COH dev "astounded" by user content Comments by Robert Purchese

anyone play this and explain how it works in terms of rewards etc? sounds cool.

I read a review and you get xp as normal from playing them. But if you make one and it gets played a lot you get credits to buy special equipment i think.

So, everyone wins....

I am very tempted to try it out, i think this is how MMOs will work in the future, huge amounts of User Generated Content.

I played this in beta and when it originally came out.

you gain xp from fighting villians(or with City of Villians you fight good guys) and doing missions etc you also get credits to spend on thigns yuo can add to your powers it was great fun...

Definately worth a try in my opinion. It has changed a lot since I've played and can only assume it has gotten better especially with the latest one where there's user generated content... that is just pure genius... hats off to these guys... players of MMO's have loads of time generally and creating missions for a group of friends is pulling together the joy of DnD with friends into an MMO environment where you actually have a dungeon to crawl with various baddies and your avatars can fight for real...

If they brought this idea into WoW you would see the subs increase imo (as probably with many other MMOs)

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Finally. Might have to renew for this, even with Champions looming...

I think this will be taken much further in coming games. One players efforts to build a city, a dungeon or even just a house (filled with counter intrusion stuff) could be another players "content". Player Content does not have to be Second Life style in-game crafting, it could just be the natural result of playing the game; questing, PvP'ing, affecting the world. Once a developer figures out how to do this right, the rsult wil be a game that never runs out of fresh and ever-changing content.

I applaud this concept. Something to really make this MMO stand out from the crowd.

I bet 19,000 of these quests are called "Testing".

Just kidding, this sounds epic. I'm very tempted to try this again after enjoying the beta so much years ago.

Does sound like a really cool feature but after speaking to a friend who plays CoH apparently theres is a lot and I mean a lot of really shitty missions out there

To be honest my biggest problems with CoH/CoV were the often crap missions, everything else was great. Might log in again and see what's what.

It's a move in the right direction but you're severely limited in what you can create. The layouts are basically chosen from a predetermined set, the enemies are randomly placed in said layout, and the missions involved are also predetermined.You can design the enemies you face and the set the story, but otherwise it's the same old CoH/CoV missions.

Of couse if they did allow you to change the layout or position NPCs then you'd get all sorts of rude words being spelled out by carefully placed minions or corridors.

The future of MMOs?