Realistically, what's the actual workload to take down the war walls and connect the zones?

[Lunchmoney]

2 hours ago, SaintD said:

The backstory for City of Heroes is almost post apocalyptic. The Rikti Invasion was world wide, and they slaughtered the absolute hell out of us for six months.

Money wasn't particularly the issue when the War Walls were built.

I think you may have missed my real world analogy... 😉

[ShardWarrior]

I don't believe whether or not it is possible is the question.  A better question would be why would you want to?  There is simply no need for it in my opinion.

[RikOz]

Yeah, the war walls seem to do nothing to stop the Rikti's bombing runs, or stop them congregating in Founder's Falls, Crey's Folly, etc. To actually be effective against Rikti, there would need to be an energy dome, not walls. I mean, even in the real world, city walls were rendered mostly obsolete by gunpowder artillery, and airplanes just sealed the deal.

 

The real explanation, of course, is a gameplay explanation: gotta have some way to physically separate the zones, but then there of course needs to be an in-world lore explanation, and here we are.

[Shred Monkey]

I'm no expert, but I think the way to do this would be to start over and create a new mega zone, or perhaps break it into 3-4 zones that are just a rough amalgamation of all the old zones.    But, if you're going to do that, you might as well just make a new world with a new story arcs and such so we just get more content instead of reproducing the old content.   Oh, I know, lets make it an entire alternate Universe ...and it could have alternate versions of the current Heroes!  And it could be ruled by an Emperor named, just of the top of my head, Emperor Cole! 

 

Yeah... that sounds like it might work.

[Extor Prime]

The walls are not there to keep anything out. They are there to keep us IN.

 

That's why zones do not border each other. The rest of the city is a normal place without living WMDs turning the world inside-out every five minutes.

 

If the walls fall and we are unleashed upon the world, the Rikti invasion will seem like a minor inconvenience.

[ShardWarrior]

13 minutes ago, Extor Prime said:

The walls are not there to keep anything out. They are there to keep us IN.

Well, no.  Lore is they were erected to help protect the city against Rikti attacks.

[pattycake]

Here’s an ambitious idea, make the outer regions an area. Haha, you could probably run around Atlas from the outside, and have super dangerous Rikti war machine encounters and make the area so the object is to hide while you explore. Sorta like the future of x-man with the sentinels enslaving the world.

 

too big, too off topic, still I had a minute of fun

[Extor Prime]

14 minutes ago, ShardWarrior said:

Well, no.  Lore is they were erected to help protect the city against Rikti attacks.

That's what they want you to believe. 

[Doc_Scorpion]

4 hours ago, Extor Prime said:

That's what they want you to believe.

It's all a Nemesis plot.

[boggo2300]

8 hours ago, Lunchmoney said:

I think you may have missed my real world analogy... 😉

The woosh is strong with this one :nod:

[boggo2300]

18 minutes ago, Doc_Scorpion said:

It's all a Nemesis plot.

Nemesis is a Nemesis plot...

[ZeeHero]

My heroes fly over the walls when they need to. its not like some of them arent capable of stratospheric and even space flight. sure they cant do it in game but they sure do IC.