...Yes, But Will You Miss the Blue Caves?

Think about it: what's the worst thing you've always disliked about City of Heroes that now, upon learning the game is coming to an end, you wouldn't give up for more than anything in the world?

For me, it's gotta be those damn blue caves that are virtually impossible to navigate!

The worst things in this game are still better than the best in others.

Hell, THB said he'd miss level 5 energy blasters.

THB said that.

This game is too damn awesome.

Screw those blue caves.

...and yet, in no other game do I get to play an 8-foot Norse giant in a 6-foot cave and complain in-character to my team that whoever built these caves should spend a thousand years buried beneath Odin's odorous underpants.

...Yes, I'm even going to miss the blue caves...

I am initially elated that the blue caves will die on November 30th. Particularly the layer cake room of frustration.

...

But then I think about how I got my first accomplishment badge while dragging a hostage in that mission environment, and later found out that it was required for this cool thing called an "accolade" that granted my character perks.

On second thought, I'll miss them dearly.

*tear*

.......yes and Even the dreaded council/5th column caves ._.

Yeah, I won't miss them. Doubly so the cake room. It's practically as bad as the maps in other MMOs!

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

CoT Caves... with a 8 man all MM team XD

I didn't mind the layer cake area once I turned up the gamma and could see those holes in the floor.

But honestly they really weren't designed for a max out huge character model. Especially one that got speed boosted after he asked not to be.

Yeah I realized that even though I'd been cursing the daylights out of the Council Pool Room (with the sectioned glowy cement-walled pools in 2 levels and scaffolds above)... I will miss them.

It's not like I don't know every damn nook and cranny of those things, but ... they won't be there.

Things I would change in a reboot of CoH ...

Make all corridors on maps easier to navigate with a team, with bottlenecks added for strategic effect.

Allow mission maps to have multiple doors, including more than one entry / exit point.

Might make maps of buildings (at least some of them) destructible.

Have maps with an outdoor area that leads to an indoor area be common, including rooftop encounters.

Might make it so that all powers are chosen from a single list, rather than having ATs. The weight of the powers would change according to whichever of 3 columns you place the power into, such that powers in the first column emphasize primary aspects of the powers, powers in the 2nd column emphasize secondary aspects, and powers in the 3rd column are weak in both aspects. (This would approximate how primary, secondary, and pool/AP powers work.)

I would keep the idea of slotting, but would make it so that slots received can be banked to be placed later.

Would eliminate visiting a trainer to get new powers or slots. I would have slots get banked automatically and new powers be acquired by visiting the equivalent of the SG base or the faction (origin) base.

I would have all contacts be available by cellphone primarily, and secondarily be encountered in instances. No contacts would be available outside of an instance.

There would not be a lot of open zone areas to traverse, though there would be areas in which players could gather if they wished.

There would be an emphasis upon teaming through use of text channels and team-up UI. (This was added in later issues of the game, but might have been better implemented if they'd been planned upon at the start.)

Storytelling UI would be configured with the idea of multiple players receiving story information, not just the team leader.

Player text editing would work properly.

Content would unlock through play, where one story unlocks others further along in the tree. There would also be open, non-tree content.

Missions would have a greater number of actionable events in them, thereby increasing the number of scenarios a player could encounter within a mission. Under-utilized examples from CoH include trip triggers, security camera triggers, IR beam triggers, and so on. Events that could be triggered would be increased as well, so that instead of just ambushes, triggers could fire off dialogue, costume changes, teleportation, and so on.

I have a lot more things in mind that could be changed, but that's probably already more than most people would want to read, so I'll just end it there.

I actually will. I always thought the blue caves were pretty cool looking, even though functionally they were a nightmare. Certainly better than the drab brown caves everywhere else, spacious though they were.

The things I will not miss are all technical limitations - so many loading screens being at the top of the list.

I wont miss the number of fire/ice characters I didn't make because they had to use stupid looking swords to be effective.

And I wont miss the Eye of the Storm animation. I never played Staff after buying it because of that.

The game was highly polished, close to perfect. I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel here, aren't I?

Council caves.

I thought the blue caves made the other maps more enjoyable. The first few times in the cave I thought they were interesting, especially that cave with the large 3 or 4 story arena shaped room in the back.

I won't miss being on teams with MM's and caves. I played all types including mm's just saying it was awful being crammed in with them. I remember using gang war and apologizing profusely to my team. (I secretly laughed at the pile'o people, too) XD

Bye all it was fun.

-BurnSucka.
"Melt 'em like butters!"

There is not a damn thing I won't miss in this game.

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