Ideas for April Fools 2011...

Now you know who to blame...

* Take the Atlas Statue and mix it with the vomit emote used by Infected and those poor Pocket D patrons... every so often anyone standing under his mouth gets a bath.

* Every official office in the game (City Hall, Arachnos Building in Port Oakes, Universities, etc) will suddenly become just like regular government or school run offices... you will have to stand in line and wait your turn to get to the person to whom you need to talk. The lines WILL move... just not very quickly.

* The Incarnate Job Fair... all the gods will set up kiosks in the public areas of each arena to try to attract potential level 50 servitors to their cause. Actual pitches will be heard if you click on them as well as signs and t-shirts with slogons on them. "War isn't Hell... War is Shard Drops! Ares in '11" and the like.

* A building to be erected in one zone each in Paragon, Rogue Isles and Praetoria. The building will have a chintzy neon woman by the marquee. The sign at the front reads "Tonight only! Ms Liberty, Ghost Widow, Swan and War Witch all on the main stage!" When the door is clicked the clicker gets the usual "You can't enter" message but they're name is sent out in broadcast with the message "HeroX has tried to get in to the girly show! Naughty... Naughty... NAUGHTY!" Oh, and the next time that player tries to talk to a female trainer, contact, etc that woman will give them the cold shoulder and say only "pervert" in their conversation window.

* Notice of the Well... at random times during April Fools level 50 characters will see a large wishing well appear in the distance. If they put their cursor over it it will indeed read "Well of the Furies." As they get closer to it, it vanishes.

* Notice of the Well part 2... Any newly created character who goes directly to the game without first passing through the tutorial will receive the message "Your bravery in facing the challenges ahead without guidance has attracted the attention of the Well of the Furies!!" At that point the character will undergo rapid fire level dings... one after another in very fast procession... until they reach level 50. At that point a razz-berry sound will be heard and the words "APRIL FOOLS!" will flash on the screen.. and they will revert to first level.

* Random chance when signing on to ANY MA arc of the player/team appearing on the Pocket D map where all the female heroes and villains are dancing on the raised platform in the center of the dance floor. Floating where DJ Zero usually does is Positron. The team can stay there as long as they want but as soon as one person plants a foot on or floats above the ramp or platform the message "You have accidentally accessed Matt Miller's private MA file... you must leave immediately." After which everyone will be diverted to their originally chosen MA mission.

* Anyone entering Boomtown will be sent to a cut scene. They will see a completely built city zone complete with parks, tall proud buildings and gorgeous skylines and vistas. Statesman will smile and wave to everyone then announce "With the cutting of this ribbon I hereby open New Baumtown!" The moment the ribbon is cut the scene shifts to a Rikti Mothership hold where a dozen Rikti are struggling to push an immense bomb out the back of the ship. On the bomb is stencilled "G:BF" The cut scene ends and the player finds himself in the usual Boomtown. In the chat window is a final statement from Statesman: "If you build it... they will come."

* In the costume creator any selection of the "skin" variety will result in a random message such as "The game rating has been changed to General Audiences, please choose again", "Quick... Picture your mom wearing this! Oooh... that'll stay with you for a while" and so on.

* When you go to the trainer to level up an option will appear at the very top of the list saying "You have leveled up to level X, but as a gift from Paragon Studios would you rather advance to level X+1?" When the cursor comes within a half inch of the line it will jump to the bottom of the list. And then back up to the top when the cursor comes near it again. If you have just leveled up to level 50 this will not occur. Instead the level up line will list your "current" level to advance to as 49. Clicking it will still get you the normal level 50 level up screen though.

* Wentworths inventory lists will have personalized items for sale specifically having to do with your character. Salvage: "HeroX's Little Black Book.. Blank" Recipes: "HeroX's Home Made Jumbalaya" Enhancements: "Grow Inches In Just 3 Days claims HeroX!" You can bid for them but no matter how much you offer it never quite seems to be enough to actually buy them. Once April 1st is over with you get all your inf back.

* Replace Atlas's Globe with a giant pokeball.

* Whenever you activate your travel power the arrow buttons will become mirrored to move you in the exact opposite direction they normally do for the first five seconds of activation. To avoid killing the character, this would not happen in instanced missions or in hazard zones.

* The CoH Website announces that you will be able to have product endorsements on your costume or in your super base if you so desire. You simply choose which company (Coca-Cola, Pepsi, AT&T, Verizon, etc) you wish to be involved with and you will be sent to a small list of options. It will be set up as a micro-transaction with part of the money going to the company in question and part to NCSoft. For example if you choose Geico you might get Gecko Print on Cape: $0.50, So-Easy-A-Caveman-Can-Do-It Face Option $1, Non-Combat Gecko Pet: $2.50, Gecko Costume Temp Power: $3 and so on.

Chillax, man.

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.

oh please!

Replace the police drones with them and everytime they zap someone they shout "gotta catch them all!"

I'd happily accept that burden if any one of these came to be.

I said I would make a comment, but I didn't actually...

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Oh, drat.