Originally Posted by Flarstux
Grumble, grumble.
There's plenty of space on the city map between the zones we know for a whole new tutorial area. There's no need to destroy Galaxy City. Why do it, anyway? Shock value? Bah. I would once again advocate destroying Atlas Park, but upon reflection all that would likely accomplish would be to turn Galaxy City into Atlas Park II. Grumble, grumble. I'm not keen on losing Outbreak, either. I take screenies of all my new heroes with Flower Knight. It's become a TRADITION. I'm sure there are others who would like to keep Breakout as well. Why the heck can't the devs keep *both* of those starting areas in game and just *add* this new one so we can CHOOSE which one we want to start in... and keep Galaxy City, too! Grumble, grumble. |
I believe in Change, change is good, I am sure they not removing Galaxy City form the game all together, i am sure we will see it as an Hazard Zone in the Future.
Trust me Friend this is a good thing, don't be Scared of Change, Who no's we might get Access to Galaxy again maybe in Ourobos or a Flashback mish, i guess we just have to wait to find out.
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I think I'll mostly miss my Christmas Event collection loop. I got Toy Collector on several characters there (at least 1 per winter event).
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
Yeah, I know, Issue 21's a ways away.
And "Galaxy city's dead!" - but, y'know, some of us do like it. And sure, it'll be available in Ouro.... but it's just not the same, somehow. So what, if anything, will you miss when Galaxy City's gone? |
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This is why Americans always destroy their grand old houses and have very little connection to their own history. If they are gonna put Galaxy City in the Ouroboros they better do it up right with multiple missions into the history of the city in which we can meet many bygone heroes of yesteryear or there is no point.
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Originally Posted by GreenFIame
I don't like tradition and junk like that.
I believe in Change, change is good, Trust me Friend this is a good thing, don't be Scared of Change, Who no's we might get Access to Galaxy again maybe in Ourobos or a Flashback mish, i guess we just have to wait to find out. |
I think that maybe not all of the contacts will make it out alive from the Freedom Corps building - which would be another way of making the destruction more dramatic, and explain away the removal of the Galaxy contacts 
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It's just going to be an "echo" zone - it might not even have any NPCs in it.
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Originally Posted by Irresponsible
If they are gonna put Galaxy City in the Ouroboros they better do it up right with multiple missions into the history of the city in which we can meet many bygone heroes of yesteryear or there is no point.
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Smashing Galaxy City will actually free up BAB for a more active role - he'll still be the only member of the Freedom Phalanx without a TF, but by not being tied to a zone, he could pop up all around the city in lower level content, and really get fleshed out a lot more - he could become a semi-mentor for Hero players, as they'll meet with him in the new tutorial, so it'd be nice to run into him again later on in your career.
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BaB isn't a member of the Phalanx. I don't see him taking on a task force unless they decide to add one in King's Row.|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Smashing Galaxy City will actually free up BAB for a more active role - he'll still be the only member of the Freedom Phalanx without a TF, but by not being tied to a zone, he could pop up all around the city in lower level content, and really get fleshed out a lot more - he could become a semi-mentor for Hero players, as they'll meet with him in the new tutorial, so it'd be nice to run into him again later on in your career.
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Funny pic.
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Yes he is |
Originally Posted by SlickRiptide
BaB isn't a member of the Phalanx.
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That's just the thing, though - Galaxy City may be redundant from a strictly mechanical viewpoint like the one espoused above. The people that prefer it fall into two categories. One is the group represented here who say "I like that it was quieter". The other is the group like MemphisBill and myself who say "I liked the CONTENT."
To people like MrNotorion who say "What content? It's like Atlas Park but harder to get a group." I say "the story, the design, the ambience". If you're an Achiever-type and you don't see any of those things or at least fail to see the value of them then I can only shrug and agree that Atlas Park IS the right place for you to be. Go play the Yang and leave our Yin alone.