do you want to spend more time in the streets?

I still,streetsweep sometimes. Just killing time or nostalgia.

Something they could implement (maybe it was suggested) was random occurences of costumed villains (or heroes for redside) in the middle of a crime in the streets.

Keep it AV level, so big teams aren't needed. No announcement. Just reasons to patrol the streets.

I would not mind having more reason to be on the streets. Right now though instance missions are just more efficient.

I wish they had the tech to allow GMs to do some destruction to the city when they appear. That and increase the rewards for defeating them. Not a merit or xp increase, but an inf increase. Because stopping something that is actively causing property damage, and stepping on people is going to make a hero pretty famous.

Accept that inf = popularity, or call it cash. I really wish they had just called it cash.

/signed for more Zone Events.

The Rikti Mothership is still the pinnacle of open-access group content with minimal preparation and maximum fulfillment.

I definitely want to spend more time in the overworld doing stuff. I wrote a couple of very lengthy posts about this subject in prior topics:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...6&postcount=10

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...&postcount=115


They're kind of huge, though.

I would like to see more outdoor events, but no more phasing, unless it's in a new zone. Reason? it's been stated that phasing breaks invasion/zone events. Atlas park will never be attacked by Rikti or Zombies again. The Nemesis spawning there while Redname!nemesis gloats? Manually spawned by the devs. I mean sure, it's kinda nice that AP and Mercy are safer now, since the lowbies looking for a DFB don't have to worry about 'Suddenly, Rikti, thousands of them!', but expanding that would be a bad idea.

That siad, i'm all for more Zone events, I've never really done any of the praetoria events, but stuff like giant monsters or breakins or whatever could be interesting.

I mean we have the Troll Rave in Skyway...why not a Freakshow Riot in Talos? A prison breakout in Brickstown? A Family Gang War in IP? Actual events with rewards attached to them like badges, emotes or even on the upper end, costume pieces?

To have the game zone come alive, I'd add a few more buildings that are in zone which you can enter. And then use those buildings in real-time safeguard missions. Have a pawn shop that can get held up, a bank that can get robbed, science experiment breaking out, etc.. Then provide temporary powers, boosts, and other lasting tokens as a reward - something besides influence and experience.

Give something more to do in city zones, inside buildings. Make it a living, dynamic city. And lower the penalty for street sweeping.

I've always wanted a zone event in Brickstown regarding the Zig. Here's my idea about it:

1. Announcement goes out.
2. Breakout commences. Inmates spawn in the walled area of the Zig, and are invasion coded, so they con at your level. The grounds need to be cleared. Whether this is timed or not, I'm not sure.
3. Once the ground is cleared, the doors to the Zig "open" to an instanced mission similar to the Winter Lord, where multiple players can enter.

Once inside the Zig, I envision an indoor map with several options. Maybe one group needs to get the security system online, while another group has to take down the ringleader of the breakout/riot. Maybe there are guards to be saved. Maybe Arachnos has managed to smuggle Agent Jenkins in to free a Destined One?

What would be really cool is if the coding is similar to the mayhem mission side objectives; such that the objectives are determined randomly from a set amount of possibilities. Thus, it could make each play though a little different than the one before.

That said, I still do enjoy street sweeps, and usually will participate in zone events if I am in that zone. The exception? I've avoided Nemesis events except on my badgers. Multiple stacks of Vengeance is not fun to fight against.

I've started doing a lot more street sweeping lately, but I'm not sure if it's just because I don't want to do the content or if it's just because sometimes just running in a straight line and clobbering everything in your path is just fun.

(I don't really play for the rewards, so that has pretty much no impact on what I play at any given moment.)

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Heh, if I wanna street sweep for fun, I'll take one of my 50s into AP and start AOEing everything in sight.

I want less time spent in the streets. I dislike any hunt X mission, and would be absolutely mortified if they added "hunt <specific critter X>" missions as was suggested early in this thread. I prefer instanced missions in pretty much every way.

I do not enjoy street sweeping, because spawn sizes and levels are not controllable the way mission settings are. Once upon a time, the reason I swept the streets was because we couldn't find consistently large spawns or over-level critters in our missions - street sweeping was the only place some of us could seriously challenge our characters. That's long since changed, and now missions are far better at offering controlled difficulty than street sweeping ever was.

More zone events of various sorts are fine with me, and I don't consider them at all similar to street sweeping. Such events are typically something you can join or not, and tend not to relate to your progress through any arc or mission. (I would consider any mission or arc requiring you to participate in a zone event anathema.)

Heh. I just thought of an idea for a Praetorian Event for I24. Random (Praetorian) Zone Devouring Earth invasions using the mechanics of the Rikti/Zombie/Nemesis invasions.

I like to street sweep when I'm solo. In part it's because I have fond memories of certain areas of every zone and figuring out the best places to hunt in the issue 0 days before missions gave anything like decent XP, but also in part because being on patrol is something that super-heroes do.

I like to drive-by buff when I'm on a toon capable of doing so. Heck, I'll at least fire off my mystic fortune no matter which toon I'm playing. I like the random interaction with other players outside of a team. I'll even take my /Kin or /Cold or /Emp and find high traffic areas like the Black Market in CaD or the Portal Corporation courtyard and just buff for the fun of it. Every once in a while, I even manage to save somebody from defeat that way.

I'd love to see more incentives to stay out in the public areas of the game, especially in underutilized zones like Brickstown, IP or Boomtown.

I sort of like the "bounty" idea. Perhaps it could be implemented with an XP or inf incentive? "Your police scanner squawks: Be advised that S0n1c800|\/| is rampaging in Mera Heights with a large group of Freakshow. Until he is apprehended, consider him and his crew public enemy #1!" Let the named guy spawn as a zone-appropriate, high hit-points EB and offer, say, 50% extra XP or Inf for defeats from the EB's faction until he's brought to justice.
Basically we'd get something like a non-instanced safeguard mission with a reasonably tough opponent and more of a sense that the non-instanced zones are living worlds.