What did you add?

I was partially responsible for Regen getting regen debuff resistance and Resilience's damage resistance spread across all types.

I also named the Targeted AoE set we would have gotten in i24.

I might have had something to do with Spines getting a buff in i24 as well.

That's all I'm aware of.

I can't really brag about having accomplished anything, for as many posts as I have. About the only thing I can take solace in is holding the game's writing to task and letting nothing slide unwarranted, without going whole hog and just announcing the game's story to be garbage like others have. I've always felt like City of Heroes could be a great epic if only our writers would stop trying to shock us and just told basic, solid stories.

And to be honest, for as pissed off as I was I18-I21, a lot of what's taken part in I22 and I23, and what I've seen of I24 made me excited for the future. It finally seemed like our writers "got" it and started putting as much care and attention into the game's narrative as they did in mission scripting and costume design. But even at its worst, City of Heroes still had a better story than damn near any other MMO I've seen.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Now that I think of it, I was one of several players instrumental in getting the taunt duration on ported sets for tankers fixed.

Now that Fitness is inherent, Willpower is a lot less attractive for tankers than it used to be. I wonder if there was ever any plan to remove the aggro penalty from Willpower.

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"At what point do we say, 'You're mucking with our myths'?" - Harlan Ellison

There have been a lot of things I've suggested that made it into the game either directly or indirectly. Since there were far more I suggested that never saw the light of day, and since I was never doing it for credit in the first place, I've largely forgotten what they were.

I'll take credit for originally suggesting the brain jar and bubble helmet though. Way back in Sexy Jay's original costume request thread.

Back in 2008(When I use to almost live on this game) I got a gig as a City of heroes correspondent for MMORPG.com. I was only able to write one article, because not long after I got news of my wife being pregnant and a new job was on the horizon.

I had some great advanced aarticles set up about COH/V, but alas it wasn't meant to be..

It felt so good to be a correspondent and enriching the world of the existence and thriving community.

Here is a link to the site: http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/3/feature/2112

To the best of my knowledge, not a damn thing.

All my contributions were out of game, although when they did the poster contest and someone snuck me in as the director on their poster, to see myself immortalized in-game was a tremendously satisfying experience.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

That I'm aware of?

Graphics changes.

LONG fight to get Sonic Dispersion shield graphics changed (and not just me, I just made it a point to keep making noise about it) so that people wouldn't quit playing because it kicked their migranes off.

And a short thread, by comparison, that was immediately picked up on by Tunnel Rat when Barrier looked to be doing the same thing.

Though I still get warm fuzzies when I think of having a redname thank me for writing the AE tutorials (still in guides... probably fairly out of date) while that was in beta.

See my Guides and Tutorials

I suggested that buff icons blink or fade just before they end as a kind of warning, and it was added within about 6 weeks.

Probably coincidental timing, but I always felt like they did that because of me.

I'm convinced I contributed the idea of repeatable missions in the Rikti War Zone.

In the long, dry content spell between the release of i6 (CoV) and i7 (last ten levels of CoV), players made a lot of suggestions for things like zone revamps. I remember my first post, a very long explanation of a Zigguraut Trial, being along those lines. (While we were to get a Zig Breakout event in i24, it didn't have much in common with what I suggested other than the theme.) Several people suggested revamps of what was then the Rikti Crash Site. Many of them contained ideas about a trial or task force in which heroes fought a Riktified Hero One, which was eventually realized as the Lady Grey Task Force. The idea of defeating pylons within a certain amount of time to raise the shield covering the crashed Rikti ship was also a player idea that came out of those threads.

For my part, I wrote up a fairly simple story arc about slowing the Rikti war machine, but I also suggested that the Crash Site gain a source of repeatable missions. Rather than using something like the then-new newspaper mission system, though, I suggested the mission granter be a Longbow agent. (Keep in mind that the Crash Site was a hero-only zone at the time, and Vanguard was not yet an active faction in the game.) I even listed some of the missions the contact would grant, a selection of hunts, defeat boss tasks, and the like. A year and a half later, we got the Rikti War Zone, featuring Borea, who grants repeatable missions, including a selection of hunts, defeat boss tasks, and the like. Coincidence? You be the judge!

I remember posting a suggestion in one of the costume threads- I suggested modifying the magic bolero to make a unisex robe, and doing a Chinese Imperial version.
Well, they never did a unisex version, but we all know about the Chinese Imperial costume pack!
I dunno if somebody filed that idea of mine away for future use, or if great minds just think alike.

The closest I think I ever got was a commitment from Castle, sometime around I7, to look into why Patron Pool mezzes for Corruptors had 32-second base recharge times. I pointed out that this was inconsistent with similar Epic Pool powers for Blasters and Defenders - only Tankers and Scrappers had 32-second base recharge times on mezzes included in their Epic Pools.

I believe this was back when he was the assistant powers guy, presumably still reporting to Geko.

Castle agreed that this sounded like an oversight (I think he specifically said he thought it was a "bug"). Unfortunately, nothing ever actually came of it. I don't know if he never got around to it, or he did, and the team decided it should stay as it was.

I sent a new query about it a couple of years back, when Castle was lead Powers guy, but never got a response.

It was a very small thing in the scope of the game, but it always seemed ... asymmetric to me.

I had been meaning to ping the new powers team about it for a while now. I really imagine they would have been open to such a change. Oh, well. "Never do tomorrow...", eh?

I can't take sole responsibility for this by any stretch of the imagination but...

I was one of the first players to create a character designed to use a staff. In February 2003, I joined the pre-beta CoH forums and created the staff wielding vigilante Charon. Apart from a character named Blue Bolt (I'm not sure if this guy is around anymore) mine is the only character I can remember who was almost solely designed around the use of a staff as a weapon in those early pre-beta days.

I got into CoH beta a year later, in about February/March 2004, and saw that there was no way that I could create the character as I envisaged him. I sent a PM directly to Statesman asking if there were any plans to put a staff powerset in the game and, if not, basically begging that they consider it. I got a reply, in which he said there was no plans to put a staff powerset in for launch, but that it was on the drawing board for, and I'm paraphrasing, 'some time after launch'.

So I waited. And waited. And waited. And rolled Charon first as an SS/Inv Tanker (he was always designed as more of a street fighter and back then MA was very 'showy') and then finally as an MA/SR, the sets he hit 50 with. Then Street Justice came along, but by then Staff had finally been announced so I waited to re-roll.

Eight years after I sent that PM to Statesman, my gaming computer exploded and I didn't have the cash readily available to replace it. The next week, staff went live. Last week, it was announced the game got shitcanned. I have never played the staff powerset.

It must be karmic retribution for something.

EDIT: Perhaps karmic retribution for finding a loophole in the forum profanity filter?

I like to think that some of my complaining helped to bring about Reward Merits. As a solo player, I vented that for a lot more time investment, I was getting "piddly SOs" for completing arcs, while others were getting recipes from running task forces. I thought merits were great to help equalize things.

I also chimed in with the idea to add extra damage to Vigilance for defenders, depending on team size. The idea was tweaked some, but I think I was one of the first ones (in a lengthy thread) to suggest that.

I've suggested many things over the years, and some of them have seen the light of day. It's highly unlikely that I was the only person to give them those ideas, heh.

It's possible that I gave Sean Fish aka Manticore the idea to settle Ms. Liberty's Jessica Cole/Megan Duncan naming kerfluffle once and for all by giving her both names.

I was writing a fan-fic at the time that prominently featured Ms. Liberty and I felt that I really needed to have her name nailed down. After beating the horse way past "mostly dead", I announced that I was ready to go beat on other dead horses and that as far as I was concerned, her name was "Jessica Megan Duncan" and the deal with the confusion was just that she preferred to use her middle name as her given name, as a mild sort of rebellion and a way to create her own identity for herself.

A few days later, Manticore answered a question about her name in the Canon Fodder thread by saying pretty much the same thing.

Now, people who go by their middle names are not especially uncommon. I'm one of them. It was an obvious solution that allowed an answer without creating an outright contradiction for either name. There's no particularly good reason to think that Manticore had not already come up with that solution and just had not had any occasion to mention it on the forum.

To illustrate just how "not unique" the idea is: In my still-unfinished and never "published" story, Alexis refers to Ms. Liberty as "Jessie", prompting her daughter to correct her and remind her that she preferred "Megan". In Manticore's answer, he mentioned that Miss Liberty prefers to refer to Ms. Liberty as "Jessie", much to her daughter's annoyance. Obvious ideas following from obvious ideas, without it having to have come from an outside source.

So, maybe I influenced it or maybe it was just great minds working on similar paths. I'm just glad that we finally got it settled, heh.

Pfft,

Look at all these pikers posting away.

You all know this game was built to cater specifically to me. Don't even try to deny it. I'm responsible for everything.



Semi-seriously, my first character from back in the I2, pre-weapon-customization days, was a war-mace tanker whose RP was that she was wielding a wrench. Her memorable war-cry was a hearty "Lemme adjust those nuts for ya!" I'll never know for sure whether or not that prompted the wrench when we got customized weapons, but I'll always believe that the wrench was just for me.

Bah, nada. This whole shutdown thing happened before I could talk Synapse into buffing EM, Sonic Resonance, and Necro.

I had the idea to scale enemies to the level of the mission owner.

We were discussing how to stop power-leveling and I suggested everyone be either equal to the mission holder or at -1 and then everyone can help.

I'm far from the only one who talked about it, but I'm sure the Paragon Rewards program that evolved from Veteran Rewards was at least somewhat inspired by discussions I took part in.

There are a few things that were oddly timed that I never posted directly about here but was basically "fanfic" on my super group message board. Shortly after Issue 11 was released, I made up an faux announcement for Issue 12, in which Doctor Brainstorm's experiments caused players to be able to respec their power sets and to choose sets that weren't initially available to them (I REALLY wanted Energy Melee for Scrappers, by the way). A few weeks later, BAM... Issue 12 is announced, Doctor Brainstorm's experiments result in Power Set Proliferation.

(I also wrote a Doctor Brainstorm co-op TF/Trial, intended to be launched from Pocket D, which I condensed down into the MA arc in my sig.)

Around that time, I also wrote up some basic design docs for a few power sets, including Dual Pistols (again, far from the first one to request that). Though it took 7 more issues, the version of Dual Pistols we got was very much in the spirit of what I'd written. For instance, I wrote about a power called "Modify Clips" that was supposed to replace the standard Aim/Build Up that was expected in ranged attack sets; of course, the premise of mine was that your next few shots would fire explosive ammunition, and that all your Dual Pistol attacks would recharge 20% faster for the duration. There was also a power called "Execution" that replaced the standard snipe as the most damaging power, with the suggestion that it do more damage the closer you were to the target.
(EDIT: Sorry, that power was actually called "Assassination." I managed to find the write-up I did a little bit ago.)


Other stuff that never got implemented in any shape or form were my suggested Tech Control (control power set), Failed Experiments--aka "Abomination Summoning"--(Mastermind power set), and I think I wrote up something for Gun + Blade Assault (pistol in one hand, sword in the other). I think those could have been pretty popular.

And of course, they flat out said "no" to Power Set Respecs a little while later...

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The designers told me explicitly NOT to add the nav arrow (the little yellow arrow with the distance). They said it would break immersion, but I was tired of trying to navigate by compass only in 3D world so I put it in anyways.

After everyone used it, they decided to keep it.