New Zone for incarnate trials
By
Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-04-08 14:04 in Suggestions and Ideas
There's no need for that since we have the Turnstile.
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They're intentionally avoiding it to overcome its shortcomings.
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Originally Posted by VoodooGirl
There's no need for that since we have the Turnstile.
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would rather see them remove the requirement of all being in the same zone.
Just add a store to Pocket D please.
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The problem there is that you can't invite cross-faction in different zones (or sometimes can't it's weird) plus you can't rearrange teams with people out of zone which makes it harder to invite people (league invite puts them on their own team and team invites require you to shift people off of team one which means they need to be in zone.
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Originally Posted by Shadow State
would rather see them remove the requirement of all being in the same zone.
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All of this is what I think should be changed. With the game going so heavily co-op, the "can't invite an enemy" doesn't make much sense. Is there some weird system limitation on moving teams around? Because that limitation just doesn't make any sense to me.
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Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
The problem there is that you can't invite cross-faction in different zones (or sometimes can't it's weird) plus you can't rearrange teams with people out of zone which makes it harder to invite people (league invite puts them on their own team and team invites require you to shift people off of team one which means they need to be in zone.
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Does Praetoria work as a Co-op Zone? Makes more sense to form it in Praetoria than RWZ or Pocket D for a RP reason. If they add a new zone, then it has to have more purpose than a place to from trials.
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Regarding the "not moving people who are out of zone" and "must all be in zone to queue" things I suspect it is a technical limitation. As you say it doesn't make sense to implement that as a "feature" which implies that the difficulty actually lies in avoiding it.|
Originally Posted by Shadow State
All of this is what I think should be changed. With the game going so heavily co-op, the "can't invite an enemy" doesn't make much sense. Is there some weird system limitation on moving teams around? Because that limitation just doesn't make any sense to me.
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Originally Posted by starphoenix
Does Praetoria work as a Co-op Zone? Makes more sense to form it in Praetoria than RWZ or Pocket D for a RP reason. If they add a new zone, then it has to have more purpose than a place to from trials.
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currently we have 3 zones- Cim, RWZ and Poc D thats co-op- so their fine..really..their intention isn't to do leagues..tho i find people gathering in poc d to go to war is funny as its a place to chill
i say..create a zone that's build to fight this war, and any threats to both sides in the future...including the rularuu and this coming storm (if it isn't already the rularuu that's coming)
a zone that's full out army like would be awesome..doesn't need anything but a store and maybe several war rooms/tables- big screens etc 
make it co-op ofc and i bet people would love it..ofc this zone could have an increased player to zone allowance..as this is war...we have up to omega at least to fight this war..we need something that's better then a rikti zone and a nightclub- chill out zone.
besides..with this war..more can be done with it as well..after the prat war i don't think that's it..hell even villains can then use it to plot against statesman again.
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Maybe link it to Vanguard. Call it the Vanguard Staging Area or something. Nothing to fancy just a few large rooms with equipment racks and planning tables to give it some atmosphere.
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Originally Posted by HardRider
a zone that's full out army like would be awesome..doesn't need anything but a store and maybe several war rooms/tables- big screens etc
make it co-op ofc and i bet people would love it..ofc this zone could have an increased player to zone allowance..as this is war...we have up to omega at least to fight this war..we need something that's better then a rikti zone and a nightclub- chill out zone. |
I agree a new co-op zone is badly needed and should have been thought of from the beginning.
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Ok, I've been thinking about this a bit more. I would like to see a zone with the following features:
1. Co-Op (d'uh)
2. An inspiration vendor who buys enhancements/recipes/salvage (for people who like to run them back to back).
3. Increased zone capacity (if practical)
4. A "switch instance" portal which allows you to zone to any instance of the zone (nothing is more irritating than joining a league finding they're in instance 2, you're in instance 1 and you need to zone twice to get there).
5. A "Vanguard Rapid Response Teleporter" temp power that teleports you to the zone, this would be awarded to all incarnates with the "Alpha Unlocked" badge (one of the reasons the RWZ is so popular for Trials compared to other co-op zones is that it's easy to get to, having a personal teleporter to the new zones would make it even easier to get to which in turn encourages people to use it).
6. Power Suppression. Actually I don't particularly want this since it means I have to turn on all of my toggles when entering the Trial, however from the point of view of increasing the zone size limit without killing people on older computers it makes a lot of sense. The other option would be to give the zone a lot of internal walls and multiple entry/exit points to decrease the number of players you see at once.
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I've seen a few trials start there, the problem with that is two-fold:|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Studio 55 could be used - we can plan attacks on the loyalists from the heart of Tyrant's city, and chill out on the dance floor in between raids
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1. It's hard to get to (have to go to Pocket D first so a minimum of 2 loading screens)
2. It's part of imperial city and not a separate zone so if large numbers of trials start there we end up with the same situation that we currently have in the RWZ.
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Midnighters Club is also a separate zone from Cim, that can, and has on Virtue been used as a staging zone.
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Originally Posted by HardRider
currently we have 3 zones- Cim, RWZ and Poc D thats co-op
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Need a new co-op zone for incarnate trial gathering.
A new zone with a higher cap to allow for more people than Pocket D and RWZ. I would also suggest minimal graphics to keep lag down to a minimum. Something like the Arena where players looking for a particular trial can stand by while teams gather. An inspration vendor would also be helpful. Have this zone tie into the ferry/tram system for quick access.
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