December 21 apocalypse event

The December 21th is a good opportunity for an apocalyptic event. I suggest the Rapture theme, where true Christians take off to the sky, while the rest are left behind facing Tribulation.

Pre-Rapture
Since this is City of Heroes and not a church, I suggest that badge count is a proper way to determine if someone is ready for the Rapture. There will be some special alignment-like missions where players can choose to either lower or raise the probability to be raptured (serve Jesus or anti-Christ). The exact requirement for Rapture Ready is secret.

The Rapture
If you are Rapture Ready and logged in when it occur, you will take off to the sky. You will see the world from above, and you will be accompanied by a trail of pure light, maybe a light blue alpha aura.

The Tribulation
Those who are left behind will face the Tribulation. Current zone events like Zombies, Super naturals, Rikti and Nemesis will be common, giant monsters and arch villains will roam zones where they aren’t expected. Maybe some super unique invasion, like the Mako event.

Heaven
Saved characters will have access to a heaven zone. An entirely new zone is probably out of the scope for an event, but I think some of Shadow Shard with a different sky color can work. Doing certain missions in heaven can yield interesting rewards. Some ideas:

* A temporary power: exorcise demon (heal ally, clear status effects).
* Confederate flag costume pieces
* Death emotes (unsaved people might have access to it later)
* Emotes: readbible, preach

What x the **** squared.

For all those Mayan Christians out there?

No thanks, sounds like something you should role play.

Edit: Sorry. That may be a bit harsh. Why would you choose the end of the Mayan calander for a Christian fable event though? I am not against any belief system, but keep them out of the game please. Too much possibility for buthurtidity.

Yeah, WAY too religious in theme. It's just going to end up offending certain people. (Not just the people who have to do the "Tribulation" either.)

Also, I do believe that myth was debunked, that the Mayan calendar doesn't end on December 21?

Would this event conflict with the Winter Event that will most likely be running on this day?

Also...

Keep your religion out of my game please, thanks.

The premise of "hey, let's do an end-of-the-world event" is solid. The date has been a big deal in pop culture and news for the past year or so; poking fun at it could be, well, fun. The close proximity to Christmas is a bit of a worry, though; won't the winter event presumably already be running at that point?

The idea of tying it to any currently-practiced real-world religion's end-of-the-world myth is a recipe for disaster. Maybe they could get away with some form of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse or something since that's such an anthropomorphized "end" that could be easily turned into characters for our heroes to fight (as many superhero properties have already done) or Ragnarok since that's a largely-dead belief system and nobody would have to worry about offending anyone by injecting subjective, judgmental and exclusionary language like "true Christians" into a friggin' video game -- one enjoyed by people of many faiths, and many of no faiths at all.

Maybe it could be tied into existing, in-game mythologies like, say, Mot and the Banished Pantheon. I could definitely see an "end times" event being a good fit in Dark Astoria.

What the ever-loving frell?

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I think it's a very Avant Garde Idea that must immediately be placed where it rightfully belongs. It must be filed in the Circular File post haste!

Ok. On a less Ironic tone, this idea has about as much chance to fly as a lead brick. Too many specific religion connotations. Nothing to do with the Mayan calendar's supposed "end of the world".

So, uhm... no.

As someone who grew up in Georgia, lemme explain the Confederate costume thing. The asssumption is that only "ignorant Southern Baptists who believe in the Rapture and the soon-arriving return of the Glorious Confederacy."

Also, methinks (hopes) this suggestion was made hugely tongue in cheek. If not, get the pancake out of my game, please.

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Originally Posted by EarthWyrm 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.

We're calling it i25.

I always find it hilarious how many people take threads like this seriously.

How about an Oro event. Something timey whimey happens.

Well, I'm not forcing religion on anyone. It is the great deal in pop culture that inspire me for using/celebrating the day in some way.
I don't believe in the Rapture, I just find it a good catchy story.

I like Doctor Roswell's idea about using in-game mythology instead. Or maybe use something related to "the Coming Storm".

This seems too early for a weekend thread

As for big events for December, with the way they've been pacing the recent Issues, we should be starting to get some info on I25 and the Battalion by then

I think having a mini-event of an apocalypse of some kind with a CoH slant on it (something a bit campy) would be amusing, but yeah, any religion mixed in with an MMO like this would be a bad idea.