Techwright

It's 2019, soon to be 2020. Assuming for a moment that our dev team had unlimited power and skill, how would you suggest they update the look and feel of the city? (Note this is focused on the cities themselves (blue, red, gold), not the instances, power sets, etc. ) Blueside - There's a lot more health-conscious surroundings (at least in my part of the real world) than 15 years ago. 1) I'd ask for chain gyms. Bonus points if the avatars can actually enter and use the equipment. Role players would probably love that. 2) urban jogging trails added in some new small parks replacing some of the buildings and concrete. 3) bike pathing added to some roads. Bonus if they can get NPC's actually biking. 4) boutique, organic groceries and produce shops. 5) cell towers. 6) I'd get rid of phone booths, but I'm not really sure how I'd replace them on patrol missions. Visualized GPS coordinates and your avatar checks their smartphone at each point, perhaps? New Zone (or overhaul of a dead zone): city freight yard. Aging collection of switch tracks and graffitied train cars, with a tired industrial area and a low-income neighborhood adjacent. However, there's re-development going on as Paragon City tries to redevelop a section as a new neighborhood, new station, and new track on a new national speed rail system.

I've played a lot of MMOs, but though I enjoyed things like Lord of the Rings Online, and World of Warcraft, there's only 3 games I ever felt like playing for a very long time. All three shut down. Of them, I can only re-enter City of Heroes. I've heard nothing of a rejuvenation of either of the two others, and they were both incomplete in some way, more or less sabotaged by parts of their development teams, leading to their demise. (Tabula Rasa & Firefall) Though I wish for the best versions of the others to return, CoH is the one I thought about consistently when it wasn't available. Besides, CoH has the nicest community of any MMO I've played in the past 15 years. That's worth the price of admission. Well, when there was a price.

Ace Barnstormer: martial arts/super reflexes scrapper My homage to Dieselpunk/1920s-1940s pulp fiction heroes. There's something very satisfying about the graceful way that scarf moves with the "ballet" that is martial arts. Major Ray Gunn: energy/energy blaster my homage to 1930s-1950s sci fi serial heroes Sea Sentry: staff/electrical brute

Aged of Aquarius: my aging, hippie, water sentinel

There's the matter of the other COH hosted sites as well. I don't know the population counts on them, and I'm guessing Homecoming is by far the dominant one, but with some developing their own power sets and archetypes, there's bound to be at least some bleed-off of players wanting to try every shiny new thing.

Back in the original game, I'd won awards for Ray's look and backstory. I've faithfully recreated both for Homecoming.