HoN-iversary Planning 2012

[DJCultist]

Make it so F2P players don't have to buy heroes anymore, change their bussiness plan to the same as legacy players, keeping the difference in EA prices though.

That way, F2P players can spend even more money on coins, so they can buy the alt avatars for heroes they, from that day on, will have, instead of releasing more and more avatars when half of your community can't buy them (shooting yourselves in the foot) and enjoy the success from the good press you'll see on League of Legends community, who will feel ripped by Riot.

Your players will feel more invested into the game, just like legacy players feel, and they will purchase coins because they can already tell they enjoy the game in its full extension.

Then when dota 2 releases with the same model, you guys can say you were pioneers, and you won't have to deal with not only being the less popular of the 3 big mobas, at least your bussiness model will be competitive, and also see how the influx of new players with access to every hero revitalizes the competitive scene right before hontour is released by allowing them to practice outside of tournament mode games with them.

Accompany this with some sort of progression, where you'd earn more silver coins the higher level you are, eliminating the "smurfing backlash" this change would create, encouraging people to play with their main accounts, and through that, helping with the ammount of leavers in non verified games.

What a honiversary that would be, one that would make this game much more popular.

Better just give away the earliest, say 10-15 chars... Or everything would already be unlocked...

[Roid_Ragn]

re-release EA alt Avatars,
2x silver coins
50% off alt avs

[MidSpeck]

We don't need any new heroes. Or they definitely shouldn't be scheduled every two weeks or as often as they are.

With 100 heroes to choose from in a 5v5 game, there are 17,310,309,456,440 unique hero lineups. That's right, over 17 trillion combinations. Adding one more hero makes it over 19 trillion combinations. I think that's enough variety. Plus, your new players get overwhelmed trying to learn all the heroes and what they all do. Not necessarily to play them, but they need to know what different heroes are capable of.

Nigma had some useful thoughts on his blog as well: http://nigmahon.blogspot.com/2012/01...-from-one.html

[S0ciety]

Just for that one day, make all alt avatars available. I don't care what they are priced at. It just seems like a good day to give newer players a fair chance at those awesome alts.

Mid wars map and matchmaking mode.

Release a community created hero.

Add another map to matchmaking.

[Kraiden`]

Buff Gladiator/make him more useful.

Make 15min CC vote only need 4 votes, 5 is too much.

Reward supporting players more.

Make more announcers.

Display manacosts on ability icons.

Make the chatframe movable.

Make it easier to exit a replay.

Implement smartcasting.

Get better unitframes for teammembers.

[Maniac_]

i would really wish for Custom maps beeing playable with other people....of course without stats etc....other than that game is fine as it is.... :P ( or actually maybe bring back some/all of the gold collection avatars for 24 hours or so ? :> )

[Germs]

Double Coin weekend!

A set % off silver coins for shop items (definitely not all)

Maybe a new 5v5 map, but keep it similar to the original. I don't want that crap that LoL did that introduced an entire new game mode. I guess just themes to FoC map. Like volcanic theme, tropical theme and what not. (I remember original dota had mods that allowed you to do that).

S2 vs community event is a must imo!

[[PonE]Ouker]

Start looking at DREAM a bit more. There are many heroes out there that could be nice.
I want some 10v10 or 12v12 madness.
Perhaps a Savage 2 style map with 1 person being a commander. Kind like that Commaned Mode thing you already had, only he'd not be a spectator but a separate player, taking care of... Well, something!

[Yk`Lagor]

A map making contest?
A avatar/hero making contest?

A better system for playing community made content in general really,

[Toxicity]

watchtower wednsesday !!!! Nuff said.

[[0su]AceFiend]

Bringing maps like watch tower into match making
New game modes
Possibly a mode where you can just practice your teamfight skills (each team would choose their heroes and have a team fight in a small contained map) it could be called Scrimmage or something
Wtf mode from Dota would be nice to see
Another for fun mode would be hero defense where you are either legion or hellbourne and actually have to defend the shrine from hordes of monsters and bosses increasing in strength, would be really happy if I saw that.

[Validimus]

#1. Ability to host/join Custom maps!

[ImLegend]

HoN-iversary Is Almost Here!

Its been nearly two years since launch and that means we have one hell of a HoN-iversary event to plan. S2 Games staff members have been hard at work planning an event for this momentous occasion, but we want your help and input to make this HoN-iversary one to remember.

Calling All Hopeful Event Planners and Clever Idea Makers

We want everyone to tell us what they want out of this years HoN-iversary, no matter how lofty or impossible the request. We will seriously consider any reasonable request as long as they don't result in a forum rule infringement. While we can't promise to implement every idea, what kind of harm does it cause to ask in the first place. Ask below and you may receive.

I would like to see two events, one here for the forum community and one for the community in-game. Here, a tournament with brackets similar to the HoN Madness. Could be hosted in custom games rather than matchmaking. At least some consolation prizes for everyone who enters. Details would be up to the staff on how large they wanted the event to be.

As for in-game, well, Maybe a way for people to earn some gold coins via matchmaking, instead of the same old 2x silver coin events that we've had in the past. Wouldn't have to be 1 to 1, but it would be nice for a majority of users who have random gold coins that are useless because the amount isn't enough. I like the S2 vs the community thing, where if we win a certain number of times, you release a new alt avatar- but it should be free if we earned it, not be 3000 gold coins for something that we had to beat you for.


Edit- the gold coins would be in ADDITION to the silver coins, or else it'll be a bad thing for some users.

[[MNI]Zapteinis]

I want only one thing - improving the matchmaking system.

The game becomes unplayable when you need to wait 15,20,25 minutes just to find a game. This is especially pronounced when playing in 3-4 people teams with ratings ranging from 1200 to 1400.

[R0XAS]

Community DREAM hero. Not some bs like Necromancer/pugna semi = Salforis...

Double GOLD coin purchase

New Gold Edition alt

[[SQrT]Hygge]

One gold coin for each 30 silver coins earned.

- Or other ways to earn gold coins for free.

Clan-profile IN HoN window.

Top-player statistics in HoN window.

BIGGER maps for more players.

[[Piy]Turp]

1. Random abilities mode like the DotA OMG map.
2. Midwar map or mode.

For people who want to get some variation in the game.

[[LFTC]Locoweed]

I want the option for Randomizing Account Icons, sort of like the random Derp icons from a ways back, but for icons in my inventory.

I also want to be able to select my Default Avatars for each hero, so I dont keep accidentally forgetting to use the avatars I paid for.

A 50% off (or more) silver price sale.

Herodex should be changed so that it shows heros AND items. And maybe general gameplay tips for things like nuetral creep spawn times or something like that for people who aren't familiar with Dota/HoN abd the little nuances of gameplay.
Basically a place I can tell friends to look at without having to dig through the forums.

Also give scout engie's mines and give engie scout's wards. XD

[Mancy`]

Someone please fix the herodex, for example when you are in game and you want to know if the opposition has physical or magic damage spells you go to the herodex and click on the picture. Heres the catch, the spell information for all heroes is the same as the hero you are currently playing in the match. To be honest we shouldnt have to request something in the UI to be fixed and it has been this way since the last Hon-iversary

[[C0L]Krosah]

12vs12 map
Tower defence
MOORE MAPS playable in mm system ! and maybe another mm system?