Summer Event?

As much fun as our Halloween, Winter and Spring events are, checking the calendar reveals a rather large event gap during those warm months of summer. So how about a proposal for a Summer Event? It could be held on the sunny beaches of Cimerora via Pocket D, much like the Ski Chalet. I suppose instead of ski slaloms we could have water-skiing and swimming races, and it'd be a beach cabana instead of a ski chalet. Anyone else have any ideas along this line?

K

There should be a tropical beach area of Pocket D

Besides the mandatory fireworks, bonfires are traditional for Midsummer festivals. One fairly widespread custom is jumping over them for good luck, so a speed trial of a kind could be created around that ("jump over X bonfires Y times").

Event Salvage: Cocktail Umbrellas

Costume pieces: Scuba tank, snorkels, board shorts, Hawaiian shirts, sandals, onepiece swimsuits.

Emotes: Sand castle building

funny enough, long ago I had actually made a thread like this, the best suggestions added were:

- A Big Red Ball on the beach that players could kick around.

- NO SNAPTOOTH

- Water pistol, water rifle, and water balloon temp powers (does nothing, but maybe they could deal bonus damage against fires?)

What kind of missions could you have for this? Well, one person also proposed heroes and villains could team up... To stop the Tarantula Mistress Bikini contest and force Black Scorpion and Wretch to wear something more than a speedo.

To make it even better, unlike most holiday events, we could have plenty signature characters hanging around in a non-canonical manner just enjoying themselves. The Freedom Phalanx Vs. Arachnos... IN VOLLEYBALL!

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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.

There could be surfing contests (hoverboards seem to have a viable animation for that) and Frisbee (or as catching it would be difficult, how about kite flying). We could use our cocktail umbrella salvage to buy neat costume pieces like sarongs to wear over our bikinis (sort of like the steampunk skirts, only maybe shorter and turned/tied to the side) and floppy straw sun hats. Ooh, and garish "Hawaiian shirts" and big flower leis, maybe water wings or something silly instead of the rock or lump of coal.

We could get a "summon lifeguard" temp power (like build snowbeast, or maybe a build sandbeast), and the summer mission could be to stop [insert villain] from ruining the beach party or save lifeguards from some summer horror. The villains could be evil sand monsters (like shivans maybe, only sandy), with the eb/av being some kind of uber sandmonster, and the mission could take place in a sand castle. Or it could be some kind of water event, with villain fishes, and the eb/av could be a monster murderous shark who's killing all the summer surfers and swimmers thus ruining summer fun for everyone in the new beachy-summer zone (or just drag Lusca over and have a water battle between Lusca and the summer shark thing ala Jack in Irons and Eochai, while teams and / or leagues take them both down). Or the villains could be winter event villains who want to bring perma-winter to Paragon City, the Rogue Isles, and Praetoria. We have to track them down by following their evil trail of frozen waterways, perhaps shining our summer sun on them to thaw them all out. Okay, getting sillier by the minute, but I do love the idea of a summer event.

Arachnos in bikinis!

Fortunata: "Hey jerk! My face is up here!"

Ogler: "Uhhh...no it isn't."

Fortunata: "...stupid 'must wear helmet at all times' regulation..."

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Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel The Freedom Phalanx Vs. Arachnos... IN VOLLEYBALL!

Your mission: plant a bomb in the ball. Your moral choice: which side of the net do you set it to go off on?

How about Snaptooth (in shorts and hawaian shirt) just lying in the sun and telling approaching players to get lost and not disturb him during his time off?

@Redcap

There should be some kind of summer time Founders Day event for Paragon City.
With all the trappings of the 4th of July, but none of the national specificity.

And of course, villains would be on hand to put a damper on festivities.

While heroes are celebrating the founding of the Birthplace of Tomorrow, villains in the Isles mark the anniversary of when the evil Dr. [insert name here] crashed the festivities in 1976 and made the entire Freedom Phalanx look like fools by using the celebration to mask a series of daring high technology robberies and a diamond heist. [insert name here] got away scott free with millions, thus proving that sometimes crime does pay.



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I want to hit/kick a big red ball around, please Devs please please please.

Temp power for villians: Kick Sand - a limited use (charges or timed) single target, or narrow cone, disorient power.

Temp power for heroes: Bottle of Sunscreen - a limited use (charges or timed) single target ally defense buff vs. energy and fire damage.

How about a soapbox derby? Crafted out of clockwork gears (wheels), hydraulic pistons (axles), ceramic armor plates (better than a cardboard box for safety)... we can even go for Soapbox Death Race 2000! Or recreate the Fast and the Furious by having teams of really hot /kins in bikinis speedboosting the derby cars as they go by...

Being able to actually SAIL out on the water! We've got all those speedboats... set up a buoy circuit and let us race! "Hundreds gathered today by the docks of Talos Island to witness the beginning of the first Paragon Cup, as crews race the circuit across Paragon Bay..."

Praetoria can get in on the event with a crew team... make going for the River badges much more entertaining...

Clambakes on the beach (the normal kind, not the type you have in an enclosed car)... Kheldians may wish to remain in human form.

New travel power: Sack Hopping

New tailor look: Sunburn

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite