Places of Power (An idea for Origins)

So here's the run down, Places of Power work sort of like Day Jobs, only they're active as you place, meaning they're large areas of effect that would give small damage bonuses based on your origin, but no penalties. (Maybe a bonus NEVER greater than 10%) And of course, enemies would not benefit from them.

These could either be applied to areas on a mission, areas in a zone, or both. For example, Oranbega cave missions would offer a damage bonus to magical characters.

Now as for why? Just throwing an idea out there to try to make origins matter without them becoming a major deciding factor, plus it seemed to make a little sense that maybe a tech origin character would feel more inspired in or near a lab, or a magical origin character could take the powerful magicks within oranbega and use it for their own ends too.

In the end, this isn't really a pressing idea, just something to throw out there and let people chew on in their heads. Problems also come up when you try to figure out where other origins would gain boons from, since magic and tech are the only ones with truly defined aesthetics, unless sewers would somehow be a haven for mutants and science origin and stuff, which could probably be loaded with unfortunate implications.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

I like this idea. Being a Science Origin, I really feel at home in the Crey labs. Perhaps the bonus could be an increased chance for the apt. Origin enhancements to drop, benefiting toons of that origin slightly more, but everyone can sell them so no one's really missing out.

Magic: Orebega.
Science: Crey Labs.
Mutants: Sewers.
Natural: a gym....the Arena?
Tech...?

Might be easier to simply place them in thier respective SO stores. The Natural SO stores look sorta like those GNC stores at the mall.

Offices and warehouses could work for Natural Origins.

Tech and Science go together so they should share the same place. I agree with Quaver though, increase the chance of dropping the respective D/SO.

Whoa whoa whoa, did I actually make a "How to make origins matter" suggestion that people liked?

Anyway though, on the note of proper SO/DO enhancements for Places of Power, that's kind of a Day Job power isn't it, but otherwise it could work.
And the reason why enhancement stores wouldn't work is that this is supposed to be an active buff while you play and not something you log out to gain charges on.

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.

That's actually a really cool idea! 100% signed!

I'm imagining the surprise on a newbie's face when he goes into the PTS mission map for the first time, and sees the bonus applying to Magic origin... "Wait, what?" And then "Ooooooohhhhhh!"

You could always put more than one bonus in a area. Like tech place mutants and tech people profit from it but tech people profit a bit more than them. Magical could be force levels or anywhere outside as well as natural.

What if this becomes part of character creation/customization? So, you choose one of the pre-selected special location and whenever in range you get your buff. So, let's say I roll a mutant with the ability to tap into other bodies, that used his ability to trap people and bring their bodies to Vazhilok. It's only natural to select sewers as a place of power. Now, for my natural ninja character I select warehouses(?), but for my Kheldian I go with Rikti zones. More choices are always good in my book.

Also, how about choosing enemy factions instead?? Like, my ninja, descendant of an ancient japanese ninja clan, bearing a grudge against tsoo for centuries, chooses Tsoo as his nemesis(?) group. So, basically every time I fight tsoo, I get higher SO drap rates or perhaps damage/resist/def buffs??