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The Cyrus Thompson Memorial Community Center! (?)

Agent White

By Agent White,
Posted on: 2012-08-08 21:50 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Yeah, but Atlas was always meant to look new, shiny and be the 'heart of the city'. It just looked like [Pancake]. Some of the old buildings had no windows for crying out loud. I'm no architect, but old Atlas, just like Steel Canyon still does, made me go "Wait, what the hell, who built this thing?! Were the five?"
My main insists ICly that the urban planners and architects that drew up Paragon City were a bunch of absinthe fiends.

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My main insists ICly that the urban planners and architects that drew up Paragon City were a bunch of absinthe fiends.
It's a city designed by Bloody Stupid Johnson

 

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It's a city designed by Bloody Stupid Johnson
So, there aren't actually any arenas, just a re-purposed salad bowl set?

 

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Well, to remotely drift back on topic....

The building can't be entered and there's no story arcs or missions that go into it. On Beta this morning, The Net and Doc Aeon said there were apparently no plans to add interiors to it, and it's a direct homage to Smoke and Mirrors.

But wouldn't this building be the perfect place to have a new social space that isn't Pocket D? And it's meant to be a Community Center. I'll be writing up my support for the idea, and I'm curious to see what others think.



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Is the Jamaican coffeeshop "Mon Grounds" visible across the street from the center as it is in the comics? (ftp://ftp.coh.com/comics/topcow/comic_06.pdf p.25)

I also guess that Statesman won't be around to chat with Moodswing at the dedication, will he?
In case you're not joking, I believe it's Common Grounds.


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Oh that comic arc was awesome and I think it may have been at the heart of my addiction to this game.

 

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Kings Row and Brickstown are both missing the upgraded tress, rocks and grass that DA got - those make a big difference to the look of an old zone.
Yeah. They make them look plastic. They're imported fake trees from Praetoria, aka The Plastic City. I hate those trees. Atlas Park looks so fake with them all over the place.

DA's trees are better, because they retextured them. They didn't retexture anything for Atlas.

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Yeah. They make them look plastic. They're imported fake trees from Praetoria, aka The Plastic City. I hate those trees. Atlas Park looks so fake with them all over the place.

DA's trees are better, because they retextured them. They didn't retexture anything for Atlas.
Try it on low graphics settings, where the details don't fill in til you're closer. Bunch of neon green sculptures all over Atlas that poof into leafy things

 

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It's a city designed by Bloody Stupid Johnson
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So, there aren't actually any arenas, just a re-purposed salad bowl set?
Ohmigawd, IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!! O_O

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Is the Jamaican coffeeshop "Mon Grounds" visible across the street from the center as it is in the comics? (ftp://ftp.coh.com/comics/topcow/comic_06.pdf p.25)

I also guess that Statesman won't be around to chat with Moodswing at the dedication, will he?
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In case you're not joking, I believe it's Common Grounds.


Long ago and far away, prior to the Great Migration to these forums, there was agitation from the fans to have the Cyrus Thompson Community Center put in the game. Ultimately, Cyrus' statue made it ingame to the great pleasure of those fans who had agitated. Around that time, as I recall, I noted that in the comic, there was a business across the street from the Center called "Mon Grounds," whatever THAT was, and wondered with a wink if it, too, would be added to the game.

Troy Hickman responded and asserted that "Mon Grounds" was a Jamaican coffeeshop. Yes, we all realized it was an "I see what you did there" in the comic for Common Grounds, but the notion that what was presented was actually the full name of the business and that Mon Grounds was a Jamaican coffeeshop became a running gag itself, to wit:

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I now hang my head in shame. Looking through my notes, I cut the requisite vague reference to something Hickman. No reference to a Jamaican Coffeehouse... no Community center... no disturbing grandma (thank GOD)...
You're dead to me.
So there you go.

When Chase_Arcanum uses the gag, then the gag has a tremendous groundswell of popular support. When Troy Hickman uses the gag, it has become Canon.

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Steel Canyon needs big glass and steel walkways looming overhead, running between the buildings and around them like arteries. Neon signs and monolithic LCD displays beaming hot, delicious advertising and brand appeal up the towering skyscrapers. A sandwich, the lower slice of bread darkened and beset by clumps of mould and decay growing in the darkness, out of sight of law and order, a middle section full of bright lights showing the products and services you want to own and welcoming doorways beckoning in shoppers to spend their hard earned dollars, topped by an almost ethereal layer of bread where the rich dine and sup expensive coffee, and return to their penthouse suites with the occasional descent down to 'nature', parks in the surrounding area of the canyon which lack the chaos of nature for an almost plastic dream of strictly ordered and committee approved 'scenic beauty'.

Sky Raiders make their mark early, swooping low to break into high tech facilities lower areas or soaring high to plague the lockboxes and safes of the city-living wealthy. In the dark below the elemental powers of the Outcasts crackled, unbridled and raw.

Or something like that.

 

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a reinforced concrete façade and protective paining.
"This hurts me more than it hurts you, but it's to keep you safe." :P

 

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Steel Canyon needs big glass and steel walkways looming overhead, running between the buildings and around them like arteries. Neon signs and monolithic LCD displays beaming hot, delicious advertising and brand appeal up the towering skyscrapers. A sandwich, the lower slice of bread darkened and beset by clumps of mould and decay growing in the darkness, out of sight of law and order, a middle section full of bright lights showing the products and services you want to own and welcoming doorways beckoning in shoppers to spend their hard earned dollars, topped by an almost ethereal layer of bread where the rich dine and sup expensive coffee, and return to their penthouse suites with the occasional descent down to 'nature', parks in the surrounding area of the canyon which lack the chaos of nature for an almost plastic dream of strictly ordered and committee approved 'scenic beauty'.

Sky Raiders make their mark early, swooping low to break into high tech facilities lower areas or soaring high to plague the lockboxes and safes of the city-living wealthy. In the dark below the elemental powers of the Outcasts crackled, unbridled and raw.

Or something like that.
Positron should also delegate his research now that he's leading the Phalanx, and found Keyes Labs/Keyes Tech/Keyes Research as a science and tech themed mission hub in Steel Canyon, as a kind of balance to the more magic/natural themed mission hub we've already got at the university/Midnighter Club.
A white concrete, steel and glass building in a landscaped area would by good, with a similar function to the AE buildings, allowing players to go inside but still see the rest of the zone through the windows.

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"This hurts me more than it hurts you, but it's to keep you safe." :P
I don't even know what I was trying to say there "Protective paint," I think, but Lord knows why it came out like that.

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Sweet sassy molassey! I just got back from Vancouver, so I hadn't even seen this thread. Wow. So to where did they move the statue?

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My secret shame: illiteracy!

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My secret shame: illiteracy!
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But I do understand that there is an internet rule that any bad idea must be presented by someone at least twice a year to remind everyone who hasn't already read every previous thread on the topic precisely why the idea is bad.

 

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So...I'll ask...


Who is Cyrus Thompson?

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He was a retired hero in one of the old City of Heroes comic issues that was made into an Ouroboros storyarc. They had a memorial erected for him at the end of the comic arc and Manticore gave a speech.

 

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He was a retired hero in one of the old City of Heroes comic issues that was made into an Ouroboros storyarc. They had a memorial erected for him at the end of the comic arc and Manticore gave a speech.

Ah okay...I don't remember it in the comics but...*shrugs*

Thanks for the response

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So...I'll ask...


Who is Cyrus Thompson?
The Top Cow comics, issues 4-6 was a run called "Smoke and Mirrors" by Troy Hickman. It's widely considered to be the best of the TC storylines, and this is now the third time it's being honored in-game.

First was Twilight Son's arc being pretty much the player's chance to run through said arc heroside, then they added the statue of Cyrus Thompson outside the Kings Row tram, and now they've added the community center raised in his memory at the end of the comic.

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My secret shame: illiteracy!
Don't be so modest; we all know you have more than one.


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The Top Cow comics, issues 4-6 was a run called "Smoke and Mirrors" by Troy Hickman. It's widely considered to be the best of the TC storylines, and this is now the third time it's being honored in-game.

First was Twilight Son's arc being pretty much the player's chance to run through said arc heroside, then they added the statue of Cyrus Thompson outside the Kings Row tram, and now they've added the community center raised in his memory at the end of the comic.

You can download all the comics as PDFs here.

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Yep, as I mentioned before I don't remember it that's all.

I've read all the comics but that was...uh..5+ years ago heh.

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