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I have noticed that nothing brings players together quite like city wide events. Whether it's Bloodmoon, Nighthawk, or giant mecha teddy bears, everybody puts aside what they're doing and teams up to protect Millenium City when these events are live. When there's no event happening, players loiter about in Ren Cen, dink around in Caprice, and only Cosmics seem to encourage players to form teams (outside of Millenium City, however).
Inspired by another superhero MMO's content, as well as certain missions that already exist in CO, here's an idea for a future update: hotspots.
Crime spree in City Center!
These words would appear in your alert box, and a red circle would appear on your map. Upon arriving at the designated location, players would encounter a mob of thugs, goons, and ruffians engaging in all manner of crime; smashing windows, looting stores, robbing citizens, and causing mayhem and destruction inside the hotspot. The villains wouldn't belong to any specific group like Dogz or Viper but instead are dressed in generic bad guy clothing (leather jackets/ski masks/bandana/pantyhose hood/burglar in domino mask with black and white horizontal striped shirt). The enemies threat level would auto-adjust to yours so that any hero between 6 and 40 would find them challenging. After a certain amount of time passes (or a specific number of villains were defeated) the zone would return to normal and order would be restored.
Zombie outbreak in Westside!
A swarm of the undead would climb out of the ground and spread through the city like a plague, requiring heroes to band together and send them back to their graves.
Qulaar invasion in Downtown!
Pesky aliens descend on Millenium City and it's up to us to repel the hostile creatures.
Sports riot in Liberty Park!
In a unique twist, the citizens themselves become a temporary enemy group.
These kind of missions already exist to an extent. This would be similar to the Nighthawk event mission however these would happen year round instead of only for a couple of weeks. Perhaps we could receive a new reward token for completing a specific number of these and redeem them for rewards from a vendor unique to these missions.
Inspired by another superhero MMO's content, as well as certain missions that already exist in CO, here's an idea for a future update: hotspots.
Crime spree in City Center!
These words would appear in your alert box, and a red circle would appear on your map. Upon arriving at the designated location, players would encounter a mob of thugs, goons, and ruffians engaging in all manner of crime; smashing windows, looting stores, robbing citizens, and causing mayhem and destruction inside the hotspot. The villains wouldn't belong to any specific group like Dogz or Viper but instead are dressed in generic bad guy clothing (leather jackets/ski masks/bandana/pantyhose hood/burglar in domino mask with black and white horizontal striped shirt). The enemies threat level would auto-adjust to yours so that any hero between 6 and 40 would find them challenging. After a certain amount of time passes (or a specific number of villains were defeated) the zone would return to normal and order would be restored.
Zombie outbreak in Westside!
A swarm of the undead would climb out of the ground and spread through the city like a plague, requiring heroes to band together and send them back to their graves.
Qulaar invasion in Downtown!
Pesky aliens descend on Millenium City and it's up to us to repel the hostile creatures.
Sports riot in Liberty Park!
In a unique twist, the citizens themselves become a temporary enemy group.
These kind of missions already exist to an extent. This would be similar to the Nighthawk event mission however these would happen year round instead of only for a couple of weeks. Perhaps we could receive a new reward token for completing a specific number of these and redeem them for rewards from a vendor unique to these missions.
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Just having them end after a certain time period won't do of course, cause then we would all just afk in the area until it ends for our rewards. Needing to blow away X things would work though. Could have it drop Until recognition.
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The Nighthawk event already does this hotspot idea so it'd be a simple matter of changing the theme of it to be whatever villain group you wanted. And instead of fighting one big creature like Qwyjibo or Clarence, their strength would come from their numbers. I feel this would encourage people to actively defend Millenium City, street sweeping rarely ever occurs unless it's for something like Bloodmoon, otherwise there's no real sense of urgency when it comes to defending the city from villains. Sure you can see trios of villains harassing NPCs but if you're already 40 then people let lower level players handle it.
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horripilante does have a point about non MC zones, though.
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Yes, in that other superhero MMO there was an open world mission where buildings would catch fire, and you could collect a fire extinguisher and temporary jet pack to reach the flames spewing from windows and target them to put it out.
Pretty much yes, however instead of being only Mega D or Nighthawk villains it would be a random rotation of enemies to face in different locations around MC and maybe other zones too, that way players would flock to whatever zone currently under siege and band together to face the swarm causing a ruckus.
This could also be a good way to introduce new villain groups or existing ones but do more with them, such as Cobra Lords who don't have their own alert or event yet.
On second thought, the reality check here is that making it varied makes it take a MASSIVE amount of extra coding work. A High Noon style upgrade to Reign of Frogs sounds like a great idea. But you can't just copy paste that sort of thing.
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I get that it was just used as a quick example but admittedly the Cobra Lords...are probably the least interesting choice for an alert or event.
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