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We have that planned as part of the tutorial, although it's not the cape they unlock. Their choices in the tutorial will determine what is unlocked.
Another part will be walking through the steps of purchasing from the "Cash Shop". In this case, the purchase will be a travel power, unlocking that one for all characters. (You would have to run the tutorial multiple times to get them all unlocked, encouraging alting)
Technical Director
Read enough Facebook and you have to make Sanity Checks. I guess FB is the Great Old One of the interent these days... - Beamrider
Neat.
Edit: Psychology says that the first cash shop purchase is always thehardest one to get them to make. Once they're comfortablewith that function, they tend to use it more and not just ignore/avoid it as much. Pretty sneaky, Doc.
*tips cap*
R.S.O. of Phoenix Rising
Just to sort of spitball ideas here, what if the area where you do your tutorial has Exploration badges near it that can be accessed most easily (or at all) via flight, teleportation, etc? So like, if you choose Fly, you can then immediately fly to the top of the nearby tower/statue and get that badge, thus unlocking some cool lowbie feature, like an item that enhances your flight speed or a temp power that gives you another decent attack at level 1-10 or something? Then maybe you could only get to the roof of that building without fly by doing some mission later on, when that item would be less useful to you, but you still get the Exploration badge.
R.S.O. of Phoenix Rising
+1 hat tip. Well thought out and genius. VERY confidence inspiring in MWM and CoT--as much recently has been.
This is a fun way to handle this in the tutorial. Gives a real sense of heroic/villainous accomplishment and progress :).
+1!
FIGHT EVIL! (or go cause trouble so the Heroes have something to do.)
Ooh, I like the sound of this!
Spurn all ye kindle.
This is an important lesson/caveat I want the MWM folks to remember when it comes to putting special badges/rewards in their tutorial areas: Make sure nothing gets "trapped behind the wall" of the tutorial so that there's no way to get those things after the tutorial is done.
Case in point the major controversy over the Isolator badge in CoH was caused by the relative shortsightedness of the Devs. At the beginning of the Badge System (which didn't start until Issue 2) the only way you could earn the Isolator badge was to kill Contaminated in the tutorial. Obviously this screwed over any character that had been created and finished the tutorial long before Issue 2 was released. It wasn't any player's fault they missed that badge at that time yet Matt Miller (the CoH Dev who was originally in charge of the badges) decided it'd be funny (sadistic?) to give us the "RV Isolator" solution as the only alternative. Eventually there was a semi-trivial way to get the badge in an Ouroboros Trial but that final alternative didn't appear in the game until years later.
Bottomline the Devs of CoT should never "trap" a badge/reward in an area where characters through no fault of their own can never get to.
CoH player from April 25, 2004 to November 30, 2012
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I agree.
In the case of CoH there even if the badge system would have been there from launch players shouldn't have to read up on "tutorial exclusives" before they create their first ever character just to have a chance for 100% completion.
Ironically if the CoH Badge System had been a part of the game from Launch Day then I'd bet most people would not have been so legitimately pissed at Miller's "RV Isolator" alternative because EVERY player would have had an original chance to have gotten Isolator in the tutorial from Day One. In effect it would have squarely been the PLAYER'S FAULT if they didn't get Isolator in the tutorial and had to suffer RV Isolator to get it. The infuriating part about how the RV Isolator situation was handled was that Miller decided to punish(?) the pre-Issue 2 players who wanted it even though it wasn't their fault they missed it because it didn't even EXIST in the game at the time. It wasn't that the pre-Issue 2 players were too lazy to get it in their tutorials - they had no chance to get it and essentially got punished for wanting a reasonable alternative. :(
Again these problems can be eliminated by never "trapping" rewards like this in one-time areas that players are unable to return to.
CoH player from April 25, 2004 to November 30, 2012
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Didn't they eventually put Contaminated in Galaxy City as well? Could have sworn I ran across some there.
Wasn't that part of a Flashback? I'm bothered that I can't remember as much as I used to.
If they ever existed in some form in GC they either A) weren't permanent and/or B) didn't count towards the Isolator badge. Actually most of the confusion surrounding this was that there were critters in GC called [url=https://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Infected]Infected[/url] that looked just like the Contaminated.
Yes, I mentioned that already.
By the end there were three ways to get the Isolator badge:
[list][*] Killing Contaminated in the hero side tutorial. This method took like 10-20 minutes.
[*] Killing the single Contaminated spawn in RV. This method could literally take weeks based on how they spawned.
[*] Killing Contaminated in the [url=https://paragonwiki.com/wiki/The_Pilgrim#Outbreak]Ouroboros Outbreak mission[/url]. This method took a few minutes once in the mission.[/list]
CoH player from April 25, 2004 to November 30, 2012
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Ahhh, that's probably what I encountered then.
Our plan is to demonstrate badges found within the tutorial as *part* of the Tutorial. Imagine if it was "arrest 20 Contaminated" and, at the end of the tutorial, you got the badge, with an explaination.
Technical Director
Read enough Facebook and you have to make Sanity Checks. I guess FB is the Great Old One of the interent these days... - Beamrider
Questions abound:
1. Is there any reason players should not be allowed to go back and redo the tutorial again if they want to?
2. Same for like every other mission.
3. Will the tutorial zone be one that is populated only by the player alone (private instance), or will it also have other newbies running around in it that we can talk to (like CoX)? Or will it take place in the open world?
R.S.O. of Phoenix Rising
Since this game is going to play out like a choose your own adventure story, I wonder if they will let us replay missions. If we do get to replay missions, how does that affect the alignment points we got when we ran it the first time or any other time?
[hr]I like to take your ideas and supersize them. This isn't criticism, it is flattery. I come with nothing but good will and a spirit of team-building. If you take what I write any other way, that is probably just because I wasn't very clear.
Um, it will? I'm not sure how you mean 'choose your own adventure story'. I mean, in CoX you chose your contacts and you could choose whether or not to take/complete the missions, true. I believe the same is true for Every MMO.
Some of those 'choose your own' stories pretty-much force the protagonist through a limited number of outcomes. Like two. There's not much genuine choice. Which is why I'm reacting negatively to this depiction. Sorry.
I would expect some variation on Ouroboros/Flashback access to missions, but in the regular game? No, time is linear... Although you might team up with another person and do the mission again, following the mission-owner's choices. I would expect that to have minimal effect on a character's own faction/morality status, if any.
Be Well!
Fireheart
They have already said that we will be able to "go back" and re-run previous missions. The main reason MWM has presented is so that we can make other choices and thus experience another path. Pretty sure any faction points and similar will be cumulative, as if they were completely different missions.
I suppose that is the simplest way to do it. Not unlike SWTOR and the lightside/darkside points you can get.
[hr]I like to take your ideas and supersize them. This isn't criticism, it is flattery. I come with nothing but good will and a spirit of team-building. If you take what I write any other way, that is probably just because I wasn't very clear.
As long it's designed such that you couldn't actually finish the tutorial without defeating the 20 Contaminated then that'd probably be fine. I'd have no problem with the earning of a badge like that as a built-in part of completing the tutorial.
I guess what made the original Isolator in CoH frustrating was that it was a totally "secret" badge (without even a progress bar) and earning it was NOT required to finish the tutorial thus you could easily be unaware of it until long after you left the tutorial and had no chance to go back. I realize Matt Miller concocted the torture that was "RV Isolator" because he thought he was punishing people who were too lazy to earn it in the tutorial. The problem was that he also punished the pre-Issue 2 people who couldn't finish Isolator in the tutorial because it didn't even exist at the time.
Bottomline if you want to make it so that you can't finish the tutorial without completely earning that badge then that would probably work. Just make sure nothing else ever gets "trapped" in the tutorial where there would ever be a legitimate desire to go back to it once you finished it the first time.
CoH player from April 25, 2004 to November 30, 2012
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