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City of Heroes AMA (part 1?)

That's a link to the doc, in case these boards get shut down, and because I don't want to clean it up for our forum posting format (if someone ELSE does, feel free to pad your postcount).

Some answers are not satisfying. Some answers are made up, and that answer only exists in that doc. I tried to get everyone who was involved in the stuff at the end to answer the questions as best they could.

MM: Matt Miller (Positron)
JH: John Hegner (Protean)
JAH: Jeff Hamilton (Arbiter Hawk)
SM: Sean McCann (Dr. Aeon)
RG: Ryan Greene (Viridian)
TS: Tim Sweeney (Black Scorpion)

If there is a miracle and somehow CoH is saved, we reserve the right to change any and all answers given in the doc, to maintain suspense and surprise.


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Fair enough. Thanks for getting us the info. You and your dev community have been nothing but wonderful to the player community.


 

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GIMMEGIMMEGIMME!

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STICKY!!!

AND THANK YOU!!!

*Captain-Electric salutes Positron.*

*Continues to salute Positron*

*...*

*Yep, still saluting...*

*This is getting kind of awkward...*


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Saved and left unread just in case... oh who am I kidding, I've already read the first three answers just while saving the page. Thank you for posting this! And...

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If there is a miracle and somehow CoH is saved, we reserve the right to change any and all answers given in the doc, to maintain suspense and surprise.
That such a miracle hasn't totally been written off yet in itself gives me hope. If it happens, I'll look forward to each and every answer being a red herring.


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If there is a miracle and somehow CoH is saved, we reserve the right to change any and all answers given in the doc, to maintain suspense and surprise.
This miracle will be probably have to be us, folks. Want your game to stay? Head over to the Titan Network forums if you haven't already, and answer their Calls to Action!

Or head to the new WWW.SAVECOH.COM

(Thanks Leandro, awesome!!!)


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Thanks so much Posi. I will look forward to reading this. I'm sure there's stuff in there that will surprise me!

Downloading right after I post this.

(And yeah, Captain, the miracle will likely have to be us.)


 

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I've posted a mirror in .doc format here.


 

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I thank you Posi for all you have done. I love City of Heroes. I was hoping and still am hoping that City of Heroes could be saved. I thought maybe since you had not answered this stuff yet you were holding off cause the end may not come. I am sorry to say this dashes my hopes some.


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What were the rocket launch pads going to be used for, and when were they officially abandoned by the Dev team?

MM: We planned a space station instead of Praetoria for Going Rogue at first. They were abandoned when the idea of going to the space station was.
Point for clarity - and it doesn't have to be Posi who answers.

But apparently I've missed this or haven't played through the content that contains it yet. So my question is -

What rocket launch pads? The only one I can recall is in Warburg.

I have a feeling I'm going to feel stupid when someone tells me the answer to this.


 

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HEY REPPU.

Check THIS out.


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if you could retcon any one thing in the storyline, what would it be? Alternately, what’s the one retcon you’ve made that you later regretted?

Ts: Being more clear about the way the well operated in the ramiel arc. Some players became convinced we were saying that the well was the ultimate source of all super powers. Nothing could be further from the truth.


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What rocket launch pads? The only one I can recall is in Warburg
The construction in the north end of Steel Canyon was hinted on one of the newer paper maps to be the Hero-side Rocket pad.


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This is the thread that I never wanted to see.

I guess that's it all over now .....


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I thank you Posi for all you have done. I love City of Heroes. I was hoping and still am hoping that City of Heroes could be saved. I thought maybe since you had not answered this stuff yet you were holding off cause the end may not come. I am sorry to say this dashes my hopes some.
Yeah. Kinda feels like another nail in the coffin. But at least we get some answers now.

But don't give up yet! Remember - he said these answers are subject to change if COH is saved!

Which says to me he and the others are still working on it as well!

He's opened Pandora's box, and yes, there's hope in there as well.


 

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I thought maybe since you had not answered this stuff yet you were holding off cause the end may not come. I am sorry to say this dashes my hopes some.
I was dreading these answers for much the same reason, but having skimmed the document it don't think it really gives anything big away - no pics or detailed info on the Battalion, for example.


 

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If there is a miracle and somehow CoH is saved, we reserve the right to change any and all answers given in the doc, to maintain suspense and surprise.
Thank you for not killing our hope.


 

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By the way:

Another point that other people can clue me in on.

MM = Mark Miller/Positron
STM = ?
JAH = ?
RG = ?

(Remember, up until recently I was not a regular board reader.)


 

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Were there actual plans for a moonbase?

MM: I approved art dailies from it on the last day of the studio. Issue 28.

RG: The funny thing is, our database had a value called MOONBASE that basically represented a build that didn’t exist in the system yet. It was a running gag that we would always be planning a moonbase, but it would never actually come to fruition. The plan for Issues 25-28 were the moment we hunkered down and said, “We’re actually going to do it this time!” We were... wrong.
Ugh... That... That REALLY hurts. I feel for you guys.

Damnit. I don't want to get consumed in hatred for NCsoft. But that...

Yeah. That one gets added to "the list".


 

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Neat..thank you!

HA!..just noticed, up the top..

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Hah! Totally called the Well.


 

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A very interesting read. Thank you for taking the time to do this.


 

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If there is a miracle and somehow CoH is saved, we reserve the right to change any and all answers given in the doc, to maintain suspense and surprise.
I really don't think that many people would mind if you had to make changes


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