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I have a somewhat creative hobby to get back to, so I'll be brief.

 

The winter event is not fun. It's not amusing. It's not funny. Elves are not funny, red scarves are not heart-warming, twinkly lights don't bring holiday cheer. Yodeling at the "Winter chateau" is not original but just nauseating. Continue to the end of the bullshit list. It's pseudo-festive cheer.

 

Sit on that candy cane!

 

Someone needs to say this.

 

The British call it twee, and Paddington the bear symbolizes it. Every year in City of Heroes these "events" for idiots are shoved down players throats: love them or tolerate them until they are over. Supposedly they bring "the community" together. But unlike in real life, where you may sit by a nice-smelling fir tree with people who might even love you, it happens, all this Scrooge redemption in CoH does is let worn-down forty-somethings deny their age. "I was 24 when they started doing the winter thing, now I'm 44 and it's still happening! Time is not real! I will never die!"

 

The younger generation probably thinks this is what real cheer is like, clicking on soulless wrapped boxes when the invisible all-powerful somebodies put up the spectacle around, until such time as "they" decide to pack it all away. It's not. You should not feel satisfied with this crap, people, and love the unlovely.

 

The Halloween "event" wasn't/isn't any better. Pumpkins everywhere aren't interesting, candles aren't cheery and vice versa. Did Croatoa spill over? I allow that when you very little and if the All Hallows' Eve weren't commercialized to death, it might be kind of interesting to go knocking on doors, stand before neighbors performing and win some candy. But for grown-ups? All that event does is take away daylight for two weeks or more. This time to take a screenshot of my character I had to burrow to the corridors below Pocket D where there was decent lighting. I felt like a member of some kind of resistance while Gestapo had taken over the surface. And it has - the Gestapo of cute.

 

What would actually give me some delight, if that were Homecoming's purpose? Implementing a few suggestions from the namesake board would be nice. I kept track of what was being offered there by myself and others since early in the year, all of which was roundly ignored. (Except my idea to implement a Mark and Recall from old games. I had remembered those and thought it would be a nice way to let players visit their favorite haunts. Homecoming made it an accolade and tied it to defeating the Seed of Hamidon...) Wardrobe additions? Just the monocular auras so you can finally play someone called The One-Eyed Snake. Maybe fixes to in-your-face bugs, like the Dual Pistols reset every time you go for an appearance tweak? Or a bio editor that isn't crazy? Some suggestions were very simple. I suggested, for one, adding the poses from Emotes - > Idle - > Stances to the Inherent stance menu. I have modding experience myself, and believe me, putting those emotes there is twenty minutes of work. It would instantly make all characters look truly diverse, because no matter the costume now, they all stand the same. Or the suggestion of No FX for all powers. That is a day's work, two days' tops.

 

Any one of those small additions (to say nothing of more substantial innovations to gameplay) would give players a real reason to cheer, no bullshit. And if I were really nice this year, I might even see something done to Kallisti Wharf already. A beautiful area, empty. It could, for instance, be an alternative starting zone for both heroes and villains. Each could start on their side, fight the other side's mobs there, then cross over. It might be a limited PVP area, where only players of levels 1-10 would be allowed to fight other players. The ship in the middle could be a neutral grounds. But this is NOT a thread to promote my ideas. It is one to call a turd a turd.

 

Make room for real cheer. The fake events must die. Skating on the ice in Atlas is nice, but don't let Father Time come back, ever. Lock away the "Winter wonderland" and throw away the keys. Dump the Jack o'Lantern off Independence Port. People would feel a certain void, like coming off microplastic. As well they should. That's the place to fill with real plots, better writing, features and content for levels under 45.

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I can't believe this is how I found out that I'm an idiot.  Here I was, going about my own business, having fun, and also happily letting people have fun with features and systems that I personally find tedious... and all this time I've just been a "twee" moron.  I thought people just had different tastes and interests in things!  I thought the world was big enough for all those different types of fun!  What a way to find out I was wrong.

 

I'm shocked, everyone.  Are there any other idiots out there like me that are just now finding out?

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Take part, don't take part. Nobody is forcing you. I personally don't care about it so I don't do it. I carry on playing as normal and enjoy the enjoyment of others. 

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I'm going to use this as a chance to vent about a couple of my annoyances about seasonal events:

 

1)  There's too dang many zombie invasions.  They're not special any more because they start after any completed Katie Hannon or Virgil.  If the frequency for zombie invasions in future Halloween events was reduced by 75% that'd be a-ok with me.

 

2)  Giving a notification for EVERY character to go to Pocket D for the Winter event gets tiresome.  Can't this be done once globally?  Yes it's only 5 seconds but by now I've got hundreds of characters.  Now we're up to... 1000 seconds, over 15 minutes clicking this dang thing.

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You know, you could write your own stuff in AE, that way it's catered to your exact tastes.

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Somebody's a cotton headed ninny muggins...

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52 minutes ago, Hedgefund said:

I'm going to use this as a chance to vent about a couple of my annoyances about seasonal events:

 

1)  There's too dang many zombie invasions.  They're not special any more because they start after any completed Katie Hannon or Virgil.  If the frequency for zombie invasions in future Halloween events was reduced by 75% that'd be a-ok with me.

 

 

Maybe add a 10% the zombies will start dancing to Thriller? 🤔

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1 minute ago, Jacke said:

I want a Holiday mission with Krampus.

I think that's what this thread is.

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What this team needs is more Defenders

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1 hour ago, Jiro Ito said:

You know, you could write your own stuff in AE, that way it's catered to your exact tastes.

I haven't looked at the AE content for awhile. Are the snowmen NPCs available to use in AE?

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