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canadascott
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Proposal
A special event to be held over one weekend (Friday 10 AM - Monday 10 AM), every two months. This is infrequent enough to feel special, but frequent enough that the dev time is not wasted.
(Eighteen days per year is comparable to other events). The Nemesis Event has three components:
1. Perma-Alerts
2. There is a new Nemesis based team alert: Super Nemesis Showdown
3. There is a minor overhaul of the Nemesis system.
A. Alerts
Dockside Nemesis runs all weekend as the Smash Alert, and Bank Robbery Nemesis runs all
weekend as the Grab alert.
It should be straightforward. You might also, time permitting, look into having a Pyramid Power Nemesis alert added as well.
B. Super Nemesis Showdown
"Who needs Destroyer? We can gather our enemies and destroy them in one fell swoop! Let us form... the New League of Destruction!" - someone's nemesis
Super Nemesis Showdown takes place in one of the unused arenas (see Brou's Gallery of Lost Potential thread).
It requires five characters of L25 or higher to run. The hero must have an active nemesis.
There are two stages. In the first stage, the heroes need to defeat all five of their nemesii and a few minions/nemesis in five minutes. The mobs will be spaced reasonably close together so it should be hard to avoid aggroing multiple mobs. Defeating them in five minutes gives everyone a Stage 1 reward.
The second stage is a bonus stage that unlocks if the heroes defeat all five nemesii in under three minutes, a random nemesis is reborn as an archnemesis. He has 300% health, and does 500% damage to all attacks. Defeat him in two minutes for a stage 2 reward. Stage 2 should be HARD.
Stage 1 reward: 2 Globals, 1 random rank IV mod, a Box of Questionite, and 20-50 Nemesis tokens. Random chance of one of four new costume pieces, or one of two new action figures.
Stage 2 reward: 3 globals, 1 random rank V mod, and a 5% chance of one of the following: 1d3 Drifter salvage, or one cosmic key (allowed once per account per event) a 20% discount coupon on any costume set, vehicle, or hideout (only one coupon per account per event) or a random Justice gear component or Nemesis Special ability token (see below).
Option: Supergroup challenge. If (a) all five alert team members belong to the same SG, (b) the team leader is a member of Leader rank, (c) difficulty is set to Elite (finally, difficulty levels matter again!), the alert enters Supergroup Challenge mode. Being on Elite, the game will be tougher, but all rewards are doubled. Also, every member gets a special perk "Team Supreme".
This is unlikely, but I'll throw it out: The Stage 2 alert reward for Supergroup Challenge is a Team Lounge. This could be one of two environments:
1. A bar, similar to the bar in Gateway, but with a selectable vista (city, wilderness, jungle, undersea, or space), and a team logo displayed prominently on the wall. There would also be access to the SG bank here, a tailor, a hanger door (to any zone) and an exit (back to the spot where the player came from).
2.A Tropical island resort (cut out a bit of beach on MI, remove mobs, and add an outdoor wet bar and campfire.)
This is added to the Hideout list of anyone who wins the challenge.
C. Nemesis system overhaul
Not much of an overhaul, but a few additions and amendations that can be used to hype the event, especially when first launched.
1. Nemesis bios
Fix the bug that prevents them from being displayed.
2. New Nemesis Powersets
Add Wind, and Heavy Weapons to the Nemesis power sets
3 Nemesis Aura system
Give your nemesis an aura, if you dare.
4 Nemesis Faction Contest
On the forums, hold a contest to design a nemesis faction. Include a one paragraph background, and four designs (melee Henchman, melee villain, range Henchman, range villain). Each winning entry is gathered into a pack for sale at the C-store for a low price (150-200 Zen).
5. Optional: Nemesis special ability.
By expending a Nemesis Special Ability token. you can purchase a bonus ability once for your nemesis (each special ability may be purchased once per nemesis):
(a) +15% Health
(b) +30% damage buff
(c) one special attack form: triggered every 30 seconds. This includes:
- Super-haymaker (small AE haymaker with a damage bonus)
- Super-rimfire burst (extra strength rimefire burst)
- Hellfire sorcery bolt (powerful dark lightning gigabolt)
- Hellfire inferno (a very powerful flashfire)
- 10 second super life force leech (drains from all folks within 20', block will negate per character)
(d) one especially tough Lieutenant/villain-in-training minion.
Edit: some changes to the optional special ability.
A special event to be held over one weekend (Friday 10 AM - Monday 10 AM), every two months. This is infrequent enough to feel special, but frequent enough that the dev time is not wasted.
(Eighteen days per year is comparable to other events). The Nemesis Event has three components:
1. Perma-Alerts
2. There is a new Nemesis based team alert: Super Nemesis Showdown
3. There is a minor overhaul of the Nemesis system.
A. Alerts
Dockside Nemesis runs all weekend as the Smash Alert, and Bank Robbery Nemesis runs all
weekend as the Grab alert.
It should be straightforward. You might also, time permitting, look into having a Pyramid Power Nemesis alert added as well.
B. Super Nemesis Showdown
"Who needs Destroyer? We can gather our enemies and destroy them in one fell swoop! Let us form... the New League of Destruction!" - someone's nemesis
Super Nemesis Showdown takes place in one of the unused arenas (see Brou's Gallery of Lost Potential thread).
It requires five characters of L25 or higher to run. The hero must have an active nemesis.
There are two stages. In the first stage, the heroes need to defeat all five of their nemesii and a few minions/nemesis in five minutes. The mobs will be spaced reasonably close together so it should be hard to avoid aggroing multiple mobs. Defeating them in five minutes gives everyone a Stage 1 reward.
The second stage is a bonus stage that unlocks if the heroes defeat all five nemesii in under three minutes, a random nemesis is reborn as an archnemesis. He has 300% health, and does 500% damage to all attacks. Defeat him in two minutes for a stage 2 reward. Stage 2 should be HARD.
Stage 1 reward: 2 Globals, 1 random rank IV mod, a Box of Questionite, and 20-50 Nemesis tokens. Random chance of one of four new costume pieces, or one of two new action figures.
Stage 2 reward: 3 globals, 1 random rank V mod, and a 5% chance of one of the following: 1d3 Drifter salvage, or one cosmic key (allowed once per account per event) a 20% discount coupon on any costume set, vehicle, or hideout (only one coupon per account per event) or a random Justice gear component or Nemesis Special ability token (see below).
Option: Supergroup challenge. If (a) all five alert team members belong to the same SG, (b) the team leader is a member of Leader rank, (c) difficulty is set to Elite (finally, difficulty levels matter again!), the alert enters Supergroup Challenge mode. Being on Elite, the game will be tougher, but all rewards are doubled. Also, every member gets a special perk "Team Supreme".
This is unlikely, but I'll throw it out: The Stage 2 alert reward for Supergroup Challenge is a Team Lounge. This could be one of two environments:
1. A bar, similar to the bar in Gateway, but with a selectable vista (city, wilderness, jungle, undersea, or space), and a team logo displayed prominently on the wall. There would also be access to the SG bank here, a tailor, a hanger door (to any zone) and an exit (back to the spot where the player came from).
2.A Tropical island resort (cut out a bit of beach on MI, remove mobs, and add an outdoor wet bar and campfire.)
This is added to the Hideout list of anyone who wins the challenge.
C. Nemesis system overhaul
Not much of an overhaul, but a few additions and amendations that can be used to hype the event, especially when first launched.
1. Nemesis bios
Fix the bug that prevents them from being displayed.
2. New Nemesis Powersets
Add Wind, and Heavy Weapons to the Nemesis power sets
3 Nemesis Aura system
Give your nemesis an aura, if you dare.
4 Nemesis Faction Contest
On the forums, hold a contest to design a nemesis faction. Include a one paragraph background, and four designs (melee Henchman, melee villain, range Henchman, range villain). Each winning entry is gathered into a pack for sale at the C-store for a low price (150-200 Zen).
5. Optional: Nemesis special ability.
By expending a Nemesis Special Ability token. you can purchase a bonus ability once for your nemesis (each special ability may be purchased once per nemesis):
(a) +15% Health
(b) +30% damage buff
(c) one special attack form: triggered every 30 seconds. This includes:
- Super-haymaker (small AE haymaker with a damage bonus)
- Super-rimfire burst (extra strength rimefire burst)
- Hellfire sorcery bolt (powerful dark lightning gigabolt)
- Hellfire inferno (a very powerful flashfire)
- 10 second super life force leech (drains from all folks within 20', block will negate per character)
(d) one especially tough Lieutenant/villain-in-training minion.
Edit: some changes to the optional special ability.
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Love, love, love it.
Other than that, consider this idea fully endorsed. (My endorsement and a buck and a half should be enough to get a bottomless cup of coffee at Denny's.)
- David Brin, "Those Eyes"
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I hope someone with the power to make stuff happen has read this.
Hell they could make a Nemesis lock-box if a reason is required to justify it to the higher-ups.
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This is certainly a risk. The major appeal of the event is "fight five nemeses at once", but I keep thinking it needs something more, hence I added a Stage 2. We already have Grab and Red Winter for multi-person fights, so once the lure of fighting multiple nemeses wears off, this is just another battle. Stage 2 also adds the same cool "am I going to get my nemesis or not" feeling of uncertainty you get going into a normal Nemesis alert.
I wouldn't mind some other mechanic that needs to be dealt with during Stage 2 (such as buffing objects that periodically appear and which need to be destroyed, or the arch-nemesis becomes even more dangerous) similar to the sphere in NemCon. But the more complicated the fight, the longer it takes to develop, and dev time and resources are the enemies of this game.
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You can maybe do something about both of these things by adding powers and/or adjusting them, rather than simply giving a flat buff. Probably multiple techniques -- say:
Elemental Ultimate Power (used by Ice, Electricity, Force, Fire)
Technology Ultimate Power (used by Archery, Gadgeteering, Munitions, Power Armor)
Martial Arts Ultimate Power (used by Martial Arts, Dual Blade, Single Blade, Fighting Claws).
Psychic Ultimate Power (used by Telekinetic and Telepathic)
Might Ultimate Power: not much inspiration here. This may be a case for 'pile on the damage'.
Supernatural Ultimate Power: used by Darkness, Infernal Supernatural, Celestial, Sorcery
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I think it should be four default but optionally up to eight. Some of the Nemesis types have deceptively more variance than they seem at first, ranging from skin tone variance to the select few that have female members. Technically, there's more range than just villain and henchman as well.
-Sterga