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Perceptor II
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From Matt "Positron" Miller's Fourth Anniversary Message:
| QUOTE | | I can’t tell you how excited I am for our game’s future, and although we have some major announcements yet to be made, one of the things I can talk about is a feature that we are planning. Similar in concept to our character creator, it allows you, the players, to create missions and story arcs for your characters and others to participate in. You’ll be able to pick the map, villain group, and objectives, as well as write the dialog and any clues needed for the missions. When you are satisfied with it, you can upload it and have other players across all servers play it and rate it. Fame will come to the players whose stories rate the best overall. It is features like these that we never dreamed of including when we first shipped, but are excited to be able to offer players very soon. |
It looks like roleplayers and storyline enthusiasts will be getting a new outlet.
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| 04/28/08 13:08 |
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Grifter0408
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Ok thats news worthy post. Instead of a forum post as the news, Submit a news story on that. A forum will always follow but I would love to see more CoH Ampers submit anything news worthy as news when they find them.
Remember, write in your own words and try not to quote directly.
On the topic, very cool. Sounds very interesting but I want to hear an announcement stating there will be a bigger, better CoH called CoH Duece!
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| 04/28/08 14:13 |
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| QUOTE | | ...but I want to hear an announcement stating there will be a bigger, better CoH called CoH Duece! |
They already did that. But that discussion has already been had I think.
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| 04/28/08 14:39 |
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MightySmiter
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not to be a downer, but wont this just make it easy to create your own farm? i really hope not. as much as i like farming so i can actually afford stuff, its pretty boring.
anywho, i am really excited to see the possibilities. this opens a whole new world for each character, and i know im tying my story arc into the background of my main character
COH GUARDIAN
MightySmiter dark/dark/body scrapper lvl 50
-Member of Protectors of Paragon City
PhantomPrincess ill/rad/fire controller lvl 50
-Member of The Golden Council
WoW Runetotem (retired)
Belain lvl 70 Human Paladin
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| 04/28/08 15:43 |
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LordXenophon
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200 Banished Pantheon masks have taken over City Hall. You have 120 mintues to defeat them all and save the City Representative, the SG Registrar and all the 1st level contacts.
Meanwile, you first level heroes should be in the sewers, recovering the 88 body bags (worth plenty of influence each) from the Vahzilok.
        
          
          
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| 04/28/08 16:32 |
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Randy7
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Should make getting badges for specific critters easier. I guess this means no more competition on the PI docks to see which team can cap the Fake Nemesis first.
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- Dark Judge - Lvl 50 Dark/Dark/DM Scrapper
- Stan XX - Lvl 43 Inv/SS Tank
- Sharp Jennie - Lvl 35 DB/WP Scrapper
- Master of Toys - Lvl 21 Rb/FF MM
- Jonnie Volt - Lvl 19 Elec/Dev Blaster
- Green Medic - Lvl 19 Emp/Arch Def
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| 04/28/08 16:44 |
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asani
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i think it will be a easy way to get all the annoying (BP masks, carney badge) hunt badges. Unless you do the police band missions.
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| 04/28/08 16:53 |
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Grifter0408
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Bah, Champs Online will not be a CoH2. Its a rehash of CoH already. No I want a true CoH2.
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| 04/28/08 17:01 |
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Grif,
I think your CoH2 is going to end up being an evolution of CoH1 via issues. Compare issue 1 and now. Pretty good improvements I would have to say...including graphics (I love seeing the big ball of leaves pets running around).
Randy
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- Dark Judge - Lvl 50 Dark/Dark/DM Scrapper
- Stan XX - Lvl 43 Inv/SS Tank
- Sharp Jennie - Lvl 35 DB/WP Scrapper
- Master of Toys - Lvl 21 Rb/FF MM
- Jonnie Volt - Lvl 19 Elec/Dev Blaster
- Green Medic - Lvl 19 Emp/Arch Def
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| 04/28/08 17:04 |
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LordXenophon
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I expect this will only be on the test server, with a few chosen winners being launched later on live servers.
Our options will probably also be quite limited. As cool as it is in the regular missions, I just can't see them letting us make missions with a giant monster in them. A level 1 mission with a Carnie ambush on exit might be fun, though.
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| 04/28/08 18:16 |
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Dark Karma
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| QUOTE | 200 Banished Pantheon masks have taken over City Hall. You have 120 mintues to defeat them all and save the City Representative, the SG Registrar and all the 1st level contacts.
Meanwile, you first level heroes should be in the sewers, recovering the 88 body bags (worth plenty of influence each) from the Vahzilok. |
hehe that would be sooo much fun :) have it set to only have 1 primary/secondary power as well..make it a real challange
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| 04/28/08 19:25 |
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Perceptor II
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| QUOTE | | Ok thats news worthy post. Instead of a forum post as the news, Submit a news story on that. A forum will always follow but I would love to see more CoH Ampers submit anything news worthy as news when they find them. |
I couldn't do that at the time as I was at work and supposed to be writing code, not video game news. But I've now submitted a news item.
| QUOTE | | On the topic, very cool. Sounds very interesting but I want to hear an announcement stating there will be a bigger, better CoH called CoH Duece! |
Maybe, if they've decided to blow up the whole archetype-origin system in favor of something cooler. And let current subscribers download the game for free. And maybe just transitioned everything over to the new game and turned the other one off (with subions and veteran rewards) just rolling over to the new system). I'm skeptical as to whether a whole new game could be any better than the continually updated one we have now, but there's some merit to starting over, and a "2" would probably generate sales and bring new players in.
I'm an incurable altoholic, but most recently I've played as these characters:
Abana (hero, Champion), lvl 36 mag tanker, stone/stone/fit
The Ballplayer Reverend (hero, Champion), lvl 14 nat tanker will/mace
Shrathala (hero, Triumph), lvl 12 mag scrapper, dual/dark
Fat Kat (villain, Pinnacle), lvl 10 mut brute strength/will
Souleymane (hero, Champion), lvl 14 mag defender, dark/psy
Saffron Bow (hero, Triumph), lvl 5 nat blaster, arch/dev
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| 04/28/08 19:35 |
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Cool Idea
I'd say they will have limits on bad guy types linked to level.Same with rewards to stop people from setting a mission with enough xp to get level 50 with thier 1st mission.
People can set up their farmer misssion for solo play and stop annoying people and badge hunting will be easier for those into that.
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| 04/28/08 19:48 |
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LordXenophon
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| QUOTE | Cool Idea
I'd say they will have limits on bad guy types linked to level. |
You mean I won't be able to have level 53 Hellions take over Portal Corp and try to bring in friends from the Hellions Empire Dimension?
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| 05/01/08 17:01 |
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Perceptor II
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Interesting what this blogger has to say about the announcement. He seems to think that in spite of City of Heroes being a relatively small game and this announcement being made with surprising nonchalance, that this development, if it works, could very well be the next evolutionary step in the entire MMO genre. "MMO 2.0", he calls it.
I'm an incurable altoholic, but most recently I've played as these characters:
Abana (hero, Champion), lvl 36 mag tanker, stone/stone/fit
The Ballplayer Reverend (hero, Champion), lvl 14 nat tanker will/mace
Shrathala (hero, Triumph), lvl 12 mag scrapper, dual/dark
Fat Kat (villain, Pinnacle), lvl 10 mut brute strength/will
Souleymane (hero, Champion), lvl 14 mag defender, dark/psy
Saffron Bow (hero, Triumph), lvl 5 nat blaster, arch/dev
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| 05/02/08 20:06 |
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I wasn't going to say anything on this, but I see it coming up again and again. I think that maybe we should shed a little light on this all.
If you like CoH....leave it alone.
I started playing MMOs when Everquest 1st came out. I watched it develop over years and years. I was somewhere in my 8th year I think when they decided to make EQ II and the main people of EQ took off and started developing their own project called Vanguard. (Sound similar? )
So here were the results. A ton of people migrated to EQ II and were dissappointed with it. A bunch more waited for Vangaurd a few years later and it was a disappointment too. A bunch just threw up their hands and moved to WoW.
The original Everquest, even though it kept expanding and getting better and better, floundered. It went from being the monster of all MMOs to almost nothing. They combined servers to make the worlds more populated....nothing has worked to revitalize it. Lowered population means lowered revenue for expansion.
I finally let my characters in Everquest die and sought new pastures....CoX to be exact.
I don't want the same thing happening here as well. Revitalize the game, make it better, add new stuff, upgrade graphics, but PLEASE don't create a separate game that competes directly with it's original....It doesn't work.
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| 05/03/08 11:07 |
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LordXenophon
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I don't believe we have anything to worry about from this "choose your own adventure" mechanism. It has occured to me how the CoX dev team will probably implement this.
Rather than creating missions out in the game world or on the test server, they will probably give us another arena. Call it a "danger room," if you will. Missions in the "danger room" would be built by selecting options from a menu scructure similar to that in the arenas. There would be no XP, debt, influence, drops or normal badge work in custom missions, but there would almost certainly be a new set of badges which could only be earned in custom missions.
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| 05/03/08 14:13 |
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| QUOTE | I don't believe we have anything to worry about from this "choose your own adventure" mechanism. It has occured to me how the CoX dev team will probably implement this.
Rather than creating missions out in the game world or on the test server, they will probably give us another arena. Call it a "danger room," if you will. Missions in the "danger room" would be built by selecting options from a menu scructure similar to that in the arenas. There would be no XP, debt, influence, drops or normal badge work in custom missions, but there would almost certainly be a new set of badges which could only be earned in custom missions. |
that does sound about right. i doubt they will allow free farms or anything like that. i just hope they put very many limits if this is the case. i always wanted a mish with several (5+) avs in it in one spot. after soloing the end of the lazarus tf, 3 just doesnt cut it anymore lol
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| 05/03/08 18:57 |
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i've always wanted them to implement something like the danger room thing X was talking about. if this could be placed in bases that would be extra sweet. maybe if they gave xp but like you could only do it a few times a day or something. it would be cool to be able to try out new combos and stuff without worrying about getting killed or failing missions.
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Virtue
Lady Arya - lvl 50!! D3 defender(main)
Luna Moonlink - lvl 27 Peacebringer
Mr Galactic - lvl 20 Fire/Fire Blaster
Ethereal Phoenix - lvling Fire/Kin Controller
Aurelei - lvl 26 Warshade
Zhaan - lvl 18 Storm/Sonic Defender
Amazing Alice - lvl 21 Dark/WP Scrapper
Clara Wink - lvl 28 claws/regen scrapper
Imamu - lvl 24 sonic/ice blaster
and various others...
Freedom
La Psypathe - lvl 34 FF/Psy Defender
True Psight - lvl 28 illusions/empathy controller
Plus, I play Guild Wars.
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| 05/03/08 22:05 |
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Perceptor II
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| QUOTE | I don't believe we have anything to worry about from this "choose your own adventure" mechanism. It has occured to me how the CoX dev team will probably implement this.
Rather than creating missions out in the game world or on the test server, they will probably give us another arena. Call it a "danger room," if you will. Missions in the "danger room" would be built by selecting options from a menu scructure similar to that in the arenas. There would be no XP, debt, influence, drops or normal badge work in custom missions, but there would almost certainly be a new set of badges which could only be earned in custom missions. |
I had wondered about that as well, as to how suddenly inviting thousands of writers wasn't going to really screw up continuity. I'd thought maybe something to do with Portal Corp and alternate universes, but I like your Danger Room idea a lot better.
I'm an incurable altoholic, but most recently I've played as these characters:
Abana (hero, Champion), lvl 36 mag tanker, stone/stone/fit
The Ballplayer Reverend (hero, Champion), lvl 14 nat tanker will/mace
Shrathala (hero, Triumph), lvl 12 mag scrapper, dual/dark
Fat Kat (villain, Pinnacle), lvl 10 mut brute strength/will
Souleymane (hero, Champion), lvl 14 mag defender, dark/psy
Saffron Bow (hero, Triumph), lvl 5 nat blaster, arch/dev
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