New Persistent PvE

Mawtful

The topic of new persistent PvE missions came up in a discussion on Chapter 3. I made a comment about adding a new kind of story mode here: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2513&p=37170#p37170

Reposting my comment from the thread:

Perhaps an idea would be to add more persistent content tied to new characters? Since these types of events are referred to as Chapters, it would seem kind of odd to go back and add more to the Prologue, but what's done is done. In any case, here's a few ideas around this concept:

After the "Chapter 3" event ends and Daredevil out in the wild, they could add a new "Act" to the Prologue called something like "New York Stories", which uses Spider-man, Punisher and Daredevil as featured/required heroes. You could have 3 different starting tiles, one for each hero, that follows that hero cleaning up their part of town, and then once you've beaten each of those lines, you unlock the "finale" line of missions, which require you to use only those three heroes. The idea here is that new players aren't going to be able to dive right in and do these, they are something to come back to as you unlock the heroes. Maybe listing it in the Prologue tab isn't a great idea, since it could confuse some people, so maybe a new tab has to be added.

With one or two more mutants, they could probably do a pretty good X-Men v Brotherhood story too.

Cleaning up my idea a little:

Since we already get new "chapters", and I think there needs to be some kind of distinction from this new format between both the Prologue (being introductory) and Events (being temporary). Also, since these are a lot more restricted in scope - and not necessarily designed to be played in any specific order, I'm going to drop any kind of incremental identification.

"Tales from New York City" could be a set of persistent PvE missions focused on Spider-man, Punisher and Daredevil. Each hero would get their own line of missions (where they are required, but any other heroes can support) and a forth and final line of missions, unlocked only when each hero has completed their line, that requires all three heroes.

"Children of the Atom" would focus on the X-Men and the Brotherhood, with heroes like Storm and Wolverine going up against Magneto and Juggernaut. We're obviously lacking in mutants a little at the moment, but I could see the likes of Cyclops and Namor being added to the game.

The basic concept would be to offer something for players to do in "downtime". A new player that has completed the Prologue will have some Storm and Wolverine covers, so they should be able to dive right into the mutant story, but they'll need their third mutant (and a few more covers/levels) in order to finish. They might have picked up a Spider-man or Punisher cover from a Heroic token, so they'll also have the option of starting one of those stories as well.
It also gives players some kind of goal to work towards; if they really like the mutant story, they'll be on the look out for events with mutants in the rewards.