So I know this question may seem insensitive, but I was thinking of how MC was built, what it stands for, where it is, and how advanced technology is in champions earth because of super humans. Then looked at concept art from the pen and paper that someone sent me (Lost that picture tho :c ) and wondered if the city had a monorail or a subway system of some sort, and the devs didn't put it there in game cuz it'd be too much work or they didn't think of it. Maybe something mentioned in the books?
this question has come up so many times in RP lol.
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I can't find any mention of passenger or cargo railroad service for Millennium City, but I would bet it's better than ours.
John is probably correct about CO's design priorities. Transportation isn't the only thing in CO MC which looks to have skimped on logic in favor of pretty.
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But think about it: if you were rebuilding a city after it was devastated by a super-battle, how much stuff throwable by supers would you want to include?
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Honestly, though, it was probably a development decision. In the Marvel days, New York City would have been a major zone, so it would have had subway stations, functional or not. Once it became a Champions game, though, Cryptic had to shift from “subway” to “people mover that was close enough to Paragon City’s monorail system to be uncomfortable”, at which point they probably decided to scrap the whole thing. MC was one continuous zone anyway, so the people mover would have been merely decorative, not a fast-travel system like CoH’s monorail.
(In CoH lore, Marcus Cole called a secret meeting with city leaders to deter them from a subway to an elevated train system like Chicago’s because he knew Paragon City had been built above the lost city of Oranbega, and feared what would happen if a construction crew tunneled into it. Whether that was the development chicken or egg to why CoH had an monorail instead of a subway, I don’t know.)
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thanks all for the amazing responses.
Honestly figured it would have a subway or a monorail like Paragon. cuz i'd imagine the city would be quite large in compared to what we can access in the game. with that said i'd love more MC zones, like paragon, would be super fun. (But that's obviously not gonna happen.)
Ps. i want to throw train cars around too ;-;
The hospital in CO, Mercy, looks quite small for a city hospital. Does the lore mention the hospital at all or others in MC?
Mercy Hospital, the largest and most advanced medical facility in the state of Michigan, ranks as one of the world’s leading hospitals when it comes to dealing with superhumans and their unique physiologies, physical ailments, and traumas. “MC Mercy,” as it’s familiarly known to staff and residents, is a destination hospital for patients across the country, both those with the money to seek specific treatments or those whose particular illness attracts the attention of Mercy’s brilliant medical staff. Apart from dealing with superhumans, Mercy conducts extensive research in cutting-edge medical subjects such as molecular genetics and gene therapy, and also has perhaps the nation’s most effective and advanced Virus Control Center.
Every week, it seems, researchers working at Mercy Hospital announce some new breakthrough in modern medicine. Recently the hospital made the headlines for its groundbreaking work in providing diabetics with internal insulin monitors and dosage controllers — small subcutaneous “discs” that automatically release insulin into the wearer’s system when sensors in the disk detect lowered insulin levels. Other doctors report promising successes in research projects focusing on the use of noninvasive hypersonic surgery techniques, the construction of cybernetically-controlled exoskeleton-like harnesses that would allow paraplegics to “walk,” and the development of the next generation of artificial hearts
While the advanced research projects get most of the media attention, visitors find the primary care facility equally astonishing. A 14-floor building with wide corridors and lots of natural light thanks to glass panels in the cunningly-designed angled walls, the hospital is almost entirely computerized without sacrificing the “human touch.” All of the medical staff carry handheld computer pads with attached lightpens, and all of the equipment and medication carries barcodes with safety features to prevent misuse. In the emergency room, advanced sensory equipment performs several basic blood tests and other standard procedures automatically, allowing nurses to process patients quickly without having to rush. Robots also handle the basics of supply management, placing automatic orders when cabinet monitors detect low stocks of bandages or gloves. Other computers automatically process pharmacy orders.
In the individual patient rooms, the beds come equipped with ventilators, intravenous infusors, defibrillators, and similar equipment, minimizing the need for centralized emergency services and for moving patients around the building. Each patient wears a “wellness monitor” that constantly checks his pulse, blood pressure, and other vital signs. The monitor notifies nurses or physicians automatically if specific changes occur. All nurses carry miniature phones so the switchboard computers can easily track them down if necessary. Even the waiting rooms are high-tech, with Internet access and video players in every seat to make long waits for family members less stressful.
Millennium City has cars, boats, and various aircraft. The north edge of the map s actually a raised highway... albeit an odd sort that has a raised platform under it and not an over pass.... despite being taller than most buildings in MC... Several places have helipads, and we see certain groups doing air patrols via helicopters. Then there's the river with it's docks, cranes and connexes. Which is interesting because we SEE dozens of trucks around town, but never moving(probably an engine limitation large complex vehicles just don't render right I imagine). We have a wide variety of water craft, that usually don't move... Also more wrecked ships than the Bermuda Triangle!(most were probably wrecked in the Battle of Detroit)
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That's a plus for the tabletop version of Champions vs the MMO... pure imagination has unlimited budget and drive space.
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And those are some awesome views.
An adjacent click door takes you to a train, that drops you off at the rail line section in Vibora. Another has a stopping point at a train station near Westworld- I mean, the robot cowboy thing in the desert.