Do the Devs remember Hero Corps?

[QUOTE=Olantern;3765022]Well, that's the best way to handle any faction, of any alignment, but limitations of the game design and writing time tend not to allow for it. Witness the fact that every single employee of the Crey Corporation is trained for combat and attacks heroes and allied factions on sight. (And more puzzlingly, since every project Crey works on is underhanded, meaning they get thwarted by our characters, what pays for all those forcefields and freeze rays? Does Countess Crey have an endless supply of gold? Maybe that's what she's keeping in that cave she hides in.)

An argument can be made that Crey Toons *should* have used the "neutral unless attacked" tech, but that tech didn't exist when the game launched.

It would be fun if Recluse fell from power in the Isles, and was replaced by a MOSTLY altruistic guy with Hero Corps on his payroll... and the Villains were new HC recruits who are doing work for the HC at the new guy's request.

Then you could yank back all the bloody arachnos stuff a bit and set up a more over arching story about the conflict between HC and Arachnos.

Count me in as someone who'd love to see something more developed with Hero Corps (or, at the very least, put the Hero Corps emblem as a costume piece for players.)

I think a "Crey Attacks!" themed issue could be awesome- revamp Crey's Folly and Eden, build up Hero Corps in the associated storyline, have some Crey related costume pieces, etc.

Doing some badge hunting today, and something struck me that I never really paid attention to before. One of the Disciple badge plaques talks about the protest against the Hero Corps building in Baumton:

A zombie posts a necro. How amusing.

Does Bruce Campbell end up fighting this thread? Or are we going with the classic "Eat the brains of the token minority person" first?

Geez- you guys act like this thread is so ancient. It was only 5 months ago; figured it was better to reactivate discussion in a topic where people had already expressed an interest in discussing it than to start a new thread.

In any event, I like the idea Scarlet Shocker alluded to above: some kind of storyline (Signature Arc?) wherein we explore the nature of Crey's involvement with Hero Corps- why they want to back them, what their plans are with them. Possibly the founders wanting to get out of a bad deal they made before doing the research.

The thread topic remains unresolved. I feel it's still relevant.

Hero Cops is one of the more interesting NPC factions in the game because it manages to walk the fine balance between morality and greed, yet still remain on the right side of the divide. Whether you like Hero Corps or not, their heroes for hire help protect the city, and that's nothing if not a good thing. An argument could be made about WHY these people protect the city and whether they can be trusted if someone else offered them more money, but this is a debate within the context of a working, helpful organisation.

Once upon a time, City of Heroes had subtlety and perhaps even philosophy in its writing. These days, it's all wars, gods, nuclear missiles and over-the-top shenanigans. I'd like to see some more of the old plot threads make a comeback and be explored in-depth.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.