Questions about Paragon City, the (virtual) place

All,

Has there been any official or unofficial count of Paragon City's population? I get the impression it's a rather large place with a population in the millions...I even want to say I saw/read something giving its population at 7M...however its real-life counterpart Providence only has a population of about 1.6M. 7M would put it in the neighborhood of New York City with its current pop at about 8.1M.

This leads me to my next question; how is Paragon City viewed on the world stage? There's always the thought of "New York, London, Paris," etc. when discussing the world's great cities, but perhaps on Primal Earth it's "New York, Paragon, London, Paris," etc. Let's face it, Paragon has the world's only crashed Rikti spaceship, is a major technology hub with the Crey Corporation and Portal Corp., not to mention Statesman, the Freedom Phalanx, and is known worldwide as the "City of Heroes"(tm).

I'd argue for those reasons alone Paragon would have a larger population than Providence, but maybe not as big as 7M. Anyone got some thoughts? Evidence?

In the Cohverse, I think Paragon replaces NYC in world importance.

What Golden Girl said. Paragon City supplanted New York. It isn't entirely clear that New York even exists - It might be named Empire City instead. It also isn't clear where the United Nations is headquartered since, by extension, Paragon City would have been the most reasonable place to put it given the history of "Primal Earth". Since we haven't yet been told otherwise, I suppose that we assume that the U.N. is in New York or its analog. It matters to the extent that it would be good to know where the Vanguard is headquartered when they aren't spending their time in the RWZ.

For that matter, we don't even really know what the state of the U.N. is in a post-Rikti-War world.

I'm pretty sure New York still exists and is still a major city, I think it was mentioned on the site's backstory page during the Rikti invasion as important enough to attack.

Given the overall lack of housing, though the common-ness of Apartments, I'd actually venture to say Paragon's ACTUAL population is small, but a lot of people work there regularly.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

Keep in mind what you see behind the War Walls is effectively 'outside' what the players know in Paragon, they're the designated safe zones, where 'stuff don't happen' and probably where the majority of the population live. They're not even the next zone, as you can see from the map there's a lot of city out there that doesn't require any hero/villain attention.

That or its a conspiracy where the parts we know of Paragon City aren't actually real and the War Walls are to keep the heroes in, the mobs are all actors who are paid to pretend to be 'defeated' (and teleport out when they do, why else do you think they disappear) all for the enjoyment of the rest of the world. It's a less deadly verison of the Running man TV show.

Heck server downtime is just them quickly switching in stuff, like when the Theme parks close for the winter for maintenance and building new rides.

Though there is still a bug in Peregrine that lets you get behind the war walls in Talos...there isn't much to see though, heck the buildings and ground aren't even solid!

A cartoon hero is a hero because we say he or she is. It's sort of like why Paladins in fantasy games can kill indiscriminately without losing their holy status. Word of god (the creators) is that these are heroic actions because the enemy can't be reasoned with. The situation is ridiculous, but the point is to give the good guys an excuse to fight warehouses full of relentless enemies.