Custom Signage

[Razor Cure]

Recently while running around doing various story arcs, I have been noticing some of the signs around CoX. Maybe of these are quite amusing (i like the Family Pizza one..made fresh, by Made men) and clever!

Obviously updating and adding to these signs would be a very minor priority for the dev team..and so I was thinking..let US do it.

We could have some 'create a sign' type contests, where all that is needed is a resolution and file type, and a location (so people could tailor the message to the zone somewhat) and away we go! Those without artistic software, talent or inclination could simply submit slogans that others could use.

Just picture it..a building in talos..the 'Get Freaky' massage parlor, obviously appearing in the freak-run terrority.

[Lost Ninja]

There was at some point an announcement that the various in game advertising boards would in some cases be used for tasteful real world products (CoV Launch maybe?). I think this suggestion would be far more fitting.

[srmalloy]

There are some decent artists in the CoH community; hold a series of contests for billboard replacement advertising -- pick one of the stock billboard spaces and hold a contest for art in the correct aspect ratio for that space (the aspect ratio for normal billboards, like the one across the street to the west of the KR tram, or the aspect ratio for the vertical drink ads in AP and Steel and elsewhere, etc.). The winner of a contest has their ad swapped in for the stock ad for billboards with that aspect ratio for some period of time, and then turned into an art file that people can download and stick in the appropriate subfolder of their data folder if they want to keep seeing it. Over time, this would build up a sizeable library of variant ads that could be rotated in and out to make it look more dynamic.

[DougGraves]

Have you seen The Good Place?  They have great signs for the fake stores on the tv show.  It would be fun to have creative signs in CoX

[merrypessimist]

18 hours ago, Lost Ninja said:

There was at some point an announcement that the various in game advertising boards would in some cases be used for tasteful real world products (CoV Launch maybe?). I think this suggestion would be far more fitting.

This lasted for about a year and only had three or four ads.  They were... a mixed bag.  For example I remember a billboard in Boomtown being a fairly clean ad for some shoe.  But a shoe that had debuted AFTER Boomtown had turned into a burning garbage pile of a zone.  So it was jarring as heck to see this wildly inappropriate shoe on a sign in a literal walled off trashfire of a zone.  That was pretty much the only time I even remember seeing one of the "real world product" ads.

[Megajoule]

People were very upset about seeing any real ads in the game.

[Shadowsleuth]

On 11/2/2019 at 5:31 AM, Razor Cure said:

We could have some 'create a sign' type contests, where all that is needed is a resolution and file type, and a location (so people could tailor the message to the zone somewhat) and away we go! Those without artistic software, talent or inclination could simply submit slogans that others could use.

The original Billboard Contest is how we got the awesome Clanket.

 

 

A list of the other winners, unfortunately the picture links are all broken but the names are still there.

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20121003113202/http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/news/news_archive/the_city_of_heroes_billboard_c.php

 

Found a better link with the Pictures intact.

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20110809012801/http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/news/news_archive/the_city_of_heroes_billboard_c.php

 

 

Original Contest Rules and Picture size specs

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20121003113222/http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/news/news_archive/announcing_the_city_of_heroes_2.php

Edited November 5, 2019 by Shadowsleuth

[Razor Cure]

OMG the CLANKET! That is so awesome!

Also, totally not saying we need 'real' ads..just funny and stupid ones!

I was thinking more about my Freak-run massage parlor. The ad could be like a superman type, in tights, face down on a massage table, with the massuer (or however that silly word goes!) leaning over him, all freakified, with teh punk hair and a clamour style bionic arm! For those REAL hard to get out knots in your back!

Edited November 4, 2019 by Razor Cure